Breaking Battlegrounds

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are joined by Utah State Treasurer, Marlo Oaks. Later in the show, we check in with former Arizona Congressional candidate Mark DeLuzio, a Gold Star father, for a look at the true meaning of Memorial Day. Finally, Jeff Taylor of the Salvation Army calls in to discuss the homelessness crisis and what can be done to solve it. - Treasurer Marlo Oaks spent 17 ye...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, friend of the show Congressman Drew Ferguson returns to bring us up to speed on the results of the Durham investigation. Later in the show, our friend and presidential candidate Larry Elder stops by to talk about his campaign. - Congressman Drew Ferguson is a proud native of West Point whose family roots in the West Georgia area are several generations deep. He...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are honored to be joined by three distinguished guests. First, we sit down with Senator Ted Cruz to discuss the recent political attacks on the Supreme Court and what conservatives can do about woke corporations. Later in the show, General Sami Sadat of Afghanistan calls in for a no holds barred conversation of the United States' withdrawal from his country....

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, friend of the show Mark Joseph Mongilutz returns to discuss the column he wrote for us recently, How to Prevent AI from Tricking Us in the 2024 Election . Later in the program, Jimmy Quinn of the eNational Review calls in to discuss the threat China poses to the US. - Mark Joseph Mongilutz is a writer, editor, author, and occasional book consultant. He is prese...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are honored to be joined by Oklahoma's Lieutenant Governor Matt Pinnell and Alabama's Congressman Barry Moore. Later in the show, former Fox News executive, Ken LaCorte, calls in with his take on the Tucker Carlson firing. - Matt Pinnell was elected as the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma on November 6, 2018. Pinnell is President of the Oklahoma State Se...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are joined by Congressman John Rutherford of Florida's Fifth Congressional District and Vincent Vernuccio, a senior fellow at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. - John Rutherford (FL-05) is serving his third term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He sits on the House Ethics Committee and House Appropriations Committee, where he serves on three subcom...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, former state senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita fills in for Chuck. She and Sam are joined by Dr. Greg Autry, a Clinical Professor of Space Leadership, Policy and Business in the Thunderbird School of Global Management and an Affiliate Professor with the Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State University. Later in the show, Dan McLaughlin returns to give us an upd...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, our friend Dan McLaughlin joins us to talk about the Trump indictment. Later in the show, we are honored to be joined by Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi. - Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute. He was formerly an attorney practicing securities and commercial litigation in New York City, a cont...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are honored to be joined by friend of the show, Congressman David Schweikert of Arizona's First Congressional District. Later in the show, we check in with Ilan Wurman, who is working on a critical lawsuit over "The Zone," a homeless encampment in downtown Phoenix. - David Schweikert is serving his fifth term in the United States Congress.  He holds a seat o...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are joined by Congresswoman Laurel Lee of Florida's 15th Congressional District and Doug Kelly, CEO of the American Edge Project. - Congresswoman Laurel Lee proudly represents the 15th District of Florida. Prior to her election to the U.S. House of Representatives, she served as Florida's 36th Secretary of State under the DeSantis Administration from January...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds , we are joined by Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri's 7th Congressional District. He is a sixth-generation Missourian with 20 years of private sector experience as an investment advisor and software consultant.   - Congressman Burlison is a sixth-generation Missourian with 20 years of private sector experience as an investment advisor and software consultan...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds , we are joined by Congressman James Moylan of Guam and Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute. - Congressman James Moylan proudly serves as Guam's congressional delegate to the 118th United States Congress. As the first Republican to win the seat on Guam in nearly 30 years, Moylan's victory was historic. He is a strong and trustworthy leader who's focus...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds , we are joined first by Congressman Keith Self to get his thoughts on the war in Ukraine and the crisis at our own border. Later in show, we check in with Congressman Eli Crane of Arizona's Second Congressional District. - Keith Self was born in a military hospital during his father's service in the United States Army and was raised in Texas.  After graduation...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are joined by Vinney Tolman, author of the incredible new book The Light After Death, based on his journey to heaven and back. Later in the show, Lincoln Shurtz joins us to shed some light on the United States' plans to give tanks to the Ukrainian military. - In January 2003, Vincent Tolman was found dead in the bathroom of a small restaurant. He had been de...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are honored to be joined by former Congresswoman Mia Love of Utah and current Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. We also check in with our friend Alexander Raikin for an update on Canada's assisted suicide program. - Mia B. Love is a former Representative of the 4th Congressional District of Utah. Love was elected to office in 2014. She is the first and only Re...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds , we are joined by Congressman Mike Collins of Georgia's 10th District. Later in the show, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson joins us to discuss how he would address the most critical issues facing our country today. - As the Representative for Georgia's 10th Congressional District, Mike Collins brings decades of experience as an entrepreneur, businessman,...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds , we are honored to be joined by three distinguished guests: Congresswoman Carol Miller of West Virginia, Congressman Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions Chris Campbell. - Congresswoman Carol Miller represents West Virginia's First Congressional District. Miller serves on the Committee on Ways and...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are joined by Jason Willick, a columnist for the Washington Post. Later in the program, we are joined in studio by Mark Joseph Mongilutz, a writer for the Haymaker, for a discussion of the future of AI. - Jason Willick writes a regular Washington Post column on legal issues, political ideas and foreign affairs. Before coming to The Post in 2022, he was an ed...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds , friend of the show Henry Olsen returns with a look at the fight over the debt ceiling. Later, we are honored to be joined in studio by Congressman Dusty Johnson of South Dakota. Finally, we wrap up with a conversation with Monica Eaton, founder of Chargeback 911. - Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy C...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds , we are joined by Chris Buskirk, author of the new book America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay . Later in the show, Jonathan Johnson, CEO of Overstock, returns to the show to talk about challenges and opportunities facing business leaders in 2023. - Chris is publisher of American Greatness . A contributing opinion wr...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we are honored to be joined in studio by the Great Elderski - Larry Elder. Chuck and Sam ask Larry about his experience as a candidate for governor of California and whether or not he might be thinking about running for president. - Larry Elder—the Sage from South Central—is a nationally syndicated radio host and newspaper columnist, bestselling author, award-w...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck and Sam are joined by Alexander Raikin, a freelance journalist investigating Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program. Later in the show, Abraham Hamadeh calls in with an update on the legal fights over Arizona's election. - Connect with us: www.breakingbattlegrounds.vote Twitter: www.twitter.com/Breaking_Battle Facebook: www.facebook.com/break...

Merry Christmas from Breaking Battlegrounds ! This week, we are joined by bestselling author, Richard Paul Evans, whose novel The Noel Diary was recently adapted into a hit Netflix movie. - When Richard Paul Evans wrote the #1 best-seller,  The Christmas Box , he never intended on becoming an internationally known author. His quiet story of parental love and the true meaning of Christmas made hist...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds , Chuck and Sam are joined by William Inboden, author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink , and Chris Stirewalt of the American Enterprise Institute. - William Inboden joined the LBJ School faculty after many years of working as a policymaker in Washington, DC, and directing a foreign policy think tank overseas. He is the W...

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds , we are joined by two incredible guests: former Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, and Congressman Don Bacon of Nebraska's 2nd District. - Dr. Mark T. Esper became the 27th Secretary of Defense in July 2019 when he was confirmed in an overwhelming 90-8 vote by the U.S. Senate in rare bipartisan fashion. Esper went on to successfully lead the Defense Department t...