00:23:12.440And if they had not stood in the breach and fought like hell, we would have gotten the tables run on us in Texas, in the business community, in the business elite, in the feckless Republican Party.
00:23:22.380We said, oh, that's fine. Just like they've done for decade after decade after decade.
00:23:28.560And now you got what you got. Now you got what you got. You know why?
00:23:33.140Because they see a bunch of elites that won't stand up for their country.
00:24:00.140But tell us on the victory we won and how hard it was
00:24:02.540and how close it came to non-victory, ma'am.
00:24:05.480well steve first of all thank you to you and thank you to your listeners and your viewers
00:24:11.580um you know i was actually i was raised up through grassroots so i have a love and appreciation for
00:24:18.260grassroots um that differs a little bit from a lot of state and national elected officials
00:24:23.680because i'm always going to say and if you've watched me on social media i'll always say the
00:24:27.760power is with we the people it is we the people who who are the founders of the united states of
00:24:33.540america it is we the people that has held the texas constitution together for 250 years which
00:24:39.960is the longest running constitution in world history the power is always with we the people
00:24:45.840and i am so thankful to god that we the people showed up to help the great state of texas defeat
00:24:50.980this woke marxist um tied uh terrorist agenda to destroy texas public education
00:24:58.360what did we win yesterday what did what did you actually beat back i want people to understand
00:25:03.620how severe this was oh my goodness uh steve this this was a fight like none other you know uh care
00:25:11.400the council of american islamic relations started showing up at our state board of education
00:25:15.580meetings last september and they just have not let up i think uh in the last 48 hours i've probably
00:25:21.660received well over 2 000 emails from from them and their affiliates and their members but you know
00:25:27.360what we won is we won for the very first time since 1963. We have now put the Bible back in0.87
00:25:36.820a mandatory reading list for every grade, kindergarten through 12th grade, and we have
00:25:41.480now put the Bible back into instructional materials. And it's not just the Bible. The
00:25:47.440standards that we passed yesterday for kindergarten through eighth grade, they are patriotic. Every
00:25:52.520grade has to teach American and Texas exceptionalism, teach civics, teach Judeo-Christian
00:25:59.020values, our Christian values that were the founding of America. Now they are back in
00:26:04.960instruction. And so it's patriotic. It's classical education. It has high academic rigor. And of
00:26:11.420course, it now includes the Old Testament and the New Testament. And then in our mandatory reading
00:26:15.620list that we passed, it also mirrors what we passed in kindergarten through eighth grade social
00:26:20.180studies is it has classical works of literature, it has the Bible, and it has patriotic books. So
00:26:26.460this is a really monumental task that is just changing the trajectory of public education in
00:26:35.960America. What Texas did, Texas did what we always do, we lead. When we see a problem, we all go to
00:26:41.800work and we lead. We don't complain about it, we just go fix it. And that's what Texas did yesterday.
00:26:46.020We delivered the most patriotic, Bible-infused, classical-based social studies instructions that's probably ever been passed in the United States of America.
00:26:56.840For sure, like I said, since 1963, we haven't seen the Bible and instructions in over 60 years.
00:27:02.540And I think that this is probably the best birthday present that Texas could give America on America's 250th birthday this week.
00:31:14.940But the way to do that is get all those great Haitians that Mandami's talking about in New York City and everywhere else and boom, out of here.1.00
00:31:22.500And I'd like to see the government moving on that like last night.1.00
00:31:25.420haven't seen that yet like to see mark wayne mullin um you know you got the money you got
00:31:31.320the people you got the court ruling what are we waiting for it's saturday 10 a.m eastern daylight
00:31:37.460time like to see some people getting on buses going to an airport getting on planes getting
00:31:43.220back to haiti going back to syria like right now don't know why that's not happening should have
00:31:50.320been ready should have been processed this thing's been in the courts for years we people were
00:31:55.160highly confident we would get this victory. Where are the deportations? That's all that matters.
00:32:00.300It's a math game. It's math. Don't need highfalutin rhetoric. Don't need talk.
00:32:04.900Boom, bing, bong, bong. There'll be enough speeches about the American Republic. It's now
00:32:09.460time to save the American Republic. Step one, get all the foreign invaders out of the country.1.00
00:32:17.320The revolutionary generation would spit on the floor seeing what we've allowed to happen in this0.96
00:32:24.520country, 20 million on Biden's watch with NGOs and religious NGOs, the Lutherans, the Catholics,
00:32:31.320the Jewish organizations, all working together with USAID money and your taxpayer. Remember,
00:32:37.980this is the tragedy. Your tax money did it. And also your pension funds, these private equity
00:32:43.720that are want lower wages, want to flood the zone with cheap foreign labor and have, you know,
00:32:49.180a little more money in the GDP to buy consumer goods.
00:33:12.580But Brandon Hall, another field commander in this fight down in in Austin for the entire state of Texas.
00:33:21.960I just want people to understand this was a fight.
00:33:25.220And if people had not stood in the breach, if you and Pickering had not done this and Mary Elizabeth Castle and others of these great volunteers,
00:33:33.100the my patriot mobile guys, the patriot mobile guys and others had not come together and stepped up to the microphone and said no
00:33:43.200and let people know the political power in Texas know that, hey, there's a grassroots element down there
00:33:48.120that are not going to allow the textbooks to say, oh, the Alamo was inspired and built with Islamic architecture.
00:33:55.900Not going to happen. Sir, tell us about it.
00:33:59.440Well, that's right. Glory be to God for this incredible victory and a tremendous amount of credit to our grassroots.
00:34:05.160I'm glad that you brought that up. We don't give them credit enough, but they really made a major impact here because for a while, only the left was showing up.
00:34:12.980Only the Council on American Islamic Relations was showing up.
00:34:16.320But you put out the word on the war room and other people gathered up great patriots, people took time away from their jobs.
00:34:22.600They invested their time, their treasure, their resources to be here and speak at the State Board of Education.
00:34:27.640We had people who stayed for 18 hours to testify, and it made a huge difference.
00:34:33.540And what we've seen in the state of Texas is that when you're willing to stand, you win.
00:34:38.240And just like General Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto, many times we were outnumbered.
00:34:43.560Many times they were the underdogs in this fight, but we charged straight into the camp of the enemy and won a great victory.
00:34:50.160We overwhelmed them, and we really rolled back 80 years' worth of historical revisionism.
00:34:54.900The left has been at this a long time.
00:34:57.080and we accomplished things you know a lot of people didn't think were possible and so i hope
00:35:01.280the outcome of this situation is not only do we save texas but i really hope that other states
00:35:06.300will see that you can stand you can win and you need to go on the offense in this battle to save
00:35:11.440western civilization the american republic and our texan way of life don't just play defense
00:35:15.940go after them and roll these things back well we're going to do that we're going to have a
00:35:21.380help you guys put together a brief and make sure that we get it up on war room and spread it out so
00:35:26.040you're actually teaching we use this as a teaching moment a teachable moment uh brandon here's what's
00:35:33.020got me concerned the media say well it's 2030 it's going to be phased in how do we get around this
00:35:38.420kind of slow walk because they're going to throw up a million court case everything like this how
00:35:43.020do we expedite this and start this like asap what do we need to do well i think i would love to see
00:35:50.680it expedited i would say that what we do is we don't walk away from this fight because many times
00:35:55.380when we win a victory, you know, the Patriots, we'll kind of go back to sleep. The left, they
00:36:00.020never give up. They're never going to stop coming at this. Just because they lost doesn't mean they
00:36:04.600will not be back. And so we need Patriots not to give up either. You need to let the State Board
00:36:08.820of Education know we want to expedite this and get this rolled out as quickly as possible.
00:36:12.960And we do also have reinforcements coming. Very conservative people who are being elected to the
00:36:18.700State Board of Education in safe Republican seats that will swear into the board in January.
00:36:22.480And then I think we can really get a lot accomplished here.
00:36:25.380um the um how do we there's going to be a new because of the grassroots effort i just want
00:36:35.360to make sure everybody understands this there's going to be a new state board of education in
00:36:40.460texas starting january 1st correct that's right steve yeah we have some incredible patriots that
00:36:46.900are coming on um another pastor is going to be swearing into the board and so i think it's going
00:36:51.920to be a new day in the state of texas because you know for a long time people didn't even really
00:36:55.260know what the state board of education was or what it did they weren't paying attention and
00:36:59.080left was able to make so much progress when parents and tax taxpayers were not paying attention but
00:37:04.460now people are awake they're on fire part of that is because of the war room posse and you steve and
00:37:10.460so now you know they're not going to slip anything past us just because we're asleep and really what0.79
00:37:15.020the muslims and care have done by showing up to our state board of education meetings is they've
00:37:20.220allowed people to see how critical this is and they have awakened a sleeping giant
00:37:24.620um mary elizabeth castle is brandon correct have we awakened i mean this happened in world war ii
00:37:36.200um admiral yamamoto on the bridge of the aircraft carrier that attacked pearl harbor when they
00:37:42.400turned around um one of the admirals asked him about you know what did he think and he said i
00:37:49.360think we've awakened a sleeping giant, and it's going to be bad. Is Brandon Hall and Julie Pickering
00:37:58.240right? Have we awakened a sleeping giant in Texas that we can spread this message in light of a
00:38:05.400prairie fire across the nation to stand in the breach and defeat these Marxists and jihadists
00:38:10.360and not give them our children? Because that's what they want. They want to, look at Mandami.
00:38:14.900Look in L.A. Look all over. These young people have been warped or foreigners who hate America1.00
00:38:22.360to begin with. But the young Americans have been warped and twisted to hate this country and to0.92
00:38:27.180hate Americans and to hate our history. Do you think they're reading revolution? Do you think0.71
00:38:31.780they're going to say? No, they got Howard's and everything else. They hate this country,
00:38:35.200hate it. The most pampered folks in world history, these young generations of these elites in places
00:38:42.480like New York City. They hate this country and they hate Americans. Do you believe, ma'am,
00:38:47.780that you have seen, because you've been at this doing the pick and shovel work,
00:38:52.280do you believe we've awakened a sleeping giant?
00:39:00.900Great number of patriots, parents, stakeholders, just regular citizens coming to the State Board
00:39:06.760of Education and realizing what was at stake. Back in 2022, when they had a draft that was
00:39:13.440full with CRT, full with anti-American rhetoric, you know, they were able to get through that
00:39:19.180process for several months. And that's when we came to a point and said, no more, you have to
00:39:23.600stop it. This time that wasn't going to happen. And I believe so many more people were engaged
00:39:28.560and involved. They were reading the standards. They were engaged with some of our Texas Values
00:39:33.420action alerts. And what we saw Monday, even with the press conference that we had earlier,
00:39:38.600I believe we outnumbered some of the radicals and the leftists at the meeting. The leftists had a
00:39:44.140funeral for religious liberty outside, but they had probably 10 or 13 people. We had a large press
00:39:49.620conference, and I think there were even two press conferences of patriots, one led by Texas Values,
00:39:55.480one led by Julie Pickren. I believe so many people believe what's at stake. I got a message from
00:40:01.140a colleague in Minnesota who said she wants to do the same thing in Minnesota.
00:40:05.920So I think this is going to spread across the country, or at least that's my hope.
00:40:12.420Tell us about Texas Valley. What's the next step of this? How do we make sure that this message
00:40:17.700not just goes throughout Texas and what the fight was and what the victory was? Because Brandon's
00:40:22.280going to work on when the new school board is impaneled back in January to expedite this,
00:40:28.900make sure it happens like now, now, now, right? Action, action, action. What can Texas values do?
00:40:34.880And how can we help to make sure this message gets out in an organized fashion
00:40:39.700to the rest of the states in the union that need it more than ever?
00:40:44.600Absolutely. So we'll, of course, be sending up a blog to recap everything that happened at the
00:40:50.440meeting. If you've been following us on social media, we had minute by minute updates on what
00:40:55.240was happening. So we'll inform the public about what happened at the meeting. With the reading
00:41:00.680list, our team is ready to defend it in any way possible to make sure there's policy analysis and
00:41:07.260legal analysis to explain how this is allowed, how you can read biblical texts for historical
00:41:12.560and education value. When it comes to the social study standards, it's not over yet. It's a great
00:41:18.080victory. They will be picking up some high school courses very soon. So we will need to hold the
00:41:23.600line, get as many people as possible to make sure there are no radical changes to some of these
00:41:28.200American history and other high school courses that are left. And then after that is the textbook
00:41:33.960process. After they adopt the standards, they have to choose a textbook that meets 100% of the
00:41:39.780TEKS. And so that's going to be another process where we need people to come and testify on the
00:41:45.440best textbooks. You're going to have publishers who are going to write textbooks that don't meet
00:41:49.640the TICs or go an opposite direction of what the patriotic American civic standards that we passed.
00:41:56.140So we will be giving people updates on how to get involved with the textbooks. Our team will be
00:42:00.400reading every single page of every single textbook that's proposed to make sure that it matches these
00:42:06.400good social studies TICs. Where do people get information about you? Where do they go?
00:42:12.480Yes, please visit txvalues.org. Also, Texas Values is on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
00:42:46.140We still have the high school standards to go.0.52
00:42:47.860We had three Republicans that broke and started voting with the Marxist Democrats and passing some of the demands from CARE and the WOKE organization.0.82
00:42:58.880So we're going to bring high school back.0.60
00:43:02.700And we're going to make sure that just like kindergarten through eighth grade, we deliver the most patriotic, classical-based, Bible-infused standards in the nation.
00:43:11.340We'll bring those back in a future meeting that hasn't been determined yet.
00:43:14.080okay what is your what is your um what is your social media where do people get you
00:43:19.540on x it's uh at julie for the number four tx and then my website is my name julie pickren.com
00:43:26.740j-u-l-i-e-p-i-c-k-r-e-n julie pickren.com and uh steve i am up for re-election you can imagine
00:43:33.500the target that is on my back at the moment so any support or help i greatly appreciate it but
00:43:38.540first and foremost i'll just ask your viewers please pray for me this this whole journey and
00:43:43.020this great victory did not come without a cost. So I would appreciate prayers.
00:43:47.760Thank you, ma'am. Prayers are important, but we need works. We need works. You need to use your
00:43:56.820agency, whatever you can do. Your hands are the hands of oneness. Short break.
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00:45:40.460War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:46:06.360talk to the audience about why this is so important.
00:46:08.580As we do the 250th commemoration of our country,
00:46:12.040We might have not had one nation if not for what happened on Little Round Top, sir.
00:46:18.180Little Round Top is a key turning point in the Civil War, and this is a real inflection point, Steve.
00:46:24.840I'm right out around the summit of Little Round Top near the 44th Infantry, New York 44th Infantry position, and the 20th Maine is over here a little bit.
00:46:33.920This is the far left of the Union position, and it's at 3.30 p.m. on July 2nd that Gouverneur Warren realizes that this mount is not occupied by Union troops.
00:46:47.720So they pull back from the wheat field and get quickly back on here, the 3rd Brigade, 5th Corps, and they are basically holding on for their lives as seven Confederate regiments.
00:47:01.260It's the Alabamans and the Texans hit them very hard around 4 p.m.
00:47:07.420I'm looking out right now at the slaughter pen.0.87
00:47:11.560Devil's Den is behind me and the Valley of Death, as it was later called, after the Civil War by the veterans.
00:47:22.220Walk us through just back from the road.
00:47:24.280The road back there is where the Confederate Army was, and I think it was Colonel Oates and the Alabama regiment that got the draw.
00:47:31.260I think John Bell Hood was not wildly enthusiastic about this, taking a little round top.
00:47:37.160His recommendation was take a big round top and circle a round, which Lee had always done in development movements.
00:47:43.900General Longstreet, and this is the big—if you're a Southerner, this is the big controversy later.
00:47:48.180General Longstreet kind of agreed with that.
00:47:50.860But General Lee said, no, get rolling, and he ordered John Bell Hood to take it.
00:47:54.940I think it was Colonel Oates from that legendary Alabama regiment met Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the men from the, I think it was the first Maine, right?
00:48:04.200And that it was one of the most important engagements in the Civil War.
00:48:08.140The 20th Maine holds this high, the far left, and it's, they are about 358 men, but they peel off Company B, which then moves down a little bit further behind a stone wall.
00:48:22.600And they're joined by about 14 members of the second United States sharpshooters, which are out.
00:48:29.700They were out in the wheat field along with the first. And they were they they play a key role that's often overlooked.
00:48:35.740And they are slowing down the Confederate advance. Even General Hood is hit by rounds.
00:48:42.380And it's you know, they slow them down.
00:48:44.620It gives them time to allow the 3rd Brigade to get on top of the hill and basically prepare for the assault that's going to happen, which is one of the greatest assaults in American history.
00:48:58.580You can just feel the history being here.
00:49:02.540It's just such hallowed ground, Steve.
00:49:06.440Are you out giving tours today, or what are you doing?
00:49:12.060See, I'm here for research for another book, but the other thing I always do is almost every year I come – there's a Gettysburg relic show this weekend, and I go to the relic show, and I'm there to – I like to buy and hold history.
00:49:27.820You know, artifacts themselves are a connection to the past, and what I collect are things that are in my books that are identified to individuals.
00:49:34.920So I'm looking for photographs, anything from a uniform or a pistol, whatever, that are in my books, and I've had a chance to be able to hold this history, and it helps me write in many cases, to be surrounded by artifacts that were there at the time.
00:49:52.860um why why what is the importance of going to Gettysburg and learning about our history in the
00:50:03.700250th anniversary which a lot of people focus on the revolution right now why is it still important
00:50:09.240to keep this the the civil war and the lessons learned from the civil war front of mind I think
00:50:15.360it's important to do both and the beauty of of the United States is that we have so much of this
00:50:20.300hallowed ground right in front of us. It's, you know, here at Gettysburg, arguably, I've been to
00:50:26.380most of the battlefields in the United States. I personally, I write about the stuff, but I also
00:50:32.880walk the ground, be it in Europe or, you know, here, wherever it is. It's important as a historian
00:50:39.380to understand the terrain, to understand the history. But, you know, as an American, you can
00:50:45.020come to visit this hallowed ground. And it's free in most cases. And there's also a situation where
00:50:51.860history is in plain sight in so many places. For instance, New York City, we talk about the
00:50:58.060American Revolution, the Great Battle of Brooklyn, the battles of New York are right there in plain
00:51:03.940sight. In many cases, they're not marked. But you can walk this history, which is still there,
00:51:09.200which is so important to remember it. There's so much to be proud of as an American.
00:51:15.020You know, we just had preceding you on the show today, we had the heroes of this, which
00:51:19.500I call kind of the Gettysburg of this cultural war, although it's we're not close to being
00:51:24.560halfway through this conflict, but it was a monumental win by the grassroots just to
00:51:30.460keep things like basic American history.
00:51:33.320Congressman Brandon Gill had tweeted out the other night on Thursday night, the Marxist
00:51:37.980Jihadists had actually taken out any reference to the early part of the Revolutionary War
00:51:42.520to Lexington and Concord in the siege of Boston.
00:51:45.780This is how radical they wanted these textbooks to be.
00:52:12.520But stick to the facts and the stories are important because people can associate with stories.
00:52:19.960And I mean, as somebody that had the Mills family had 10 members at Lexington and Concord, and it's absolutely appalling that somebody would remove the battles of Lexington and Concord, which begins the kinetic phase of the American Revolution, which was all about in that stage, it was all about disarmament and taking gunpowder and supplies away from the colonists.
00:52:40.000There would never be a revolution if that was successful by General Gage.
00:52:46.540Patrick, where do people go to get your books, most importantly your Twitter, so they keep up with all your movements?
00:52:52.720At Combat Historian, I've written 14 books on American history.
00:52:58.520My latest, Revolutionary Historian, which is ready for pre-order now, which comes out in the fall in November.
00:53:05.220And it's on Washington's great Rifleman, an untold story.
00:53:10.000where they were on the inflection points of history