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Get your closet ready for spring plans. Shop Abercrombie in the app online and in stores. Trump has seen the polling, right? I think this started when he lost the election. I remember that quote of the Republican Senator who said right anonymously who said let him play golf. Let him say the election was rigged. He's not going to do anything. I mean good people have gone along with this. Republicans who are not who know it's not true have gone along with it long enough so that they have created a monster so that that kind of anti democratic rhetoric. Yes, we must build election infrastructure that makes it easy and secure for eligible American citizens to vote while preventing non citizens, including what she calls illegal aliens from casting Ballots. The choice of who to vote for is obviously up to the voters themselves. Clean up on aisle nine. Angelo, here's the thing. Who are the right people? These are the questions. Who are the right people for whom do we want them voting for? And furthermore, where is the evidence of the widespread voter fraud? Even the Heritage foundation has, has, has not determined there is widespread voter fraud. Their own data and research says there's not. So is this a case of if they just say it enough, people start to believe it? Yeah. So I think that's part of it, you know, in terms of their execution. But there's something to also consider is that where's the evidence where you can actually find them? There are people now, there's not evidence, but the source of it is there's this constellation of right wing influencers that have been pickled in these lies now for six years. And they are not just out there, you know, talking about it, they're working directly with the Trump administration to say, now it's time, now that you're in power, go back and find proof of the things and the conspiracies that we were pushing five or six years ago. So if you look at what happened in Fulton county just a week before the raid in Fulton County, Patrick Byrne, who was in the oval office in 2020 with Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn saying seize the. When Trump said to seize the voting machines, he gothe had to leave a TV hit before it happened to do an emerg meeting at the White House, which apparently was about some upcoming thing related to election conspiracy. So to me that's where's the source? It's all of these influences out there that they are now basically running the playbook around whatever false claim they have been holding onto for six or seven years. And they're everywhere. There's a bunch of people percolating in Maricopa county, now in Arizona. And so that's what they're, that's the thing that's sort of giving it some fuel, obviously Trump's own narrative and all the externalities for it, but you can really zero in. And that's what you'll find. Europe really needs the US in NATO's in all kinds of things. And so there are still European leaders who listen to the Marco Rubio in Munich and think, actually, you know, the US Is still with us, this is all going to be okay. But there are others who say essentially it's over. We need to assume that we're on our own and Europe needs the US as the strong leader. Slash beacon of the free world, not the direction it's going in now. And the question is, are some banking on history holding? I think that's over. I think in Europe, there's a very strong sense that I got from the days in Munich and indeed before in Davos, all this idea of what people call the global world order, the U.S. it is over. The West, I think, is over as a concept in the sense that there are significant differences now between what the United States administration wants and what many people in Europe want. And it is much. It is important to be realistic about that. There are areas that we agree on. But the idea that the US Is pushing for the same agenda as Europe, think only about. Look at Ukraine, as you say, Secretary Rubio is supporting the man who is making it most difficult in Europe to support Ukraine. Why are we talking about this? Because it's overwhelmingly popular with the public. I remember voting here in Washington, D.C. in 2016 and being told, oh no, you've already voted. And I had to fill out a provisional ballot. Now, it was a clerical error. There was nothing necessarily nefarious going on. But that obviously can be resolved by having some form of an easily obtainable state ID that people show to say that they are who they are. And you know, we should also remember as we talk about all of this, it is dramatically easier to vote in the United States today than it was 10 years ago, 20 years ago. We have expanded access to polling places. We have early voting. People in the primary in North Carolina are already voting today. It is so much easier to vote in America today than it used to be. And we sometimes lose sight of that. This is now ruptured. Something Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, talked about a rupture. I think something has ripped and there is a massive loss of trust. And in Europe now, there are more and more people saying we cannot trust the Americans any longer. And that's a fundamental shift. Texas actually starts voting tomorrow. There's some early votes happening in Texas. This who is on the ballot. This who is what's and who is on the ballot in Texas, in federal and statewide, one United States senator seat, 38 House seats. There are some new congressional districts. Given that redistricting, mid decade. Redistricting, redistricting. Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Commissioner of General Land Office, Commissioner of Agriculture, one seat for Railroad Commissioner, four members of the State Supreme Court, three members of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and three members of the 15th Court of Appeals. Early voting starts in the primaries tomorrow in Texas. This is like kicking off the season, if you will. Cornell, what are you watching for in. In Texas coming up? The House stuff is a mess. But what I'm watching for is you have a sitting Republican incumbent who's being challenged in the primary by someone who is. Who is, who is very much sort of in the Trump vein. If he takes out Cornyn in that primary, Katie, bar the door. Because as you know, look, 80, 85, 88% of incumbents win reelection. A Texas open seat is very different from a Texas seat where you have a sitting incumbent and someone who is, who is more Trumpy and less mainstream than the sitting Republican. I think that becomes a very interesting race for Democrats if Cornyn is taken out in the primary. And maybe amidst all the cruelty and the chaos, you start to feel a little doubt and you start to wonder whether our republic can survive it. A government transformed into a tool of one man's vengeance and enrichment. A spiritually broken president who digs the moral pit deeper and deeper. But Pastor Proverbs says, whoever digs a pit, Whoever digs a pit, will fall into it. And Scripture is full of kings brought low by their own arrogance. Ahab surrounded himself with 400 yes men, false prophets paid to affirm the king's delusions. And those delusions led him to his defeat. And among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Now, hear me when I say this. They tell a lie so absurd and therefore so debasing to tell that the act of telling it proves the tellers total and humiliating submission. Trump makes a ridiculous claim. Maybe he plucked it from one of the two social posts. Maybe it just came up with his own imagination. But he makes this argument, and then someone in right with me, a prominent influencer, it used to be Sean Hannity back in the day. Now it's a Steve Bannon or some Benny Johnson, somebody who's trying to make a name for themselves. They then trip over themselves to backfill it, to make that thing substantiate whatever it is, regardless of how absurd that argument is. And that is how they curry favor and that pattern. And of course, then Trump awards them, right? He gives them more credit or acknowledge it, maybe more access, maybe a little wink here. It's the same thing in practice in the administration. He sows his distrust, his anger, his sense of negative sentiment with an administration official, and then they then scurry to try to do something to backfill a claim that he's been making, except instead of it just being with words, they now use government power to then try to find or manipulate or engineer concrete evidence of it, even if it's not there, so that he can either reinforce or sustain or fuel a larger narrative and then, as has been discussed here, take some larger external action. At the end of the day, he's already said what he wants to do. He doesn't want people voting. He wants to make it hard for them to vote. He wants to cheat and steal and he thinks at the end justify the means here and he's going to do it one way or another. At least he's going to try to. And all of these things are the pieces to help him execute that. I am just reminded of Mark Elias, who has sat at this table many a times and has said that the president was they were successful in Fulton County. They got a judge to sign a warrant to seize ballots. And so if they will do that for an election that happened in 2020, in the year of our Lord 2026, what do we think they are going to be able to do this November? This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemy because we're going medieval on these people. Christians. I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA Media I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. It's Tuesday the 17th of February in the year of our Lord 2026. It's the first day of early voting in Texas. The I think Punchbowl has a brief hit today saying how the center of the political universe is in Texas right now through this primary. He's absolutely correct on that. These issues are inextricably linked. It's all about getting out the vote and who's motivated to actually vote, because the Democrats and we had Sam Faddis on last night about this color revolution. They believe right now that they are within six months of ending the Trump movement and ending President Trump's presidency and shattering it. That's what they believe. I'm a Richard Barason and some other grassroots folks in this first hour to go through this. You see how they, how obsessed they are with the 2020 election. They're obsessed with the 2020 election because they understand now that we actually are in power and we can get our hands on the evidence that it's going to expose them. You see, they're talking about Georgia and they're talking about Maricopa county, which we know something big is going to happen in Maricopa right away. And you want to motivate people, start not just taking action, but getting results of actions we're taking. Let's go to Harry McDougalan in, in Georgia, sir, the all important because we're so we're more advanced in Georgia than anywhere else. We've actually got the FBI on a criminal investigation on these ballots. We got director of National Intelligence on a overall investigation of this and many others. You've been at this for the first time. I mean, you've been at this from the beginning. And we know they have Abby Lowell and Norm Ison, two of the heaviest guns they have besides Mark Elias are going to be in court both, I think, this week. But really a trial starts, I think, Friday the 27th. Can you get us up to date? Because we have to make sure they, if they get the evidence back, I think the whole thing gets shattered. So walk me through, Harry. Where do we stand with this and how important is it? So a motion was filed under a rule of federal criminal procedure for return of the seized materials. The parties that filed the motion initially were Rob Pitts and the Fulton County Election Board. Fulton county joined that motion. It's set for an evidentiary hearing on February 27th. And Abby Lowell and Norm Isen have entered appearances for the move ants, Fulton county and the election Board. The scope of the issues will be limited to those that are relevant on such a motion. It will not be a trial of the underlying investigation or whether there's any criminality to be investigated. I mean, they got to support the search warrant, but this is not the, you know, the final battle. If the government loses the motion, however, it will unquestionably be a setback. So the move ants will be filing an amended motion by midnight tonight. The government files their response Friday at 5. And then they exchange exhibits, try to narrow the issue. But hang on, it is going to be a trial on the 27th because they're talking about witnesses, etc. The question of the issue today, by midnight, we got 30 seconds of holding through the break. Do they actually have standing I mean we lost these 63 because does right now Abby Lowell and Ice and his client have standing on this? I do not think they do. They're not. Their clients are not the custodians of the record of the records that were seized and therefore they have no protectable interest and no grounds upon which to seek their return. That's a very straightforward argument for the government to make. Okay, hang on. Because this is if we on the 27th, if they get those ballots back in the tapes and all that. I just don't see anything happening between now and election day. I think it'll be a massive, massive, massive setback, particularly for people's motivation. You guys in Georgia, these patriots have been hanging in there. Now going on the 6th year short commercial break, we're going to leave you with Bruce Springsteen. Blow your head up more, even more than that cold open. We got Richard Barris, Harry McDougal all next in the worm. It's an Olympics you'll never forget. Prime time in Milan. The moments Chloe Kim with the gold medal. Flex the stars. Ilya Malinin out of this world. The spectacle from beautiful northern Italy with very special guests. Every night of the Olympics experience the world's biggest show primetime in Milan. Watch now on NBC and Peacock. Support for the show comes from Public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. 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Output is for informational purposes only and is not an investment recommendation or advice. Complete Disclosures available@public.com Disclosures here's your host, Stephen K. Band. So Harry, you you you you saw in the cold open that's why we played them every night on cable. They're allocating a huge amount of time to this issue, and it's virtually crickets on our side. And I think that's why there's still some confusion in D.C. they look at this as equivalent to the comey situation where they get the phone back and the whole thing, you know, Harrigan's gone, the whole thing collapses. They intend to end. Let me be blunt. They intend to end our drive to get to the bottom of the 2020 election after Patriots have stood in the breach for five and six years. They intend to end it Friday, a week from now, on this evidentiary hearing. You say it's evidentiary, and I realize that's a legal term. It's a trial. They intend to convince the judge to get their hands on the ballots. And they get their hands on balance this time, they're going to destroy them. They're going to destroy all the evidence. We'll never unwind this, sir. Well, the. In your cold open, a fantastic collection of lies was presented to denigrate the investigation being carried out by the government and to denigrate all the people that have spent years looking into the facts and exposing how many irregularities there were in this election. It is a massive information war. All instruments of the orthodoxy are being employed. New York Times, Washington Post, the Hill, the Atlantic, msnbc, the networks, they're all toeing the same line. Look at who is freaking out about the possibility that this investigation might be thoroughly and properly investigated. That tells you that they. They're scared to death and they are doing everything they can to prevent the investigation from going forward. And they will try to do that at the hearing on the 27th. Harry, what I'd like to do is get the information of how people can track you and that tonight because. Correct. You're the lawyer. If they don't get the. I guess the clerk as part of this by midnight tonight, did they even have standing to go forward? I mean, won't the government argue that on Friday when you shut this thing down? Sir, I certainly expect the government will make that argument. The legal custodian of the records as we speak is the clerk of Superior court. Court. And ironically, the motion for return of these records lays out chapter and verse under Georgia law. Why? The clerk is the custodian and then it says the move ants. The petitioners are the custodians. I think they anticipated that the clerk would join them in this motion, but she did not. So on the face of their pleading, they have pled themselves out of court, the custodian is the clerk. That's the person who has standing to seek their return. And as far as the criteria. Right. June 24, 2024, the clerk was in court seeking to destroy these records. Okay. And that was prevented by the judge. I was in court. I oppose that motion. But now they're acting like this is a priceless heirloom and they have to get it back. The real reason they want it back is so they can continue to obstruct access to these records by the state election board and by my client, Caroline Jeffords. Sir, social media. Where do people go to keep up with this? And we'll have you back on tomorrow after we get their filing tonight. Yes, sir. I'm on x@Harry MacD, or you can search my name, Harry MacDougall. It'll come up just as well. Harry, thank you so much. And thank you and Caroline Jeffers, the entire team down there, for fighting the good fight. As always, Ronnie, these are patriots in action. Let's go. We got Richard Barris. I'm going to play. You know, we had Faddis on yesterday, and Faddis, one of the smartest guys around. That piece about the American Tet Offensive. What's happened in Minneapolis. This is why we play the Springsteen song, to make sure your nose is rubbed in. And exactly what's going on here. It's an insurrection, a color revolution. This is not normal politics. Let's go ahead and play. I think there's a misconception also about dsa, Working Family Party and their power. It's not Mandami alone. They've taken the financial capital of the world. They've taken the greatest city in the United States, and they control it. And they want to control a lot more than that. And unless they're stopped, they're going to control a lot more than that. Let's play Harry Anton and tee up for Richard Barris. The far left is significantly more powerful than they once were. This sort of gives the game away here. Democrats who identify as very liberal or conservative. You know, there used to be a lot of conservative Democrats, right? Back in 1999, 26% of Democrats self identified as conservative. Just 5% said that they were very liberal. It was a smidgen, a smidgen, a smidgen. Now, that far left has gained considerably in power. Look at this. Now we're talking about a fifth of Democrats. 21% say they're very liberal. That conservative part of the Democratic Party. Adios, amigos, goodbye. Just 8% and when you combine the 21% who are very liberal with those who say that they're somewhat liberal, we're talking about three in five Democrats who identify as either somewhat liberal or very liberal with the very liberals. But much larger portion of the party, the far left, which used to just be a smidgen within the Democratic Party, has gained considerable power, as you saw in New Jersey's 11th district. What about Democratic socialists, like the likes of, you know, you've got Bernie Sanders and or Zora Mandani here in New York City. Where does that line up? Okay, so on a separate question where you essentially CNN asked this last year, which was, okay, Democrats who think of themselves as Democratic socialists, among all Democrats, including those independents who lean towards the Democratic Party, look at this. We're talking about a third, a third of all Democrats who identify as Democratic socialists. Bernie Sanders and Zora Mandani are not alone. They are a considerable part of the Democratic base at this point. And more than that, if you look at Democrats under the age of 35, they are nearly half. Nearly half of the Democratic Party. Look at this, 42% of Democrats think of themselves as Democratic socialists under the age of 35, just like Jaram Gandani. That what happened in New York City is not some aberration, right? It is not something that just happened in New York City. It is something that we are seeing grow within the Democratic Party at this particular point when we're talking about 42% of Democrats under the age of 35 identifying as Democrats. So. And a third of all Democrats, my goodness gracious. So if the ideology of the Democratic Party is shifting or changing, how are people feeling about it? Okay, so we're talking about the Democratic base, right? But what about all. What about all Americans? Right. How about all voters? Voters who say the Democrats are now too liberal. Look at this percentage. It was 42% in 96, 48% in 2013. Now 58% in 2025 of all Democrat. All voters say that the Democratic Party is too liberal. The Democrats are moving to the left, the far left is gaining power, and there could be some electoral repercussions because what we see right now is voters, the clear majority, say that they are too liberal. Okay? Harry Enten is trying to put the nicest face on it. We're going to have some of this transgender ideology on later in the show of. You saw what happened in Rhode island yesterday and how radical this is not about some populist on the left and maybe populists on the right can Work together. These are Bolsheviks. These are Marxists. When they tell you what they're doing, listen to it. Richard Barris. You've actually got analysis. You're saying, Harry's really undercounting here on the, on the socialists. And really, they call them social. They're not socialists. These are Marxists. That's just a, that's just a branding to make people feel, oh, we just want to have more. Control the electric power grid, or we just want to have more con, you know, some, some say so. And regulation. That's not what this is all. Sir. Yeah, Steve, thanks for having me on. He's grossly undercounting it, I'm telling you. We are the first pollster to ask Democrats whether or not they identified with traditional liberalism, democratic socialism, even just socialism. It hasn't been one in third since Joe Biden was fighting off Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic primary. It has been growing steadily since then. We poll it every single month now and have for almost a year. And it hasn't at this point, which I can, I mean, if people want to see, we can put it up on the screen. But Democratic socialism comes in over 50% of the democratic identification every single month. And then we also ask about socialism. So when you combine them together, 6 in 10 Democrats identify with some form of socialism. And the reason why I wanted to share this, even shared the graphic with you, is to get people to understand what if you stay home in November, what you're electing. I mean, that's the bottom line. That's, that's what I'm trying to convey here. Because you're right, this is a branding gimmick. You know, Bernie himself, they have long done this. I mean, you know, pointed to the European countries and their little experiments, which, by the way, I've only worked because we fund and subsidize them. But that's a branding gimmick. These are far, far left wing people and they have no interest in debating. They have no interest in, you know, compromise or working with you. They, they understand something many people on the right don't, which is that there really is no reconciling the difference in ideology going into this new age, which isn't an age of ideology. It's. There's no reconcile. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose. And I was listening to you before your commentary, before they feel they're on the cusp of that. And unless Republicans wake up, that's who's going to be in charge. You just saw it on the screen. 60% slightly over. It's 62 this month. Let's put, let's put the chart, let's put the chart back up there. Yeah, 62%. These are, this, this is, and they're coming out of these schools. They're all formed from the time they go to kindergarten K through 12. They go to these radical universities. So it gets worse as you get, as you get, as you, the demographic gets younger. This is neo Marxism. This is what their, their revolution now is neo Marxism with jihadism. And this is, and they, there is no compromise. There's no debate. There's nothing to debate with these people. They're not going to be, remember we said yesterday what David Horowitz used to always teach us of the Marxists, what they talk about internally. The issue's never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. And they've got a machine now. The working family parties built up a ground game machine and the Democratic Socialist DSA has worked up a machine, Richard and so you've seen this trend. It's going to be 80 or 90% of the Democratic Party, is it not, sir? Oh, absolutely. This will continue. The, the only age group that isn't a majority, an outright majority for democratic socialism is 65 plus the rest of the age groups. But it is a plurality, a strong plurality, Steve. And if you add those who identify straight up with socialism, it does get to a majority. It's pretty consistent. But again, it's like as you go down the age ladder into the age buckets, you'll see that it gets overwhelming as the younger that you get. And people who are out there, you know, mocking, you know, the, the ICE rallies in front of Trump Tower and all of that, understand the no Kings rallies in 2025 targeted people like that, the most extreme on the spectrum to get them to come out. And they turn those in to get out the vote drives. Right now, the right doesn't have anything like this, that kind of energy going on right now. And that's why I'm trying to, you know, bring this to everybody's attention. They're motivating these people. These people are going to be turned into voters. That's their intention. They did it successfully in Virginia in 25. They did it successfully in New Jersey in 25. They're doing this again right now. That's the entire point behind the ICE stuff, as well as defunding it. But they're motivating. Hang on a second. They did it in Senate District 9 here in Texas. Short break, Baris. Steve Stern, Matt Mech on the other. Here's your host, stephen k. Ban. Okay, Richard Barris. The issue before us, we're going to have two guys working on or with organizations that are motivating people and laying the foundation because we don't have a choice. And I realize a lot of people saying, hey, some of the policies are not working. I don't see a lot happening. This is why the 2020 election issue is very important, because we know, number one, it has to happen because they stole the 2020 election. All of this disaster that's befallen us, it's been building up for decades, but it's principally because they allowed 25 million illegal aliens in the country because they knew exactly what they were doing. Yeah, sure. They knew exactly what was going to happen when he had to come to mass deportations. The business community is going to fight you because we need the cheap labor and the plentiful labor and, oh, you can't knock a point or two off a GDP to do this. You gotta stop. This is terrible. Barris, talk to me about motivation right now because their side's motivated, because they think they're winning. They believe that they're winning. They believe they're surging. They believe they see the end of Trump and the end of maga. They see the sunlit uplands and they're rolling hard and they've got outside money. They've got, you know, Peter Schweitzer book now, I think it's gonna be the fourth week in a row on the number one bestsellers list about the Chinese Communist Party and the Mexican government. There are many forces in the world trying to tear down America, right? And Barris, talk about the motivation. Let's get your charts up. You've been doing polling on this and you are, you're the last guy that's been a doom scroller. You've been with us since the very beginning, right, in 16. And then on 20, on the night of 2020, you're the one that said, hey, Georgia's, it's, you know. And Ratzenberg came out the next morning, said, it's impossible. Trump's on by, you know, 200,000, 5,000 vote. There's only 190,000 left. Trump's going to win this. It's inevitable. You told us that before we signed off that night, before they went in and stole it. So talk to me about motivation. Now, look, motivation is key because, Steve, when we're looking at just a generic ballot, for instance, and if they have the chart, they can throw it up, that'd be great. But I'm gonna, I'll just tell you, you know, about three points of the Democrats lead on the generic ballot right now. And it's been, you know, comes from motivation. It comes from enthusiasm, a certainty to vote, having the vote history to back it up. Everybody has, you know, every pollster has their own little likely voter model. You know, sometimes proprietary, but in our likely voter model, 3 points, 4 points completely comes from Democrats being more motivated. And I understand, you know, that some people want to moderate going into the midterms. That is always stupid. All right, just like, look, look back at what happened with ICE and, and how, you know, the donors came in and basically said, we need to chill out, we're going to turn people off. That's not necessarily how you handle it at this point where we're at a point where, look at the difference between extremely enthusiastic right there with Democrats versus Republicans. That is almost identical to what it was for Republicans when they won the house vote in 2022. We're at that point already. So the only play I see Republicans have here is to juice their base. I mean, you're down on the generic ballot with an independence by 20 points. The only way to, to narrow that and to counter it is to get your base so juiced out, they go out and turn out higher disproportionate numbers, by the way, which also makes independence on your side come. We're, we're reap. We're replaying. This is why you say, everybody, let's stand down, let's retrieve for a minute because they're replaying the exact model of. You're right, 2018 of Paul Ryan. Remember Paul Ryan said at about this time, I'm not going to run again. I'm Speaker. But he didn't leave speaker of the House. They wanted to just not have Trump get too crazy. And hey, if we lose the House, we lose the House. Maybe they'll help us control Trump. And of course, what we said is they're going to impeach Trump right away. That's when we started war room Impeachment was right around the week after the Nancy Pelosi in 2019 came on the perfect phone call. That was their plan. Moderation does not work. We got smoked in 2018. I think it was what, 30, 35 seats, 40 seats. You're going to have this. Do I have the chart that's got. Can I get the Christian. Does Denver have the chart of the map of the. With the red map? No, no, don't Don't. Yeah, that right there. Put that up now. This is Chris Christian Hines. I know that you don't totally agree with this, Barris. This is on the if the April 21 referendum, which looks like they're building up momentum for it. And I don't believe the courts in Virginia going to stop it. That's with Virginia going 10 to 1. This map shows, with all that red shows 230 House seats, a Democrat majority in the impeachment of Donald Trump. How are we going to counter that, Barris? Yeah, I mean, look, I don't, I. Christian's a smart guy and I think he's in the ballpark. I just, I think that this map is a lot more partisan strict than the one in, in 2018. So, you know, these wild gyrations I think will be limited. But you know, there is at this point, if Republicans, their enthusiasm does not get jacked up and jacked up fast, I mean, then we do revisit how many seats Democrats could gain. But yeah, look, they went into this redistricting war, Steve. We'll see what happens to the vra. But he's right. Christian, at this point is right in the sense that if the Supreme Court came in the early summer and ruled in favor of Republicans on Section 2 of the Voting Rights act, it would be too late. It would be too late for Republicans to be able to change the map in a meaningful way to help offset some of this. So they went into this redistricting war. They fought like they always do with one hand tied behind their back, and they lost. And I just want to say something on 2018, this is like deja vu all over again. I mean, this is what Paul Ryan and the leadership told the president at that time. Lay off the wall. Start with the immigration policy. Moderate. Wait until we come back from the session. Remember, they convinced him to sign the omnibus bill that he did not want to sign without getting the funding for the wall. And it didn't work. Even, even in, at the behest of Kevin McCarthy. He's even endorsed Cox for the governor of California and hope to try to save some of those seats because Cox was the more moderate candidate. Travis Allen would have done better for those candidates in California at the time. They're going down the same path. Is there any doubt if you see the Democrats right now, is there any doubt that this is a base election, this midterm election is going to be a base election. We, you have to turn out the base. No doubt. You have to turn out your base because if you, here's what's going to happen if you don't, if you don't motivate and excite your base, that will impact the margin from independence. Because you have, you know, Steve, there's not many people are true independence. They, they identify as independents, but they lean one way or the other. If your base is in a malaise, your independent, your slice of the independent vote is in a malaise, and it expands the margin that your opponent wins the independent vote by. That is actually the lesson and the magic of the Trump coalition. He never, the guy ran, the president ran on mass deportations the size of which we have not seen as a country since Dwight Eisenhower. And how did he do, Steve? He did the best among Hispanics at any Republican presidential candidate since exit polls began. I mean, this is. What are we doing here? We're going back to the Carl Rove playbook. This is crazy. You're not going to energize anybody. You're not going to excite anyone. And by the way, in 18, they lost the Senate seat because of the same philosophy Martha McSally would, or I would say the Republican candidate would have won. I actually believe Kelly Ward would have won that seat because she would have excited the base more. Instead, Martha McSally lost by a slice. Why? Because she underperformed with independent moderates who voted for Trump in 16. They didn't show up for her. Richard, where do people go to get more of your polling, etc? Because I think people are going to get fired up. I mean, I can see already a big portion of it is fired up, but we need everybody fired up. Where do people go? Everybody? Yeah, best place to follow me, Steve is on locals. Peoplespundant.locals.com peoplespundant.locals dot com we're everywhere. X Getter Truth, of course, but there it is. That's the, that. That's ground zero, brother. Amazing work. Thank you, sir. All the best. I got Stern and Mec. I'm going to bring in a second about how we're going to motivate people. But Michael Kunstler, All Family Pharmacy. We've had a lot of promotions on this show. I don't think we've ever had one that's exploded like this. The President's Day. And you've got a 47% off on certain products, medicines, et cetera, prescriptions. Because in honor of President Trump, the 47th president, once again, I just want people, because I think people are just now starting to understand what All Family Pharmacy is. What is it and why did you create it all? Family Pharmacy was created based on opinions of the American people, right? They couldn't get medications. They were restricted by regulators from their state, from within the government. So we've designed this pharmacy and this platform to bring doctors and pharmacy to people who need medications, who need to be prepared before flu season, to be prepared before allergy season or before travel. And they can get easy, convenient access to medications with pricing, transparency and medical freedom. That is very important to us. And it's very important to every American that they get the ability and the right to try a medication. Regardless of who the regulator in their state is, whether it's Democrat or Republican, they should be able to have that ability. You know, and we've brought that to the forefront. A lot of states aren't happy about it, but you know, it is what it is. There's nothing wrong with it. It's not illegal. We have every right as an American to utilize medications that we feel are necessary for us. Now, you've got licensed personnel, you've got pharmacists, you've got licensed physicians. Somebody just has to call in or go on the website and they're going to get to a professional, they'll talk through what they need and, and all of this will be basically certified by somebody that's already certified, correct? Yes, sir. We have up to four pharmacists on staff at all times. We have three physicians that are located in 50 different states with more to come. So you could speak to a representative of ours, you could speak to a licensed medical physician or a pharmacist to help you place your order. You know, these are things that are very important. If you have questions, if you don't know what to purchase. So we provide all of that for you. Most people already know what works for them, you know, so we, we encourage you to go on the website, place your orders, fill out the medications, fill out the medical form so that our physicians can properly prescribe these medications. That is very important for them to properly prescribe it because we want to make sure that the medications help you and that they don't hurt you. We're not here to hurt people. We're here to help them, encourage them, and guide them in the right direction. This is, you know, Bobby Kennedy's and we're going to have talk about the coalition Make America Healthy Again. We're going to have people from the MAHA Coalition on the 5 o' clock to talk about their motivation. The key here, what I'd love about it is that's not big pharma trying to crush you all the time. It's also the distribution system, the wholesalers and the drugstore chains. That's what you're trying to deconstruct. Let me say that disintermediate, I think, is the fancy business school word, disintermediation. And you're doing it. You'll pass along some of the overhead costs because your overhead is a lot lower. Obviously. I want now the mechanics. What do people have to do? They go to the website or what number they call because people are saying, hey, some of this stuff's 47% off. It's like a once in a lifetime. And you're doing it in honor of President Trump over President's Day weekend. I believe it ends today. So I want to make sure everybody gets the mechanics, what they have to do. Yeah. So the sale ends today at midnight. There is no coupon code. We blanketed the website. So you can just go directly to the website and receive the discount regardless if you hear this podcast or not. So that's the great part about it. You can go on the website allfamilypharmacy.com Bannon and all the prices already adjusted for you. Fill out the medical forms, choose the medication you're looking for. If you have questions about some of the other drugs that are on sale that maybe you might want to try them, like the NAD plus or the Samorelin or anything that's available. Ivermectin, Mebendazole, give us a call at 561-717-6794. If you have difficulty ordering online, give us a call. If you have questions, scrutiny, just give us a call at the phone number. We have tons of representatives that are available, so we could help you. Place the order at 47 off. This is probably the biggest sale we've ever done. I've never seen the amount of volume come in yesterday like I've seen, you know, in the six years of existence. People are truly taking advantage of it. They're bulking up on their supplies. So this is the time. It ends tonight at midnight. So it's a great time to place an order. Brother. Thank you for starting this. I tell you, people that have gone and signed up and using it or contacted me non stop and say they Love it. So. AllFamilyPharmacy.com promo code Bannon @Bannon47. Michael Kunstler, one more time. Give the phone number in case people want to call. What's the number? 5617176, 7, 9, 4. Thank you, brother. Thanks for doing this. Thanks for starting this amazing break. The back of the pharmaceutical distribution network. Okay. In Texas, the establishment's actually taking out ads to confuse the precinct strategy. The viciousness and the outright war against the precinct strategy alive in Texas. Short commercial break. Steve Stern. Now tell us all about it. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. Okay, on War of Texas. I'm gonna probably do it tomorrow. I'm gonna break down what's happening the precinct committee. Here it is, the power of the precinct committee, folks. And I understand it's been very tough. Don't get me wrong, I know they've come at you and you know, whether it's Nebraska or South Carolina or Georgia, I can go through chapter in Illinois where they've attacked the precinct committee because the establishment doesn't want really a Trump base out there. In here they're the taxes even even more hardball. But Steve Stern, you're launching something on Thursday. I want everybody to know about this, right? The great Dan Schultz inspired everybod. Dan's actually focused on, I think local politics. In Arizona right now, you've kind of taken the lead here because you're the most ambitious 84 year old I've ever met. Talk to me about what you're going to launch on Thursday and how we want everybody that's already in the precinct movement to join up here. So Dan is kind of retired. He's done this with you for 14 years and he's asked me to start this movement. We've changed it to Precinct Project usa and we're going to have a meeting on Tuesday with people from all over the country. And anybody, any chair or vice chair that would like to come on, please email me. My email is on the bottom sdern1054gmail.com we're bringing everybody together. It's going to be at 2 o' clock Eastern Time and we have about 30 states that have said they're coming in. Where we need people right now is Louisiana and Virginia. If you're in Louisiana, Virginia, you'd like to come on. Email me on that. So why is this important? Well, the Democrats stole our book, believe it or not, about two months ago, somebody sent me a hour and a half video of what the Democrats are calling precinct strategy for their self. And that has really upset a lot of people because they're picking up our project. So what does precinct Project mean and what does it do? So you attend meetings, you vote for candidates, you get candidates elected, you sign up Voters your canvas neighborhoods. We have 400,000 slots available. We have 200,000 when I started you about four years ago, we got 200,000 now. So how are we going to get more people motivated? Annie Meehan in Pennsylvania in Bucks county has started this with me. Jonathan Broadbent in Ohio has come on and what we're doing is getting people all over the country to let us know how to getting people involved. So I interviewed a couple of people and one of the ways they're getting people involved is having breakfast meetings with 20, 30 people but not telling them to come to be a precinct strategy person yet, getting their ideas as conservative, telling me how they can get involved and then about a month later they ask them to come to a meeting and they get them involved. One of the great guys that are now we have some great things happening in New Jersey of all places. Carlos Santos has gotten 700 people together in the precinct project and about 300 people come to the meeting all the time. And that's very important. So if you want to get involved, please get us, get us in on this meeting because we want to know what's going on in each state. That's the only way we're going to get going. So this, this is Precinct Project usa. Email me. We'll get you on. Don't forget. We haven't forgot about precinct strategy. If you go to www.precinctstrategy you can still find out all this information. Yeah, we're and Dan Schultz is, yeah, Dan Schultz very involved in, in trying to build up a Republican base out there in Arizona. But we're, he's going to be involved in this too somehow because he's the grandfather. One more time. I just want people to know 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, just where they email you right now, esther and1054gmail.com and then on March 2nd, we're going to have a big event at Trump International where we're going to be talking about election integrity. We're going to have the, the head of the RNC there. We're trying to get them involved and motivated and they would like people to go to protect the vote.com that's protective.com and become a poll watcher and poll worker. Very important in this next election. You know, a lot of stuff's happening. We're going to talk about it on March 2nd live at Trump International, both precinct strategy, election integrity. We're going to have the top people in the country on this. They're flying in. We'll have about 8 million people on it. We thank you, the war room and everybody for broadcasting this. So let's get involved. Go to Precinctstrate.com or go to Precinct Project USA. Now you have to, when they email you. Hang on. When they email you today, they already have to be a precinct chairman or a vice chairman. Is that, is that. I just want to make sure we get the right people there. Right? Yeah, those are the only people we're trying to get on or hey, fine. Also we need podcasters. That's very important. We have a whole separate thing going on for podcasters to bring our message out to get people to vote. Very, very important. I have 150 podcasts now we want to move it to 400. I've been in a lot of meetings all over the country. We're also trying to get President Trump who endorsed precinct strategy, remember that you helped get him to endorse precinct strategy. We want to ask people to get involved. Very important that President Trump asks people to get involved. I have a letter into him, a message into through the White House. We've had a lot of people do that. Perfect, sir. Look forward to the Thursday meeting and got the new great website website. You'll launch out on Thursday also. Thank you. Steve Stern, Matt Mack, Voter integrity. You run one of the most sophisticated and big groups or you're the head of the coalition. It's a massive coalition called the Coalition. What is it and why do we even have it? Why do we even need it? Steve, it, it started actually out here in Vegas the first of May of 2021. And it just occurred to me, like minded group of people, it's a network of networks from Hawaii to Massachusetts, Alaska to Texas who are fighting for election literacy and election confidence. And it's just grown from there. But it started actually here in Vegas1 May of 2021. The Secretaries of state, election officials, election judges, everyday men and women who just want to ensure our elections are free, transparent, verifiable. How do they stand? I'm going to hold you through the break. Free, trans and transparent. How do you think we're doing on that right now? If I asked the coalition, if we had to ask for a show of hands, what is their response? I think we are in the Barras camp that we need motivation. I mean we're trying to motivate from the bottom up. We need some help from the top down desperately. Matt, hang on for a second. I'm holding to the break. Break. We're packed in the second hour. This transgender ideology leaves a trail of blood and destruction from British Columbia to Rhode Island. It's only getting worse. As much as we tried to stop it, it's one of the central tenets of this Marxist left to shatter, shatter the traditional background, the traditional backbone of the family and society. And it's getting more and more control every day. Gonna also have Brendan Steinheiser about artificial intelligence. The nine days that shook the world in February. What happened? Why did it happen? And what does it mean for you, not just your country, what does it mean for you personally? Short commercial break. The great Natasha Owens takes us out with her. Hit the bo. Yeah, you preach from your mansion and you lost that human touch. I thank God you're not. I thank God you're not. You know, you still. We still need help from the boss. We need help from the boss. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
Episode #5148 | February 17, 2026
This episode of “War Room” with Stephen K. Bannon, airing on the first day of Texas' early voting, dives headlong into the state of the American right heading into the 2026 primaries. Bannon and guests scrutinize lingering election denial narratives, the evolving energy and influence of the political left, and Republican strategies (or lack thereof) to counter these trends. Central themes include the ongoing battle over the 2020 election, voter motivation, the threat of “neo-Marxism” on the left, grassroots organizing efforts, and the importance of election integrity initiatives ahead of the November elections.
Bannon and his guests hammer the point that the Republican base remains “obsessed” with exposing alleged fraud in the 2020 election, even as mainstream outlets and moderate Republicans want to put it to rest.
The hosts argue that influential right-wing media and personalities have shaped the direction and priorities of the party, often backfilling Trump’s claims with their own “proof” to curry favor and gain access.
“They tell a lie so absurd and therefore so debasing to tell that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission. Trump makes a ridiculous claim...and then someone in MAGA media...trips over themselves to backfill it...”
— Guest, 23:18
The episode critiques the reluctance of mainstream coverage to engage fully with ongoing investigations in Georgia and Arizona, warning that the left aims to end all challenges to the 2020 election with upcoming court actions.
Extensive focus is placed on the organizational prowess of the left—Democratic Socialists (DSA), Working Families Party—especially in urban centers.
“The far left has gained considerably in power...three in five Democrats identify as either somewhat liberal or very liberal...a third of all Democrats who identify as Democratic socialists.”
— Harry Enten (quoted by Bannon), 01:13:00
“They’re not socialists—these are Marxists. That’s just branding...This is neo-Marxism with jihadism. There is no compromise.”
— Stephen K. Bannon, 01:18:30
Richard Barris (pollster) claims DSA/socialism identifiers now represent at least 60% of the Democratic base, especially among the young.
“They intend to end our drive to get to the bottom of the 2020 election after Patriots have stood in the breach for five and six years… They’re going to destroy all the evidence. We’ll never unwind this.”
— Stephen K. Bannon, 01:06:25
“Trump makes a ridiculous claim... someone in MAGA media... trips over themselves to backfill it, to substantiate whatever it is, regardless of how absurd that argument is.”
— Guest, 23:18
“They’ve taken the financial capital of the world. They’ve taken the greatest city... They control it. And they want to control a lot more than that. Unless they’re stopped, they’re going to control a lot more.”
— Stephen K. Bannon, 01:15:00
“Democratic socialism comes in over 50%... Combine them together, 6 in 10 Democrats identify with some form of socialism… What if you stay home in November, what you’re electing?”
— Richard Barris, 01:20:05
“This midterm election is going to be a base election... You have to turn out your base. Because if you don’t motivate and excite your base, that will impact the margin from independents.”
— Richard Barris, 01:32:00
“We have 400,000 slots [precinct committee slots] available. We have 200,000 now. So how are we going to get more people motivated? …We need podcasts to bring our message...”
— Steve Stern, 01:37:25
| Name | Role/Focus | |--------------------|---------------------------------------------------| | Stephen K. Bannon | Host; narrative driver, focus on base motivation | | Harry MacDougall | Georgia legal update, election integrity | | Richard Barris | Pollster; left-wing growth, base enthusiasm | | Steve Stern | Grassroots organizer; Precinct Project USA | | Matt Mech | Election literacy, coalition building | | Harry Enten (clip) | Data on leftward tilt in Democratic Party |
This episode underscores an atmosphere of high stakes and urgent mobilization as the right-wing base heads into the 2026 election cycle. Bannon and guests fervently argue that the left’s organizational strength and ideological intensity threaten to marginalize traditional conservatism unless Republicans heed the lessons of 2018—eschewing moderation and instead focusing relentlessly on base mobilization, grassroots organizing, and defending lingering claims of 2020 fraud. The tone is combative, urgent, and deeply distrustful of both mainstream institutions and opposition strategies, culminating in a rallying cry for direct, local involvement and vigilance at the precinct level.