This isn’t your typical legislative recap. Danielle Walker and Chris Alexander pull no punches as they dissect Louisiana’s 2025 regular session — exposing the truth behind the bills, the votes, and the politicians who made them. From the battle for state sovereignty to the controversial fight over DEI and merit-based hiring, this episode dives into the real stakes for Louisiana’s future. Illegal immigration, public assistance reform, budget accountability, and criminal justice aren’t just talking points — they’re battlegrounds. Forget polished press releases — this is the unfiltered look at what really happened in Baton Rouge. What did your lawmakers really stand for? Who stood up, and who sold out? And what’s next in the fight for transparency, accountability, and freedom in the Bayou State? If you think you know what went down, think again. 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Sign up for the action center and stay updated: https://www.lacag.org/action-center Join LACAG and help bring Louisiana out of the swamp: https://www.lacag.org/give KEY POINTS: 00:00 Introduction and Overview of Legislative Session 09:34 State Sovereignty and Federal Overreach 13:13 Foreign Adversaries and Property Rights 20:59 Political Accountability and Legislative Integrity 31:19 The Legislative Process and Its Challenges 37:27 The Role of Leadership in Legislation 39:47 Addressing Illegal Immigration in Louisiana 50:57 Data Collection and State Services for Immigrants 56:18 Budget Reform and Appropriations 56:51 State Spending and Budget Constraints 59:54 Legislative Accountability and Transparency 01:05:15 Appropriations and Non-Governmental Organizations 01:08:25 DEI Policies and Merit-Based Employment 01:13:27 Criminal Justice Reforms and Inmate Rights CREDITS: Music by MarkJuly from Pixabay Sound effects by Pixabay Ad music by Top-Flow, AudioCoffee & penguinmusic on Pixabay Produced By: We Live Legend TRANSCRIPT: Danielle Walker (00:47.246) Well, good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us on the State of Freedom this Tuesday. It's an honor and a privilege to be with you as always. I'm Danielle Walker and I'm joined by my partner in bringing truth to light, Chris Alexander. As you might expect, we have another jam packed episode for you today. This is the third installment of our recap of Louisiana's 2025 regular legislative session. I would I wouldn't call it regular, I would call it irregular. I'm not sure that regular is a great way to define it. But we are covering bills today that range from state sovereignty, illegal immigrants, budget reform, DEI and merit-based job security and hiring and criminal justice. So it's a wide range of topics to cover here today, but we hope to do it for you faithfully and truthfully. Chris Alexander (01:15.035) you Danielle Walker (01:40.994) Before we get into it, let me read the scripture of the day. It is Ecclesiastes chapter eight, verses one through seven. And it's in the message translation, it says, there's nothing better than being wise, knowing how to interpret the meaning of life. Wisdom puts light in the eyes and gives gentleness to words and manners. Do what your king commands. You gave a sacred oath of obedience. Don't worryingly second-guess your orders or try to back out when the task is unpleasant. You're serving his pleasure, not yours. The king has the last word. Who dares say to him, what are you doing? Carrying out orders won't hurt you a bit. The wise person obeys promptly and accurately. Yes, there's a right time and way for everything, even though, unfortunately, we miss it for the most part. It's true that no one knows what's going to happen or when, who's around to tell us. And those are words written by King Solomon, the wisest man to ever live, at least up until his time. And he understood that the Lord, our God, is our King, and he is far more wise than us. And we are foolish when we question the Lord's instruction or delay in obedience to his command. If we are with the Lord, if we've given our lives and our rights to ourself to the Lord. it our job and his expectation of us is quick and full obedience. Just because we don't understand doesn't give us the right to not follow through. How many of us have had interactions with children or young employees that don't need to understand the full reason behind our instruction? They just need to do it. Well, that's our position with the Lord. Yes, of course we can discuss these matters with him in prayer. Danielle Walker (03:34.296) but a lack of understanding on our part does not give us a free pass to disobey or to delay. Just like the child or the young employee, we will find out if and when the Lord sees to reveal the reason behind the instruction. We may never ever know, but we are duty bound to obey. And thankfully, we absolutely do know that we can trust him and that his instructions are for our good. Chris Alexander (04:00.91) Yeah. You know, Danielle, the difference between the humanist, the atheist and the Christian is that precisely alluding to your prayer and to your point is that they believe that everything that can be known must be able to be discerned rationally and logically and strictly from an intellectual point of view. And there is no room for faith. And our perspective is that simply because we don't fully understand something or if something becomes unpleasant, that therefore it can't be true, it can't be meritorious, and so we just go and do something else. We move forward. I think the fundamental mark of the Christian is that it's precisely in those moments when we don't understand fully what the ultimate plan is or things do become unpleasant that we keep moving forward and that's where our faith comes in. And I think that that is a very powerful reminder from King Solomon today. in Ecclesiastes of that reality and what really is the distinctive mark of the Christian, the fact that we are filled with faith, even when faith appears to contradict the rational mind. God ultimately is a mystery and His ways are way above our ways. So we have to pray constantly for the grace to keep moving forward and to discern His will, even if we don't fully understand it. That is critically important. In fact, probably the foundational character of the Christian. Danielle Walker (05:30.446) Yeah, well said, Chris. Absolutely. I was just so struck by this this morning because it's very easy to say, I don't understand. So I'm just going to hold off until I can understand. Well, that's not what the instruction is. The instruction is do it. Chris Alexander (05:45.83) Yeah. Chris Alexander (05:50.608) do it. And Danielle, I think that the two flaws, characteristic flaws of even Christians, and I think it seems to run across the board is one, they seem to stop when they don't fully understand, or they seem to stop when things get difficult or unpleasant. And both of those issues are addressed very, very eloquently in the scripture passage that you read today. Danielle Walker (06:18.23) Yeah, and Chris, maybe we should let the listeners know. Maybe you can let Katie know real quick. But our producer said that YouTube, X, and Facebook are not working for our live stream. So I think Rumble may be the only place to catch us live today. Chris Alexander (06:37.24) Okay, great. I will make sure that we let her know that. Danielle Walker (06:40.682) Okay. Well, we can go ahead and get started. I know we've got a lot of ground to cover here. And this is, like I said, part three and a four part recap series of the legislative session. And there, I think, I think a lot of people really showed their true colors this session. And, and that's, it was disappointing in a lot of ways to see people in a different light than I, know, than we thought that they truly operated, they may have operated in a lot of ways very different to the way that they campaigned. And you've, you've warned us of that for a long time, Chris. You, that was your warning as soon as I met you, that was your warning that so many times politicians will say one thing when they're campaigning and then when they get, when the rubber meets the road, when the pressure of the governor bears down upon them, they suddenly get squeezed and behave in a v
