Radio Show Hour 1 – 2025/06/07

[00:00:01] You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is The Political Cesspool. The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program. And here to guide you through the murky waters of The Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.

[00:00:31] Ladies and gentlemen, I am so excited about the message I'm going to bring to you this evening. Welcome to tonight's live broadcast of TPC. It's Saturday evening, June the 7th, and I have just returned, well, a few days ago, from last weekend's Will to Power Conference,

[00:00:52] an event that was organized by TPC and sponsored by our friends at the Conservative Citizens Foundation, as well as some other organizations as well. This was an event that came together pretty quickly but was still months in the making. I have been waiting for the night to be able to share with you the details, share the details with our wider listening audience, and tonight that time has finally come.

[00:01:21] Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Before I tell you what happened last weekend and why, I believe it will prove to be a momentous occasion that we will look back on and say, you know what, I was there at that event that sparked this, that sparked this. There are going to be things that grow from this conference. Seeds that were planted will produce fruit going forward.

[00:01:47] Well, let me just give you the entire story. Let's go back now to the very beginning. And I was not going to hold an event this year, but a chain of events was put into motion beginning on the evening of Saturday, January the 18th. During our live show that night, two nights before the election,

[00:02:13] I had on together in tandem, appearing at once simultaneously, Steve King, the former congressman, of course, and Lou Moore, Ron Paul's former campaign manager, a guy who spent many years in Washington as congressional chief of staff. I had both of them on together in that inauguration preview show to help me anticipate what we might should expect from the incoming Trump.

[00:02:43] 2.0 administration, the second Trump administration, and it was a very good show. And a lot of the things that we were sort of putting forth as best case scenarios for the entire term came to pass within the first day. I think one of the gentlemen said, I hope that at some point we see some of the J6ers freed, some of the J6 hostages freed.

[00:03:10] Well, he freed them all immediately, all of them, all of them. And so I was so plussed by that show that I went back and looked at some of Steve King's previous appearances with us. And there was something that he said in a show we had done a couple of years ago. Well, this is what he said. Western civilization is a superior civilization. The first world doesn't exist outside of Western civilization.

[00:03:37] People want to destroy the first world because they despise what has been accomplished by it. They've created this racial envy. And what I don't understand is why the people who built the greatest civilization in the history of the world would hand it over because of something called white guilt. I want to build an institution that's founded in Vienna where we turned back the Turks in 1529 and 1683, committed to saving Western civilization, and then let it grow into universities and elsewhere.

[00:04:03] And then all of a sudden, I mean, he had said that a couple of years ago on the show, and then all of a sudden there was just a spirit in the air that first week of the second Trump administration where things started to feel a little more possible. And by pure coincidence, or providence, if you will, the Conservative Citizens Foundation, good friends of mine, people I have known ever since I started the show, they are dear friends.

[00:04:28] They just so happened, their board of directors just so happened to be meeting in Memphis on January the 25th, a week after that aforementioned show with Steve and Lou. And my main goal in going to that, they invited me, I'm not on the board, but they invited me to sit in with them because, again, we've been longtime friends. And I was just thinking about what Steve had said, and I just thought I would facilitate an introduction. So I called Steve King. We're having a great conversation.

[00:04:58] I said, Steve, I'm going to meet with this conservative nonprofit in Memphis in a few days, and I remembered this project you said you were working on. And I just want to facilitate an introduction. He said, yeah, I'd love to talk to him. And that really was my entire goal, just to pass along phone numbers and let them talk and see if anything would happen. Well, something happened. Something happened. So we were there a week now into the Trump administration, January the 25th.

[00:05:24] I'm sitting with the board members of the Conservative Citizens Foundation, and they said, you know, James, there's just so much happening right now with these executive orders and the J6 sausages being freed. And as a matter of fact, on that January 25th show earlier this year, I interviewed one of the J6 sausages who had just been freed. And they said, are you going to do a conference this year? And I said, no, I don't think I'm going to do one this year. We had just had, of course, the big 20th anniversary conference for TPC last year.

[00:05:53] And I said, I don't think I'm going to do a conference this year. They just are an immense amount of work. And I don't do them every year, typically on special occasions. But there was already this feeling in the air, you know, an opportunity to press an advantage maybe.

[00:06:13] And I said, there does, though, I will grant you, it would be interesting to explore opportunities and to exchange ideas and to see if we can further advance our positions through this apparent cultural shift. And if so, how? And they said, well, yeah, we need to do a conference about that.

[00:06:38] And I said, well, if we did do a conference, I would want to move quickly because you understand how politics works and how quickly the shine can wear off of something. And in that first week in January, yes, things were going good for us. A lot of things were happening that we hadn't seen an American president do before. But it was hard to forecast in those first few days what things would look like in Washington months later.

[00:07:07] You just couldn't do that. I mean, of course, then we certainly couldn't have anticipated that Trump would be talking about white genocide of South Africans in the Oval Office, that he would go after these anti-white policies of DEI and all of the things that he's done so far. We didn't know that then. So I said, if we're going to do a conference, let's do it quickly while there's still this positive vibe going on. So back to this conference idea. And they said, if you did this conference, who would you want to invite?

[00:07:37] And I said, well, this is what it would have to be. I said, let me tell you about Steve King. And we talked about that. I said, Steve King is definitely a guy that I would want to be a keynoter at this thing. And I said, I want to book in that. This needs to be international. I said, Philip De Winter is another guy, sitting member of the Flemish Parliament in Belgium. I would want Steve King and Philip De Winter, absolutely.

[00:08:05] And in addition to that, I would want Congressman Steve Stockman from Texas. He has an excellent story. He is a funny guy, but he is a shrewd political operator. I think he would be great to have there. So then you would have two former congressmen, Lou Moore. Lou Moore is another guy. I asked Lou on the show last week, excuse me, last week, last year. I said, Lou and Liz, let's skip the breaks this hour. I've got too much to say before we move on.

[00:08:36] But I said, I asked Lou in his first appearance on TPC just last fall. And I said, you know, Lou, do you want to comment on Republicans who are afraid to mention race? And Lou said, and I quote on this program, Republicans look ridiculous when they trim their sales and pandered to every different group. It's no longer outside the Overton window to state that every part of our agenda must relate to saving Western civilization. It is in the interest of the people, of all people of goodwill to save the white male from a constant campaign of vilification.

[00:09:04] Lou Moore is a guy we can win with. And these people are plugged in. They're connected. They've been a part of the political machine. And they think like us. I want Steve King, Philip De Winter. I want Lou Moore. I want Steve Stockman. If we can get those guys, I think we can build a really interesting conference. Something very different. Something unprecedented. Something that, to my knowledge, really no other white advocacy organization on this

[00:09:33] continent has done in the 21st century. And I said, I need Sam Bushman there. I can't do anything without Sam Bushman. He is so important to my events that the way he and his team help run the AV and, of course, you know, his role here on the radio network. I would want him to speak. And then, you know, Brad Griffin, who is associated with the Conservative Citizens Foundation, does such a good job tracking polls and keeping us up to date on everything that's actually

[00:10:02] coming out of the administration. So that was that that was and there would be others. I mean, there were other speakers as well. We had a guy running for office right now. I think he's going to win. He's a front runner. I mean, we had, again, former elected officials, sitting elected officials and aspiring elected officials along with some of our program mainstay. So that was the vision. That was the vision that was hatched. That cold evening on January the 25th.

[00:10:31] Now, it's easy to come up with the plan. Executing plans is where people sometimes sometimes fall short. So we had this framework. Now it was time to move forward. So I called Steve. I said, Steve, you know, I told you I was going to meet with this conservative group. And let me ask you something. I said, Steve, do you believe that God guides us with his hand to be at a certain place at a certain time according to his perfect will?

[00:11:01] And Steve said, well, James, you know, I do. Where are we going? One. And Steve and I had been, we had spoken together last year at an event. He and I both were speakers at an event in Orlando, Florida. So we've spent some time and just really had that always. Anytime we talk, it's a great time. Anytime we're together, it's a great time. And so I told him this idea that I just shared with you a couple of minutes ago here on the program this night about my vision for this conference. And he signed up.

[00:11:30] And so every other person that I called signed up. Everybody on the first pass wish list, at the top of the wish list, everybody we targeted was ready to go. So then you do a little work. You get a great venue. We had one letter that we sent out, one letter to people who donate every quarter. That's what we're going to start with.

[00:11:57] And then if we didn't fill the ballroom, we would extend it out. And it sold out within two or three weeks. It was an instant sellout. And let me tell you something. If you're wondering why we didn't make this a public event, I wish we could. America may still be the home of the brave in certain circumstances, but it is certainly not the land of the free. And the last time I had a public event, I have had many events for this radio program and many events that I've organized for other groups.

[00:12:27] But the last time we did a fully public event was in 2008. I had 500 people coming to that conference that TPC was putting on. And the four runners to Antifa, they weren't called Antifa then, but the Marxists, the communists, the violent, the anarchists, of course, they found out about it because, well, it was public. And they began to threaten the hotel. I've told you this story before. You know this story if you're a regular listener.

[00:12:57] But this was going to be held the weekend after Obama's election in November of 2008. And they threatened to blow up the hotel. And the hotel was getting some real pushback. And I don't mean just, you know, are you sure you want to host white people who don't hate themselves? You know, do you think that's a good look? Not that kind of stuff. I'm talking about they were just went straight to we're going to blow up the hotel if you don't cancel this contract.

[00:13:26] And the hotel said, well, you know, we're getting these threats, but we have a contract and we're going to stick to it. You know, imagine that. Imagine that. In 2008, that was still possible. Now, I mean, we know how ridiculous that sounds. But in 2008, we'd had conferences before and never had a problem. And so we expected that a legally binding document was exactly that. Well, once the general manager got phone calls at his home saying they were going to kill him and his wife and his kids,

[00:13:53] I got a call about less than a week before that event, three days, I think, saying that the event was going to have to the venue was going to have to pull out. They just couldn't put their employees at that risk. Now, again, imagine white people. This doesn't happen. It wouldn't happen and it shouldn't happen. But imagine white people saying they're going to blow up a hotel if, you know, a group that they don't agree with comes in. Well, these were white people, of course, but they were communists. But imagine imagine, you know, decent white people saying that.

[00:14:22] Well, they would be arrested as they should be. But when it's people like us, you are allowed. The heckler's veto doesn't really stand. And so we had three days. I had three days. I didn't sleep for 72 days straight, 72 hours straight. I didn't sleep. And we pulled that off. I think, you know, we lost a couple of hundred people to attrition. You know, people. It was a very uncertain and shaky thing. But we still had that meeting and 300 people attended.

[00:14:45] And to this day, of all the events I've put on, that is the one I am most proud of, I think, because of the adversity that we had to overcome. But I certainly didn't want to ever do that again. And so we do have to keep these things private to safeguard the integrity of the event, number one, but also the physical presence of our attendees and other people who may be around because these leftists are very violent.

[00:15:15] And you've seen that. I mean, they burn down cities. They do all these things. We saw that in the summer of Floyd. This is who they are. And so you have to – we keep these things private for right now. And that is why we didn't announce it publicly. I think if we had announced this publicly, it would have been the biggest event in a long, long time here in America. And these things are, of course, very difficult to plan.

[00:15:41] I mean, my obsession and attention to detail, my obsession to deliver for attendees is pretty intense. I lost 17 pounds in the last month. I told somebody if I just planned conferences year-round, I'd look like the Hulk by Halloween. But I do micromanage. I do not delegate. And I like things to be perfect.

[00:16:04] I believe that I owe that to the people who are spending money to travel to an event, to pay for hotel rooms, to pay conference registration fees. I mean, it's a lot of money. And taking time off work, that means a lot to me. And I'm going to do everything I can to give you the best experience possible. And we did. Excellent venue. Great food. Musical entertainment. Great graphics. Complimentary graphics. All aspects of the presentation.

[00:16:33] Big part of that was due to Sam Bushman and his team. And so this did develop pretty rapidly. I mean, by the time we actually got the contract and the time we were able to announce it and we had talked to all the speakers and had a program, we were in mid-February. Mid-February to May is not a lot of lead time for a major international event. And, for instance, our anniversary celebrations are planned a year out.

[00:17:02] You know, when we started talking about the 20th anniversary conference for TPC, we were planning that a year in advance. We had three and a half months to put this together. And in many ways, this was certainly the most intricate and most detailed event that I've ever put on. So you can imagine the amount of work that takes. I mean, incessant emails, phone calls, the details. I mean, things like getting a flag, a tripod. I mean, just things that happen on the day of, the day of, just things you have to be nimble and adapt.

[00:17:32] And I had a great host committee, great host committee there in South Carolina. And it was an intensive production. But that's why you pour yourself into it to make sure that everything runs smoothly. And it did. And time passes very quickly when your mind is that engaged. And then the day finally arrives.

[00:17:56] And so my family and I left early, a couple of days early, to get into South Carolina without a lot of wear and tear. And we had a friend there, longtime supporter of the program. We had a lake house about an hour away from the venue. And we stayed there for a couple of nights. Had a great time. If you're listening tonight, brother, thank you for hosting your humble servant, my wife, our kids, our goddaughter. She went with us as well. Thank you for taking us out on the lake in your boat. It was just an amazing time.

[00:18:25] It was what we needed as this calm before the storm. And I thank you for your hospitality. But we arrived up at the venue on Thursday of last week, attended to the backstage production. We flew in all the speakers a day early. You don't leave anything to chance on something like this. If you fly them in the day of and there's a flight cancellation or a delay, that could just really ruin the whole thing. So we flew them all in a day early. Everybody got there on time.

[00:18:50] And then you instantly start to reconnect and re-solidify these relationships. We all went, the speakers, all of the speakers went, all of the speakers who flew in, I should say, went to a rooftop restaurant that Thursday night, the night before the event. And I just, the camaraderie of it all. And let me tell you something.

[00:19:17] Philip De Winter, Philip woke up in Brussels that day, flew around the world, had a layover in Washington, then flew on into South Carolina. He got there, I don't know, about 9 o'clock. 9 o'clock he got to the airport, 9 o'clock at night after traveling literally around the world. And I called him and I said, I'm sure you're too tired to get out tonight. I'm out to eat with Steve King and Steve Stockman and Lou Moore and some of the other speakers.

[00:19:47] And he said, no, no, I'm hungry. And that's where this guy, after all that wear and tear of travel, came. And we were way past midnight, I mean, talking and just having a great time. The camaraderie, everybody smiling, everybody enjoying one another. It was great. And then you get to Friday. Friday, the big day arrives. And first of all, we all go to a Confederate museum. We all go to a Confederate museum.

[00:20:15] I got pictures of Steve Stockman, Congressman Stockman, holding this musket with a bayonet. Philip DeWinter, holding a cannonball. All of this stuff is authentic. It was used in the war. These aren't replicas. And we know the docent there at the museum. He just gives such a great tour. We had the whole place to ourselves. And, I mean, these are the moments where, I mean, you just really bond. I mean, I've known all of these people for years.

[00:20:44] You build relationships over years. You earn trust. But, I mean, when you're together, obviously that takes it to the next level. And then we get back to the venue. Things are starting to kick off. We brought in a piano player from Central Florida. And I don't mean it. He's played at all of my events except for the 20th anniversary. He had a conflict. So if you've been to one of my events, you've met him before. And I don't mean this is a guy who knows how to play the piano. I mean he is a professional. I do this for a living musician.

[00:21:13] And the room is full. And the spirits are high. And the food is good or so I hear because I can't even eat because I'm so laser focused. And so I give my welcoming remarks. Every seat filled. I reiterate the purpose of the event. We have this video presentation from Nick Griffin. He was supposed to be there but, once again, was unable to travel.

[00:21:36] I'm actually going to play for you a little later in the broadcast tonight his comments because I do have that. And we'll do that sort of at the finale of tonight's show. And then Steve King sets the room on fire. He's our keynoter for Friday night. You can hear that I'm still hoarse from holding forth the entire weekend last weekend. I'm still hoarse from talking so much.

[00:22:02] But Steve King just gives an amazing exposition on the history of Western civilization from the Greeks to the Romans all the way to our present times. And all of the major midway points in between. It was incredible. And basically, I mean, what he was saying was, I mean, what he said flat out was if you remove or eliminate the people who made Western civilization,

[00:22:28] if you put forth a climate that causes our birth rates to plummet as they are in every white Western world, and then you couple that with replacement level immigration, the so-called great replacement, then it doesn't exist anymore. It's pretty simple. And Western civilization is worth saving. Nobody has done more to bestow God's blessing on humanity.

[00:22:54] And Steve told us some great behind-the-scenes stories, stories he's told on this program before. But once again, the story about defending the Confederate flag, even as a man whose ancestors fought on the other side, he got a Confederate flag and he brought the Confederate flag with him. It was a little stick flag, about six inches tall. I mean, one of these mini flags you put on a desk, not one that you fly on a flagpole.

[00:23:19] But he brought the actual flag that he had on his desk when he was going under that fire, the actual flag that he held in his hand on the house floor. He pulled that out of his jacket pocket during his talk and was holding it as he made these comments about Western civilization. And he talked again about the chain of events that led to him being taken out by the establishment in Congress,

[00:23:43] how when he was at the 2016 Republican National Convention, and of course I was there too. Sam Bushman was there. We were there on press row with credentials. But Steve was doing an interview on MSNBC and someone said, I don't remember the exact quote, but it was, I hope this is the last time we see this many white people at one place. And Steve said, I just couldn't let it go. And he said, I'm tired of hearing talk like that. Name me one group of people who have done more.

[00:24:12] And then the host, Chris Hayes, the odious, disgusting worm Chris Hayes said, thought he had Steve King. And he said, you mean more than white people? And Steve just owned the moment. And he told that story and so many more. Standing ovation, guitar player direct from Memphis there, a great guitar player, great musical entertainment, great people. I will tell you so much more about it when we come back from this break. Please stay tuned.

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[00:29:55] N-A-T-C-O-N dot L-I-F-E. All right, folks. Thank you for letting me take an hour, or at least thank you, I should say, for listening to this hour. I want to tell you about this, and I'm going to cut to the chase here in the next few minutes. Let's skip all breaks this hour.

[00:30:24] We'll take all of the ones going forward. But, again, born from the early hours and days since the inauguration, there was this sense of complacency that normally comes about, but rather a bold spirit of determination to move forward, to press on,

[00:30:48] and to, with us being uniquely equipped through our network and through the relationships that we have spent 21 years developing, I thought we could get some pretty interesting people in the room. Again, former, current, and aspiring elected officials blended in with some of our program mainstays like Sam Dixon. I don't want to mention everyone who played a part in the event because I don't have the program in front of me, and I'll forget some people.

[00:31:18] We had some special presentations as well, like Glenn Allen's Free Expression Foundation, some of the principles from that. What I'm doing right now, what I said I wouldn't do, and that's trying to mention everybody because I'll leave someone out and it won't be intentional. But it was a great, great blending of the people you've known and loved on this program for the entirety of its run and new friends, and we're talking about capitalizing on this growing momentum.

[00:31:46] What can we do to engage in this new environment? And, of course, our conferences have always been renowned for convivial atmosphere. You've got this assault on your senses. You've got music. You've got excellent speakers. You've got food. We had the field trip over to Dixie Republic again. And, I mean, Philip De Winter was over there throwing axes. Everybody had a great time. Everybody had a great time.

[00:32:13] But more than just having a great time, I mean, we always have a great time. Things happened. Ideas. Plans were formed. Very different. And I think in addition to the fun we always have, there was just such a spirit of hope and optimism. I mean, that's not to say that the event was Pollyannish. Not at all.

[00:32:37] There were differences of opinions even from the podium, from different speakers on the value of Trump, how we move forward with Trump and then after Trump. It was not Pollyannish, but it was positive. And it was realistic. And that was the whole thing. I told every speaker, I want it to be positive. If you can't be positive, we'll find somebody else. I want it to be positive, but I want it to be realistic. And then you had that. You had that.

[00:33:04] So let's go back to that Friday night. Steve King setting the woods on fire. I think that was something said of George Wallace years ago. And then we go into the after hours entertainment, guitar player, everybody in high spirits. Then we move on to Saturday. Saturday lineup. You got Lou Moore. You got Steve Stockman. You've got a current gentleman running for office, Sam Bushman, Sam Dixon.

[00:33:34] And then you get to. By the way, I got to say, I mean, Steve Stockman is one of the most interesting people, his political story, the story. I mean, we've talked about it on the program when he's appeared in the past, serving two different times in Congress, not consecutively, but 20 years apart and in two different districts and then putting him in prison. I mean, he just had a great, a great story. And. It was powerful. And that's how we close Saturday afternoon.

[00:34:03] Piano player comes back out and then the event is at its zenith. It's at its apex. It's at its highest point. Philip De Winter takes the stage and is mesmerizing. It was a grand slam. He nailed it. You're talking about the Islamization of Europe. You're talking about what he is doing as a sitting member of parliament with his network, with all of the other nationalist parties throughout Europe.

[00:34:33] I mean, Vlam's Blanc is a big deal. And it was just a very powerful speech. And we had all been working up to that moment. And then you go back. More fellowship. Well into the night. Guitar player comes back out. I'm feeling so good. I sing Mac the knife. I sing Mac the knife there afterwards.

[00:34:57] And Steve, it's just Steve King is recording me on his phone as I sing Mac the knife, the great Bobby Darin standard. And then he texted over to me. You can hear him laughing as we hit the grand finale there. We had the piano player and the guitar player on that one. Anyway, it's just good people having a good time. I don't know the caricature, the lies that are told about our events. I mean, well, actually I do.

[00:35:23] But for anybody and certainly nobody listening to this program who's a regular listener would believe this. But some people may believe that when we get together, we conspire and it's with great contempt and scorn in our hearts. But no, it's just good people having a good time talking about causes and issues that are bigger than us and how we can. Well, Brad Griffin put it very well.

[00:35:50] This is what he wrote in a post at Occidental Dissent post conference. I loved what he what he wrote here. We now have some cultural and political momentum. It remains to be seen how long it will last. But at least in this moment, life appears to be getting better. The question now before us is what we should do with this historic opportunity.

[00:36:13] Should we present ourselves as normal Americans and work to reclaim our rightful place in mainstream politics at the state, local, and federal level? Or should we remain satisfied with the stagnation and self-destructive patterns of being a marginalized subculture? For me, there is no question to that. I have always wanted to take our movement mainstream. Mainstream, yes, but without sacrificing any of our positions.

[00:36:42] And that is what we are doing. We are leading in that way. And Brad also said to me that we need to start thinking about the legacy that we want to leave behind. I've been in this in my entire adult life. I'll be 45 years old later this month. I was 19 when I joined the Buchanan campaign. All my adult life. And it's going by fast. But the legacy that we want to leave behind.

[00:37:07] We can say that we kept the light burning during our darkest hour when times were hard. And we were written off and pushed to the fringes of politics by overconfident liberals. We should aim for being able to say on our deathbeds that we turned the tide. We fought our way back from the fringe to the political center. And we left our cause in better shape than we found it. And we laid the foundation for our descendants to reclaim their birthright. That is what we were doing.

[00:37:36] That is what we have been doing for all of this time on the air. And that is why we met together to make plans with people who can actually move things forward and are willing to and will be willing to. You have to present your message, though, in a way that is professional and is real and has the ability to take flight. That's what we're doing here at TPC. And you are all a part of it.

[00:38:06] This is a tremendous accomplishment. A tremendous accomplishment. What do I mean by that? I mean, again, I am talking about that. That, in my opinion, I don't think there has been another pro-white gathering in the 21st century in the United States that has assembled such an impressive array of talent and power under the same roof. We did that. You and I, if you're a listener and a supporter and all of us, we did that together.

[00:38:33] And as I said at the top of the hour, I think we're going to look back on this event and mark it as a momentous occasion, not just another gathering, although any gathering is important because it gives you the opportunity to rejuvenate and recharge and rekindle relationships and make new ones. That's always important. That's why we do them. But this one was a little bit different.

[00:38:56] And it was all of that plus, plus getting people together who have contacts in Washington, who are part of governments in Europe. And that would not have been made possible, my friends, if it were not for you. You, Mr. and Mrs. TPC listener, for your support.

[00:39:20] Your support keeps us on the air and enables us to not just present to you an incredible talk radio broadcast every week. Yes, we do that. But it also facilitates our ability to put together these events as a result of the trust that we have built with all of these different people around the world. We have been able to do that and build the bridges necessary for progress to occur.

[00:39:51] Not many people have done that. Not many people are doing that. Not many people have done that in our movement, in this country, in a long time. A lot of people run their mouths. You know, the Bible, great Bible verse about that, by the way. And I'm not talking about anybody. I don't have one person in mind. You think, well, he's talking about this. I'm not talking about anybody. But I'm talking about people, anonymous people on social media, if I'm talking about anybody.

[00:40:18] You know, as if that is going to be what changes things, doing, you know, posting edgy things on Twitter or wherever. Proverbs 29, 11. Proverbs chapter 29, verse 11. And as always, I read it from the King James Version, which is exactly the way God spoke it. A fool uttereth all his mind, but a wise man keepeth it in until afterwards. What that means is only a fool speaks his entire mind.

[00:40:51] Wouldn't you rather take power or move towards gaining power than just shoot your mouth off? I would, you know, and that's what we do here. And that's why, again, you are supporting responsible advancement here when you support the work of this program. No longer resign to the fringe. We're now engaging in power politics. We are advancing and we will continue to press on.

[00:41:18] I say again, seeds sown last weekend will produce new and lasting fruit. And when they do, you made it happen. You did. Through us, your support made it happen. And I'm proud of our legacy. I am so proud. We've come so far since 2004 when we first took to the airwaves. You have been such an important part of it, ladies and gentlemen, for so long.

[00:41:45] And I promise you, I promise you that the best is yet to come. You are supporting a winning team here. And we will continue to achieve victories for our cause. Our second quarter fundraising drive is going on. Yes, the filthy lucre. We need it. We need it. I don't need to tell you why we need it or why. I hope you'll consider supporting it and giving it. I've been doing that all hour, but you know it if you're a regular listener of the program.

[00:42:14] We've got some great incentive gifts. We've got the DVD, Gods and Generals. This is the theatrical release that follows Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson through the early years of the war between the states. As you know, remarkably, Warner Brothers solicited the help of TPC to promote the re-release of this film in 2011 in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the conflict.

[00:42:39] And we got a couple of friends of ours who were there in South Carolina last weekend to sign it. And you may get that copy. We have some other copies signed by yours truly and Keith Alexander. You may get that, but you're going to get the movie nevertheless. And just another interesting chapter in TPC's history with that. Actually, you know, this is something I didn't know. So there was one copy that we auctioned.

[00:43:07] We did a little auction there. We auctioned a flag that was sent to us by Gene Andrews. He asked us to auction. And we auctioned a DVD of this movie. And I asked Steve King, Steve Stockman, and Lou Moore to sign it. And when I took it to Steve King, he goes, oh, I know the director. The director's name is Ronald Maxwell. He said, he's one of us. And I said, really? I said, you know, I knew it was a good movie.

[00:43:35] It was a movie that is very fair. But I didn't, you know, I guess I should have assumed. He goes, oh, no, I know him. He's one of us. And then I took it over to Lou Moore. And Lou Moore said, oh, this is by Ronald Maxwell. He was one of the Buchanan guys. He's one of us. So that was just interesting to just hear two of the speakers. We auctioned this off, got them to sign it, two of our speakers, giving their endorsement of the movie as well. So anyway, $100 or more, you're going to get that movie. And I think you'll like it. So what else?

[00:44:04] What else do I want to say about this before we move on? We are going to continue to cover this, but we're going to cover it a little differently in the next couple of hours. We are going to be talking with some people who were there and getting their testimonials. Yes, I do believe, with no vanity involved at all, I do believe that this event was important enough that we should spend the entire program tonight talking about it.

[00:44:31] Now, you may be wondering, why didn't we talk about it last week? What was going on with last week's show? You say you're at this great event, and on the show last week there was nothing about it. Well, that was a little sleight of hand. Once or twice a year, we prerecord a broadcast. Last week was one of those weeks. So last week when you heard from Jason Kuna, who, by the way, Jason Kuna opened. He's just such a gifted communicator.

[00:44:54] I asked him if he would say a couple of short words at the beginning of the conference, and he just gave a great introduction to the whole thing. I let him introduce Nick, who introduced me, via video, and that was the way we started that. And then as we began to wind down and close right before Philip DeWinter spoke, Jason came back up and said a few words in summation. So that was just another one of the personalities that was there.

[00:45:19] There again, I said I wouldn't name them all because we'll forget somebody, but everybody who was there was a somebody. I mean, everybody there has played a significant role in our cause. But anyway, where was I going with that? I was going somewhere with that, and I got too far ahead of myself and lost my train of thought. But in any event, that's why we didn't do it last week.

[00:45:44] So we did prerecord last week's show in advance because we had so many important people in the room. I just couldn't make the time to do the live remote broadcast at the conference like we normally do. At any conference I've ever put on for TPC, you've heard them, we do that, and it's always sort of the high point.

[00:46:13] I've got to get a drink of tea here. It's always the high point of the thing. That's the way we end it. But we didn't do that this time. While this conference was just as fun as any other, it was a little more businesslike. It wasn't a celebration of 20 years on the air or 15 years or 10 years or whatever. This was something where we're getting people together to make plans to move our people forward.

[00:46:39] And not just commentators, politicians, people with contacts, people with resources, people who have a shared vision. That's what we were doing. And so I didn't want – it's not that I didn't want to, but I just thought for this particular event it would be best Saturday night when energy is at its highest to have Philip DeWinter come and take it. And he did.

[00:47:05] And so we did record the show you heard if you weren't at the event, the show you were listening to last Saturday a week ago right now if you're listening live. That was prerecorded. Tonight, of course, we're live. But that was why that happened. And so knowing that we weren't going to be able to do the live broadcast from the event as we did last year for the 20th anniversary event, I had planned in advance to spend tonight's show sort of recapping it for you

[00:47:34] and getting some different takes on it and all of that. So, again, I wish that it didn't have to be private. I explained to you earlier why it just has to be. We are not free enough in this country to where dissidents can have their civil rights be honored. We are not able to freely assemble and to practice our First Amendment rights in this country, even under Trump.

[00:48:00] The heckler's veto would not stand for us. I mean, we wouldn't be protected like other groups would be protected. And so even – I mean, and it's not just because of who we are. I think – was it Christy Noem last year, the former governor of South Dakota and now the director of Homeland Security? She was going to be giving a speech somewhere in the Mountain West in a Mountain West state,

[00:48:30] and the hotel canceled her. The governor of South Carolina got her speech canceled. And so you do see this, and it's just not worth the risk. I wish we could, and maybe one day we will be able to. I look forward to that day where we can broadcast this full-throated from the top of rooftops. We are going to have an event, and we're going to be able to speak, and everyone who hears my voice is invited. I wish all of you could have been there.

[00:48:59] I was not playing favorites at all with regards to the invitations, but it was a limited seating capacity, and we sent it out first to the people who donate every quarter, and it filled up. But when we are able to have a free event and a public event, I hope everybody comes. I wanted everybody to be there this time, and I just – I appreciate you listening to me explain why.

[00:49:29] And that's just not a possibility yet. But God willing, if some of the plans that we're working on bear fruit, we will be able to do that again one day. And, of course, you know, you could go the Jared Taylor route, which is a proven and tested route and hold it at a state park facility. A little bit difficult to get to Montgomery Bell State Park, where he holds the American Renaissance events.

[00:49:56] You've got to fly into Nashville and then drive about 45 minutes or an hour. But that's definitely an option. That's definitely an option. But we wanted to go back to South Carolina. It's just a beautiful part of the country. It's a great part of the country. We have a lot of friends there. And going back over to Dixie Republic and letting people enjoy that experience, it was just a first-class experience. We had a luxury tour bus, you know, come and pick everybody up from the hotel and travel them down over there to Traveler's Rest.

[00:50:23] And, by the way, I want to thank again the host committee, the team at Dixie Republic. They helped take some of our speakers to the airport and were handling all that. They provided security. I mean, we have professional security. Everything was professional. Nothing was amateurish from the music to the catering to the venue to the speakers to the security to the drivers.

[00:50:51] What we're doing here is a little bit different. It's a little bit next level. And we always want to strive to be better, to do more. We're getting there, folks. I am seeing logical progression and advancement through the work of this program that is now going to impact. I mean, I think the extent to which this radio program has impacted the current conservative culture,

[00:51:18] for lack of a better term, I don't necessarily like the word conservative, but you know what I mean? You know, this MAGA-tier media that is sounding a hell of a lot like us. Nobody was sounding like us 21 years ago. Now a lot of people sound like us. I don't know if we'll ever get the full credit for – and it's hard to gauge exactly how much we played a role in that, but I guarantee you it's bigger than is known.

[00:51:40] But the things we can quantify, the things we can point to, it is just – this is a tip of the spear institution here. And we are asking for your support. This weekend, last weekend, was something made possible by that. It is not in place of, but in addition to, the show you know and love every Saturday night. And I want to thank, again, all of the speakers, everybody who spent time and money and took time off work.

[00:52:08] It's expensive to travel to one of these events. To get in a plane, two or three nights at a hotel, food. You know, you're at $1,000 just to walk out the door. I do not take that for granted. And I hope that the experience – if you were there – the experience that you enjoyed, I hope, made that commitment and that allocation of your precious resources worthwhile.

[00:52:36] I do wish everybody could have been there. One day we'll get there. Until then, we have a battle standard in our hands, and we're moving. We're moving. And we're going to continue to move in the next hour. Who are we going to hear from tonight that was there? Let me look at my notes. We're scrambling here. We are going to hear from Lou Moore, one of the speakers. We're going to hear from Jose Nino, who is going to be covering the event for the American Free Press.

[00:53:01] As I mentioned, you're going to hear from – you're going to hear the presentation that Nick gave to kick things off, Nick Griffin, in the third hour. I believe we're going to have Rick Tyler. Rick Tyler is just another one of these guys who you can't keep him off the air because he communicates so fluidly. It's – anytime I get a chance or an excuse or a reason to bring Rick on, I want to take advantage of it.

[00:53:30] Rick was one of the guys that was there as an attendee, and we're going to hear from him and maybe a couple of others. I'm actually going to be calling people during the breaks tonight. I'm keeping this thing fluid because I didn't know exactly how long it would take me to go through some of my notes and observations and reflections. And so I got a couple of guys waiting for a call, and we're going to do a little plug and play. As I said, very different show tonight. But thank you if you were there. Thank you if you were not there.

[00:53:57] If you're a listener who supports the work, the work is to move our people forward and to win. To win. That was a part of it. Last weekend is a part of it. We'll be back. Stay tuned. Second hour coming up next with some surprise guests.