WEBVTT - Send the Right Message 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.740 From Memphis, Tennessee, on the banks of the mighty Mississippi, 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.800 it's America's conservative blowtorch. 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:22.349 That's us, that's right, I. 0:00:22.410 --> 0:00:25.650 Love this American ride. 0:00:25.690 --> 0:00:26.950 Todd Starnes. 0:00:27.450 --> 0:00:28.010 Oh yeah. 0:00:28.430 --> 0:00:32.989 Hello fellow patriots, Jeff Stein, blessed to be filling in 0:00:33.070 --> 0:00:38.290 for Mr. Starnes today. He continues his tremendous trip to California, 0:00:38.310 --> 0:00:40.370 taking the place by storm. We'll tell you a little 0:00:40.390 --> 0:00:43.720 more about that a little later on. My privilege to 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.880 be speaking to you from the heartland, my home base 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:52.020 in Iowa, KXEL Radio, Iowa's home to the Todd Starnes Show. 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:57.080 Thanks so much for joining us from the Liberty University studio. 0:00:57.100 --> 0:01:01.820 901-260-5926 is how you can join the Coast to Coast 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.390 conversation on this Open Line Friday. We have a lot 0:01:05.430 --> 0:01:07.209 to get to, and I want to go right to 0:01:07.250 --> 0:01:13.040 the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Iowa is a spotlighted state 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:17.300 if the Republicans want to hold on to majorities in Congress. 0:01:17.819 --> 0:01:21.130 And one of the open seats that folks are looking 0:01:21.250 --> 0:01:24.149 at is in Northeast Iowa. It is the 2nd District. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.940 And joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line is 0:01:26.980 --> 0:01:30.600 the Republican candidate for U.S. House in that district. He's 0:01:30.660 --> 0:01:34.200 Joe Mitchell. JoeMitchell.com is the website. Mr. Mitchell, thanks so 0:01:34.250 --> 0:01:35.560 much for joining us. How are you? 0:01:36.870 --> 0:01:38.710 Jeff, good to be on this morning. 0:01:38.730 --> 0:01:39.190 How are you? 0:01:39.910 --> 0:01:41.930 I'm quite well, but I didn't have to do a 0:01:41.970 --> 0:01:45.550 debate last night on television. You did, and we should 0:01:45.590 --> 0:01:48.910 point out to folks, this is an open seat because 0:01:49.030 --> 0:01:51.410 the incumbent Republican is seeking the U.S. 0:01:51.470 --> 0:01:51.790 Senate. 0:01:52.510 --> 0:01:57.330 You've got a voter registration advantage, Republicans over Independents over Democrats. 0:01:57.850 --> 0:02:01.850 You've got a Libertarian, a Democrat, a Republican, and an Independent, 0:02:01.970 --> 0:02:05.360 four on the ballot. You and the Democrat debated last night. 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:06.220 How was that for you? 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.100 It was good. I could have debated three more hours, Jeff. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.420 I was having a good time by the end, and 0:02:12.460 --> 0:02:15.300 we'll have another debate next week, actually. But it was 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.549 an hour long. KGAN out of Cedar Rapids. 0:02:19.590 --> 0:02:20.610 The CBS affiliate. 0:02:20.630 --> 0:02:23.160 They're the ones that hosted it. They did a nice job. 0:02:23.620 --> 0:02:26.780 They were very fair. You know, we got over a 0:02:26.820 --> 0:02:30.079 lot of topics, agriculture, tariffs, immigration. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:30.799 The economy. 0:02:31.380 --> 0:02:34.480 So I thought it went good. You know, we tweeted 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.450 out and posted probably 20 different clips from the debate. 0:02:38.690 --> 0:02:41.889 And so we were, you know, clipping stuff nonstop, sending 0:02:41.930 --> 0:02:44.710 it out. And our opponent did, I think, one clip. 0:02:45.630 --> 0:02:48.750 her answering the Iran war question. So I think that 0:02:48.810 --> 0:02:51.820 tells you maybe who won the debate, you know. 0:02:52.540 --> 0:02:56.160 If you go to Twitter X and you can follow 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.160 Joe Mitchell, Iowa, that's where you find this stuff. JoeMitchell.com 0:03:00.260 --> 0:03:04.100 is his website. I know that you brought up a 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.630 few things that your opponent, the Democrat, did not have 0:03:07.650 --> 0:03:10.389 an answer for, in particular, showing up for work. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.960 Yeah, that was crazy. And, you know, Ray, who was 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.169 one of the moderators, Ray Beccaro, KGAN, he had to 0:03:18.270 --> 0:03:21.829 ask her three times. And she had the same canned 0:03:22.090 --> 0:03:27.090 answer every time, avoiding the question, talking about this word 0:03:27.169 --> 0:03:29.680 salad of, you know, she's there for her community and 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.380 her neighbors. And he had to ask her three separate 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.940 times point blank. But, Lindsay, did you miss over half 0:03:35.980 --> 0:03:38.440 of your votes in the legislature? And she would not 0:03:38.580 --> 0:03:41.700 answer it. And that's where I said she did, in fact, 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.320 miss over 50 percent of her votes. And now she's 0:03:44.420 --> 0:03:46.900 asking the voters of this district to give her a 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.460 job promotion and a pay raise when she can't show 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.260 up to the job that she's elected for right now. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.080 And I said, imagine anybody listening. If you did not 0:03:57.140 --> 0:03:59.650 show up to your job over half the time, you 0:03:59.660 --> 0:04:02.890 would be fired on the spot. And I said, we 0:04:02.990 --> 0:04:07.610 must fire Lindsay James come November 3rd. And I mean, 0:04:07.670 --> 0:04:10.230 I think she wasn't very happy after I said that. 0:04:10.610 --> 0:04:11.210 But it's true. 0:04:11.270 --> 0:04:14.070 It's like it's ridiculous to these people, whether it be 0:04:14.110 --> 0:04:17.670 her or Josh Turek or anybody else in the legislature. 0:04:18.510 --> 0:04:21.140 They can't show up for the job they're currently elected for. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.120 And they think they're going to then, you know, get 0:04:24.140 --> 0:04:28.160 a job promotion and go to D.C. and get this 0:04:28.180 --> 0:04:31.560 huge pay raise. It's absolutely absurd. That's what they think. 0:04:31.580 --> 0:04:33.529 But that's a lot of these candidates on the Democrat 0:04:33.550 --> 0:04:36.310 side of the aisle now, is they're totally out of 0:04:36.350 --> 0:04:37.849 touch with everyday Iowa. 0:04:38.890 --> 0:04:41.270 Joe Mitchell is our guest. He's the Republican running for 0:04:41.310 --> 0:04:44.830 Congress from Northeast Iowa. JoeMitchell.com. If you like what you hear, 0:04:44.890 --> 0:04:47.150 there's a nice subtle donate button to help get him 0:04:47.210 --> 0:04:49.570 across the finish line. He's joining us on the Patriot 0:04:49.610 --> 0:04:52.890 Mobile Newsmaker line on the Todd Starnes program. That debate 0:04:52.930 --> 0:04:55.390 you referenced was put on by our friends at the 0:04:55.430 --> 0:05:00.620 Sinclair Broadcast Group, their local affiliates in Cedar Rapids. You 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.760 served in the state legislature. I'm going to take a 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:07.760 wild stab that your attendance rate, your voting record, was 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.900 better than your opponent's. 0:05:11.220 --> 0:05:14.080 Well, you know, Jeff, to be honest, I thought I 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.870 had missed maybe two or three votes. I didn't think 0:05:16.910 --> 0:05:21.310 I had made 100% of the votes. And I probably 0:05:21.330 --> 0:05:24.610 shouldn't admit that on this broadcast, but one of my 0:05:24.650 --> 0:05:26.479 supporters the other day, they said they looked it up, 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.160 and it said I had a 100% voting record, I guess. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.340 But I said, well, that's pretty good. I thought it 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.900 was 99%, and they said it was 100%. But either way, 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.700 it's like I showed up to work each and every 0:05:39.740 --> 0:05:43.460 day unless there was an absolute emergency. And these people 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.820 couldn't show up to work over half the time. But 0:05:45.860 --> 0:05:49.700 the interesting thing is, Jeff, I don't know what's more concerning, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.780 the votes that they missed or the things that they 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.760 were actually voting for when they were there. Because when 0:05:55.779 --> 0:05:58.560 they were there, like Lindsay James, she was voting to 0:05:58.610 --> 0:06:05.190 give illegal immigrants state-funded Medicaid benefits, food stamps, housing assistance. 0:06:05.589 --> 0:06:08.630 She was voting to allow kids to have sex changes. 0:06:09.740 --> 0:06:12.839 She was voting for higher taxes. She voted against almost 0:06:12.980 --> 0:06:15.480 every single bill to cut taxes when I was in 0:06:15.500 --> 0:06:18.760 the legislature, whether that was property tax or income tax. So, 0:06:18.820 --> 0:06:22.890 I mean, her position on issues are totally out of 0:06:22.930 --> 0:06:26.450 line with Iowa's. And, you know, we say she's from Portland, Oregon, 0:06:26.490 --> 0:06:28.510 and I say I don't hold that against her. We 0:06:28.529 --> 0:06:31.469 don't hold where you're born against you. But she brought 0:06:31.550 --> 0:06:35.210 her values from Portland, Oregon, to Iowa. That's what we 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.720 hold against her. And so that's where she's voting for 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.180 these how to control immigration policies. She stopped on crime. 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.580 She wants high taxes. I mean, the list goes on 0:06:45.740 --> 0:06:48.750 and on and on. And this is what Iowans are 0:06:48.770 --> 0:06:50.990 going to reject November 3rd. 0:06:51.750 --> 0:06:55.250 Joe Mitchell, Republican running for Congress from Northeast Iowa. It 0:06:55.330 --> 0:06:58.029 is the seat currently held by Ashley Hinson, who's running 0:06:58.130 --> 0:07:03.580 for the U.S. Senate. JoeMitchell.com is the website. And if 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.490 folks want to learn a little more, You were kind 0:07:06.550 --> 0:07:09.600 enough to come on my television program. All four candidates 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:14.220 in this race were. Folks can see that at iowatalkingpoints.com. 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.360 But you've built things, not just your own business. You're 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.620 a home builder by trade. You're not a career politician, 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:22.520 as I understand it. 0:07:24.090 --> 0:07:24.290 Right. 0:07:24.590 --> 0:07:26.330 So, you know, I've had a business for the last 0:07:26.380 --> 0:07:31.940 six years, Jeff. I've been building development, primarily workforce housing 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.610 development around eastern Iowa. I've built stuff in Dyersville and 0:07:35.670 --> 0:07:41.510 Clear Lake and Grinnell, and I build typically duplexes or townhomes, 0:07:41.590 --> 0:07:45.250 and they're typically for seniors. for working families. I live 0:07:45.300 --> 0:07:48.080 in one of my duplexes that I built and, you know, 0:07:48.100 --> 0:07:51.820 live amongst, you know, all the folks that I've built 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.760 houses for. And, you know, these are people that are veterans. 0:07:55.580 --> 0:07:59.820 These are working people. These are, you know, really just 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:04.720 tough Iowans that I love. And they're the same people 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.220 I grew up with because I grew up in small 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.680 town Iowa and I still live in small town Iowa. And, 0:08:09.900 --> 0:08:11.800 you know, what I noticed a number of years ago 0:08:11.860 --> 0:08:17.470 is that we don't have the appropriate amount of housing, 0:08:17.510 --> 0:08:21.030 the quality of housing that we deserve in rural America 0:08:21.050 --> 0:08:23.690 and rural Iowa. And so that's where I set out 0:08:23.830 --> 0:08:24.910 to put together. 0:08:24.570 --> 0:08:26.670 Sort of a partnership. 0:08:26.190 --> 0:08:30.070 And an investment group to go out and invest tens 0:08:30.190 --> 0:08:33.600 of millions of dollars in rural Iowa. And that's where 0:08:33.620 --> 0:08:36.460 I've done, and that's where we've built these homes. And 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.780 it's just been a blessing to be able to put 0:08:38.820 --> 0:08:41.550 a roof above people's heads Um, you know, one of 0:08:41.610 --> 0:08:45.250 my neighbors, Dick, uh, you know, he's a Vietnam war 0:08:45.340 --> 0:08:48.700 veteran and he's an awesome guy and he couldn't find 0:08:49.059 --> 0:08:52.880 a zero rent free two bedroom, uh, condo anywhere in 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.720 Clear Lake. And we built these new units and he 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.500 moved in probably six months ago. And he talks to 0:08:57.540 --> 0:09:00.340 me every day about the blessing it is to have 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.730 something that he could downsize to. It doesn't have stairs. 0:09:03.750 --> 0:09:06.010 There's nothing else like that in town that he could, 0:09:06.390 --> 0:09:08.970 he could rent. So, um, Um, you know, the VA 0:09:09.010 --> 0:09:11.429 helps them with his housing and everything. And so, you know, 0:09:11.450 --> 0:09:13.569 these are the stories I get to hear and I 0:09:13.610 --> 0:09:16.689 get to work with my contractors and you, these guys 0:09:16.710 --> 0:09:19.569 are some of the best people. Uh, they're so hardworking 0:09:20.030 --> 0:09:22.390 and they get things done and they have pride in 0:09:22.410 --> 0:09:25.710 their work. And I just love going through the process 0:09:25.750 --> 0:09:28.699 to get these things done. We want progress. And that's 0:09:28.740 --> 0:09:32.160 what frustrates me about government. It's what frustrates me about 0:09:32.220 --> 0:09:37.040 Washington is they want to stop progress. Every single place 0:09:37.059 --> 0:09:39.400 you go, whether that be the state government, whether it 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.790 be the federal government, it seems like they're putting up 0:09:41.870 --> 0:09:44.250 more hoops to jump through. And I think we actually 0:09:44.270 --> 0:09:47.429 need to make it easier to do business, to build things. 0:09:47.450 --> 0:09:50.069 We need less bureaucrats. I think we need to fire 0:09:50.510 --> 0:09:54.250 several million more bureaucrats in D.C. that exist there. And 0:09:54.260 --> 0:09:56.110 that's what I did. I worked for the president, as 0:09:56.130 --> 0:09:58.110 you know, last year, and I fired a lot of 0:09:58.150 --> 0:10:02.590 bureaucrats because we have too many. of them on the government, 0:10:02.690 --> 0:10:06.989 you know, payroll, taking your taxpayer dollars. And so we 0:10:07.010 --> 0:10:08.790 need people that want to get things done. 0:10:10.179 --> 0:10:12.520 I don't think you understand how this works. Isn't government 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.400 supposed to do all of this and do bailouts for people? 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.580 You're talking about having the private sector see a need 0:10:18.660 --> 0:10:21.070 and fill it. I didn't think that's how it worked, Mr. 0:10:21.110 --> 0:10:22.880 Mitchell. Right. 0:10:23.020 --> 0:10:25.230 Well, and that's where my opponent thinks. And if you 0:10:25.270 --> 0:10:29.090 listen to the debate yesterday, this is somebody who every 0:10:29.150 --> 0:10:32.910 single answer, it was about spending more money. It was 0:10:32.929 --> 0:10:35.450 about spending more of your money. It was about spending 0:10:35.490 --> 0:10:38.230 money that we don't have as a country. You know, 0:10:38.309 --> 0:10:42.170 even if you seize Every single asset from every single 0:10:42.230 --> 0:10:45.650 billionaire in this country, you could not pay for the 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.580 programs that my opponent is talking about. And so that 0:10:49.660 --> 0:10:52.980 is the answer to all these radical left Democrats and 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.380 what they want to do. They want to seize assets. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.090 They want to have higher taxes. They want new programs. 0:11:00.290 --> 0:11:04.290 And they don't understand how to balance a checkbook. And 0:11:04.330 --> 0:11:06.890 they don't understand what it means to run a business. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.160 They certainly don't know how to run government because we 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.500 had just 15 years ago before Governor Branstad came back 0:11:15.540 --> 0:11:19.090 to save this state from the deficit crisis we were in, 0:11:19.150 --> 0:11:23.689 we had a Democrat-controlled trifecta that ran this state into 0:11:23.710 --> 0:11:26.720 the ground thanks to Chuck Tolbert. And so this is 0:11:26.750 --> 0:11:29.179 the type of governing they want to bring back again. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.559 And I tell people that, you know, it wasn't 20 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.219 years ago that these people were in charge. It was 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.680 less than two years ago on the federal level that 0:11:36.710 --> 0:11:38.830 they were in charge. And you saw what they did. 0:11:38.850 --> 0:11:43.150 They spent like drunken sailors. They had more regulation than 0:11:43.210 --> 0:11:46.260 ever before. You know, they made it hard to do business. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.860 They made it hard for workers. I mean, life was 0:11:49.940 --> 0:11:54.350 tough between 2021 and 2025. And, you know, thank God 0:11:54.380 --> 0:11:57.830 the president came in and they passed the working families 0:11:57.870 --> 0:12:00.870 tax cut. No tax on Social Security now. No tax 0:12:00.929 --> 0:12:04.190 on tips. No tax on overtime. And so we're letting 0:12:04.250 --> 0:12:07.750 people have more of their hard-earned money. And I always 0:12:07.790 --> 0:12:11.459 say the solution is ever more government. It's actually less government. 0:12:11.770 --> 0:12:13.020 Let's get government out. 0:12:13.020 --> 0:12:13.420 Of your life. 0:12:13.420 --> 0:12:18.800 32 days until Election Day. Joe Mitchell, the Republican running 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:23.670 for Congress. Open seat, Northeast Iowa. JoeMitchell.com. On the Twitter 0:12:23.830 --> 0:12:26.190 X machine, where they've clipped some of that debate from 0:12:26.230 --> 0:12:30.390 last night, JoeMitchellIowa is the handle on Twitter X. Mr. Mitchell, 0:12:30.690 --> 0:12:34.250 thanks so much for taking the time. Continued success on 0:12:34.290 --> 0:12:36.369 the campaign trail, and thanks for joining us on the 0:12:36.410 --> 0:12:37.670 national show on this Friday. 0:12:39.070 --> 0:12:40.130 Thank you, Jeff. Take care. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:46.380 And Joe Mitchell joined us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Mr. Mitchell, 0:12:46.420 --> 0:12:49.740 running for Congress, JoeMitchell.com. I have a story to tell 0:12:49.780 --> 0:12:52.619 you about Mr. Mitchell and his background. We'll do it 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:57.910 after this break. 901-260-5926 is how you can join the 0:12:57.950 --> 0:13:01.189 Coast to Coast conversation from the Liberty University studio. Jeff 0:13:01.210 --> 0:13:03.410 Stein filling in for Todd. Thanks for being along on 0:13:03.450 --> 0:13:13.760 this edition of the Todd Starn Show. Welcome back to 0:13:13.780 --> 0:13:17.110 the Liberty University studio in the Todd Starnes Show. Jeff 0:13:17.130 --> 0:13:20.689 Stein filling in for Todd on this Open Line Friday, 901-260-5926, 0:13:21.170 --> 0:13:25.510 if you would like to weigh in. Coming up just 0:13:25.590 --> 0:13:28.219 after the bottom of the hour, we'll speak with the 0:13:28.260 --> 0:13:33.300 best-selling author Joshua Lisek. Mr. Lisek, along with Jennica Pounds, 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.840 they are the authors of a forthcoming book called Unelected, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:41.420 How You Paid a Sinister Elite to Take Over America. 0:13:41.770 --> 0:13:44.959 This is fascinating stuff. He joined me on my Iowa 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.000 program earlier this week. And when I got the opportunity 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.140 to speak to you all coast to coast through Todd's microphone, 0:13:51.179 --> 0:13:53.680 I thought this is a conversation we need to share 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.540 with you all nationally. And we'll do it after the 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.320 bottom of the hour. Joe Mitchell was our guest in 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:06.020 the first part of this hour. And Mr. Mitchell had 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:11.140 a mentor as he was a young state lawmaker. He 0:14:11.179 --> 0:14:14.580 was elected, I think, at age 20, 21, something like that. 0:14:15.460 --> 0:14:19.100 And he went to an event in Iowa where Charlie 0:14:19.140 --> 0:14:25.390 Kirk was the speaker. They wound up meeting afterwards and 0:14:25.470 --> 0:14:29.490 struck up a friendship that led to Mr. Mitchell being 0:14:29.550 --> 0:14:34.710 involved with TPUSA at events around the country. Mr. Mitchell 0:14:34.750 --> 0:14:37.530 announced that he was going to run for Congress on 0:14:37.610 --> 0:14:42.460 September 8th of last year. The last person who reviewed 0:14:42.580 --> 0:14:47.330 his press release before it went out was Charlie Kirk. 0:14:48.550 --> 0:14:56.190 That's how closely involved Mr. Kirk was in Mr. Mitchell's career. Obviously, 0:14:56.670 --> 0:15:01.120 two days after Joe Mitchell announced for Congress, Charlie Kirk 0:15:01.180 --> 0:15:07.180 was murdered. TP Action, Turning Point Action, endorsed him in 0:15:07.220 --> 0:15:11.060 December of last year. There was a primary. He was victorious. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.479 And he is now in the general election against a Democrat, 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.540 a Libertarian, and an Independent. This is a key seat 0:15:18.700 --> 0:15:22.980 because it's held by a Republican, open seat. They've got 0:15:23.020 --> 0:15:27.640 the voter registration advantage in the district. The Democrats fall 0:15:27.700 --> 0:15:30.920 far behind. But one of the things in my home 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.720 state of Iowa, and I talked to Todd on the 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.479 national show about this last week, we have a lot 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:40.080 of non-affiliated voters, Independents. by voter registration. That makes it 0:15:40.180 --> 0:15:44.110 much harder to predict. So you can look on paper 0:15:44.470 --> 0:15:47.530 and say, well, you've got a great voter registration advantage. 0:15:48.250 --> 0:15:50.350 This looks pretty good. Well, as they say, they don't 0:15:50.390 --> 0:15:54.010 play the game on paper. So if you are interested 0:15:54.070 --> 0:15:57.290 in any of these key races nationally and you have 0:15:57.370 --> 0:16:00.510 the means to make phone calls, get friends in the 0:16:00.620 --> 0:16:05.520 area to turn out, yes, monetary donations. People say to 0:16:05.540 --> 0:16:07.780 me all the time, what can I do? Well, that's 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.460 something you can do. You may not have the financial 0:16:10.500 --> 0:16:14.380 wherewithal to do it, and that's fine. But maybe you 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.020 know somebody who lives in the area and is thinking 0:16:17.060 --> 0:16:20.360 of sitting on their hands. The election is too important 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.970 for sitting on your hands. They all are. But look 0:16:25.150 --> 0:16:31.090 at the razor-thin margins. And look what will happen if 0:16:31.130 --> 0:16:36.700 the Democrats get a majority in either or heaven forbid, 0:16:36.820 --> 0:16:42.110 both chambers. So this is the time, 32 days away. 0:16:43.070 --> 0:16:46.970 It is not an overstatement. And if you have a 0:16:47.150 --> 0:16:50.530 copy of The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America, the 0:16:50.570 --> 0:16:53.250 great book by Todd Starnes, the current book that's out, 0:16:53.970 --> 0:16:57.990 you get it wherever you get your good books these days, toddstarnes.com, amazon.com, 0:16:58.030 --> 0:17:01.620 Barnes & Noble. And I went through it when I 0:17:02.130 --> 0:17:05.950 got my copy. And, you know, I hit the high points. 0:17:05.990 --> 0:17:08.310 And then I sat down when I had some time 0:17:09.010 --> 0:17:13.629 and just poured over it, cover to cover. There are 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.859 so many great examples in that book. It's hard to 0:17:17.940 --> 0:17:21.620 remember all the things that were bad in the Biden 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.260 era and hard to keep track of all of the 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:32.119 advancements made in less than two years of Trump 2.0. 0:17:32.140 --> 0:17:35.119 So first, go get another copy of Todd's book, The 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:39.670 Golden Age. Share it with friends. It's a reminder. Because 0:17:40.350 --> 0:17:43.710 we're all busy. And as some of us get older, 0:17:43.750 --> 0:17:46.110 we don't remember things as well as we used to. 0:17:46.270 --> 0:17:49.920 But as Mr. Mitchell pointed out, it's only been two 0:17:49.980 --> 0:17:56.320 years since Democrats held forth in Washington. And look at 0:17:56.420 --> 0:17:59.340 what a difference. I mean, we've had a lot of 0:17:59.380 --> 0:18:02.350 rainy weather here in the Midwest where I live. But 0:18:02.410 --> 0:18:04.710 today the sun came out. You can just tell everybody's 0:18:04.830 --> 0:18:09.310 mood is better. You could just tell once that 2024 0:18:09.310 --> 0:18:13.940 election was over, hey, it's not so bad. We might 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.820 get through this. Let's not take a step back on 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:23.420 November 3rd. Do your part. Joshua Lysak, co-author of Unelected. 0:18:23.780 --> 0:18:26.550 He'll join us after this bottom of the hour break. 0:18:26.890 --> 0:18:29.950 Jeff Stein in for Todd from the Liberty University studio 0:18:30.290 --> 0:18:46.820 on the Todd Starnes Show. Welcome back to the Liberty 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.480 University studio and the Todd Starnes show. Jeff Stein filling 0:18:50.540 --> 0:18:55.860 in for Todd today. 901-260-5926 is how you can join 0:18:55.900 --> 0:18:59.479 this coast-to-coast conversation on an open line Friday. We'll take 0:18:59.500 --> 0:19:01.720 your calls in the next segment, but let's go now 0:19:01.780 --> 0:19:04.870 to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, and I'm pleased to 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:09.140 welcome the New York Times bestselling author Joshua Lysak, Mr. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:13.320 Lysak is author with Jennica Pounds of a forthcoming book. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.899 It will be released October 20th. You can pre-order it 0:19:16.980 --> 0:19:19.140 now at Amazon or wherever you get your good books 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:23.709 these days. The book is entitled Unelected, How You Paid 0:19:23.730 --> 0:19:27.790 a Sinister Elite to Take Over America. Mr. Lysak, Jeff 0:19:27.810 --> 0:19:30.050 Stein filling in for Todd on the national show. How 0:19:30.090 --> 0:19:30.609 are you today? 0:19:32.609 --> 0:19:32.950 I'm well. 0:19:32.990 --> 0:19:33.760 Thanks for having me on. 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:39.220 Tell us about the relationship with the co-author, Jennica Pounds. 0:19:39.260 --> 0:19:41.980 There are folks who know your name from the past 0:19:42.060 --> 0:19:44.440 books you've written. They may know her name from a 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:45.580 different context, though. 0:19:46.580 --> 0:19:51.660 Yes, Jenica Pounds is better known, my co-author. She's better 0:19:51.700 --> 0:19:57.870 known as Data Republican at Data Republican or DataRepublican.com. That's 0:19:57.930 --> 0:20:03.290 where she's most popular these days. She's one of the 0:20:03.350 --> 0:20:07.730 people who collaborated with Elon Musk and others on the 0:20:08.090 --> 0:20:12.230 Doge project, the Department of Government Efficiency, and it was 0:20:12.310 --> 0:20:16.280 through that that it was found that literally trillions of U.S. 0:20:16.700 --> 0:20:21.000 taxpayer dollars were being handed over via blank checks for 0:20:21.020 --> 0:20:26.770 the administrative state, together with various foundations, nonprofits, NGOs, charities, 0:20:27.410 --> 0:20:32.230 an institution set that we call the NGO Administrative Complex. 0:20:32.790 --> 0:20:35.930 Doge was the organization that founded primarily the U.S. Treasury, 0:20:36.510 --> 0:20:41.210 to and through USAID, U.S. aid, that so much U.S. 0:20:41.430 --> 0:20:45.210 taxpayer money was being gifted to our enemies, or at 0:20:45.250 --> 0:20:51.960 the very least, to anti-American activities. Rather depressing, but we, 0:20:52.020 --> 0:20:54.560 of course, are relieved that we found it. But it 0:20:54.600 --> 0:21:01.100 was because of so much of these findings that Jenica 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.960 and others associated with Doge were, of course, harassed all 0:21:05.070 --> 0:21:08.030 manner of catastrophes in the first of all life crises 0:21:08.070 --> 0:21:10.770 that they that they face by finding this out you 0:21:10.790 --> 0:21:12.650 know they call it being over the target. 0:21:12.369 --> 0:21:16.950 Right yeah absolutely when they when they start firing at 0:21:16.990 --> 0:21:19.150 you then you know that you're on to something here 0:21:19.170 --> 0:21:23.470 you know a fundamental question how did it get so 0:21:23.570 --> 0:21:26.370 bad and i suppose the answer is well slowly then 0:21:26.430 --> 0:21:28.770 all of a sudden but this this was not of 0:21:28.930 --> 0:21:31.830 short-term duration some of these folks were playing a long 0:21:31.910 --> 0:21:34.919 game were they not sir That's right. 0:21:35.060 --> 0:21:38.340 In fact, the book Unelected, although it may sound like 0:21:38.420 --> 0:21:43.540 its current event, it's actually also historical nonfiction, because we 0:21:43.580 --> 0:21:50.510 go back almost 400 years in the classical liberal story, 0:21:50.950 --> 0:21:54.990 this idea, as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, 0:21:55.590 --> 0:21:59.370 all men are created equal. Sounds kind of nice, right? Well, 0:21:59.410 --> 0:22:02.980 take that to its logical end. If all men are 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:07.840 created equal... Well, then all people and all citizens are 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:13.179 created equal. And so now our administrative elite, our cosmopolitan elite, 0:22:13.220 --> 0:22:18.280 who deem themselves, of course, bastions and protectors of democracy, 0:22:18.380 --> 0:22:22.760 women's rights, minority rights, etc., etc., they think of themselves 0:22:22.900 --> 0:22:28.220 as global citizens. And therefore, because all men are created equal, 0:22:28.380 --> 0:22:32.320 all citizenships are also created equal. So even if you 0:22:32.420 --> 0:22:35.940 are an American... There's no difference between an American and, 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:39.919 let's say, a Haitian or a Somali. And if you 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.980 look at it through the lens of social justice theory, well, 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:50.570 the white working-class Trump voters of Springfield, Ohio, well, who 0:22:50.630 --> 0:22:57.119 has it worse off? The white Springfield residents or black Haitians? Well, obviously, 0:22:57.190 --> 0:23:00.199 we need cultural reparations. So we need to ship as 0:23:00.260 --> 0:23:03.820 many thousands of Haitians as possible here. into Ohio to 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:09.810 extract handouts, gimme's, simmies, and freebies, that's only fair that 0:23:09.930 --> 0:23:13.210 the Springfield residents, the white Springfield citizens that they pay 0:23:13.270 --> 0:23:16.250 for it, that they suffer. See, it's sort of a 0:23:16.390 --> 0:23:22.100 generational justice. You see civil justice, global justice. This is 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:26.060 how the NGOs think. That's why there is so much 0:23:26.180 --> 0:23:30.020 fraud in the smaller communities of Columbus, Ohio. You can 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:31.730 tell I live in Ohio first. as well as the 0:23:31.770 --> 0:23:35.210 Twin Cities area region of Minnesota that Nick Shirley and 0:23:35.310 --> 0:23:40.649 others have pointed out. And it's simply deemed racist if 0:23:40.710 --> 0:23:44.540 you investigate these matters and find that such and such 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.460 leering center, you know, the type of graphical error learning center, 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:52.200 the leering center is not, in fact, educating kids. Well, 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:54.840 that's how racist of you to think that a black 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:58.940 Somali would be committing a crime. And then we're like, well, 0:23:58.980 --> 0:24:01.570 obviously this is fraud. Well, you only say that because 0:24:01.609 --> 0:24:04.650 you're erasing. You see that now? So you're now stuck 0:24:04.710 --> 0:24:06.489 in a cycle. No matter what you say or do 0:24:06.510 --> 0:24:10.510 to defend yourself, you'll be deemed racist by our cosmopolitan betters. 0:24:10.810 --> 0:24:14.109