WarRoom Battleground EP 934: Saving Texas And How To Push Back Against Islamic Takeover

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Bannon's War Room Battleground EP 934

Episode Theme:
Saving Texas and How to Push Back Against Islamic Takeover

Date: January 27, 2026
Host: Steve Bannon (War Room)
Key Guests: Mike Lindell, Frank Gaffney, Byron Henry, Jeff Davis, Mark Hall, Dan Fluette

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Overview

This episode centers on fears regarding the influence of Islam and Sharia law in Texas, focusing on efforts to legislate against Sharia, shut down Islamic enclaves, and counteract what the hosts call an “Islamic takeover.” The discussion weaves in national and international implications, political mobilization for upcoming Texas primaries, concerns about Islamic charter school networks, and broader themes of national sovereignty and cultural identity.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Framing the Threat

• Opening Statements (00:21–01:20):

  • Frank Gaffney and Steve Bannon set the tone by alleging coordinated Islamic efforts to undermine Western civilization, specifically citing enclaves in Texas and other states.
  • Steve Bannon: "We purge any attempt to impose Sharia law in Texas." [00:46]
  • Frank Gaffney: "They are not coming. They are already here." [00:49]

• The narrative posits Texas as a battleground for the preservation of American and constitutional values against Sharia law.

2. The Texas Ballot Initiative on Sharia Law

• Sharia Law as a Ballot Issue (01:01–01:16):

  • On March 3rd, a proposition on prohibiting Sharia law will be on the Texas Republican primary ballot.
  • Byron Henry (Collin County GOP Chair): "The United States Constitution and Sharia are fundamentally at odds with one another." [01:05]

• Implications:

  • The conversation ties Texas’ direction to the fate of the nation and world.

3. Mike Lindell’s Perspective and Gubernatorial Platform

• Lindell's Agenda (02:42–06:16):

  • Lindell describes Minnesota as a "trojan horse" for Islamic influence, referencing labor disputes and past firings at Cargill related to Muslim prayer breaks.
  • Promises to ban Sharia law on day one if elected governor:
    • "I'm going to ban Sharia law. The first day I'm in Governor." [02:48]
  • Disdain for inclusion of minority religious practices and public religious symbols (e.g., satantic statues).

• Also references grievances about voter engagement and urges listeners to visit his campaign website.

4. Broader Mobilization and Bannon’s National Strategy

• Building a National Movement (06:27–07:34):
  • Bannon emphasizes that the Texas effort has inspired activism in other states (Arizona, Oklahoma, Minnesota).
  • Bannon: "For the first time, people are saying... it may be the most major problem." [07:23]

5. Frank Gaffney’s Deep Dive on Sharia and American Constitutionalism

• Ideological Framing (07:34–11:06):
  • Gaffney brands Sharia as "toxic, demonic, and anti-constitutional."
  • Praises Bannon for making open discussion possible; claims Americans have been “terrorized” into silence.
  • Key Quote: "We will not submit, and we will not be terrorized into being remaining silent until we are forced to submit. This is a breakthrough moment." [09:30]
  • Focuses on the Texas GOP ballot wording: “Texas should prohibit Sharia law.”

6. Collin County: Ground Zero for the Fight

• Local Impact and Epic City/Meadows (11:06–19:59):
  • Byron Henry discusses demographic changes in Collin County, influx of immigrants, especially from Islamic nations, and the formation of religious enclaves.
  • Raises alarm over “Epic City” (renamed Meadows)—a proposed Islamic-majority subdivision with community resources allegedly directed towards religious institutions.
    • "Epic City is really the first documented attempt to basically put all the pieces together... basically attempt to create a large, thousand-plus resident enclave that's basically defined by Islam." [16:19]
  • Stress on using legal, strategic, and financial means to halt such projects; urges urgent legislative action outside regular sessions.

7. Grassroots Response and Organizational Mobilization

• Community Engagement (22:04–25:42):
  • Byron Henry: Inbox “overwhelming,” filled with emails about Sharia and Islamic organizations.
  • Plans for GOP standing committee on “threats to American values, including Sharia law.”
  • “Prop 10”—the ballot proposition—is a focus for upcoming meetings and the Lincoln Day Gala.

8. The National Ripple: South Carolina GOP Concerns

• South Carolina Perspective (35:54–40:52):
  • Jeff Davis (Greenville County GOP Chair): Concerns that issues seen in Texas will soon hit South Carolina.
    • Notes influx of conservatives from blue states, and fears similar Islamic influx.
    • Expresses concern over open primaries enabling “infiltration” of Republican races by non-Republicans.

9. Charter Schools and The Gulen Movement

• Filmmaker Mark Hall on "Killing Ed" (41:59–49:47):
  • Describes exposure of the Gulen movement, a Turkish Islamic group running charter schools in Texas—now operating more than 80 schools, getting public funds.
    • "They were operating charter schools, receiving tens of millions of dollars of our tax bonds here in Texas to operate schools." [43:15]
  • Alleges teaching staff came via H1B visas, often for non-teaching roles.
  • Details ties to companies providing services (catering, construction, curriculum)—raising financial and ideological alarms.
  • Mark Hall: "It is a cult and it is a threat. Make no mistake about it." [52:06]

10. Calls to Action and Resources

• Information Dissemination and Next Steps (49:47–52:49):
  • Listeners encouraged to watch "Killing Ed" (available for free at WarRoom.film) and visit resources such as “BanSharia.com”.
  • Guests share social media, links for staying updated.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Frank Gaffney: "Not all Muslims subscribe to it, but those that don't are called apostates, and that's a capital offense under Islam." [07:46]
• Steve Bannon: “As Texas goes, so goes the nation. As the nation goes, so goes the world. Are you prepared to fight for this state? Are you prepared to fight for your country?” [01:20, 32:20]
• Mike Lindell: "Minnesota was the trojan horse for this catastrophe, that this takeover." [02:48]
• Byron Henry: “Epic City is really the first documented attempt to basically put all the pieces together... to create a large, thousand-plus resident enclave that's basically defined by Islam.” [16:19]
• Mark Hall: "They were operating charter schools, receiving tens of millions of dollars of our tax bonds here in Texas to operate schools... the largest concentration of their schools, taxpayer funded schools are here in the state of Texas." [43:15 / 47:15]
• Frank Gaffney: “It is a cult and it is a threat. Make no mistake about it.” [52:06]
• Byron Henry: “It is the number one issue on my plate as the Collin County Chairman of the Republican Party. It is number one." [22:31]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:21–01:20 – Introductions, framing the episode's main claim: Islamic infiltration/threat to Texas.
• 02:48–06:16 – Mike Lindell’s anti-Sharia platform & critiques of Minnesota’s experience.
• 07:34–11:06 – Frank Gaffney delves into Sharia law and American values.
• 11:38–22:04 – Byron Henry details local impact, Epic City/Meadows enclave, and the county’s response.
• 22:04–25:42 – Grassroots and organizational strategies (GOP committees, Prop 10).
• 35:54–40:52 – Jeff Davis (Greenville, SC) discusses nationalization of the issue.
• 41:59–49:47 – Mark Hall on the Gulen movement's charter schools “Killing Ed” film.
• 49:57–52:49 – Resources, film viewing, and final thoughts.

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Additional Resources Shared

• WarRoom.film – Watch Mark Hall's "Killing Ed"
• BanSharia.com – Information clearinghouse on Sharia law threat
• Mark Hall: @MarkHallFilm | @KillingEdFilm (X/Twitter)
• Byron Henry: @ByronKHenry | @CollinGOP (X/Twitter)
• Frank Gaffney: @FrankGaffney (X/Twitter)
• Greenville County GOP (SC): greenvillegop.com

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Tone and Language

• The episode maintains a sense of urgency and mission, with impassioned exchanges, battle metaphors, and proudly combative stances towards what the hosts call the Islamic threat. Frequent references to patriotism, faith, and “the fight” set a martial, mobilizing tone.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode is a rallying call for War Room’s audience to see Texas as the front line in a national and religious culture war, with broad implications for law, education, and policy. It criticizes both political leadership and legal structures seen as enabling Islamic influence, and urges legislative, organizing, and informational responses to “prohibit Sharia law.” The hosts and guests see themselves as breaking a “taboo” by discussing these topics and encourage nationwide resistance modeled on the Texas example.

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Transcript

[Frank Gaffney]

Islamic jihadis are plotting against you.

[Steve Bannon]

Why in the hell you think they're.

In Houston, in the north of Dallas.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

They are working together to overthrow Western.

[Steve Bannon]

Civilization, compounds which are areas governed by religious rules.

We know who you are, we know what you are, and we know what.

You'Re trying to accomplish. And it is not going to happen.

In the jewel of the crown of the union of this republic, we purge.

Any attempt to impose Sharia law in Texas.

[Frank Gaffney]

They are not coming. They are already here.

[Steve Bannon]

You are not here properly and you're going to leave.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

On 3 March, Sharia law goes on.

[Steve Bannon]

The ballot in the state of Texas. The United States Constitution and Sharia are.

[Byron Henry]

Fundamentally at odds with one another.

[Steve Bannon]

We're going to tell them, take your Sharia law and shove it.

Islam will never dominate the United States.

[Byron Henry]

And by the grace of God, it will not dominate Texas.

[Steve Bannon]

As Texas goes, so goes the nation. As the nation goes, so goes the world. Are you prepared to fight for this state? Are you prepared to fight for your country?

[War Room Texas Announcer]

War Room Texas.

[Mark Hall]

Your host, Stephen K. Bannon starts right.

[Mike Lindell]

Now.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

Monday the 26th of January, year.

[Steve Bannon]

Of the Lord, 2026. Thank you. I want to start off. We're absolutely packed today. We're going to get through all of it. And we will be shifting the show down to Texas next week for the first week of Texas or stay through the three March primary.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

I real quickly want.

[Steve Bannon]

So you've inspired this. We've already inspired people throughout the country. We had folks on from Arizona, we've had folks on from Oklahoma are also fighting their fights.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

Mike Lindell, you want to talk to.

[Steve Bannon]

Me about the deal for the posse in a second, but you're running for governor and your race is so on fire. First off, Waltz dropped out because you know he's going to be indicted. Now they've gone to the US Senate and Texas has got a huge Senate primary with Paxson versus Cornyn. And they're all talking about, well, Paxton wins. You can't. You're not going to hold the seat. The Democrat could win.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

They've taken Amy Klobuchar out of the Senate.

[Steve Bannon]

Folks in Texas, you hadn't heard this. They're taking her out of the Senate.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

To run for governor because they fear Mike Lindell. And one of the reasons.

[Steve Bannon]

Lindell, talk to me about what you're going to do with Sharia law, what your first action at governor is. To do what?

[Mike Lindell]

Yeah, I'm banning it. And Steve, in Minnesota, this is years ago. You go back to 2016, everybody, or 20. I think it was 18 and Cargill and they, they fired 200 of these Muslims and these Somalians because they were of their breaks, their prayer breaks. I've said it before for the last five, six years, Minnesota was the trojan horse for this catastrophe that this takeover. And it was back then, if you did it, you're called a racist if you don't. I just didn't hire them. But Cargill did. And what they did, Steve, they wanted them gone so bad because was interfering with their, with their lines that they fired them and settled for 1.5 million even though they had all. They had all the reason to fire them. And so I'm going to be I'm going to ban Sharia law. The first day I'm in Governor. And by the way, the last hour everybody's been texting me you can help out@mike Lindellgov.com everybody and learn other things I'm going to do. Another thing is I'm taking that satanic statue out of the Capitol that waltz put in there and said we had to be fair to the devil. This guy mean this Minnesota is the trojan horse. And look what it spread to Texas. Everywhere else this is, this is number one on my list. Everybody banning Sharia law. But go to mike Lindell gov.com we need help right now and I got to win this. It's going to be. It's going to Steve. I'm doing the same things I was going to do with the president. I have great campaigning and with yet 250,000 people voted for Donald Trump in 2020 in Minnesota that didn't even bother to vote in 2022. I don't care if I have go door to door. We're going to wake those people up if they're not already woke up. I mean we've got problems in Minnesota. We need to fix it now.

[Steve Bannon]

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[Steve Bannon]

Thank you for stepping up, too. It takes a brave person to sit there going, hey, look, I don't want to hear any happy talk on this thing. I'm banning it. My first thing I do, I'm going to ban absolutely. Because it's a cancer that's metastasizing.

[Jeff Davis]

Lindell, you're a good man.

[Steve Bannon]

Thank you for coming on. And thank you for the. And thank you for the sale. People are raving about it. Thank you, brother. Do I have Byron Henry? Okay, if not, I'll bring up Frank Gaffney. We'll take one or the other. Frank, why don't you join me then? I'll get Byron after we get the technical aspects worked out. Frank, we have a task and purpose here, right? People have talked about this for a long time. And I believe one of the strengths of having the conference and then having War Room Texas is that people are feel comfortable that they now can discuss it like adults. And I'm hearing this from. I'm inundated with people from Texas, but also Arizona. That's where they came on the show the other day, Oklahoma. Mike Lindell wanted to come on and say about his band. People throughout the country are being inspired by what the Texans are doing on this situation of Sharia law. And for the first time, people are saying, hey, look, I felt uncomfortable talking about it before, but it's a major problem, and it may be the most major problem. And you see what's happening up in Minneapolis. Frank Gaffney, your thoughts.

[Frank Gaffney]

Steve, you've rendered an incalculable public service by dedicating this kind of time to this particular topic and specifically this particular fight in the State of Texas. And it's not just that people have felt uncomfortable talking about Sharia, which of course is the Islamic, I call it, toxic, demonic and anti constitutional ideology of Islam. Not all Muslims subscribe to it, but those that don't are called apostates, and that's a capital offense under Islam. So by and large, they're going along with it, or at least keeping their heads down. But the rest of us have been, I believe, induced to try to pretend that there's not a problem here out of fear. It's not an accident. We are being terrorized by those who do adhere to Sharia because they have, from the time of Muhammad himself, if indeed he existed at all, this doctrine that says use terrifying violence to subdue the unbelievers, to compel them. And this is the literal meaning, as you know, of the word Islam, to submit. To submit to a yes, totalitarian theocracy, ultimately that is supposed to rule worldwide. What you have helped do, Steve, and I don't think we can adequately express our appreciation, certainly those of us who've been in this fight for a long time. But I think, as you say, more and more Americans, and it's not just in Texas, it's not just in Minnesota, it's across our country who are finally finding the courage to say what needs to be said about this, which is this is unacceptable. We will not submit, and we will not be terrorized into being remaining silent until we are forced to submit. This is a breakthrough moment. And I just want to say that when we had some conversations down in Texas on the margins of that very important dinner on the 29th, excuse me, the 9th of January, with Geert Wilders and you and Glenn Beck, Peter McEven. It was just an extraordinary moment and the focus that you've put on, specifically this primary ballot proposition on 3 March in which five simple words will be put to the people voting. They're supposed to be Republicans, and I hope it will predominantly be Republicans. It's a Republican primary, after all, but it's kind of an open one. But the five words of these Texas should prohibit Sharia law. It couldn't be more clearly put, and I couldn't be more excited about the extent to which the people of the state and their political leaders are now resonating to this vital message. And I hope with your help, we will make it a crushing victory. That in turn sets the stage for it becoming Sharia really becomes a voting issue across the country this fall.

[Steve Bannon]

Frank, hang on for a second. I want you to ride shotgun with me for a while Because I've got some guests that are gonna want some observations and commentary for you. I wanna go to Byron Henry now. He's the chairman of the republican party for collin county, Texas. Sir, you're in the middle of this maelstrom. Can you walk through? Collin county is one of the most patriotic, most americana counties, not just in Texas, but probably the country. Can you explain to our audience what's happening in your county?

[Byron Henry]

Yes. Good evening, Steve. Thanks for having me on tonight. So collin county is important for a lot of reasons. Not only is it one of the reddest large counties in texas, but it exports the most republican net votes of any county in the entire state. And at times, it's in the top five in the country of exporting net votes. So it's a. It needs to be not just red, but dark red in order to counter a lot of the big cities around the rest of the state. But what we're seeing here is that collin county on the outskirts of Dallas, and we don't take in Dallas and collin county hardly at all, But a sliver is the ring in which the technology corridor was built 30 years ago. I came to Collin county in 2000, so I've been there 25 years. And everyone that worked in tech and everyone when it was exploding and expanding, moved to plano. And of course, now there's frisco, and we've even gotten further up in prosper, where I live, Salina and whatnot, pushing farther and further north. But what happened during that time is we exported a lot of imported a lot of labor, and it really wasn't seen as a major issue there. But we've just had an explosion of immigration. Some friends went to India not too long ago and said there's literally advertisements in India to move to Frisco, Texas, in the heart of collin county. Now, I'm not complaining per se about people saying frisco is a great place to live. Collin county is one of the best places to live on earth. But the point is people know where collin county has jobs, safety, high quality of living, good public schools as far as curriculum goes, Maybe not necessarily with the values that we all share. But the key is it's a very desirable place to live. And it's always been very inviting for companies to hire people and import labor. We've seen the disaster of the immigration policies of both parties, really, but especially the left over the past 30 to 40 years, and it's been crushing. And collin county has been at the Epicenter of that, when benign labor importation in a lot of different industries was just running rampant and H1BS now, which is getting a lot of focus as well. And then you have. On top of all that, Steve, you have just an influx of. Of other countries and from nations that. Where Islam is the predominant religion, also flocking to Collin county, and they're bringing their culture with them. It's not just people that's like, we can't stand where we live. It's oppressive. We want to be free. We want to take part in the American dream and whatnot. That's not what we're seeing anymore. Especially in Collin County. We are seeing cultures being imported, neighborhoods being. How can I say, basically overrun with one faith. In fact, some. As you know about epic, the epic issue was attempting to make it kind of like a Islamic enclave with only adherence to Islam living there, as well as portions of the HoA dues being used to fund the mosques and the religious and other ideological endeavors of that community. And so all those things have just come to a head now. And it's like, you know, where were we? What were we doing? I'm sure someone was saying something about it, but now on a daily basis, my inbox is literally full of emails and warnings about different things going on in north Texas, especially Collin county, with respect to this threat. And I think it's wonderful that you've set up camp here in Texas, especially focusing on North Texas and then especially focusing on that March 3 ballot initiative which will allow the Republican party and those that share our values to make their voices heard loud and clear that if you live in this country, you abide. We follow American law and the American Constitution only. And there won't be any Sharia law or Sharia law lite or a lot of the other things that are being pushed in some of these communities in Texas and in Collin county specifically.

[Steve Bannon]

Talk to us. Just give us a minute. Because this show now, I can tell you just the amount of traffic it's getting. It's getting a broad national audience and an international audience because people are fascinated by this topic, particularly in some place like Texas. Just give us a minute on Epic City, on the scale of it, on the audacity of it, of what they plan to do, and still they've changed the name to Meadows. And of course, being politicians, they had a law passed about Epic City. But the last line of it, as Brian Harrison always reminds me, says, well, we exempt. In this law, we do exempt Epic City. Talk to us about the Audacity of it, the scale of it.

[Byron Henry]

Well, it really is the scale that is the surprising thing. We obviously have immigration, as we've talked about, just negative immigration running rampant to this country with very little checks. And during the Biden administration, literally no checks at all, such that we were importing criminals, not just immigrants from countries that literally hate America and would like to see us wiped off the face of the earth. But Epic City is really the first documented attempt to basically put all the pieces together, from the religious to the political, to the governance to the HOA, to the funding into one community and basically attempt to create a large, you know, thousand plus resident enclave that's basically defined by Islam. While the contracts don't say explicitly, you can't live here if you don't do X or Y, all of the other information we have is, is that it is basically an attempt to, abiding by our current laws, create an enclave of what is basically an Islamic enclave within the heart of Collin county communities. And the problem with that is, first of all, there's many constitutional problems with basing these things on race. But one of the issues is that our laws are not designed for ideologies that have a religious kind of bent or basis to them, such that the Supreme Court has said so broadly about what is and is not religious that we have to really have these strategy sessions and get thoughtful and strategic about what we're going to allow with respect to these pseudo religious or ideological enclaves. Because if we don't get creative and strategic soon, there are people from all cultures. But specifically, the threat we're facing now from the Sharia law and radical Islamic Jihad now is that they're using our own laws and provisions that are designed to keep the government out of all of our other businesses. About when we want to move somewhere where people share our faith, or we want to start a church, or we want to meet in our houses for religious services, they're using those laws that Christians have used and our constitution to beat back threats to our religious rights to basically enforce the ability to create these enclaves. And you couple that with the fact that we've had cities, Steve, just that have not matched the ideological bent of the state or the legislature. So they're basically like Plano, for instance, embracing this. So the legislature makes laws saying that the cities can't take specific zoning decisions, which we're applauding and saying, yeah, cities can't take specific zoning decisions. But you're also taking tools out of the hands of the good cities, the ones that are conservative, the ones that do share our values and look like the rest of the state from being able to address these concerns. So we have got to get smarter and more strategic about how we deal with these threats. And it needs to be quick. And I tend to agree with Brian Harrison, at least on this. I'm not sure if we can just wait for regular sessions every two years to address this problem. And as it, as it unfolds in real time, it's too fast. There's too much going on to say we'll take care of this in two years.

[Steve Bannon]

Can you give us an update? Where do we stand on they changed the name to Meadows. They passed a law, but they said they exempt us. Where do we stand? It's Meadows now. But where do we stand with actually shutting this down?

[Byron Henry]

Well, we stand at it has not been approved because there are paperwork issues and people can tout that all they want. I can tell you that the paperwork issues are correctable. So unless the city puts, unless the Meadows don't follow through with their lawyers and their business people and get this done right, right now it is simply documenting the proper entities and the owners and their owners and the indirect ownership and the different ties. It's just a matter of time before they get their paperwork in order under current local law and state law for that matter, in order to have get some of the approvals they have to start this going. So as I said, it's going to take more than what's currently on the books for a planning and zoning board or a city council to basically say, we know you're in accordance with all our other laws. We know you filled out all the paperwork and dotted all the I's and crossed the t's. But absent an opinion from the attorney general or a court ruling that they're non compliant, a violation of civil rights laws, for instance, with respect to the way it's established, or possibly attacking the funding and the people behind the development. And if we can tie that directly or indirectly to some of the organizations that have been designated as terrorist organizations by the governor or adversarial by the governor in the state, that new legislation that was passed, that's another way to get at it. And I've always said the way you attack these organizations is just follow the money, find out who's funding it, find out where it's coming from, find out how they're tied directly or indirectly, and just run that down until you're exhausted. And if we can get at that information, we can also use the new designations of CARE and the Muslim Brotherhood and hopefully some others that may be coming down the pipe to basically block people buying land. They're not even allowed to buy land or invest in land if they're considered adversaries or they're citizens of an adversarial terrorist country. So we have options. But once again they're going to have to be deployed quickly.

[Steve Bannon]

In terrorist organizations. Real quickly. I got about a minute or two. Just tell me. I just want people to get a flavor right of, of your inbox, your emails of what people are saying. Because one of the powers I think at the conference and what we've done here in these working groups we put together, I've because I've been in a day from Arizona, Oklahoma, Minnesota, people saying we're finally talking about this. Just what is your inbox like just the average of what people are now coming to you and talking about.

[Byron Henry]

It's, it's, it is besides fundraising emails and texts that I get from everybody across the country and whatnot, it is basically 80% updates, news and requests. What can we do? We just saw this on the news. Here's a clip or a news article or, or an X link to something going on in Texas, especially North Texas with respect to this issue. And so it's overwhelming. It's hundreds per day. We're not just talking about it. People are not just talking about this, Steve. And I think this is for you and your partners and those that put on that event with Garrett Builders and yourself and Glenn Beck, which was an unbelievably well attended event. I was blown away by the size and just the sheer scope of that event, the strategy sessions that took place before, there's follow up events. But it is the number one issue on my plate as the Collin County Chairman of the Republican Party. It is number one. In fact, at our next executive committee meeting there's a push and I am 100% in agreement with it to appoint a temporary committee that will report to create a standing committee of our party for the county party that does nothing but investigates, reports and recommends action with respect to all organizations and threats to American values, including Sharia law, which is first on that list. And so we'll be doing that the first meeting in February and of course we will be highlighting Prop 10 in the on the election of the Republican primary and just really focusing on everyone voting down ballot. We have a long ballot in Collin County. It's long paper, 19 inches long, two sided. So the last thing on the entire ballot on the set on the backside is Prop 10. And we are going to make sure everyone knows where it is and to go to that and check, yes, Texas should ban or, excuse me, Texas should prohibit Sharia law.

[Steve Bannon]

Byron, you also have a dinner coming up. Is there a place people can go to to find out about the dinner? I think you're going to have it in the middle to late February.

[Byron Henry]

Yes, February 21st is our annual Lincoln Day Dinner. It's the Lincoln Day Gala. This year we've got Scott Jennings as our keynote speaker. Chris Salcedo is going to be our emcee. And that's a time when we are going to do our major fundraising for the year and we will focus. We're right in the middle of early voting. It's a fortuitous, Steve, that our dinner falls on the Saturday in the middle of early voting. So we will be hammering home Prop 10 on that Patriot Mobile, who is a big supporter of this push and as you know, one of the driving forces behind that event that you, that you spoke at and that you ran with, they are the corporate partner for that event. So there's no way we're getting through that event without a focus both on Sharia law and on Prop 10. So anybody wants to get tickets to that or look into that, it is CollinsCountyGOP.org right there on the front page. You can click and get tickets to the VIP reception or the dinner February 21, 6pm at South Fork Ranch in Collin County.

[Steve Bannon]

And where what's your social media? How do people follow you, what you're up to on this, this amazing fight down in Collin county, sir.

[Byron Henry]

So we're at Collin GOP on X and I'm at Byron K. Henry on X and follow me or the party and we'll keep everyone updated. I can just tell you, though, that I get a lot of my information from you. You, Steve. I get a lot of my information from the war room, Real America's Voice and other locations. And that's where I'm retweeting or reposting or I'm stealing, plagiarizing what's going on in information to help motivate people. So keep up the good work. Thank you. Thank you for being in Texas.

[Steve Bannon]

Thank you, brother. Thank you, sir. And you're a force multiplier. That's what we call it. Love you. Thank you, sir. Collin county. The tip of the tip of the spear. Okay, Jeff Davis, Frank Gaffney, Mark Hall, Dan Fluette, short commercial break. We'll be back in a moment. Make sure you take Your phone at Birchgold Gold over 5,000 Silver over 100 Historic Day Text Bannon Bannon 989898 get the FREE and no Obligation guide to Investing in Gold and Precious Metals. Do it today. Back in a moment.

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[Steve Bannon]

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[Steve Bannon]

As Texas goes, so goes the nation. As the nation goes, so goes the world. Are you prepared to fight for this state? Are you prepared to fight for your country?

Okay. Welcome back.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

Thank you. Frank Gaffney.

[Steve Bannon]

That's kind of what we hope for when we launched this, was it not, sir?

[Frank Gaffney]

No, it's way beyond what I'd hoped for. It's what we need. More to the point, Steve and Byron Henry. Look, he's on ground zero. Collin county is where this fight is being waged most obviously. The problem is it's not the only place in Texas. We're seeing it throughout the state. And in varying degrees, it's manifesting increasingly the aggressiveness that these Sharia supremacists have because they think they're winning. And that's what makes this fight, this campaign for the state of Texas. We call it the Save Texas, Save America campaign. And it's moving in warp speed now to become, I believe, the defining issue, certainly in this primary exercise. And we're going to see people up and down the ballot having to take positions, and that's ultimately what we want to see happening across the country. Steve, every single candidate at every level of government ought to be put on the spot. Where are you on transforming the United States beyond recognition, essentially ending our constitutional republic in favor of this totalitarian ideology called Sharia. And if they don't measure up, they don't get the job. It should be pretty much that simple. Can I just make one other point, Steve? Because one of the other things that's going on in Texas and mention was made of it by Byron Care, the. The governor of the state of Texas took point to his great credit and Designated care, not just the Muslim Brotherhood, of which it's, you know, an important part, but the Council on American Islamic Relations as a terrorist organization and a transnational criminal one as well. The question occurs. So how is it that operatives of CAIR are turning up at Austin's City hall, at Houston's City hall, raising flags in Houston to the Islamic culture, and they're doing it with complete impunity. And they're designating some month the Muslim American Heritage Month. Yeah. And at the same time in Florida, where Governor DeSantis also, to his great credit, Designated Care and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations.

[Steve Bannon]

They.

[Jeff Davis]

They're.

[Frank Gaffney]

They're over there talking about creating. Oh, no, they're advocacy at every level to try to inexorably.

[Steve Bannon]

No, no, no.

[Frank Gaffney]

They're oil, the proverbial fraud. They're not going to let this happen. Enforcing these designations right now.

[Steve Bannon]

They. They think they got money. I want to give a hat tip to the great Amy Mac. We didn't have her. She's doing just yeoman's work and putting this all over the weekend.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

The Care went right to Austin.

[Steve Bannon]

The guy in Austin said, oh, no, we're Care City and all that. Well, this is.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

They're not going to roll over. They get a lot of money and.

[Steve Bannon]

They get a lot of sophisticated people back of them. And they see Texas right there as ripe because they got business interests and Real estate interests and other people who I refer to as collaborationists that are working with them. Hang on one second because I want to go. This thing's spreading throughout the country inspired by Texas. Jeff Davis is the county chair of Greenville county in South Carolina. You're the jewel in the crown of South Carolina and particularly maga, are you not?

[Jeff Davis]

Sir, yes, sir.

[Byron Henry]

Steve, as you know, as you came.

[Jeff Davis]

And spoke at our convention back last April, we are the crown jewel of South Carolina. We are about 12 to 15% of the population, a higher percentage of the Republicans because we're more conservative up here in the Bible Belt in the upstate of South Carolina. But the influx of refugees that we influx of migration into South Carolina, we're seeing are conservative refugees come from California, New York, New Jersey, places like that. What you saw in Texas years ago. So I'm sitting here listening to Biden Henry, you know, my counterpart in there in Collin, Texas, Collin County, Texas. He's having problems that we're going to see several years in the future here in South Carolina. We just got confirmation this past week from the RNC winter meeting out in California that South Carolina is going to continue to be first in the south for the Presidential preference primary. We picked Republican presidents here in South Carolina. And when they catch clue to that Texas is the crown jewel of the Republican Party for the country. But when they figure out that they can come to South Carolina, build an influx here, we've got to head that off in advance. And that's why we're particularly interested in what you're doing with War Room Texas. We want to be able to support that. We want to be able to learn from that. And I think that's why you're finding a lot of success there. But this is what's going to be coming and we've seen it. The influx into California with, with the li. I mean, I'm sorry, in Texas with the liberals. And we're now going to see the influx of the Islamic faith there. And I think it's going to happen here in South Carolina. So that's what we're trying to fight. And what you and I have talked about a little bit, or at least convers little bit I've seen on Warham Texas and our counterparts on the school choice fight out there in Texas have been focusing on the funding side of it. What, what, what, what they're seeing up in Minnesota is the funding of that type of infiltration is being done through daycares or learning center, learning centers. But what we're seeing is, is that the funding side of it will be through government run school choice programs. And I think Texas just passed a billion dollar program out there. They've got. Thank you commented or you had some people on last week about it talking you know, the number of new Islamic schools that are automatically funded by the school choice program. It's an easy way for them to just step in there and get funding for that. And that's, that's what our real concern is and what we're trying to fight.

[Steve Bannon]

You've teed up my next guest. We're going to talk about a guy that gotten back of what these schools are really like, Mark hall, the filmmaker. But real quickly throughout the country I go and folks look, you guys are MAGA through and through. You've had great support of the President. What people can't figure out is and you've seen the situation in Minnesota and he's got a lot of rhinos talking to him in his ear about de escalate and back down, et cetera. Lindsey Graham, why is it just give me a minute. Why is in a state like South Carolina has so many patriots first in the country for picking presidents, you know, hardcore maga.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

Everybody know down there.

[Steve Bannon]

How do you, how do we have a situation where he's essentially running unopposed.

[Jeff Davis]

Here in South Carolina? Steve, what we have we don't, we do not even have registration by party. We have open primaries. So the, there is an ability to infiltrate the Republican primaries by Democrats and pick the weakest Republican in our primaries. That, that is our number one problem. We had a, we've got a big fight going on down here in the state of South Carolina over that right now. But it's been an issue for 15 or 20 years. The establishment wants to the status quo and that includes Lindsey Graham of having open primaries. I will tell you and one of the things we fight, we are we we consider ourselves the magna America first insurgency here in, in, in South Carolina. And what we've been fighting is to get those closed primaries. Because until we get closed primaries, until we get full control of the, the state party and through the precinct strategy that our friends are pushing that nationwide until we get control of that part of the party, we're going to continue to have open primaries and our apologies for, for the, some of the things Lindsey Graham is doing but you know, to the country nationally. But, but that's, that's what we've got to fix and that's what we're trying to work on. We're pick and shovel people like yourself. We're we're, we're, we're the guys trying to do the grass work, grassroots work and get that that accomplished. But until we get closed primaries, that's, that's that explains Lindsey Graham. I will tell you, the citizenry, the taxpayers here in the state of South Carolina are good, hardworking Christian conservative Republicans, but our leadership is not.

[Steve Bannon]

Jeff, where do people get you? What are your coordinates? They want to keep up with you with another Bell weather county that drives the mega movement. So where they go for your county and for you personally?

[Jeff Davis]

They can go to greenville gop.com that's greenville gop.com we also have a 501 C3 nonprofit and C4 called my SC gop.news my SC gop news. And then you can find me personally at Jeff Davis Truth. Jeff Davis Truth on all the different.

[Steve Bannon]

Social Jeff, thank you so much for coming on.

[Jeff Davis]

Thanks sir. Appreciate everything you do.

[Steve Bannon]

Jeff Davis thank you. Jeff teed us up perfectly. Mark hall is a filmmaker. Mark, this film is absolutely brilliant. We're actually going my producing partner is going to be on in a minute. Talk about how people can see it up on War Room Films. Talk to me about the well, how did you get inspired to make really. And I think people don't understand about the Muslim infiltration into these school choice and what they do in these schools until they see your film which is jaw dropping. It's. Talk to me about the film.

[Mark Hall]

Yeah. Hi Steve. I got exposed to the gula movement about 20 years ago when they first arrived in Austin and they started buying influence of our mayor and other people in in city hall. I thought it was a really interesting group. They'd come up from Houston, they talked about interfaith dialogue. They didn't have any connections really to Austin. It was a really strange group of Turkish men, seemed very well funded and they started taking members of our community, very influential people in Austin, including the mayor, on paid trips to Turkey and kind of showing them a parallel world of what Turkey was all about. And thought I'd make a short film about how infiltration had happened with this group. But I later learned that they had started operating taxpayer funded charter schools here in Texas. And that opened up this film to five years of shooting and research and it was a wild ride.

[Steve Bannon]

It's Killing it is the name of the film. It's got some absolutely jaw dropping moments to it. How did you put together, tell people the process and what is the takeaway that you took as a filmmaker working on this for years?

[Mark Hall]

It was alarming to me as somebody that's not very political, I'm. I'm just a guy that likes to make films, documentaries. And we got, in some very unusual circumstances, met people that for the first time talked on, on film about their experiences. Being a member of this group, which is a turns out to be an Islamist culture, the Turkish government has banned them from Turkey. And they were operating charter schools, receiving tens of millions of dollars of our tax bonds here in Texas to operate schools. They started in 2000 operating the first school in Houston. And now, according to my research, they're operating a little over 80 schools. It could be as many as 84 charter schools in Texas. Now they've announced that they'll open another seven schools in the next 12 months. Most of the teachers in the first 10 or 15 years were Turkish nationals that were members of this cult group, this Islamist group. They came over on H1B visas. A lot of times those visas were not for teaching positions. They were for PE coaches or for English teachers. Amazingly, when these people came over, there weren't native English speakers. There was just a lot of oddities that went on. We later found out that There had been 6504H1B applications between 2001 and 2016 filed by this group of Islamist people called the Gulen Movement. It's continued to grow. We brought the film out a number of years ago and showed it around the country. And of course, here in Texas, we brought it to the attention of our legislators and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who appears in the film. And nothing has done, Nothing has happened, nothing has changed. And this has gone on for well over a decade now here in Texas.

[Steve Bannon]

Well, it has changed that they're 10x the size. This is why the film's few years old. But we're putting it up because it looks, it feels like it was made yesterday. The big difference is that this is metastasized and these are Islamic schools. And now it looks like with this new school choice and the voucher program, they could turbocharge the funding of really hardcore Islamic schools. You call it an Islamic cult. What do you mean by that? Why is it a cult inside Islam? Because people would say Islam, Islam itself is a cult.

[Mark Hall]

I think it's considered to be a cult with is in within Islam. The Muslims that I've talked to, they're very familiar with the Gulen movement. Consider them to be in a part apart away from Islam. They're Sunni Muslims, but they have really worshiped one man, and that was Fethullah Gulen, who was Their imam, He passed away about a year ago, but he was enormously influenced, influential in Turkey. He had millions of followers. And as a result of people following his message, he had been accused by the Turkish government on two occasions of trying to overthrow the existing Turkish state to put in power a Sharia law, Islamic state. It's one of the reasons I think we need to take action on this group and not consider them to be friendly to the constitution or to our way of life here.

[Steve Bannon]

How did Lieutenant Governor, he's in the film, but he's been a big promoter of the Harmony Schools. And they present it the way it's presented. We look at it, has no affiliation with Islam at all. I mean, they're seriously misleading people. How did the Lieutenant Governor get so kind of hooked up with these folks?

[Mark Hall]

Well, Steve, I think the charter school movement and choice is a real high dollar movement. There's a lot of money involved in this. The state of Texas has an education budget of $134 billion this year. And charter schools in Texas, if you operate a charter school here, you get a basic allotment of $6,500 per pupil at your charter school, and then you get another around $5,000 for facilities. So you're getting around 11,000, 11 and a half. $11,000 for each student that you bring in to your charter schools. The Gulen movement now in Texas operates what I think is about 81 charter schools. Could be as high as 83 by the end of the year. So they're teaching, they're operating at a very high level and teaching upwards of 50,000 students here in Texas. Now, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who appears in my film, and he wasn't very happy with the results of his interview, I can tell you that. We asked him if he knew what the largest charter school chain was at the time. And, you know, he kind of dissimulated in my opinion, and said it was another group. I think the money, Steve, is so big that choice kind of dominates any sort of political discussion, even if it is shielding an Islamist group operating schools and educating 50,000 kids here. There's all kinds of other problems related to this group that feed off of the charter school network that they operate in Texas. They operate construction companies that build the schools, they operate catering companies, they operate uniforms and furniture supply companies, and they have a curriculum company out in California that provides their books and so forth, not only to schools in Texas, but this Gulen movement operates charter schools in 26 states outside of Texas. It just happens to be that the Largest concentration of their schools, taxpayer funded schools are here in the state of Texas. I don't have a real good explanation of why Lt. Governor Patrick has not acted on this. I think it's, it's a good time for us to, to ask him that. I, I wish you would do something about it because it is affecting, I think our state. It's a very corrosive group and I don't think they belong here and they shouldn't be receiving any sort of tax funding at all here.

[Steve Bannon]

Mark Hanger, one second. Dan Fluitt, who runs Warren Films. Dan, how can people get to see this? We've now booted it up on the system. Where do they go?

[Jeff Davis]

Yep.

[Dan Fluette]

So it's up on War Room Films. So it's a War Room film is the easiest way to see it. So you just go there, put in your email address and put in your name and you'll be taken right there. You can watch it for free. Like a lot of the content that we have, we try to, we try to make it as accessible as possible to people. And just very simply, war Room dot Film.

[Steve Bannon]

I will tell you, your head will blow up when you see this. Mark, you're an extraordinary filmmaker. Where they go, Mark, for your company, for your other films. What's your social media?

[Mark Hall]

My social media is at Mark Hall Film and we have a, an X account for Killing Ed at Killing Ed Film. There's a lot of information there that I think people not only in Texas but around the country can find informative there.

[Steve Bannon]

Yeah. Well, here's what we're doing. We're going to have people, we're going to push it out for a couple days, let people see it. I want to get some of the audience to see this. Then we're going to have you back down, back on it. We're going to break down scenes from it because you've nailed this and you nailed it a couple of years ago. It was a warning to people and that warning was not taken. And now here we are, where this thing's got to be addressed. You can't look the other way anymore. Mark hall, fantastic. Dan Fluette, great.

[War Room Texas Announcer]

Frank Gaffney.

[Steve Bannon]

You got 90 seconds. The Gulen, we dealt with this years ago, but it always comes back up, does it not, sir?

[Frank Gaffney]

It does indeed. And Steve, this is personal. I was involved in a fight in our own Loudoun County, Virginia against a Gulen school that they were trying to bring in there. And we went through all of the various factual points that Marcus just made so well and his film is absolutely required viewing for everybody who's in this fight. And believe me, the power that is being exercised is not just over politicians, it's over students as well. And you know, they're, they're sort of shrewd by making it about Turkish supremacism rather than Sharia supremacism, but it's the same thing and it is a cult and it is a threat.

[Byron Henry]

Yeah.

[Frank Gaffney]

Make no mistake about it.

[Steve Bannon]

Where do they go? Where do they get all the information? I have people watch this. We'll bring you back with Mark and break it down. Where do people go, Frank? Social media to get you.

[Frank Gaffney]

Well, one of the things we've got launched now is ban Sharia.com. we're still building it out but it's a great resource, in fact, ample information about Sharia, the threat to America, which I commend to you as well. I'm at Frank Gaffney on Twitter. I'm the host of Securing America. As you know Steve, on this wonderful station, Real America's Voice. Also follow us [e-mail] God bless you, Steve. This is vital work. You're doing an amazing job.

[Steve Bannon]

Love you, brother. Fantastic, great show. Thank you for joining us.

[Mike Lindell]

Wow.

[Steve Bannon]

War room Texas. Leave you with the searchers and we'll see you tomorrow morning at 10:00am Eastern Standard Time. We'll be back in the world.

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