The Stack: Indiana Redistricting Showdown With Turning Point Action
Indiana has suddenly become the center of America’s political universe—and the battle over redistricting could determine who controls Congress after the 2026 midterms. In today’s episode, Todd sits down with Brett Galaszewski, National Enterprise Director for Turning Point Action, to break down why the stakes in Indiana are far higher than most realize. With Democrats poised to gain ground nationally after California eliminated multiple GOP seats, Indiana’s opportunity to secure a 9–0 Republican map has become a pivotal backstop against the Radical Left.
Brett explains the internal GOP resistance, the lingering establishment influence, and why a handful of state senators may be the only barrier between Republicans and losing the House. The two also preview Turning Point Action’s “All In For Indiana” rally at the Statehouse, aimed at pushing lawmakers across the finish line before Monday’s vote.
This redistricting fight isn’t just local—it’s a defining moment for the future of the constitutional republic. Every legal and ethical tool must be used. Indiana voters have a narrow window to act.
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📝 Transcript: Indiana Redistricting Showdown With Turning Point Action
The Todd Huff Show – December 3, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: Attention. You're listening to the Todd Huff Show, America's home for conservative, not bitter, talk and education. Be advised. The content of this program has been documented to prevent and even cure liberalism and listening may cause you to lean to the right. And now, coming to you from the Full Sweet Wealth studios, here's your conservative but not bitter host, Todd Huff. All right, my friends, we're going to continue our conversation today about redistricting.
Todd Huff: And I know. Listen, many of you out there are not in this great state of Indiana, but this impacts you as well. In fact, this may be impacting your state specifically, as many states have looked into redistricting, had the fight over redistricting, all of that stuff, but it definitely could impact who is starting in 2027, after the 2026 midterms. And so today, we have a special guest from Turning Point Action, which I'll get to here in just a moment. Going to talk about redistricting, and they've got a rally down at the Statehouse coming up on Friday that he'll tell you more about, my friends. But before we get rocking and rolling today…
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Todd Huff: With that being said, I'm going to get into this today. I've got a special guest on the phone. Brett Galaszewski. He's the National Enterprise Director of Turning Point Action. Brett, I'd like to welcome you into the program, my friend. How are you?
Brett Galaszewski: Thanks, Todd. Appreciate you having me on. This is great. Looking forward to being in Indy this week.
Todd Huff: Well, that's fantastic. Did I get the last name right first, Brett?
Brett Galaszewski: You did. It's a long and annoying Polish last name. Not too uncommon of a name, though, up in Wisconsin, where I'm from. Huge Polish population.
Todd Huff: Well, with my last name, you don't even have to move your tongue. You can almost grunt my last name out. So that's a little bit different. But it's good to have you on the program. So, first thing I want to talk to you about, Brett, here as we get into this discussion on redistricting and your event here on Friday at the Statehouse…
Todd Huff: You're with Turning Point Action. I know a lot of folks are familiar, of course, with Charlie Kirk, and especially in the wake of that horrible, horrific assassination that happened a couple of months back. They might be familiar with Turning Point USA. You're Turning Point Action. Help us understand the difference here between these sister organizations.
Brett Galaszewski: Sure. Yeah. So, Turning Point USA is what you typically see online — the student arm of the Turning Point brand and name. So anytime that you see those videos online of Charlie Kirk doing those “prove me wrong” events on campus or the pictures of students tabling with “Big Government Sucks” signs… that's all part of Turning Point USA. Turning Point USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Turning Point Action is a 501(c)(4). So we're the political arm of that Turning Point apparatus.
Brett Galaszewski: We can endorse candidates. We can hold events in support of a candidate. We can hold events in support of certain initiatives. We can get more involved in the political grassroots. Turning Point Action was founded in 2019, and that was when I came on board with Turning Point Action as a way to get more involved in statewide and national elections going forward. So really, at the end of the day, the bottom line is: we help Turning Point USA students take that leap from being the conservative voices on their college campuses to being the conservative voices in their communities where it matters most in the conservative grassroots.
Todd Huff: And this is all, at a very basic level, part of Charlie's vision for what needed to happen as we fight this battle to win this battle for conservatism here in this great nation.
Brett Galaszewski: It was. I mean, think about it. Ten years ago, when Charlie started Turning Point USA out of his garage in Illinois, there really was no youth field program that existed at the time in the Republican apparatus. And Charlie recognized that and knew that it was more than just putting bodies on the ground — putting young people in the fight. It was about revamping the culture of this young voting block and making sure we don't make the same mistakes that the Republican apparatus had been making up until that point.
Brett Galaszewski: Keep in mind, this was coming off of — now, really in the thick of — eight years of Obama and a slide in conservatism. And really, at the end of the day, when you are complacent, you lose. A lot of Republicans — including, especially at that time in 2015, but really more so now — we have to recognize this in a state like Indiana. We have become complacent, and that’s how we've gotten into this redistricting pickle.
Todd Huff: That's right. That's a great way to put it. We have become complacent. And we've also become — I know we're a red state — but there are certainly a lot of RINOs here in our state that I've had to deal with. We won't necessarily get into that, but let's talk redistricting here specifically.
Todd Huff: Explain from your… we talked about this on the program for a while. But explain from your vantage point what's happening here and how this could impact the larger picture — who controls Congress after the 2026 midterms? What that could mean for this nation? Just kind of paint the picture of what's at stake here.
Brett Galaszewski: Yeah. I think the mistake right now for people in Indiana in particular is that they are putting this into the bucket of “this is very much a local issue,” and that is actually farther from the truth than I ever could imagine. It started as a local issue. It has now turned into the national make-or-break issue that will affect our ability to compete as Republicans at the national level going forward.
Brett Galaszewski: Indiana is essentially the final line of protection in making sure that Republicans retain the House of Representatives next year. It's essentially the backstop now in putting us in that best possible position. And it very well could be that a select group of allegedly Republican senators are going to be the reason that that doesn't happen, and we hand the House back to the radical left — and give AOC, Ilhan Omar, and all those other leftist creeps that power again. It cannot happen. Indiana cannot be the reason this happens. I hope it isn't. And that's why we're fighting so hard for it.
Todd Huff: Well, what's interesting to me is — and I actually grew up in a union Democrat home. My dad was a union representative. I was raised in a union Democrat home, but I am by no… any way, stretch, matter, form — I was not raised in a liberal home, a leftist home. And the people on the national level, when Democrats are elected locally in whatever state they're elected in to go represent them in Congress or the Senate, they often elect leaders that are at least liberal and oftentimes radical extreme leftists who hate this country as founded.
Todd Huff: And so I don't know any… I know there's some. I certainly know statistically there are some leftists in our state, but that is not even Hoosier Democrat values that's being represented on the national stage. Talk about that for a minute, if you would, Brett.
Brett Galaszewski: Yeah. I think you guys in Indiana are in a really fortunate situation in comparison to someone like me in Wisconsin. The political makeup of Indiana is so favorable. Because in comparison to other Midwest states — certainly Illinois, but I'm talking about in comparison to other states next door like Ohio or Michigan — you guys are so conservative.
Brett Galaszewski: You have massive Republican majorities. You have Republican-controlled everything. You have the unique advantage of having what I would consider, relatively speaking, a more conservative-leaning metropolitan area in Indy, and then in northwest Indiana — that sprawl, the conservative sprawl, really the conservative exodus out of the city of Chicago — has helped northwestern Indiana become more conservative. So long story short, Indiana is about as conservative as any other hard-red state that comes to mind for people like Wyoming, Idaho, Alabama. I mean, it's a top-five Republican state.
Brett Galaszewski: But unfortunately, what we're finding out is there is a force that's dragging some Republican senators to the wrong side of this make-or-break issue. A lot of it has to do with the Mike Pence foothold still being very strong in Indiana. You're starting to see what I call the horseshoe theory, where you get Republicans and then the far radical leftists on Twitter — they're locking arms and they're going after this redistricting fight, and they're going after good conservative activists. It's kind of wild what we're seeing right now. Indiana, for all intents and purposes, is the center of the political universe right now. It is the center of the universe when it comes to this issue. It's critically important.
Todd Huff: I'm on the phone here with Brett Galaszewski. He is the National Enterprise Director, Turning Point Action. So Brett, I'll tell you, as a guy who's done this — I've followed politics for gee, probably 30 years now. Was a political science major all these years ago at Butler. I had those fights in the classroom back before they made movies about that stuff and had some problems with my professors and all that sort of thing. But I'll tell you that ten years ago, I don't know that I would have been in favor of redistricting.
Todd Huff: This stuff gets very emotional. There's already people at the Statehouse that are doing the chants and all this sort of stuff. I don't know if I would have supported this ten years ago. But today, I believe that we're in a fight for the survival of the constitutional republic. We've got a political party who's proven to us that they are in favor of lawfare — whatever it takes to stop Trump. I mean, it'll be endless investigations, it'll be impeachment times ten. Whatever you can imagine, it will probably be that and worse.
Todd Huff: So it's my position — and tell me where you agree, disagree here — that conservatives have to use every legal, ethical, moral tool at their disposal to win this fight. I think this is one of those tools. I guess, respond to that.
Brett Galaszewski: Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly with you. And really, the knives came out after California's proposition vote in November. So Republicans currently have a six-seat majority in the House, and with Prop 50 passing in California — which was really just a bleak night for Republicans all across the country that election night — Gavin Newsom essentially scrapped now five-plus Republican-controlled seats.
Brett Galaszewski: So with Indiana having an opportunity to go from 7–2 to 9–0, that could easily be the make-or-break difference here. We could easily be holding on to a one-seat majority next year after the midterms. I have zero problem with the left going hard in the paint in states that they have massive control in, like California. And I saw Massachusetts was doing that, and Virginia is talking about this. And obviously next door in Illinois — you guys know that they've manipulated the maps and taken advantage of Democrat-controlled everything.
Brett Galaszewski: I do not have a problem with that — the maximizing of your reach — as long as Republicans do the same in the equivalent states that we have that are about as hard-red as any other. And Indiana is kind of the epitome of that. There's no reason, knowing the political makeup and the historic kind of aura of Indiana, there's no reason it shouldn't be a 9–0 map.
Brett Galaszewski: And more so than that — from a cultural perspective — this is the time for Indiana to draw their line in the sand and say: “We are doing away with the Mike Pence Republicans of old, and we in Indiana are MAGA-branded Trump conservatives, and we want to reverse course, and we want to stop this in its tracks. So Gavin Newsom and the radical leftists don't end up looking like heroes going into 2028.” Right now, we are setting the stage for Gavin Newsom to be a hero. That's a terrifying thought.
Todd Huff: So, let's talk about some of the objections you may have heard. I've invited critics on this program. Most folks don't want to come on here. Boh-bei, who is running here as a Democrat — that's a legacy Democrat name here in Indiana. His dad and grandfather were politicians: governor, senator, that sort of thing. But Boh-bei came on and he talked about his opposition to this.
Todd Huff: But when you get down to it, Brett… isn't it fair to say that there's not a lot of meat to the opposition here? This is a political process. It is 100% legal for the Republicans to do this. They're not violating the state constitution or statute. It is a constitutionally assigned responsibility from the U.S. Constitution for state legislatures to manage these sorts of things. What's the real opposition to this?
Brett Galaszewski: I have yet to, Todd, hear a compelling argument against the 9–0 map. Every reason that I've heard thus far… it's been so absurd. It's based on pettiness. It's based on tyranny. It's based on self-righteousness. I'll give you an example. I mean, you guys know about that Senator Boicheck, who's voting no because he doesn't particularly like the names that President Trump was calling Tim Walz during the election. That's pettiness.
Brett Galaszewski: We're finding out — I had a lovely conversation with the GOP chairwoman in Indiana, it's not her — but we're finding out that there are high-up party-elected officials in the Indiana GOP that are refusing to speak up against this. They're siding with the 7–2 map, essentially going against Trump because new district lines could mean that they won't be able to represent their districts anymore on the State Central Committee for the GOP. That's how crazy this has gotten.
Brett Galaszewski: I've heard other reasons. I tweeted about this last night. There is a Republican senator — a woman, I won't say her name… well, maybe I could — actually, I won't. You guys can Google this. I don't want her to try and say that I talked badly about her and create problems. But she came out and she started telling people this: that she's a “no,” a hard no, on the 9–0 map because a conservative activist group was sending text blasts out to voters in her district encouraging them to call their senator and urge them to support it.
Brett Galaszewski: And her grandson was one of the ones that received the text blast. She does not know how text blasts work. She thought the group was only targeting her 14-year-old grandson — and has been telling people that with a straight face. You cannot make this stuff up. It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Brett Galaszewski: We're hearing that Dan Darnell, a senator from kind of that northwest part of Indiana… his legislative aides are telling our activists on the phone that right now he's not sure because he believes Republicans should “win on policy,” when literally right next door to his district the left has won on taking advantage of every single Democrat-controlled apparatus to manipulate the maps. So it's mind-boggling to me. It's a head-scratcher to me why we're not unified on this, knowing that it's such a massive majority in the State Senate.
Todd Huff: It unfortunately doesn't surprise me too much, being one that lives here. I mean, Eric Holcomb, who was our previous governor, was not a conservative. We've got a senator in the U.S. Senate named Todd Young, who's not a conservative senator. I'm not saying they're leftists — they're moderates, right? They're RINOs a lot of times.
Todd Huff: And there has been a lot of that that's crept into the party here in Indiana. But all that being said, though, the opposition that I've heard is basically things like: “This is cheating. This is disenfranchising voters. This is just creating an unfair advantage for Republicans,” and all this sort of stuff. I mean, when it comes down to it, as far as I see it, Brett, the Democrats want at least two representatives to be Democrats, and Republicans want them all to be Republican. And I just think it's political at its core. Is there anything else to this besides that?
Brett Galaszewski: Yeah. And I'm starting to believe this more and more as the days go on and we get closer to the weekend here. I believe at the end of the day, for a lot of these senators, they still have a subliminal hate toward Donald Trump. Whether that be remnants of the Mike Pence–Trump conflict that took place at the end of the first Trump administration… or just kind of that deep embedded establishment roots that a lot of these senators have.
Brett Galaszewski: I believe that they're still, in some way or another, lashing out at Trump and using these absurd reasons — again, the “Trump calling Tim Walz names” — these are just crazy reasons that make no sense for a conservative to be saying. I think it's masking a much larger problem, and it's that the swamp runs deep in Indiana.
Todd Huff: Yeah, it does. But the voters — the constituents that represent… that elect these people to the Statehouse — don't share those… some certainly share those sentiments, but many don't. Many understand what you're saying, what I'm saying. They understand that Republicans have played with the kid gloves on for too long. Republicans have been bullied and pushed around.
Todd Huff: It's interesting how the blue states in this country can have districts that look truly — that are gerrymander-drawn to these really odd shapes to get cities connected and so forth — and that’s okay. They can do that to the max, but Republicans can't do anything whatsoever. These maps, by the way — you can have problems with them — but they're not unreasonably drawn. They're contiguous. They're not oddly shaped and just massively deformed like some of these other districts could be around the country.
Todd Huff: But Republicans have had this used against them too many times, and I think we're sick of it. And I think that's… your rally this Friday may tap into that a little bit. So talk to me about what you're doing Friday at the Statehouse.
Brett Galaszewski: So we want to rally all the Republican, conservative, MAGA… the base. We want to rally tons of freedom-loving patriots at the Statehouse on Friday to send that final message — kind of be the crescendo on all of this — that enough is enough. The conservative grassroots that knock doors till their knuckles bled to get these Republican senators elected… this is not why we work so hard to get them elected.
Brett Galaszewski: And for the Republican voter base, the ones who took time and treasure out of their days to vote for these Republicans — they don’t want this either. This isn't Indiana. This isn't conservatism. And enough is enough. So we want to be able to send that gut punch. We're really excited. We have Governor Mike Braun joining us. We have Lieutenant Governor Michael Beckwith joining us. We have some other awesome speakers — some really young, up-and-coming super-conservative freedom fighters in the General Assembly — that are coming to join us as well.
Brett Galaszewski: …to really rally the troops here and hopefully, by kind of coming onto their territory, coming into the Capitol and sending that message on the last possible day for us to do that — Friday the 5th — and then Monday the 8th is when they vote on this. We want to be able to say we threw the kitchen sink at this thing. So if you're listening to the program right now and you're available on Friday afternoon, we want you there. We want you to fight with us. We want you to make your voice heard.
Brett Galaszewski: This is Turning Point Action's very first ever event in Indiana in our organization's history, and we want to start it out with a bang. And we want to be able to say that we changed this thing for the better and we changed history.
Todd Huff: So where do you think things stand right now from what you can gauge? How tight is this? What's the likelihood that this passes? What do you think is… well, what's going to happen? What's your judgment on this?
Brett Galaszewski: It's going to be tight. And again, we hope that our rally at noon at the Statehouse is really the final punch here that really gets these senators across the line. For those listening that are wondering where we're at right now — these are the senators right now that we believe have the most room to flip, and it's absolutely imperative that we do get them to flip.
Brett Galaszewski: So if you're sitting in the car right now listening to this and you're in the district of this person in Indiana, I want you to do us a favor, and I want you to call that senator's office between now and Monday and make your voice heard. It's Dan Darnell, Rick Niemeyer, Ryan Mishler, Brian Buchanan, Blake Doriot, Brett Clark, Greg Goode, and Linda Rogers.
Brett Galaszewski: These are Republican senators that have not come out and either opposed or said that they're in favor of this. That makes no sense. And it's inexcusable right now. At this point, they are Republicans. They put the “R” next to their name. In some cases, they are in Trump +20 districts. Brian Buchanan won by 39 points a couple of years ago in his general race, and then last time he didn't even have an opponent. These are safe Republicans. They have no political revenge theories, revenge tactics to worry about. They should be voting in favor of a 9–0 map.
Brett Galaszewski: That's where we stand right now. If we can just get half of that group to flip, we will be okay. It'll be tight, but we will be okay. We just need those senators.
Todd Huff: I just have a little bit of time here before we got to jump off of here. Is all the problem in the Senate? Or is the House… is it okay there?
Brett Galaszewski: Yeah, it got out of committee in the House, and it's going to get voted today on the floor, in the House. We think that this will all be settled by Friday. So yeah, we've never worried about the House. That's the other mind-boggling part to this. The House will pass this with flying colors. It's just the Senate.
Todd Huff: Well, very good. Well, Brett, I appreciate you joining us. Thank you very much. Keep up the hard work. I appreciate it. And good luck on Friday.
Brett Galaszewski: Thanks, Todd. One last thing. For those that want to come, it's noon on Friday at the Capitol. You can sign up at TPAction.com/rallyindiana. We hope to see you there.
Todd Huff: All right. Brett, I appreciate it. Brett Galaszewski. He's the National Enterprise Director, Turning Point Action. Folks, I got to wrap up this segment. Back in just a minute.
Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. I hope you enjoyed that conversation that we had there with Brett Galaszewski. I'm proud of myself for getting the name right. Brett, as I told him during the interview, you don't have to even open your mouth to say my last name — you can grunt it almost. Huff. But anyway, it's a pleasure to have him on. I appreciate what Turning Point Action is doing.
Todd Huff: Again, this event is called “All In for Indiana.” I'm looking here at the digital flyer. It says, “Tell the State Senate to redistrict.” Join us for a community gathering as we call on the State Senate to support President Trump's America First agenda and fair maps for Indiana. That's Friday, December 5 at noon. If you can make it, it's at the Statehouse. It's right downtown — 200 West Washington. You know where the Statehouse is. But 200 West Washington Street.
Todd Huff: You can RSVP by going to their website: tpaction.com/rallyindiana. I'll put all these links in our show notes as well. I know it's hard to hear these things when you're driving. By the way, that goes for anything. That goes for anything that we talk about on this program. You can always go… there's a page called “The Stack” on our website. I've shared this with you before. But that's where this stuff will be if it helps you. You can't remember all this stuff — I get it.
Todd Huff: We'll put this link there for you to register, but it's just… go to toddhuffshow.com, and if you go to The Stack, each episode has a full description. It's got links to things that we would have talked about on the program. We've really kind of cleaned that up and streamlined that here over the past couple of months as we've expanded the team and just kind of gotten better at this.
Todd Huff: Remember, I started this program in a closet ten years ago now. Just me and a digital microphone. And so now we've got some folks helping with that. Helping out with that. Anyway…
Todd Huff: TPAction.com/rallyindiana — more, some concluding thoughts on this conversation I had with Brett here in a moment and a little bit more about the event on Friday as well.
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Todd Huff: Okay. So couple of things. First, let me say this. As we were getting… as we left the air, so to speak, and I always hang around and thank the guests for a moment — say, hey, I appreciate what you're doing. Do you need anything else from me? Well, during that conversation, Brett asked me — he said, “Would you want to come speak at this event?” And it's short notice. I know this is the nature of these things. It's short notice.
Todd Huff: So there's a potential — I'm not telling you here now that I'll be there on Friday, because just with my schedule… I know some people think, hey, this guy, you get on the show for an hour a day and then you go play golf. That's not exactly what happens here. There's a whole lot more that actually — a whole lot more that happens here behind the scenes. In fact, this is sometimes, oftentimes, the easiest part of my day, coming on here and talking with you. It's the part that definitely I love the most, that sometimes comes the most natural to me.
Todd Huff: But that happened. So I don't know. Maybe we'll be doing that. I'll talk with Oz here once we… and I'll look at my schedule to see — I honestly don't know at the moment what I've got, if I can even make that work. But I do know that if you can make it, this is important. This issue is one that is going to determine a lot of things. This issue of redistricting — it's going to determine a lot of things for the future of this country. And it's important that we do what we can.
Todd Huff: He mentioned — he gave a list of senators, which I knew the primary problem was in the Senate. I didn't know if there was any opposition or problem in the House. I'd always heard about the Senate. But anyway, you can call your senators. That's a good option as well. That'll be something we put on The Stack of Stuff page as well.
Todd Huff: Maybe we'll even post that. There might be a little bit more work for my team and I today just to get you the information out so that you can do with it what you will. Whatever you can do… this is, I think, one of the challenges. I don't know if “challenge” is the word, but one of the things that — when you get to positions of leadership, you have to understand that, first of all…
Todd Huff: Conservatives are people who are working. Conservatives are people who make this country work. You're the ones out there that are providing the goods and services. Many entrepreneurial people. If you're not entrepreneurial, you're the most reliable worker — one of them — at your company. You're involved in your church's ministry. You're doing things. You're doing things that make this place better.
Todd Huff: And I know… listen. I understand there's a lot of things that vie for space on your calendar. And it may be impossible. Like I said, if I can go speak on Friday, I'll do that. If I can't, then sometimes it's just not possible, right? But I'll tell you this: we all have a role. And that's something — the older I've gotten, the more I seem to understand that.
Todd Huff: I think back to even to the days playing football in high school and college. I played defense. I was a cornerback in college. High school, I was a safety, cornerback, and quarterback. We played offense — back when I played, you played both ways, and I loved it. I didn't want to come off the field.
Todd Huff: But each position has its own role, right? And you need different skill sets at different positions. And of course, you always understand the position that you play the best. You always understand, if you're a wide receiver, I've got to be able to catch the football. But if I'm a right guard, I don't necessarily need to be able to do that unless I play for Mike Vrabel or something, and they put me out on a tackle-eligible play or some such thing, and I'm catching touchdown passes every once in a while.
Todd Huff: But different skills… different skills plug in differently. We all are unique. But what matters is that we're all doing whatever part — whatever piece of that overall operation — we're doing our thing.
Todd Huff: If you speak, then go speak. If you can call your senator, call your senator. If you can get onto Facebook, you have a following there. Maybe you have a blog. I don't know. I mean, some of the things you all do in this audience — some of the things I've seen you do, I've heard about — it's remarkable. Some of the stuff you've got going on. And you wear a lot of hats. I get it. I get it.
Todd Huff: Listen, I coach two basketball teams right now for my youngest daughter. We had practice — of course, they've canceled it here because of the snow the last two days — but I think we had practice four days a week and games two days a week. So six out of seven days we're doing that, and I love it. And there's a time that I won't be able to do it again. Right? And that's the same with this, though.
Todd Huff: The same with this. There won't always be an opportunity. Once these votes happen between now and Monday, you won't be able to go back. You won't be able to go back in and fix it. You won't be able to make that phone call because it won't matter come Monday. And this is going to be tight. I don't know the outcome. I don't know the outcome. All I know is that there's a lot of opposition to this at the Statehouse — at least, there's a lot of loud people.
Todd Huff: There's a lot of either unprincipled people who aren't conservative that are Republicans in this state, but they're on the fence. Ultimately, if they know that they've upset the voter — the constituent — if they know they're being held accountable by you, then they look at this a little bit differently. They don't want to be voted out of office. They don't want to be voted out of office. They don't want to have angry constituents.
Todd Huff: But when it comes to a contentious issue like this, somebody's going to be upset. You’ve got to make a decision. Someone has to win this battle — which I'll talk about on the other side of the break. I'm just out of time this segment, my friends. Sit tight. You're listening here to the home of conservative, not bitter talk. I'm your host, the one, the only, the ever-so-beloved Todd Huff. Back here in just a minute.
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Todd Huff: All right, before the break, I alluded to… I made a comment. I said that we are going to have to have — someone is going to have to win this fight in this country. One of the things that is maddening… I did the Todd Talk a little bit on this today. Under the Biden administration, 4 million illegal aliens were reportedly given Social Security numbers.
Todd Huff: And as I thought about just illegal aliens, I thought about just the open borders that we had in this country. Make no mistake — we practically had open borders. In all reality, that's what we had. It was shut down virtually overnight when Trump came into office. It's remarkable. People will deny this, but the evidence is there for anybody who wants to see the truth.
Todd Huff: Now, listen. I'm not against people immigrating to this country. I think that's a good thing. But when I was a kid, there was something called assimilation, and that meant that there was something about being American. You were accepting some ideals — American ideas and customs and, to some degree, the culture. It didn't mean that you had to abandon everything that was part of your makeup and your history. That's not the case at all.
Todd Huff: But there is something that's American. And there has to be — there has to be something that unifies the people in a country. And when you have two truly diametrically opposed worldviews… You have one on the left, that says — I'm talking about the godless radical left. I know that there's people in between this. This is not a nice, neat, everybody-fits-into-one-bucket sort of thing. But I'll tell you this: when you elect one of these two options to make laws for you and for the rest of society, you're empowering one of these two core principles, worldviews, ideologies.
Todd Huff: On the left, we have a group of people… a group of people who are what I refer to as godless radical leftists. And I say that, A, because many of them told me, “Yes, that's exactly what we are. Thank you for properly acknowledging who we are.” But to them, government is God. The state is supreme. This is the home, by the way, of the communist. This is ultimately what they want in a classless, stateless society.
Todd Huff: Which, of course, is ironic, because what they end up getting is an absolutely out-of-control, all-powerful state. But these are people who believe government controls the answers to everything — has solutions to everything. If we only give them more tax dollars, if we only give up our freedoms.
Todd Huff: This is incompatible — truly incompatible, hear me say this — incompatible with liberty. Truly. If a political party embraces this ideology, it must be defeated. This is what the Democrat Party has become today. Now, what's interesting is rank-and-file Democrats certainly don't all fall into that bucket. In fact, I would say that a tiny portion of them do.
Todd Huff: But when you elect people to represent the state of Indiana, just as an example, who are Democrats who then go to Washington, D.C. to elect leadership and to come up with an agenda — the Democratic National Platform — that platform represents the beliefs of the radical left. They've taken over. I'm telling you, the national party has been hijacked, taken over by these extreme, godless radical leftists. That's not a blanket statement for all of them, but that's what this party has largely become.
Todd Huff: And on the other side, you have people who believe in Western civilization, who believe in traditional classical liberalism — which may shock some. I'm a classical liberal in the sense that I believe in individual liberty. I believe in the autonomy of the individual. I believe that we are given our rights by our Creator. The rights don't come — they can't come — from government.
Todd Huff: Government is the problem many more times than it's ever the solution. In fact, government just has certain roles that it should be playing. Our founders went to great lengths to kind of outline this for us in the Constitution. So you have these two diametrically opposed worldviews that really can't coexist in the sense of governance. You can't have one side that says the state needs to be doing everything and the other side that says the state should be doing next to nothing.
Todd Huff: And what do you compromise? The state does half of things? That’s still not good. That's in the wrong direction, my friends. And that's what we have today. In order for us to win this fight, we have to win this battle along the way. It is time for Indiana to redistrict, and we have to use every legal, ethical — whatever tool — at our disposal. That has to be done. Hopefully it will be done here between now and Monday.
Todd Huff: So, folks, I've got to go. Thank you for listening. Have a great day. SDG.
