00:01:03.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:01.000When you're blowing Democrat records out of the water in Democrat states like New Hampshire, of course you're going to have this result.
00:02:08.000I'm just glad Nikki Haley, funded by the likes of Reid Hoffman, has decided to concede.
00:02:15.000Although I will note, Charlie, she didn't have the grace of Ron DeSantis in her surrender speech to endorse President Trump, the man that America wants back in the White House.
00:02:26.000Even Mitch McConnell, the arch rhino, endorsed President Trump today, but I guess that was too much for her to do.
00:02:34.000So, Dr. Gorka, you have a very important piece framing Trump as a dissident.
00:02:40.000Yeah, if you haven't seen it, the president's speech at CPAC just over a week ago was perhaps, it was his best CPAC speech, but it may be one of his most significant speeches as president or former president.
00:02:55.000Because, look, it was fun because he spent the first 20 minutes on Prompter and then he said, this is boring.
00:03:01.000And then he spent the next hour telling amazing stories about flying into Baghdad with no lights on Air Force One, no lights on the runway, how he dealt with Mexico, how he got Mexico to spend 10 to send tens of thousands of troops to the border.
00:03:16.000Those stories were hilarious, even for somebody like me who's heard them all before.
00:03:20.000But the beginning of the speech, he used two phrases that were chosen for their geopolitical and historic significance.
00:03:29.000He spoke of himself as a political dissident, and he spoke of America as a captive nation.
00:03:36.000You're a young chap, but for those of us who grew up, had our formative years in the Cold War, these are very important phrases.
00:03:46.000Eisenhower first used the phrase captive nation to describe all those captured under Marxism behind the Iron Curtain.
00:03:54.000And then when he called himself a political dissident, that's not hyperbole.
00:03:59.000Remember, this man who doesn't need to run for office again, has been an incredibly successful individual in the private sector.
00:04:39.000If they lower the voting age to 16, if the Democrats get to redistrict the nation, if they pack the Supreme Court, you can kiss the Republic away.
00:05:17.000What are best practices, approaches, methodologies that we can all incorporate as we think of ourselves as dissidents?
00:05:26.000Yeah, three things, and you know these well because you do it with turning point and every day with your show.
00:05:33.000Number one, you must cleave to the truth.
00:05:36.000If you find yourself censoring yourself, about to say something in public around the water cooler at the barbecue, and you say, What are they going to think about me if I tell this thing that's true?
00:05:48.000That's when you realize you have to say it even louder.
00:05:54.000When somebody says, well, the border's great, or Joe Biden's just fine, or, you know, it's really the Republicans who've made sure that we don't have a border.
00:06:54.000I mean, God bless him for everything else he does, but I'm quite angry with Ben Shapiro for one phrase that he popularized when he said, remember, he built his career on facts don't care about your feelings.
00:07:06.000Okay, Ben, that's true, but it's irrelevant because feelings matter.
00:07:12.000And the left knows how to communicate with emotional intelligence, right?
00:07:19.000The left are the people who are empathetic, the people who are okay with 60% of the women being trapped across the southern border being raped according to UN statistics.
00:07:30.000So we have to understand how to communicate our factual truth, but at an emotional level.
00:07:37.000And that takes a little bit of nuance.
00:07:39.000It's something we have to win over the middle.
00:07:42.000We're never going to win over the rhinos, right?
00:07:44.000The 1,200 rhinos who voted for Nikki Haley in the District of Columbia.
00:07:51.000But the undecided, the independents, the relatives who wouldn't vote or aren't interested in voting, we have to bring them in, but with emotional messages, sympathetic, empathetic messages that bring them to the objective truth.
00:08:08.000Objective truth is what we believe in, but we have to communicate it in a way that opens people's hearts, not just their minds.
00:08:17.000So, Dr. Gorka, part of the issue with the framing of the dissident, the pushback I get, is people say, I'm not a dissident.
00:08:24.000I'm still in the majority of this country, that we own the country and that we are they're wrong.
00:08:31.000We don't control the CIA, the FBI, Google, Goldman Sachs, Facebook, the Intel agencies, Hollywood.
00:08:37.000How do you respond to that to great patriots that quite honestly are living in happy denial whenever I tell them that they have to think like a dissident?
00:09:02.000Talk about Mark Hauck, who is the pro-life preacher who protects his 12-year-old son from a lunatic outside of Planned Parenthood, has that misdemeanor assault charge dropped in a district court, and then four months later, at gunpoint, has his home raided by the FBI as his seven children are screaming, don't shoot our father, right?
00:09:28.000Or what about the five pro-life activists who are praying at an abortion clinic and are facing 11 years in prison because of charges brought under the FACE Act?
00:09:42.000Or if you're not, you know, if you're not a pro-life activist, okay, how about this?
00:09:46.000We have sworn congressional testimony from federal police, from the FISA courts, that 250,000 Americans were subject to illegal surveillance, warrantless surveillance, simply because they supported President Trump.
00:10:10.000I was with Mike Flynn a couple of days ago in Texas.
00:10:12.000When General Flynn's wife has her credit card canceled by Bank of America because she's married to Mike Flynn, that could happen to anybody.
00:10:27.000When a state, when one party believes that they can use the organs of the intelligence community, the Department of Justice, the FBI, as their own political weapon system, any American can be the target.
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00:12:34.000But at the end of the day, and I think you'll agree with me, Charlie, it doesn't really matter.
00:12:39.000It's going to be such a choice, a binary choice between lightness, light and darkness, between getting back to a secure and prosperous America and the destruction of America under Biden or Newsom or whoever it is.
00:12:54.000I don't really think anybody goes into that voting booth thinking, well, I'm going to vote for Biden because of his VEEP or President Trump because of his VEEP.
00:13:01.000I do have one request or one thing I would like to see happen.
00:13:06.000I don't want the usual vice president.
00:13:08.000I don't want somebody who goes to the state funerals the president doesn't want to go to.
00:13:12.000I want a real vice president who's going to have a job.
00:13:15.000Like, if it's Vivek, tell Vivek to drain the swamp, to dismantle the CIA and the FBI.
00:13:22.000Somebody who can actually get stuff done.
00:13:25.000That's what I want from the vice president pick.
00:13:28.000But at the moment, my lips are sealed.
00:13:30.000So it's not somebody that we're thinking of.
00:14:20.000So I want everybody who listens to your show, watches your show, supports Turning Point USA.
00:14:25.000I want them to ask themselves, you know, not only what are they going to do to glorify God every day, what are they going to do for the next eight months to save the Republic?
00:14:35.000So I want the movement to be a movement so that we save America together, whether you're a poll watcher, whether you're knocking on doors.
00:14:42.000My wife's team for the last election in Virginia knocked on 18,000 doors.
00:15:10.000My friend Chris Plant, who has the morning show here in D.C., he points out one of the greatest successes of the left, Charlie, in the last 20 years is to make sure that decent patriots would never consider working in a Republican White House, and especially a Trump administration.
00:15:27.000They come after the individual, they come after his family, his children.
00:15:31.000I had one journalist, one scumbag journalist when I was deputy president, write a headline about my 18-year-old high school-age son with his name calling him a traitor in the headline.
00:15:44.000Why would a sane person decide to step in that arena?
00:15:48.000So I want us to all be part of the victory for the next eight months.
00:15:52.000And I want us to have the tightest personnel system out there.
00:15:58.000We can't have traitors inside the system like General Kelly, like the people who undermined us on the inside.
00:16:06.000We need this to be a tight, tight ship of patriots who want to exercise the mandate of the American people as given to President Trump.
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00:18:35.000We were trying to change the Texas House because for the last 15 years, the Democrats have block voted, gone to whatever Republican would give them the most, and then they control the Texas House.
00:18:46.000So we were trying to take out the so-called Republican speaker, along with many of his cohorts who were helping him with this strategy.
00:18:54.000And then we were also trying to change the Court of Criminal Appeals, which doesn't sound like anything that anyone would care about, except in Texas, they struck down our ability, my ability to prosecute voter fraud, which has an impact on the entire nation.
00:19:05.000If I can't prosecute voter fraud, we're going to lose the state in a matter of years.
00:19:09.000And so we put three candidates up against the incumbents, and it was a very good night for us.
00:19:15.000We overwhelmingly won those three races, which is unusual because those incumbents have been in office between, I think it's 12 years and like 30 something years.
00:20:12.000And then a guy named Dick Weakley, who's head of a group called Texans for a Lawsuit Reform that is funded by a lot of very wealthy people.
00:20:19.000And those guys put their money behind all these house incumbents who not only fought the border security issues that we're dealing with, not only fought me and my impeachment, but generally have been difficult on election integrity issues.
00:20:33.000And those are the people that funded Dade Phelan.
00:20:38.000I think he probably spent two, three million dollars.
00:20:40.000And I think in most of these house races, they funded him with well over a million dollars.
00:20:44.000My lawyer was actually one of the members that won last night.
00:20:48.000I think they spent $1.8 million to keep him out because he's so smart.
00:20:52.000They certainly didn't want him there challenging the things that they do on a regular basis in the Texas House.
00:21:44.000It's a pretty high percentage of races.
00:21:47.000And the Bushes and Karl Rove have run against people like me and funded races against me and others like me who are conservative for years.
00:21:55.000This is the first time we've actually had a well-organized and semi-funded campaign against some of their candidates who have basically signed up to help the Democrats help run the state.
00:22:35.000Yeah, first, I just wanted to thank you for helping us on these, letting people know about these races.
00:22:40.000For example, the Court of Criminal Appeals, had you not covered it and people like you, we would not have been able to expose people to who's running because we had no money to support our statewide judges.
00:22:51.000So going on your show and talking about it gave us the opportunity to get the word out.
00:22:56.000As far as that bill we passed, it was called SB4, and it was designed to allow us, since the federal government not only refuses to deport people, but encourages cartels to bring people here as fast as possible.
00:23:09.000This bill allowed us to deport people who crossed our Texas border immediately.
00:23:15.000And right now, we won at the Fifth Circuit.
00:23:30.000I think it was a 5-4 decision with Roberts and Barrett siding with the liberal judges.
00:23:35.000But we're going to continue to fight it.
00:23:36.000We think it's our only way to protect our border because we know, we all know, the federal government is not just not going to protect the border.
00:23:42.000They're going to do everything they can to invite as many people in as possible.
00:23:46.000So it cannot be true that any state joined the union, including Texas, we would not have joined had we thought that the federal government could just say, well, if we don't protect you, you can't protect yourself.
00:23:57.000That cannot be the way this is set up, and it never was set up that way.
00:24:02.000No, and so just everyone understands kind of a ping-pong match going back and forth.
00:24:28.000So we're still in the fight trying to protect our, trying to protect our borders.
00:24:33.000We just don't have that in place right now, even though the law is in effect.
00:24:38.000We're having to wait to go through the trial process and the actual hearings to have the opportunity to actually keep people out of our state that aren't supposed to be here.
00:24:47.000So what other cases, Attorney General Paxton, that you're working on that are top priority?
00:24:52.000Election integrity, state sovereignty.
00:24:55.000Walk us through some of the other stuff that you're working through and also re-emphasize the Court of Criminal Appeals.
00:25:01.000Three judges we say, as you said, got voted out.
00:25:03.000Kind of weave those two things together.
00:25:05.000Yeah, so we had to sue a bunch of our school districts for electioneering.
00:25:09.000They're not allowed to use taxpayer dollars to fund candidates, and they were doing that.
00:25:13.000So we had like five or six lawsuits shifted in the last week over that.
00:25:20.000So we think we're going to end up exposing the fact that Pfizer was not truthful about the effectiveness of their vaccine or the side effects.
00:25:31.000We have a trial date set for our big Google case, which is an antitrust case, trying to break them up because they're a monopoly in online advertising.
00:25:41.000And then we, of course, have we have several other immigration cases related to buoys that we put up, related to our fences that we put up.
00:25:49.000And of course, the one we talked about.
00:25:55.000We have your back, and they tried to take you out.
00:25:57.000Just can you recap how the last year has been, Attorney General Paxton?
00:26:01.000A year ago, you were fighting for your political life and now you have the wind at your back and the people that were trying to take you out had a very, very bad evening.
00:26:08.000Just kind of recap personally how the last year has been on you and your family.
00:26:12.000Well, it was about a year ago in May that they suddenly announced that they were impeaching me.
00:26:18.000There were no witnesses, no due process.
00:26:21.000And it happened in a quick three-day period.
00:26:23.000I spent my whole summer trying to prepare, even though it was difficult since they never really told me what the issues were in very much detail.
00:26:31.000And then once we got through the impeachment and I was successful in overcoming that, I spent since September on the road recruiting people to run for judicial position, recruiting people to run for the Texas House.
00:26:43.000And that's what I've spent my life doing until this, you know, yesterday.
00:26:47.000And now I'm working on runoff until the end of May.
00:26:51.000It's just changed the Texas House, changed the Court of Appeals.
00:26:55.000And of course, they're still coming after me legally.
00:26:57.000I have a trial coming up in April where they moved me out of my own Republican county to a Democratic county with Democratic judges and Democratic jury.
00:27:04.000It's all a scam, but that's how it works in Texas.
00:27:07.000Same thing's happening to Trump in New York and Georgia and every other place that they're trying to convict him of a crime.
00:28:03.000For years, I've been talking about how our nation's public schools have been captured by progressive ideologues, especially true if you're a Christian family.
00:28:09.000For those of you worried about the best educational path for your kids and grandkids, I want to tell you about how Turning Point Academy is working with the Herzog Foundation, how you at home can also benefit from it.
00:28:18.000They have an online publication called The Lion, and also Making the Leap.
00:28:21.000The Herzog Foundation offers a wide range of advice and information for Christian parents to make the best education decisions for your kids.
00:30:06.000There very well might also be a strategy or at least a shrugging of the shoulders that if Donald Trump were to win, the Democrats won't be thrilled, but at least they'll say, well, he's got to deal with this.
00:30:19.000There is a cataclysmic economic apocalypse on the horizon.
00:30:27.000The laws of economics, like the laws of gravity, can only be pushed up against so much.
00:30:33.000Eventually, what goes up must come down.
00:30:38.000$35 trillion that we do not have, $1 trillion every 100 days.
00:30:45.000America spent 200 years growing into the richest nation ever.
00:30:49.000We've taken half of a century squandering it.
00:30:53.000It is morally indescribable, but it's connected with the moral decay across our country.
00:31:00.000A country that doesn't prevent or protect kids from being trans, why would we protect our kids from not being debt slaves?
00:31:09.000Protecting children is no longer a core American value.
00:31:13.000It's not a core American value from having kids being groomed by a public school teacher, nor is it a core American value to make sure that we balance our budget in Congress every single year.
00:31:24.000The protection of children and the passing down of our values, people just kind of shrug their shoulders.
00:31:30.000Big spending Republicans and the entire Democrat Party, they want nothing to do with even getting close to balancing the budget.
00:31:39.000The ancients understood that debt turns people into slaves.
00:31:42.000This is why the Bible routinely promotes the forgiveness of debts.
00:32:50.000And the choice that the Republican Party has made, and some Republicans are trying, and the choice that every Democrat has made is debt slaves for our kids.
00:33:00.000When you see a child, you should say, you're a debt slave.
00:33:03.000They will not inherit a freer country or a more prosperous country or a flourishing country if this continues.