WarRoom Texas Launch: The First WarRoom Texas Draws the Line on Sharia Law

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW:

Aired on January 12, 2026. Transcript begins below and may contain minor errors.

The First WarRoom Texas Sets the Agenda

STEVE BANNON (HOST): I’m joined by Debbie Georgatos, who’s a national committee woman for the RNC from the state of Texas. Debbie, you’ve been one of the ones that have kind of led this movement up to now to really drive this to people’s attention. Tell us exactly, in your assessment, what is going on in Texas.

DEBBIE GEORGATOS (GUEST): In Texas, we’ve had over the last year, and actually now that we’re paying attention to it, is much longer than a year, but a noticeable growth in a large number of Islamic communities forming for the first time, seemingly trying to create no go zones, and a large number of Islamic schools, Islamic mosques, Islamic centers.

All of these means just a very much enhanced Islamic presence in Texas, really just in very recent years. And it came to the attention of many people because one of the areas, which became, do you know it’s epic, East Planned Islamic Center, purchased, I think, is 420 acres and planned a Muslim only community.

But that’s just a piece of it. But what the imam in charge up there, Yasir Qadhi, did on YouTube was telling people, hey, we’re going to have inviting Muslims to come and try to live there because they were going to essentially have a closed off Muslim only community.

And because he spoke up so boldly, there was a lot of pushback and a lot of attention to it.

So there’s that piece of it. There are two members of the Texas legislature who are by background Pakistani Muslims who who’ve been pushing a series of legislative proposals, resolutions and legislative proposals, all of which are incrementally forcing or spreading Sharia, Islamic law.

And it’s a, Sharia is just inconsistent with the American Constitution, inconsistent with the structure of government in America.

So this is a, there’s a legislature, there’s a growth of schools, there’s a growth of communities, and and other organizations, if you may get into later today, I don’t know, but radical organizations that are now headquartering themselves, radical Islamic organizations headquartering themselves in Texas.

And it has become an issue of major concern because many people in Texas pay attention what’s happening in London and throughout the UK and France and Austria and Germany and the Netherlands. They pay attention and watch. Watch this kind of Islamic sweep into those countries, and they really are has become a battle to hold on to Western civilization in their structure of laws and government and the Islamic culture and way of life and its structure of Sharia law that just are incompatible.

So many Texans are watching that and trying to preempt that occurring here.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): So, Debbie, a couple of things have happened that have been extraordinary. It’s one of the reasons that you helped us and it came together with the Patriot Mobile team and others, American Freedom Alliance, to bring Geert over to have Glenn Beck. This thing was extraordinary.

We’re going to play parts of that over the next couple of days as we kick off War Room Texas.

But a couple of things. Number one, Governor Abbott. And Governor Abbott has, I think, people in the War Room Posse understand this, has exactly been cutting edge on enforcement, either on the border incursions during the Biden years or other aspects.

But he did come out. So three things have happened that are huge, monumental, and we have to let the nation know they’re happening, and maybe even some Texans.

Abbott came out and declared the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR terrorist organizations. And he did it in this way that was quite detailed.

Now, I realize there’s a lot of aspects of this that we want to see and other people want to see that actually put some teeth in this. But Abbott did declare before the President of the United States and before Ron DeSantis.

So DeSantis followed in Florida. The president put it up as a study to look at Jordan and, you know, different countries around the world and how the Muslim Brotherhood has been a terrorist organization.

I can tell you from the first term, of all the things we accomplished, particularly in that historic first year, the one thing I tell people that, you know, from moving the capital or the embassy, the United States to the capital in Jerusalem, historic, one thing we got zero traction on, and I mean zero, was designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization inside the federal government. It was just a pure beatdown, would even be considered.

So what President Trump did is historic.

But Abbott, number one, has declared in the state of Texas the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist organizations.

Number two, Brian Harrison, the great Texas House Representative, comes on the War Room all the time, has been at the forefront of defending Ken Paxton in the, and really brought to our attention and helped galvanize the defense of Ken Paxton on the impeachment.

And more importantly, he was the voice that came on and said, hey, we got to have a special session on the redistricting to get the five seats minimum that is going to be central to President Trump holding the House and not getting impeached in November of this year.

He says, listen, I’m moving immediately. He announced this on Friday at our working session that he’s putting forward to have open hearings on Sharia law, open hearings and all this invasion, Islamic invasion of Texas. Open hearings in Texas. Everybody can see it.

And in fact, that the certain members of the Muslim population can also come and make their case.

Then he wants a special session called just for the issues of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and CAIR.

And number three, and the thing that we’re most focused on here, at least on the short term, is this March 3rd proposal that’s on the ballot to ban Sharia law from the state of Texas.

Can you walk us through? All three of those are the efforts that we’re using the War Room platform to bring Texans in and make sure they have full information from the experts we have from all that.

But most importantly, it’s to galvanize the grassroots like they were galvanized both on the Paxton impeachment and the redistricting effort so that their voices can be heard on what we call kind of the fixed bayonets when you have to kind of nudge somebody in the back to get it done.

Can you walk us through your thoughts on how we pull the grassroots? You’ve been a leader of this in the state, but how we pull that together to deliver a punch, at least on the third of March, ma’am.

DEBBIE GEORGATOS (GUEST): Yes. Steve, Steve, I’m glad you mentioned the effort under President Trump’s first term to try to get traction in Washington about the idea of designation of Muslim Brotherhood and the larger concern about how many people come to America from countries where Islam as a radical Sharia based doctrine is in place.

And I think the reason that people, it was hard to get traction in Washington, is the same thing thing we’re facing in Texas.

Americans have a good hearted general sense about freedom of religion. They don’t want to pick on somebody else.

So they have to, the failure to understand what Sharia represents, what Islam, what history is, is the reason that you can’t get people motivated.

So turning to Texas, starting with a third point about the March 3rd ballot proposition, it’s very simple simple and just advisory. It has no, it doesn’t become a constitutional amendment. It just says Texas should prohibit Sharia law.

So the reason that what I’m doing, the basic motivation I have is to spread understanding what Sharia is.

Because if you just think it’s like the Ten Commandments that the Jews and Christians follow or it’s kind of like the Sermon on the Mount, but it is not.

Sharia is an entire structure of government. It’s designed to replace the Constitution in all of our laws.

And so when you get that understanding what Sharia is, it is a form trying to inflict Sharia on any other country that is not Muslim, didn’t ask for it. It’s a form of jihad. It’s a form of attack.

So the understanding of what Sharia is matters greatly and getting people to understand that is very, very important.

And so that’s among the things the group I’ve been working with here in Texas, our primary goals is to continue to spread that understanding so that people know what they’re voting for and why.

They have to know deeply why they should care so much, why it makes any difference.

So going back to your first point, I’m very happy that Governor Abbott did make that declaration.

He declared Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR terror organizations and transnational criminal organizations.

I know a little bit about how that came about, but I think that, you know, the idea of boldly stating that only happened because the governor became concerned about the level of activity of these Islamic conquerors in Texas, this Islamic conquest it’s happening in Texas.

And he realized that the people would have his back.

I think he came to recognize enough serious conservative, serious Republican voters were understood the issue, so they would back him.

He didn’t want to go out on a limb and discover that even his own base wasn’t going to support him.

But I think he’s become aware because of the activism in Texas on the issue that he will have the backing.

But the hard question with that, and one that I, is still not entirely figured out, is exactly how to implement it.

He did say, that our Governor Abbott did say, after making that declaration, he ordered DPS, the Department of Public Safety, to investigate and potentially bring about prosecutions connected to those, to that designation.

But it’s kind of hard to figure what exactly he does.

I think that there are what even DPS does and any specific targets to investigate and go after those pushing.

I think that’s one of the purpose of one of the purposes of WarRoom Texas, is to give them some guidance in that because we’re going to drill down deeply throughout the state with people like John Guandolo and others.

Follow Debbie Georgatos (@DebbieCanWeTalk) / X

Read More: Home – Stephen K Bannon’s War Room