Justin Jones
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first heard May 2025
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Fox Gets Rude Awakening as Guest Smokes Hannity on Live TV · 21 Jan 2026
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They fought for this country.
They hung people.
We do prefer respect to bullies.
We do prefer science to plutism.
And we do prefer rule of law to brutality.
You're welcome in Europe and you are more than welcome to France.
Well, first of all, I just want to say thank you all for being here from the Bulwark. Recognize the importance of the South, particularly in this moment. Thank you all for showing up.
But as we know here in Nashville, we've had terror in our community. 196 of our neighbors were taken, mostly in the dark at night, by officers who never identified themselves in coordination with the Tennessee Highway Patrol in the predominantly immigrant part of our community, which is the district I represent from East Nashville to Antioch.
District 52, the District of Resistance is what we call it. And we were told of five names. But what about the other 191? People who were like church members on Owensville Road, a volunteer man who was arrested on his birthday, an elder, a mother who was a cook in a kitchen, a man who had worked an overtime shift at Walmart, taken, stolen.
Over 100 of them were told that they had committed no crime ever. And yet we have these criminals named Kristi Noem and Andy Ogles, and Gino Busso, and Jack Johnson telling us that they are criminals because five people they said were committed a crime. If that was the case, then the Republican Party would be called a criminal party because we have Glenn Casta, charged with over a dozen felonies.
We have Brian Kelsey convicted and charged of felonies. We have Scotty Campbell who resigned the vice chairman of the Republican caucus for committing sexual harassment. We have Jeremy Durham who resigned because dozens of cases of sexual harassment and now just charged with DUI. If they want to talk about criminality, they don't need a press conference. The Republicans in Tennessee need a mirror.
That's what they need.
Yeah. First of all, Andy should be very familiar with the need for law and order because he was somebody who was being investigated by the FBI that coincidentally, it went away when Trump came to office. But he's very familiar with criminal behavior, someone who stole money from a children's charity and lied about his resume and committed campaign fraud. So he knows about criminality.
But what we want to say is that I have a very different position because I think one thing that the expulsions taught me in 2023, those of you know, we were expelled from the Tennessee House for doing our job, for standing up to this Republican supermajority. And my advice to Mayor Freddie O'Connell would be that you face a crossroads. Either capitulate to authoritarianism or choose courage.
And I want to tell my brother, Freddie O'Connell, that cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it political? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And so when the mayor is saying, oh, you know, I don't want to do anything that they find unlawful, let us be clear that their actions are unlawful.
Violating the 14th Amendment is unlawful. Violating equal protection under law and due process is unlawful. What the ICE and our Tennessee Highway Patrol are doing to our immigrant neighbors is unlawful. And so I say to the mayor, do not back down. Do not apologize. Because when we got expelled, I'll tell you a secret.
Something that's not really a secret, but something that wasn't really publicized is that one of the heartbreaking things is when we stood in the well of the house after they cut off our microphone on the House floor after three nine-year-olds and three adults were killed at the Covenant School.
We went to the House floor with a megaphone because we wanted to amplify the voices of those young people who were saying, do something, do something. And the sad part is it was members of our own caucus, our Democratic caucus leadership who said, you should apologize to the Republican leadership and say, you didn't know better, you were young. And I said, Cameron Sexton should apologize.
And you know, this title of being a representative is nice, the title of being a mayor is nice, but your purpose is better, and you must be willing to risk your title for your purpose. And that's my message to the mayor.
First of all, I'm physically new to the South, but my lineage is from the South. And I just want to say the name of my grandmother, because I would not be who I am without my grandmother, Harriet. And my family fled the South during Jim Crow, moved to Chicago from Tennessee, and then moved to California.
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