Preborn has helped save 38,000 babies this year
>> Walker Wildmon: I want you to picture this. Her name is Kayla. She is 17, alone, terrified and pregnant, Sitting in a clinic, tears blurring, thinking abortion is her only option until she was offered a free ultrasound, paid for by a hero just like you. The moment Kayla heard her baby's heartbeat, the decision was made. And today, her little baby boy, Gabriel, is thriving because preborn walked with Kayla every step of the way. Now multiply that by 38,000. That's how many babies preborn has helped save just this year. And along with saving the babies, mothers are being counseled with practical and spiritual advice to make motherhood possible. But here's the most important thing you will hear today. The goal is to save 70,000 by the end of the year. And they can't do it without us. Every $28 provides that ultrasound that changes everything. Will you be the reason the next Kayla chooses life? The reason Gabriel fulfills his destiny? To donate, dial £250 and say the keyword baby. That's £250, baby. Or donate [email protected] afr that's preborn.com afr we inform religious freedom is about people of faith being able to live out their faith, live out their convictions, no matter where they are. We equip sacred honor is the courage to speak truth, to live out your free speech. We also rejoice in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character hope. This is At the core on American Family Radio.
Walker Wildmon: Welcome to live radio where you can make mistakes
Welcome to The Core here on American Family Radio. I'm Walker Wildmon. This is a brand new edition of the program. It's not a brand new addition, although that's the way I just pronounced it. It's a brand new addition with an e. Glad to have you with us on live radio where you can make mistakes. Welcome to live radio. this is where, it's a whole different world than podcasting and Bobby can attest to that. So, all right, folks, glad to have you with us on this edition of the program. Rick Green and myself, we host a show each week here on American Family Radio. You can subscribe and we would encourage you to subscribe to the podcast. Wherever you listen to podcasts, we simply upload the show in the form of a podcast. Wherever you listen to podcast each afternoon, click the subscribe button and, you'll get the show queued up in your library each and every afternoon during the week.
Proverbs chapter 25 is where we are this week. Verse 21 and 22 of Proverbs 25. Very lengthy proverb
Proverbs chapter 25 is where we are this week. Very lengthy proverb, by the way. Proverbs chapter 25 is where we are this week. Here's a little bit of counterintuitive or counter flesh, rather wisdom from the Scripture. Verse 21 and 22, if your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you. Verse 21 and 22 of Proverbs 25. If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you. Well, this is how, this is what the Holy Spirit and the Holy Scripture do to you when you heed the word of the Lord is it goes against the flesh and the ways of the world. And the ways of the world are revenge, vengeance, retribution, and getting a pound of flesh, so to speak. That's the ways of the world. And you don't have to look far to see that where. And, we'll talk about this, with the study, the selfishness and the self centeredness, all of that, the narcissism, these are very much worldly, fleshly, sin driven mentalities and ways of operating. But when you look At the Scripture, it's a continual rejection of the flesh. It's a continual rejection of the sin nature. And this is the miracle that each and every believer experiences, and this is what I want to emphasize, and then we'll move on, is that every single salvation, every single receiving of the Holy Spirit for salvation, every single belief is a miracle. Every single turning away of the flesh in and of itself is a miracle. Every salvation story is a miracle. Because only God can turn our hearts from a heart of stone to a heart of flesh. That is not a power that man has. Only God can do that. And this is what, scripture is teaching us. Only godliness can teach that if your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink. And the end result is it says that the Lord will reward you. That's, Proverbs, chapter 25, verses 21 and 22, couple housekeeping items.
American Family Radio is taking listener testimonies ahead of Share a Thon
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NBC polled adults 18 to 29 years old about what they prioritize
All right, I want to talk about this report. let's see if I, if I have it, I have to pull it up. It was this, report out of, NBC and I actually emailed it to myself, thankfully. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to find it on such short notice. But this story was a poll that NBC did looking At Gen Z. Okay, here we go. This is an NBC News decision desk poll. And if, if you want to have a crystal ball into what has happened to our country, this is it. This is the closest thing you're going to have to a crystal ball. honing in on what happened to our country. Why did our country get to this place where abortion is rampant? people aren't having children, they're not even marrying. Priority is completely upside down. Listen, to this, this is once, once again Gen Z, which is roughly 18 to 18 to 29 year olds. Generation right after me, I think I barely, barely made it in the millennial category. But this is a NBC poll asking Gen Z Adults 18 to 29 years old what their priorities are. What do you consider important to a successful life? That was the question. All right, so let's just look At this and it is broken down by, how they vote and things like that, which is helpful. This is, you know, what do you consider important, and your definition of success in life? What do you prioritize? All right, so men who voted for Trump, here's how they polled on these questions. 34% said having children is a top priority. That was the winning category for men who voted for Trump. Once again in this Gen Z category. So men 18 to 29, 34% of them said, of them, 34% said having children was the number one priority. Financial independence came in At number two At 33%. Job and career, having a fulfilling job and career came in At 30%. Being married came in At 29% that was the top four priority for. For men who voted for Trump within this age category of Gen Z, Having money to do the things you want. 28% owning a home. 26% being grounded spiritually. Wow, that was on down At like number six or seven At 24% making your family and community proud. Only 23% of these men said that's a priority. And and there were some other things there, but just for the sake of time, we're not going to read them all off. Listen to this now. We're going to flip over so that what you just heard though, those results, those were men who voted for President Trump. That's how. That's one of the ways that NBC broke this poll down. We're basically getting a snapshot into worldview and worldview priorities here. Women who voted for Kamala Harris. Listen to this. Number one priority for women, Gen Z women who voted for Kamala Harris. The number one priority is a fulfilling job and career. 51% of Gen Z women said their number one priority to have a successful life is a fulfilling job, career priority. Number two, having money to do the things you want. 46% agreed with that. Having emotional stability. 39% agreed with that. Using talents and resources to help others. 37% financial independence. 32%. Having no debt. 21%. Owning a home. 20%. All right, listen to what came in At only 19%, which is number eight down the line. Making family, community proud. That's not even saying I want to have children and I want to get married. That's just saying making your family, your loved ones and community proud. Being grounded spiritually. Only had 11% affirmation from Gen Z. Women who voted for Kamala Harris able to retire early. 6%. Listen to the bottom two priorities for Gen Z. Women who voted for Kamala Harris. Being married, 6% saw that as a priority. Having children, only 6% saw that as a priority. If this isn't indicative of where we are as a culture, I don't know what is. If I had to pick one thing as a quick snapshot, easy to understand synopsis of where we went wrong as a culture. And I'm speaking to myself, I'm speaking to our audience. I'm speaking to Americans. Enough of this pointing fingers and blaming the Democrats and blaming Hollywood. Look, there's plenty of blame to go around in those places. Don't get me wrong. We talk about it every day on the program. But. But we need to start speaking to America as a whole and stop pointing fingers At At people that don't even understand godly values, expecting them to all of a sudden become regenerate. And when you look At the statistics, folks, believers, we got problems too. obviously, spiritually, biblically, we're all born into sin, so we're all sinners. But I'm just talking within the church. The stats aren't great either. Okay, so let's start doing some self reflection here. But where we went wrong as a people in America is we started prioritizing the things that we m really shouldn't. And we started deprioritizing, belittling, and dismissing the things that we should be prioritizing. And when you have these core, basic, fundamental priorities in life, such as getting married, having children, starting a family, owning a home, making your family and community proud, these are core values that shaped this country for so long. Over a century, nearly two probably, when you look At the data. And let's be clear, these values and ideals aren't just American values and ideals. So let's don't get mistaken and think that this is all about patriotism and making America great again. No, no, no, no. These are values and ideals that are rooted in scripture. They're eternal values and ideals. So it doesn't matter whether we're talking about America or a country in Europe or Africa, either way it goes. The values of getting married, having children, wanting to make your family proud, these are biblical truths.
Until we hammer home biblical values that last and bring actual fulfillment, we keep having moral failure
These are biblical values that are taught in scripture. Ah. And over the years in America, we've gotten so comfortable and so lazy that we've got young people At this point. They're adults, maybe not so young anymore, that think that they're going to get their ultimate life satisfaction in a job. They're gonna get their ultimate life satisfaction in being able to go on vacation when they want, which At this point is like every other week. They think that they're gonna get their life satisfaction from all these things that are actually proven, not just morally m but statistically as well, to not really bring about much satisfaction At all. And so, as a country and a culture, until we start hammering home true biblical values that last and bring actual fulfillment, we're going to keep having generation after generation of moral failure. We'll be back.
Tim Wildmon: American Family Association will travel to Israel in 2026
>> Tim Wildmon: Have you ever wanted to take a boat ride on the Sea of, Galilee? Raise your hand. Yeah, but in order to do that, you have to actually go to the Sea of Galilee. Hello, this is Tim Wildmon, president of American Family association and American Family Radio. We are going to Israel and to the Sea of Galilee. The Jordan river where we'll have a baptismal service. We're going to the Dead Sea. We're going to Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Nazareth, a lot of the places you read about in the Bible your whole life. We're going to be seeing on our annual trip of Israel, the Holy Land. If you want more information on our Tour, go to wildmangroup.com w I l d m o n group.com we also have information there about the Footsteps of Paul Greece tour. That's back to back with the Israel tour. So it's also in March of 2026. We look forward to seeing you on one of our tours.
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Utah State Representative Ken Ivory speaks on federalism on American Family Radio
>> Jeff Chamblee: Back to At the Core on American Family Radio.
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome to the corps here on American Family Radio. Walker Wildmon here last, not, the last segment, second segment. But we do have a guest with us this segment, and we're glad to have him back on the program. Utah State Representative Kent Ivory is with us. He represents District 3 39. And, he's on to talk about the topic of federalism and, and how important that is for Americans to truly understand how it functions, how it works. Representative Ivory, welcome back to the program.
>> Ken Ivory: Thanks, Walker. It's always good to be back with you.
Walker Wildmon: Much of what President Trump is doing is within his authority
>> Walker Wildmon: Well, Representative, we were talking, coming in, coming into the, in the program, coming out of the break, just about how when you have a friend in the White House, you don't mind the federal government kind of, pushing their way around to fix problem. And much of what President Trump is doing is within his purview, within his authority, such as the immigration issue, et cetera. but Washington, whether it's under the Trump administration or previous administrations, Washington has for a long time been meddling around in stuff that constitutionally they really don't have a business dealing in. And so remind our audience just about the fundamentals, if you will, of federalism and the role of states in the 10th Amendment.
>> Ken Ivory: Yeah, sure, Walker, thank you very much. We can help your, your listeners, viewers memorize the constitution in about 30 seconds. It's very, very simple. If government. Which government? Ninth amendment right. If government. Is that something we delegated to any government because it says the powers enumerated shall not be construed to deny or disparage all others retained by the people? That's the great mass of governing power. So first question is, did we delegate it to any government? We don't ask that question often enough. Then the second question is, if we did delegate it to government. Which one? Government far away, Less accountable, less transparent. We delegated very, very few things. Government close to home, more accountable, more transparent. Our voice can be heard right At the state capitol, right with our neighbor who's our representative. Numerous and indefinite. In fact, Chief, Justice John Roberts, he said we look to the states to defend their prerogatives by not yielding when they don't want to embrace federal blandishments as their own. Had to look that up means coaxing, coercing. Then he said states are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes you have to act like it. That's where self governing takes place. And we get that rich diversity in our states. But we stand together, unified as a nation. And when we allow things to centralize, red or blue, and we go red king, blue king, we take away our self governing boys, we take away that diversity. And then Walkers, you and I were talking about, we set the rule that we're going to have to live by for whatever administration may come in, you know.
>> Walker Wildmon: Representative. Once again we're talking to Representative Ken Ivory. The scope creep or the mission creep of, the federal government. When you look back At the original documents, and the Federalist Papers, all the writings of our foundings, which are expansive, we've gotten way, way off track. we're talking, you know, there's just a handful of core, prerogatives, if you will, of the federal government, military being one of them, a national defense. And then now, you know, we're, we're running, we're trying to run the welfare programs, we're trying to do housing. you know, it's just really, really problematic. And we don't do it well either. You know, that's not, that's not a legal argument, that's just a practical argument. The government just doesn't do things well. They may do a handful of things well, but the things that they're trying to do outside of their scope are not done very well. what do states do? Give us some examples. And you've authored multiple pieces of legislation on this topic. but what states do to just continually claw back At this point their authority. Because a lot of this stuff's just been centralized in D.C. and the majority of leadership in Washington for the last several decades hasn't been friendly to our values.
>> Ken Ivory: Yeah. And even if they are friendly, everyone likes power. Everyone wants to hold the pen. Everyone wants to be the one that solves the problems. But that wasn't our Constitution. In fact, our Constitution, the more likely outcome was that they did nothing, that they were stalemated, that it was checked. And so what states do to claw back. Walker. Yeah, I've passed a number of bills on this. We created the Federalism Commission in Utah that I chair. But last year, I got a call from my speaker, speaker of the House Mike Schultz, wonderful man, calls me right after the election last year, and he says, look, we have the opportunity of our lifetime to restore structure, not politics, structure. He says, you know, even Gavin Newsom's talking about federalism. Blue states are talking about federalism. He says, I want you to put together a plan to do that very thing. And Walkers, I thought about him, had a blank sheet of paper from my speaker of the House to do that very thing. Number one is we have to know what line of scrimmage it is that we're defending. I mean, imagine a football game. In fact, I was explaining federalism to a football coach I sat next to on a plane one time. He played for byu, but he was coaching for University of Utah. Anybody that knows Utah football, that's called the Holy War, right? And so he asked me, what do I do as a state representative? I said, well, that game's a big deal. He says, yeah, imagine, you know, you're practicing, you get ready, Saturday morning, coach gives you the fiery speech. You run out, stadium just packed. It's just electric. You get on the 50 yard line ready to take off, and there are no lines on the field anywhere. He said, oh, man, that'd be a disaster. That's what government's like today. We don't know what the line of scrimmage is. We don't know what the first down is. We don't know it out of bounds is. We don't know what the goal line is.
UT Rep Ken Ivory: States have what is called the police power. Federal government has complete jurisdiction
So, number one, Walker's we have to know what are the few things that were delegated to the federal government, what are the numerous and indefinite things reserved to the states, and what are all the tools in the toolbox? Clearly, litigation is one. But Hamilton and Madison, both in Federals 28 and 46, gave us a laundry list of things that states can do. Legislation, litigation, lobbying, working together, Article five, not yielding, which is what Chief Justice John Roberts said. But clearly that coordination, what we're doing here, just in a couple of weeks, we're hosting the first summit of states. So the first pillar under that legislation was continuing education. We're developing that in Utah right now. In fact, I had a meeting this morning with our Department of Transportation, and we're developing a matrix for Every agency to understand what that line of scrimmage is. And then, you know, we're happy to export that out to other states. We have top constitutional experts working on that with us. The second pillar is an annual summit of states so that we get on the same page again, structure, not politics. This passed unanimously. I've got every one of our Democrats on board as well, because if we don't restore the structure, our kids are going to live with what we leave them, our grandchildren, you know, the decayed government, the deficit. Then the third pillar, and this surprises people, is a National Federalism Commission. There used to be 1. From 1952 to 1996, it was called the Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Relations. And when the states pushed back too hard on unfunded mandates because it was federally funded, they pulled the plug on it. So we want to reconstitute that, by the states, funded by the states. So we have the watchdog, constantly monitoring that line of scrimmage, the out of bounds, the first down, so that we keep the governing partnership in the balance that it's supposed to. Hamilton said that balance between these governing partners is essential to our liberty.
>> Walker Wildmon: Let me ask you about a few examples, some real life examples, so we can help people really put this, put this kind of to the, to the, to the paper or to the, to their life. President Trump, obviously has deployed, the national guard to Washington D.C. i know Washington, D.C. is a kind of a unique example when you compare it to other cities around the country, but he's looking At possibly deploying them to, like, Chicago, New Orleans, et cetera. What's the constitutional view of that as far as the consent of the government, the state government? What would President Trump need approval from or who would he need approval from to deploy the National Guard to assist in law enforcement activities, for example, in Chicago in the state of Illinois.
>> Ken Ivory: That's a great question, Great question. So Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, is called the Enclave Clause. Washington D.C. is a federal enclave. It's like a federal island within the states. It's an area that was purchased with the consent of the state legislature for specific purposes. Seat of government, forts, arsenals, dockyards, other needful buildings. Federal government has complete jurisdiction. That's a word we don't talk about very often, jurisdiction. States have what is called the police power. In fact, Chief Justice Roberts in the nfib, the Obamacare decision, he said the general power of governing possessed by the states, not the federal government, is called the police power. Now, this isn't Just cops with badges and guns that go after bad guys. It includes that. But the police power, Walker, is everything that we think of as governing health, safety, welfare, morals, education, natural resources, grow the economy. That's all of that is within what is called the police power in the military, they call policing the area. Right. That police power is the fundamental governing power of the states, not the federal government. For the federal government to go into Chicago to Illinois to wherever would require constitutionally consent of that state legislature and of, the political subdivision, the city of Chicago within that state, where we may all recognize that Chicago is, has a problem and crime is out of control and no one wants to see the unnecessary loss of life. But that's what elections are about. If they're not protecting their people and they're not requesting the help that is available to them, I think that's probably grounds for a lawsuit, government malpractice, what we're seeing. But if we allow this to happen, then what's going to happen when we have some other president that maybe has different views than we may have and they decide that religion is a problem, that people owning guns is a problem, and the president needs to just come in with the National Guard and take care of that problem? Will we think that's a great idea then? If we don't honor the limits, the divisions, the balance of governing power now.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, the. Another, Another example or, something that I was concerned about under Biden was the deployment of FBI surrounding these January six cases and even the raid At Mar a Lago. You know, I was asking myself, like, can the, can the governor not just tell the FBI to take a hike? I mean, can the FBI just mosey around in any state and conduct any investigation and do any raid? And. And so that was a concern, and that was happening under Biden. And so I could just see this. If, if, if President Trump were to deploy the military into Chicago without the governor's approval, or even the local city officials approval, number one. I'm just not sure that's how that's going to work. Practically when you have, local law enforcement not working in conjunction with the feds, I just don't think that would practically work. But Biden was sending the FBA FBI around, just knocking down people's doors, and I had issues with that. And so I think we've got to be careful here not to be okay with it when it's Trump and then not be okay with it when it's Biden. I think we've got to be careful with it, just because of what the Constitution says.
Ken Ivory: The Constitution is where our safety and our protection lies
another question I wanted to ask you about. And then before we let you go, we got about four minutes left. I want you to talk about this course you guys are doing, in Utah with afp, Americans for Prosperity. But two minutes. what about this, the tariff deployment, under emergency powers because that's the only way President Trump's able to levy all these tariffs right now is through emergency powers. And so some people are kind of theorizing what if, what if a Democrat president did an emergency power on quote climate change and then was just slapping tariffs on all these items, related to climate change. So what do you say about that?
>> Ken Ivory: Yeah, yeah, no, I mean we're going to, again, we're going to have to live by the rules that we're allowing right now and we're going to see that sort of thing. If we don't stand up and honor the structure over the politics. We swear allegiance to the Constitution, not to a leader, not to a party, but to the Constitution. And that's our protection. And so exactly as you say. If we're not honoring that now. And yeah, there was heartburn and there should be because law enforcement, policing, you want that to be honored under the jurisdiction of the state because then you know who to hold accountable. Who At the FBI do you hold accountable? Who in any federal agency do you hold accountable when things go wrong? The sheriff. You know who that is in the next election, which is why that law enforcement falls under that, under that jurisdiction. Yet quickly, the class that we're doing is called Just say no K N O W. And this is the five minute solution to restore American self government. We teach six simple nos. And when you know these six simple principles of our Constitution, Walker, you can do your job as the sovereign in American government. That's what the people are, the sovereign. That the whole Constitution was based on US self governing, not a spectator sport. When you know these six simple things, you can do your job in five minutes a week. We're doing that every Thursday night At 6:30. You can find out more At igovern us. You can actually watch the classes that we started the first class last Thursday. You can go back and watch that one. You can join us this Thursday night, 6:30 Mountain Time. IGovern us and Constitution matters, Walker. That is where our safety and our protection lies.
>> Walker Wildmon: Absolutely. Representative, Ken Ivory has been with us. Representative Ivory, thanks so much for coming on the program.
>> Ken Ivory: Thanks Walker.
Ken Ivory talks about federalism, states rights and federal overreach
>> Walker Wildmon: All right, that's Representative Ken Ivory out of Utah talking about the issue of federalism and the tenth Amendment, states rights and federal overreach. This is a topic prevalent, today, almost every day there's a story related to what the federal government's trying to do, whether or not they had the authority to do it, etc. Etc. and so the ultimate wisdom of the founding fathers is they knew that a decentralized, or rather, yeah, a decentralized governance, structure was the way to go. Centralized power, with the proneness of man to sin and commit evil, was, was a problem. And so that's when we have three branches of government At the federal level. And this is why each state has their own rights under the 10th Amendment to operate freely. And when you look At these, these horror stories, like Chicago for example, well, sadly voters there have consistently elected bad leadership. And when you consistently elect bad leadership, well, you live under bad leaders, bad results, and people are harmed. It's very sad, but that's the, the consequence of choosing bad leaders. So it's really a wake up call to the voters to get control of their jurisdiction. Be back in a few minutes. This is At the Core on American.
>> Jeff Chamblee: Family Radio with your host, Walker Wildmon.
Tennessee State Rep. Jody Barrett is running for Congress
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome, back to the program here on American Family Radio. Well, we've got a great lineup of guests today. We were speaking to Utah State Rep. Ken Ivory about federalism. And now we have on with us Tennessee State Rep. Jody Barrett, from District 69, also running for Congress, by the way. Representative Barrett, welcome back to the program.
>> Jody Barrett: Thank you very much, sir. Good to be with you today.
>> Walker Wildmon: Well, Representative, we've highlighted, some of your work in the state legislature there in Tennessee. And some of our, my colleagues have worked with you on various pieces of legislation. But one of the topics that you've spearheaded and that Tennessee has done a pretty good job At is, protecting young children, whether it be through the public school systems or online or other ways. So talk about some of the ways and some of the pieces of legislation that you've worked on aimed At protecting minors.
>> Jody Barrett: Well, one of the biggest things that we did just in my freshman year in Tennessee is we passed the transgender surgery ban on minor children, and we've now successfully defended that lawsuit in the Supreme Court. So, me moving on to Congress, that's something that I think that I would like to see done At a national level. and so I've actually had a conversation in a couple of these interviews, were asked you know, what do you think the first bill you will file might be? And I think that might actually be it. Just to file the Tennessee ban At a national level and see if we can't make that the law of the land.
>> Walker Wildmon: Across the entire country we've got a litany, ah, of stations in Tennessee. One of our first stations actually went on in Jackson back in back in 91. And so we've got a pretty good sized listening audience there in the state. So a lot of folks, maybe even some voters listening. you're running for the 7th congressional district seat. Give us a little background there as far as how the seat became open and how many folks are running for that seat.
>> Jody Barrett: Sure. Well, this is the seat that was held by Congressman Mark Green, who was the chairman of Homeland Security. And unfortunately back in June he decided to announce that he was going to step away from his public service and go back into the private practice. he had a business opportunity that he felt like he couldn't pass up, for him and his family. So that left us scrambling, a bit here and missed middle and two counties in West Tennessee on the other side of the river, trying to figure out what we were going to do and how this was, you know, was actually going to work. And under Tennessee law there will be a special election. So it's not an appointment by the governor. So, 11 Republicans have jumped into this primary. now I think we're down to nine that are still, you know, firmly running for the seat. There are four Democrats in the race and five independent attendance. So, you know, there are a lot of voices for the voters to sit through here in a very short period of time to do that. The special election primary will be held on October 7 and early voting starts a week from Wednesday. So we are in the window, as they say.
Under Tennessee law, you can vote in whichever primary you choose
>> Walker Wildmon: M Let me ask you this. Do you guys have open. You might have mentioned this and I didn't, didn't hear it. Do you guys have open primaries or, the Democrats going to have their own primary and the Republicans are going to have their own primary. How does that work in Tennessee?
>> Jody Barrett: So you'll have two separate primaries for Democrat and Republicans, but under Tennessee law you can vote in whichever primary you choose. When you show up, all you have to do is ask for the ballot that you want to vote in. You don't have to show any type of party registration or history with the voting with that party At all.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, that's a problem we have in Mississippi as well. And it's. It's been. Been used wrongly. but we had the. The case, the, campaign back. This goes over a decade ago, I think 2014, actually, where we had Senator Thad Cochran, the late Senator Thad Cochran, and we had a kind of a Tea party guy, Chris McDaniel, running against him. And, boy, those Democrats showed up for. For the establishment Republican in droves in the Mississippi Delta and helped reelect the incumbent. even though it was clear that, the vast majority of the votes, that came, that put. Put the senator over the edge were. Were Democrats. They were crossing over. They didn't really, really care. They just wanted to get, the. The conservative guy not elected. And so, that's. That's unfortunate, but it can be overcome.
Representative Jody Barrett is running for Congress from Tennessee
tell our folks what, What made. What drove you to make this decision? Because going from, you know, the state legislature, where you've had a lot of success, to Congress, that's a. That's a big move and, and comes with its own set of challenges. So tell our audience why you want to run for this position.
>> Jody Barrett: Well, it's. It's not a want to. It's a. It's a calling, an answer to a call, I suppose, both, an earthly call and an eternal call. when this seat opened up and as you said, my. My position in the state legislature the last three years, I've kind of myself as the most conservative member of Tennessee state legislature. I'm the only one that's ever received a perfect 100% voting record by the Tennessee Legislative Report Card. also got a perfect 100 from the, Freedom Index by the John Birch Society this year as well. And so with that being said, when this seat opened up, several people across the district, even in counties that I don't currently represent, reached out to say, hey, you're the guy. We know that you'll fight for us. You're going to do the right thing every time. You'll stand up, even against our own establishment and our own party when necessary. And, so that got my wife and I looking At it, thinking about it, talking about it, and really praying hard about whether or not this was something that was right for us and our family. And the answer that we just kept getting back from the Lord was that, you know, I was prepared for this. all of the experiences and obstacles and challenges I've faced over the last three years in the state legislature were all little tests to get me prepared for this opportunity, for this door to open. And I felt Like I was being pushed through that door, rather begrudgingly. But, you know, we're doing what we. We're doing the best we can to be obedient, to, to the pathway that's been put before us.
>> Walker Wildmon: M. Yeah, we've got to have more fighters in Congress. that's a fact. And I'll say, you know, the Tea Party, unfortunately, was just beat down over the years, to where there's not many of those folks left. The establishment just po Hundreds of millions of dollars into defeating, anybody associated with the Tea Party movement. but the conservative makeup of Congress has gotten better. I mean, you look At the Senate, I look At What I look At is how they elect their majority leader, or in some cases a minority leader. But, you know, the fact that we had, you know, a dozen Senate U.S. senators voting against John Thune as majority leader and for a more conservative alternative in Rick Scott, that. That may not seem significant, but bucking the establishment and the chosen leader prior to the. This kind of caucus vote, that's a big deal, which would have never happened 10 years ago. And the same thing with, kind of the, The. The Freedom Caucus over in the House side and in the Congress, they've. They've gotten a lot of sway now, and so I think we're moving in the right direction. But to your point, we've got to just keep. Keep electing over and over again conservative, true conservative leaders. Representative, thanks so much for coming on. Once again, we've been talking to Representative Jody Barrett. best of luck. Appreciate your fight there in the state legislature.
>> Jody Barrett: Well, hey, just to point out real quick before I jump off here, you did mention the Freedom Caucus. I'm proud to receive the endorsement of the House Freedom Fund, and would be joining the Freedom Caucus. I shouldn't say if, but when I win this election in December.
>> Walker Wildmon: Excellent. Good group of men and women in the Freedom Caucus and some great fighters there. So that's a good sign. Representative, thanks so much for coming on the program.
>> Jody Barrett: Thank you, sir. Have a great day.
Jody Barrett is running for seventh congressional seat in Tennessee
>> Walker Wildmon: Absolutely. That's Representative Jody Barrett out of, the state of Tennessee running for Congress. And, right now he serves District 69 in the state, and he's running for the seventh congressional seat there in the state of Tennessee. And we've got a lot of listeners there, probably interested in that congressional seat. And this is one of the seats. There's a handful of them that are having special elections or have had special elections, because of either presidential appointments or in this case retirements. And, it will affect the, the makeup, obviously it will affect the makeup of the Congress. But my point in bringing that up is just the narrow margin that we have. So this will help, further secure the Republican majority of, for the remainder of this congressional session.
The Charlotte murder suspect had a long rap sheet of 14 arrests
All right, one, clip I wanted to play in relation to the Charlotte, North Carolina, tragic murder of this Ukrainian refugee. Man, this is brutal. I couldn't even watch the video. And I probably wouldn't encourage you to watch it either. But the reason I bring this in is to highlight the, the insane, dangerous, anti law and order policies of Democrats and how it costs people their lives. You know, I've been highlighting in recent weeks what President Trump's doing in Washington, D.C. to really clamp down on the lawlessness and the violent crime. And it's proving very, very beneficial, very fruitful, very safe for Washington, D.C. but this poison is just all around the country. I mean, these cities and these states that are making excuses for the criminals, going easy on the criminals, it's just outright dangerous. I don't know how else to explain it, but this murder suspect in Charlotte that stabbed this Ukrainian refugee to death on the train had a long rap sheet over 14 arrests. It's just stunning. And the fact that we can't just look At leadership, both law enforcement leadership and city leadership, state leadership, and say, hey, guys, we got a problem. You can't keep letting these repeat violent offenders out and expect nobody to suffer, nobody be harmed, nobody to be injured. Let's listen to, Kayleigh McEnany on Fox News talking about the long, long rap sheet and how the politicians in North Carolina are to blame for this. Clip 3.
>> Katy McEnany: I don't know whether to be more enraged At the city Council, the Democratic politicians, or the media, but when I looked At those pictures that you had up there, the 13 pictures of Decarlos Brown, I didn't just see 13 mug shots. I didn't just see 13 deranged killers, allegedly. I saw 13 opportunities to stop him that went unanswered. This guy went to prison. You see his images there. He went to prison for five years on another offense. He gets out within one year of being out. He assaults his sister within one year, 2024, he had three encounters with police officers. And then his mother, who was approached by a local reporter named Joe Bruno, she involuntarily, voluntarily committed him, kicked him out of her house. And here's a quote she gave this local reporter. Brown's mom says that the court should have Never let her son be out in the community knowing he had a mental health issue and previous arrests. This beautiful woman and her Pizzeria outfit At 9:45pm on a Friday night on a train should still be here today. She is not. You failed. And you failed New York Times because I'm on your website now. Still no story.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, the media blackout was just baffling. I've never seen anything like it. And I'm not, not exaggerating either. I've literally never seen anything like it. We were 24 out, 24 hours out from the story. And Elon Musk was, was posting about this and so was Senator Cruz. Zero coverage from like a dozen outlets, a dozen national media outlets. Zero coverage. And we were like 24 hours removed from the, from the you know, the, the breaking of the story. Nothing. Nothing. And then finally a handful of them came around like two days later covering it. It's absolutely sickening. And then you look At the rap sheet of this criminal and now alleged murderer and you're asking yourself how on earth did this guy end up back on the street? 14 prior arrests going back to 2011. 34 year old male, felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, communicating threats, assaulting and shoplifting, or assault and shoplifting rather. Served a six year prison sentence beginning in 2015, released in 2022, arrested again for assaulting his sister. His own mother involuntarily committed him and said, this kid should not be on the street At the time, this man should not be on the street now. His own mother said that. And this whole social justice propaganda, which there might be an ounce of rightness about some of the, you know, you look At maybe some excessive prison sentences which are few and far between. There might be some announce of truth in some of these stories of excessive present sentences and not giving people a second chance. Okay, let's hear it out. But that's not what this is here. That's not what this is. And it's such a backwards way of thinking to spend all of our time talking about how we've got to go easy on these criminals. We got to give them, up in this case a 14th chance. No, we've got to lock them up. And the new Democrat talking point, which is completely cold hearted, is we can't arrest our way out of this. Well, technically you can. Yeah. And to that I say, you know, most of the times they come out with these kind of these smart talking points where it leaves, you know, us, you know, we don't know what to say we're kind of stumped because they're talking points are so clever. No, no, no, no. You can arrest your way out of this. You literally can. And it's called lock him up. Put the toughest prison sentence you can on him and don't let him out. That's it. I mean they were trying to lock Trump up for 10 years for like financial crimes, alleged financial crimes, a decade. The president for some, you know, 30 year old financial transactions. Then we've got a 14 time repeat offender, felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, communicating threats, assault and shoplifting, assaulting his own self, sister, his mother says get him off the streets and these sick twisted judges and officials let him back on the street. And now we've got a woman dead folks in Charlotte better wake up. Wake up.
>> Walker Wildmon: The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
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