They're petrified over at MSNBC that, you know, CNN that, hey, they're going to be since we're taking control of the cities, there's going to be Ice officers near polling places. - You damn right. - All right. [00:00:15] This week, Steve Bannon called for Ice agents to be stationed in and around polling places for the 2026 midterm elections. And that's not all he's proposing. Let's watch him lay out his full vision for the 2026 elections. [00:00:30] It is incumbent that the Commerce Department listen to President Trump and get on with it on a mid-decade, a mid-decade census done this time correctly with correct algorithms. Correct. Data analysis, the way it's collected. [00:00:49] Also, no illegal alien invaders. None. Zero. Number two is to get these, get these elections squared away for once in all, no Mail-In ballots. And number three is the redistricting. We need a Texas ten right now. [00:01:05] Now Texas, they're trying to put DPS officers or Texas Rangers with the Democrats. It's not good enough. We need to go to a maximalist policy. And these redistricting now whether you're in Indiana, Missouri, - South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Texas. - Okay. [00:01:24] So to summarize here is what the full plan looks like. He is proposing sending federal police, the National Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to occupy liberal cities like an invading army. He is seeking to ban mail in voting, and he's pushing for unprecedented mid-decade [00:01:43] congressional redistricting efforts. Also, he's attempting to purge voter rolls and suppress turnout by requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. And he's calling for a mid-decade census that would exclude people from the. [00:02:00] In the United States without authorization, which experts have argued would be unconstitutional. But what does Steve Bannon care about? The Constitution? Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is writing to the defense of someone who committed actual election fraud. [00:02:16] That would be a woman named Tina Peters. She is a former Colorado county elections official. So prosecutors charged Peters in 2022 and accused her of helping to secretly copy Dominion Voting Systems hard drives by sneaking Conan Hayes, [00:02:33] a former professional surfer and purported computer expert, into secure areas of her office in 2021, using someone else's security badge. And within months, data from her office appeared online and was featured at a symposium held by Mike Lindell. [00:02:50] Last October, a Colorado judge sentenced Peters to eight and a half years in jail after a jury found her guilty on seven out of ten counts related to her role in actually tampering with county voting equipment after the 2020 election. [00:03:06] So here is what Trump wrote on Truth Social just yesterday. He said free Tina Peters, a brave and innocent patriot who has been tortured by crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail in ballot supporting the governor of the state, [00:03:22] let Tina Peters out of jail right now. She did nothing wrong except catching the Democrats cheat in the election. She is an old woman and very sick. If she is not released, I'm going to take harsh measures. Peters, who is 69 years old, was convicted in state court, meaning [00:03:40] federal authorities cannot overturn it. We'll start with you on this one. First of all, this is active voter intimidation. What a lot of what Steve Bannon is talking about. Also, who is going to pay for all of these updates? He's talking about a mid-decade census that would be wildly unconstitutional [00:03:59] the way that he's proposing it. And, you know, Steve Bannon is not anybody who has a real role in our government, but he does have the ear of a lot of the people in our government. So, what do you think we can expect to come from this going forward? Yeah, this is an absolute nightmare. It's the worst case scenario. [00:04:19] So because guys, when Trump does terrible things, we could reverse them if we win the next election. But if they mess with the voting, then you're you're totally screwed. That is systemic risk that goes to the heart of are we going to have a democracy? [00:04:36] Are we going to have a constitutional republic? Do we still have America or are we going to slip into authoritarianism? So now when you, talk about authoritarianism, yes. But how would you get there? I've now seen it in different countries, in Russia, in Turkey, [00:04:52] in many different places. And the way that they do is they hungry? They slowly strangle democracy. They don't just go in and go, okay, nobody's voting anymore, or I'm changing all the votes in a way that that's brazen and obvious. What they do is things like this. All of a sudden there's the military in the streets and they say, no, no, no, no. [00:05:12] It's for a little elevated crime. Actually, crime has gone down a little bit in Washington. But anyway, we're going to put them in the streets anyway. Oh, I started a fight in LA. Oh, we need the Marines in the streets. So now all of a sudden, we got a government that looks like it's run by a military junta, right? So then on top of that, they go, okay, now I'm going [00:05:28] to start playing around with the votes. Mail in voting. Well, we think that disadvantages Republicans. So we're going to cancel it. Why is there if there was like huge voter fraud and it was connected to mail in voting, I'd hear of course I'd hear them out on it. I hate voter fraud. I don't want a single case of voter fraud. [00:05:46] So we asked him for evidence and they got nothing. Nothing? Zero zero. Just because you heard it from Bob on Facebook, or some douchey right wing host who's lying to you, doesn't mean it's true. If it was true, I'd be livid about it because I don't [00:06:01] want either side rigging him. Besides which, I hate Republican and Democratic politicians, so I got no interest in any of them rigging any of the elections. So now you get rid of Mail-In voting because you think it's against you. By the way, earlier it used to be in favor of Republicans, but now that it's not anymore, all of a sudden they have a problem with Mail-In voting. [00:06:18] Then you go to, the gerrymandering in the middle of the decade. Guys, if you don't know, the census happens at the, you know, the beginning of the decade or end of the decade doesn't matter. Same thing. Right? And then they redistrict based on that. And they do it once a decade. [00:06:34] If you start doing it in the middle, it's going to be chaos. Everybody who wins an election by 1% is going to redistrict it so they can't lose. So now the Republicans have a slight advantage. So they're like, boom, that's it. We abuse the advantage. We redistrict in the middle. So we grab even more seats. [00:06:50] Then we'll redistrict again until the districts are so comical, there's no democracy left at all. And oh, hey, there's a district with 90% that are Democrats, and we took the rest of the Democrats and spread them across the state so that the rest of the districts would be Republican. [00:07:08] Well, then, voting is irrelevant if you've done it like that. And by the way, the blue states can do likewise, and some blue states do do likewise. And I despise that as well. See, it's not that hard to be unbiased. Why why would I want anyone to cheat? But unfortunately, people like Steve Bannon and the radical right, [00:07:25] they don't care about democracy. They don't care about America. I mean, military in the streets is in America. Everybody knows that. But they think power above all. If you said to Steve Bannon and Donald Trump, would you rather have power or democracy? [00:07:41] But for me, that's a no brainer. For them, it's also a no brainer. I say democracy. I'd much rather lose an election and keep democracy. I'd rather lose ten elections in a row and keep democracy for them. No way, no way. Give me the power and I'll bring the military. [00:07:58] And I'll turn this into an authoritarian government. And that's what they're planning to do now. Purging voter rolls. Oh, okay. Look, voter ID is debatable. Proof of citizenship. Trying to make it as hard as possible. Then what do you do? You selectively apply it. So in Philadelphia and Detroit you go. [00:08:14] That's it I want passport. Not not good enough. I want the other thing. I want your birth certificate. Oh, you didn't find that. I need the other thing. Meanwhile, in Alabama, Mississippi and red states, they're like, yeah, no, don't worry about it. Go go go go go go vote vote vote vote vote vote. Right. And then finally, yeah, I already mentioned the, the fact that [00:08:32] it's I'll add that it's unconstitutional to do it mid-decade, but they don't care about the Constitution. So sometimes there'll be things that I agree with right wingers on. Right. So Charlie Kirk's been despicable lately, but I agree with him that we shouldn't let private equity or he agrees with us that [00:08:49] we shouldn't let private equity buy homes because it raises housing prices. Steve Bannon is against the tech bro donors. Theoretically. Good. I'll take it. But that doesn't mean that you support them in their entirety. Don't ever make that mistake, because Bannon is 98% evil [00:09:06] and doesn't believe in this country. He believes in authoritarianism and raw power. He's a super dangerous guy who's deeply un-American. And this is the heart of the problem. Michael. Yeah, there's not much you haven't said about it. You know, what this boils down to is, is what people were telling us during [00:09:26] the election here at TYT on the road, which was, yeah, we'd rather have a dictator than Joe Biden. And they got their dictator. And this is what dictators do. They change the rules in the middle of the game. They they have people out there as their spokespeople. They mess with the media. [00:09:43] And that mess with the media and, and Steve Bannon is one of those, right? Steve Bannon is one of these people who's been talking in this way since before Donald Trump was reelected. And, you know, he even wasn't sure that Donald Trump was the right person because he wasn't sure that he would go far enough. [00:10:00] This is a mad man. And these are sort of Mad Men principles. And the notion in America, you know, we don't have military in the streets, but when you look at some of the sort of most disturbing images of the civil rights movement, or anyway some of the disturbing images of the civil rights movement, it was police [00:10:18] in front of voting and polling places. It went into Mississippi and Alabama, as Jake mentioned. And, you know, his whole thing is Make America great again. This is what they thought was great. The question is answered, you know, the elusive question, when was America great? America was great when everybody was oppressed, who wasn't part of the entitled [00:10:38] and part of the elite, but not the educational elite, which is part of why Steve Bannon doesn't like the tech world, because they are part of the educational elite at the same time. It is a disaster. What what this could bring and again, like what Democrats do a lot of the time [00:10:57] is they bring a knife to a gunfight. And I have to say that as distasteful as it is, and being in a state where where two times you saw the the notion of a bipartisan commission on, [00:11:12] on district on redistricting, approved by voters to have the governor of that state say, well, we got to go. We have to override that because of what's going on there. What's going on in Texas that's encouraging. And Bannon saying they got to do it in Missouri and Indiana and Florida and Ohio [00:11:28] and all those other places. Not as easy to do, not as easy to do right now, but still doable. And these are the things that have to be have to be pushed back on. But it has to be done. It has to be done because they're going to do it. If people like Gavin Newsom don't fight back against. Yeah, yeah. Before you go, my last word on this is. [00:11:46] Look, if you're worried about voter fraud, why would you want to let Tina Peters out of jail? She literally messed with a voting machine. It doesn't get any more voter fraud than that. If a Democrat was like, oh, yeah, I went into a voting machine, maybe changed some votes, I'd be like, oh, prison. Long time, right? [00:12:01] And he called Tina Peters an old woman at 69, which I don't know what that makes him, but I liked that jumped out at me in his in his post on Truth Social. Yeah. Jake, I wanted to address something that you said earlier. You know, just like how all these things can be happening and they kind [00:12:19] of slow roll it on the American public. So then, you know, people get slowly used to things and they, they give up a little bit more of their freedom each time. And I remember just like going back to 20 1415, whenever Trump was getting really, really active on Twitter. [00:12:34] He wasn't necessarily running for president at the time, but he was saying a lot of things. He was criticizing Obama quite a bit. He was criticizing the Democrats quite a bit. And, you know, at the time he when he started calling the news fake news, a lot of people on the left said, hey, this is going to be a problem. [00:12:51] This is a huge problem. That is not a thing that people in a democracy should think or believe or perpetuate without having any kind of proof. And then what? What did they do? They said that we were being dramatic. They called us uppity. They said, you don't know what you're talking about. It's not going to get that bad. And then look at where we are today. [00:13:09] And you also mentioned something, Jake, where, you know, for them it's all about power above all. And for people like Steve Bannon, yes, I agree it's about power above all. But for the average American, at least the average American that supports all of this, that's happening. It's safety or perceived safety. [00:13:26] Above all, for them, there are plenty of Americans who, as we are learning right now, are more than happy to forgo some of their own freedoms because they feel unsafe and they feel like the military marching down the streets of DC is going to keep them safe somehow. [00:13:41] And that's something that actually does get discussed a little bit on Fox News, that people in this country are not actually as unsafe as they feel, according to statistics, according to the numbers, where we see that in a lot of these metropolitan areas, crime is actually going down, but they focus on the feeling [00:13:59] that people feel unsafe. But then you have to wonder, why do all these people feel unsafe when they actually are not? I know people here in Texas who live in super quiet neighborhoods in gated communities, but they feel unsafe and no one is coming for them, but they think someone is coming for them because Fox News tells them all day long [00:14:19] that there are gang members and terrorists and rapists just outside of those gates. And so I think that's really how we get to the point that we're at today, where the military is marching in our streets and the people have not risen up against it in any kind of real way. [00:14:34] And at this point, it almost feels like, what can we do? Because we're already here? Yeah. I mean, okay. You're forcing me to say one last thing. Look, guys, another thing I'm worried about this story is I know when, you know, those independent podcasters who I think are critical in [00:14:49] the next election are going to turn right. And I've, you know, done some pretty spectacular predictions on that, on Israel, on Epstein files, etc., on this one. I'm super worried because they love voter ID. Then they're going to pretend [00:15:04] that everything is voter ID. I like that. Rogan, at least was like no military in the streets. Tim Dillon was no military in the streets, so that's positive. I've got hope. They're right. But on the like, the voter purges and the voter suppression, [00:15:19] I'm super worried about it. And so and look, whether, you know, crime is real, how much you should be worried about it is open to question. But even if you're super worried about crime and and you believe that it's [00:15:35] legitimate and and I for the people in the cities that are worried about crime. I think it's legitimate. Okay. But the military is not the option. They literally can't do policing. It doesn't make any sense. If you said, hey, hire more police, that's a debate worth having, right? [00:15:51] And there's nothing wrong with that debate saying let's bring in the Marines or the National Guard so we look like a banana republic. No, that's not a rational debate. So we're going to need that center to hold. And on half of this really important stuff, I'm super worried about [00:16:08] whether they're going to hold or not. So look, for my part, for whatever it's worth, I will continue to do what I've been doing, which is not just this show, but go on every other show and talk about this issue, because if they start messing around with the voting, then we're screwed. You know, then it's not a matter of Democrats being screwed. [00:16:25] It's a matter of the country being screwed and America losing its democracy, and we can't have it. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets its wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.