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0:00He's back and Democrats aren't going to
0:02like it.
0:03>> What do you mean am I allowed to be
0:04here? Of course I'm allowed to be here.
0:05>> No, you're not. Are you Muslim?
0:06>> What happens when a lone independent
0:08journalist walks up to the gates of an
0:11Islamic city being built in the middle
0:14of Texas and gets confronted by the very
0:17ones under investigation.
0:20The answer is unfolding right now in
0:22Colin and Hunt counties. And what's
0:24emerging isn't just a land dispute. It's
0:26a pattern of intimidation, secrecy, and
0:30alleged fraud that state and federal
0:32investigators have been closing in on
0:34for over a year. And it looks like
0:37they're about to put a stop to all of
0:39this once and for all. Hey gang, it's
0:42me, Dr. Steve, your patriot professor.
0:44And today we're diving in to one of the
0:46most explosive stories brewing in the
0:49Lonear State, Epic City. It's a proposed
0:52402 acre master plan community out in
0:57Josephine, Texas, straddling Colin and
1:00Hunt counties. The project is bankrolled
1:03and organized by the East Plano Islamic
1:06Center, one of the largest mosques in
1:08North Texas through a private entity
1:10called Community Capital Partners. the
1:13pitch. Over a thousand homes, a K to2
1:17faith-based school, a community college,
1:20retail space, and of course, a mosque,
1:22all built around Islamic principles.
1:25Developers insist it's open to anyone of
1:28any faith who wants to buy in. But
1:31here's where things get interesting.
1:32Independent journalist Nick Shirley, the
1:35same guy who's made a career out of
1:37walking straight into controversial
1:38situations with nothing but a camera and
1:40some blunt questions, decided to go see
1:43Epic City for himself. He showed up, he
1:46filmed, he was peaceful, and within
1:49minutes he was surrounded. And then uh
1:52there was also a big federal
1:53investigation, I think, by the DOJ or by
1:55the FBI as far as there was a concern
1:58that Sharia law may be taking place
2:00here. And they did a full then they did
2:02a
2:03>> what?
2:04>> I'm not lying. I'm talking about the
2:05investigation that happened.
2:08>> I'm not lying.
2:09>> There was an invest in investigation.
2:10They found that no Sharia law was taking
2:12place
2:13>> with the investigation here.
2:15>> What do you mean am I allowed to be
2:16here? Of course I'm allowed to be here.
2:17>> No, you're not. Are you Muslim?
2:19>> No.
2:19>> This is property for the mosque. It's
2:21not for you.
2:24>> Hey, you're on private property. I need
2:26you on the other side.
2:27>> Okay. So, I can't be on this part. I
2:28can't be on this side of the street. Do
2:29you need to be on the other side of the
2:31rope or on the sidewalk?
2:32>> Just just cuz of private property.
2:34>> This is private property. Yes. Tell
2:35them.
2:36>> Okay. So, like they can kick me off the
2:38like property.
2:39>> Yeah. No, I understand. But I'm just
2:41wondering why.
2:42>> Public sign's right there.
2:43>> All right. I got you. All right. You
2:45guys just got kicked off of the mosque
2:46property, I guess.
2:53>> How you guys doing?
2:57Do you have the Is that the Quran?
3:00>> Nice. Are you Muslim?
3:02>> No.
3:04>> See what Islam is truly about.
3:06>> Yeah. I just got moved off and they told
3:08me I had to come on this side of the
3:09sidewalk.
3:10>> Very simple. Just on the other side of
3:11that yellow tank. Just on the other side
3:13and you're good. Okay. You can do
3:14whatever you want.
3:15>> All right. Yeah, you guys. We already
3:17got kicked off the property of the
3:19mosque. It's kind of weird. It is weird,
3:21especially given that this Islamic
3:24development is claiming to be fully
3:25welcoming and inclusive of everyone,
3:28right? Every American citizen.
3:31So why is an American citizen being told
3:34to leave by people who are clearly not
3:36from here, who are clearly foreign born?
3:39Moreover, if they're innocent, why not
3:42invite him in? Why not answer questions?
3:44Why chase him away? I mean, the last
3:47time that happened, it was certainly for
3:49good reason. It was to uh prevent the
3:52exposure of uh, shall we say, some
3:54rather nefarious activity in
3:56Minneapolis. Right now, Nick's
3:58confrontation didn't happen in a vacuum.
4:01This community has been the subject of
4:03jaw-dropping scrutiny for well over a
4:06year. Texas Governor Greg Abbott
4:08launched a full-scale investigation. 12
4:11state agencies simultaneously looked
4:14into Epic's operations and issued a
4:16cease and desist order after discovering
4:19Epic had been operating an unlicensed
4:22funeral home on its premises. In Plano,
4:25Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton filed
4:28a civil investigative demand. Senator
4:30John Cornin also got involved. He called
4:33on the DOJ to investigate. HUD launched
4:36a Fair Housing Act investigation in
4:38February because, as it turns out, you
4:40know, selling homes exclusively to
4:42members of one religion happens to be a
4:44federal civil rights violation. But in
4:47June of 2025, the Department of Justice
4:50actually closed its federal civil rights
4:52investigation in the center, saying that
4:54the Community Capital Partners, that's
4:56the company that's financing the
4:58venture, had affirmed in writing that
5:02the development would be open to
5:03everyone regardless of faith and that
5:05that satisfied their Fair Housing Act
5:08obligations. Epic City supporters
5:11celebrated this as a total vindication.
5:14And then in April 2026, a Travis County
5:17judge actually sided with the developers
5:20and ordered the Texas Workforce
5:22Commission to process Epic's fair
5:25housing paperwork. Ken Paxton's office
5:28immediately appealed and they got the
5:31ruling frozen at the 15th Court of
5:33Appeals. So, as things stand right now,
5:36Epic City is has come to a halt. It's
5:39not being built. Construction remains
5:42blocked again as of now. But Texans
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7:58below right now. In March, Texas
8:02Republican primary voters were handed a
8:04ballot question, Proposition 10, asking
8:07whether the state should ban Sharia law
8:10from being used in any Texas court or
8:12government proceeding. The result, a
8:16jaw-dropping
8:1794.8%
8:198% of Republican primary voters voted
8:23yes. 94.8%.
8:27In a state of 30 million people, most of
8:30whom are Republicans, from Amarillo to
8:33Corpus Christi, from El Paso to Bowmont,
8:35the verdict of the Texas electorate was
8:38delivered with clarity and final
8:40finality. This is American soil and
8:44American law and only American law
8:47applies here. period and a discussion.
8:50Full stop, as a certain autopen justice
8:53would say. What we're watching in Texas
8:56is a live test case for how far
8:58organizations can go to build parallel
9:02insular communities under the banner of
9:05religious liberty while dodging the same
9:08transparency and accountability every
9:10other developer in America has to
9:12follow. Texas bill uh Texas House Bill
9:154211
9:16passed in 2025 now explicitly bans any
9:21residential development from restricting
9:23home sales based on religion. That law
9:26exists precisely because of Epic City. I
9:29mean whatever you think about the
9:30mosque's ultimate intentions that alone
9:33tells you that lawmakers saw a real gap
9:35that needed closing.
9:38What we're seeing play out here is a
9:41radically cultural form of politics
9:43known as civilizational populism. We've
9:45talked about this a lot on this channel,
9:48and it's reshaping the entire landscape
9:50of Western democracies in ways that
9:52really neither the left nor the
9:54establishment right fully understands.
9:56Yet, this isn't your grandfather's
9:59culture war, right? This isn't an
10:01argument about tax rates or regulatory
10:04policy. This is something far deeper.
10:06It's a civilizational reckoning. People
10:09across the Western world are waking up
10:11to the fact that their way of life,
10:13their history, their faith, their
10:15families, their very identity as a
10:18people is not guaranteed.
10:21It has to be defended.
10:24Civilizational populism says borders
10:26matter, culture matters, heritage
10:29matters. And when institutions, you
10:31know, like the universities or the
10:34media, the courts, the administrative
10:36state, when they stop serving the
10:38civilization that built them, the people
10:42have not just the right but indeed the
10:44duty to reclaim them. And what's so
10:47extraordinary about this moment is that
10:49this isn't a fringe movement. I mean,
10:51you're watching it govern. You're
10:53watching it legislate. We're watching it
10:56reshape courts and shut down rogue
10:58institutions and defend sovereign
11:00borders and project military power in
11:03defense of western strategic interests.
11:05This is civilizational populism not in
11:09theory but in action. And then that
11:11brings us full circle with what Nick
11:13Shirley's doing. Nick's video matters
11:16because it's the human on the ground
11:18confirmation of everything the paperwork
11:21already suggested. You can read a 100
11:24press releases about securities
11:26violations and open meetings law, but
11:29watching a peaceful reporter get chased
11:31off a property because he's not a
11:33Muslim, are you kidding me? That's the
11:36kind of footage that cuts through the
11:38spin instantly. It's exactly the kind of
11:41grassroots independent journalism that's
11:43forcing institutions, state agencies,
11:46courts, even HUD to keep digging when
11:49the easy path would have been just to,
11:52you know, look away after the DOJ closed
11:54its file last summer. Obviously, this
11:57story isn't over. A securities fraud
11:59lawsuit is still working its way through
12:01Colin County courts. HUD's fair housing
12:04investigation is still ongoing. And now,
12:07thanks to independent journalists like
12:09Nick refusing to just take press
12:11releases at face value,
12:14the entire public is getting to see
12:16exactly how Epic City's leadership
12:18behaves when nobody's supposed to be
12:20watching. So, keep your eyes on this one
12:23because between the courtrooms in Colin
12:25County and the cameras on the ground,
12:28Epic City isn't just a Texas story
12:30anymore. It's becoming a national test
12:32case for whether transparency laws
12:35actually mean anything. when religious
12:37institutions with deep pockets and
12:39political allies try to build their own
12:41rules. And if Nick Shirley's treatment
12:43on that property tells us anything, it's
12:46that the people running this project
12:48still have a lot of explaining to do