Bannon`s War Room
Episode 4874: Texas Goes After Woke Professors; The Battle Continues In Ukraine
24 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What are the implications of Texas targeting woke professors?
I think the totality of it does penetrate. We've seen poll after poll lately where Donald Trump is at historic approval ratings down as low as 37 percent. When I worked in the White House, which I view as holy ground, because of the lives that have been sacrificed for the American idea that that building represents.
When I would walk in that east wing that is so cruelly torn down, I would get chills at the history of what had happened in that building. I do think the American people get the totality and the
thing that donald trump is doing he's tearing down that building but he's tearing down the human infrastructure he's attacking the government employees in this shutdown that is why we at the democracy defender fund have gone to court with our partners, with the federal employee labor unions and other wonderful partners. We've gotten three TROs.
We got the latest one today to say you can't tear down the human infrastructure. You can't fire people. There's no legal basis to do it in a shutdown. He wants to inflict that same same pain. That's not what America is about. So I do think you're seeing a public repudiation of Trump. And of course, we're going to have a referendum on him.
New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Supreme Court retention races. And I think you're going to see powerful repudiation. Today, I'm signing an executive order. creating the Illinois Accountability Commission, a body dedicated to truth, transparency, and justice.
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Chapter 2: How is the public responding to Trump's actions?
The commission will be charged with three core missions. One, creating a public record of the abuses. Two, capturing the impact on families and communities. And three, recommending actions to prevent further harm and to pursue justice. The commission will be led by truly an extraordinary group of highly qualified leaders who reflect Illinois' deep expertise, integrity, and commitment to justice.
With support from the Illinois Department of Human Rights, the commission will collect testimony, hold hearings, and gather information and firsthand accounts from individuals, community members, subject matter experts, local officials, journalists, faith leaders, and organizations. The commission and the records they gather will shine more light on the misconduct of Trump's federal agents.
The Trump administration officials have demonstrated on more than one occasion that they are willing to lie to the public and the media to mask their misdeeds. They have already and will continue to cover up abuses of power, cross the legal limits of their authority, and attempt to justify dangerous attacks that threaten our people and our communities.
We hope to reveal to the public in Chicago, the state of Illinois, across the nation, and around the world the facts on the ground about what is happening here. We intend to create a detailed record of the truth. And once this all ends, people of good faith will review what this commission has gathered and will demand accountability. Indeed, people are demanding that accountability even now.
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
You're in the War Room. It's Thursday, October 23rd in the year of our Lord 2025. It's Natalie G. Winters hosting, filling in for the one and only Stephen K. Bannon. I guess he has to take a show off from time to time, but don't go anywhere. We have a very packed show for you.
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Chapter 3: What is the purpose of the Illinois Accountability Commission?
Yours will never be as good as ours. And I look forward to suing yours because your chief problem is it's a really dumb idea to write down all the crimes that are being committed by Chicago and Illinois officials that are obstructing ICE every single day and trying to create the conditions for basically nullification. So document your crimes away.
See you in court soon with your little mock oversight project. governor Pritzker. Uh, but on the nonprofits, so much accountability to be had. Let's talk really quickly about, uh, something that if the Congress ever gets back in session, it doesn't look like the Democrats will ever open government again, but is going to be on the table.
Uh, that's this little swamp program of all these NGOs that populate under what's known as the trafficking violence or victims protection act TV PA. It's this old, uh, You know, 2000, I think it was passed in the year 2000, a law at a time when like some 600 to 800,000 victims of trafficking existed, according to the State Department.
Over the next 25 years, that number exploded to some 27 million. So a lot more people trafficked since this law passed and spawned this whole web of government funded nonprofit groups. that are basically pushing the wokest, furthest left DEI policies to the tunes of millions of dollars from the government. They're now suing President Trump to keep that slush fund alive.
You have the wokest groups that are called Freedom Partners USA. They're suing Trump, guess where? Up in Pritzkerville in Illinois, in Chicago, trying to get a favorable jurisdiction. to turn the spigot back on.
They're pushing just DEI, all this LGBTQ crap, and then also these just really novel theories of mind control that you can guess how they'll be applied should the Democrats ever take power again. So that's on that front, but a bunch more to cover if you want to talk McIver or any others.
Well, yeah, I saw you guys had pointed out in the legal complaint that they had put forth against the Trump administration. It might be the greatest case of projection I've ever seen.
But saying that President Trump and his administration was acting like a human trafficker by trying to strip them of their, I think, poorly deserved, if not outright fraudulent, racketeering-type funding mechanisms that, like we said, President Trump...
But feel free to drill down and you could bring in, I know you guys have done some good work on the No Kings front, the 50-51 movements, the sort of almost, I mean, it is internationally, globally financed, but how all these movements are converging right now and where we stand on the fight of pushing back.
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Chapter 4: How are immigration issues impacting political accountability?
But what I'm actually most keenly targeting are the things that have the highest propensity for violence. And I think those are the ICE protests that will continue to be the the target for domestic terrorists in this country. And you're seeing the mainstreaming of that with the Democrat Party. That's what's happening up in Illinois.
You know, they're claiming that ISIS is somehow breaking the law, but they're not. What they're trying to do is set the conditions for saying, you know, stochastic terrorism, essentially, that you're justified by interfering with the lawful enforcement of immigration law, even at a small scale. And we talk about this a lot. Not a lot of people are getting deported. This is routine stuff.
This is Obama-level numbers. Nevertheless, they're telling the crazies out there that it's okay to show up to ICE facilities. And so where the rubber hits the road is going to be whether the Trump administration can have their National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, which is the framework for the whole of government response.
It brings in Treasury, the IRS, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the FBI, DOJ, who's supposed to prosecute not just the stuff they want to, but everything they can. Zero tolerance prosecutions. And so...
And Mike, I want to stop you there because I want to get into this in more nuance after the break, how we can use this, what it actually looks like, the DOJ using these new Antifa statutes. So hang with us, Warren Posse, hang with us too. We've got Sam Faddis, Brian Harrison. believe it, illegals found on the voting rolls in, you guessed it, Texas.
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Chapter 5: What are the allegations of illegal voting in Texas?
The terrorist group, I think there's some foreign financing there, too, I'd probably look at. Mike Howell, you guys over at Oversight, much better than J.B. Pritzker's oversight efforts, have been digging into that. But before we let you go, I just wanted to let you finish what you were talking about with that new memo, the sort of national security strategy, what the Trump administration wants
rhetorically is saying they're doing and why that's important, but why we need to ensure that we bridge that gap and make sure that those words translate into action.
Yeah, absolutely. But first, I'm shocked. It looks like Miles Taylor is joining a boy band in some weird midlife crisis. That was a heck of a get up that he was rocking.
Are you really shocked at that? I think that's on brand.
Yeah, kind of looks like him and Rachel Maddow are sharing the same stylus, to be frank with you. But National Security Policy Memorandum 7, hugely important. OK, if implemented, if there is huge. So what this document is, it's the comprehensive strategy of the Trump administration looping in so many different components of government. What it does is it names the threat.
Things like, you know, yelling anti-fascism, dehumanizing your opponents that way, immigration extremism, the like. All of the problems we're seeing that pervade this country. And so it directs the government to go out and counter those things when they get into illegal activity.
Now, the great part of it and what it'll hinge on is it tells DOJ, Attorney General Pam Bondi, if you can prosecute, you must prosecute. In other words, zero tolerance. In other words, we don't care what the DOJ policy preferences are or what the line prosecutors think. If you can, you must.
So what this should mean, if faithfully implemented, is that these organizations should be wrapped up and shut down and we should see prosecution skyrocket. No more of this. We're allowing people to show up, throw rocks at ice and some get arrested and some don't. The White House has said you have all these tools, government, go out, use them, implement them.
So it's only been a few weeks and the left's figuring it out. All of their big, you know, law firms and, you know, talking heads and even some senators understand what this could look like if actually implemented because it's existential to them. It links the Democrat Party to domestic terrorism because that is what is happening. So they don't want that to happen.
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Chapter 6: How are NGOs involved in immigration and trafficking issues?
Not only is that a lie, you just watched elected Republicans vote to continue funding it at taxpayer expense, and here's the reality, the Texas government might well be the biggest funder of pretty much everything the Democrat Party has been pushing for, transgender indoctrination, DEI, crony corporatism, corporate welfare. I mean, basically Texans are being taxed out of our homes.
to fund just about everything that Charlie Kirk dedicated his life to defeating. And it's absolutely outrageous, but I appreciate you showing the posse and millions of people across the country how the Texas government, and we should be the line in the sand, by the way. I mean, I think we're, as Steve and I and you talk about all the time, we're in a fight for the future of Western civilization.
And even though Texas isn't considered a battleground state, Texas has long been the crown jewel of the left's plan to destroy America. If freedom is lost here in Texas, we'll never get a conservative Republican back in the White House again. The entire future of our country is on the line here, and Texas needs to start acting like it.
And can you just start walking us through, they obviously know that is, you know, the front line, as you said, for Western civilization. I think they also have some weird sadistic glee and blueing Texas, right? You always hear that phrase.
It's like, well, if you import, you know, millions of people from third world countries that are in America, I don't really know if you're actually winning elections. You're rigging them. And there's an analytical addiction difference there that matters. But speaking of that, can you walk us through, I believe, was your AG philosophy? found potentially 2,700 or so names on these voting rolls.
What exactly is going on there?
Yeah, the number is likely even higher than that. So yeah, so thank you to the Trump administration, quite frankly, for doing more for election integrity than the entire so-called Republican government in the state of Texas has for the last decade or more because of a Trump administration initiative to compare, give us data to work with DHS to compare our voter rolls.
We have identified thousands, maybe well into the tens of thousands of illegal aliens that are on our voting rolls. And while that's big news and that's making national headlines right now, The bigger story is that I and other conservatives have been screaming from the Raptors about this exact issue for years, because it's not new down here.
To people who have been following, people who care about election integrity, which should be everybody, by the way, who've been following the Texas government, it's been an open secret that illegal aliens are getting on our voter rolls.
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Chapter 7: What is the current status of the Ukraine conflict?
You've got to hit hard enough where they won't come back. And so, yeah, for the same way I went to New York and spoke with Governor Kathy Hochul and said, if they're going to try to wipe us out.
In Texas, we need to wipe out every Republican in New York, in California, in Illinois, so no one can make me feel bad about fighting for the people that I represent, because the people that I represent need someone who's willing to go in the ring and fight for them, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
Yikes. Representative Harrison, before we let you go, just give us your thoughts on that, and please wrap up if there's anything outstanding on the election front that the audience needs to know.
Well, on the issue of, yes, she is my colleague, unfortunately. Yeah, that is, on this thing of unity, let me say this real quick. I have no interest whatsoever, and my voters did not elect me to go and unify with the radical Marxist, socialist, leftist progressives who want to deprive my kids.
And your kids or grandkids are the next generation of liberty and freedom and the blessings of prosperity that come with it. I'm sick and tired, but that's exactly what we've got going on, not just in D.C. We hear people talk about the Uniparty in D.C. It's actually worse. It's going to shock people in Texas.
Melinda Jones, who you just described right there, she is actually part of the governing coalition in the Texas House. She was one of the big supporters of our so-called Republican Speaker of the Texas House. She voted. She helped elect the Republican who's now the Speaker of the Texas House, and in turn,
He rewarded this radical leftist, you know, open borders, anti-second amendment, pro-abortion, BLM activists, you know, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, loving Democrat. He rewarded her with letting her pass over eight separate bills just this year alone. Meanwhile, actual conservative Republicans in the Texas House aren't allowed to pass any pieces of legislation. So it's worse than unity.
Radical leftist Democrats are actually empowered. Their agenda advances and their legislation is prioritized over Trump supporting liberty-loving conservative Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives. That's how far off the rails and how corrupt things are down here.
in the state of texas and then finally just on election integrity because i mean we can never have the outcome of our elections called into question again the state of texas despite what elected leaders down here are telling people in national media we didn't do a single serious thing to protect the integrity of our elections we didn't do anything to make it harder for illegal aliens to get on our voter rolls and i'm very grateful for the trump administration's new program which is if it weren't for that
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Chapter 8: How do sanctions against Russia affect global politics?
So it is a very significant step. What do I think is going on? Look, Trump has been pretty clear to Putin, I want to end the war. Trump has been very clear to Zelensky. You're not getting all your territory back. You need to just bite the bullet and accept it and drop that demand. Effectively, things are going to end up at best with everybody where they are right now.
I don't mean to say like down to the square meter, but... That's where it's gonna be. And those are huge things. Putin is still dragging his feet. So Trump is turning up the heat on him. He's letting him know, listen, I'm working with you. I wanna end this thing. And I've put a lot of pressure on Zelensky, but you're gonna have to give.
To me, as big as the missile thing is, the bigger issue is what Trump's doing to Russian oil and gas. He is methodically going around the world, sanctioning people, putting in place measures, cutting off Russian oil sales piece by piece by piece. Russia runs its government off of the revenue from oil and gas sales. That's their one trick pony.
And without that money, they cannot, they can't continue the war. Wars are expensive. So he is gradually tightening the noose on Putin. And I think ultimately that's going to be what's going to end this thing.
And I'm just curious, timeline-wise, those sanctions, how quick do you think that's either going to drive Putin to the table? Is that going to embolden Ukraine? What do you think our audience can look forward to with the timeline of this potentially resolving or escalating, hopefully, the former sanctions?
You know, I think I've said to both you and Steve before, watching these negotiations over ending the war is going to be like pounding a nail into your forehead. I mean, anybody who's looking for a nice, clean, quick resolution is already disappointed and will be more disappointed. This will still drag on for a while. But I think if Putin is smart, and he is,
he will understand that the time to make a deal is not when I'm already broke and the tanks are running out of gas on the battlefield. That's because then the Ukrainians will be the ones saying, well, we don't want to make peace. The time to make a deal is fast approaching. He's kind of reached his peak.
I mean, if you look online, as I do, and look at video coming out of Ukraine and see some of the Russian tanks... that are being seized by the Ukrainians on the battlefield, they look like wrecks. They're literally 60-year-old tanks that never should have been outside a museum, and they're half fallen apart. I mean, Putin is already scraping to keep this thing going.
So within months, I would hope, if we're luckier than that, maybe weeks, we'll see.
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