Left Face

Adam and Dick start with the failed effort to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. They cover Hegseth’s political video aimed at the troops, his hand-picked press conference, and how a House vote Democrats needed only seven votes to carry fell short when 11 of them didn’t show. Then they ask whether Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should walk into their leadership jobs unchallenged, and why a...

On this midterm edition of Left Face, Dick and Adam recap election night and what it felt like on the ground, from the Democratic Party watch party in Colorado Springs to watching the returns come in from D.C. They go through the Colorado results, including the CD5 count, the CD4 and CD3 races, and the down-ballot wins in the state legislature, then widen out to Texas, Michigan, Kansas, Iowa, Geor...

With the midterms days away, Adam and Dick walk through how to get a ballot counted in Colorado: use drop boxes instead of the mail, register and vote in person on Election Day if needed, sign up for ballot tracking, and answer the calls if you’re on the cure list. They also discuss the CD5 race, including the national forecasts, the shift in ad spending between the Crank and Killen sides, and why...

Adam and Dick open with Hormuz Watch. Oil still isn’t flowing, Houthi ballistic missiles hit the Riyadh airport, and the U.S. is pulling diplomats and some embassy-duty Marines out of Saudi Arabia. They also cover Trump’s repeal of the Russian energy sanctions, the planned trilateral talks with China and Russia, and reports that new strikes on Iran are being telegraphed for after the midterms. The...

Twenty days before the election, Adam and Dick start with a Halloween song and work through a heavy news week. They cover the decision not to stream an upcoming execution, and the school shooting in Bend, Oregon, where a parent with a concealed weapon stopped the attacker. They discuss why the shooting doesn’t settle the gun policy argument and what practical gun safety measures could look like wi...

Adam Gillard and Dick Wilkinson record a late-night edition of Left Face. They start with the federal government’s plan to execute Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, by firing squad and to live-stream it. Both hosts, who were serving at the time of the attack, say they won’t lose sleep over Hasan’s sentence. They argue that broadcasting it turns a forgotten murderer into a terrorist recruiting to...

Adam Gillard and Dick Wilkinson start with the congressional hearing featuring former special counsel Jack Smith. They argue it was performative clip-hunting ahead of the midterms that buried what Smith actually said about January 6th. They also cover the senator whose "gotcha" text messages fell apart when it came out that Smith was at an Iowa Hawkeyes game, not in Atlanta. Most of the episode br...

In this live episode recorded at COATI, Adam Gillard and Dick Wilkinson talk about a contradiction in military life. Service members risk their lives to bring voting to other countries, but veterans and active-duty troops often vote at lower rates than the public they serve. The hosts share their own stories. They talk about checking out of local politics while moving between duty stations, voting...

Adam Gillard and Dick Wilkinson cover three stories this week. First, three Republican senators, including John Cornyn, are calling for an investigation after reports that a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin paid for part of Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding celebration. The hosts compare it to the Hunter Biden coverage and to a House ethics filing that let Rep. Jeff Crank accept wedding-related gifts...

Adam and Dick record on backup equipment at Plan B Studios and cover a lot of ground. The episode opens with the Project Taurus town hall, where supporters and a bipartisan group of opponents spoke and City Council voted to delay its decision until a week after the next election instead of adopting a moratorium. Adam, who spoke at the meeting, and Dick, who has built data centers, dig into the mil...

Hormuz and the Red Sea heat up as tankers burn and a Saudi pipeline goes dark. Witkoff and Kushner cozy up to Putin in Moscow. The GOP's midterm convention delivers culture-war theater and Trump's out-of-nowhere $5,000 bribe. Plus: the reflecting pool scandal nobody saw coming.

Adam and Dick break down a rough stretch for military leadership and election security. The Secretary of the Army just resigned amid friction with Pete Hegseth, following the ousting of the Army Chief of Staff and roughly 80 general officers pushed out or sidelined — more than half of them women or people of color. They talk through what that institutional knowledge loss actually costs, and where...

Left Face returns with hosts Adam Gillard and Dick Wilkinson digging into the ouster of the Army's chief of staff following an inquiry into a costly helicopter flyby at Kid Rock's property, then turn to a rare competitive debate in Colorado's 5th District between Rep. Jeff Crank and challenger Jessica Killen — covering inflation, tariffs, and each candidate's attempt to distance themselves from th...

After a few weeks off, Left Face is back with a "Russian roulette" grab-bag episode covering the fallout from the Strait of Hormuz standoff — including new casualty numbers, extended ship deployments, and reports of a mental health crisis aboard a carrier still in theater. We break down Trump's Air Force One decoy maneuver leaving a NATO summit in Turkey, an Air Force major's court-martial-bound p...

Dick and Adam cover Fauci's contempt-of-Congress hearing before Rand Paul's committee, the fallout from Lindsey Graham's death and his sister's appointment to his seat, and the ongoing "where's Mitch McConnell" saga. They dig into Trump's request to the Supreme Court to restrict mail-in voting without an underlying case, the SAVE Act, and what mechanisms — if any — exist to check the 60-day War Po...

Adam and Dick track the widening Iran conflict as Trump's war notification clock resets past 60 days, unpack Hegseth's testosterone screening order alongside his beard-waiver crackdown, and dig into a rough week for ICE — shootings in Maine, Houston, and Aurora tied to unqualified personnel and no accountability footage. Adam also reports from inside El Paso County's election audit (spoiler: it ch...

This week Dick and Adam sit down with Pablo for a change of pace: no headlines, just three veterans reflecting on why they joined and where America stands 250 years in. Each guest walks through their enlistment story, from Adam's post-9/11 decision to Pablo's path through the Sea Cadets to naval aviation to Dick's Army enlistment at 17 with a baby on the way. From there the conversation turns to w...

It's primary election day in Colorado Springs, and Adam and Dick take a breather from door-knocking to break down a trio of Supreme Court rulings dropped the same day: loosened coordination rules between parties and campaigns, a ban on transgender athletes in women's sports, and an upheld (for now) birthright citizenship precedent that agencies seem to be ignoring anyway. Then it's back to Hormuz...

Dick and Adam break down the UFC 250 spectacle on the White House lawn — the production value, the military band, the Colby Covington antics — and the disturbing details of a foiled domestic terror plot targeting the event. Then they dig into the new Iran ceasefire deal: who's calling it a surrender, what it means for U.S. troop posture in the Middle East, and why nobody trusts an IAEA inspection...

This week on Left Face: the Graham Platner saga in Maine takes center stage, breaking down the SS death's-head tattoo controversy, the womanizing allegations from a Republican lobbyist with timing that raises eyebrows, and what it means when a populist grassroots phenomenon becomes a national liability for Democrats. Then it's Hormuz Watch, where Adam and Dick try to make sense of the on fire stat...

Adam and Dick open with this week's Hormuz Watch — the strait is still closed, the news cycle is exhausted, and the administration has no endgame beyond getting back to where things were before. Then it's the debut of Conspiracy Corner: the Lone Star tick, Alpha-Gal syndrome, and the theory that Bill Gates bioengineered a meat allergy to save the planet (as explained by a sitting congressman on Jo...

A naval blockade letting every ship through, a clemency that may have been a political trade, a $1.8 billion fund of questionable legality, and one Kentucky libertarian willing to torch his career over Epstein. This week on Left Face.

Project Taurus stirs up the neighborhood, Iran stays nuclear-adjacent, and Israel reminds everyone who's really driving U.S. Middle East policy.

The Hormuz situation has a third status now — not open, not closed, just barely cracked. Adam and Dick break down the asymmetric threat keeping ships from moving, the 90-day war powers shuffle, and why we're headed for Obama's deal with Trump's signature and a lot of dead people in between. Virginia let the people vote and the Supreme Court threw it out anyway. A Supreme Court nominee won't commit...

Adam and Dick break down the administration's Iran war messaging — from the 60-day war powers clock getting "paused" by a tweeted ceasefire, to Hegseth's belligerent non-answers before Congress. They unpack the marijuana reclassification as a shiny distraction, dig into the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act and what Louisiana's governor did within 48 hours, and get into a genuinely...