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In his second appearance on the podcast (the first was in February 2022,) Brent Bennett, policy director for Life:Powered, an initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, talks about his recent report on electric vehicles and the challenges facing the Texas electric grid, three years after Winter Storm Uri. Bennett explains why climate activists have an almost religious attachment to EVs, why wind and solar are “holy fuels,” the problems with batteries, and why policymakers should think of electricity not as a commodity, but a service. (Recorded January 30, 2024.)

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford Maldonado discuss the latest news surrounding the crisis between American values and Mexican governmental policies - resulting in accepted and even endorsed slave trade in our own suburban communities!

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford Maldonado discuss the latest news surrounding the crisis based along our southern border including the rumored Senate Immigration Plan, support other states are sending Texas’ way and the connections between corrupt money and Mexico’s AMLO administration.

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Below are the materials referenced in this week’s episode:

Hold Them Accountable: Mexican Elites and the Cartels (texaspolicy.com)

https://www.propublica.org/article/mexico-amlo-lopez-obrador-campaign-drug-cartels

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/us/mayorkas-impeachment-house.html

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford Maldonado discuss the latest news surrounding the crisis based along our southern border including Governor Abbott’s recent Statement regarding Texas’ Constitutional right to self-defense.

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford Maldonado discuss the latest headlines surrounding our southern border including Texas’ latest moves, AMLO’s objections and the White House’s taking of sides.

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford Maldonado discuss the latest headlines surrounding our southern border beginning with the anniversary of the creation of the Monroe Doctrine and its implications in the 21st century, including the Guyana–Venezuela crisis.

Passage from Monroe Doctrine (1823)

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/monroe-doctrine

Janet Yellen’s Mexico visit targets fentanyl, arms trafficking and money laundering

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/janet-yellen-s-mexico-visit-targets-fentanyl-arms-trafficking-and-money-laundering/ar-AA1ld0uF

EXCLUSIVE: Border Agents From Across The Country Called To ‘Virtually’ Process Migrants Surging Across Southern Border

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/28/exclusive-border-agents-from-across-the-country-called-to-virtually-process-migrants-surging-across-southern-border/

Sasabe Tweet
https://twitter.com/All_Source_News/status/1728085635414520035

TSA Tweet

https://x.com/flightradar24/status/1729158867366691281?s=20

Venezuela’s Maduro Arrests Opposition Figures Challenging Guyana Region Annexation

https://thedeepdive.ca/venezuelas-maduro-arrests-opposition-figures-challenging-guyana-region-annexation/

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford Maldonado discuss the latest headlines surrounding our southern border, including a wrap up on Mexico City’s best cup of hot cocoa!

Kicking off TPPF's 2023 U.S.-Mexico Policy Summit, Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford discuss the current state of affairs between the United States and our neighbors to the south.

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford Maldonado discuss the latest headlines surrounding our southern border and beyond, including the “cartel merch” that can be purchased here in the U.S.

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford discuss the latest headlines surrounding our southern border, including unprecedented numbers of extreme violence, murder, disappearances and kidnapping at ever increasing frequency.

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford explore the history and culture of Melissa's native country of Bolivia, including the rise of socialism under president Evo Morales. They close the show by discussing the exploitation of Mexican dysfunction by foreign actors.

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford discuss new footage of armed cartel members trafficking migrants, exploitation of the CBP One app, and former Mexican President Vicente Fox's controversial critiques of AMLO.

Below are the materials referenced in the episode:

• The Laredo City Election and Riot of April, 1886 by Seb. S. Wilcox
• Cartel gunmen near the border
• Cartel gunman in the Rio Grande
• Sheriff’s son pleads guilty to drug trafficking
• Eagle Pass City Council takes back public park
• Migrants being targeted for extortion, US stops taking mobile app appointments
• Mexican cartels exploit US government's CBP One app
• The Meaning of Invasion Under the Compact Clause of the U.S. Constitution

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford discuss the latest headlines surrounding our southern border, primarily the controversy surrounding the buoys in the Rio Grande.

Josh and Melissa discuss the risky rhetoric of the U.S. War on Mexican cartels.

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford discuss the latest headlines surrounding our southern border, primarily the recently published Conservative US-Mexico Policy Coalition Statement regarding the US - Mexico Relations.

WATCH: John Kennedy's 'Cat Food' Comment That Members Of Mexico's Government Have Called 'Racist'    • WATCH: John Kenne... 
ROY MAYNARD: Yes, Migrants Believe Biden Has Rolled Out A Big Welcome Mat | The Daily Caller
  https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/12/op...
Versión estenográfica de la conferencia de prensa matutina del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador
  https://lopezobrador.org.mx/2023/05/1...
A middle path to curb fentanyl - POLITICO
  https://www.politico.com/newsletters/....
Tax Dollars & Texas History
  https://www.texashistorytrust.org/tex...

TPPF's Melissa Ford and Joshua Treviño discuss many of the problems stemming from our southern border, beginning with the tale of a raid carried out in Rio Grande City, Texas in August 1877 by a group of armed men of Mexican descent, during which they attacked the county jail and freed notorious criminal Segundo Garza. District attorney Noah Cox was also seriously wounded during the attack. The incident sheds light on the violence and instability that characterized the Texas-Mexico border during this time period.

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford discuss the latest headlines surrounding our southern border, culminating to the roots and fun surrounding Cinco de Mayo.

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford discuss how such historic moments as the Napoleonic Wars and the writing of the Monroe Doctrine have left lasting impacts on today’s relations between the US and our neighbors to the south.

Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford reflect on their recent visit to Mexico City and discuss the beauty and corruption that lies beyond our southern border, culminating to Mexico earning the moniker of “Gilded Lilies on a Sea of Blood”.