The Texas DEI Program Shutdown marks a major turning point, and Brian Harrison told WarRoom the only reason it happened is because grassroots conservatives forced the establishment to fold.
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This clip aired on WarRoom’s evening show on December 2, 2025. Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).
Texas DEI Program Shutdown: The Biggest Anti-DEI Win in State History
STEVE BANNON (HOST): I want to turn to Texas though. Brian Harrison. Brian, after all the hard work of the grassroots and folks like yourselves down there, we are starting to see some wins. We had a big win today. What do you have for us?
BRIAN HARRISON (GUEST): This is a huge win and one of just a long string of huge conservative, massive conservative victories. The grassroots patriots, very much including the posse, have forced a change. So I have got some breaking news down here.
Steve, I do not know how many times I have been on your show this year talking about how Texas, despite the fact that we have this reputation for being a bold conservative Republican MAGA state, our government is actually very blue even though the Texas voters are very red. Well, the Texas government has been one of, if not the biggest funders, as crazy as this sounds, of DEI, perhaps in all of the country.
And in fact, just one program, the biggest DEI program in Texas, is called our HUBS program, Historically Underutilized Businesses. And what it is is the comptroller of the state of Texas has been requiring every single state agency, when they issue any kind of contract, to use minimum DEI criteria. Here, and I will give you just a couple examples. For every construction contract in Texas, a minimum of 21 percent had to be awarded on the basis of race or gender. For any special trade construction contracts, 30.
Well guys, I think we put the fear of God into the comptroller, into the governor in Texas. And as of today, that program has effectively been ended. So I have got some very good historic news. The biggest DEI program in the state of Texas. The posse, hardworking patriotic Texans and Americans all across the country, forced a massive defeat against the liberal establishment Austin Uni Party.
And now let me make no mistake about this. There is zero chance this would ever have happened through the normal legislative process. Every bill I filed to end these DEI programs in Texas died a unceremonial death, were not even allowed to be debated. But just by going on social media, going on War Room, going on media, and going straight to the people over the heads of the Texas establishment, we delivered the single biggest defeat against DEI, the biggest victory for people against discriminatory DEI in Texas history.
And just to make it clear, at risk of putting too fine a point on it, guys, our social media, I call them the LibertyBots, the people that follow me on X, guys, we have done more for conservatism just in the past few months than the governor, lieutenant governor, entire Texas House, entire Texas Senate combined. Just in the last few months we forced out the leftist president of Texas A&M who was pushing DEI and transgender indoctrination. We forced the Texas DMV to stop issuing vehicle registrations to illegal aliens. I announced that on your shows too, Steve. And then here today, we have killed the single biggest DEI program in the Texas government.
And I just want to come on and say thank you to everybody who had a hand in that.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): But Brian, here is the question. Why is it that the voters do not want this and they are adamant about it? Guys like you have been fighting. But the political class in Texas that is voted into office and empowered by these same voters, what is the logic? Why do they make it so difficult? Why are they adamant about not ending all these programs unless absolutely humiliated, embarrassed, forced to? A forcing function, something like this. What is the mentality that makes them just sit there and say we do not care what our voters want, sir?
BRIAN HARRISON (GUEST): Yeah, no, absolutely. I say this all the time. Transparency is like kryptonite in the liberal Austin swamp. And I will say this too. I would actually think, Steve, it is like the biggest form of voter fraud.
Okay, voters gave Republicans the governor’s mansion, lieutenant governor’s office, massive majorities in the Texas House, the Texas Senate. Republicans have every single statewide office in the state of Texas. But you know what happens? These so called Republicans, many of them are actually Democrats. They just know they cannot get elected if they were honest.
They campaign for office saying, vote for me, I will stand up to those radical Democrats who are going to indoctrinate the next generations. Vote for me, I will fight the radical leftists who are going to bankrupt the future of our state and our country. But the second they get elected and they go under that corrupt pink dome down in Austin, they vote to put those very Democrats in power. And they collude with them to pass a Marxist, leftist, progressive agenda, and they do it all under the guise, the sham, pride of secrecy.
And that is why even though it is the most hated Twitter feed in the state of Texas, it has now become the most powerful Twitter feed, for those of you who follow me on X, because we are delivering more and doing more for the voters of Texas than the entire Austin establishment combined.
And make no mistake about this. Every single one of these conservative victories only happened because they were shamed and forced at the point of public humiliation into doing the right thing. It should not be this hard. You know, when I called for the president of Texas A and M to be fired, this former Barack Obama official who was this leftist DEI indoctrinator, not one other Republican in the Texas government joined me in that fight. But going on War Room, the posse, patriots across the state and the country, we delivered.
And it should not be this hard. But you know what? If this is what it takes to preserve Texas and therefore preserve America and therefore the world. Because as you know, Steve, we are in a fight for nothing less than the future of Western civilization. Texas is on a front line. We are a battleground state. We are the line in the sand for the future of liberty.
It should not be this hard. I should not have to work with you and the Posse and pressure and shame the elected Republican establishment in Texas into doing the right thing for voters and the future. But you know what, Steve? If that is what it takes, if it is that amount of work and that amount of effort, if we can do our part to preserve the blessings of liberty and freedom and prosperity for my kids, your kids, grandkids, and the next generation of Texans and Americans, you know what, Steve? It should not be this hard, but it is. But you know what? It is worth it and we are making a difference.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): You know, talk about making a difference. We just had a report from the Heritage Action guys, and of course I had Turning Point on this morning about a rally. This is all about Indiana, about the 9 to 0 versus the House just voted it out at the first reading, and it is going to have to go through a couple more, but they said today they had seven hours of Democratic activists, people around the nation coming in, and they all referred back to Texas.
Texas was the railhead, and I remember having the meeting with you and Glenn Story down there. It seems like decades ago, but it was really back, I guess, in July, when you helped lead us and forced the hand on Abbott to come back.
Has anybody, they keep using Texas as an example. Has anybody been penalized at all, held accountable for the Democrats leaving and going to Illinois? Remember all the threats that were there, and the way you stop this is to hold people accountable. Make sure that, has a parking spot been taken? Has any seniority been taken? Has anybody’s office been moved? Please tell me something happened about that fiasco with the Democrats.
BRIAN HARRISON (GUEST): It is funny you say that. I just pulled out my phone here because I just tweeted out this morning. I did the math, Steve. It has been 121 days since the radical Marxist leftists abandoned their post and broke quorum to stop our redistricting efforts.
And here are the statistics. Because remember the governor said, if any Democrat does not show up at 3 o clock on Monday, their seats are going to be, our rhino speaker signed arrest warrants. I guess they were ceremonial arrest warrants.
Here are the statistics. In 121 days since they broke quorum, the number of seats vacated: zero. The number of arrests: zero. The number of chairmanships, yes Democrats chair committees in the Texas House, and vice chairmanships. The number taken away: zero. The number of fines, one dollar of fines they will have to pay: zero. The number of them that have had their seniority stripped: zero. The committees they have been removed from: zero. Their offices defunded: zero. And you ask the big one, Steve, if we wanted to be serious and take away their parking spots: nope. They have all got their parking spots.
But do not worry, the Republican House caucus did meet and they did vote to not punish the Democrats. So zero consequences for the Democrats who broke quorum. And as of this morning, if my math is right, that was 121 days ago.
Let me tell you, Steve, we can joke about this, but it is actually not a laughing matter. I know you know that. I am sick and tired of Democrats and leftists and Marxists and progressives fighting harder for the future of our state and nation than so called Republicans. And that is embarrassing as hell. Nowhere is that more true than in the great state of Texas.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): This is why it is so important. You are right. It is funny when you go through there how shocking it is. But we need to revisit that. And here is the reason. You have had California break their constitution. You have the folks up in Illinois now at 173. I think they are going to take a couple of my beloved Commonwealth of Virginia, which is 6 to 5 because it is kind of evenly split between Democrats or Republicans. They are going to put forward an amendment, legislation, or referendum in April to go 10 to 1.
The Democrats are on fire and playing smash mouth. And we are up in Indiana fighting. We have got Turning Point, we have got Heritage Action, we have got all the tribes that come together. It is a throwdown. And you have got these Democrats, and the Democrats understand how to use something like Indiana as an example. And I go back to Texas, which they turned into a fiasco. We have let them off the hook. There is no penalty for these guys playing smash mouth. And it has to be. We have got to do that. And we have got to turn to Texas and use that as an example, sir.
BRIAN HARRISON (GUEST): Well, and you always talk about this. Stephen, you are exactly right. Like I said, why are the Democrats always the party fighting as hard as possible for the future? Why are not the Republicans fighting that hard?
And you talk about having a maximalist strategy. How many times, Steve, was I on with you here on WarRoom during the Democrat quorum break talking about what we call the Harrison Proposal? Play hardball. Every week the Democrats walk out, that is one more seat.
My question is, why the hell did we not pass a map that gave Texas five more seats? Because California, probably unconstitutionally by the way, is about to go and erase the gains from Texas. And the left is going to fight the Texas redistricting with every bit as much fervor whether we added five seats or six seats or seven seats or eight seats. So why did we only go for five?
The author of the bill said we could have done more than five. We should have done more than five. And by the way, we do not know if they are going to count because we have got these judicial activist judges down here, this three judge federal panel that slapped our maps down. So we do not even know how that is going to play out.
And as best I can tell, there is no contingency from the governor or the leadership of the Texas House or the Texas Senate to bring us back to draw another map in the event that our maps do not survive judicial scrutiny. As far as I am concerned, we should be working on another map right now that adds five, six, seven, eight, nine seats.
We need to be fighting as hard for the future as the Democrats. And we should have passed a map that had more than five seats. As you know, as razor thin as these margins are, the redistricting battle here in the state of Texas may well be the definitive variable in whether the United States Congress stays in Republican hands.
It is not the Republican Party and it is past time for that to change. And I want Texas actually to be leading the fight against that.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Brian, where do people go to get all your information, sir?
BRIAN HARRISON (GUEST): The most hated, but as it turns out, I guess the most powerful Twitter feed in the state of Texas. At Brian E Harrison. At Brian E Harrison on X. Do your civic duty today. Piss off a RINO, go follow me on X.
At Brian E Harrison. And Steve, I would be remiss if I did not end here by just saying it one more time. Thank you to the posse. If you posted on social media, if you followed me, if you called the governor, lieutenant governor, the speaker. If you sent an email, if you posted on social media to stop DEI, to fire the Texas A and M president, for the DMV to stop giving vehicle registrations to illegal. These victories, big victories, would never have happened without you. So thank you from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of 30 million Texans to everybody who participated in delivering these big wins.
Thank you very much. Force multiply.
