American Ground Radio

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 9, 2026. We open by asking whether Democratic gains in the midterms could change how we elect presidents. We look at the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which 18 states and Washington, D.C. have joined for 222 electoral votes, and how close it is to the 270 needed....

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 5, 2026. We open the week after the midterms by asking whether the left is turning on its own. Democrats have barely finished celebrating, and activists in Minnesota are already threatening moderates. A protest group promoting an event in St. Paul has told invited Democratic...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 4, 2026.  We open on the morning after Tuesday’s midterms, with Republicans losing control of both chambers of Congress. We start with an honest look at the promises that brought the party to power, including the border, affordability, and peace abroad. We talk abo...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 3, 2026.  We’re coming to you live from Speaker Mike Johnson’s watch party at the Shreveport Convention Center on election night. For our D.C. listeners, this is the night-before broadcast, with the polls just closing in some East Coast states. We start with...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for November 2, 2026.  With the midterms almost here, we open by asking how you fix an election after the fact if a court finds that illegally cast ballots have already been mixed in with legitimate ones. We look at the Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene in a dispute ove...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 30, 2026.  We start with House Speaker Mike Johnson’s USA Today op-ed warning that even a narrow Democratic House majority could end up depending on the party’s socialist wing. We look at the Democratic Socialists of America’s proposals to abolish the Se...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 29, 2026. We open with the controversy surrounding Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, President Trump, and former President Barack Obama. We look at the allegations about her marriage and immigration history. We also look at the New York Times report that Obama’s Justice Departme...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 28, 2026. We start with a story out of Alaska that has us fired up: two Dan Sullivans on the ballot for U.S. Senate. According to the New York Times, people connected to Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited a second Dan Sullivan to run against Republican incumbent...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avalone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 27, 2026.  We start the show with Gavin Newsom’s recorded remarks that the Democratic Socialists of America will be the mainstream force in the Democratic Party going forward. We talk about whether that’s real analysis or just a politician reading the wind on t...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 26, 2026. We open by digging into President Trump’s closing midterm message, his warning about what Americans stand to lose if Democrats retake Congress. We look back at the lawlessness of 2020 in Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland, the inflation and immigration numbers...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 23, 2026.  We open the show five years after January 6th, with a federal judge ordering the CIA to begin producing records related to that day by November 16th. We dig into what questions remain unanswered, including the FBI’s undercover presence in the crowd, the d...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 23, 2026. We start with a conversation about the future of public service in America. Senator Elissa Slotkin has talked about pursuing “signature cases” against people around President Trump, and David French has proposed impeaching administration officials. We ask...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 21, 2026.  We open with a polling firm called Wedgewood Polls, which admitted to fabricating most of its published numbers and called it a social experiment. Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin has permanently banned the firm from its averages and forecasts. We talk about...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 20, 2026.  We open by asking who will actually show up at the polls before Democrats start measuring the drapes in the Speaker’s office. Enthusiasm makes headlines, but turnout makes winners. We dig into an AARP survey of 43 competitive House districts that shows Re...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 19, 2026. We open the show with the “mostly peaceful” label that media outlets keep attaching to unrest, this time the riots in France, which have spread to Italy. We talk about the difference between a protest and a riot, and about why burning down businesses can&...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 16, 2026.  We open by asking a question we’ve been asking for time immemorial: why do politicians lie? Our answer is that it works. We look at how a lie can raise millions of dollars before the truth gets its shoes on, and why conservatives should be the first to ad...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 15, 2026. We start by looking at the Trump administration’s largest-ever campaign against the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, including the White House task force’s first public numbers on arrests and federal charges, the drop in violent crime, and why we think sha...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 14, 2026.  We open with a new Institute for Family Studies report on “marriage deserts” and “marriage gardens,” the neighborhoods where married-couple households are rare and the ones where they’re the norm. We look at the numbers from Detroi...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 13, 2026. We open by digging into the controversy surrounding Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and what some of her political allies aren’t saying. We look at the questions around her financial disclosures, including a reported $30 million net worth that was later corrected, and...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 12, 2026.  We open with Elon Musk, the modern-day Daddy Warbucks, whose political giving has reached more than $276 million since July, according to Reuters. That makes him the largest known donor of the 2026 midterms, with $366 million across the full cycle. We break dow...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 9, 2026.  We open with a hard look at the unrest in France, where student protests over overcrowded classrooms and crumbling schools have turned into burning cars, injured police officers, and thousands of arrests. We ask what separates legitimate protest from a breakdown...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 8, 2026.  We open by taking on Congressman Ro Khanna, who says he isn’t fully confident Speaker Mike Johnson would seat a Democratic majority if the party wins the House this November. We challenge him to name a single time Johnson has lied, walk through the Arizona...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 7, 2026. We open with Hollywood’s slide: President Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on foreign-made movies, and why it’s no longer a laughing matter. Movie production spending in the U.S. has dropped from 74% to 42% over 25 years, and TV from 94% to 64%. We look...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 6, 2026.  We open with a heavy question: do you agree with plea deals that take the death penalty off the table in exchange for a guaranteed life sentence? We walk through the case of 29-year-old Lauren Heike, killed on a Phoenix hiking trail in 2023. Her killer, Zion Teasley,...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 5, 2026. We open with the voter ID fight, where polling shows around 80% of Americans, including big majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and independents, support photo ID and proof of citizenship to vote. We make the case that Democratic opposition isn't backed by any grassroots...