
Episode 5296: Blockade Continues In The Strait Of Hormuz; Democrats Stealing Virginia ...
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War ROOM here's your host, STEPHEN K. Band. Monday, the 13th of April, year of our Lord 2026. Captain Fennell has been there, I've been there, my kid brother's been there all different times I was there. 79, 80. Captain Fennell later, my kid brother during the tanker wars or the tanker conflict of doing all this, the escort duty. Captain Fennell and, and I, I realized the, the speedboats we're talking about, the naval craft we're talking about are not really the drugs things coming out of Venezuela. They're much more sophisticated. And these guys are kind of apocalyptic death cult. So they don't mind driving right into a naval vessel combatant and letting it rip. And if they get taken out, so be it. They get 42 virgins. Your assessment of all this being that you've actually been in the Persian Gulf of something? I don't agree with sending carriers and capital ships up there, but this is during the Iraq war when I guess you needed the air wings up close and personal. Your assessment right now, and do you agree that this is a forcing function? You are our mentor always over the past many years to keep the main thing, the main thing, which is the existential power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party in the United States, the Chinese Communist Party in the world. But as epitomized through the, through the conflict with the United States of America. Sir.
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Yeah, Steve, just on the tactical aspects of these fast patrol boats are called Bog Hammers. That's from the Swedish company that the Iranians purchased a large number of these back in the early 80s. And they're about 40ft long and they can go about 40 knots. And what makes them dangerous is they have a basic, you know, radar and they're able to fire off these missiles or rocket propelled launchers. So again, when we were in the, you know, the conflict with Iraq, we were operating in carrier operating areas up in the northern Persian Gulf, Arabian Gulf. And while we were sitting there, you know, in these operating areas, we were 30, 40 miles, even 20 miles off the coast of Iran. And that was our number one of our number one concerns was that one of these or a few of these would come out in different vectors at high speed in the middle of the night and be able to launch off an RPG or a missile at us and, you know, do severe harm. Now, what's different, you know, here almost 30 years later, is that we don't have any U.S. navy warships operating up in the Arabian Gulf. We're outside of it. So there are these bog hammers. So people say, well, why didn't we take these out earlier? Well, as the President said, he didn't think they were a threat, and they weren't to any US Navy vessels because most of these are up in the Gulf. So we took out their regular navy, their bigger warships or submarines, things that could come out and affect our carriers and other warships operating in the Gulf of Oman and farther out. So now they're saying the President's basically made it very clear if Iran thinks that they're going to try to sneak some of these down the coast and then out through Bondar Abbas and south through the Strait of Hormuz, we're, we're going to be all over that. And now with the introduction or they've been there for several weeks now, the, the, The Air Force's A10 Warthog, which has now been, you know, lovingly renamed the Sea Hog to go after platforms just like this. Plus our carrier air wings will be able to go after these with the cluster munitions, rockeyes and things of that nature, we'll be able to see these coming easily before they get in any kind of weapons range, and they'll be decimated. So it's kind of a, you know, there's a lot of reporting about it now because the Wall Street Journal talked about it, the New York Post has talked about it. But I, again, I see a lot of hype in the media as opposed to, you know, sober analysis of the threat. So in that sense, it's there. We'll deal with it strategically. Yes, this is all about China, and it's a reordering of the global energy system so that the United States is no longer dependent upon and being slave to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Gulf, as we have been since the early 70s in that energy crisis. Now, the United States not only is able to bring the US Navy to bear to make and enforce a blockade like this. But now we can also say to people, oh, by the way, you can come to a new gas station, it's in the Gulf of America and you can get your gas there for cheap and it's not going to be at any risk. And so that's the new reordering of the world. And the Chinese are not really happy about it. I saw the Chinese minister of Defense, Admiral Dong Jun has already come out in the last couple of hours and made a statement and said, quote, we have trade and energy agreements with Iran. We expect others not to interfere in our affairs. The Strait of Hormo is open to us. Well, we'll see about that. Admiral June or Dong, I think the United States is now sending a clear signal that Chinese access will be restricted, not completely cut off. They can get oil from other Gulf nations, but if it's coming out of Iran, they're not going to get it anymore. And that will be sealed to them. And, and this is going to put more pressure on Xi Jinping and his already strained economy and where he's, you know,
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for the audience, though, for the audience though, you agree, and this is one of the reasons Bessant was about, was for this and I think was one of the guys that pushed it is this kind of cuts to the chase. It's the reason I said don't waste your time going to Islamabad. You're dealing with intermediaries. Pakistanis are totally corrupt. The Iranians speak for themselves, right? As this regime is. You can't believe anything they say. They're going to double deal you. They're going to try to string it out, deal with the guys writing checks, right? You know, go for the money, follow the money. As they said in Watergate, the money is in Beijing. Beijing's also, it's been reported, was trying to ship them weapons through all types of false fronts in false countries. And they're trying to do it because they want us tied down in the Middle East. This kind of cuts to the chase because right now we're saying all of our allies, or at least the way it's been stated in the last hour, our allies, oil and natural, liquefied natural gas can come and go and maybe even be escorted by a navy vessel. But if you're coming out in a one of these ghost gray ships or Iranian flag or something that's going to India or particularly the Chinese Communist Party, you're going to be sent over to Anchorage over here. And so this is going to cut the moolah's cash off. Right. And it's also going to cut off the Chinese Communist Party. They need this oil. Right. I think it's up to 20% or it's 80% of the foreign oil they take in, or it's 20%. It's a huge amount, which they can't because he's got economic pressure right now. Isn't this the forcing function that we've been looking for a captain?
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I 100% agree, Steve. This is full spectrum, whole of government approach to dealing with the People's Republic of China and this situation in the Middle East. And, you know, many times I get accused because I'm a retired Navy officer that I look at the world only through the military lens. But clearly what's happening is in this economic realm is part of this comprehensive strategy and to, you know, constrain what China is doing to try to reorder the world, get rid of the dollar as the primary currency, reorder the global diplomatic system, the UN everything against the United States. And President Trump is using every tool in his kit bag to stop that and to actually reorder it so that it's kind of a judo move. He's. He's flipping what they thought was on their advantage with this activity by their proxying Iran. It's being flipped on them in Beijing and they haven't really had to deal with this before from any other administration. And right now it's very serious. And so we need to be prepared for a rash reaction from the Iranians. Sam Fadis had a good post out or article and magazine about this and the things that Iran could do, and we need to be prepared for that. But that doesn't mean we should be dissuaded from our mission. But we just need to be prepared for a response that the Iranians could go very kinetic and try to, you know, overwhelm certain systems with the last remaining missile systems that they have. But I think this blockade is going to be very, very difficult for the Iranians to stop because they have not the capability to, to be able to destroy our naval vessels out at sea. We have taken that away from them. There's always a possibility of the Golden BB or the lucky shot, but in reality is they do not have the ISR Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance architecture to provide queuing data to their missile systems, to be able to provide the overwhelming numbers of missiles that would be required, required to overwhelm our defensive capabilities. And if they cannot get inside those protective bubbles of our carrier and expeditionary strike groups, our ships will be able to conduct the blockade operations to, to basically chokehold Iran. And no ships will be able to come out. And again, maybe they get one or two out, whatever. But if we control 99 or 90% or 80% of what Iran is able to get out of the country, that'll have a dramatic impact on their own ability to stay in power. It'll have an ability impact when there's no more services and food and other things coming in and especially the money. And so what is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps going to do when they have no more money, when they have no more access? We have to think, and as Sam wrote in his article, we have to think about the borders with Afghanistan, the Russians in the Caspian Sea. There's other areas where Iran can still get some resources in trade. But I think the president has that in his power as well. But right now, the blockade will be a severe blow to the Iranian regime and to the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.
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Yeah, if Mohan and Grace, I think I gave it to the team to put Sam's article up and magazine. We're also going to get Sam, obviously back on either this afternoon or tomorrow. Captain Fennell, thank you so much. You can get your writing up on American greatness. And over at the Naval Institute, I believe, sir, you're doing a big assessment of the PLA Navy.
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Yeah, that'll come out in May with proceedings.
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Okay, thank you. Captain, thank you for coming on over the weekend and updating us today as the blockade starts. Michael Kunstler. Michael, we wanted you on this morning because everybody's talking about supply chain issues, the CCP warning about it, because petroleum is at the basis of everything. They're massive supply chain issues that people are now becoming aware of. It's one of the reasons that capital markets throughout the world are focused on exactly what's happening. You would think that probably one of the ones people don't think about enough is what happens actual pharmaceuticals, vitamins, all that. Can you get us up to date on these supply chain issues and how you guys are helping the war Room? Helping the war room posse out, sir?
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Yeah, of course. So I'll start with a lot of the medications that we're starting to see coming on backorder. And these are potentially maintenance drugs, emergency drugs. We have quite a bit, actually, that are starting to come on back order. Now. How long is that backorder? It could be a day, it could be a week. But this is kind of just start on our level. We always had mentioned, I think a month ago that it usually takes about three to six months for us to feel it just based on the supply chain that's within the United States. But yeah, and it starts from not even just the medicines, the packaging, the transportation. A lot of the world's drugs come from that side of the world, India and China. It's over 80%. And so we do have to rely on these countries to manufacture a lot of the pure powder forms of drugs that we manufacture here in the United States. And it's an unfortunate thing, but it's due to government regulations. And so with us relying on China specifically the straight being blockaded at the moment, it is causing some supply chain issues. Like I mentioned, the most popular drug that we're currently out of is progesterone, 100 milligrams, which is a vital medication for women over the age of 40 and 50 years old. And so that is just one of a list of, I think 15 I have with my pharmacist that we're currently trying to source from other wholesalers. And so obviously we have the capabilities to compound some.
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Michael, Michael, hang on for one second. Hang on, hang on one second. I'm gonna hold you through the brink. I want to get more detail this because on the counter side, if you see what's happening strategically, people are saying, hey, they're going to hold back the rare earths. But remember From Warren, pandemic, 100% of the basic pharmaceutical ingredients that go into the generics is controlled by the Chinese count Communist Party. That has not changed. President Trump's tried to do some things in the United States, I think particularly of a plant down in Richmond. But essentially, even if you go to India, the basic pharmaceutical ingredients all controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. So this is not even a logistics thing. This could get to be a strategic where they choke you down. We've warned about this from the early days of the pandemic. Michael Kunstler, Founder, CEO of All Family Pharmacy, next. The dollar's convertibility into gold ended in 1971. Gold was fixed at $35 an ounce. Well, fast forward to today and the US dollar has lost over 85% of its purchasing power. Gold, on the other hand, is increased in value by over 12,000%. That's why Central banks are buying gold at record levels. That's why major firms like Vanguard and BlackRock hold significant positions in gold. And that's why I encourage you to consider diversifying your savings with physical gold from Birch Gold Group. But it starts with education. Birch Gold just announced their Learn and Earn precious metals event this free online event rewards you for learning the basics of investing in precious metals. Sign up to get a free silver on your next purchase. Get even larger incentives as you go. The more you learn, the more you can earn. But you must act now, as this special event only runs through April 30th. The dollar lost its anchor in 1971. You don't have to lose yours. Text my name, Bannon B A N N O N to the number 989-898 to join Birch Gold's Learn and Earn Precious Metals event by April 30th. Text Bannon B A N N O N to 989-898 and do it today. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. I want to thank Captain Fennell, Eric Bowling the team over the weekend came on just extraordinary. Got you guys ahead of the curve. We're going to go momentarily to the Commonwealth of Virginia and the great state of Texas to talk about grassroots value victories and grassroots efforts that are using the collective agency of the little guy to make fundamental and huge change in this country. Michael Konser, I want to go back to you. So folks have been with this show since the early days because we're the first ones to call the pandemic back in mid January 2020 because of our understanding of China and the Chinese Communist Party. One of the things we warned about at the time and we had many experts on here that would come on and say, talk about, hey, America is not awake to this, but 100% of basically your pharmaceuticals and your vitamins come out of China. And in fact, if you guys think India is doing this, all the core ingredients of pharmaceutical, the active pharmaceutical ingredients all come from China and China uses it as a money maker. But it's also a strategic weapon. I want to warn people that as this thing gets tough and it's going to get tough, the threat of, of rare earths, the threat of this, of your, of vitamins and medicines, they're going to use every strategic weapon they can get because right now in this blockade, President Trump's got them in their most vulnerable, and that is they need that oil coming out of the Persian Gulf. And they have an amazing deal with the mullahs, a huge discount to basically finance the moolahs when nobody else would finance them. Now, we have never stepped in to stop that, which we should have many years ago, but this blockade is supposed to do that. Now, Michael Kunstler, before, people didn't have something like all family pharmacy and get ahead of it. And folks, you better think about getting ahead of it now because the Chinese Communist Party, this is a strategic weapon for them. So it's just not the increased cost of the logistics and getting on a ship and the, you know, diesels at six bucks, all that's gonna play into it too. But the thing that you've gotta be concerned about is that they will use anything in the book to choke us down. Particularly when you're going to go eyeball to eyeball on this. Michael Kunstler, walk me through one more time. You're already starting, I mean this is great. Over the weekend he came and said, hey, I'm already starting to see this and we want to make sure people get ahead of it before it's too late. So what are you seeing and how do people specifically go to all family pharmacy to get ahead of it? Sir?
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Yes, like I said, we're starting to see a lot of medications go on back order and we're trying to source them from other wholesalers. But across the board, generally speaking, it's one by one and it'll continue if the straight is not open. As you mentioned, a lot of this stuff does come from China and India specifically. Now when it does come from those countries, I just want to reiterate, we only work with FDA registered facilities. You can find a lot of companies online that don't work with those facilities and that's when you're going to run into some problems with those types of medications. But yeah, as long as the straight is blockaded, medications won't come to this side of the world. It's going to take a few months to really, really feel it. But we're starting to get into that part. We're about a month or two. And like I said, progesterone is completely out of stock. I can't find it anywhere. When it comes back into stock, we've seen it come back in for a day and the price was doubled. And so people are going to take advantage of this here in the United States. Unfortunately there are companies that like to do that to us, but we're going to continue to fight to lower prices and if not, we just compound the medication ourselves. You could go to allfamilypharmacy.com to place an order. If you're worried about your maintenance drugs, stuff that you're consistently on. It's very cheap, $25 for three months supply, 40, $50 for a six month supply. If you'd like to stay ahead of the curb, I highly suggest it. We have the band in 30 code going on right now, Bannon 30 will be good for any biohacking drug or any maintenance medication or ivermectin. 30% off. Buy it now while we have it in stock. We're going to continue to try to keep everything in stock, but it's, it's getting tough.
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Michael, real quickly, I want to make sure when people go, if they don't know, can they talk to your customer service reps and kind of go through, hey, here's what I got. And your customer service reps say, hey, look, do you ought to think about getting ahead of this one or this fine. How do they actually start to connect with your, your people to find out in their own personal situation what's, what's, what's most relevant?
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Yeah. So we highly suggest that you call in and speak to one of our reps, one of our pharmacists. The reason why is because everybody has a different lifestyle. Everybody's different. You may or may not need one medication and an individual might need another. So based on your lifestyle, speak to one of our representatives. They're going to suggest a few medications. If you're looking for a maintenance drug that you're on, they're going to help you find it. If you, if you can't find it on the website. So we do highly suggest you call in and speak to somebody so that we get the order right. We want to make sure that we get you the right medications. We also want to make sure that we get the accurate health information to our doctors. That is something that is of importance because we want to make sure the medication helps you and it doesn't hurt you. So speaking to one of our reps, they're going to go through all of the medication lists and the health problems or the health questions very thoroughly with you. Allergies, current medications and health problems so that we can accurately send that off to a doctor prior to them speaking with you so that they can actually accurately dispense the medications to you or write that prescription in a manner that's only going to help and not hurt.
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So allfamilypharmacy.com and they've put back up the 30% discount. Bannon 30. So make sure you go check that out. Last thing Bobby Kennedy's been talking a lot about was it in Hollywood. I said peptides, all these new type of what they call biohacks. It's beyond me, but if people go to all family pharmacy, your customer service reps can put, can talk to pharmacists or put people in touch with doctors and Pharmacists so they can work through this and see if it's right for them.
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Yeah. If you have questions about peptides, we have other peptides that are not listed on the website. We actually work with a third party company that has a manufacturer here in Texas. In Texas. And a distribution here in Florida. And so peptides is the newest, a brand new medication coming out. There are natural amino acids derived by the body, something RFK Jr. Is very big on and that we're helping the fight with the FDA so that they can get it out of schedule two and they can allow pharmacies like ourselves to compound the drugs in a safe manner for our patients and our doctors to provide protocols to these patients so that they can take them in a safe manner. There are drugs out there that are peptides that are way better than anti inflation inflammatories. They don't harm your liver, they're not going to cause you blood thinning problems. They're going to bring down inflammation in an amazing way. I've taken a few of them and I continue to take them. I love them. It's something Bobby's huge on. As you can see, based on his fitness, he looks like he's in great shape. And I think some of that is to do with the peptides that he's taking.
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He's a beast. He's a beast. One more time. AllFamilyPharmacy.com Bannon30 promo code Bannon30. And most importantly, you get, you get to talk to one of your customer Service reps.
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Absolutely. 561-717-6794 is the phone number.
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Can you give that again please?
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Michael, Give that again the number 561-717-6794.
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Thank you, brother. Appreciate you coming on and appreciate your worry about the supply chain. People got to get focus on this, make sure you don't get caught up. Something happens, people don't get caught up. Chinese Communist Party is going to use every tool in the toolbox, as is the United States of America. Jack Dyer Hanover County GOP sir, there's something's going on in Virginia. You guys were so outgunned when this whole referendum started about this radical change of going from 6,5 representation on a state that's about what, 45, 46, 47% Republican or votes Republican with the Democrats trying to go 10 to 1. This kind of radical, by this radical governor that's gotten in there. But right now it's at a dead heat and that's because grassroots people are going on Knocking on doors, voter contact, what's most important. Can you walk us through what has inspired people to do this? Because folks all over the nation, the grassroots movement, particularly as I say, oh, we're going to lose the House, we're going to lose the Senate. It's the end of times. You guys are inspiring the country. What is actually happening in the Commonwealth of Virginia now, sir?
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Well, our conservative counties are going to be silenced. Our voice and our vote on April 21, 56 of our rural counties are silenced. We have no voice anymore. Our representation will come out of Fairfax county, which is a very progressive, liberal county. In fact, five of our congressional district, congressional officers, House of Representatives will come out of Fairfax County. Virginia will lose its identity altogether. We will lose Virginia and along with that we'll lose our Republicans, our nation.
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Okay, hang on a second. I want to make sure, I want to make sure people understand what Spamberg and these people are trying to do. They're basically redistricting. They put it on this referendum and the courts aren't going to stop them to essentially shift all this to these concentration, particularly up in Northern Virginia, which has just become an extension of Washington D.C. so what do you mean when you say rural counties are going to have their representation taken away? You're going to really lose. What is the tap root of what it means to be a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia?
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Well, our voice and our votes totally muted. It'll be overridden by the electorate of Fairfax County 100 miles away. We won't have any representation. For our values are our beliefs in Hanover county. And that's happening in 55 other rural counties across Virginia.
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Is this inspired people to. We got about a minute. I want to hold you through the break. Is this inspired people? I mean we've heard this outpouring of folks going door to door and making voter contact because the Democrats are poured in. I think $50 million is the word. Is the number I hear turned around. Is it inspired people to go door to door to try to try to stop this
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door to door phone calls actually donating money? We're doing something that we've got four digital billboards that we have in the city of Richmond that have about 2.2 million weekly views, car views that we raised money in about a 48 hour period and $20,000 before digital billboards. We put out over 3,000 postcards. We put out over 3,000. We've covered Hanover county with over 3,000 yard signs. We had a lady come up from a Democrat party last week and Basically told one of our people you're covering up our county with signs you're it's unfair. So that's what actually we literally, we have a tent earlier, our early voting tent, and it's manned constantly.
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Hang on, hang on. I want to, I want to hold it through the break and get the whole story on the other side. Jack Dyer from Hanover County, Virginia. Do you owe back taxes or you haven't filed your taxes in years? Now is the time to resolve your tax matters. With the national conversation around abolishing the income tax, the IRS is fighting back and proving it's here to stay by becoming more aggressive than ever before. They're sending out more collection notices, filing more tax liens and collecting billions more in recent years. If you owe, the IRS can garnish your wages, levy your bank accounts, seize your retirement and even your home if you owe or haven't filed. It's not a question of if the IRS will act, it's a question of when it will act. Right now, Tax Network USA is offering a completely free IRS research and discovery call to show you exactly where you stand and what they can stop before it's too late. Their powerful programs and strategies can save you thousands or even eliminate your debt entirely if you qualify. Don't make a costly mistake representing yourself or calling the IRS on your own waives your rights and cost you more money. They are not, and let me repeat, the IRS is not on your side. Get protected the right way with Tax Network USA and start the process of settling your tax matters once and for all today. Call 1-800-958-1000. That's 1-800-958-10000 or visit tnusa.com Bannon for your free discovery call with Tax Network USA. Let me repeat. 800-958-1000. Tell them Bannon sent you. Don't let the IRS be the first to act. Take advantage of first mover advantage. You move. Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. So, Jack Dyer from Hanover, by the way, Julie Pickering is going to join us momentarily about Texas and the situation down there on the textbooks. Jack, go back. And I want to hear that story again from the Democrat saying you're flooding Hanover county with signs. You've got digital signs, you've raised, you've bootstrapped this with money from local people. What, what? Tell me about your tents on the, on the early voting.
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Early voting. We have a tent up during early voting for the 45 day period and our tent's been manned constantly during that whole time frame and we have had numerous voters come up and given thumbs up, picking up our no vote buttons, calling other people to get, get them to the polls to vote. We're running a little bit ahead of track as far as voter turnout in, in Hanover than what we did in the last gubernatorial race. And the majority of that I feel very strongly is the, actually the upset citizens of Hanover county that don't want this change. They see it's wrong as being wrong. The billboard, I, I give you reason on the billboard. We wanted to get our message out, but we don't have the, had the funds to do it. But we got pissed off over in Page county when they put a billboard up over there and said Trump was in support of this referendum. So we got so upset, we raised the money to come up with these four digital billboards that basically. And first message we put out there, we put Spanberger up on it and her quote in 2019 of basically she was against gerrymandering and which digital billboards we get to change our message. So we get, we, we've changed their message twice now and it's getting a lot of reaction, a lot of positive reaction off of those billboards. And we've had town halls. We've had town halls. Those people from the town hall meetings have gone back out into the, into Hanover county and says we got to stop this. So we feel good about it. Our people are given, we asked for 100%. A lot of them give them 100 for 50%. Some of them give them 200%. And at the end of the day, this collab, the collateral damage over this referendum, if it passes again, we lose Virginia. But it, it actually will damage the bedrock principles of our republic that will be severe and long term.
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This apps.
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So this is not just about.
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That's why I think it's so important. Well, no, and I think it's important that this is happening and the fight back is happening in the commonwealth, which is the cradle of the American Revolution. Jack, where do people go that want to find out more and assist, either give money or if they can assist any other way, not just in the commonwealth, but across the country. Because this has become, as you said, this is absolutely central to the potential impeachment of President Trump to control the House. But they're much deeper. This is where they're trying to take rural America and shut them up. And trust me, if they, if they pull it off in Virginia, they're going to try to do it everywhere because they understand that the Strength of this country comes from these small towns and villages and communities. So where do people go, Jack?
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Go to the local Republican unit. Ours is hanovergop.com everyone across. There's 133 units across Virginia. They can go to their, their local units. There's membership or donations that you can jump on. You can volunteer. This is where it starts. It's just local. It's all local. It starts right here. You can't, you can't keep your, keep it straight in your own backyard. You're not going to get it straight else elsewhere. That's what's got where it's got to happen. I ask the people in Hanover, Jack, and in Virginia, vote now, vote no and do it now. Bring your friends, your families and vote. We have had a lot of that. We've actually have in Virginia. If they turn 18 by November 3rd, they can actually vote in this particular race. And they've actually brought their children up there and registered them and they are voting, voting no in this particular race. We've also asked all our, all the people in Virginia, well, in Hanover county to pick up their phone, their cell phone and call every contact in that in their cell phone and ask the people they're contacting to do the same. This is a very important. Not only Jack, you guys are genuine for this nation.
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No, this is inspirational. And to know that the Democrats know how important it is. Put $50 million in Kim Jeffries, all that crowd and here you're fighting back with this populous grassroots MAGA revolt. Jack Dyer. Jack, do you have social media? Is there any way people can contract you?
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Yes, we have a Facebook page, Republican Facebook page. They can go on and find out. Actually, that's another thing that we did not have before this particular election is we did have a Facebook page, but we did not have a social media team. And we developed a social media team that basically is actually hammering it out and in social media, not only on Facebook, but our other neighborhood watches and stuff like that, they've gotten in the middle of it into the mix.
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Fantastic inspiration, sir. Hanover, thank you so much. Jack Dyer, appreciate you. This is what it means to fight back. These guys are outgunned. $50 million Democrats know how important this is. This thing was a blowout six, seven, eight weeks ago before the grassroots guys like Jack Dyer and all the people in the community got around it. We're actually going to be announcing this afternoon or maybe tomorrow morning on the show. I'm trying to get landing page or anything like that. We're going to be Doing an event in Hanover county on Sunday afternoon from 4pm to 8 to basically thank everybody throughout the state that can make it there. All the door knockers, everybody participated. The social media people, people, this is a bent. This is one of the most inspirational of all the MAGA turnout right now to fight back and you just ride into the sound of the guns, which has been extraordinary. So we're going to have Mo, Ben and others, we're going to be announcing maybe on the afternoon show today and Natalie's going to take the five, I'm on the six. So we're going to announce it sometime today and if not tomorrow with everywhere you can get tickets. All going to be free, 100% free. Just want to make sure that we know how many people are coming so that we can organize it best. That'll be Sunday from 4 to 8pm you do not want to miss it. We'll have a bunch of folks there for some just good camaraderie, hanging out, the end of the early vote and to get ready for Tuesday, the next Tuesday, game day. Julie Pickering, Talk about a populist revolt in Texas. What were our results and how did we get there? Ma'. Am.
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Hi, Steve. It's a beautiful day in Texas and a beautiful day in America. Thanks. Thanks to all the Patriots and to you, the war room and all the Patriots that watch your program. It was an amazing week last week, Steve. You know, I have been in elected office in education for more than a decade now. Okay. And I have never experienced anything. Last week, the people that showed up, the people that emailed and called and texted, you know, we. So many people showed up. I went ahead and booked out the lobby of the Texas State Board of Education building. I mean, it's, it's a, it's a very large building. It's a very. On the Capitol grounds. So I went ahead and booked out the lobby and we had a freedom rally with almost 300 patriots. One dear friend of mine, Marian Markarian, music award winner, she sang God Bless America. And I had people throughout the building saying, julie, we heard God Bless America at lunchtime in our office. I mean, it was, it was incredible. But your voices were heard, the Patriots that watch your show. And thank you, Steve, from the bottom of my heart, from the bottom of my Texas heart. Thank you. We changed the course of history last week. So just to go over some of the huge wins, first and foremost, everything that was in the standards that was going to honor Muhammad or honor Islam or bring sharia law into teaching our children, you Know the. The lies that the Alamo was built and designed to honor Islam or that America enslaved the best and the brightest Muslims in Africa at the foundation of our country so that they could come over slave labor to build our country, to make our country great. All of those lies, defeated, gone. They do not exist anymore in Texas education standards. So that was a fantastic whim. But you know what? That wasn't enough. Getting rid of the lies was not enough. We had to replace it with the truth. We had to replace it with patriotism, that our Judeo Christian values are at the foundation of America, that America and Texas are exceptional. So just a few of the really great wins were in world history. We added the impact of world history on the impact of the world of the printing press and the impact of the Gutenberg Bible and how it changed the course of world history. And elementary, we introduced the Black Robe regiment to our elementary children. The importance of these parts, pastors that had. That changed the course of America's history. And then we take that same idea and we bring it up into junior high. And we were going to teach the importance of the black robe regimen. Sermons on the Declaration of Independence. You know, Declaration of Independence topics came straight from those sermons that were being preached. Even England at the time said that it was the thunder from our churches but pulpits that was igniting the fire of freedom in America. So we're going to teach that now also in the directives to our teachers. So at the beginning of our standards, we have directives to our teachers and we added patriotism. We added the directive to our teachers that they will teach everything through a patriotic lens which is mandated by state law. And then in elementary, coming back to elementary, we added that to that, practicing good citizenship, practicing good US And Texas citizenship, and is standing up proudly facing the flag, putting your hand over your heart and saying the Pledge of Allegiance. So we added that into elementary to train our kindergarteners, first graders and second graders that it's an honor to be a US Citizen, it's a privilege to say the Pledge of Allegiance. The other great thing that we added was we added in elementary that they now have to memorize the Star Spangled Banner. Steve, you know, the Star Spangled Banner is one of the most beautiful poems that was later moved into a song ever written. And so now our children are going to memorize the Star Spangled Banner. And then also, let's not forget about the Mayflower Compact and the Magna Carta. So we had huge wins. I offered up over 20amendments, Judeo Christian Value.
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So you've got.
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They all won.
A
Yeah. So we went from having 91 witnesses back in the fall, 89 being lined up by this care, this terrorist organization, only two to now overwhelming. We got about a minute and a half. What are the lessons that we should derive from when people know about something, they're prepared to stand up. They're prepared to stand the breach in Texas, particularly because they're coming after the jewel of the crown. What lessons are we to derive from making sure that we've got patriots in the grassroots actively involved in all this?
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Ma', am, the lesson to derive from this is that your voice matters. This was going the wrong direction. We were headed to an islamification, a radical islamification of Texas education. Then your people, Steve, and great people across this country, they rose up, they spoke up, they showed up. So over four days, we met for 64 hours. Over four days. Last week we had two days. We probably. We had well over 24 hours of public testimony. And all the patriots that came that waited hours to speak saying they want judeo christian values and education, they want patriotism and education. It made all the difference in the world. So I'm going to tell your listeners again a great big thank you from Texas. And this will change. These new social studies standards will change the course of u. S. History back to what America was intended to do. This will truly make America great again. But now we took the hill, so we won all of this at our last meeting last week. We took the hill, but we'll come back for second reading and final adoption in June. So we're going to need help again to hold the line, to hold these victories and hold this.
A
We'll be there.
E
But, Steve, you have the most incredible listeners in all of America.
A
Yeah, fantastic. I would agree with you, ma'. Am. Real quickly, your social media. Where do people go to stay in the loop on this? We've got one more bite at the apple in june.
E
Yes, sir. Go to twitter or x now at julie4tx j u l I e4t x. You can go to my website. Julie Pickering up j u l I e p I c k r n julie pigren.com and let's go rack up these victims together. It takes a team.
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Don't include a free mega protein Upgrade, an incredible $200 bonus you don't want to miss. It's a simple way to protect your family from whatever comes next. Go to preparewithbannon.com that is prepare with with bannon.com to get your emergency food supply today. That's preparewith bannon.com do it today. Go check it out. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. Okay. I want to thank Patriot Mobile for all the help in Texas Glenn and Jenny's story. Just an extraordinary job. This is a company that supports your values. You say well hey, what are those values? What you just saw in this Texas education schoolbook fight I might add. So Patriot Mobile 972 Patriot you'll talk to somebody with the east Texas accent about why Patriot Mobile is the finest mobile service out there. Also how they support causes and events that are close to your heart. So Patron Mobile 972 Patriot you might ask when Brandon hall and Julie been Pickering been on there on here. You talk about these amendments of what they want in the school books. A lot of people are saying don't they teach that already? Well the fact is they don't. This is why it's been so controversial. This is not just about the the Islamist this is about the corporations and the business community who don't want to ruffle any feathers and just let's get along and you know we don't care what's to those kids. What's in a book is in a book. What does it matter? What matters a lot. Hopefully you've seen in this Virginia and Georgia situation of fighting for the stone election. President Trump was telling Bartiromo yesterday Everybody knows the 2020 election stolen. Well they do but we haven't made a part of the official record yet. Let's say that I think there may be some things happening at the White House. They I think it may Double down on what? Or go back to what John Solomon's talking about. We haven't held these people accountable. The deep state still running wild. You can see a lot of that in this situation we got ourselves into in Iran, in Persia. Love it. The deep state at work. So, no, these things may seem basic, but no, they're not in the textbooks. So it's controversial because you had Islamists in trying to change it, but it was bad enough to begin with. Hopefully you've seen the Commonwealth in Virginia, who against all odds have kind of now drawn even on this in Georgia with these heroes that stood in the breach and are still standing in the breach as we fight through the stolen election of 2020 in Georgia, who people have been threatened with jail and bankruptcy and all that for now half a decade. And you see in Texas, you are the cavalry. Nobody's coming to save you. Nobody's coming to save this country. Nobody. Only you. And now we want to start going through every other state in places like North Carolina and South Carolina, you know, all these. Look, if they're teaching this crap and trying to force it into Texas, and we had to get these people like Julie Pickering and Brandon hall and others, just a handful of people on the state school board, and then they flood the zone with the voices of MAGA and the voices of the grassroots populist movement. We need to do it. Other places you need to get. No stone should be left unturned, and only you're going to do it. But here's the good news. Once you're saddled up as the cavalry, nobody can stop you. This is why they fear you. And this is they want us in a million different directions and dissipating and yelling and screaming. And there's a lot of stuff to yell and scream about. I got that. A lot of stuff to scream about. But there's also work that needs to be done. And actions are going to mean a lot more than words here. They just are. The situation in Virginia is. And it's still hanging by balance. That's why these grassroots folks in Virginia have gone door to door with voter contact. Say, hey, here's what's going on. You heard right there. Jack Dyer. What's amazing. Jack. Jack sounds like every guy. Hanover county is just north of Richmond and just north of the north side of Richmond where I was raised. Jack sounds like just about every guy. I went to military prep school down there in Benedictine. These are guys. A few words, but powerful actions. And that's what it takes. Powerful actions. Your agency. Nothing Nothing can stop it. Once we're focused and understand where we got to put lead on the target, nothing can stop it. And you're seeing this across the country. And so, no, we got to look at all these textbooks. You got to look at it. And I realize it's, you know, it's unrelenting. It doesn't stop. But that's the process of history. Go back and look. If you love history and read history, just go back. It's all a process, and it doesn't stop. And you got to fight all the time. And if we don't quit, we win. Take your number two prince a lot and write that down and underline. If we do not quit, we win because we're on the side of the angels. But the angels in divine providence needs human agency to manifest itself in this veil of tears that we're in. So just remember that. And remember when you got to Jack Dyers and the Julie Pickers and the Brandon Halls. These are all the people that they don't want to have platforms that they don't want to hear from and they don't want. And they don't want to have them have access to inspire other people. And that is the basic reason for the show and the basic reason for this platform. Mike Lindell, you were one that answered this call. You were a businessman with one of the most successful entrepreneur companies in this country until you said, hey, you know what? This 2020 election doesn't look right to me. Ever since then, sir, they have tried to arrest you, charge you with crimes, bankrupt you, discourage your employees. Basically, even the Christian Recovery Network that you founded after you went from a degenerate gambler and a drug addict to embracing God and becoming one of the most successful entrepreneurs and leaders in this country, they're trying to shut that down because they don't want the cavalry to arrive. Because the cavalry's intimidated or doesn't arrive, they win, sir. So how's it going? And most importantly, we're kicking off a week, and we want a deal, sir.
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Bannon’s War Room – Episode 5296 Summary
Air Date: April 13, 2026
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Main Theme: The evolving blockade in the Strait of Hormuz; supply chain and pharmaceutical impacts; grassroots resistance to Democrat-led redistricting in Virginia and education reforms in Texas.
This episode centers around three central threads:
Key Segment: [00:02–11:36]
Blockade Dynamics:
Steve Bannon opens with the gravity of the blockade and its intent to curb Iranian oil reaching China, framing it as part of the U.S./China existential power struggle.
Naval Expertise (Captain Fennell):
Big Picture – CHINA:
Bannon:
“Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.” [00:39]
Fennell:
“This is all about China, and it’s a reordering of the global energy system so that the United States is no longer dependent upon and being slave to the Persian Gulf...” [04:05]
Fennell:
“I see a lot of hype in the media as opposed to, you know, sober analysis of the threat.” [03:22]
Key Segment: [12:01–23:48]
Medication Shortages:
Actionable Advice:
Peptides & Biohacking:
Bannon:
“100% of basically your pharmaceuticals and your vitamins come out of China … China uses it as a money maker, but it’s also a strategic weapon.” [16:27]
Kunstler:
“As long as the strait is blockaded, medications won’t come to this side of the world. It’s going to take a few months to really, really feel it. But we’re starting to get into that part.” [19:16]
Key Segment: [24:06–35:56]
Redistricting Threat:
Democrat Funding vs. Grassroots Organizing:
Call-to-Action:
Key Segment: [37:40–43:57]
Victory Over Radical Curriculum:
How They Won:
Lessons for the Nation:
Bannon:
“If we do not quit, we win because we're on the side of the angels. But the angels in divine providence needs human agency to manifest itself in this veil of tears that we're in.” [47:50]
On Grassroots Power:
“This thing was a blowout six, seven, eight weeks ago before the grassroots guys like Jack Dyer and all the people in the community got around it.” – Bannon [36:33]
Julie Pickering:
“...the lesson to derive from this is that your voice matters...We were headed to an islamification, a radical islamification of Texas education. Then ... people ...rose up, spoke up, showed up.” [42:30]
The episode is a call to MAGA-aligned action, juxtaposing major global moves (the Hormuz blockade and its effects on China) with the tangible, local wins and threats—supply chain vulnerabilities and defense of both local representation and patriotic education. The overall message is that regular citizens—mobilized and organized—can resist entrenched interests and global adversaries alike.
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