
WarRoom Battleground EP 954: Ridding Texas Of The RINOS ...
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Wendy Sue Yockey
Foreign.
Stephen K. Bannon
Islamic Jihadis are plotting against you.
Unidentified Caller/Participant
Why in the hell you think they're
Stephen K. Bannon
in Houston, in the north of Dallas? They are working together to overthrow Western civilization, Sharia compounds which are areas governed by religious rules. We know who you are, we know
Unidentified Caller/Participant
what you are, and we know what
Stephen K. Bannon
you're trying to accomplish, and it is not going to happen.
Unidentified Caller/Participant
In the jewel of the crown, of the union of this republic, we purge
Stephen K. Bannon
any attempt to impose Sharia law in Texas. They are not coming. They are already here.
Unidentified Caller/Participant
You are not here properly and you're going to leave.
Stephen K. Bannon
On 3 March, Sharia law goes on the ballot in the state of Texas. The United States Constitution and Sharia are fundamentally at odds with one another.
Unidentified Caller/Participant
We're going to tell them, take your Sharia law and shove it.
Kim Weber
Islam will never dominate the United States, and by the grace of God, it will not dominate Texas.
Unidentified Caller/Participant
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?
Stephen K. Bannon
War Room Texas. Your host, Stephen K. Bannon starts right now. Welcome to War Room Texas. Course, it's the special show we've been doing for, like, the last, I don't know, three or four weeks, when we had the big conference down here to talk about Proposition 10, how important it was on the ballot. We have shifted operations here as we committed to through the primary on the 3rd of March and probably a couple of days afterwards. It's been very enlightening about what's going on. One is not just about Sharia law and the H1B visas, all these different issues that are obviously, Texas is under assault. One of the things that surprised me the most is the vitriol that has come against the precinct strategy, which is the backbone of really, the Trump grassroots movement. These are volunteers throughout the country that go on as precinct committee men into the Republican apparatus, take over these committees and make sure that we drive MAGA policies, MAGA concerns, MAGA issues, at the same time, driving President Trump's agenda in Texas has been shocking to me to find out that the established order, and we always knew because we've covered, in fact, the reason we came up with the idea during war in Texas, that we were very engaged a couple of years ago on the impeachment of Ken Paxton. And we got involved and every day we did live coverage, got very involved, and were one of the key elements to make sure that impeachment didn't go through. Because the war on Posse, and particularly folks in Texas were outraged by what they were seeing. I also told people at the time it became a national. I mean, the show blew up on a national basis and international basis because people were fascinated by this grassroots versus the Republican establishment order. That's really this business community down here in Texas since all these massive issues of the border security and all of it were going on. Then after that, we had the redistricting fight that was just in the summer of this past year. The redistricting fight was the biggest one that kicked everything off. We had about 20 seats total that we could redistrict. Texas had a potential of eight. I think they went for five. But every day that fight about the special session in the Texas House and Senate galvanized just not a huge audience in Texas, but throughout the country, as they said, hey, these lessons that you're seeing in Texas play throughout the country. And that is why I consider Texas, as a Virginian, of course, Sam Houston was a Virginian and Davy Crockett was a Virginian. To say that Texas is the crown jewel in the union and something's going on here that's, that's very insidious about the spread of Sharia law. And so we ought to do a conference, get Gert Wilders, get Glenn Beck, and let's just kick it off and roll. And the response has been overwhelming. But as I've been here, I'm learning a lot more about what's going on. One of the things I want to alert all the country to, and particularly the Trump movement, is that the precinct strategy, which has been under assault in other states, this is a very organized. This is an organized method done by the Republican establishment. Remember, the Democrats have picked up on Dan Schultz and Steve Stern's idea of precinct straight. They're now having their own precinct strategy to get people to fill those billets and actually become actively part of the political process. Steve Stern joins me. Steve, I do want to talk about the precinct strategy overall before I get our two guests. And they're going to give us the eyewitness account of what's happened in Montgomery County, Texas, as an example of what's happening in many places throughout the country. First off, the other day we heard the appeals court in Colorado turn down tina peters. You're 84 years old. I tease you all the time. You're the most ambitious 84 year old I've ever seen. But you have really dedicated. You're an entrepreneur, but you've really dedicated. I think you've turned almost the company over to your son to dedicate virtually all Your time to supporting President Trump and President Trump's policies because you're a patriot and say, hey, Trump, in the MAGA base and what Trump stands for is what's going to save this country. You've dedicated, I don't know, 80 or 90% of your working hours. I talk to you on weekends, I talk to you late at night. You're hammering. And you've gone around this thing called the precinct strategy as a great platform to do it. Part of that precinct strategy is to get people involved in issues like election integrity and tina Peters, a 70ish old gold star mother, which are like the most revered women in our country because their sons or daughters gave their lives in defense of this republic. How important is it, this situation at Tina Peters remaining in a state prison, although President Trump has pardoned her and now you have an appeals court that's basically saying she's got to stay.
Steve Stern
I think it is one of the most important things. And you know, on our show, we have a lot of people on it. We had Peter Tickton on, we've had her main lawyers on. Everybody is trying to help, but I think one of the most important things are we always ask people to call the governor. And I'm going to bring that up again later. We need to call the governor and get her out. I mean, the problem is we had 40, 50,000 people call. Imagine if we had 10 million people call. That's the only difference going to make. So maybe starting on the 2nd of March, when we're going to have our election security call at Trump International and Peter Ticket will be there, we'll get him on and we'll start this thing all again because this poor woman, she represents us. She doesn't even complain about all the tactics that they use to silence her. She just said, please help me get this word out how Colorado has been fraudulent in the election. And what we need to do, we need to do what we did in Georgia. Bring everybody in there, get all the ballots, show how she was 100% right, get Lindell, get everybody doing this. Now, the other day we had a big precinct strategy meeting.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on, hang on. I want to get to that in a second. Peter Tickton is her lead federal lawyer. Peter Tickton is the individual got the pardon for President Trump, which they're now going to go argue to the Supreme Court. John Case and her local lawyers. I mean, she's got a fantastic Team Apollo, everybody that works on keeping her broadcast up, et cetera. She is symbolic of whether it's Georgia, whether it's Arizona, whether it's Texas, of this fight of the grassroots against the established order. Tina Peters is a hero who would never back down. And they have to silence her. That's why they have her in prison. Look, I went to a federal prison for four months, and it was a. It's a hellhole, the prison. She is in a state prison because I was in a. Not a camp like Peter. I was actually in a prison, but it was a low security prison, which still means you're in a cell block and cells and all that. But Tina Peters, at 70 years old, is in a state prison. That's a maximum, the highest security they have in the state of Colorado. So my point is they have lots of bad hombres in that prison. And she's totally under psychological assault. She's under threats of violence and violence. Not just threats, actual violence. And she's a huge health issue. She's had cancer before. And the food is crappy, the environment's crappy, the heating's crappy. So this is a political prisoner. And I cannot emphasize enough of the issue about Tina Peters. Now I want to go to precinct strategy for a second. We'll get back to Tina and some of the other shows. The precinct strategy, this is essentially became a huge deal Dan had been working on this year. But when President Trump, when the 2020 election was stolen and President Trump returned to Mar a Lago, two things kind of happened simultaneously. One was a group of public intellectuals, the Russ Voats and the Stephen Millers and others start forming these think tanks, you know, America First Policy Institute, America First Law center for Renewing America, Russ Vogt, where actually policies and networks of people were being put together. So in President Trump's victory, if President Trump would come back, that you would have a victory that you could start off with administration. Unlike the first time, when we won, we didn't have enough time to put policies or people together. We were, you know, down three points with 48 hours to go against Hillary Clinton. We would not have those issues. At the same time, a political movement kind of led by Dan Schultz been trying to do this for years. People like Steve Stern to say, let's get all the MAGA base, let's get the MAGA warriors to literally start taking over the. The fundamental framework of the Republican Party and do that precinct by precinct. That is what led to the massive ground game that led to President, first of all, the victory in 2022 to take the House back, but then the historic comeback in 2024. The precinct strategy has been so successful that it's come under an onslaught. And you've seen this. Steve, just talk to me about you've relaunched the site because people around the country, you're going to hear some folks in Texas of how it's a knockdown drag out every day. Do realize throughout the country, many of the precinct strategy folks were not welcomed with open arms by the Republican establishment. The exact opposite took place. In fact, you were ridiculed. They fought you every step of the way and they tried to get rid of you. Steve, you've gotten ahead of this and saying, we understand this. We're going to reboot a new site. We had a kickoff conference the other day where you had representatives from all 50 states to not rejuvenate but say, hey, look, we know we have a winning structure. We know we have a winning strategy because we it because the Republican establishment is out there to destroy us, sir.
Steve Stern
So what happened was the first thing we talked about was there's 400,000 slots and only 200,000 people involved. Many people started asking questions. We didn't know that. And one of the things that when we started, we had five different speakers and then we started asking questions. We found that people want to connect with each other. They didn't realize that the person in Washington state was doing this, that the person in Delaware was doing that. And we have this site up, which I want everybody to go to the new site and maybe you can put that up for US. Patriot Project USA. And if you go to Patriot Project USA.org you can sign up and there'll be one person in every state that's listed there that you can call and find out how to get involved. And why is that important? Because if you go on the websites of a lot of these states and a lot of these counties, you can't even get a hold of anybody. You call them up. They never return a call. But we have the people that are going to put you where you want to do. And so what happened during this meeting and what was so important? People said, hey, we got to go door to door to meet new people to get them involved. You know, like you always say on the forum, I'm 84, we need to get the young people involved. So they talked about Turning Point. They talked about young people in college and how to get them involved. And that's one of the things we're going to work on. They talked about getting college students involved, getting Asking Moms for America to Help Ask the Blexit, ask all the different organizations to Start to put people in the precincts so that they can get involved. We're going to get them training manuals. So many things that they ask for that they don't even have. And we're going to communicate with each other. Not we're not going to take down PrecinctStrategy.com we're going to leave that up because that has a lot of information about how to join in different areas because a lot of states have different ways to join. So we want you to go to Dan Schultz's book. He hasn't retired continuously, but he's in the background now and he's going to run for office in Wisconsin.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, Dan's so motivated. He's actually going to get involved in elective politics back up in Wisconsin. He lived in West Point, grad, lived in Arizona for years, moved back for the grandkids. Now he's going to get actually building the Republican Party out there as chairman. Ameris, he'll always be the inspiration that came up with this magnificent idea. One more time, Steve. I know you got to bounce. You got a conference room full of people. I want it one more time. Where do they go? Why do you go? Why would anybody. You're about to hear, we're about to tell a tale from Montgomery County, Texas that sounds like a Kafka esque nightmare. Why would people want to do this? Why would they want to get involved? Why would they want to be one of the people that fill those 200,000 billets that we have out there?
Steve Stern
The first thing is go to precinctprojectusa.org and people will tell you how to get involved. Why do you want to get involved? Because we only have 200,000 people. We need 400,000 to get people elected. When you become a committee man and committee woman, you get candidates elected. What's the most important thing now to win the House, win the Senate? Well, if you don't get them elected and you don't work naturally, if a candidate has 500 volunteers rather than 100, it's going to be a lot easier. Also you're going to get training manuals. So when you become. A lot of people don't understand what they even have to do when they become a committee man, committee woman. So we're going to have training manuals up there. We're going to have videos up there because people need to see video, short videos telling you what to do when you get involved. We're going to try to get other people involved. And I got to tell you the one great thing That I came from, from this whole event was that I found a lot of new people. So let's say we had somebody in Delaware who actually the gentleman who's the head of the chairman there is actually going to work for the government. So we need four new people. So in different areas we're getting new people that never were committee, Medicaid women before and now they're chairs, vice chairs. Just to give you an example, in Rhode island, the guy who ran for office is now the chair of chairs. He went from chair of chairs to the head of the Republican Party. He's MAGA all the way. We need the head of the Republican Party in each state to be a MAGA guy. We don't have that yet. So that's why we got to get involved one more time.
Stephen K. Bannon
One more time. Where do people go? What's your social media like? I say the most ambitious 84 year old I've ever met. And you're a good man with a huge heart and your fight for this country is awe inspiring, sir.
Steve Stern
So one thing you said to me the other day, do we need a convention for precinct strategy? Yes, we do. We need to have it in West Palm beach and get all the people from, from YourNews.com from your studios and everything else there to support us because we need more support. So you can go to Stern American Rumble to see everything's going there. You can see us on YourNews.com you can see us on Precinctprojectusa.org and you can go to esthern1054gmail.com my email's back down there to find out what to do because we have a lot of people that are watching your show that have never really volunteered and now they're coming to me and said, how do we take this country back? Especially what we saw last week when, when, when the Congress doesn't even want to get the SAVE act passed, which is one of the most important things. And we'll go about that on another day and that we have limited time. Thank you for having me on today. And action. Action. Action.
Stephen K. Bannon
Action. Action. Action. One of the found. Thank you, Steve. One of the foundational elements of President Trump's comeback was to take MAGA people that had never been involved in politics. President Trump brought all these people and had never been involved in politics and really give them a method into that. That was the precinct, get into the local precinct, become a committeeman, maybe then become the committee chair and you move up, want to go to. And I didn't realize the fight that we saw in the impeachment of Ken Paxton, the fight we saw for the redistricting because Republican establishment didn't want to do it. The two big grassroots fights, and then you had the massive Trump win by 14 points in 2024. Highlight to me that the precinct strategy is really working now. I've seen an organized effort by some of the smartest political operatives in Texas to destroy it. I want to talk about the situation in Montgomery County. I have Wendy Sue Yockey and Kim Weber. Wendy sue, let me start with you first, because Texas is like a country, right? It's the eighth largest economy in the world. It's got 31 million people. It is a magnificent, you know, it's got agriculture, commerce, construction, real estate, tech, some of the great universities in the country. It is really an amazing place with amazing people. Talk to me about Montgomery County. Just talk to me about your county and what it's like, where is it located and what are the folks like?
Wendy Sue Yockey
Montgomery county is north of Harris County. We are the reddest county in the United States. We have over 800,000 people. And. Yes, ma', am, we're completely very, very organized. We have a, a very entrenched establishment republic. We've been Republican for a long time.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on. We'll get to that in a second. Let's get that in a second. I just want to know, so you're north of here. I want people to understand what you're north of Harris County, 800,000 a robust. And I take it there's being the reddest county in Texas. You are, I believe you have what I would say a lot of MAGA folks down there.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Absolutely, yes. They're so many, many MAGA people. But we don't have as much engagement as you would think we would because they're so comfortable with the fact that we are conservative and represented by Republicans that they don't necessarily pay attention as much as they should.
Stephen K. Bannon
So hang on a second. Let me get Kim in here also. So, Kim, we've seen this around the country. In fact, one of the reasons the whole precinct strategy started was to let MAGA folks and people that say, hey, look, I don't have any political power. I'm not engaged. You volunteer, you get involved. What is it that is the situation down there between if it's the reddest county in Texas, what's the issue between the Republican establishment and grassroots leaders like you and Wendy Sue?
Kim Weber
Well, Steve, first of all, thank you so much for having us on your show and telling our Story, what people need to know is that Montgomery county is so red that no Democrat would win running as a Democrat. So we have a lot of Democrats that run as Republicans just to get elected. They say all the right things, but if they win and they get in office, they vote like Democrats.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, but let's talk about that for a second, because that's an issue that's coming up in other parts of Texas. When you say. Because I think people got shocked, as we did, and this is what led us to War Room Texas, about Sharia law, as we did a couple of years ago, Remember, the whole war room turned over virtually for those weeks of the trial of Ken Paxton. And Ken Paxton, our audience knows this, is that on the day that Biden had that phony inauguration back in January 2021, when President Trump left that day at noon to go back to Mar a Lago, kind of in exile because they had stolen, as we now know, and we believe, the time of the 2020 election. Paxton was the first guest we had on the afternoon show, the morning show, we finished at noon. President Trump left from Andrews Air Force Base. Biden had, like, 50 people there during COVID and it just felt phony and looked phony. Ken Paxton came on the show in the afternoon, and Ken Paxton said, as the attorney General of the great state of Texas, where Biden is within the bounds of the Constitution and it's good for Texas, we will work with the Biden administration where he's outside the lines of the Constitution and he's hurting Texas. I'm gonna go to court. And Ken Paxton, I think 48 hours later, was in court because Biden signed all those executive orders that basically opened up the border, everything President Trump had done. People were shocked when we started doing the impeachment aspect a couple of years ago and then the fight for redistricting, how so many Republicans in the state legislature really acted like Democrats. In fact, I think the speaker is almost. I think he is a Democrat. And the audience was asking, well, hang on. Trump just won Texas by 14 points. Texas is the railhead of the MAGA movement. How in the hell can you have Democrats? So answer that to the audience, Kim. How can you have these places? I think Montgomery County's got a very bad situation of people voting Democrat. Once they get in as Republicans, they vote Democrat, but more importantly, they push Democrat leadership.
Kim Weber
Exactly. Two of our representatives, Cecil Bell, who is in House District 3, and Will Metcalf, who's in House District 16, both of them betrayed the Republican caucus and left to team up with Democrats to elect the Rhino Speaker Dustin Burroughs and I had organized a bus trip from Montgomery county to Austin the day of the speaker vote. And we all wore our red band Democrat chairs shirts. And we went and we visited with our representatives before the speaker vote. And we, you know, encouraged them. You know, our constituents want you to vote for David Cook, who was the, the, the choice of the House Republican Caucus. And Cecil Bell's response to me after he had already promised that he would vote for Cook, he says, well, you're just gonna have to trust me. And his office was full of grassroots conservatives saying the same thing. And we were locked out of the gallery. People with the red band Democrat chair shirts on were not allowed in. And it is the people's gallery and we were locked out. You know, I guess it was bad for optics for them.
Stephen K. Bannon
I just want to. Hang on, hang on. I want to make sure I understand one thing. After they were elected, they committed to you that we're not going to vote for the Dustin Burroughs. We know the problems with him. He's a Rhino. That's really a Democrat that they had committed to you. They would not vote for him. And then did they lie to you? Did they switch those votes? Or they just looked you in the
Kim Weber
eye and like Cecil Bell lied. Now, Will Metcalf, he stated all along that he was going to vote for Dustin Burroughs and that's why John Boucher got in this race, Betrayed his constituents.
Stephen K. Bannon
I mean, but he was upfront about it. He didn't lie about it. He was upfront that as soon as he got in, I'm going to vote for the Rhino. Correct?
Kim Weber
Yeah. Well, he, he kind of avoided the question that we knew.
Stephen K. Bannon
Avoid the question. I saw the videos and we're going to play some of these videos, put them in. Why don't we take a short break? We're going to come back. Wendy Sue. I'm going to visit with her about what the. What the establishment believes down in Montgomery County. Right. About Texas and the grassroots and what the grassroots believe. We're going to take a short commercial break. Make sure you check out Birch Gold. Take your phone out. 989-898. That's text Bannon at 989-898. The ultimate guide for Investing in Gold and Precious Metals in the Age of Trump. With a qualifying purchase. When he talked to Philip Patrick and the team. You too can get a free edition, the Patriots edition at the end of the dollar and podcast.
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We're going back to Montgomery County. Wendy Sue Yockey and Kim Weber Next in the war room.
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Unidentified Caller/Participant
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 for fighting. To fight for your country?
Kim Weber
I'm gonna go ask him a question.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Can I ask you a question?
Stephen K. Bannon
Are you shooting me?
Wendy Sue Yockey
I am. I'm. I'm shooting. Eric Obela. Are you here representing Dust. Dustin Burrows?
Steve Stern
No.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Okay.
Stephen K. Bannon
You know Dustin Burrows.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Okay.
Steve Stern
Never met him.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Okay, just checking because I see you associating with him.
Stephen K. Bannon
Because I talked to him.
Steve Stern
Just.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Just really whispering question.
Steve Stern
That was a stupid question.
Wendy Sue Yockey
No, it wasn't a stupid question.
Steve Stern
I talked to the guy for two minutes. You think I'm into me? Like I associate him with y'.
Wendy Sue Yockey
All Just asking a question.
Steve Stern
Y' all are being freaks.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Just ask him a question.
Steve Stern
You're being a freak. Very entertaining.
Stephen K. Bannon
Gary, you're generally the Wendy Sue I take it with you. What is the individual? I've watched. I don't want to say hours of tapes, but I watch a lot of what's been going on in Montgomery County. That individual actually made a. I think he was a former newsman and he's one of these media guys. I think, you know, people pay him, and I'm not saying he's biased, but people pay these guys to do these videos. I watched his video of Montgomery county, and then. And part of it, I saw you not confronting me, go up and ask a question. What. What were you doing? Because I think this talks to the temper of this. What were you doing throughout the process? Because that thing looked packed that the individual would call you a freak. Ma'.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Am, we were. That meeting was our county executive committee, and we were voting and deliberating on whether or not to censure Speaker Dustin Burrows for all of the colluding with the Democrats, giving them more money, more power. Wayne Deltofino is a paid reporter. People pay him to do a story. So he. When he came in, he was asking people questions, and he's walking around filming people. And during the meeting, I saw him directing Scott Baker, who is one of the precinct chairs, the Rhino precinct chairs, who is challenging our conservative chairman, Gwen Withrow. So I saw him directing Scott Baker, and that was very strange. And I saw him whispering in the ear of Eric Opiella. Eric Opiella is our previous RINO county chairman's lawyer. And Eric Opiella was there to represent Dustin Burroughs. So I went up to ask him a question and say, hey, are you here representing Dustin Burroughs to get on record whether he was being paid by Dustin Burroughs, whether he was being paid by Scott Baker or Brian Crist, our previous county chairman's lawyers there also? We didn't know what was going on. We knew something was up, something nefarious.
Stephen K. Bannon
This is why I want to get you guys on. A lot of people have talked about. We've had a lot of people on War Room and people on War Room, Texas, that have complained about dust and burros and what happened down in Montgomery County? You were actually taking action. That place was packed. Just walk me through what was exactly happening, because this is where you see the grassroots forcing the action. You're just not going to sit there passively and take it. What was that whole meeting about? And I believe, I think, that you might have been the first guys in the state to actually call Dustin Burroughs to account, ma'.
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Am.
Wendy Sue Yockey
So it starts with the grassroots has been wanting to be able to take action against representatives who promise one thing on the campaign trail. And then when they get in office, they do something completely different and shock and. And enrage their voters. So at the convention, the last biennium, the state convention, there was put in place a Rule 44, censure ability. It gave the precinct chairs more power to start a censure. The precinct chairs are the only body that can start a censure. So if we don't do it, no one else can. So since Speaker Burrows represents the whole state, we were able to start a censure on him. And then it goes to the state Republican executive committee to decide whether or not the censure will move forward. And if there are penalties, the Rule 44 censure has the ultimate penalty.
Steve Stern
We.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Well, the state Republican executive committee can strip the accentured representative or any elected official of the name Republican, and they will not be able to run as a Republican. They can run as an Independent, they can run as a Democrat, but they cannot use the Republican brand if they betray the Republican voters. And so this was a new power that I want meeting.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on, hang on, hang on. I want to go to. People say, well, all these are a bunch of screwballs and wing nuts and it doesn't matter. That meeting was packed. The forces of the established order of the Republican Party in the state of Texas took it damn seriously, did they not? They sent lawyers down there boroughs talk to me about that. People say, well, that's a bunch of screwballs down there. I said, it didn't look like screwballs to me. It looked like working men and women that had enough of people saying one thing and doing another to holding them to account. And all I saw was a bunch of serious media people making videos, lawyers trying to. Karl Rove's lawyers trying to argue, doesn't matter. These guys were panicked about this, were they not?
Wendy Sue Yockey
Yes, they were. We had previously already censured Will Metcalf and Cecil Bell for the same thing that we were fixing to censure Speaker Burroughs for. And they took it very serious. Bell was yelling at us as he left the the building. And we later came back and applied penalties to Cecil Bell and Will Metcalf and told them, you can. You cannot have your campaign materials. At our headquarters, we fundraise. We spend our time, energy and money to. To get resources to promote the Republican part brand and people who support the Republican Party. If y' all are not going to, you know, abide by the Republican Party priorities and promote Republican policies, then we're not going to use our resources to protect and defend y' all in the primary. And so they take it very seriously. If nothing else, when we stand up, it stiffens the spines of others and other stand up and they do not want to have their name associated with the word censured.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on. So, Kim, explain to people. You've got Cecil, you've got Will Metcalf, you got Dustin Burroughs. What is the gap? What is it that the working people in the middle class down there that join the piecing strategy are part of the grassroots and you see these guys elected. What is the gap? What is it that you want and what is it that they want? To the degree that it's so divergent, you guys are so angry after they get in that you go through the process of censuring them. Just what is the gap here in policies on issues, et cetera?
Kim Weber
So we are fighting for transparency and accountability. What we want is an ethical government. That's what we're fighting for. And we don't have that.
Stephen K. Bannon
When you say that, what does that mean? That the typical deal making of Texas politicians is not acceptable. Texas has a reputation of having politicians in there that will cut deals and make deals. And sometimes that benefits the local community, sometimes it benefits the local politicians.
Kim Weber
Yes. All you have to do is just look at their campaign finance reports where the Sands Corporation, you know, they want to get. Bring casino gambling to Texas and they are funneling a lot of money at the local level and they're, they're funneling these rhino politicians that.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, okay, hang on. No longer representing. Hang on, hang on, hang on. You're getting down to the core of it. So the Sands Hotel, and they had this up at Tarrant county, and that's in District 9. That really, I think the guy was named Huffman, who had been a mayor of one of the communities here, but was essentially a moderate Democrat, ran in the Republican primary and kept the very conservative state Senate Republican candidate from getting 50 plus one votes in the first round and then in a runoff, his people basically backed the radical Democratic socialist candidate and actually beat her. So we saw it in real time here, and it's a huge issue. This is why I keep telling people now that I'm down here. This is a very big issue. Mariam Adelson is the Sands Hotel. Now, she's one of the biggest contributors to President Trump and one of the biggest contributors to the Republican Party. What is the problem? The problem you're seeing at a local level is that do you believe they're going and buying these politicians because they want casinos to come to Texas?
Kim Weber
Absolutely. Yes. They're donating a lot of money to them. And so they're funneling the money not only to our representatives, but they set up these PACs and with other organizations like Texas for Lawsuit Reform. And so they're going against the conservative precinct chairs because we chose to hold our representatives accountable and we voted to censure them and they are coming after us. They recruited candidates to run against the conservatives and they are funding their campaigns. They have sent a ton of mailers out supporting the candidate, Scott Baker, who is running against our county chair, who has, Gwen Withrow. She has done a phenomenal job at getting out the Republican vote. We did an amazing job at getting out the vote for President Trump. We went overwhelmingly for him.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on. I want to make sure people understand this, you guys. The magnificent job of getting the vote of this. And President Trump won by 14 points after sources put $380 million into here to turn it. I just want to make sure everybody in Texas and everybody in this country understands this, because this is what's kind of even shocked me. There is a very organized effort in the state of Texas to basically run moderates against precinct committeemen, precinct committee chairs, all of it, to take them out and run with all this paraphernalia and handouts and mailers and some in North Texas, they've actually kind of taken a version of the war room logo. So people think, well, this maybe is the war room doing it. What they're trying to do is take out actually the most Trump, the most MAGA precinct chairs by an organized effort of dark money, is it not, ma'? Am?
Kim Weber
Absolutely, yes. They have flooded our mailboxes with fake PACs that are paying for our opponents campaign material. And this one fake pack is. Their website is inactive. They don't even show up on the TEC. And the. It was mailed out of McAllen, Texas, so it's obviously fake.
Stephen K. Bannon
Wendy sue, let me get you in here. What is it? These politics are these people that get elected as Republicans, are they taking money from like the trial lawyers? Are they taking money from the casino operators? And what's your problem with having a. What's a conservative problem with having a big old casino down in the middle of Montgomery, Texas? One, do you think they're taking money from these various organizations to defeat you? And if they are taking money, do you have a moral stance or a practical stance against casinos?
Wendy Sue Yockey
Well, let me tell you, we started the Montgomery County Freedom Caucus of the conservative precinct chairs because the Rhinos establishment was already targeting the conservative precinct chairs in the county executive committee before the casinos and Texans for Lawsuit Reform stepped in and started funneling money to their campaigns to help make it easier for them to defeat conservatives. So we formed the Montgomery County Freedom caucus Same as U.S. house of Representatives, same as Texas House to, you know, protect each other, to form a common defense. And I could just cannot even imagine what it would be like if the casinos were actually in Texas, considering what they're already doing now and they're not in Texas. They will completely own our politicians. They have so much money. And I literally get five mailers in one day against me and for my opponent in a precinct chair race. And we get multiple texts for our opponents in a precinct chair race. Could you imagine what they're doing in the higher offices? We do not want money.
Stephen K. Bannon
And people should understand this is. That's when you're sending text messages and sending mailers. Those are enormously expensive. Particularly talking about precinct chair races, I might note, too, I believe, because I saw this up in Senate District 9, where they put in $8 million. $8 million in a primary in a text race against The Conservative candidate. $8 million. The Sands.
Steve Stern
For a House.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, for a state Senate race. $8 million for a candidate who came in third. But it was against. It was all done so that the conservative candidate wouldn't get 50% plus one vote and win it outright. The Sands, at the time, I don't believe. I think they've sold all of their assets in the United States, the bulk of this money. I think they're pretty open about this. I think most of the money, most of the assets they own are in China are in Macau. And most of that money. This was a big issue up in Senate District 9 that you essentially had money in. The Macau casinos are human trafficking, sex trafficking, money laundering. The Macau casinos are as dirty as you can get. I mean, it's just a. It's a way the Chinese Communist Party money launders out to the outside world, and they're just a nest of vice. So it was kind of shocking. But this is. You're absolutely correct. If the. If the casinos ever got in here, you would be overwhelmed with casino money that will run the state. Look, this is the first kickoff. We're going to do this multiple times. I want to tell you, I've been all over this country and fought this fight for the precinct strategies. You people are absolute heroes. The videos. And maybe we'll play more videos next time. The stand that you have taken down in Montgomery county, to me, is the equivalent of the stand that the folks in Georgia are taking on the stolen election. This is where patriots are standing with very little money and they're being overwhelmed by a system. Because what's interesting, in Montgomery county, they're not interested in defeating you. They're interested in destroying you. They want to make sure you're an example, that if you stand up like these patriots, we're going to not just win the races back, but we're going to destroy your reputation. We're going to crush you. We're going to make you spend money. If you got to go in bankruptcy, that's your problem. But we will not let you stand up to the iron boot that's trying to come in here. And folks, remember, this has nothing to do with the Democratic Socialist and the Working Family Party, which is more organized and vicious. This is the moneyed interest in the state of Texas against the grassroots. And that's why you guys are heroes. And just like the folks in Georgia, they're standing up to the stolen 2020 election and have been, have been indicted and been put in bankruptcy and everything. They refused to quit. And that's where we are. Can you give your social media or your campaign sites before you punch out? Kimberly, let me start with you. Where do people go to find your story and to go to your website?
Kim Weber
It's MCTX, GOP Precinct 97,
Stephen K. Bannon
Wendy Sue. Where do people go and get you?
Wendy Sue Yockey
Can I just say something about another candidate that's running for office?
Stephen K. Bannon
Sure, but we only got, we got 30. We got 30 seconds. You got to hit it quick.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Okay. Kristen Plaisance is running against cecil bell for HD3. And you can find me at Facebook, Wendy, Wendy, Su Yaki and or Wendy Yockey. And you can find me on Twitter, yockywendy.
Stephen K. Bannon
You two represent the best of the Trump movement. This is the MAGA movement that will not back down, that will not quit. If President Trump did not have followers like you and people like you when the election was stolen in 2020, went back to Mar A Lago, it had been lost to history. It was people like you throughout this country that stood in the breach that made the difference. Honored to have you two on. Look forward to having you back. Good fighting down in Montgomery County.
Wendy Sue Yockey
Thank you.
Kim Weber
Thank you, Steve.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you. All you see right there is that inspirational. This is what the precinct strategy is. And these people are under an onslaught of big time money and big time corporate and legal power. Okay, we're going to turn it back over. We will see you back here on War Room Texas.
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Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Guests: Steve Stern, Wendy Sue Yockey, Kim Weber
Date: February 24, 2026
Main Theme:
A deep-dive into Texas grassroots politics, specifically the fight in Montgomery County to resist Republican establishment ("RINOs") influence and defend MAGA-aligned precinct strategy, with a focus on corruption, establishment backlash, and citizen mobilization through local GOP structures.
This episode centers on the ongoing battle within the Texas Republican Party between establishment Republicans (frequently labeled “RINOs”—Republicans In Name Only) and grassroots MAGA activists. Bannon and guests illustrate Texas as a critical battleground, where local engagement, precinct-level activism, and public censure of establishment figures are shaping the future of both state and national politics.
“They are not coming. They are already here.” (Stephen K. Bannon, 00:33)
“As Texas goes, so goes the nation. As the nation goes, so goes the world.” (Unidentified speaker, 01:07 & 31:18)
“If a candidate has 500 volunteers rather than 100, it’s going to be a lot easier.” (Steve Stern, 13:48)
“We need the head of the Republican Party in each state to be a MAGA guy. We don’t have that yet. So that’s why we got to get involved.” (Steve Stern, 13:48)
Wendy Sue Yockey describes Montgomery County as “the reddest county in the United States… very, very organized,” but with “an entrenched establishment” ([17:53, 18:52]).
“We don’t have as much engagement as you would think… they don’t necessarily pay attention as much as they should.” (Wendy Sue Yockey, 18:52)
Kim Weber explains no Democrat can win openly, so “Democrats run as Republicans just to get elected… but they vote like Democrats.” ([19:50])
“They say all the right things, but if they win and they get in office, they vote like Democrats.” (Kim Weber, 19:50)
“Cecil Bell lied. Now, Will Metcalf, he stated all along that he was going to vote for Dustin Burroughs and that’s why John Boucher got in this race—betrayed his constituents.” (Kim Weber, 24:23)
“The state Republican executive committee can strip the... official of the name Republican... if they betray the Republican voters.” (Wendy Sue Yockey, 36:56)
"That meeting was packed... These guys were panicked about this, were they not?" (Bannon, 37:24)
"Yes, they were... When we stand up, it stiffens the spines of others... they do not want to have their name associated with the word censured." (Wendy Sue Yockey, 38:10)
“The Sands Corporation... want to bring casino gambling to Texas and they are funneling a lot of money... set up these PACs... going against the conservative precinct chairs because we chose to hold our representatives accountable.” (Kim Weber, 40:39–43:10)
“They will completely own our politicians… I literally get five mailers in one day against me and for my opponent in a precinct chair race.” (Wendy Sue Yockey, 45:14)
“The precinct strategy has been so successful that it’s come under an onslaught... the Republican establishment is out there to destroy us.” (Stephen K. Bannon, 10:34)
“Tina Peters, at 70 years old, is in a state prison... because she represents us. She’s symbolic of this fight of the grassroots against the established order. Tina Peters is a hero who would never back down.” (Bannon, 07:22)
“We spend our time, energy, and money to… promote the Republican part[y] brand… If y’all are not going to... promote Republican policies, then we’re not going to use our resources to protect and defend y’all in the primary.” (Wendy Sue Yockey, 38:10)
“They’re not interested in defeating you. They’re interested in destroying you… If you stand up... we’re going to not just win the races back, but we’re going to destroy your reputation. We’re going to crush you.” (Bannon, 47:03)
“We are fighting for transparency and accountability. What we want is an ethical government. That’s what we’re fighting for. And we don’t have that.” (Kim Weber, 40:05)
The episode is urgent, combative, and celebratory of grassroots activism, with a clear anti-establishment, pro-Trump/MAGA perspective. The hosts frame the struggle as existential—for Texas, the GOP, and America. Listeners are encouraged to take direct action, join precinct-level fights, and hold their representatives accountable.
Summary Takeaway:
The war for Texas’s GOP is being increasingly fought not just in legislative chambers, but at the most local levels—precinct by precinct—with real-world consequences for political power, party direction, and the Trump-aligned grassroots. The episode calls for committed, organized citizen involvement to resist elite and establishment capture of the party infrastructure—painting Montgomery County as both an inspiration and a warning for national activists.