The Rob Maness Show

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. My guest started out as an enlisted Marine infantryman and served more than 26 years in the Marine Corps, the Army National Guard and the U.S. Army, including tours at the Pentagon and on the Joint Staff. In 2004 he volunteered for Operation Iraqi Freedom and went to Baghdad to manage the project that built Iraq’s 911 system. In January 2005 an enemy rock...

It’s Throwback Thursday, and five days out from Election Day I want to throw it back to what Mississippi has always been: a state that shows up. On Tuesday, November 3, every Mississippian has a choice. In the U.S. Senate race, Cindy Hyde-Smith is fighting for re-election against Democrat Scott Colom, and the national Democrats know it. Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker have all come h...

When America falls, who picks up the pieces? Not the HR department, and not the bureaucrats waiting on a rescue that never comes. My guest is a retired Army infantry colonel, a Gulf War and Kosovo veteran, a trial lawyer, a senior columnist at Townhall, and the author of the People’s Republic series, the books he says were a warning sign, not a how-to manual. His new novel, American Warlord, comes...

If you think the left’s warnings about “saving democracy” are just campaign slogans, you have not seen the Democracy Files. For the past week my guest has been publishing the receipts: recorded Zoom calls, chat logs, handouts and strategy documents from a network of former USAID democracy officers, retired flag officers and protest groups. In their own words, they discuss “red lines” for declaring...

Welcome back, America. It’s More War Monday, and we are giving this entire hour to one book, because it explains the fight we are in better than anything I have read this year. The headlines hand you a thousand separate fights: tariffs, deportations, firings, court battles, NATO, energy, China. The legacy media calls it chaos. My guest says it is one project. Franklin Roosevelt’s generation built...

You can see the latest warning from France. Open borders and a left that refuses to enforce the rules produce chaos, cities on fire, police under siege, order collapsing. That’s not our future. America still has the chance to choose differently, and the difference starts with secure elections. That’s the mission today: Secure Elections Equals Winning and Defending America’s Constitution. The midte...

America. Let’s cut the crap. Ukraine cannot win this war. Not with another pile of your tax dollars, not with more of our missiles, and not with another round of tough talk from people who will never see the front line. Russia is not about to roll tanks into NATO territory either. That story has been the same empty threat for years, useful for fundraising and cable hits, useless for anything else....

Today we are highlighting one of the most calculated power plays in modern American politics: the deliberate counting of illegal aliens in the census, paired with aggressive gerrymandering, to inflate Democratic House seats, shift Electoral College leverage, and lock in control of federal resources. States are currently required to count every person residing here for apportionment purposes. Democ...

Virginia used to be for lovers. Now it’s a sanctuary playground for criminal illegal aliens, and the Democrat politicians running the place are fine with that. The Commonwealth that once stood for the rule of law has become a case study in what happens when elected officials put open-borders ideology ahead of public safety. The Virginia Attorney General is even going after a sheriff for the simple...

If you think America’s divisions are just heated rhetoric, you haven’t been paying attention, and you haven’t heard from someone who watched his own country collapse from the inside. Guy Paul Nohra was fifteen in Beirut when the Lebanese Civil War turned neighbors into enemies. He put down a school uniform, picked up a rifle with the Christian militia, and fought to keep his neighborhood from bein...

It’s Columbus Day, America. And I’m not apologizing for it. While the professional grievance industry spends another year trying to turn a man who risked everything to open the New World into a cartoon villain, the rest of us are supposed to sit quietly and pretend Western Civilization just appeared by magic. It didn’t. Men like Columbus made it possible. Flawed, courageous, driven by faith and am...

Texas is the legal battleground for Trump’s policies, and the other side is finding out this state does not blink. Start with Christian Castro you just saw. Minnesota wanted an ICE agent dragged out of a Texas jail over a January Minneapolis shooting during the crackdown. Governor Abbott sat on the extradition. A federal judge would not force Texas to hand him over. Castro walked out of that Brown...

Secretary Rubio just stood in the White House for Hispanic Heritage Month and said the quiet part the cable networks will not touch. The choice in these midterms is not left versus right. It is common sense versus communism. Secure borders or open ones. Paychecks that buy groceries or an inflation tax dressed up as compassion. Parents in charge of their kids, or a bureaucracy that thinks it owns t...

Last Wednesday an Omani co-pilot named Hamam al-Hammami grabbed the crash axe on a Flydubai flight packed with Israelis headed for Tel Aviv and went after his captain. The UAE is calling it a terrorist attack. He had already flown that route once and backed off. This time he meant to crash the jet into Ben Gurion Airport. The captain was stabbed and still got the door open. Passengers piled in and...

This episode was supposed to be about Trump’s reset of America’s foreign policy alone, but you just watched it and we’re covering this first. A Flydubai flight out of Dubai, bound for Tel Aviv, drops roughly seventeen thousand feet in under two minutes. The co-pilot, an Omani national, stabs the captain and tries to take the aircraft down with about a hundred and eighty people on board, most of th...

Strap in, because today we’re talking about the despicable ideology that’s slithering into our schools, our boards of education, and our neighborhoods while too many people pretend it’s just another “religion of peace.” Sharia law is not a religious belief or lifestyle choice. It’s a total system, political, legal, and military, that treats non-believers as second-class at best and targets at wors...

What you just heard is not a slogan. It is a warning. There is an information operation underway right now designed to suppress the Republican vote before a single ballot is cast. Call it what it is: a manufactured doom campaign. Polls are weaponized. Headlines are coordinated. The message is simple and relentless, the race is already lost, stay home, don’t bother. That is not analysis. That is ps...

You just watched a retired Green Beret put a name on the unlawful COVID Vaccine order. September 14, 2021. Dr. Terry Adirim was Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. She told military doctors they will use the emergency-use Pfizer shot, interchangeably, with a licensed Comirnaty shot. Three weeks earlier, Secretary Austin had limited the original order to a fully licensed produ...

You just saw President Trump do something long overdue. He banned CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House. Not because they criticize him. Because they repeatedly publish fiction and call it news. The First Amendment protects the right to speak and publish. It does not give any outlet a constitutional right to a hard pass, a seat in the briefing room, or a place in the press pool. Access to...

The question hanging over everything right now: is the panic that artificial intelligence is about to wipe out humanity a genuine alarm… or something closer to a hoax, a liability play, or a well-funded effective altruism researchers cult? A former Anthropic researcher resigns, posts that AI could end civilization inside a decade, and the thing explodes to well over a hundred million views in a da...

For the first time, the Secretary of the Air Force stood up and said it out loud: the United States now has on-orbit space control weapons. Not “we’re developing.” Not “we might.” We have them. In orbit. Capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile action. That is a line that cannot be uncrossed. Space is no longer a sanctuary. China and Russia have been building and testing the tools to b...

You just heard that congressional testimony. No Democrats in the room. Hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children released to unvetted sponsors. A hotline that went unanswered while kids called for help. Cartels treating children like inventory. NGOs cashing taxpayer checks while kids disappeared. That is not a policy disagreement. That is a war being waged against the most vulnerable, and fo...

The midterm fight is on. And Texas is ground zero. Folks, this is not just another Senate race. This is a test of whether the Republican Party will defend the America First majority President Trump built—or whether the establishment will starve its own nominee and hope the problem goes away. Ken Paxton beat John Cornyn. The voters spoke. President Trump endorsed him. And now the National Republica...

South Africa passed some of the strictest gun laws on earth. Law-abiding citizens surrendered their firearms under threat of prison. Then police sold those same guns to street gangs. More than a thousand murders—including hundreds of children—traced back to the weapons the state confiscated. The government disarmed the innocent and armed their killers. This week the United Nations handed that coun...

MMTLP was supposed to be a placeholder—preferred shares from a merger, headed for a spin-off into Next Bridge Hydrocarbons. Everyday Americans bought it. Veterans bought it. Teachers, small-business owners, working families put their savings into a market they were told was regulated and fair. Then, in December 2022, FINRA dropped a rare U3 halt. Trading stopped. The shares were canceled. Investor...