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Vote for me. I'll set you free. We appreciate it. And the NLACB Image Awards are coming up. There's two parts to it. There's a part that is like the awards categories that we're in and the other podcast categories. And there's a whole other broadcast at the end of the month. There's a whole lot going on.

We're trying to decide, like, how we're going to manage all of that.

We've got some, some breaking news on our top story tonight.

Apparently, Donald Trump is displeased with the optics of what he's seeing going on in Minnesota.

So he is pulling not just Christy Noem off of Minnesota duty, but apparently also the teeny tiny, teeny tiny head of the Border Patrol, who you've seen in lots and lots and lots of the videos.

Apparently he's also getting pulled as well. Apparently, neither of them are doing

too great of a job. Greg Abbott of Texas, even criticizing the way that things have rolled out

in Minnesota, the absolute chaos is not really going down for anybody. Everybody can see that

it's a hot mess, incompetently done,, violent and hideous. So there you go.

So my leading question tonight is how do you turn a blue state into a red state? How do you take a state,

right, that provides generous social services and is open-minded and open-hearted when it comes to

immigrants and where they

where immigrants thrive and start businesses and blend into the community. How do you take a state

like that, you know, where they've got like real education in schools and women have access to

abortion and freedom over their own bodies, a state like that and turn it into a red state

where immigrants

feel unwelcome, where history is warped to elevate the people who share the ethnicity of the

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