Ken Paxton LIVE: Taking on Illegal Alien Crime (Ep.212)
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Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. Yeah.

We have a lot of important heavy hitting news to get into today. In the second half of the program, we are going to bring in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson to talk about some breaking news about an arrest that he just made of an illegal Venezuelan criminal along with another individual in his stay connected to the killing of a young woman. It's going to be really interesting. We're also going to talk about his Senate run against one of the worst so-called Republicans in Congress. It's going to be a packed morning. But

You guys don't want to miss this. I want to talk about Lilo and Stitch. As you can see from that intro, Disney's new remake of Lilo and Stitch. We have to do it. I've been thinking about this for days now. I've been like talking Michael Ziroff about it because first of all, I love the original Lilo and Stitch. It came out in 2002.

So I was like the perfect age for it, right? I was two years old at the time, but I probably saw it when I was like two, three. And my little siblings afterward have loved it for years on. Lilo is a little Hawaiian girl. She lives with her older sister after the death of their parents. They adopt a dog named Stitch, except it isn't actually a dog. He's an alien. If you've seen it,

The premise, if you haven't seen it, the premise sounds kind of whack. If you have seen it, of course, this all makes a lot of sense. The story is actually quite beautiful. And I've discussed it with Michael, you know, just not this movie, but the idea of, okay, what if something horrible happened to my parents? And I would want to take in all of my siblings if that happened. It would be crazy.

right because because there's a lot of kids that aren't yet 18 that still live with my parents there's six of them still at the house but i think it would be the right thing to do because we would need to stay together to not separate into different households which is probably what would happen considering there are so many kids

still living at home in my family. And that's exactly what Nani did, the older sister in Lilo and Stitch. She's 19. She's trying to hold down a job and raise Lilo at the same time. And she's doing this 'cause she wants to keep her family together

after there was, I guess, an accident, both of their parents died. And she's got this social worker breathing down her neck, but she powers through, she gets her life together, because she knows that her and her sister are better off together than apart. And this line is repeated constantly in the film. Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind, even Stitch, the alien, who is a part of their family now.

Here is the end scene as Stitch makes the case for his family before he is about to be taken away by alien authorities. - Can Stitch say goodbye? - Yes. - Thank you. - Bye. This is my family. I found it all on my own. It's little and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.

It's a really cute movie. I think the other aliens want to, like, euthanize Stitch. And the government, of course, wants to place Lilo in foster care because all three...

fight for each other, they are able to stay together. I think this is a really powerful message, especially for indigenous people who have historically been separated from their families and placed in residential schools in places like Canada and mainland USA. Anyway, what Disney decided to do in this remake, they decided

on, first of all, making a terrible CGI stitch, but Disney also decided to have Nani give up Lilo so she can leave Hawaii, ironically, to study marine biology. So pursue her passion.

and hand over Lilo to some neighbor until Lilo was eventually adopted. And people are not happy about it. People across the political spectrum are not happy about it. Here is one, I think, very good, succinct reaction from a TikToker. Take a listen. At the end of Lilo and Stitch, Nani gives Lilo up to Child Protective Services so that she can go party at college. And I'm not sorry whatsoever that I just spoiled that for you because I don't think this movie deserves to make a single f***.

Like even rage watching. I hope this loses loads of money. The remake destroyed every message that the original movie put out. Like the original one was like, Ohana means family. That was the basis of the entire movie. Now the basis is it's more important for a woman to follow her dreams than to take care of her sister. And even that doesn't make any sense.

sense within the context of the movie because Nani wants to be a marine biologist. I challenge you to find a place where you have a better chance of learning to be a marine biologist than Hawaii. I'm sorry, does the University of Wisconsin have a great marine biology department? She was already in Hawaii. Okay, what's funny about this is Michael and I do know somebody who went to the University of Wisconsin to study marine biology, which is kind of funny. But

It doesn't really make sense for her, in the context of this story, to leave, to go off and pursue her passion, to pursue her, I don't know, career at the expense of her little sister, of keeping her family together. That was the whole message of the original story.

And of course it makes sense that they would kind of have this subversive message because it's all about girl bossing, it's all about feminism, it's all about following yourself and staying true to yourself and your truth. And sacrifice doesn't really seem to play a huge role in modernity. It's not valued as much in modern life. Everything is about comfort and myself and frankly selfishness, not selflessness.

So no one is really happy with this message. A lot of left-wingers are calling it a colonizer message. But I want to note that sometimes prioritizing Native family unification hurts Native children. So in the United States, we have something called ICWA, the Indian Child Welfare Act, which essentially says that adoption or foster care placement for Native children should be with other children.

Natives so whites white people usually cannot adopt Native American children indigenous children even if white couple the white couple or white individual our family of said native child so this means that in America we don't always prioritize the well-being of Native children and I don't like that

However, Nani and Lilo and Stitch, she's a good sister. She is not a fentanyl addict. She wasn't abusive. She was providing for her little sister. Struggling, yes, maybe she's 19, but this is not some drug addicted mom with a felon boyfriend who beats her up on the weekends. Like this is a very different situation.

So what happened in this remake yet again is Disney fundamentally rewrote the emotional core of the original story. The 2002 film wasn't just a quirky sci-fi comedy. It was a deeply human, culturally grounded tale about love lost and the unbreakable bonds of family.

In the remake, Disney flips that message on its head by having Nani voluntarily give Lilo up. It replaces the

selflessness of Nani with self-interest and it undermines the very theme that made the original so beautiful. And it really feels like Disney has lost its ability or even its willingness to tell stories that touch the soul to the point where even leftists, who this is supposed to pander to ironically, are not happy. Disney has literally gone so woke. They're too woke for the woke left.

One of the other criticisms is Nani is played by a very white-looking girl. I guess this young actress, she's Filipina mixed with white and has some Native Hawaiian ancestry, but she doesn't look like the dark-skinned Hawaiian woman from the original cartoon. For the same reason I think it's annoying when Disney turns a white character black

It's annoying when they make a dark Hawaiian woman a white-looking mixed girl. Some of you might say, "Well, who cares? It's just skin color." But it's not. It's not just skin color to Disney. It never is. They care way more about virtue signaling than they do about telling good stories. And this is why I think people are mad. Either remake it well or don't remake it at all. Respect the source material or get creative and put out something good for once.

But they won't do that. They've lost their sparkle, their ability to connect with people on a real human level. I mean, I think it's as if AI wrote these scripts and maybe AI is writing these scripts. I don't even know. But it's really bad and no one is on board with it. And I don't blame them.

And I think some people were commenting, why are we talking about Disney and why are we talking about Lilo and Stitch? Yes, yes, yes, I get all your comments. We talk about whatever I want to talk about. It's my show. But I will say that I think this is the same problem facing the Democratic Party. There's an institutional sickness that you can observe a through line problem.

when it comes to Disney, when it comes to our education system, when it comes to the media, when it comes to the Democratic Party itself. There are so many of these institutions that seem to have gone so far woke they've forgotten how to be human. I want you to listen to this fascinating sound bite from Jake Tapper realizing that his party is actually one of hate and division, the exact opposite of what he thought it was. Take a listen.

I went on a left-leaning podcast that shall remain nameless. And we were talking about my kids, because I think they were both people without kids. And they asked me about my son. And I said, he was, you know, he's a football player and he wants to be a policeman. And I said,

And their joke was about my 15-year-old son, oh, how does he feel about minorities? Like the idea that he wants to be a policeman, therefore he's racist, my son. And like, you know, that was the big laugh. And then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff. And I thought to myself, this is why you fuckers are losing elections. 100%. Like my football-playing son, who has no political views, he's 15, he thinks about...

World War II and gaming and playing linebacker. That's his world. You're deciding he's a racist because he wants to be a cop. And why does he want to be a cop? He wants to be a cop because he wants to help people, you know, and he thinks that's the best way he can help people.

And that's how the Democratic Party talks to men, not just white men, but men. And I mean, I get the idea that they thought Tim Walz could what's the term he used code switch or something. He thought that he could he could translate the Democratic Party values because he hunts and fishes and owns a gun and was in the army and drinks a beer and

I mean, at least there was an attempt, but I find it just insane. Okay, so first I just have to say, and this is going to be hard for Jake Tapper to hear, but your football-playing, video game-loving, World War II-obsessed son...

probably red-pilled. Like, I know you're saying he's not political. I know you think that this is just your regular guy son who doesn't care about politics whatsoever. I'm going to say it. I think this kid's probably red-pilled. I think that Jake Tapper has a secret right-wing son just by the evidence given to us by Jake Tapper himself. But you guys drop a comment. You tell me what you think. And I mean, really, the question is, why wouldn't he be?

This is what Jake Tapper is observing in this video on his own. People aren't dumb. The party talks to people as identities. They obsessively put everyone in these boxes, oppressor, oppressor.

And it's so incredibly off-putting. What have they done to young men? They've said, you're in this box, white men, the devil reincarnate, and we are going to put every single social ill in the world on your shoulders. I mean, how oppressive, how demoralizing, insane.

is that, especially for young men, you haven't done anything. I mean, you're just a guy. You wake up in this world and suddenly an entire political party hates you and you have no idea why. So it makes a lot of sense to me, and I think even to Jake Tapper, as he'll admit, that young men are turning away from this party, but I think people in general are.

Because this messaging is incredibly divisive. It's incredibly off-putting. This week we learned that the Democratic Party has budgeted $20 million for a new initiative called Speaking with American Men, a strategic plan aimed at reversing the erosion of Democratic support among young men, especially online. And I'm just going to say it, guys, it's not going to work.

You can't belittle and insult people and hope to buy them back with $20 million in who knows what they're going to waste it on. Influencers, fake podcasters, buying off, I don't know, more television ads, whatever it is, I don't think this is going to reverse the damage of really decades of demoralization and demonization of men, specifically white men.

I want you to listen to MSNBC's Jen Psaki hosting James Comey, of all people, who promptly labels Republicans white supremacists. And this is relevant because these are people that the Democratic Party needs to win back. They have to win back this support. And here is how they're characterizing the people that they allegedly need to win back the votes of. Take a listen.

Do you think there's a I mean, one of the things that is happening now is that the Trump administration is, of course, testing the system in ways it hasn't been tested before in the law enforcement sense. Do you think there are laws that should be put in place that would help better manage this that aren't in place now? I mean, are we equipped? Is the law enforcement system and the legal system equipped to deal with what we're seeing now?

Probably there could be changes at the margins, but in the main we have the tools. There are cultural impediments to doing this work. Let's say you work in the FBI. You know that one of the two political parties is...

let me put it nicely, white supremacist adjacent at a minimum. And so why would you want to throw your career on that side of the line and be summoned to Capitol Hill to be asked, why are you pursuing these innocent groups? And so we have a cultural impediment to working it effectively that should get more attention than it does. These are people that the left has to win back. They have to bring back people that have gone to the other side, that have been

that had been won over with Trump's populist messaging. And now they're calling them white supremacists. And they did that for the last four years right under Joe Biden. They weaponized half the country against the American people, going after traditional Catholics and parents at school board meetings and pro-lifers and January Sixers and President Trump himself. But after you've done that and you lost...

You'd think there'd be some self-reflection, maybe a messaging shift. And there hasn't been at all. They've doubled down on what's making them loose. By the way, when I was at UChicago,

Andrew McCabe, former deputy FBI director, he did a remote session with students where they talked about January 6th. They reflected on it on the two-year anniversary. It was around the date of the two-year anniversary. And he essentially called half the country, so literally he called it mainstream Republicans akin to domestic terrorists

and Islamic extremists. This is what he said about half the country. This is not a winning strategy. You can't insult people and expect them to vote for you. It's hysterical, it's unhinged, it's insulting.

What we're seeing, whether it's Disney rewriting the heart of Lilo and Stitch or Democrats spending millions to win back the very men they've spent years mocking and demoralizing, I think is a deeper crisis of connection.

institutions that once understood human nature of family, sacrifice, storytelling, they now operate in hollow abstractions focused more on signaling virtue than speaking the truth. We kind of talked about this yesterday with the education system, the way that we have

institutions of higher learning that used to be oriented to the truth, used to be oriented toward the pursuit of Jesus Christ, religion, suddenly abandoning it all for identity politics. These are people that have just said, we're done with our original message. This is Harvard's original message. We're done with it. We're shaking it off.

And all we're going to do now is focus on left-wing activism that we think is really human, right? They portray themselves as caring so much about the human experience and the marginalized of society. But in reality, it just feels so thin, so hollow. There's nothing really to it because you don't really view anyone as an individual. You're just constantly putting them in these boxes, right?

You're constantly trying to do what's right, to do what's most woke. And it comes off as very meaningless. It comes off as very vapid. And it doesn't resonate. It's not even resonating with the political left. Remember, like I said, the biggest critics of this Lilo and Stitch film? Not Republicans. Although nobody seems to like it, they're left-wingers. It's not working. It's not landing, whether in politics or entertainment,

These people have forgotten how to be human, how to resonate, how to mean something, and people feel it. And that's why they're turning out. Because you can't manufacture authenticity. You can't shame or buy your way into the trust of the people that you've betrayed.

Michael, do we have Ken Paxton? No, we don't. All right. No worries at all. Listen, you guys, we're going to we're going to, I think, hopefully bring in Ken Paxton in short order. But I want and I want to delve into some breaking news last night from his office. But first, we need to get to some of our wonderful sponsors today.

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All right, I want to get to a little more, I want to dig a little more into what is happening with young men in America. I was on Fox and Friends this morning. I think they clipped it. If you go to FoxNews.com, they clipped this hit that I did. It was very early, by the way. Michael and I had to get to the studio at like five in the morning. We've been here for a while, guys. But they asked me about all

the money that Democrats are pouring into young men, just obsessing over this generation, wanting to win them back. And I said, you know, I think this is not going to work because what's happening with young people, what's happening with young men specifically is a response to a spiritual crisis. This is not

This is not Republicans. Let me tell you, Republicans are not good at messaging to young people. Republicans are not good at messaging to anyone. The Republican consulting class, I think, is probably the greatest inhibitor of electoral success among the political right ever. However,

We are seeing this resurgence, this movement among young people to embrace traditional values. There is a reason why young men switched to the political right by nearly 30 points from 2024 compared to 2020. There is a vibe shift underway. We got them. And what's important is that it's organic.

It is not manufactured. It's not fake. There is something very real, very raw happening because I think this is a generation that is craving authenticity. They are craving tradition. They are craving all of the values of the past.

And it makes sense when you consider that Gen Z has hit rock bottom when it comes to the COVID lockdowns. When you think about the forced vaccine mandates, the way that many of their friends have been tranced or that young women are losing out on opportunities. We've seen the worst of the worst of leftism and we're looking for something different. All right. I want to bring in Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton. Attorney General Paxton, thank you so much for being here. Glad to be back. Thank you. I appreciate it.

So I want to get right into what happened yesterday. Your office announced the arrest of two illegal aliens over the killing of Ava Moore. It's an 18-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a jet ski in what seems to be a hit-and-run incident. First, if you would, tell us a little bit about the background of this case. And then, of course, what went down yesterday? Pretty simple. There was a young woman, Ava Moore, who was just about ready to head off. She'd been in a preparatory school to go to the Air Force Academy.

obviously young, and she was about to head off to the Air Force Academy this fall. And she was out kayaking on Lake Grapevine over Memorial weekend. And a jet skier ran over her and killed her. That jet skier was an illegal from Venezuela. She did not stay to help the young woman. She left the scene. And then another illegal helped her try to get away. And then he got in an accident.

And a day later, my fugitive apprehension unit tracked them down and arrested them so that they faced the consequences of their action. But I mean, even if they were legal, they would have been responsible for rendering aid after causing an accident and harming somebody else. And yet, you know, anybody should be responsible. Yet they were also here illegally, unfortunately. It was such a tragic incident. And I'm so glad that you're on top of things. And I want to just let you know,

Attorney General that in the comments right now, we're live stream. People are very happy with you and the job that you've been doing. And I'm going to tell all of you in the chat, if you want to ask a question of the Attorney General, just drop a comment. Michael might collect some of them toward the end of the show so that we can interact. But I want to get into this on a little deeper of a level because you're obviously dealing with these illegal aliens in this country. You're taking it seriously. But there are a

members of Congress who are actively sympathizing with not just illegals in this country, but illegal gang members, like traveling to Venezuela on behalf of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, this MS-13 trafficking wife beater. And the argument is, oh, due process. Due process is not being respected, allegedly. How do you respond to these cries from the political left?

I don't know. It's really hard to relate to. You're talking about a U.S. senator of Eastern Connecticut heading down to take care of a gang member who is involved in violent activity and is involved in harming Americans. He's involved in harming his own family. And that's where the U.S. senator goes to focus instead of trying to protect American citizens. Many kids have died from fentanyl overdoses. Many kids have been trafficked and sex trafficked. And

He's not worried about that. He's worried about this MS-13 gang member from Benzoe that makes literally no sense. And it speaks to something very wrong with some of our political leaders, particularly in the Democratic Party. But I wish it was just there. You know, it's spread into some of the Republicans who also seem to care more about, you know, allowing illegal immigration, not doing anything to protect us against it, and not protecting U.S. citizens and their own constituents.

Yes, there seems to be just a, if not a siding with the Democrats, almost just like a weaponized inaction from members of Congress. And I don't even know really how to explain it because we have a lot of power in Washington right now. And it just feels like the only person doing anything is President Trump with his executive orders. And we're not getting a lot of these orders actually finalized in law and having some permanency. I want to get

into some of the work that you've done, Attorney General, because you've been just on fire, frankly. You filed a lawsuit against BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard for illegally manipulating energy markets. I'm seeing some people talk about Pfizer. I want to get to that in a second. But first, can you tell us a little bit more about this?

Yeah, so those three companies through proxy voting, you know, many, many U.S. citizens, many investors invest through those companies, Vanguard, State Street. And so they end up proxy voting for us. And they ended up controlling these coal companies and stopping them from producing coal.

They, because they're invested in it, make a lot more money when there's less production, but it also cuts off the U.S. supply of energy, and it makes us more dependent on foreign oil and foreign importation, and it drives up the cost for the average American. And this is collusion. This is wrong. They're not supposed to do this. And they are harming our country and our ability to operate in all kinds of ways and costing Americans a lot of money, and it's illegal.

A concern is that these asset managers are not just manipulating energy markets through ESG policies, they're actually laying the groundwork for

technocratic total grid. So it's framed as climate or social responsibility, but actually it's a consolidation of power that could lead to centralized control over the essentials like food, energy, housing, even personal finance. So do you see ESG as a kind of Trojan horse that enables these unelected corporate elites to create a world where your energy access, your credit score, your ability to transact could be

contingent on some kind of political conformity? There's no doubt about it, because control with these shares, proxy voting,

And when they collude, they're able to manipulate not just energy markets but other social policies that allow them more control because they are clearly running the energy markets if they're controlling the production of coal. And there's no doubt they can do that with other issues. And if it works, why not do it? If they have other issues they want to control Americans with and make more money and direct social policy, there's no doubt that they can do it.

I mean, it's fascinating to see, right? I think the Democratic Party used to be the Occupy Wall Street Party, and suddenly it's the Republican Party and fighters like you who are saying, no, actually, there are some real problems here and we're going to tackle them. And it kind of subverts a lot of what we assume about the two sides here. And it does seem like public policy is no longer being set by

elected government officials, but instead by asset managers who are just wielding trillions in capital and they're backed by these opaque global networks that nobody can really see into. And it's very dystopian. I'm really happy to learn that you're taking this on. You're also investigating the manufacturers of children's fluoride toothpaste for, I guess, deceptive marketing practices. Can you tell me a little bit more about that too?

Yeah, so a lot of the research suggests that this fluoride is not good for children. That affects their cognitive development and potentially affects their ability to think and their IQ. And they've known this for years, and so they've continued to market a product that's dangerous. That's a deceptive trade practice in Texas. I would encourage other states to look at this. And so we're involved in investigating that and trying to verify exactly what our theory is. So I am concerned about it because

Obviously, we don't want our children's intelligence and their ability to think to be affected by something that's harmful from a company that doesn't tell us the truth. Right. I mean, it has to be--and I mean, think about even the fluoride being put in our water. So it's not even just children's toothpaste, but I think everybody anywhere, if you're in the United States of America, are going to be affected.

And again, this is something that we, for whatever reason, are constantly told, oh, it's a conspiracy theory. Don't worry about it. And the studies come out and they're like, still don't worry about it. And I wonder, is this something that you've noticed as you're trying to address these issues, especially with COVID? We can talk about that too, but just...

as you're trying to actually follow the science and react to just what is in the best interest of human flourishing, what is in the confines of the law, and people are just saying, well, you're a conspiracy theorist, you're crazy.

No, we're actually looking at science. I mean, we have studies that talk about this issue. We have studies that talk about some of the additives to cereal that affects children. We looked at the effects of the vaccine that Pfizer put out and what they said they were doing versus what was actually happening. So some of these large companies think they're immune from not telling the truth and putting out harmful products. They should not be immune from that. And even though the federal government has protected vaccine manufacturers in a very

strong way, states are not under the same obligation. We have not protected them from lying. We have not protected them from harming our kids and harming other people. And we're going to do everything we can to stop it. I am a proponent of business in the United States and encourage it and want wealth creation in our country and jobs, but I don't want them lying and harming our people.

This is what I think is so wonderful about just the new figures that we're seeing lead our country, especially in the age of Trump. You're seeing people actually following the science, actually listening to the studies instead of being dogmatic about things that we should just be honest about, we should just be authentic with.

just so everybody in the chat knows, just yesterday, RFK Jr. stopped the CDC from recommending COVID shots for healthy pregnant women and children. This is an obvious, very easy policy to carry out that makes perfect sense given what we know. Now, I want to talk a little bit more about what's going on with Pfizer. So you've had some legal setbacks, but you filed a notice of appeal in January 2025 to continue legal action against Pfizer. Any updates on this case?

No, we're still waiting on the Fifth Circuit. Hopefully we'll get an opportunity to argue this case and successfully bring it to conclusion. We are convinced that Pfizer and these vaccine manufacturers are not held responsible under federal law. They don't have to test these vaccines. They don't have to be effective. They can cause harmful side effects. And yet they're protected under federal law.

But in Texas, they're not protected under our state law. If you lie about a vaccine and you don't test it and it has negative impacts on people and it doesn't, it's not effective, you say it's 95% effective and we think it's like 1% at best, well, that's not telling the truth and you should be held responsible. I think the federal government went too far

I understand you want to have the opportunity to develop vaccines for kids and for others. But at the same time, if a company knows that it's not effective and that has side effects, the public should be told the truth and they shouldn't be able to get away with this and have no liability.

I mean, this is just basic transparency. This is just honesty. You can't just lie or grossly misrepresent how the efficacy of your vaccine or any kind of product is just kind of common sense. We're actually now being told, I think this is like news as of yesterday, that there is a new COVID-19 variant spreading in the U.S. This is per Forbes. Is it time, Attorney General, to

get out the boosters again, to put the masks on and re-lock down the country. What do you say?

That didn't seem to work very well last time. The masks, I never understood that. No one could ever explain why that made any sense. Those masks were not effective. And the vaccine wasn't effective. I mean, I don't think there's any demonstration that these vaccines actually stop. I never took the vaccine. And the reason I didn't was because I got COVID before I could take it. And then I was like,

I don't understand the pressure here. If you've had the vaccine, why do you care if I get it? If it actually prevents spread and you've got the vaccine, you shouldn't worry about me. And yet there was all this pressure threatening people with their jobs, social pressure, just unbelievable pressure. It didn't make sense. If the vaccine actually worked, it should have spoken for itself. And guess what? The vaccine didn't speak for itself. It created a lot of questions about side effects. I try

I truly believe there have been many negative side effects to that and more studies as we get more studied on this, we're going to find out that it didn't work in the way that they suggested it would. Now, I couldn't I couldn't agree more. I think that you are you're definitely on the right track here. And I and you and you're a rock star attorney general. And a lot of the comments that I'm getting right now are about your Senate run. You're running for Senate against John Cornyn.

now I guess the Texans all the tax and in the chat they they know on but for all of you in the other parts the country is a little rundown on senator John Cornyn the guy has supported federal legislation that just brazenly violate second he opposed

Trump's presidential runs and the border wall. He applauds the risky experimental COVID vaccines. He pushed for legislation allowing the Biden admin to force public schools to teach racist anti-American CRT. He opposed House Republicans who were trying to investigate Democrats' witch hunt against former President Donald Trump. He repeatedly sent blank checks to Ukraine. He helped to round up J6ers and get them thrown behind bars by working with Avril Haines, of all people.

And this is one I just learned yesterday. He called the BLM riots powerful demonstrations and believes that racial injustice is an issue in America's courts and society. I mean, it's kind of unbelievable. Like with friends like this, who needs enemies? Right. So, Attorney General, what will you do differently? Everything. I will I will never have a president. Joe Biden.

applauded John Cornyn for restricting gun ownership rights. He worked with President Biden. He said, "President Biden wanted this, we delivered it." Joe Biden was extremely grateful to John Cornyn. I can tell you this, that will never happen with me. There will be no Democratic president congratulating me on passing a restrictive

bill that restricts gun ownership. And this has been the history of John Cornyn. We've watched him for 23 years. I've watched him deliver the kind of results you're talking about. You listed some of the things that he's been against and been for. This may be a senator for Vermont or maybe even Maine, but not Texas. We need somebody more like Ted Cruz

that votes conservatively, that doesn't fund things that we don't believe, that actually believes in protecting the border, that actually is not insinuating that amnesty instead of a border wall is the way to go. This guy has not represented Texans well, and he's gotten away with it because he can fund his race from Washington. He's going to try the same thing. But you know what? It's time for change. He's been there for 24 years. He's been in public office for almost 40 years, and it's just time for him to go.

I have to imagine, Attorney General, that the Bushes probably still have a lot of influence in the state of Texas. And I feel that there is just a real disconnect. And a lot of these people like John Cornyn, who have been in politics for a really long time, in sort of these political dynasties in the Republican Party, who just are not in sync with

the modern Republican Party, the way that we've shifted into something much more populist, into a party that will say, hey, let's go out. We're going to go after these the BlackRock and Vanguard and we're going to actually do what's what is right for the American people, standing up for the little guy in a way that I just think this party hasn't in a long time. What do you think is going to be your biggest challenge if you are elected into the Senate? Because, I mean,

If I'm being honest, as somebody on the political right who's looking into that chamber, I'm saying there is seemingly a lot of Republicans who look just like Democrats. Yeah, and the Bushes, unfortunately, were not what they...

purported to be. They would get into office and not--if you look at the history, whether it's H.W. who said, no, read my lips, no new taxes, and then passed the largest tax bill in U.S. history. And then you've got George W. Bush, who--what did he actually deliver? And he is the guy that enabled John Cornyn to be John Cornyn. He's the one that put him on the Supreme Court. He's the one that encouraged him to create this school finance plan called Robinhood.

It was a judicial activist move on John Cornyn's part of the Supreme Court of Texas, where they took over our schools and turned it into a wealth redistribution program. It's been bad since John Cornyn did that. His reward for doing that for Bush, because Bush wanted it done when he was governor of Texas, was they, Karl Rove and George W. Bush, helped him become attorney general of Texas and then ultimately a U.S. senator. So John Cornyn has been answering to that group, Karl Rove and

and George W. Bush and the other Bushes his entire career. And the reality is it hasn't taken care of America. We haven't had leadership that was much different than what the Democrats were doing. And that's what I love about President Trump. He has led in a way that actually he cares about the American people. He's implementing policies that help us as opposed to the Bushes who got along with the Clintons and the Obamas that are all kind of in the same club. And that's one of the biggest problems with the U.S. Senate.

Yeah, absolutely. I couldn't agree more. And I want to ask one question of you. This one's from the chat. People are asking about what other attorney generals from red states can do to emulate what you have done in Texas. I think there are a lot of people in the chat who are coming from Republican states who are just noticing a lot of inaction. Is there a template? Is there advice that you can have for maybe other attorney generals, but even just for

what people on the ground should be doing to have the same kind of energy you've been able to create in Texas? I think it's just, you know, recognizing the issues that are out there and they're obvious and having the courage to stand up against the political class, the elite,

who try to tell us, along with the lobby and bureaucrats, that we need to do it a certain way. It's pretty simple to figure out what to do. You talk to the American people, you talk to your constituents, they know what they want. They're the ones you represent. And it merely takes, it doesn't take a genius to figure this stuff out. All you have to do is have the courage

to listen to your constituents and do what they ask you to do. And obviously that when you do that, you will suffer consequences from the political class, from the bureaucracy, from even like weaponizing the legal system like they've done against President Trump and me and others. But the reality is that's why we're elected. We're elected to take care of the people of our states and of our country and most politicians.

back away from that job and are worried about being friends with everybody and getting along and making sure that their friends are taken care of in both the political class and other you know people associated with the political class

Yeah, you have to be willing to make tough decisions. You have to be willing to lose friendships to do what's right. Otherwise, what do you stand for? Why are you even in power? I have one more question for you. This one's from the chat. People want to know what you think President Trump should do in response to all of these activist judges inhibiting his rightful powers in the executive, especially when it comes to some of the inhibitors of his immigration agenda.

That's a huge problem. And part of the problem was created by Republicans. George W. Bush didn't always appoint, nor did his father, conservative constitutional judges. So we have an institutional problem created by both Democrats and Republicans. I think

the question is, is Congress ever going to step up and impeach judges that are not following the Constitution? That's the appropriate role for Congress. The president can appoint people. Congress oversees the courts. They were never supposed to be even--they were not supposed to be--they were supposed to be the weaker of the three branches. And as it turns out, because of judicial activism and this complete disparaging of the Constitution and the rule of law,

Congress has to step in and take people out that are not following the Constitution. And so if you are one of these judges that's decided that I can run the policy of immigration through my court for the entire nation, Congress needs to look at those people and say, you know, it's time to get rid of some of these judges.

Amazing. Attorney General Paxton, I want to be respectful of your time. Give us just your elevator pitch. Tell us where people can go to follow your campaign, to stay up to date on everything that you're working on as AG as well. Also, people really want to know where they can donate to your campaign. So if you could also mention that as well. Yeah, KenPaxson.com is the place to donate and catch up on what we're doing. KenPaxsonTX is our Twitter handle and also Facebook. And look, I...

Do I need to run another race? I've been attorney general for, it'll be 12 years. I've loved doing it. I've had the chance to make a difference in both my state and the entire country fighting for the people of Texas and fighting for constitutional rights. John Cornyn has never done that. He's never going to do that. Right now, he's running to be a MAGA guy for one year while he's running against me.

After that, he'll be back to being the real John Corrin. And, you know, look, Texans, I think, want something different. I've felt it. I've seen it. I've seen him booted, you know, Republican conventions where people know what's going on. And he's going to lie to us and try to tell us he is something that he is not. I wish he'd just be who he is. Just come out and say, this is what I believe. I don't believe in a border wall. He's been saying this before and forever.

during the next, you know, 10 months, he's going to be dishonest with us and try to be somebody else. I truly believe that Texas voters, especially Republican primary voters, are smarter than that and that they are going, that I know they want to change, and I believe we're going to accomplish that. I think that we have a lot of people in Congress right now who unfortunately have proven that we can't trust them. And it's very disheartening. And so I hope others will stand up and actually

start to primary some of these people. I really appreciate you joining the show, Attorney General. You're doing amazing work. For all of you listening, we're going to have links to Ken Paxton's website, his social media in the comments, so make in the description. So make sure to go there if you're interested in more. But as always, you guys, thank you so much for joining the show. If you want to follow me, my Instagram and user is avitadeffy underscore one, and I will see you all tomorrow.

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