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Grant Stinchfield
Well good evening everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. So New York City now faces a $5.4 billion budget shortfall. Should we say we told you so, Commie mom? Donnie, the mayor of New York now says he's got to raise taxes. He is going to send a mass exodus, a flood of not just the rich but middle class folks to places like Tennessee and Texas and Florida. Mark my words, people will flee New York City after this craziness. The first is the most sustainable and the fairest path. This is the path of ending the drain on our city and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations. The onus for resolving this crisis should not be placed on the backs of working and middle class New Yorkers. Well, the second choice is probably the most important because you're not going to get New York State to raise taxes, at least I don't think so, and send it to New York. The second is they're going to have to raise property taxes. And that will of course be a tax on the middle class, something New York cannot sustain. Now think about this. The middle class in New York City, like every city, is really the backbone of that city. And so what he's saying is, hey, if New York doesn't raise income taxes and business taxes, which is all the investors and employers, then they're going to have to hit the middle class. And New York is going to take it. The middle class is going to take it. Quite frankly, right where the sun don't shine. Here's Mamdani again. And if we do not go down the first path, the city will be forced down a second, more harmful path. Faced with no other choice, the city would have to exercise the only revenue lever fully within our own control. We would have to raise property taxes. We would also be forced to raid our reserves. She gonna raise property taxes by 9% is the talk. You're gonna raid the reserves? Over a billion dollars. Their rainy day funds. Now why is this happening? You know that liberals, especially communists slash socialists, love to spend money. While the last budget was about $118 billion for New York City, this new budget under Mamdani is 127 billion. That means a $9 billion increase. Now, if you are broke, why are you increasing spending? I understand governments across the country, including our own federal government, has a real hard time with not increasing spending when you are broke. But $9 billion, you can't find something to cut. Instead, you have to raise taxes on the middle class. Here's Kevin o'.
Doc P. Chambers
Leary.
Grant Stinchfield
This is Bat Poopoo crazy what he is proposing. And probably sometime next year, within 12 to 18 months, I will meet him in Miami and give him real estate agents. Because I'm not happy with what's happening. I can't get across the bridge anymore. I live in Miami Beach. Everybody from New York and New Jersey and Massachusetts is moving into my neighborhood. I'm pissed off. And this guy's just doing more of it. What he's proposing is beyond insane, but I love it. Well, it means more business. More people in the states like Florida and Texas and Tennessee. As I mentioned, he talked about bridges. You want to know why else people will leave New York? I think it's like $18 to cross the Verrazano Bridge or the George Washington bridge these days. 18 bucks? How is that sustainable? The bottom line is it's not. And when you talk about taxes, there is no good demographic to tax. If you tax the rich and or businesses, you're taxing employers and those that invest and create new jobs. That's not a good idea. You tax the middle class. These are the very people that are pumping money into the economy. You give them less money to pump into the economy, that hurts everybody. That's not going to work. And you can't tax the ultra poor. They have no money to pay the taxes. So the moral of the story here Is taxes are very bad. Unless you want to talk about sales taxes, which I'm open to, because then drug dealers are paying taxes, so are illegal aliens. And they buy a beer, you got to pay tax on it. I'm okay with that. It appears that when Mamdani announced this, they know this is not good for business. The Democrats, even Anna Navarro on the View thought this is not a good idea.
Jennifer Horn
So the bottom line is this. When you put a hike on taxes.
Grant Stinchfield
On just the very wealthy, you run the risk of those very wealthy not paying it.
Catalina Stube
Because they will find a way to.
Jennifer Horn
Have a loophole and skirt those taxes. Even if it means moving to Indian.
Grant Stinchfield
Creek and, you know, living in billionaires.
Catalina Stube
Bunker, they can afford to do so.
Grant Stinchfield
You know, it's American to avoid taxes, okay? It really is. It's your patriotic duty to avoid paying taxes within your legal rights. Now to evade taxes, that's illegal. You can't do that. But avoidance, tax avoidance is a well thought out process that is everyone's duty to try to do for your own family. You want to avoid paying taxes through legal ways of doing that. Now, the median income in New York is $122,000. How do you think a 9% raise is going to go to a household that's making $122,000? 9% raise your property taxes. Even a Wall Street Journal knows this is not good. He doesn't have the option to raise income taxes without approval from the governor. So he's going to try and do it in other ways. Raising property taxes, by the way, which will hit many. As you know, property taxes of property prices are very high in New York. So the plan he has will hit not just the rich as they keep claiming, but huge numbers of middle class taxpayers. So yeah, this is socialism in action. This is the Democratic Party in action. It is this commie mom. Donnie is literally the face of the Democrat party today. Well, I want to bring in my next guest. If we could scroll forward please, that would be very, very helpful to the crew in the studio with me to discuss this Republican candidate for New York State Controller Joseph Hernandez is with us. Joseph, welcome to the program, Joseph. Joseph Hernandez is frozen. You know what my first question was going to be to Joseph Hernandez and you guys let me know when you get him back is why would you want to take over the finances of New York State? Of all the positions to run for New York State would be a very, very rough place to, to take over the finances of. So as we look at this, do we think we're going to have a chance of getting him back. Or, or is that a big. Or that a big no? So this is Mom Donnie during his little speech. Think about it. He's raising his, his, his budget by $9 billion. Listen to this. Cut 3. This first path will deliver the structural change that we need to recalibrate the relationship between the city and the state. Because as we know, New Yorkers contribute 54.5% of state revenue, but receive only 40.5% back. All right, so I want to bring in now I think we've got him. Republican candidate for New York State Controller, Joseph Hernandez is here. Joseph, sorry you froze. My question to you was what wild man wants to take over overseeing the finances of New York State? Joseph?
Joseph Hernandez
Well, you know, sometimes somebody, somebody's going to jump in the cesspool, as they say. Look, I came to this country at the age of seven and my father taught me to love this country. And we're lucky. We worked hard, we achieved the American dream. And I'm here to just pay back and do my duty. And I think this challenge is immense. We have a mess in New York, we have a mess in New York City. But I think someone's got to stand up and really clean this up. It's a nightmare what's occurring here. And you're talking about Mondavi. That's just one part of it.
Grant Stinchfield
What do you make of Mamdani's plan? That if he can't raise taxes on the rich from Albany and the state assembly having to do that, that you're going to have to hit the middle class with property taxes to cover this shortfall. He's increasing the budget by almost $10 billion. And nobody talks about that to create a 5.4 billion shortfall. But your thoughts of Mamdani's plan?
Joseph Hernandez
Well, look, I think what people forget is that New York City, like, like many geographies where there's high net worth individuals, you know, it's a very limited amount. In New York City alone, we have only 82,000 people that contribute greater than 50% of the tax revenues for the, for the whole state. And then you only have 735 corporations that pay 75% of all the revenues. And these people are mobile. Look, they, they, they, most of them live here. I'm in Palm Beach, I can tell you. I'm sitting here at dinner with four New Yorkers who are basically saying, am I moving here permanently? Because the reality is these people are going to leave. And what happens when these people leave? What happens when these corporations leave, the rest of the people hanging out are going to have to, you know, make up the difference. And that's just not fair. We need to be more pro misses, we need to be more pro entrepreneurs. We need to be more, you know, welcoming of people who have, you know, high net worth. That is, Look, New York is a capitalistic, New York City is a capitalistic center of the universe. The fact that we're driving people away from that, from that center is embarrassing for the, not only for America, but for the world. And we need to stop it.
Grant Stinchfield
I'll tell you my prediction. My prediction is that New York will no longer be the financial capital of the world. And New York City is, I mean beyond Hong Kong, beyond London, New York City is. But I don't think it's going to be very long. I think you're going to see Texas financial world.
Joseph Hernandez
Yeah, but you're right, look, I mean, look, NASDAQ has set up shop in, in Miami. The NYSE has set up shop in Dallas. These guys can turn, you know, they can turn to switch over overnight and start trading in these different geographies. New York is not immune to people moving out of these geographies. And the high net worth people, again, look, they can move and move to their house in Palm beach or the house in Texas or whatever have you, but the working class of New York cannot do that. And it's they who suffer through this process. And I think, look, rather than looking at things of, of, of reducing government waste and expenditure and fraud, which by the way is immense in New York, in New York State, you know, in New York City for sure, you know, New York City is the center of fraud and abuse for Medicaid and other, other, you know, government programs. Instead of looking at those areas, they're looking to raise taxes. And I think, look, people have had enough. I mean, I think New York is fed up. We, we are the most abused citizens, the most abused tax base in all of America. And I think we just had enough. And I, and I hope this is the turning point for that state because we are right, we're in trouble. Otherwise we're going to lose everything that we built for the last 200 years or so.
Grant Stinchfield
I guess the last question is, is New York, do the voters have a sound enough mind to turn things around? They literally voted this guy into office in New York City. Can they get help at an Albany level from a guy like you in the comptroller's office?
Joseph Hernandez
JOSEPH well, look, I think the good messaging is or the Good story here. The silver lining is that there is logic and common sense in New Yorkers. You're going to have your left wing crazies that are always going to be just out of the norm, out of the reality world. But they're, you know, the middle, the middle class of New York City, most of who are centrists, are looking around and say, wait a second, I just voted in a guy who's supposed to make my life more affordable and here we are about to increase my taxes and make my life more miserable. So I think, I think it bodes well for the opposition and I think, I think he's going to suffer and I think the Democratic Party is going to suffer and thankfully we're going to get rid of this extreme left political ideology.
Grant Stinchfield
Let's, let's hope, Joseph, in the end, let's hope that this will be a lesson for those in New York. Joseph Hernandez, I appreciate you coming on and hopefully this will be a catalyst to catapulting people like you into office. Thank you, Joseph. All right, moving on now to the most dangerous mental health crisis facing America today. That is transgender mania and the violence that comes along with that. Transgender mania. You know, we've been talking about this, Robert. Quote Roberta Drogan who went into that ice skating rink in Rhode island, there he is an absolute lunatic and basically killed his family, his in laws, his ex wife and shot his son. This is a real issue now. The Democrats do not want to talk about deranged, berserk lunatics like that man you see on your screen. But take a look at this list. This is the list of recent shootings. If we can go to VO10 guys behind the glass. You have, okay, you have February. Well, I'm going to, I'm going to read from, from the list here. You got Robert Drogan in 2026. You've, you've got Jesse Van Root Slaar who injured two dozen or more at a school in Tumblr Ridge, British Columbia. You can take it full guys if you'd like. And then he self ID'd as a female. In August 2025, Robert Westman killed two, injured 30 at Enunciation Catholic School in Minnesota, self ID as a female. January 2024, Dylan Butler killed two and himself at an Iowa high school. Self ID as non binary. And you had Aiden Hale in 2023, killed six. Who can forget the Covenant Christian School massacre in Nashville? That dude was trans. So Democrats are pushing people into this broken mentality. They're turning them violent. Democrats have blood on their hands. This is the daughter of the man that shot up his family at that ice rink in Rhode Island. Cut 18.
Doc P. Chambers
What happened?
Grant Stinchfield
He shot my family, and he's dead now. He has mental health issues.
Doc P. Chambers
Any idea why he would have done this?
Grant Stinchfield
He's sick. He's very sick. So the reality is there is very little coverage of this shooting. It doesn't fit their narrative. They want somebody in a red Trump hat and NRA member, which never happens, by the way, to be shooting up these places. It's a transgender lunatic. So the media literally ignores it. And when they don't ignore it, they will play sound bites like this from the governor himself. I want to talk to the families out there right now. Too many Rhode Islanders know what it feels like to lose a loved one.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, so again, so little coverage. Gun violence. It's not gun violence. It's transgender violence. Transgender maniacs who turn into deranged killers. Now look at the. The New York Times. The New York Times, for their story on this, says this underscored the painful regularity of gun violence in America. Lives taken at grocery stores, concerts, and churches. Do you think they went on to say lies taken by deranged transgender lunatics with a gun? No, absolutely not. So where does all this come from? The delusion of the left rots down from the top, including members of Congress, members of the United States Senate. This is Chuck Schumer. He wants to make the gay pride flag official by having Congress officially recognize it.
Joseph Hernandez
I am introducing legislation to designate the pride flag as a congressionally authorized flag in America. And that means it can be flown here and everywhere else.
Grant Stinchfield
No one, no one. No one can take it down. We're not recognizing flag. We're not doing it. There's only a few that are recognized, of course. The US Flag. Our flags for each branch of the United States military are recognized. We've got the POW, MIA flag. That's recognized, and you've got 574 tribal flags recognized. That's it. If we started recognizing every group that wants their flag recognized, Congress would be held up for four, four years. Maybe that would be a good thing, actually. Why don't you pass the DHS budget bill before worrying about recognizing flags? Now, to one of the most important cases facing America today, and that is reining in social media. Now, Meta, Facebook, Google, TikTok have not been very good to me at all. You'll be surprised when I defend them Now. Meta is being sued in an L. A court over their algorithm, not the Content, but the algorithm that it makes it so addictive that it's doing harm. But you know, as a conservative, you've got a business. Why wouldn't you try to make your platform addictive? I believe in personal responsibility. If you're so brain dead out there that you can't turn off your phone or you're a parent that is so absent in your kid's life that you can't control what your kid is watching, you are the problem. The fact that social media is addictive, Lord knows I've scrolled for a while. I don't think you should be sued over that. I really don't. But I see why people disagree with me. This is a mother whose daughter committed suicide said the constant scrolling and addictive behavior turn her into depression.
Jennifer Horn
What we know is that kids who are addicted have a much larger chance of experiencing additional online harms. I've been working with many parents over the last several years and all of our stories are the same. That all gets rooted back to the addict, to the addictive nature of these platforms.
Grant Stinchfield
All right, with me now to discuss all of this. Director of outreach at Moms for Liberty, Catalina Stube is with us. Catalina, it is great to have you on the program. Thank you.
Catalina Stube
Grant, how are you?
Grant Stinchfield
I am great. Thank you for coming on today and welcome to the program.
Catalina Stube
Thank you so much.
Grant Stinchfield
All right, so what do you make of my assessment? I really am a personal responsibility guy here. Your thoughts on this because I'm sure Moms for Liberty would love to reign in the addictiveness of social media.
Catalina Stube
Absolutely. We are more involved than never before. And we all know that Instagram, Facebook, VR, Meta Quest and all the rest are specifically designed to hook children and adults feeding them with endless scrolls, likes comparison and that obviously are destroying their mental health. These aren't only numbers or abstract statistics. These are our babies they are talking about. So I defend parental rights because no CEO in a hoodie gets to decide what's best for my family. We parents are the first and final line of defense for our children's privacy and well being. Obviously I have fought hard to keep my kids off social media and I think I am not the only one. Parents every day fighting for this and entirely at their ages. I mean meta owns rules. They have to be 13 and older to sign up for Instagram. But we all know how easy is for determine 9 or 10 years old to lie on the on the sign up screen.
Grant Stinchfield
Of course it is. And we know that so many kids are most likely doing it which is Why I would be all for trying to figure out ways for social media to control what kids are seeing. But the fact that you design a platform that you want people using it more and more, that's just business. But the problem is the content as well. And it seems to me they don't do a good enough job of shielding kids from harmful content.
Catalina Stube
Absolutely. I mean this excessive exposure harms developing brains. We all know that the brain develop until 25 years old so specifically before age 13 when kids lack of the maturity to handle it and however we all say it is the responsibility of the parents to direct our children in this digital world. No Zuckerberg, not the government, not the tech companies who profit of course from the addiction we have to God given right and duty to protect our kids privacy, guard their innocence eyes and hearts and teach them real life skills instead of screen scrolling validation. Of course, I mean like parental rights mean I get to say no without apology. It means demanding transparency for big tech instead of letting them shift the blame. So I think the real power is in our homes.
Grant Stinchfield
I agree with you. This is, this is why I love having you on you and I think think so much alike and personal responsibility comes down to everything and people want to shirk their responsibilities, especially with their kids too. Catalina Stube, it's so great to have you on the program. Where can people find you?
Catalina Stube
Moms for liberty.org and myself got a stube on Instagram or all the platforms.
Grant Stinchfield
Awesome. Thank you for coming on. Good to see you.
Catalina Stube
Thank you, Grant.
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back everyone. There is a new poll out. This is an Emerson poll in the California governor's race. It's a tad different than the poll I saw. I saw a poll with two Republicans in the lead. This one has Steve Hilton, our buddy, was just on this program, in the lead at 17%, Swalwell at 14% and Chad Bianco at 14%. And then Katie Porter, the woman who threw mashed potatoes on her husband, at 10%. Now, Sheriff Bianco is a Republican. You've got basically two Republicans, 1 and 2. But let me sound an alarm here. California runs a jungle primary, which means it's not a Democrat primary, Republican primary. It's everybody. And the top two vote getters go to the general election. You could have two Democrats, which often happens in California, as you can imagine. You could have two Republicans. A lot of people are saying that's the only way we can win if we get Hilton and Bianco into the general, it's great, but I'm here to tell you it's a pipe dream. It's too early in this race to figure this out. And the Democrat machine in California is so powerful, it will never let that happen. I want to bring in to discuss this host of the Morning Answer. My good friend Jennifer Horn is with us. Jennifer, welcome to the program.
Jennifer Horn
Hi. Great to be with you.
Grant Stinchfield
All right, Jennifer, you, truthfully, I will give you props, are usually better at assessing the California political landscape than I am. I learned from you, which is why I have you. Come on. Well, it's true. Do you agree with me on this assessment or is it better to try to get the top two Republicans into the, into the.
Jennifer Horn
General if we're all drinking happy juice? Of course it is better to get the Republicans into the general because then you're going to have two Republicans to choose from. But it is highly unlikely. And I also hate to say, because I really do love both of these candidates that are in the race, that it's also almost impossible to get a Republican to beat a Democrat in a general election. So I would love to see two Republicans because then we're a shoe in for something that's better than what we have today. But I went to Chat GPT Grant because I knew we were going to be talking about this and you know, I knows everything, right? Way smarter than we are the robots. It's, you know, we're going to be drooling in a bucket in a matter of years, right? So I went to chatbots and I asked the odds of a Republican winning the California governor's race. The odds were light. Not likely, not impossible, but not likely. 20% odds that a Republican can win the primary. I asked what are the odds that two Republicans advance to the general election? And the odds were minus 10 to minus 20%, almost zero. And that's because the even AI is smart enough to know that the deficit Democrat machine in California will just not let that happen. They will put their power behind somebody, whether it's the mashed potato thrower or it's the poet laureate of Campbell, California and Eric Swalwell, and they will make that person move ahead even if they aren't happy with who that candidate is.
Grant Stinchfield
So then if, if that's true at negative 10% in my mind, you've got to get down to one candidate and you've got to throw everything you've got at that candidate. And that really right now is money. You can't have two candidates taking votes and you can't have two candidates taking money as far as Republicans go, especially in California. Jen?
Jennifer Horn
Yeah. What's really interesting, if you look at the latest polls, the Republicans really have been dominating. The latest interactive poll shows chad Bianco in first place with 20% of the vote. The latest Emerson College poll shows that Steve Hilton is in first place with 17%. So this is a problem. But even worse than that is that if you add Chad and Steve's support up, it only gets you to about 34%. So really, I think our best strategy at this point is to, yes, have a candidate ready to go to advance into the general election, but to also think about what we can do to run against the Democrat. And at this point, I'm almost hopeful. Look, Katie Porter is a disaster. If you get Katie Porter or Eric Swalwell, there's lots of holes to poke into this race. Strategically, it might be that Republicans, Republicans best chance is to have the machine go behind either of those two candidates. Because here's the little secret with Eric Swalwell. We believe that he hasn't lived in California. And it's possible if they advance him and choose to put the machine behind him, which it looks like that once you get him into a primary scenario and you can prove that he hasn't lived in the state for five years, he's going to have a real problem because he will not be eligible to run. The fact that that even hasn't been addressed yet by his campaign is surprising. And if we're talking about tactics, to me that seems like the one that has the most juice and power behind it.
Doc P. Chambers
All right.
Grant Stinchfield
Except for the fact that Adam Schiff, the senator from California, has not lived in California. It's very easy to prove that he hasn't lived in California. He's got a giant mansion in, in D.C. and he's got a rental house, rental apartment for his whole family. That's like 600 square feet. The courts have already looked at the. No court in California is going to throw out Eric Swalwell if he's the guy.
Jennifer Horn
The thing about Shifty Schiff is that I might say he has two more brain cells than Eric Swalwell, and that's that he actually has this apartment in Burbank. So even though it's small and even though everyone knows he doesn't live there, he actually has a home address. Eric Swalwell, if you look through the records in California, does not have a home address in the state. He used his lawyer's office to fill out his paperwork to, to launch his candidacy for governor. So that's the small difference. I know it's a long shot. Again, California Democrats will work against us, but it is those, it's those types of things that we are going to have to exploit if we want even a teeny chance of winning that. And of course, the real failures in the state, which is people are awake and seeing what's happening in the, in the fire zones where there has been a lack of help to get the rebuilding efforts going and the gas prices which went up. Grant, are you ready for this? 40 cents in the last two weeks because Gavin Newsom has driven the refineries to your great state of Texas.
Grant Stinchfield
Unbelievable. California is, is facing quite a bit of, of craziness out there. We don't, we don't have to tell that to you. Let me just play one clip from my buddy Steve Hilton talking about the SAVE act and how really important it is for a blue state like California for Republicans. Anyway, look, voter id, of course, as we know it's popular across the board even in California, even among California Democrats.
Dr. Ian Tulberg
There'S a majority for voter id.
Grant Stinchfield
But of course it's really popular with Republicans. That means it's going to really help.
Dr. Ian Tulberg
The turnout in November and in a midterm.
Doc P. Chambers
As you know, that's what it's all.
Grant Stinchfield
About, getting your voters out.
Dr. Ian Tulberg
And so it's one of the main reasons I think we can actually win.
Grant Stinchfield
This year, truly win in November and elect me governor. Is voter ID being on the ballot?
Jennifer Horn
Gen Horn, the last word, little intel on that. So California has a voter ID initiative that hopefully will qualify. They've got 1.3 million signatures. It should be on the ballot in November. What I've heard though from the organizer of that, Carl DeMaio, is that Democrats have come up with their own plan B, their own poison pill, which would be their own voter ID initiative, which isn't voter ID at all, to convolute things and to confuse voters. So Steve is absolutely right. We need voter ID in the state. That's the first step to recovery. But we're going to have to do a lot of education if that is indeed true, that Democrats are going to run with their own so called voter ID measure.
Grant Stinchfield
Well, always a battle out there, that's for sure. We appreciate you fighting at Jennifer Horn. Thank you. At Jennifer Horn is the address on X. Always good to see you my friend.
Jennifer Horn
Great to see you.
Grant Stinchfield
All right, thank you. All right folks, up next, Sharia law is attempting to take over Texas. What can we do about it? We'll talk about it next.
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back everyone. I want to return now to a story that is very important to America and that is pushing back against the Islamicization of America. The Islamization of America is very, very real. If you don't believe me, just listen to them. This is an imam in Georgia. There's an article, Hate mothers, Islamophobia. Islamophobic people who don't wish to have.
Joseph Hernandez
Islam here in America who are doing.
Grant Stinchfield
Their utmost for both nationally and internationally trying to put out the light of Islam. Talk about Christians trying to put out the light of Islam. Well, yes, in many respects. Not because we don't welcome other religions, but we don't welcome religions that want to institute their own laws and usurp the United States of America. We don't want to welcome people coming to this country that tell us Islam will be in every school, every business, every home across America. That is what they are dictating now. Randy Fine is a congressman from Texas. This is what he declared. No, I made a big deal because one of Mamdani's key supporters just called for all dogs in New York to be killed because they're not Sharia compliant. And we need to say that's not okay. There are 57 countries in the world where you can live under Sharia. If you want that, go to them. Right. But America is not going to be the 58th. Well, it can't be. And there is a huge groundswell of support pushing back against the Islamization of Texas and America. And speaking of Texas, I want to bring in now retired U.S. army lieutenant colonel, Special Forces, Green Beret and Republican candidate for governor of Texas running against Greg Abbott in the primary. Doc P. Chambers is with us. Doc, it's great to have you on the program.
Doc P. Chambers
Good to be on. Good to be on with you, brother. You're. I'm sitting here in Austin on a rooftop and just enjoying it. We got a Little break after San Angelo this morning, and we'll be moving back to Amarillo tomorrow.
Grant Stinchfield
Well, Colonel, everybody knows you're a firebrand when it comes to conservatism. Your thoughts on this, this Islam really making a real run to try to take over this state.
Doc P. Chambers
So what you see is what that last clip that you played, there's a dialectic that takes place, and the far left is going to use that to destabilize and disenfranchise us. We need to focus on the thing that's the problem. The problem is framing Sharia law as a legal system, right? It's incompatible with our Texas state constitution, the U.S. constitution. We've got two Sharia courts in Dallas, Fort Worth area alone, about four hours north of us. So with that being said, the current governor is written some strongly worded letters. Now, as a guy that used to work for him for eight years in the Texas National Guard, I can say this, that the strongly worded letters without authorities lead to nothing. And that's, that's the bottom line up front.
Grant Stinchfield
All right, so strongly worded letters, nobody really listens to them. Legislation you try to get them to listen to, but, you know, at least you got some teeth with it. What should we be doing? What do you do if you become governor?
Doc P. Chambers
Right? So what you do is you, you ban any state recognition of Sharia as a legal source. That's number one. But you've got to have the teeth, and the teeth come with authorities. For guys like me, that, that, that is looks like rules of engagement. Now, this is not a kinetic war, but what this is is a war for the mind, assimilating the culture, right? Assembling the U.S. culture. You don't get to change the street names to Muslim names. You go, you don't get to deny equal protection to women and non Muslims. You don't get to permit cruel, the permits. This, this, the system permits cruel and unusual punishments, right? There's apostasy, blasphemy there. When you do that according to their laws, Sharia law, it criminalizes it. So we don't allow that in the state of Texas. Now, there is a strongly worded letter out there, doesn't even admit to, you know, to Sharia is not even in the letter. It's just talking about these acts. We got to call it for what it is, Sharia law. I've got friends that are, there are interpreters that work with me downrange, they voted for Trump. They love the Constitution. They fought alongside of us. We've got to get Those, that kind of mindset. So we don't allow this, this dialectic to take control and allow the left to use that as a tool.
Grant Stinchfield
Most people out there have heard of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group. This is Chip Roy, he congressman from Texas. Obviously listen to what he had to say. Cut for the Muslim Brotherhood has a.
Doc P. Chambers
Specific plan to Islamify the state of Texas.
Grant Stinchfield
You're seeing it unfold in Dallas, Fort Worth right now. There are no go zones where women don't want to go. Here in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex.
Doc P. Chambers
There are people that are listening, listening to prayer calls.
Dr. Ian Tulberg
We are having to deal with a.
Grant Stinchfield
Massive change in our culture because we.
Doc P. Chambers
Haven'T recognized that there is a war.
Grant Stinchfield
Being carried against us. Colonel, is he right?
Doc P. Chambers
He's absolutely right. He's, he's my, my congressman and he's, he's moving on, but he's absolutely right. I used to go home from Beaumont, where I did residency, all the way up to the Red river. And you go through Prosper, Plano, Frisco, all those towns up there that has become a Sharia haven. Right. Richardson, Texas, Dallas, Fort Worth area, it has taken over. And about five years ago, our teams on the border that we were encountering 120 different countries, including Hezbollah, Hamas, that were documented through Venezuela, that were coming across our border during Operation Lone Star in the Biden administration. Trump came in, put a tourniquet on that. That's good, right? But what happens if somebody else comes in after Trump that doesn't do that and we're back wide open? It's my job as the senior public servant the state of Texas to fix that Article 4, Section 7 of the State constitution.
Grant Stinchfield
Lastly, real quick, there's a bunch of you running against Greg Abbott. He's been governor for a long time. I think anybody in office for that long, really, it's too long. I don't even know what it is. 12 years now, something like that. But 12 years. How do you unseat him real quick? 20, 30 seconds. And your chances, Colonel?
Doc P. Chambers
Our chances are we're in a statistical tie according to a lot of polls. These are strong polls, so we, I don't look at that stuff other than people tell me so we've got to bring them onto our battlefield. That's 1 million voters, 1.2 million. We win this thing, it's an off cycle primary. But right now the polls are showing that more people, double the amount of people are coming in this year because they're concerned and people are tired of the status quo.
Grant Stinchfield
All right, I Imagine you need money, volunteers, all the above. Docpechambers.org is your website. Docpchambers.org Colonel it's always great to see you. Thank you for coming on.
Doc P. Chambers
Good to see you sir. God bless.
Grant Stinchfield
Good to see you. Good luck as well. All right folks, what can you do to feel better? Get in shape and improve your overall health. We will talk about that next. But first, the latest release from Real America's Music. It's called Truth Bomb and it will be available for download on Friday. Check it out. Yeah, They feed you headlines, cut the frame, say it loud enough, call it fact, change the words, dodge the blame, sell the lies and double back. From Real America's Music, the label that brought you Anthem of the Free, the Boss and Somali Waltz comes a brand new anthem built for a distrustful age. Truth Bomb by the Truth Bomber.
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Dr. Ian Tulberg
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Grant Stinchfield
Good to see you as well. So I love talking about Pure Health Research because you have helped so many of our real America's Voice viewers, so many Stitchfield's army members. Why don't you tell me what you're focused on right now over there and what products people should be thinking about?
Dr. Ian Tulberg
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Grant Stinchfield
So if you're already healthy. I like to think I'm pretty healthy. I'm 57 years old. All of these are good daily supplements to keep it that way, Correct?
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Dr. Ian Tulberg
But let me ask you this, Grant. So how perfect is your diet? I mean, honestly.
Grant Stinchfield
Yeah, it's not, it, it isn't perfect. Now, I've tried to cut sugar out of my diet. I drink a lot of water, I try to cut white flour out of my diet. But. But look, it's not perfect. I mean, you know, I'm gonna have a cheeseburger every now and then.
Dr. Ian Tulberg
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back. You know I like alphas, all right. I'm a guy's guy and I like men who are guys. Guys. This mealy mouth little wuss bag Ed o' Keefe for CBS News. I. I don't know what else to call him. I mean beta central. Listen to his stupid question to Caroline Levitt today.
Joseph Hernandez
Where or when does the President believe.
Grant Stinchfield
He'S been falsely called racist?
Jennifer Horn
You're kidding, right?
Doc P. Chambers
I will pull you plethora of examples. I'm going to get my team in.
Grant Stinchfield
That room to start going through the.
Jennifer Horn
Internet of radical Democrats throughout the years.
Joseph Hernandez
Ed.
Jennifer Horn
Who have accused this president false falsely.
Grant Stinchfield
Of being a racist. Ed o', Keefe, you're a freaking ding dong. When have they called President Trump a racist? How about every day? Caroline Levitt, you don't need to do the work. My team did it already.
Jennifer Horn
Aoc Donald Trump is also very old and a racist and a neo Nazi.
Grant Stinchfield
That's just one. We could show you headlines too. I mean there's lots of headlines calling him a racist. Trump's racist, discriminatory, new travel ban. Why doesn't Trump say pay a political price for his racism? It goes on and on and on. What a dummy he is. Ed o', Keefe, you're a loser, brother. You really are. Sorry, I'm Grant Stitchfield. That's gonna do it for us today. Stitchfield's army rolls. We will see you tomorrow night. Thanks for watching everybody. This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.
Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Grant Stinchfield
Date: February 19, 2026
This episode of Stinchfield Tonight spotlights major topics through a lens of conservative American values: the New York City budget crisis and tax hikes, the crisis around transgender issues and violence, the role and responsibility of social media, the California gubernatorial race, concerns over “Islamization” in Texas, and tips for personal health. Grant Stinchfield and various guests analyze news, challenge progressive policies, and stir debate with candid opinions and memorable moments.
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Grant Stinchfield delivers the show in a provocative, outspoken, and unapologetically conservative style, favoring rhetorical flourishes (“bat poopoo crazy,” “loser, brother,” “duty to avoid taxes”) and a confrontational, direct approach. Guests generally mirror this tone, focusing on themes of personal/fiscal responsibility, skepticism of left-wing policies, and cultural/political alarm.
This summary covers the substantive content and notable highlights of the February 18, 2026 episode, reflecting the hosts’ unfiltered views and providing context and key takeaways for those who missed the broadcast.