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The WallBuilders Show

From Texas Ballots To Federal Bench: What The Headlines Miss

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Headlines screamed that Texas was shifting blue and the House majority was shrinking, but the numbers—and the context—tell a different story. We open with a clear walkthrough of the Texas special elections: why a long-held Democratic congressional seat returning to a Democrat isn’t a national pivot, how a low-turnout state senate special produced an upset, and where party mechanics fell short. When only a quarter of general-election voters participate, motivation and awareness dominate outcom...

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0:00.0

This is the intersection of faith and culture.

0:09.0

It's the Wall Builders Show, taken on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical,

0:12.9

and constitutional perspective.

0:14.9

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0:18.6

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0:20.6

If you've missed any programs last week or the last couple of weeks, you can catch those

0:24.2

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0:25.1

Show and then wallbillers.com for everything else, including the tools you need to be a part

0:30.3

of the 250th and a part of the answer.

0:31.8

Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton and guys, quite a weekend, some special

0:36.6

elections in Texas that made the headlines. Definitely need to talk about those. And then it looks like President Trump is closing the Kennedy Center for a couple of years for renovations and kind of revamping things there. That's going to be pretty interesting. So some interesting announcements over the weekend. And then, of course, things still going on in Minneapolis. Probably get to that as well.

0:57.4

But what's at the top of y'all's list for this Monday morning?

0:59.8

Well, I think the one going on with Texas ought to be hit first with Sylvester Turner's old seat.

1:05.7

He passed away in office. And so it's been a seat open for about 10 months now.

1:09.3

They went through 16 Democrat

1:11.4

candidates in the primaries and so Democrats have won that and so the headlines are how how much

1:18.2

it shrinks the Republican majority that Mike Johnson has to work with and you know just kind of put

1:23.0

it all in perspective look that seat with Sylvester Turner has been Democrats since George Washington

1:28.5

or somewhere back in that vicinity. I mean, this has been a perpetual Democrat seat in Texas,

1:34.3

and they're counting it like national news, like it's a big turnover. And here's what really got

1:39.3

me. And I, you know, guys, I go back obviously several decades. And I remember when we had something called New Math.

1:46.9

Rick, was New Math gone?

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