Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host Tim Wildman
>> Tim Wildmon: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your
>> Steve Jordahl: host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Welcome back to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. I'm Tim Wildmon with Wesley Wildmon, Fred Jackson, and now, Steve Paisley. Jord.
Steve: Can I mention two things before we get going
Good morning, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, everybody.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Hey, before we get going, can I mention two things?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, go ahead.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, I put you on the spot, didn't I?
>> Tim Wildmon: So you gotta say you can mention one thing.
>> Steve Jordahl: One thing.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Hey, real quick. There's two things that happen when I get in my truck, in the morning, at lunch, in the afternoon. my. I said two things. There's two things I want to point out that I listen to. My Apple car pulls up Bluetooth automatically, And the first two things that pull up in order are, AFN's newscasts and American Providential History. There's some other things I listen to that cycle through, but having listened to those over the last couple weeks and months, I just wanted to remind our audience there's a 4 and a half minute newscast put on by American Family News, and they have it podcast and like I said, four and a half minutes of. And they update it throughout the day. There's a morning one, there's a noon one, and there's an afternoon one. So I just encourage you if you're wanting to know in just a couple of minutes some of the highlights of what's going on in the news. AFN does a good job. So go to afr.net podcast there. You can download, it there onto your app. Also, to the Americans, Providential History is in. Another one is hosted by Steve McDowell. And it can vary from time. It can be 40 minutes, 20 minutes, 18 minutes, 30 minutes. It just depends on the topic at hand. But that podcast is not on AFR. You can only get [email protected] or you can get it by downloading the podcast because it varies. It's an exclusive podcast just on our website and online. It's not on. You wouldn't otherwise get it just by listening on the weekend or listen throughout the day. So those are the two podcasts that are really big, very important, very, very well done, very good information that you'll appreciate.
>> Tim Wildmon: Absolutely.
Steve: Mississippi Department of Public Safety says I have outstanding tickets
Hey, the, Mississippi Department of Public Safety says I have a bunch of.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Sure they do.
>> Tim Wildmon: Outstanding tickets. Oh, yeah, I'm going to lose my license. They give me till today. Huh?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I got the same.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why is everybody laughing? Yeah, the same thing. Are you going to pay yours today? You got a bunch of Outstanding. tickets, too.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Sure I am, dad. Yeah, I want to be legal.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think they provide a link here in the text for you to pay. It's very easy.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Why don't you go first?
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. All you gotta do is give them your credit card information.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, share that and you'll. You got the same thing.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You know, watch here. Delete report is spam.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what I do.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Delete and report. Spam.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. Well, yeah. Steve, you ever got one of these?
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, I get them all the time. And it is interesting because they kind of know where I've been. I've been getting, some. I got some after I visited Colorado. Springs. Springs. I got a couple that said that I missed a toll booth in Denver on the. There's a toll road on the way from the airport to Colorado Springs that I would take every time I went to the airport. And, they would send me the stuff that I was missing. That. And it's plausible. I mean, I didn't, and I kind of recognized it. But they know where you've been.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Well, all right. So hopefully I'll keep my license, my driver's license.
>> Steve Jordahl: But they gave me your money.
>> Tim Wildmon: They gave me two.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You know what? Delete and report. And if it's actually true, they'll come by me. Yeah, they'll let me know.
If you want to hear the podcast of the AFN News, um, go to afn. net
>> Tim Wildmon: All right. So, what do you got, Steve?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, I just want to second what Wesley was saying. If you want to hear the podcast of the AFN News, the American Family News Report, go to afn.net you can get it there. And also while you're there, you can look at all the other content we have, all the stories that we publish. there's a poll that you can take there. You can read the latest edit editorials we thought are good. Ladies, AFN News. Fred, posts consistently post good, AP news and AP videos. So, all the news that we're following you can follow, too, @afn.net all right, Steve, I wanted to talk a little bit about, what we're.
Riley Gaines was once part of the Black Lives Matter movement
This is a podcast. It's not ours, but, Wriley Gaines, who we know is a, was the swimmer who was, competing against a dude and was cheated out of a bunch of medals. She has become an activist for conservative issues, specifically gender issues. And she, had on her podcast a gentleman named Xavier Derusso. He is a prominent, American conservative social media influencer. He's a black guy that.
>> Tim Wildmon: He's a. What? Say all that again.
>> Steve Jordahl: Prominent American conservative social media influencer.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. I don't know what the acronym.
>> Steve Jordahl: There's a lot of commas in there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway, go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: He's a black guy that used to be blm. He used to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement. And, he said Covid broke out and he had a whole lot of time to spend, where he couldn't meet with, the other radicals who started doing some research. And it, radically changed his view on things. This is what he had to say on riley gaines podcast cut 14.
>> Xavier Derusso: By the time that everything happened with George Floyd, I was really aghast pretty quickly on when, after George Floyd's death, because I just started seeing people exploiting the movement so much, and I started realizing how performative a lot of the activism was. Like, I remember I was never on the all cops or bad train. Eight of my uncles were police officers. My best friend is a police officer, and he was my best friend then, too, when he was in the police academy when all of this was happening. So I knew that I wasn't against all police officers. So I thought it was weird that so many people were demonizing every single cop. And I thought it was insane to watch the looting and the rioting happening. And I remember I created a twitch account where I was watching these antifa riots and the looting, and it was like these white antifa members saying that they were stealing all of these shoes and TVs in the name of justice for reparations. It's like there's so many layers of why this just wasn't making sense to me.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, good for him. I know you don't want to look too closely at, what liberals think because it doesn't hold up under scrutiny.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I'm stealing a microwave as part of my effort for reparations. Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm doing it for my black friends.
>> Tim Wildmon: Social justice. Oh, my burning, down city block. That was. That was a disgraceful time. that period in our country's last 10, 20 years. what, all that looting and burning down city blocks and attacking cops and all that in the name of, some kind of righteous cause. Go ahead.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, we remember, too, the far left. We can get a list of names if we need to, that they were having accounts that they were using to bail, out the BLM rioters.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Kamala Harris did.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Mala Harris.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, she. She paid for their. In, Minneapolis. She paid for some of them to get, out of jail. some of the riders.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, she. And they also, several of Them would go on the record publicly and encourage more of that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So this gentleman here went on, Roddy Gaines, to say that he was once a part of the Black Lives Matter movement, and then his eyes were opened as to what it was all about and what was going on, and he changed the truth. listen, the people. The people who created that organization, Black Lives Matter, that's very. I give. I give them five stars for creativity and for cleverness. Because if you say I'm opposed to the Black Lives Matter organization, they say. People say, oh, you're.
>> Steve Jordahl: You're.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're a racist. You're opposed to. You don't think Black Lives Matter from
>> Wesley Wildmon: an argument standpoint, without.
>> Tim Wildmon: Without a PR standpoint. You see how that, how that works? You have to be on defensive already to say, no, wait a minute. That's not what I'm saying. So, but now it's been. The Black Lives Matter organization has got into trouble on numerous times for misusing money. Some of their, leaders have been caught stealing. Yeah, because a lot of people poured Money. Money poured into the Black Lives Matter organization to prove that they weren't, you know, how can I prove that I'm no racist? I'll give to the BLM organization. Well, the BLM organization just, sort of popped up out of nowhere after the George Floyd situation and what took place subsequent to that. They just. So, It was, As I said, that's disgraceful. That whole thing, really, all that needed to happen there, the justice played out, the gentleman, the police officer. I say justice played out. I don't want to get into all the nuances of what happened on that day with George Floyd. The fact of the matter is the police officer had his day in court, had his way, and had his knee on the guy's neck for how long? So you. If you look at that, you go, well, that's it. That's. That's against,
>> Wesley Wildmon: He had a lot of. I was.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know. People say he was on Fentanyl and that's what killed him. I'll talk about George Floyd. He owed it on fentanyl.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Stick to the.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but the. Anyway, the.
So this new organization, Black Lives Matter, pops up out of nowhere
He had his day in court. The police, officer. He was found guilty. Shaving Shabbat, Derek Chavez. Anyway, my point is that we didn't need. We didn't need to have America burnt down, and all these city blocks.
>> Steve Jordahl: Mostly peaceful, though.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that didn't need to happen because there was no. There's no. There was nothing to write Against. Except, you could condemn the actions of that police officer with George Floyd, who had, by the way, been in trouble multiple times with the law. And he had also. He was a bad dude. Okay? He was no saint. Talking about George Floyd. He also, he had a terrible criminal past. Okay?
>> Wesley Wildmon: So, but back to what you were saying. BLM in 2020 alone, raised $20 million off of the death of George Floyd. I'm sorry, 90 million in 20. $20 million in one year.
>> Tim Wildmon: So this new organization, Black Lives Matter, pops up out of nowhere and starts raking in millions of dollars. What could go wrong there? Right? So, anyway, the bottom line is this fellow here was on Rod Again show. Said his eyes were open as to what was really going on with the blm. organization.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You could tell in that interview with Wriley that he sincerely was wanting to. Now, I would say. We would say that there is no systematic racism that's occurring in 2026. We.
>> Tim Wildmon: I.
>> Wesley Wildmon: What I believe. But now he felt. You could tell. He felt like there were white cops beating up on black people. That's what you could tell. That's why he got involved in the BLM to begin with. But as he. As he was. As you learned the truth as it was going.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, he was saying, you know, I got six family members that are cops.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So I know, they're in their black. so they're. We can't defund all those black cops are not racist, are they? You know, I mean, is that what you're saying? Because, And then that started the whole. Defund the police.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: which he was saying he couldn't. He couldn't go for either. This fellow here. Somebody's got to be. Keep law and order and be peace officers. Yeah. So, anyway, very interesting. Next story. Steve.
U.S. house Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution met yesterday
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, the U.S. house Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution met yesterday, and one of the people that they talked to was a lady named Amy Meckleburg. She's founder of the rare foundation Rai R, which happens to stand for Rise Again, Ignite and Reclaim.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm a member.
>> Steve Jordahl: She. What's that? You're a member?
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm a member.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good, good. it is opposing the Islamification of America. And I wanted to play a little bit about what she told the committee. This is a, little bit more than a minute long. This is what she had to say yesterday. Cut 15.
>> Amy Meckleburg: Islam is a hostile, totalitarian political ideology using our freedoms to destroy us. To every non Muslim, it offers three choices. Convert, submit, or die. It does not stop until every court, every school, and every government on earth is under Sharia. The Muslim Brotherhood turned this imperative into a modern conquest strategy. Two seized documents, the 1982 project and the 1991 explanatory memorandum, detail their two front plan. Build parallel Islamic societies that reject assimilation while their faithful capture our institutions. The Brotherhood wrote the playbook. Today, every hostile Islamic regime and faction is executing it on our soil. These networks operate more than 8,000 Islamic nonprofits across America, including 650 in Texas alone. Texas and Florida are the Brotherhood's command centers. They are the clearest example of the first strategy. Build massive fortresses where Muslims can live cradle to grave under full Sharia.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, and it's happening. There's, the Epic city in Texas. She said Texas is one of the epicenters. they're building entire communities that they intend to have American citizens, their children who are born here and are American citizens, live their whole life under Sharia law. they're trying to set up Sharia law enclaves in the United States. We've been talking about this quite a bit on today's issues. I have.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Anyway, wasn't there a water park in Texas?
>> Steve Jordahl: There was water park. It would happen also be to be named Epic. I don't believe it was. It was outside of Dallas. I don't believe it had anything. the similarity is just coincidental, the name anyway. But they had declared a Muslim only day, and, they were told that that's not going to work, and they had to take that back.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, she's. What she said is correct. Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: Ah.
>> Tim Wildmon: What we just heard is factually and historically correct. Islam does not, tolerate, any other religion when it. When it's able to dominate and become the majority.
>> Steve Jordahl: And they are looking to dominate and become the majority in the United States.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And anywhere they go, anywhere else in the world that they can dominate. So that's. She's, She's. She's correct about the impact, the people in, some of the Muslim countries, have to. Who are. Who are themselves a little bit more tolerant and diverse. they, have to fight back against their own extremists in their own countries. So our Elsa would be. Everything would be, like in Iran, where the, mullahs control. The mullahs being the Islamic religious leaders, they control everything in society which is even more oppressive than, say, Egypt, for example, which is a more moderate form of Islam.
Marco Hunter Lopez testified before a congressional committee about anti-Christian discrimination
Go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: She, brought with her a young man, named Marco Hunter Lopez. He's 16 years old. He was a sophomore at Wiley High School in Wylie, Texas. And he wanted to start a Republican club, a Republican student club. And so he complied with everything that the school required. The school required 10 members, at least, a teacher sponsor in a room. They got all of that, and they were still denied to, the, ability to form their club because the administration said, oh, no, you're political in nature. We can't let you do that. he had to fight. His congressional testimony said not only were they, discouraged from starting the club, but once they had to start it, because they were forced to, the teachers would tear down all the posters. at the same time, all of the Muslim clubs, the Islam clubs, were welcomed with open arms. The principal of the school celebrating hijab, day at least two years in a row, seeing how wonderful it was. The school library has, Qurans, but it will not carry a Bible.
>> Tim Wildmon: Where is this?
>> Steve Jordahl: This is in Wylie, Texas, in their school district.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: and, so he came to give this testimony. Well, how did the Democrats receive him? Well, this is.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're talking about this fellow. This student appeared before a congressional committee in Washington, D.C. yesterday.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: To talk about this.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes. Jamie Raskin, who is a, one of the members, of Congress, decided to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Democrat.
>> Steve Jordahl: A Democrat wanted to talk to this guy. And instead of examining his claims, he tried to take, Mr. Hunter Lopez to the woodshed. it didn't work out so good for him. Cut 16.
>> Tim Wildmon: But Thomas Jefferson described in his famous letter to the Danbury Baptist as a wall of separation.
>> Jamie Raskin: That was a letter, not a law.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so your position is that America is a theocracy.
>> Jamie Raskin: What I. You didn't let me finish my original statement. And I understand you have limited time, but what I'm saying is that you know how I said original colonies were requiring declaration of, faith to run for office? I'm not saying we have.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's why we have a First Amendment.
>> Jamie Raskin: What I'm saying is that we do. That's precisely why Judge Russell wrote, we do need to acknowledge our Christian heritage in America. That's what I'm trying.
>> Tim Wildmon: You can acknowledge whatever heritage you want, but you can't impose an establishment of religion on other people. That's the.
>> Jamie Raskin: I'm not suggesting that at all. I'm just saying acknowledge our heritage. That's what I'm saying.
>> Tim Wildmon: everybody can acknowledge their own heritage. Do you agree with that?
>> Jamie Raskin: American heritage. Not just any heritage, is what I'm saying.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, you don't Think that you're allowed to acknowledge your Christian heritage or your Jewish heritage or your Muslim heritage.
>> Jamie Raskin: I'm saying you members of Congress need
>> Steve Jordahl: to acknowledge American heritage, the Christian American heritage. he just wasn't taking it, from, Congressman, ah, Raskin, and gave back as good as he got.
>> Tim Wildmon: What age was that young man?
>> Steve Jordahl: He's 16 now.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow, that was impressive. Yeah, very much. I was learning to talk in complete sentences when I was 16.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. That was awesome. Young Frank Turek. Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Like he's been hanging around David Barton or Steven McDowell.
>> Steve Jordahl: He might have been to me.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, our Rick Greene, Walker Wildmon. M. Next story. Steve.
Antifa has assembled a local militia to shut down an event tomorrow
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, Turning Point USA was supposed to be holding an event at the University of Washington, today, tonight. And it was supposed to feature Chloe Cole, who is a lady who decided she wanted. Years, ago, decided she wanted to be a man, started doing a transition, went fairly far down that road and realized that she was making a mistake. And so she came back to being the woman that God created her to be. We mentioned her in our film, that we put together at American Family Studios. and, she was supposed to
>> Tim Wildmon: speak about M. In his image.
>> Steve Jordahl: In his image, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's the movie.
>> Steve Jordahl: Thank you. Yeah, I should have mentioned that. and she's mentioned in there. but she was going to speak at this Turning Point event. but Antifa came out. speaking of Antifa, they came out and they wanted to. They, they decided that they were going to shut down her. Her, event. This is a. I have in front of me a poster that they put up UW University.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why were they opposed to her speaking at the University of Washington?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, because they say she's anti trans. Because she believes she actually went through the whole.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I know you know this, but she went through the whole thing. She actually tested it out and tried it.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And then figured out after the fact it was not a good idea.
>> Steve Jordahl: Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: She transfers, trying to transition from a woman to a male.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I guess what I'm saying is if anybody can speak on the topic.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Yes. And they. So I got you. So Antifa, which is a far left group, they were opposed to
>> Wesley Wildmon: Chloe.
>> Tim Wildmon: Chloe. Chloe Cole speaking about her regret for trying to transition.
>> Steve Jordahl: And she talked about the threats that she was getting cut.
>> Chloe Cole: Thirteen, as many of you may know Now, I was scheduled to speak tomorrow at an event at University of Washington hosted by TPUSA's local chapter there. I'm putting this video out because, as you may have heard, Antifa has assembled a local militia in their own words to shut down this event. Their actions, their explicit threats on my life have raised this event to national attention. A level of attention our security team and the local PD are frankly unprepared for. Before Charlie Kirk's assassination, I think I would have been less careful. But the times have changed. And speaking on a University campus in 2026 can come with deadly consequences. We are postponing this event because of this reality. Why this is not.
>> Tim Wildmon: Why does it seem like it's always the left wing, people who threaten or carry out violence?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Because it's the reality.
>> Tim Wildmon: The so called people who champion tolerance are the most intolerant. Yeah. We will not allow you to testify your life story. Anything that doesn't line up with the far left, ideology they, they oppose, oftentimes with violent threats like this. Yes. You know Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a left wing. Yes. Guy, who. Guy who subscribed to left wing ideology. The CEO of United. Was it, Was it what? Health care.
>> Steve Jordahl: I got you United Health Care Net.
>> Tim Wildmon: United Health Care Net. The CEO of United Healthcare gunned down in Manhattan by far lefty. Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: celebrated for it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Celebrated.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It just seems like there's been 14 deadly attacks from. From left wingers since 20. Since July 13th, 2024. So just in the last two and a half years or two years there's been 13. and that. This starts at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally shooting on Trump from. Since then there's been 13, attacks, the ICE officers, the shooting there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So just anyway, something to pay attention to. We're out of time. My thanks to Steve, Wesley, Fred, Krish, Brent and Cole. I don't have time to tell you all their last names. Trust me, they have.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You'll come back tomorrow? Maybe you'll.
>> Tim Wildmon: Maybe tomorrow.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, you'll be training question tomorrow.
>> Tim Wildmon: See you tomorrow.
