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EPISODE · Apr 14, 2026 · 8 MIN

Voting is the only thing that does anything. Our show helped kill a bill

from The Charlie James Show Podcast

On The Charlie James Show, Charlie credits his listeners for proving that voting and direct action are the only real ways to effect change, highlighting how their collective voice successfully killed a bill. By sounding the alarm and mobilizing the audience to contact their representatives, the show demonstrated the power of a dedicated community to halt legislative overreach. This victory serves as his primary evidence that when listeners move beyond talk and engage in the political process, they hold the ultimate power to shape the state's future.

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00:00 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:23 you 00:27 For spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties. 00:59 share his grace on thee. 01:13 America is back. And we are back. Thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. Well, I so remember a couple of weeks ago um when Congress went on vacation, the Senate went on vacation, House and Senate went on vacation. um TMZ. 01:43 They put out a call to all their folks, all the viewers and all of that, to send them pictures of members of Congress on vacation while the government was shut down. Do you remember that? I remember that very, very well, because that's where we got that picture of Lindsey Graham walking around Disney World with the Little Mermaid bubble wand and everybody. 02:11 that is like what in the heck was what somebody's plane that to me i don't think he still has but 02:22 Now TMZ is opening a Washington DC office. Now you might think, so what? Big deal. TMZ is going to be looking for people to spill the beans on members of Congress who have been accused of sexual impropriety. 02:47 For some reason TMZ, I mean, they're able to get to the bottom of lot of things. They haven't really done a whole lot with a, I mean, they were like forefront in the Nancy Guthrie case. People were sending them, um you know, kidnapping letters and ransom notes and all that stuff. But anyway, they're gonna be doing that and I will promise you, people will talk to TMZ. 03:12 They might not talk to Fox News, they might not talk to CNN or any of the networks, but folks will talk to TMZ. They will do that. They can get those folks to open up. So TMZ putting a new office in Washington, D.C. Now, I think over the next coming weeks, once they get this up and running, you're gonna start hearing some things, and you might not like 03:39 exactly what you're hearing about everybody you're hearing it about. We'll see what happens with that because all and all of this in response to Eric Swalwell. Oh, oh, oh, hold on, ladies and gentlemen, with great apologies to the late great Rush Limbaugh. We have got breaking news. Yesterday, we told you about this slush fund in Columbia. 04:08 H5471. Good night. Let me tell you something. Y'all don't understand. Y'all don't understand the power you have. You don't get it. 04:23 You have got an unbelievable amount of power. 04:28 I asked you yesterday to call your state representatives, especially if they were on the Ways and Means Committee, call your representatives and tell them to vote no on H5471 and you did. You did exactly that. Well, 04:50 Listen to this, Neil Collins admitted that they are halting the bill because of this show and the Freedom Caucus. Neil Collins admitted that this bill died in committee because of this show and the Freedom Caucus. Folks, the power that you have is absolutely unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. 05:21 Let me say, hold on, I gotta get this. I was reading that off my watch. I gotta read it off the full text here. Hold on, oh, this is good. Oh, this is good. Hold on, we'll get it. um 05:34 We're have that the transcript is being sent over right now. So we'll get that to you. you got so this is what I'm talking about. Had a had somebody. 05:51 sent me a text message just a few minutes ago. And they were like, hey, Charlie, love your show, but I, here we go. No, that's not it. um Charlie, something like, here we go. Enjoy the show, Charlie, but I do disagree about the big, beautiful bill and other bills. Nothing is going to change. Don't care how much you vote. I hate to tell you this, but you are wrong. 06:18 You are absolutely wrong. 06:23 It's a... 06:31 Just taking a look here, trying to find this. I'll give you some of this. But you guys did this. This was you. Democrat Bill Clymer, let me jus ...

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