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review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. All right, welcome back to the Wednesday live

stream. If you're new here, this is Right Response Ministries. I'm the primary host, Pastor Joel

Weben. I've got with me today,

well, every Wednesday at 4 p.m. Central Time. We live stream once a week on Wednesdays. I've got

Wesley Todd. I also have Michael Belch. They're both members in good standing in our local church in

Central Texas. We're in Georgetown, Texas, Covenant Bible Church. And we do this every single Wednesday at 4 p.m. And we had an episode that was lined up for

today, but we're deciding to go ahead and push that back because there's big breaking news that's

going on right now. The news is that our governor in the state of Texas, Governor Abbott, who has,

you know, he's fairly conservative. He's certainly one of the better governors in the nation as a whole. But to be honest, in many instances, he's kind of, his best moves have been following

suit of guys like Ron DeSantis in Florida. You know, so somebody else will take a stand and then he'll

follow, you know, their example. He hasn't really been an original leader, you know, coming out

with a strong conservative stance all on his own.

But this is his battle.

We have had a full-blown invasion.

That is the proper term for the, for a long time.

I mean, immigration has gone up.

Illegal immigration and legal immigration has gone up steadily for the past few years, even before Biden taking office.

But since the Biden administration over these past three years, I believe it's six million

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