October 7-One Year Later, How It Changed the World, plus Democrats Fleeing their Party, Rep. Shawn Thierry's Journey
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Summary
On October 7th, 2011, 1,200 Israelis were murdered in the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. On this anniversary of the attack, Senator Ted Cruz and his special guest Sean Thierry discuss what happened on that day, and what has happened in the year since.
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It's nice to be with you in person today on a somber day, October the 7th.
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It's the one year anniversary of the horrific attack,
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the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
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And it is one of those moments I think we should pause
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and really look at what's happened over the last year.
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It has been one year since the mass murder that took the lives of 1,195 Israelis.
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We're going to examine what happened on October 7th, one year ago,
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We're also, in today's pod, going to have an interview with a special guest, Sean Thierry.
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Sean is a member of the Texas State House, and she's an elected Democrat, or at least she was.
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She was an elected Democrat, elected from Houston.
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She was elected four terms to the House of Representatives as a Democrat,
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She's going to tell her story because her story is something we're seeing across the country.
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As the Democrat Party is getting more and more radical, people are saying,
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Yeah, it's a really cool and interesting story that I think inspires other Democrats to lead their party as well.
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There are so many of you that have asked about what you can do to help the people in Israel,
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and right now, this is a moment where I'm going to ask a lot of you to get involved,
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especially on this one-year anniversary, with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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As I said a moment ago, October the 7th is the one-year mark of the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
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1,200 Israelis were murdered and more than 250 taken hostage, many of them still being held hostage.
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Yet the war in Israel is raging on today, with Iran firing a massive barrage of nearly 200 ballistic missiles earlier this month.
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Israel and her people are facing attacks from enemies on all sides,
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and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the ground,
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providing food, shelter, and safety for those in need during the crisis.
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Now, since the war started, thousands of reservists, everyday Israeli citizens,
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have left their families to serve their country.
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Senator, as we sit here, it's shocking that it's the one-year anniversary from a standpoint that they still have hostages.
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And I think we should start with that because this is a day for those family members.
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I can't imagine what they've gone through in the last year,
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but to even think it's been an entire year since they've seen their loved ones.
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As I mentioned, 1,195 people were murdered on that day.
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The estimates are not exactly clear, but the best estimate is 251 hostages were taken on October 7th.
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Now, of those 251 hostages, we estimate that 97 remain in Gaza,
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plus an additional four hostages who were captured before October 7th.
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And to review what has happened, 70 hostages have died, either on October 7th or in the month since then.
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34 of the hostages who remain in Gaza are dead, according to Israeli officials.
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including the recent rescue of an Arab-Israeli Muslim on August 27th.
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37 of the deceased hostages have been returned to Israel.
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And on August 31st, the IDF retrieved the body of American hostage Hirsch Goldberg Pollan
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and five Israelis who were executed by Hamas and Southern Rafa
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after surviving for what was 11 months in captivity.
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There are thought to be four American hostages still alive.
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The fifth was Goldberg Pollan, and he was one of the six people murdered and recovered on August 31st.
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The four American hostages thought to still be alive are number one, Keith Siegel.
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He was last seen in a video released by Hamas in April.
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The second American hostage, believe, still held is Eden Alexander, who grew up in New Jersey,
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both of whom were spotted alive in late 2023 by other hostages.
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It's been some time since they've been spotted alive.
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was shown being pulled out of a tank by Hamas gunmen in a blurry clip recorded on October 7th.
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So again, it's been a full year since Omer has been seen.
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And as for the total number of Americans, last month the FBI unsealed a complaint against Hamas leaders
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And the charges were filed in February, but they were kept under seal.
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And the precise language of the Department of Justice complaint is, quote,
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As of the date of this complaint, at least 43 American citizens were among those murdered.
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And at least 10 American citizens were taken hostage or remain unaccounted for.
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And look, I wanted to go through those numbers because it's easy.
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And a lot of the news coverage will elide over what actually happened.
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As you noted, it was the worst single-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.
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It's also one of the worst terrorist attacks in American history.
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I have to say, I do not understand why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris do not talk about the American hostages,
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why they don't lean in, and instead why they lean in repeatedly urging Israel to stop killing the terrorists
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instead of demanding that the hostages be released.
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And I will say, look, I remember in the days after October 7th, I reached out and I called and texted a lot of friends of mine.
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And I just asked him, I said, hey, I don't know if you have family in Israel, if you have people in harm's way.
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I got to say, Ben, it was stunning to me the number of people I reached out to in the aftermath of October 7th who were directly connected to someone.
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Yeah, the Jewish community, it's amazing how much of a connection there is between people in America and people that are in Israel.
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I probably reached out to 25 or 30 of my friends, and more than half of them had a direct connection of someone where they'd say,
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yeah, my sister was there, yes, my wife was there, my college roommate was there.
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It is, the Jewish community in America and the Jewish community in Israel are in many ways deeply interconnected.
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And the trauma and horror and evil of that day, October 7th will go down as one of the darkest days in history.
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There's another aspect of this, too, and it's amazing how in this country, and I think even the Democratic Party,
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has really defended Hamas, and they've defended the people that did this.
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And you look at how they've treated these hostages, and the reports have come out.
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You hope that if someone's taken hostages, at least they're treated humanely.
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And I think that's part of the story that people need to understand the brutality of these terrorists.
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The bodies that have been found and returned, they talk about that it looks like they've taken a lot of abuse
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and malnourished and living conditions that are just horrific, not clean at all.
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Well, and they are using rape as a weapon of sexual violence.
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On October 7th, and sadly in the time since then, they have targeted and repeatedly raped women and young girls.
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I will tell you, and I've talked about this on the podcast, watching videos of October 7th, watching what happened,
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watching the dehumanization of Jews by the Hamas terrorists, that they don't view them as human beings.
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And I think I shared with you that listening to the audio from that video, that repeatedly the Hamas terrorists were referring to the Jews that they were murdering as it.
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They would often cut the genitals, burn the faces.
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A lot of the degradation was focused on sexual violence.
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You know, in ordinary life, you don't encounter that grotesque evil the way October 7th was.
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But I'll tell you, I'm reminded of the book of Genesis, when Joseph has been sold into slavery by his brothers, and then when he re-encounters his brothers.
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What Joseph says to them is, is what you intended for evil, God intended for good.
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And I think that principle is right, that what man means for evil to result, God can use for good.
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And I do think in the past year, there are two significant consequences of October 7th, both of which have been very, very good.
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This October 7th in the aftermath, I don't think, to my mind, there is no gray.
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This is a battle between civilization and barbarism.
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Do you stand with the people of Israel, or do you stand with the Hamas terrorists?
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And that clarity, I think, has been incredibly valuable in the political world for elected officials to decide, who do I stand with?
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It also has been incredibly valuable on college campuses.
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It has unmasked and revealed vicious, vicious anti-Semitism.
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If we're going to combat evil, we have to see and understand and know who we're dealing with and have it be out in the open.
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And I think that clarity has been enormously consequential and enormously beneficial.
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But I think, secondly, a second very good consequence of the horrific evil of what happened on that day is Israel's stated commitment to utterly and completely eliminate Hamas.
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And eliminating Hamas, and they have made incredible progress eliminating Hamas, and now eliminating many of the leaders of Hezbollah as well.
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Eliminating Hamas and eliminating Hezbollah is unequivocally good for the national security of Israel, and it is unequivocally good for the national security of America.
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And so both of those consequences have real and lasting effect in Israel, in America, and across the world.
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Let's talk about—there was something I'll never forget.
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You saw it before I did, and I was asked to come watch the videos of the attack on this day.
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You saw it with, I think, several other senators, if I'm not mistaken.
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And I was asked to go to Israeli consulate and watch and to have a briefing.
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These are real people being murdered by people filled with genocidal hate.
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It was Nazi tactics for Nazi purposes carried out that day.
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I watched it, and I watched it, and I never wanted to see it again.
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I'm glad that I saw it because you understand who you're up against.
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And I also made it very clear that they trained with the help of Iran.
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And without Iran's funding, I don't think it would have happened a year ago today.
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And now we see Iran doing exactly what we knew they were doing all along, directly now trying to take out Israel.
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That's another aspect of—when you talk about good and evil, and evil can show what's happening, and then there can be good that comes from it.
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I think anyone that doesn't understand now the threat to the world from Iran, you're blind.
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We saw what they did with these ballistic missile attacks just days ago.
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Look, I think it is one of the most consequential elements of this election in November.
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We're right about 30 days away, just over 30 days away from the election.
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And if Donald Trump is reelected, if we have a Republican Senate and a Republican House,
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the billions of dollars that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Democrats have flowed to Iran, that stops in January.
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Over four years, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have flowed over $100 billion to Iran.
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Ninety percent of the budget for Hamas comes from Iran.
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Ninety percent of the budget for Hezbollah comes from Iran.
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So in a very real sense, the death squads that carried out horrific rapes and murders on October 7th were paid for by this White House.
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I mean, we spent a lot of time in this podcast talking about the ideology of the hard left.
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But I genuinely don't understand why you would send billions of dollars to people who want to murder you.
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The Ayatollah chants death to America and death to Israel.
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He refers to Israel as the little Satan and America as the great Satan.
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And we should be absolutely clear that if he could murder you or me or any of us, he would.
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And to be clear, the Ayatollah in Iran is actively trying to murder Donald Trump right now and is paying for hitmen and assassins to try to carry that out.
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And yet there is something in the ideology of the far left that giving him billions of dollars to enable him to wage genocidal war against Israel and kill Jews and to target Americans somehow makes sense to this White House.
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And look, in public discourse, I try to you try to show grace to those on the other side and understand them.
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I genuinely have a hard time if you ask me to articulate their argument.
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I don't know how to think that way to say, hey, this person wants to murder me.
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And it comes up to the issue of the Iran nuclear site.
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Iran is clearly trying to get a nuclear weapon.
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There was a report that came out that they could be days away, weeks away, as in not less than a month.
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It's been interesting to see how the American media has framed this.
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It's like they've asked the White House their thoughts on, do you take out this site?
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And they've said they've kind of punted and said, well, this is up to Israel if they want to do that.
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You look at that rhetoric and you look at the White House kind of just not really taking a stand on this.
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I think a nuclear Iran is a threat to the world.
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They're obviously a threat to Israel, but they're a threat to the world.
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When you look at this position of we'll punt to Israel, is that a good foreign policy from Biden-Harris?
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Listen, this White House, Kamala Harris doesn't want to do anything to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
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Today, a year after October 7th, they're still not enforcing the oil sanctions.
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Today, Iran is selling two million barrels of oil a day.
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And what was it when, I think it's important to remind people, how many barrels of oil was Iran selling when Donald Trump was in office at the end of his presidency?
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And that's why you were seeing unrest in the country, because without oil money, they are broke.
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And Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, life preserver, gave them a massive subsidy.
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And look, saying that's up to Israel to decide, you know, I'm reminded of many, many years ago when Obama was president.
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There was an article in The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg, and it got a lot of attention at the time.
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And what got attention is it was an insult from an unnamed senior official in the Obama White House, who, what got all the attention, he referred to Benjamin Netanyahu, who was the prime minister of Israel then as well.
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And he used an epithet that because this is a kid-friendly show, I won't repeat other than to say it was poultry manure, and he was a little more colorful than that.
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And I remember at the time that article came out, I thought it wasn't news at all.
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That's what the Obama White House thought of Netanyahu.
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The most consequential element of that article to me was a different quote attributed to the same senior advisor in the White House.
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And by the way, there's a lot of speculation in Washington that that, quote, senior advisor was named Barack Obama, that it was the president pretending to be a senior advisor.
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I don't know that for sure, but that's the diplomatic chatter in Washington.
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But the quote was something to the effect of, the very best thing is, we have delayed Israel from acting militarily for so long that they no longer have the military capacity to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear arsenal.
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Look, this White House, they're not stupid.
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They know the endgame of what they're playing is a nuclear Iran.
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And I think ideologically they believe America has no right to stop the Ayatollah from getting nuclear weapons.
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And it is one of the many ways in which Americans are much less safe today because of the weakness of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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And tragically, 1,200 Israelis lost their lives a year ago today because of that weakness.
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This one-year anniversary, there's a lot of people today that are suffering.
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We are seeing elected officials who are Democrats switching to the Republican Party.
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And as you know and as our viewers know, we had Eric Johnson, who's the mayor of Dallas.
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He was an elected Democrat state rep, an elected Democrat mayor.
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She was an elected Democrat, first elected in 2017, then elected again in 2018 and 2020.
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In 2022, she's been an elected Democrat her entire career in politics until just recently
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when she publicly announced enough was enough and she switched to the Republican Party.
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You know, you and I were sitting down talking and I said, listen, I want you to tell your story.
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Tell your story to our listeners, to our viewers in VERDICT.
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So let's just start with, tell us your personal story, where you grew up, and what drew you
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to the world of politics, what drew you to running for the state legislature?
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Well, I'm a native Houstonian, born and raised here.
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Pretty uneventful story, but just grew up a Christian.
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Both parents married at home and hardworking folks.
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And I always say my parents were Democrats because I believe they felt like that was
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And so we were Democrats thinking that that was just the party of middle-class, hardworking
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And I went away to college at Howard University.
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I came back, went to law school here at Thurgood Marshall School of Law.
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And really, I always had a heart for public service.
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My parents kind of raised us that way from being in Girl Scouts all the way through doing
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And I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it because I knew that I didn't really like the politics
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So when the seat for state rep, House District 146 became available in 2016, I said, well,
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The moment I got elected, I started writing legislation to help women in childbirth, maternal
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mortality legislation, helping the elderly, doing work to prevent human trafficking, should
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And just never really always thought of it in terms of party.
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But as time went on, I started to notice session after session, the Democratic Party moving
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further and further away from mainstream values.
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And I kept quiet, but it was something that always kind of troubled my soul.
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And I was hoping that I could continue to be the voice of reason, which I was a lot of
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I was always kind of the moderate voice in the room and kind of became known as that in
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And I don't want to be too much of a spoiler alert.
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But this past session, the Democrats really started pushing policies that were so contrary
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And just our country overall, I said, as you said at the top, enough is enough.
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It was very difficult because I knew the attacks that I would receive.
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But just like my good friend, Mayor Eric Johnson, I did what I know is right for me, where I
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I mean, when you leave the party, I think people don't understand in politics, that is
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like a really bad day because all of these people you build these consensus with now,
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Well, mine was a little anticlimactic on some level because I took a stance, honestly, during
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This legislation where we had was to decide what is the appropriate age, this sounds weird,
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for a child to have a sex chain surgery, which most people would say, well, why would a child
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But that's what we were dealing with because it was happening in the state of Texas.
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Girls and boys as young as 11, 12, 13 were getting their bodies mutilated.
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Also, we're taking drugs like Lupron to stop them from going through puberty.
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And so the bill, which seemed very reasonable, just set the age of consent to 18, which is
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the age of consent for most things in Texas, if not 21, honestly.
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And you wouldn't believe my former party, the Democratic caucus, went crazy.
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They started pulling me to the side saying, Sean, you cannot do it.
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And because I would not agree that children should undergo this type of harm, which, by the
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way, many of my colleagues privately told me they know it's wrong.
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But because I wouldn't co-sign with that, I started getting attacked right then and there.
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So I've been going through it for a year and a half.
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And look, this is an issue that, you know, it's amazing that this is an issue now.
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I mean, even a few years ago, there was no one in the political arena that was talking
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about little children, 8, 9, 10, 11-year-old kids being sterilized, being permanently surgically
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And look, my view, which I think is the common sense view of the vast majority of Texans,
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is that a child doesn't have the emotional maturity to make that decision, that no 8-year-old
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or 10-year-old can decide, I never want to be a father, I never want to be a mother, and
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go in and make it so that I can never, never have children, that I think it is a very reasonable
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position to say, if you're going to do something with those sorts of consequences, you need
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to be an adult and have the emotional maturity to make that decision.
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That, that's a very common sense view, and yet, when you articulated that, you know, one
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of the things that struck me when you and I were talking is you said that a lot of your
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Democrat colleagues in private agreed, but they were scared to say it.
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Yes, the party has just been completely, I'll say it now, completely hijacked by radicals
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who have a chokehold on elected Democratic officials who have told them, you will fall lockstep
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in line with this ideology, and if you do not, we will put millions of dollars into
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So in other words, you're being held hostage for your job.
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So the Democratic Party says, you don't go along with this, we'll find somebody that
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will, we'll run against you and beat you at that sale.
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Real money, and I'm living proof of it, but I like to say I'm a positive testimony because
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I tell people losing a seat is one thing, but losing your soul is another.
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And I did not lose my soul, but they put in over a million dollars in a race against
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And this is a primary and a state rep race in Texas, over a million bucks.
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Like, what was a normal amount of money to put in perspective compared to a million?
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I don't think I've ever had anybody spend over $50,000 running against me.
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And if you're listening to this right now, or you're watching this, when you think about
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going from $50,000 race to a million dollars against you, that's a political assassination
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That's saying, we're just going to buy a winner and make sure you're a loser because that's
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how much we want to punish you and make sure everybody else stays in line.
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I always tell folks, it was literally to make an example out of me and to warn others,
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Don't stand up there and speak out and tell the truth for your constituents, because we
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will, Sean Theory, you and put over a million dollars in your race.
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But I said it on the House floor, you know, I always say sunlight is the best disinfectant
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And so I did rip the lid off of it, and I exposed the harms, and I exposed the hypocrisy.
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You talked about 18 being such a reasonable age.
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Every policy that the Democrats put forth is usually to raise the age.
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This is the only area where not only do they not want to set the age, they want no age.
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They want to raise the age from 18 to 21 to have a gun.
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We raised the age from 18 to 21 to buy tobacco cigarettes, which everyone, you know, agreed.
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We raised the age from 18 to 21 to work in a sexually oriented business.
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We have acknowledged, they said they're the party of science.
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They said the frontal lobe of the brain is not developed until almost 25.
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Why on earth are Democrats saying, as you said very well, Senator, that a child as young
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as nine who hasn't even entered puberty has the capacity to sign away their future in terms
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So, tell us the sort of things, what did your then fellow Democrats say to you as this is
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Well, I guess the cat kind of got out of the bag that there was a potential dissident who
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And so they started pulling me to the side, usually in like groups of three, then groups
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of six, and telling me, you know, Sean, what's going on here?
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I mean, these are the colleagues, but they're colleagues, some friends.
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The friends were the ones that really just came with the warning.
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They said, Sean, listen, because I was pulling out papers and showing what Lupron does, showing
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that it causes early onset osteoporosis and that some of these cross-sex hormones.
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And tell our viewers and listeners, what is Lupron?
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So Lupron is the drug that they want to give children in America to stop them from going
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It is prescribed for men who have prostate cancer.
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This is a drug we are giving children that do not have cancer.
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The only other use for it, it gets even grosser, that they want to give it to children.
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This drug is given as a chemical castration drug to child rapists, to pedophiles.
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And they're giving it to kids because they say, or the parents say, they want to transition
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And by the way, if the kids, when they get older, they change their mind, much of this
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If you have a teenage girl who has a double mastectomy, you don't get your breasts back.
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It is to put you on the trajectory for a sex change, to make it easier.
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Because if your body never develops in the first place, it's that much easier to start
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There's a group of young people called D-transitioners.
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They're now, many of them are grown, that went through this, that have deep regret.
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Unfortunately, their voices were shut out by these radical activists.
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I met a young lady who had a double mastectomy and a full hysterectomy.
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She said, rep theory, crying in the hallway to me.
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I have the biological profile now of a 72-year-old woman.
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So now, she said, I realized I never really wanted to be a boy.
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And she said, but I watched a lot of YouTube.
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And she met these transgender ideologists who love-bombed her.
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She took her to her gender clinic somewhere outside of Austin.
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Despite what they tell you, she said in 30 minutes, they had a letter authorizing for her to get on all of these hormones.
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And they always say that there's all this profiling that's done and all these interviews and mental.
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And, Senator, here's the part that really got me.
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She said that they told her mother because her mom thought she was doing the right thing.
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Her mom wasn't one of those women that was pushing it on her kid.
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You can either have a dead daughter or a living son threatening her mother that she would kill herself.
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She said, she goes, but then I started to believe that.
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And so when I was talking to the detransitioners, they even took a photo of me.
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And it said, look at Rep Theory, you know, meeting with these.
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What's amazing is there's no compassion for these kids and the life-altering decisions that I think in many instances it's adults who are foisting it on them.
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So let me ask you, if you listen to the media, if you listen to the conventional wisdom, Republicans are a bunch of intolerant bigots.
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You were a four-time elected Democrat representative.
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From the governor of Texas to the speaker of the House to all of my colleagues to just regular folks writing me on Facebook and inboxing me and saying, welcome, Rep Theory.
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So there was none of this boogeyman racism that people, that the Democrat Party is using to fearmonger, I think, half of America.
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But I knew that because I served with these folks.
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And, you know, all of this talk of calling people bigots and Nazis and white supremacists, it was always so bizarre to me because I would sit with my colleagues who were saying those things and they would be in the members' lounge five minutes later sharing ice cream.
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With these very folks that they were calling Nazis.
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And then they actually started calling me a Nazi.
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So, Senator, I knew, you know, that that was just a bunch of crazy talk.
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The Democrats had been, like I said, from the moment I stood up on that bill, I started getting death threats the night before because the cat got let out the bag.
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The Rep Theory is probably going to vote in favor of setting the age.
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Did any other Democrats cross over and vote for the bill?
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And they told me, each one of them said, they would not have done it but for hearing my speech.
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The letter I wrote explaining it got over 2.5 million views on Twitter.
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My voice was cracking because I was so sleep-deprived.
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Because for days, you know, they had just been harassing me and pounding me and threatening me and trying to change my mind.
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And there was one colleague who you said could be a friend.
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You better hold your nose and vote with us if you want to make it back here.
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And I just looked him in the face and said, I can't do that.
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A lot of people listening are going to ask, are you a cautionary tale?
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What's the end of the story for your career when it comes to this position that clearly you won four times?
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That's a question that everybody listening right now is like, what happened?
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They found a candidate who said she was a dual identity queer black woman that had never run for office.
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I'd never seen her in the district one time volunteering, doing anything.
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However, I always say there's a comma, not a period there.
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My dad who passed away, I shared, we were talking about our fathers when we sat down and talked.
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And before my dad passed away, it must have been very fortuitous of him for no reason at all.
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And he looked at me and he said, Sean, I want you to promise me one thing.
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And he said, don't ever let the power and the prestige of the position cause you to sell your soul.
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So I think people need to look at it and say, you can survive it.
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So I think that the good news is you can survive it.
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I've switched parties, not because I'm so much politically ambitious, but because I'm a citizen.
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I'm an American and I want to do what's right for my country.
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I'm using whatever platform I have to educate Americans.
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And Senator, so many folks, and I'll even say African-American voters, have come to me and said,
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Rep. Theory, if only I had known, I didn't even know the Democrat Party was up to this.
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A lot of what we try to do on this podcast is tell stories, stories that impact people's lives, stories that are reality.
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As you know, the media has their own narrative that they want to convince people of.
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And it's part of the reason we've seen things like podcasts grow so much is people are hungry for the truth.
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