House Arrest: Mike Johnson Locks Out AZ

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Arizona’s Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square, but Speaker Mike Johnson’s government shutdown has become a hostage crisis. Grijalva would have been the 218th vote to release the Epstein Files. Instead of being sworn in, Grijalva’s locked out while Johnson clings to power and uses the House swearing-in delay to feed his MAGA base. Rick Wilson tears into this clown show—how GOP power politics turned a duly elected congresswoman into a political pawn, how the shutdown in Congress hurts Arizona's families, and why Johnson’s behavior reeks of tiny "D" energy.
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0:00.0	Because when you lift up segments of our community, everybody comes up.
0:06.2	It's not like you just pull up one group.
0:09.3	But this administration wants to do that.
0:11.7	If you are aligned politically, if you look like them, then, you know, we have a shot.
0:17.1	And everyone else is collateral damage.
0:19.6	Your task will not be an easy one.
0:22.2	Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.
0:26.0	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.
0:29.7	There is the United States of America.
0:34.6	Good night and good luck.
0:36.7	Hey, folks, delighted to be on the Lincoln Project podcast today, joined by a person
0:42.3	whose name I think you're going to get to know a lot better in the coming weeks, months,
0:45.5	and years.
0:46.2	It's Adelaide DiGriova.
0:47.6	She is the newly elected member of Congress that Mike Johnson is refusing to swear in for Mike Johnson's various nefarious
0:55.9	purposes. So I want to welcome to the show today. Thank you so much for coming on. I know you have
1:01.2	been deluge with folks who are asking you that one question over and over again. When is Mike Johnson
1:07.2	going to do the right thing and swear you at? I wish I had an answer that was different and updated, but unfortunately, I don't.
1:16.1	We still have had no direct communication with the speaker's office.
1:20.4	Everything that I have heard has been through media or, you know, a reporter has asked a question.
1:28.7	And, but ultimately, what I'm hearing very clearly is until Congress is back in session,
1:34.8	I will not be getting sworn in.
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