Three Rural White Guys

America has spoken, and they told MAGA to get bent. The 2026 midterms delivered a blue tsunami, leaving Donald Trump politically wounded, Republicans scrambling, and the MAGA movement facing an existential crisis. Trump wanted this election to be a referendum on himself. Voters obliged. Spectacularly. We're digging into what comes next. First, the reckoning. How badly did Republicans misread A...

A new House Judiciary Democrats’ staff report details accounts from 11 women, including five who accuse Donald Trump of rape or sexual assault. We examine the newly detailed allegation from Beatrice Keul, broken campaign promises affecting rural America, and the GOP’s latest campaign stunts—including Joe Mitchell’s “Man of the Century” award.

School Closings, AI Campaign Bots & Rural America's Boiling Point The pot is boiling in rural America — and Iowa is feeling the heat. In this episode of Three Rural White Guys , Mike, Jacob, and Kellen dig into the choices hollowing out rural communities: underfunded public schools, private-school vouchers, tax cuts for the wealthy, struggling hospitals, and the political blame games used...

3RWG reflects on why they started this podcast in the first place: the GOP has decimated and hollowed out our communities with terrible policy and politics. Young people have fled the state and our county, and the rest of us are left to pick up the pieces from decades of shoddy leadership. They also reflect on some of the key races heading into midterms 2026.

The guys dive into debates over another impeachment of President Trump, talk through takeaways from the Rob Sand/Zach Lahn debate this week, and dissect other parts of Iowa politics. Ultimately, America has had enough of MAGA and it is beginning to show all over the country.

3RWG discusses Senator Schmitt failing in dramatic fashion, and works through all the pros and cons to the "largest steel mill in American history" being built right here in our backyard in Southeast Iowa.

This week, 3RWG wades into Red Scare 2.0 and the increasingly meaningless way words like communist , socialist , and fascist get thrown around in American politics. What do those terms actually mean? Are the Constitution and our political institutions still strong enough to keep authoritarians in check? And what does America’s declining Freedom House score say about how well those guardrails are r...

The guys discuss the real meaning of freedom, political purity tests, and Caitlin Clark's friends.

Trump’s latest voter-fraud push and recycled Red Scare bullshit are sold as politics, but the damage is anything but abstract. Mike and Kellen break down the SAVE Act propaganda, the difference between democratic socialism and communism, and why Democrats should reclaim local control without abandoning civil rights. Then Mike explains exactly what “nothing personal” means when anti-trans politics...

Breaking down Trump’s bizarre address to the nation, the pile of recycled election grievances and questionable “evidence” behind it, and the real reason for the spectacle: pressuring Congress to pass the SAVE Act. The bill could create new barriers for women, young voters, military families, rural Americans, and anyone who cannot easily produce the right paperwork—and why this looks a whole lot mo...

3RWG dives into Trump's incessant desire to redecorate, the non-stop chaos all around the Trump administration, the war-on-war-off-war-on that isn't a war in Iran, and the Great Issue Swap of 2026.

You’ve heard it before: “The two-party system sucks.” “Both parties are corrupt.” “They’re all the same.” There are plenty of reasons to be frustrated with American politics. Let’s be honest about what’s usually happening when that line comes from the right: it’s often a Republican trying to avoid admitting what their party has become. One party is imperfect, frustrating, and often too cautious. T...

Mike returns from “lockup,” Jacob becomes America’s most wanted algae kingpin, and somehow that’s only the beginning. This week the guys dive into the algae-covered Reflecting Pool saga, Trump’s birthday UFC spectacle at the White House, the mysterious Iran “peace deal” that may or may not actually exist, the politics of war profiteering, and the latest twists in the Epstein file controversy. Alon...

Tonight on Three Rural White Guys, Kellen and Jacob tackle a question that seems increasingly difficult in modern America: What happens when people stop arguing about politics and start arguing about reality itself? The conversation begins with renewed hostilities involving Iran, rising energy costs, and the latest inflation report. From there, the discussion turns to one of the stranger stories o...

Something very strange happened in Iowa’s midterm primary: Democrats showed up. Not “Iowa is magically blue now” showed up. Not “run the table in November” showed up. But in a state where rural Democrats have spent years feeling like lonely little blue dots in a red sea, the numbers told a different story. Kellen brings the spreadsheet, Mike brings the bottle-opener trauma, and Jacob helps keep th...

<p>The guys discuss why Republican candidates seem to spend more time finding ways to exclude people from their public events and town halls versus welcoming more people in. </p>

3RWG breaks down the obvious corruption and grifting going on in DC right -- the $1.776B slush fund Trump has set up to pay off criminals and co-conspirators.

The guys discuss how the Trump Administration passing out free money to his friends and family is ruining our economy and the lives of rural Americans.

The guys go after the Republican Party for no longer representing rural voters. Closing hospitals, schools and more while slashing billions in tax revenue on the wealthy, building billion dollar ballrooms and handing out 50B+ to lobbyist contractors.

The Three Rural White Guys gear up for the mid-terms by turning on the video cameras and going live. They set the stage by examining how Republican policies have screwed rural America.

Iowa Rep. Larry McBurney joins the show to talk about the Iowa House Democrats' new Working Families and Affordability Plan.

The Three Rural White Guys kick off a new intermittent series on Democratic primaries in rural America. This episode features Taylor Wettach, candidate for Iowa’s 1st District of the United States House of Representatives.  Wettach discusses the importance of showing up, listening first, and earning trust outside the usual political hotspots. The guys discuss why competitive primaries matter, what...

State Representative David Jacoby joins the pod to discuss the sobering situation in Minnesota, Iowa Democrats plan to make property taxes benefit Iowans instead of the wealthy elite, and the state of bi-partisanship in rural legislatures.

Nursing researcher, women's health advocate, and former Iowa state senate candidate Nicole Low joins the show to discuss needed changes to how Democrats engage rural voters.  Additionally, the crew discusses rural health care access as Republicans continue to defund and take away local control of our critical rural government services. 

The guys attend Crooked Con in DC, moderate Senate Democrats make sure kids get fed and workers paid as they begin the process of opening the government back up, and hell has frozen over as Iowa Congresswoman Marionette Miller Meeks finally holds a town hall....in the most remote county in her district at 2pm on a Monday.  Unfortunately for her, it didn't stop her constituents from showing up...