The Auron MacIntyre Show - August 12, 2026


How Biden Used Religious Charities to Fund the Great Replacement | Guest: Brian Chau | 8⧸12⧸26


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00:00:00.000 hey everybody how's it going thanks for joining me this afternoon i've got a great stream with
00:00:13.860 a great guest that i think you're really going to enjoy we all know that the biden administration
00:00:18.500 threw open the gates when it came to illegal immigration border crossings were constant
00:00:23.440 tens of millions of people poured into the united states illegally however as we've also discovered
00:00:29.780 over time. It's the legal immigration that is just as dangerous. In many situations, 0.80
00:00:35.100 the Biden administration didn't just bring people in illegally. It made sure that there was a vast
00:00:39.540 network of organizations ready to distribute theoretically legal migrants into the United
00:00:45.400 States through things like refugee resettlement. This is a huge scandal, and in many ways it
00:00:50.540 impacts the religious community because many of these charities were operating under the guise
00:00:54.920 of being Christian or other religious organizations during this time.
00:01:01.040 Joining me to talk about this today is Brian Chow.
00:01:04.320 Thank you so much for coming on, man.
00:01:06.740 Yeah, and great to be here.
00:01:09.640 And it's really crazy because all these organizations
00:01:13.960 that are dragged out by the media over and over again
00:01:16.520 to oppose Trump's migration policies based on religious grounds,
00:01:21.700 many of them are taking the vast majority of their income from these migration and refugee
00:01:26.940 services grants. Like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 81.8 percent of their revenue
00:01:32.520 pre-assets released from restrictions was revenue that was from a migration and refugee services
00:01:38.980 grants. So it's like, you know, you say what you want about the Ford company, but when the Ford
00:01:43.900 company is saying you should build more cars, you should pay for more cars, you know, the government
00:01:47.820 should buy a ton of cars should take that with a little bit of skepticism and every time these
00:01:53.180 organizations are brought out this massive conflict of interest never disclosed yeah i think it's
00:01:59.020 incredibly important that people understand the motivations behind a lot of this because as you
00:02:03.100 say uh look we know the pope is you know generally communist that now sadly seems to be a catholic
00:02:09.820 practice but not only is the pope spouting a lot of this nonsense about how every country has to
00:02:14.860 opens its borders not the vatican but every other country uh but but while that's being spouted we
00:02:20.400 also see often american bishops come out against the trump administration talking about immigration
00:02:25.740 these kind of things and so when you have this scenario where so much of their funding is coming
00:02:31.820 from well as you show in the article the u.s government uh then these things are just one
00:02:37.800 hand washing the other it's ultimately a bunch of religious figures being bribed to push a political
00:02:43.140 line through government funding and then turning around and ultimately delivering exactly that
00:02:49.060 product. But before we dive into the story itself, I know you've started Effort News here. And for
00:02:55.000 people who might not be familiar with your work or what's going on there, can you explain who you
00:02:59.540 are and what Effort News is doing? Yeah. So my background is generally in technology. I worked
00:03:08.920 a bit with the Trump admin on AI, not in the admin, but kind of with some people in the admin.
00:03:15.600 But Effort News is a new publication to do investigative reporting. And it's not like AI
00:03:22.860 writing. I think a lot of people have tried to do AI writing. And for some reason, it still sucks.
00:03:28.540 Every time I read AI writing, it's just like, this is just unpleasant. But what we do instead
00:03:34.840 is we query these like massive databases of public records, including the ones that we use for this
00:03:40.660 story. We query, you know, millions of documents and stuff like that with AI, financial records,
00:03:47.940 legal records, and use that to find the kind of signal and the noise to find the needle in the
00:03:53.060 haystack of, you know, all these documents that should be a huge scandal, but just have been
00:03:57.960 overlooked for years. Yeah, I think that, you know, while I'm generally an AI skeptic, and for
00:04:03.700 many of the reasons you just listed like if you're if i'm reading ai slop i immediately know what it
00:04:08.020 is i can immediately identify it i would rather read the original thoughts and words of a human
00:04:14.040 however one of the great problems especially when it comes to conservative journalism is simply not
00:04:20.320 having the manpower like people don't you know i worked in just local reporting and people don't
00:04:25.280 understand just the raw time it takes to do something as simple as you know sit through a
00:04:31.720 county commission meeting and look at every document and every proposal everything being
00:04:36.360 brought forward and actually synthesize that and put it out and so that's why very little
00:04:41.000 original journalism occurs but when you come to even these larger issues obviously like these
00:04:46.780 nationwide issues you know the the level of research required to do this kind of work is
00:04:52.460 fast and we simply don't have the manpower we don't have enough conservatives or right-wing
00:04:57.680 people in the sphere to kind of grind through this. So if AI can allow you to do the research
00:05:04.380 to go through these databases, to pull the data at a level that would have taken, you know,
00:05:09.760 hundreds of hours of manpower in many cases, well, now you've opened up whole new frontiers
00:05:15.520 of journalism. I've got a buddy who says that AI might actually change our Congress as well,
00:05:20.880 because right now so much of the legislation is written by, you know, a lot of lobbyists because
00:05:26.320 there's not the staff for most congressmen to sift through all the bills, that kind of thing.
00:05:31.640 AI provides you the ability to now just do all that at a click. And so I think it's interesting
00:05:36.540 that whether it could be congressional language or news reporting, ultimately AI can kind of
00:05:43.460 balance the deficit that the right had when it come to researching these stories. But that said,
00:05:50.020 let's get into this story itself. So you've already-
00:05:53.220 One note before that, if you have a moment, which is almost all of traditional reporting is solicited.
00:06:00.880 It's someone who comes to you with a story they want heard, and that's going to have incentives.
00:06:07.020 They're going to want that for a reason.
00:06:09.260 And that's shaped like essentially like all of the media, more than 90 percent for sure, of the new stories that get broken, you know, all the way back to Nixon.
00:06:18.220 I know he's having a moment.
00:06:19.420 How did that story start?
00:06:20.420 There's people in the deep state coming to the journalists with information, and this really is a different kind of record search, where we can actually exhaustively look through the entire Medicaid reimbursement database, the entire HHS grant database, which is how we ended up finding these stories.
00:06:39.540 Yeah, let's get into it.
00:06:40.820 All right. So you already laid out the, you know, kind of the Catholic charities, you know, being implicated here. But let's get the wider scope of what's going on here. When it comes to the refugee resettlement program, has it always been with us?
00:06:57.620 If so, how did it change under the Biden administration?
00:07:01.760 Were they using it strategically?
00:07:03.780 What did the increase in funding look like?
00:07:06.400 And how were they using that to then change who was being imported into the country?
00:07:12.560 Yeah, so there were broader refugee resettlement grants.
00:07:16.300 The entire category originated in most of the modern ones originate in 1980 with the
00:07:21.940 Refugee Act, and that's the congressional authority.
00:07:24.380 That's the line item if you're someone who's working in Congress and wants to look at this funding.
00:07:30.480 But this particular grant exploded from less than $16 million or around $16 million to $1.2 billion in 2021.
00:07:40.180 Maybe you can put this graph on screen.
00:07:41.580 It's the first graph in the article.
00:07:44.020 You can see there's this just like massive spike up from $16 million to $1.2 million.
00:07:50.540 And that includes a ton of money for religious organizations.
00:07:54.380 More than half was sent to religious-affiliated organizations, including $141 million to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, $80 million to Episcopal Migration Ministries, $159 million to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, and $162 million to Church World Service, as well as, I think, $140-something million to HIAS.
00:08:16.380 uh highest let me find the record here it's later in the org um 139 uh million sorry to highest
00:08:25.420 which is a self-identified you know organization promoting you know jewish values that that's what
00:08:30.060 they themselves say um and uh and uh interestingly not quite a religious organization but also um
00:08:39.020 124 million to the ethiopian community development council uh but but yeah these
00:08:44.860 these massive grants exploding from almost nothing relative to the total amount to 1.2
00:08:50.180 billion under Biden. So you listed out all those organizations. And as you say, a number of them
00:09:00.020 are religious, but some of them are just something like the Ethiopian Community Development Council.
00:09:05.760 That one definitely stood out to me. First, why does that exist in the United States at all? But
00:09:10.260 second why are we handing it any money and the staggering thing about some of the data that you
00:09:16.720 kind of brought together here is you can look at the total revenue in a lot of these and in many
00:09:22.780 cases you know we just look at the church world service here you got a total revenue of 282
00:09:28.240 million dollars 251 million dollars is uh derived from the government and of that 232 million is
00:09:39.040 migrant services so we're looking at all but what 30 million dollars ultimately that's coming
00:09:45.800 directly from government funding and of that all but 20 million is coming directly from these
00:09:51.760 migrant services and so we have a scenario where basically the only reason this charity exists 0.84
00:09:57.960 is to just funnel as many human beings into the united states as possible the religious 0.75
00:10:05.320 aspect is nothing but a trapping when we look at kind of all the money that they're deriving here 0.83
00:10:11.400 again we can see in a regular uh situations the ethiopian community development you know 92 0.95
00:10:17.080 million dollars but you know 89 is government revenue and every bit of that is from migrant
00:10:22.680 services these these organizations only exist because the government is funding them they are
00:10:28.540 you know for all intents and purposes government organizations designed to bring in and resettle
00:10:35.020 refugees into the United States. Now, obviously, each one of these is probably going to be working
00:10:41.580 with different communities. I imagine the Ethiopian Community Development Council isn't
00:10:45.140 probably bringing in a lot of people from Southeast Asia. But ultimately, what is the
00:10:50.280 excuse for this explosion in refugee resettlement? Did we have some kind of event in 2021 that
00:10:57.680 suddenly we needed to, you know, what, quadruple the amount of funding in this kind of thing?
00:11:02.220 What's going on here? Yeah. So there was a bill for this program in particular for preferred
00:11:09.880 communities. There was a bill attached or there's a measure attached to the Ukraine war bill that
00:11:17.720 gave the HHS 3.78 billion in refugee resettlement funding. But based on the government's own
00:11:28.120 reports, only 47% of that was estimated to go to Ukrainians, and only 982 million was confirmed to
00:11:36.940 actually have gone to Ukrainians. So that's 1.99 billion, more than half, that went to other
00:11:45.220 populations eligible for ORR services, according to this report. And there's very little that we can
00:11:54.160 do, especially once it flows into each of these organizations, to track what exactly those are
00:12:00.060 being spent on. They're supposedly allocated towards migration and refugee services. It's
00:12:08.260 hard even to delineate within these programs. These NGOs don't disclose how much of it goes to
00:12:14.380 people who are actually filing for asylum versus other just like economic migrants or any other
00:12:20.040 kind of migrants. So it's hard to tell where exactly that money is going once it makes its
00:12:24.640 way into the organizations. So we already know that the United States has sunk hundreds of
00:12:31.760 billions of dollars into the Iran war at this point. And people need to understand why war is
00:12:37.740 so important to the system. Obviously, it drives a lot of economic investment. You can't generate
00:12:44.620 hundreds of billions of dollars going to defense contractors and everyone else involved if you
00:12:50.160 don't have it but it only doesn't it doesn't just occur overseas or even line the pockets of
00:12:55.180 military contractors that money also gets spent domestically as we're seeing here it looks like
00:13:00.620 we had hundreds of millions of dollars set aside at the very least uh in the name of resettling
00:13:07.260 refugees well those refugees wouldn't exist obviously if the ukrainian war wasn't ongoing
00:13:12.360 So in many ways, we need the Ukraine war to fund these organizations. But then, as you say, the majority of the money that is allocated for Ukrainian refugees doesn't even go to Ukrainian refugees.
00:13:25.200 So someone like Irina Zarutska, who sadly met a terrible fate in the United States after being a Ukrainian refugee, she might have been one of these people that could have received what was at least the stated legitimate goal of those funds to relocate her here in the United States in what was supposed to be theoretical safety.
00:13:43.300 But ultimately, most of that money is not even going to that cause. And this is what you need to understand about leftist funding and how this stuff works, guys. Whenever the leftists find some way to use a crisis to their advantage, they juice all of that money into their friends, into their buddies, into their preferred organizations.
00:14:02.960 So yes, the Biden administration sees a refugee crisis with Ukrainians, but more importantly, they see an opportunity to then force that money into all the other pet projects that they have. That is just a slush fund that begins with the excuse of the Ukrainian crisis and then leads us into the situation we have now.
00:14:24.100 And as you're saying here, Brian, when you have all this money flowing into these NGOs, to these charities, they often just become a black box. There's no longer any accountability. We don't know where that money is being assessed. Most of these organizations are surely not sitting there and evaluating the worthiness of every asylum claim.
00:14:43.960 I mean, the United States barely does that. These organizations are not going to do that. And so there's no telling how many illegals or how many people who otherwise do not have valid claims of asylum. They are ultimately facilitating by operating these organizations.
00:15:01.740 Now, the interesting thing is that, as we've pointed out, many of these organizations have a religious moniker, but they tend not to actually do any church work. They're not actually being funded even by the donations of the associated denominations.
00:15:19.700 The Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service is not being funded by actual Lutherans in most of these cases.
00:15:26.920 So is there any tension between these religious organizations and the people who are supposed to fund them?
00:15:33.540 Are most people aware of how deeply they're tied to what really is this refugee institutional complex as opposed to actually doing work on behalf of the religious affiliation that is supposed to be attached to the church?
00:15:51.640 I don't think they are aware.
00:15:52.940 And I think the reaction to the story shows that they're not aware.
00:15:56.480 So it's interesting.
00:15:58.280 yeah it's like the vast majority of their funding um for these organizations um come comes from
00:16:04.560 these grants and does not come from uh parishioners but there are still several of these organizations
00:16:12.340 that are tied into the actual like church hierarchy so u.s conference of catholic bishops
00:16:18.300 uh they play a role and and of course the the bishops in them play a role in the actual you
00:16:24.840 know process of uh catholic you know decision making and the episcopal migration ministries
00:16:30.620 um interestingly this is one where um their finances are merged with the general uh episcopal
00:16:38.820 church but but as a result they're not um they're not an outright majority they're they're they're
00:16:46.140 kind of like the one exception it's it's only 33 guys it's only one third of their funding coming
00:16:51.320 from migration grants, but they were involved with the official position of the Episcopal
00:17:01.240 Church.
00:17:01.600 So if you go down to the statements, they made a statement, and not just a statement,
00:17:09.620 but an actual decision, actual concrete decision that plays out in real life to cancel their
00:17:19.660 relationship with the program when the Trump administration made the directive to resettle
00:17:24.940 South African refugees. They said, and I'm quoting here now, in light of our church's steadfast
00:17:31.380 commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church
00:17:36.740 of South Africa, we're not able to take the step, not able to resettle the South African refugees.
00:17:43.600 Accordingly, we have determined that by the end of the federal fiscal year, we'll conclude
00:17:47.320 a refugee resettlement grant agreements with the US government. So they made, and this is a letter
00:17:53.740 that was published, not just by Episcopal Migration Ministries, but was published churchwide to the
00:17:59.260 Episcopal Church, the statement and, you know, this policy to stop resettling refugees when it
00:18:07.240 came to white Afrikaners. And, you know, they made their, I think they made the rhetoric very clear
00:18:13.380 there. But still, many people are not aware of this. Many people are not aware both of the funding
00:18:19.360 and of this massive values conflict between normal people in the pews and church leadership.
00:18:27.080 Yeah. And I think this is really important because we have a lot of people who like to say,
00:18:33.760 well, it's just the values. That's what these people care about. It's just the values, right?
00:18:38.900 We have Ben Shapiro saying he doesn't give a damn about the browning of America because
00:18:43.200 It's really about the values that are coming across, but when we look at the actual organizations, they make it clear it's not about the values, it's about the race.
00:18:51.860 As you say here, these organizations are more than happy to bring in people from the third world as long as they are the right color under these ideas that they are a refugee.
00:19:03.660 But the minute that the refugee, who's literally having a political party chant about murdering them in the streets, when they come and they need protection, all of a sudden, this is just kind of mask off.
00:19:17.060 And I guess it shouldn't be a mask. I think at this point we all kind of knew this.
00:19:20.080 But there is still this lingering insistence by many conservatives that, again, it's not about the race. It's about the values, and that's what matters here.
00:19:30.540 But to the left, to these organizations, the racial part is explicit. And even a religious organization who should, in theory, care about the well-being of all people who practice that religion, all people really, but especially those that practice the religion.
00:19:45.840 The fact is that, well, if you're the wrong skin color, actually, we don't care about that. And we're willing to kind of dash the entire program if we have to comply with this idea that white people could ever be a victim of anything. 0.71
00:20:00.600 Now, the interesting question I think a lot of people would be asking is, you know, with the Trump administration obviously making big changes to refugee policy, we know it's not just the introduction of the Afrikaners. 0.64
00:20:12.140 We're seeing fewer and fewer people admitted permanently as refugees in the United States.
00:20:18.440 To the Trump administration's great credit, they have really clamped down on this program significantly.
00:20:24.640 So my next question would be, are these programs still operating?
00:20:28.760 Are they still receiving funding?
00:20:31.900 Are we still seeing large-scale refugee resettlement?
00:20:34.640 What's happening here?
00:20:36.420 So I think I am breaking news here on the Oren McIntyre show.
00:20:42.000 We received this information since the publication of the article.
00:20:48.380 So this was not able to be included in the original article because we hadn't had it yet.
00:20:53.620 But the money in this grant was repurposed by the administration.
00:21:01.100 I believe there was some court ruling that said they couldn't cancel it outright and has been reallocated to a different grant that will begin in 2026 that is where all the providers for the original grants are not eligible.
00:21:21.900 so they've repurposed the money into a different grant um hopefully for uh different work uh and
00:21:30.560 they've made it so that the original providers are all ineligible for um this new batch of grants
00:21:36.660 and that is i can send you the link for that uh in the chat as well well that that is great news
00:21:43.400 and i think that you know there is a lot of difficulty the trump administration is facing
00:21:49.200 when it comes to court rulings. Obviously, the left figured out that even though Trump won with
00:21:55.520 the popular vote and we had the House and the Senate, that the judiciary was going to be the
00:22:01.040 way to go to war with the administration this time. And so they have been able to cut off a
00:22:05.880 lot of these efforts. As you say here, I can't imagine in a functional way the Constitution
00:22:12.700 ever telling the executive branch that they can't stop handing out money. Obviously, that's a
00:22:20.340 garbage ruling. And I do think at some point, the Trump administration just has started ignoring 0.99
00:22:24.420 these people. But it is good to know that they came up with a workaround that they ultimately
00:22:29.220 understood that if you pull this money out and you repurpose it and you draft it so that all
00:22:34.300 the previous organizations can't get access to it, that at least keeps the money from flowing
00:22:39.320 back into these efforts, right? And because so many of these organizations were pretty much
00:22:44.620 entirely dependent on, you know, the government handouts, they're going to fold pretty quickly
00:22:50.820 if they don't get access to these grants. So restricting these organizations from getting
00:22:56.160 access, yes, in some way it feels like a half measure, but at the very least for the direct
00:23:01.840 bad actors, this is going to dry up the majority of their funding right away. And I really love
00:23:07.580 been the the phrase of this the preferred communities uh you know grant uh because that
00:23:13.480 is so unintentionally honest about what they think right like these are the people we prefer in the
00:23:20.180 country these are the people we want in the country who's not preferred white south africans
00:23:24.600 that's not a preferred community but when it comes to all of these other specific minorities that
00:23:29.840 they think they're going to get to control hold into an ethnic coalition wield against the current
00:23:34.280 Americans, that's the stuff that they lean into. So I'm glad to hear that the Trump administration 0.91
00:23:39.180 is ultimately seeing the opportunity to at the very least punish these organizations over time.
00:23:45.380 But the real question is, of course, all of this could be undone with a stroke of a pen, right?
00:23:50.520 Because this has not been done through legislation, because it's largely been done through
00:23:55.360 rearrangement of, you know, bureaucracy and procedure, you know, executive order,
00:24:01.000 these kind of things uh if a democrat gets in next election cycle all of this could disappear right
00:24:08.520 yeah uh so so there is a way to do uh something more about it which would be to uh cut off funding
00:24:15.480 um i think i believe this would be under the refugee act funding uh under senate appropriation
00:24:21.320 so if you're in that fight you know uh that that is where to look so for you know i i want to
00:24:28.840 to take this moment to speak a little bit on the importance of the 2028 election. A lot of people
00:24:37.240 have become very angry all of a sudden with me because I've pointed out that some of the current
00:24:42.420 missteps of the Trump administration make midterms, which were already going to be dicey,
00:24:46.980 a bit of a train wreck, and they could possibly throw 2028 into question. A lot of people have
00:24:53.700 taken those comments for me to then be saying, oh, well, ultimately, we don't want Trump to win
00:24:59.720 somehow, or we don't want Republicans to win, or you should all vote Democrat. I want to be very
00:25:04.300 clear. I've pushed back against every attempt by people to say we should not support Trump,
00:25:09.820 or we should support the Democrats, or we should form a third party. I have been explicit in my
00:25:15.240 opposition to all of those. And for exactly the reason that Brian is kind of illuminating here,
00:25:20.600 because yes there are more there is more that we could be you know done to make this permanent but
00:25:26.620 we don't know how much of it is going to get done which means it really matters who's in charge it
00:25:30.740 matters if the republicans hold the house in the senate it matters if the republicans are in the
00:25:36.740 white house not because i think the republicans are the best they're they're bad they're just
00:25:41.260 the only thing right now standing between us and truly completely open borders which is what we
00:25:46.840 will get if the left comes back into power and so while i have problems and i think that the
00:25:52.300 administration has made bad decisions that have currently hurt its standing i still want them to
00:25:57.240 win i still want them to succeed all of my criticism about the administration and where
00:26:02.120 it stands in these moments is not me endorsing anything that you know the left would do better
00:26:07.220 or that we would you know be better by punishing the republicans by showing them and putting the
00:26:12.020 democrats in power the reason i say this stuff is because we have to get better at this because
00:26:16.880 there is too much on the line and so we can't throw away the future of our country by fighting 0.89
00:26:21.760 some stupid war in the middle east when we're seeing the effects from the data that's being 1.00
00:26:26.380 presented right here just in legal immigrants because this is going to be even harder now 0.99
00:26:31.780 brian i don't know if you're familiar with this but now that so many of these people have been
00:26:36.880 settled legally as refugees what is their status are they are they working towards citizenship is
00:26:44.480 there a finalized date at which their you know refugee status runs out are they just here
00:26:49.320 indefinitely is there anything that could be done ultimately to deport these people
00:26:53.320 what options do we have to deal with the damage that's already being inflicted by the Biden
00:26:57.400 administration um so I believe once again it's a little bit fuzzy because unclear how many of these
00:27:04.600 dollars are actually being spent on like people who are making asylum claims. But the traditional
00:27:10.620 system is that you make an asylum claim. If that asylum claim is granted, then you're given
00:27:17.740 legal status, a legal visa status in the United States, which can then be used to apply for a
00:27:25.440 green card, eventually apply for naturalized citizenship after 10 years. And so it's a longer
00:27:32.400 process, but it's a kind of, you know, fully legal funnel at this point. So there are subcategories
00:27:41.400 of that asylum process that can be changed either via executive order or by via legislation.
00:27:49.080 There was a chart recently posted of the temporary protected status programs that have now been
00:27:54.660 canceled. So that would have been programs where people would have been considered legal migrants,
00:27:59.960 Famously in the, I think, the vice presidential debate between Vance and Tim Walls, Walls kept insisting, you know, that Vance was describing legal migrants because they had come illegally, but then were made legal through this temporary protected status declaration.
00:28:20.800 And we've seen many of those, including the one for Haiti, for temporary protected status reversed.
00:28:26.840 and that is something where you know uh when that status is is reversed i believe those people will
00:28:32.460 have to leave the country and so there are um parts to this there are um there's more that
00:28:39.640 you can do with legislation if that's through you know through the house and senate um um so so yeah
00:28:46.720 there are there are some pathways towards uh changing the law in this case yeah and you know
00:28:52.980 obviously ideally we would just get the legislation done but if we can't pass the
00:28:57.660 save act through you know a republican house and senate then unfortunately i'm very doubtful that
00:29:04.940 we'll see large-scale legislative relief when it comes to most of these refugee policies uh that
00:29:12.700 said uh that only makes the uh again you know who is sitting in the uh white house even more
00:29:21.260 important that it becomes even more essential to control these things because once you allow
00:29:26.720 a lot of these people in through what is basically a legal mechanism uh there is a very you have very
00:29:33.920 very difficult time kind of changing what's going on there now i wanted i this chart in the piece
00:29:40.380 caught my eye as well my contractors opposition to trump can you explain to people what this is
00:29:46.520 showing? Yeah. So each dot on that chart is a public statement or a press statement critical
00:29:54.000 of Trump. Almost always, but not always, interestingly, it is on immigration-related
00:30:02.640 issues. But actually, interestingly, Church World Service had a recent statement on the Voting
00:30:08.820 Rights Act ruling. So not even Trump, but on the Supreme Court saying that you no longer have to
00:30:14.780 gerrymander districts so that they're majority minority districts. That was the recent ruling.
00:30:19.800 That was Church World Service's statement saying that not having racial criteria for districts was
00:30:27.020 racist. So they're broadly oppositional in many ways. And it's very hard to separate that out
00:30:36.000 from the funding. You know, I think everyone would recognize if, you know, you had a bakery going on
00:30:40.680 TV, going on all of these media appearances and saying, everyone must buy bread. We must
00:30:45.440 all buy bread. Bread is the greatest thing in the world. By the way, I make and sell
00:30:50.060 bread. This would be something that would obviously be suspicious to everyone. But here
00:30:57.280 we have these organizations, which are a majority of their revenue come from these migration
00:31:05.460 contracts who are saying, you know, the Trump administration is deeply immoral for their
00:31:10.900 migration policies. It's like no one should be taking this credibly. Yeah, I mean, you know,
00:31:17.100 it's incredible, as you say, that a ostensibly religious service would be speaking out, 0.84
00:31:26.100 even if you explicitly, you know, push yourself as some kind of migrant contractor, which I'm sure
00:31:31.620 none of them do up front. But even if you were, the fact that you would then pontificate on
00:31:38.000 whether or not we should be racially gerrymandering to create artificial districts on behalf of black
00:31:45.020 communities. I mean, that's so bizarre and out of left field. It should have nothing to do. And so
00:31:50.360 like you're saying, the only real explanation is just a consistent political activism against
00:31:55.880 the Republican Party and against Donald Trump specifically. I mean, you got 41 instances here
00:32:01.560 from Church World Services. The only other one that comes close, I believe, is the Jewish service
00:32:06.820 that you had there as well, that organization. But the fact that they are so constantly pontificating,
00:32:12.600 as you point out, on these issues makes it very clear what their ultimate real orientation is.
00:32:18.940 This is not a charity in any sense. This is a fully political arm of the Democratic Party masquerading as a religious organization. And again, all of these are concerning, but especially with the Catholic charities.
00:32:33.900 I mean, this is, again, a group that is very influential. It has the, as you point out, they are not just some immigration resettlement organization. They make real decisions about the church and the faith of many people. They advise many politicians.
00:32:50.660 And one of the things that really annoys me, and guys, to be clear, there are evangelical organizations that do this too. So this is not just my Catholic swipe. But one of the things I've noticed is major Catholic figures who are theoretically on the right do not speak out against this.
00:33:10.360 They do not speak out against Catholic charities. You know, you're going to catch Bishop Barron talking about the evils of like dangerous right wing young men, but you're not going to hear him talking about refugee resettlement.
00:33:21.340 And I think there's a real lack of leadership in all of these communities, to be clear, not just Catholics, but all of these communities to speak up against this kind of action.
00:33:31.100 But it's particularly, I think, dangerous with the Catholic charities because it's so deeply entwined with the actual leadership of Catholicism in the United States.
00:33:40.320 Yes. And we haven't published an article on this, but there are also these organizations, actually, I think you may have covered them previously, that will also funded through government grants that will, you know, liaison with church groups and other religious groups.
00:34:00.980 and will work on, you know, countering hate within the church, you know, addressing hate speech,
00:34:07.100 addressing, you know, addressing racism within the church, and so on. And you can look out for
00:34:12.760 an article on that in the future. But yeah, in many cases, these are not, you know, people who
00:34:19.240 are organically passionate about their cause. These are well-funded, systematic operations.
00:34:25.400 well i'm glad that you guys covered this it's very clear that the trump administration is aware
00:34:31.680 of this problem and is taking action on this issue uh unfortunately there is a lot of bureaucracy
00:34:37.640 a lot of red tape a lot of legal rulings and other issues that are inhibiting uh them being able to
00:34:44.240 do everything that's necessary here but i think that the more we have this kind of data the more
00:34:49.360 that it's clear what the motivation and you know funding and activism of these organizations are
00:34:54.820 the easier it is for the average person to kind of go to their local church leadership and say
00:35:00.260 hey do we want to be a part of this because i think when a lot of people hear oh you want to
00:35:04.440 cut funding to a religious organization you know they they naturally panic oh yeah this is my
00:35:09.540 church of course they're doing good things you know very common sentiment that people automatically
00:35:15.040 assume but if local parishioners can have this kind of data they can have these quotes they can
00:35:20.760 follow the money and follow the logic, it's much easier to make the case then to your church
00:35:25.940 leadership that, hey, maybe these aren't benevolent organizations. They aren't working
00:35:30.000 our behalf. They aren't doing the Lord's work. These are functionally government entities that
00:35:35.060 are politically aligned with the left, and there's no reason for us to continue to engage with them.
00:35:39.780 Now, that said, there's another interesting story that you guys kind of uncovered and talked about
00:35:45.280 here recently, which is a program out of California denying expecting mothers coverage
00:35:52.640 if they don't meet certain racial requirements. Can you tell us a little more about that?
00:35:58.740 Yeah. So this is a program called Birth Equity. You probably already know where this is going.
00:36:04.980 That would fund exclusively these programs for Black women and birthing people. And a related 0.84
00:36:13.680 program, Black Infant Health, literally denied this woman in California medical services because 1.00
00:36:23.180 she was not the right race. And these are programs that are in clear violation of the text of the
00:36:31.720 Civil Rights Act. For a long time, this wasn't enforced, even though, you know, the authors of
00:36:37.220 the Civil Rights Act assured that anti-white discrimination, anti-white racism would be
00:36:43.440 protected against in the civil rights act but recently in 2025 the doj civil rights division
00:36:51.120 under harmeet dylan started actually prosecuting these cases and they've already prosecuted
00:36:56.800 some versions of these fact patterns like minnesota department of health
00:37:03.040 a program that was also rationing care based on race and the illinois review that provided
00:37:09.360 beneficial loans based on race. And this is something where the DOJ is really in a position
00:37:17.140 to act because these three programs all take federal Medicaid dollars, birth equity, black
00:37:22.360 infant health, and perinatal equity initiative. They all take federal Medicaid dollars. They're
00:37:28.280 all eligible for suits under equal protection, under Title VI, and under a few others that are
00:37:35.620 kind of medical specific prohibiting race discrimination. And what the DOJ could do
00:37:42.700 in conjunction with the CMS is cut off this federal Medicaid funding if they do not cease
00:37:51.220 their racial discrimination. So this is one of those scenarios where people just don't understand
00:37:58.420 how much of this was occurring because all the previous Republican administrations just didn't
00:38:04.040 care. These anti-white programs pop up everywhere all the time, as you're saying, and the appetite
00:38:10.540 for going after them, even though they should, in theory, be completely illegal under the Civil
00:38:16.180 Rights Act, was basically non-existent. And ultimately, laws are not just pieces of paper.
00:38:21.360 They are the people that enforce them, the priorities of the people who actually
00:38:24.900 bring those mechanisms of enforcement against those that violate it. And so if the Civil Rights
00:38:30.680 division understands that well implicitly we do not protect white people no matter what the law
00:38:36.280 says then the civil rights act can say on paper whatever it likes what it functionally says is
00:38:42.420 this works for everybody except white people and now we're seeing a shift because of who's at the
00:38:48.080 head of this so again you know big kudos to trump administration on this because otherwise we would 0.51
00:38:53.400 have seen zero action we would not have seen anyone stepping up to the plate to punish this
00:38:58.700 And it's interesting because, of course, you know, a lot of people forget that during the pandemic, we had a very serious scenario where basically the government came out and said, we don't want to give the vaccine to older people because older people tend to be white. 0.62
00:39:16.600 And so we don't want to protect white people more than anyone else. 0.52
00:39:19.460 Now, in a lot of ways, we don't talk about it because, well, the vaccine was a disaster. It hurt a lot of people. And so a lot of people dodged a bullet by not getting the vaccine ultimately. But that could have broken the other way, right? Like if the vaccine had worked, if it hadn't had all these really serious side effects, we would have been looking at a scenario where the government was considering not giving life-saving health care to people just because they were white and not in crazy California, but all across the country.
00:39:46.280 So the fact that this is something that has repeatedly showed up in some of the most serious situations you can imagine is absolutely devastating.
00:39:55.360 And it really shows, again, a concerted effort to target the native heritage population of the United States through any means necessary, whether it be the decision to not allow white refugees in or to fight back against white refugees while encouraging refugees from every other background,
00:40:14.160 or whether it's cutting off medical access to white women who might be pregnant because they don't meet certain requirements 0.57
00:40:21.440 or even theoretically giving out life-saving medication against a pandemic if that had actually worked.
00:40:28.720 We are just seeing a consistent pattern, ultimately, of these anti-white decisions when it comes to medicine. 0.74
00:40:34.740 And this is incredibly dangerous because, of course, this is something we need to get right.
00:40:39.960 Public health has to be for everybody.
00:40:41.880 It cannot be rationed by race.
00:40:44.160 And when you see these carve outs specifically for preferred groups, again, those preferred communities come up again, this is going to have a deleterious effect on social fabric.
00:40:53.640 People are going to hate each other when they see one race getting preferential treatment or one race getting denied the treatment necessary for them on a regular basis.
00:41:03.680 So with California feeling that pressure, are we getting any indication that other programs like this are going to fold before the civil rights division gets to them?
00:41:13.920 Are other governments looking to kind of redress this stuff, you know, or are they ultimately going to wait until Harmeet Dhillon comes knocking on their door to do anything about it?
00:41:26.300 So there were some signs of kind of natural reaction, natural anticipation of the new administration.
00:41:36.580 This isn't quite government actors, but there was a 90 percent drop in DEI language among federal grant applicants.
00:41:46.260 Now, that might also be, you know, applicants who are just compiling what they're actually doing and they're removing that language because it previously would have been beneficial.
00:41:55.680 Now it's detrimental to them. They're just kind of acting in their own self-interest.
00:41:59.300 But there is some preliminary data that governments and other actors are responding to these incentives. And when it comes to health, particularly, what happened was pretty interesting. I mentioned these two cases against the Minnesota Department of Health and against the state of Illinois.
00:42:20.180 what happened was that after opening the DOJ Civil Rights Division review, so they did already
00:42:27.180 start engaging, they managed to get the racial set-asides from these programs removed. Now,
00:42:33.760 they didn't have to escalate to the point of actually cutting off the federal Medicaid funding.
00:42:37.900 So they basically said, you know, you guys, you know what you're doing is illegal here, right?
00:42:42.160 And they said, well, our bad, I guess we'll have to stop doing it.
00:42:45.740 well i appreciate you going after these stories like i said i think that the right really needs
00:42:54.160 um just the ability to drill down and find all of these examples and we are not getting enough
00:43:01.540 of them and so uh you know you guys utilizing artificial intelligence in this way to create
00:43:07.000 this opportunity i think is very important and guys this is you know a lot of people ask me
00:43:12.080 what can I do? I'm just some guy. What can I do? And maybe you can't write AI prompts. Maybe you're
00:43:19.660 not great at developing that technology. But remember that citizen journalism is more powerful
00:43:25.020 than it's ever been. If you're a guy with the ability to do an internet search and a cell phone
00:43:30.480 camera, you can break stories. You really can. And we're just without manpower. So get out there
00:43:37.540 and try to figure out what's going on in your community.
00:43:40.780 Learn about this stuff.
00:43:42.320 Do some research.
00:43:43.440 And if you have something significant like this,
00:43:45.980 bring it to people's attention.
00:43:47.340 I have had many a story broken on the show.
00:43:50.560 Many people ultimately who have been able to move on
00:43:53.860 and create bigger platforms
00:43:56.820 because they ultimately took the time
00:43:59.080 to pull something up like this and to share it.
00:44:01.540 And there are more outlets than ever
00:44:03.380 to get this stuff out to people
00:44:05.240 and make them aware of what's going on.
00:44:06.680 And so, Brian, we have a few questions from the audience, but before we pivot over to that, where can people find your work?
00:44:12.980 Perfect. I'm Brian Chow, 57 on Twitter, B-R-I-N-C-H-A-U, 5-7.
00:44:19.760 And actually, if you are one of those people who want to go out and take one of those opportunities, we are hiring jobs at effort.news.
00:44:29.600 And of course, effort.news is the overall site.
00:44:32.960 there you go guys i hear all the time where are those right-wing opportunities where are those
00:44:38.120 opportunities for ambitious right-wing young men or women well there you go you have it right there
00:44:43.320 brian is waiting for your highly qualified resume to hit his desk all right uh principled uncertainty
00:44:50.600 says uh now that the populist left have the moment how will you personally bow down before the master
00:44:58.300 I prepared by smoking. I prepared by smoking for decades. I'd be fascinated to hear your escape
00:45:04.840 plans. Well, the most important thing for me is I don't have escape plans. I know you're probably
00:45:09.220 meaning that tongue in cheek, but I do think that's important, guys. This is my country. I
00:45:14.120 will fight for it. This is where I was born. This is where my family has been for generations since
00:45:20.200 the 1700s. I'm not going anywhere. And so, yes, currently the populist left has some momentum.
00:45:26.200 but honestly i think look the upside here is i think most of this is unforced errors i think
00:45:31.420 honestly the truth is the left wouldn't have any momentum if we kind of hadn't gone you know in the
00:45:36.720 direction we have the last uh year or so but ultimately the left is still pretty hated like
00:45:42.300 the only thing less popular than the republicans right now is the democratic party so i don't think
00:45:46.540 it's hopeless i don't think that it's over i don't think that there's nothing we can do i do think
00:45:50.960 that we do have to play the game better i think we do have to tighten things up uh but i'm not
00:45:55.480 ready to bail out yet, and I don't think you should be either. David Dodden says, Friedman's
00:46:03.240 next hundred years said that from the 20s to the 30s, the empire would pay people to come to save
00:46:08.740 it financially. 19's debt equals 19 trillion, 26 debt equals 39 trillion. The empire wants them
00:46:16.280 here. Ilhan can't be expelled for the same reason Brian Mast won't. Look, I think there's a lot of
00:46:24.220 truth to the fact that ultimately um a lot of this is driven by imperial concerns uh i just did a
00:46:30.560 whole series on john globes uh the fall the fate of empires and one of his big points is that near
00:46:36.020 the end of all of these empires they start importing foreigners to do exactly what you're
00:46:40.560 talking about here uh so i don't know that exact reference but it seems to be you know seated
00:46:45.580 firmly on solid ground and this is one of the reasons i keep talking about the need to recognize
00:46:50.400 our imperial status because if you don't recognize where you're at then you don't recognize why these
00:46:55.360 things are happening and we have to start being with our honors honest with ourselves about the
00:46:59.600 fact that we are an empire if we even want to address the impact that our imperial uh structure
00:47:05.260 has on the people of the united states and david also says mr chow a deep dive on uh alejandro
00:47:13.740 Mayorkas and his orchestrated invasion with his HIAS NGO directorship past would be great.
00:47:22.000 Thank you. Are you familiar with Mayorkas being connected to HIAS?
00:47:26.820 Yeah. So there was a lot of reporting already out there with, yeah, HIAS brought in Mayorkas,
00:47:34.580 several other members of the Biden administration who then left and joined HIAS.
00:47:39.500 um yeah i try to keep these articles on the shorter side i saw a great post a long time ago
00:47:46.720 that was something like you know every book should be an essay every essay should be be a twitter
00:47:51.240 thread every thread should be a tweet and every tweet you shouldn't have even sent it um and this
00:47:55.860 was this this was a lot of uh uh some people actually actually asked why we didn't have a
00:48:01.020 more of a focus on highest i think it's really newsworthy um so so i think people should have
00:48:06.300 a focus on HIAS but when I was uh searching for you know what reporting was already out there
00:48:12.460 about these organizations um I saw a lot on HIAS and you know legitimate of course people should
00:48:17.800 read those stories too in addition to mine but um yeah uh yeah uh Mayorkas did get brought on by
00:48:26.180 HIAS um there is some great reporting out there already on that and um it's not just him there is
00:48:33.320 a lot of, you know, revolving doorstep going on with multiple members of the Biden administration
00:48:38.520 in highest. Yeah, and I think you're right that it's important for people to remember that, you
00:48:44.840 know, there's different forms of reporting. It seems like you guys are really looking for that
00:48:48.900 quick impact, you know, lots of density when it comes to data, you know, graphs, charts, that kind
00:48:53.680 of thing. That makes it very shareable. It makes it very easy for people to digest. Most people who
00:48:58.660 see you know 50 page you know walls of text detailing every connection they're just going
00:49:05.360 to go to sleep you got to hit them with something up front so you know maybe at some point you can
00:49:09.740 have a model of you know here's the here's the breakout story and then here's the follow-up
00:49:14.100 end-up thing but i do think you're right that ultimately most people are better served by
00:49:18.360 getting that information out there in the most direct form possible yeah well then we have there
00:49:24.480 was this one um there was one secondary source that we found on preferred communities uh we did
00:49:31.680 a really thorough search on uh every time that the program had been reported on it was almost zero
00:49:37.360 um there was one mention the only critical mention ever was in like a paragraph buried like
00:49:46.720 tons of pages below in a report by cis in like in like 2022 and and it didn't go go anywhere um but
00:49:57.280 but that was kind of interesting that yeah sometimes if you if you bury it if if you bury
00:50:01.440 the lead or you don't expound on it as much or you put it in these long reports it just becomes
00:50:06.400 uh becomes nothing just goes into the void whether we like it or not the viral
00:50:12.000 viral nature of stories is really what drives the cycle and so if you're not presenting this
00:50:18.320 information in a way that catches the public attention it simply won't see any action so you
00:50:24.960 have to you know you have to be able to speak on two levels and one of them has to be you know this
00:50:30.380 popular circulation you know if you have a second branch that does the in-depth stuff where you let
00:50:35.140 other people do it once you've kind of connected the dots for them you know that's great but you
00:50:39.000 do need to have these viral, to-the-point
00:50:41.240 things that make it very clear what's going
00:50:43.040 on. Robbie
00:50:44.820 Winesfield says, right-wings and
00:50:46.880 ortho-Js are trying to speak up and
00:50:48.900 fight this. It's such 1.00
00:50:50.860 an uphill battle with us.
00:50:53.100 I guess it's my
00:50:54.580 star to bear.
00:50:57.420 Well, yeah, man. I think, look,
00:50:59.300 I know for a fact
00:51:00.840 that a lot of Catholics 0.99
00:51:03.160 are not going to be
00:51:04.980 on board with what Catholic charities
00:51:06.900 are doing. I know that a lot of evangelicals would not be on board if they understood everything
00:51:11.600 that evangelical charities are doing. And I'm sure that for Jewish people as well,
00:51:16.060 there are many Jewish people who do not appreciate this for no other reason than it doesn't make them
00:51:20.540 look good and they don't want any attachment to this. So I appreciate you bringing up that
00:51:24.980 opposition. I think this is a problem across religious traditions. I think some are worse
00:51:29.780 than others, but ultimately it's a problem we all have to face. And I think it's important for us to
00:51:34.920 kind of get the plank out of our own eye before we go hunting down everybody's specs on this one,
00:51:40.100 right? Once you have got your denomination in order, once you're no longer giving money to
00:51:45.060 these organizations, once you flush this out of your organization, then you can go after everybody
00:51:50.280 else who hasn't gotten their stuff together. But you can't go attacking everyone else until
00:51:54.060 you have fixed the problem that's right there on your doorstep. So I appreciate that point.
00:51:59.060 All right, guys, we're going to go ahead and wrap this up. Once again, Brian, it was excellent
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