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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

How Trump Plans to Reform America’s Elections

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Education, Government

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Josh's new special report BANNED DYES is premiering this Friday. Watch here: https://ept.ms/BannedDye

A new movement is starting to remake America’s election laws, and President Donald Trump says he will lead this effort.

Also, Texas is opening up its equivalent of Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz. Their newly opened immigration detention facility, which is now the largest in the United States, is being dubbed “Lone Star Lockup.”

And in other news, an illegal immigrant trucker accused of killing a family of three while driving across several lanes sparks a movement to identify illegal immigrants in the truck driving industry.

We’ll discuss these topics, and others, in this episode of Crossroads.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 

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0:00.0

President Donald Trump has a plan to reform America's election system from mail-in ballots to voting machines.

0:07.0

Meanwhile, Texas is opening up its equivalent to Florida's Alligator Alcatraz,

0:12.0

and their newly opened deportation facility, which is now the largest in the United States, is being dubbed the Lone Star Lockup.

0:21.6

And also on the point of illegal immigration, there was a recent trucking incident that left a family of three killed.

0:28.6

And this is becoming a focal point of how illegal immigrants have been allowed to get jobs as truckers.

0:34.6

I'll be talking about these topics and more today. I'm the Epic Times

0:38.9

senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads.

0:47.4

Welcome to Crossroads. A new movement is starting to remake America's election laws and President Donald

0:56.7

Trump says he's going to lead the entire effort on it. This is major. This is going to change the

1:02.4

entire way elections are done. It's going to have a lot of legal challenges probably. Let me show

1:08.4

you he said on Truth Social. He said, I'm going to lead a movement

1:11.9

to get rid of mail-in ballots and also while we're at it, highly inaccurate, very expensive, and

1:18.1

seriously controversial voting machines. So he's going to get rid of mail and ballots, done,

1:24.2

and while he's at it, just to get rid of the voting machines as well.

1:30.0

He says they cost 10 times more than accurate and sophisticated watermark paper, which is faster,

1:37.0

leaves no doubt at the end of the evening as to who won, who lost the election.

1:43.6

And he said, quote, we are now the only country in the world

1:47.6

that uses mail-in voting. Is that true? I don't know if we're the only one, but Trump says we're

1:53.5

the only one. Maybe we are. He says all others gave it up because of the massive voter fraud

1:59.4

encountered. We will begin this effort, which will be strongly

2:02.5

opposed by the Democrats because they cheat at levels never seen before. This is Trump saying it

2:08.2

not may. He said, by signing an executive order to help bring honesty to the 2026 midterm elections.

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