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Will Hanes: Welcome to Sekulow. Will Hanes here. Jordan Sekulow joining me as well. We've got a lot to talk about, folks. And one of the main things here is that we're starting to see the Democrat Party realize, "Wait a second, maybe it's not great to be so closely aligned with people like Hasan Piker. People that are pretty explicitly antisemitic, and that's been growing in the party for a long time."
Will Hanes: But we're seeing now headlines like, "El-Sayed's ties to firebrand influencer threaten Democrats path to control the Senate." Jordan, we know the main goal for someone like Chuck Schumer is to become the Senate Majority Leader again. And if if it's an anti-Semite and through derailing a Senate campaign in Michigan, that could be the most irony of ironies of him losing this bid to become the Senate Majority Leader again.
Jordan Sekulow: Wild post, this is the group that they're running across the country. They tried to unseat some incumbents. They did in some cases. They went into open seats, and in many cases these Democrat socialists got the victories or got very close.
Jordan Sekulow: And so it's becoming tougher and tougher, especially at the Senate level. You know, I always divide kind of like the House and the Senate. At the Senate level, to divide the Democrat Party from these radicals, from the DSA, because it seems like that's where the energy is in the party. Now, the energy in the primaries may be there, Will, but then as these candidates now become the candidate for Democrats, for Michigan voters, they start looking closer, they start looking at who they're connected with. And these guys have just got reels and reels of commentary.
Jordan Sekulow: That not only Jews, that makes lots of people uncomfortable from various religious backgrounds. They say some really nasty stuff about Vice President Vance's wife. I mean, they they just they take these hits. They think they need to be tough, and I think they're trying to out-tough Donald Trump. And in that, if that's if that's not who you actually are and someone's writing you tough lines, and he really he sounds like that when he talks, like he's got this bulletproof stunt, it comes across as even more crass and not natural and just plain out mean and nasty.
Jordan Sekulow: And in a time when they should be winning. They should be ahead in races, just naturally the way that midterms go. And for us supposed to believe the other polls that say that President Trump is down in the 30s. But then you look at the actual polls of where people are voting, you look at say, "Wow, I mean, the Senate might not be as in play as they thought it was because of the horrendous candidates that ended up getting through these primaries."
Will Hanes: That's right. And we're going to talk about that. We're going to play some sound from other Democrats that are trying to say, "Hey, stop talking about streamers. Stop talking about people online," not realizing that that is where culture is these days.
Jordan Sekulow: That is where people get their news. They're not getting it from MS Now or CNN where you get booked every day because you can go on and give your campaign message. No, they're listening to people online. And that's when you start to see that some people are uncomfortable with what's being said by people online.
Will Hanes: We've got sound also from Hasan Piker that kind of doubles down on his support for Abdul El-Sayed. Because what what's going on there? Remember what we talked about earlier this week? Hasan Piker called Israel Jewish ISIS and made a threat that if, "Hey, if you're a Jewish American and you support Israel, be prepared for violence. I'm just warning you." It's not me. It's just I'm warning you that that's going to come.
Jordan Sekulow: That would include someone like Chuck Schumer, who historically was strong on Israel, a Jewish American. So, I don't think that the Democrats can deflect anymore and say, "Don't worry about these people, they're just streamers. Stop making it about that. We're the important ones. We're the politicians." It's not going to fly in 2026. We're going to break that down.
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Will Hanes: Welcome back to Sekulow. We're talking today about this growing problem, and something we've been talking about on the broadcast about the radical elements that are taking over the Democrat Party heading into the midterms.
Jordan Sekulow: It's not just the DSA candidates. It's also people like Hasan Piker, who is a streamer on Twitch that has a huge following. He's formerly worked for Young Turks and is now his own entity when it comes to his political influence.
Will Hanes: And what you're starting to see is mainstream Democrats realize all of a sudden they're uncomfortable with the association with someone like this. But instead of them really just saying, like, "No, this isn't a thing. We don't agree with it," and rejecting it, they're just trying to minimize and saying, "It's just a streamer. It's not someone that is really influential," not understanding how the world works, how media and influence works in 2026, and thinking they can get away with this.
Will Hanes: I mean, it is the equivalent on the left as if not if someone was supported by someone like Nick Fuentes, but actually took them on the campaign trail. That is someone that has a lot of influence online. But yet the vast majority of people say, "We reject his brand of whatever politics he has," mostly because it is rooted deeply in identity politics and racism.
Jordan Sekulow: It's the same thing on the left, just with progressive ways to go about things, more liberal ways to control things, but all still rooted in that same hate, that same identity politics mess that we're starting to see play out through both sides of the aisle.
Will Hanes: And I want to play this because this is another Michigan Democrat who is trying to push aside all of these issues that are now infecting their party headed up to November. This is Debbie Dingell, who is saying, "Listen, this isn't about it at all." So take a listen to this bite and then we're going to break it down for you.
Debbie Dingell: I am done. So don't any reporter ask me again about Hasan Piker. It's not what November is about.
Reporter: So, I'm a reporter. What can I ask you about Hasan Piker when he has campaigned with Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed?
Debbie Dingell: Look, I'm going to I'll tell you what I'm tired of. I'm really worried about healthcare. I'm worried about reversing the snap cuts. I'm worried about hunger. I'm worried about affordability of groceries and gasoline and housing and a broken healthcare system. And quite frankly, everywhere I've gone for the last 10 days, someone throws a camera in my face or a phone in my face and asks me questions. I don't agree with him. I've made it very clear. And not only do I agree Israel's got a right to exist, but as I've got more into him, looking at things he said, there are a lot of things that deeply disturb me. But he's not on the ballot.
Will Hanes: But he's not on the ballot. Here's the problem. What he's saying is on the ballot.
Jordan Sekulow: That's where you're seeing this rise in DSA candidates, where you're seeing people like Abdul El-Sayed who won his primary, a large part because of how vocal on the campaign trail people like Hasan Piker were to bring attention to him.
Will Hanes: He was able to defeat someone who was a more mainstream Democrat, Haley Stevens, who supported Israel. And what did they make that entire thing about? APAC. About the Jews coming after them, trying to shut down their freedom by outspending.
Jordan Sekulow: It's such a tired, disgusting, antisemitic trope that they continue to bring up, Jordan, and as if one thing it should be proof that it's not what they say it is is these candidates that keep pushing like APAC's trying to derail me, win? So, how effective is this insidious Jewish oppressive group APAC?
Will Hanes: If it was if it was so effective, El-Sayed would not be the nominee.
Jordan Sekulow: What we what we see is that they they can't change who the base voters are that show up in a Democrat primary in Michigan. To a guy who back in March, when referring to an attack at a synagogue in Michigan, said, "Well, hurt people, the Muslim who carried out that attack, hurt people." So, "hurt people, hurt people." And that's dismissing that as well. If you're going to hurt Muslims because you're what, Jewish? You happen to be at a Jewish synagogue. What does that have to do with what's going on in the Middle East? But here's how they tie it in. Hasan Parker takes it and says, "It's going to be dangerous for American Jews to tie their identity to Israel."
Will Hanes: Physically dangerous. Violently dangerous. And these two guys, El-Sayed has not condemned and tried to stand apart from Piker at all. In fact, they've showed up together. And they may say, "We don't agree on everything." But the fact is, how you take a comment one that says, "Well,
Jordan Sekulow: Hurt people, hurt people." Okay, so you're dismissing the radical Islamist attack on a synagogue in the state you're trying to represent in the U.S. Senate, by a guy from Lebanon who, I think it was living in the United States. So, who was he being hurt by in the United States? What Jews were hurting him? And how was Israel hurting him in the United States of America? That's question one.
Will Hanes: But also, the dismissal of violence is just not cool ever, even if that switched around and it's an attack on a mosque. You'd never make a statement like that. No Bible believing Christian would ever make a statement like that and be supported or played down that kind of violence.
Jordan Sekulow: But when you truly believe that if you tie your Jewish identity or your Christian identity to the importance of supporting Israel, now you somehow must be prepared for violence. And you know what Hasan Piker said? He said, "I didn't say people should go out and commit violence. I just think there will be violence."
Will Hanes: So, he's not really condemning it, but he's also trying to stand back and saying, "Well, you can't actually say that I'm the one telling people to doing it. I'm not endorsing it." That's so he doesn't get arrested as a leader of a group that's, you know, trying to encourage terror attacks, domestic terror attacks in the United States.
Jordan Sekulow: So he's saying, "Listen, Jews, and I think you can broaden that out to other groups, lots of listeners to our broadcast and watching this show right now. If you support Israel, violence may be coming your way in the United States of America." We're not talking about in Israel. We're talking about in the United States of America.
Will Hanes: This is again, not only is it anti-American, it's just flat out wrong as human beings. And so we will see how this affects voters in November.
Jordan Sekulow: I mean, there's a lot of time as as quick as we'll get there. There is a lot of time in between to see whether we, you know, Michigan goes Mike Rogers' way and can Democrats effectively ever in the near future pivot away from what started off as a small squad, Will, and has now become what appears to be, and they're allowing the narrative to become the base of their party.
Will Hanes: And they're losing another big part of their party, and that is the Jewish vote, which has consistently been with.
Jordan Sekulow: In fact, APAC works with and used to work with a lot more Jewish Democrats that were elected on on the Hill. And just Democrats on the Hill who supported Israel, not necessarily Jewish elected officials. And so to make them out to be this evil partisan organization, they are not. And in fact, there's a lot tougher groups out there on the issue. But again, Will, they're easy to say, "Well, it's APAC and they're somehow controlling Washington D.C."
Will Hanes: And I think all of this is really troubling. It gets more troubling to me also when it starts bubbling up in our in our kind of I wouldn't say conservative movement, but in the Republican politics, because it's it's the same way. They try to take institutions that are built to win elections, they try to take over those institutions, and then by taking over those institutions, they change then who the institutions actually and what the institutions actually stand for.
Jordan Sekulow: And I want to play this really quickly because as we heard from Debbie Dingell, who wouldn't just go and she's a U.S. representative, U.S. Congresswoman, wouldn't just say, "We need to condemn this. We need to reject this from our party." She's like, "This guy isn't on the ballot."
Will Hanes: Right now, let's hear what Hasan Piker had to say about Abdul El-Sayed, who is on the ballot. Let's play bite five.
Hasan Piker: There are going to be a lot of people who are already questioning Abdul El-Sayed's sincerity on these issues, that will then turn around and say, "Oh, he's he's, you know, he's moderating his position on Israel," all this stuff. I don't think he is. Okay? I will say this, I am literally the person that is being dangled, and I'm going to tell you once again, he's not moderating on his his perspective on Israel or anything like that. Okay? His reaction to this has always been very good, which is, "Look, I deal with people that I don't fully agree with and don't fully subscribe to on a daily basis. This is politics. Politics is about addition not subtraction," right? It's smart. It's the right way to it's the right way to deal with it and then deflect back to the issues because they are the ones who are engaging in the deflection.
Will Hanes: So once again, right there, he's saying, "Politics is about addition, not subtraction."
Jordan Sekulow: Right. Bloomberg is saying, reporting, "Democrats are now conceding that the party's anti-Semitism problem is veering into dangerous political territory that could eventually cost Democrats Jewish support at the ballot box," to say nothing of the moral implications.
Will Hanes: Jordan, right there. I mean, when he's saying it's about addition, not subtracting, what are they adding to their party? Racism, anti-Semitism, hate.
Jordan Sekulow: And what are they losing? Actual seats. Actual representation in Congress.
Will Hanes: At a time where, you know, historically that shouldn't be so difficult for mainstream Democrats. The problem was, mainstream Democrats didn't didn't do so well in these primaries.
Will Hanes: Folks, we will be back with more. We've got a fascinating update of some of the work of ACLJ Action on the tech side. I think it plays right into this conversation, as well as a FOIA request we have into Michigan about Abdul El-Sayed. We'll talk about all that in the next segment. We'll be right back. Support the work at ACLJ.org.
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Will Hanes: Welcome back to Sekulow. We are going to pivot here a little bit from our original topic, but I think it all ties in.
Jordan Sekulow: It does.
Will Hanes: And I did want to briefly say also, and we can put this up on screen our FOIA request, because we do have a records request into Michigan about the work that Abdul El-Sayed did as the health official in both Wayne County and Detroit, looking at what ties he had to Planned Parenthood, who has fully endorsed him.
Jordan Sekulow: So that's interesting. We're going to keep you updated on that, but I want to let you know that that is some of the work ACLJ's doing.
Will Hanes: But here's something else that you've been working on, Jordan, a lot, and we've talked about some of the things we've dealt with with Roblox. When we talk about, because we are in back to school week. What is one thing that is ever present in the world of students these days, and it is online presence even in their schools.
Jordan Sekulow: So that's something the ACLJ, who as a pro-life, pro-student organization as well, we want to make sure that protections, family values are paramount and that those children are protected and that parents have their rights upheld to to shepherd those children and to and to raise those children. And something that's been in the news this week is this settlement between Meta and States Attorneys General regarding parental protections of children on their platform.
Will Hanes: Tell us a little bit about this and what you've been able to work on.
Jordan Sekulow: So you talk about Meta. We've been working on this with in Capitol Hill on policy changes. Some of that could come legislatively to protect children. We're still working on those. And then also policy changes that can be implemented by the app developers as well. Because ultimately, it's the app stores that could put in the best regulations. So like the Apples of the world and their stores because it would be easier. But what Meta has done through Facebook and Instagram, just to make it easier for you.
Will Hanes: Is said has committed to putting together a program to protect young people. Specifically, you know, you're not supposed to even be on Facebook or Instagram until you're 13. They've they released teen accounts and they've done things like that. Now, it's going to default when these when this all goes into effect. Some will go into effect in a few months, some could take up to a year because they've got to put all this together. But if you're under 18, it will default to only allow you to be on for one hour a day. It will also heavily restrict the content that you are seeing based off your age, looking at like a PG-13 model. So they're going to compare it to that rating system. As parents, you don't have to get these devices or allow your children to even have these devices. So we're just talking to people who do allow their children to have these devices. And I'll tell you, I do allow mine and that's because even at their Christian schools, they're starting to implement those at a younger and younger age.
Jordan Sekulow: I don't want American children to be behind on technology and the rest of the world, you know, thousands of steps ahead of them, because and then we're not competitive in the global market, and they're not competitive in the workplace that they will ultimately be entering. Unfortunately for us as parents of younger kids, quicker than we even want to acknowledge.
Will Hanes: But as a parent, I loved reading, and I'm really proud of what we got done here working on this because you have 52 A.G.s plus D.C. Now, you're going to hear also, you've got a couple of the territories. The only two A.G.s that didn't sign on to this, it's not partisan. One was the Florida A.G. They just think they should get more money of the $18 billion that Meta has put forward for states to help educate parents about this. They they think they should get more money. Same for the Democrat A.G. Adam in New Jersey. And I think Meta, they'll handle that. I don't think that's the big story. It's handled the lawsuit is over now, which could have been trillions of dollars. That's kind of taken that away as well. But what I thought was great and was also done by Meta. The parental controls make sense now.
Jordan Sekulow: So, it's it's easy as here's the defaults. Here's what you can do as a parent, like if you've got a six-hour car ride coming up or a 10-hour flight. Of course, you can then go in as a parent and allow them to spend more than an hour on these on these sites if you want them to. But the defaults.
Will Hanes: Also, Meta has pledged that if YouTube and TikTok also adopt the same plans, that they will limit it not to two hours, but one hour a day will be the default for everyone. Right now it's two hours, it will be a two-hour, then it'll be a one-hour default. And they'll have to contribute some into this account. And then 30% of that $18 billion will be released, but it will be released with more more billions to the states if YouTube and TikTok also agree to this.
Jordan Sekulow: So, this is empowering parents, but with tools they can actually use, because what we were very concerned about, Will, throughout this process, we work on these, since we actually have young kids and we live this, is how many 50, 60 buttons do I have to do to make sure my older daughter is getting it right for her, my middle son is getting it right for him, and my youngest daughter's got it right for her, and it was pretty pretty difficult. And it was there were a lot of workarounds.
Will Hanes: Because the app store itself is not policing this.
Jordan Sekulow: So now you're having the biggest app maker in the world with Meta underneath it, having to do it on their own.
Will Hanes: Now, truthfully, this should be legislated and the app stores should be doing it on their own. But Apple, Google, they have been fighting back on that.
Jordan Sekulow: Well, and I think that's what's also interesting. One, it is a different world where the tech companies that were seen as so hyper-liberal agenda for so long, under one, we say elections have consequences, but you are seeing the willingness of Silicon Valley and the tech world to work with bipartisan common sense ideas. But this is also what's interesting to me as well, because I mean, I'm seeing comments like, "Oh, they only did this because they're sued." That's sometimes what gets things to the table. Meta's coming forward. They're trying to call others in the industry to to a point of say, "Hey, join us in this" when you're not. But this is how you get things done without having to be regulating and legislating everything.
Will Hanes: Because as a conservative, that's what we're concerned about is the government overregulating everything. If you can get it to this place, this is actually a more conservative path.
Jordan Sekulow: I think Mark Zuckerberg is the father, right? And so he wants these tools to still be available to young people. He understands that they're going to need to be able to use technology to a greater extent than we even thought probably five years ago to be viable in the workplace in almost every single field you could imagine.
Will Hanes: So, because of that, how do we do that in an appropriate way? And so I think he's thinking like a dad as well. And one of those is night mode. For instance, this is going to be a default that from midnight to 6:00 a.m., teens will not be able to post or view their feed, stories, explore, or reels. So, that's default. Midnight to 6:00 a.m.
Jordan Sekulow: You can increase that number. Again, you can remove it if you want for your teen. I mean, but that's going to be the default operating.
Will Hanes: As well as school mode. During during school hours, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., teens no longer receive any push notifications, except for direct messages. And the reason why there is, direct message systems are used to alert them about their security and safety on campus. So right there, that's that they have to allow. But that's the only kind of messages that would be coming through to their accounts. And that's if their school even allows them to access their devices. A lot of schools don't during the school day.
Jordan Sekulow: Well, and as an organization, we're talking about nighttime, daytime, weekends, really limiting the ability for teens to sit there and just, you know, go through and spend 10 and 11 hours scrolling through. Also, you get worried about what algorithm they're pushing on your kids.
Will Hanes: You when you sit down and now go through this when this all launches, your young person, your son, your daughter, can choose a non-algorithmic feed. So, that means they are not Facebook or Meta are not trying to push them on things that they necessarily want to see because they clicked on one shoe or one political candidate or one band they liked. So, it won't be algorithmic at all. And so you can choose that, you can choose the algorithm. Some people like it. I do. It helps me find things and find other like-minded people and and kind of things that I would like that I might not find otherwise.
Jordan Sekulow: But all of that's there, and I think people are saying, "Oh, this is a loss for Facebook and Meta because they the court case." I think this is a huge win for American young people, families, parents, and for companies like Meta who realize this is a serious issue, and they're going to do something about it.
Will Hanes: That's right. And you can support this work at ACLJ.org.
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