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On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, Convention of States Co-Founder and President Mark Meckler joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to explain the broken federal spending process, the consolidation of power in the executive branch of government, and how the people can stop the out-of-control cycle that is plunging the nation into debt. […]

Guests: Bradley Thayer and Jeremiah Regan Host Scot Bertram talks with Bradley Thayer, American Freedom Alliance fellow and founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, about the struggle against global communism and his new book, America's 100 Years' War: How to Win Against Communism. And Jeremiah Regan, executive director of online learning at […]

Elon Musk's influence stretches far beyond Tesla. From SpaceX and Starlink to X, artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and America's return to dominance in space, Musk's companies have become major players in some of the most consequential technologies of the modern era. Despite years of controversy and predictions of his decline, Musk's technological footprint continues to […]

The first topic for our new season is an important one, and that's no lie. Chris talks to Christian B. Miller, the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, about the virtue of honesty. What does it mean to be honest? Is it more rewarding—and less risky—to be dishonest today than it was […]

Erick opens with an Axios interview in which Twitch streamer Hasan Piker says the United States is worse than Al Qaeda pound for pound, tracing how Democrats built Piker into their answer to Joe Rogan before trying to walk it back. Erick ties Piker to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who deflects criticism of Sharia […]

Erick devotes the hour to Greta Gerwig's new Chronicles of Narnia, beginning with The Magician's Nephew, and the decision to have Meryl Streep voice Aslan. He walks through why Aslan is C.S. Lewis's Christ figure, from the stone table in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to the Sons of Adam and Daughters of […]

Erick turns his equal-opportunity offending on the left, taking apart Congressman Thomas Massie's House floor claim that Israel committed a genocide in Gaza, and arguing that what happened was a war Hamas started on October 7th, not a genocide. He walks through the New York Times piece on Israel viewing itself as a victim, the […]

This week, Bethany is joined by Theresa Payton, the CEO of Fortalice Solutions. They discuss how the algorithms on social media gave us Lindsay Clancy defenders and Luigi Mangione fans. Theresa, who was the first female White House chief information officer (serving under President George W. Bush) is the author of Manipulated.

Join Jim and Greg for the Thursday 3 Martini Lunch as they dig into the New York Times having to issue an embarrassing correction about the terrorist attacks against Israel, James Talarico and his pastor proving his efforts to appear like a moderate on cultural issues is all fiction, the U.S. poverty rate hitting a […]

From Trump's reaction to the Federal Reserve's latest rate hike to Bernie Sanders sounding the alarm over artificial intelligence, today's show is packed. We break down the latest polling heading into the midterms, the tightening Florida governor's race, Abdul El-Sayed's campaign against Mike Rogers, and undercover political videos making waves online. The latest NYT/Siena national […]

After last week's tour of competitive House races, it's time to look to the Senate battlegrounds. Though nobody can predict the future, our friend Kyle Kondik brings his Sabato's Crystal Ball to assess this cycle's key toss-ups, leans, and tight holds—the races that will decide who controls the upper chamber. He and Henry dart about the map […]

Texas families are demanding more education options and expecting more of the education system. Ginny Gentles talks with Mandy Drogin, host of the Parent Empowerment podcast, about the 120,000 students benefiting from Texas's education freedom accounts this year, the huge demand from families of students with special needs, and the growing marketplace of schools, tutoring, […]

What the hell is happening with U.S. defense technology? Chris Brose, the President and Chief Strategy Officer of defense tech firm Anduril joins us to talk about how private defense companies are innovating and revolutionizing American national security, America's lousy defense acquisition habits, and what we can learn from Ukraine and the war with Iran. […]

The Trump administration's proposed changes to the residence criteria for the 2030 Census have brought new attention to a question examined by the Center for Immigration Studies two years ago: How does immigration affect political representation even when immigrants do not vote? In response, the Center is rebroadcasting Parsing Immigration Policy Episode 178, “Immigration Shifts […]

The midterms are about 50 days away, and Democrats continue to search for ways to gain back control of the House and Senate. Their answer may come from the conflict in Iran. Iran is most likely planning an October surprise of their own to shock Americans and hurt Republicans in the November elections. Democrats are […]

On this episode of The Next Frontier, Dr. Kevin Roberts visits Mount Vernon with President and CEO Doug Bradburn for an important America 250 conversation about America's indispensable man—the general who won independence, the Cincinnatus who surrendered power, and the Constitution-maker whose civic virtue still binds the republic—George Washington. The question for America 250 is […]

Erick names the names. He walks through his newsletter on Charles Haywood, the shampoo magnate turned self-described would-be warlord whose money runs through the Claremont Institute, the Society for American Civic Renewal, American Reformer, New Founding and American Moment, and who is funding a push into the Southern Baptist Convention, the PCA and the Global […]

Erick breaks down the numbers in the Georgia governor race, where Republican Rick Jackson has reserved $40.5 million in ad time against Keisha Lance Bottoms and her $42,000. Erick calls Jackson's foster care and Atlanta riot spots the best political ads of the cycle. Then to Michigan, where Mike Rogers is sitting on opposition research […]

Breaking news opens the hour: the Federal Reserve under Chairman Kevin Warsh votes 12 to 0 to raise interest rates a quarter point, the first hike in more than three years, with the dot plot signaling another to come and the inflation target pushed out to 2029. Erick then turns to the horseshoe theory tying […]

Kash Patel faces off with Democratic senators in a series of heated exchanges as the FBI director defends his record and touts major arrests. Todd Blanche also takes aim at the media during a fiery press appearance while answering questions surrounding the Trump administration and newly discussed evidence connected to the assassination attempt against President […]

Hillsdale College Radio General Manager Scot Bertram is in for Jim today. Join Scot and Greg for the Wednesday 3 Martini Lunch as they focus on a new poll showing too many Americans willing to sacrifice press freedom to have someone decide what's accurate, Illinois Democrats trying to put gunmakers on the hook for gun […]

In this week's episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Alisha Searcy of the Center for Strong Public Schools and Prof. Albert Cheng of the Ohio State University speak with Dr. Patrick Graff, senior fellow at the American Federation for Children. Dr. Graff discusses his journey from teaching third grade in Florida to working as an […]

Join Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi as they discuss the left's latest meltdown over the Kennedy Center, jump back into the American citizenship and immigration debate in light of Texas Railroad Commissioner candidate Bo French's viral post about demographic changes in his state, and dissect the Trump administration's federal […]

As stories about non-citizen voting and voter fraud become disturbingly common, Americans are beginning to lack confidence in our elections. The debate over the election process has taken on renewed urgency given we are just months away from the 2026 midterms and a few years out from what promises to be a contentious 2028 election. […]

Serial entrepreneur and former Colorado gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl knows something about resilience. After a horrific series of events occurred in her late twenties, Ganahl turned her passion for dogs into Camp Bow Wow, growing the business from a single location into a national franchise. Since then, she has weathered business failures, serious health challenges, […]

Canada's growing confrontation with the United States is exposing deeper problems with the country's economy, immigration system, energy policy, and national defense. Prime Minister Mark Carney is pursuing closer ties with China, even as Canada remains heavily dependent on the United States for trade and security. A weaker economy, limited defense capabilities, restrictions on Canada's […]

Erick makes the case that the AI safety panic is regulatory capture dressed up as the apocalypse. Anthropic, racing toward an IPO and burning cash on GPUs and data centers, wants Washington to freeze its competitors in place before open-source models by Meta catch up. He plays Kara Swisher's nuclear nonproliferation analogy on CNN and […]

Erick returns to Beau French and the Indian American Longhorns fans sporting Stetsons to argue that a legitimate grievance about H-1B visa abuse is being allowed to rot into racism. He warns that America is walking the same road that produced the AfD and Europe's far right. Then he takes a hard look at the […]

Erick opens on a religious liberty case the Supreme Court has just agreed to hear. It's one he says he could not believe was real: University Heights, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, threatened Daniel Grand with jail, sent police to monitor his house, and encouraged neighbors to report “unauthorized prayer activity” after he tried to gather […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Tuesday 3 Martini Lunch as they weigh in on California Gov. Gavin Newsom saying he will not run for president if Kamala Harris gets in the race, Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson embracing the states “taking over” private property, Virginia paroling felons at a much higher rate since […]

Technology, idolatry, time, and habits. Andy Crouch joins the gang to talk about technology, work without rest, and rest. How radical is an hour a day, a day a week, and a week a year? How does rest make us better at work? Is anybody a digital native? Golf, magic, acorn (not cogs) metaphors. It's […]

Today's show is PACKED. Mitch McConnell returns to the Capitol after online death rumors, while Vice President JD Vance joins a major federal crackdown on suspected pandemic-era fraud. The Small Business Administration says 870,000 borrowers tied to an estimated $39 billion in suspected PPP and EIDL fraud have been suspended from SBA programs. The Chicks […]

American higher education is in need of serious reform. Campus protests and activist professors are just the tip of the iceberg. But over the past 26 years, Princeton University professor Robert P. George has been building a movement that's revitalizing American colleges and universities. In this episode of Giving Ventures, Prof. George joins Peter to […]

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, Joe Abraham, an angel parent and the executive director of ICE's Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the death of Abraham's daughter at the hands of an illegal alien, the policy decisions that allow illegal alien crime to […]

They say that every son of a gun deserves a lawyer and his day in court; it's a core principle of the American legal system. But certain lawyers informally focus on certain cases and certain clients, often for ideological reasons. That raises the question: Who do Communists—both foreign Communist regimes and Americans facing investigation for […]

Iran mistakenly thinks the November midterms are President Trump's weakness. But Trump plans to use this thinking and the midterms against the Iranian regime. If Trump can end the conflict by his midterm deadline and truly accomplish his objectives, there's a very good chance it could boost Republicans' outcome in the November elections. “If you […]

This episode covers a packed weekend of political and cultural stories, beginning with reflections on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and Bill Maher's criticism of how the media talks about terrorism. Maher argued that attitudes toward terrorism, radical Islamism and the war in Gaza have dramatically shifted since the attacks. The show also dives into […]

Erick walks through regulatory capture in real time: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's “We Must Pace the Frontier” essay, the coordinated Jacob Coxson resignation rollout in The Wall Street Journal, and the Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar bill to create a cabinet-level AI agency. He traces the money from Dustin Moskovitz, Open Philanthropy, and the Survival […]

Erick opens with a progressive tech writer's essay about neighbors named Bob and Van, men whose politics never came up because politics was not the whole of life, and turns it into an argument that social media has catechized both parties out of normalcy. He plays Bill Maher's Real Time monologue on radical Islamism, Osama […]

Erick takes a caller's tale of two Georgia ad campaigns, Rick Jackson's brutal and effective spots against Keisha Lance Bottoms versus the One Nation tax ads carrying Mike Collins against Jon Ossoff, and turns it into the central question of the 2026 midterms: a blue wave is coming, but is the red wall the GOP […]

Join Federalist Executive Editor Joy Pullmann for a special audio series that investigates the dramatically increasing strategic use of government to sideline elections in achieving a political outcome. From Arctic Frost to the political prosecution of Donald Trump and his supporters, these instances of lawfare reflect a constitutional crisis that must be addressed in order […]

Bethany is joined by Ann Koffsky, one of her children's favorite authors. Ann has written over 30 Jewish books for children, and they discuss the Jewish holiday season and some tricks for raising a reader. Note: This episode was supposed to debut last Thursday right before Rosh Hashanah, but was delayed due to technical issues. […]