Restoring America with Grace Reilly

A new Brave Books study found libraries and publishers are scrubbing Christianity from kids' reading lists built for America's 250th birthday. Not one book about faith, religious liberty, or Christianity's role in the founding made the cut. In this episode, I break down what the study found and why an omission this complete is no accident. The same lists found room for the 1619 Project and transge...

The republic hangs by a thread. That's the warning at the heart of The Thread of Liberty, Ned Ryun's new documentary for America's 250th birthday. In this episode, I sit down with Ned, the founder and CEO of American Majority, to talk about the film and what keeping the republic asks of us. We get into Tocqueville's observation that religion was America's first political institution, how schools t...

Why wasn’t slavery abolished at our founding 250 years ago? This is one of the most misunderstood questions about our country’s history— the relationship between the Founding Fathers and slavery. As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, Paul Kengor and Grace Reilly attack this topic head-on in partnership with The American Spectator. Special Guest: Paul Kengor.

America just turned 250, the greatest country ever created. So why are we having an identity crisis over what it even means to be American? In this episode, I celebrate our 250th birthday and get honest about the moment we're in: a war on truth, a culture that acts like we've somehow outgrown God, and a country that can't agree on the principles that made it. We were founded on liberty, life, and...

The founders went to war over taxes far lighter than what leaves your paycheck today. So how did a country built on "no taxation without representation" end up with a tax system this BIG? How did spending become so high and widespread? In this episode, I dive into the establishment of the federal income tax from 1913, when the top rate was just 7% and the whole thing was sold as temporary, up to t...

47% of Americans think the American Dream is dead. William Hearn's new 250th-anniversary film, The Impossible Dream, asks whether we have lost the hope that made America possible. In this episode, I sit down with William to talk about what the American Dream meant before it got reduced to a bigger house, a better job, or a more comfortable life. We talk about the founders’ understanding of happine...

Socialists just swept New York's primaries, and this is not a fringe story anymore. Mamdani-backed candidates beat establishment Democrats, while a Gallup poll shows 66% of Democrats view socialism favorably. In this episode, I break down why I'm calling this socialism instead of the softer "democratic socialist" rebrand, what the Democratic Socialists of America polling above Democrats in Congres...

At a time where patriotism is decreasing it is important, now more than ever, to pass American values onto the next generation. As the 250th birthday of our great nation approaches, Amanda Martin has stepped in to make learning and celebrating American history fun through her new children's book: Henry the Star-Spangled Spaniel. In the book, Henry goes back in history to witness key moments and br...

America turns 250 this year, and a new poll says 29% of Democrats aren't proud to be American anymore. A lot of them won't even fly the flag on the 4th! In this episode, I walk through the numbers, and some of them are genuinely hard to look at. Pride on the left has cratered. The two parties can't even agree on what the 4th of July is for. And there's the State of the Union moment Democrats refus...

Democrats ask for photo ID at the door of their own events. But bring up voter ID at the ballot box and suddenly it's an attack on democracy. In this episode, I break down the double standard at the heart of the election integrity fight: the DNC and the Obama Foundation requiring ID for their events while opposing it for voting. I also get into California, where ballots get counted for weeks and n...

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire and the left is furious. Jimmy Kimmel, AOC, Bernie, and Elizabeth Warren all reached for the same line: tax the rich. In today's episode, I break down why "tax the rich" doesn't actually work, and why, as the Federalist's Brianna Lyman put it on Fox Business, the real problem isn't a revenue problem — it's a spending problem. We look at the reco...

A Marxist magazine and Zohran Mamdani are trying to repackage an old socialist creed that history has discredited time and time again. For this special crossover episode of Restoring America, Grace Reilly sits down with Marxism expert Paul Kengor to walk through his new piece for The American Spectator, The Moronic Idiocy of Municipal Socialism, and discuss what Zohran Mamdani actually has planned...

In this special episode of Restoring America, I'm bringing you to the Newsmax set in New York City to react in real time to the top stories of the day. We get into Mamdani's New York and the radical candidates the Democrats keep pushing through, Steven A. Smith dragging Trump into a Knicks game, what denaturalization actually means (and how Obama did it too), blue-state "refugees" carrying failed...

Why is American healthcare so expensive, and can Trump actually fix it? Obamacare was sold as "affordable" and has been anything but. For years we've watched problems develop in the healthcare industry, a big one being the government's involvement. Now the Trump administration has a plan to maximize price transparency, lower drug prices, insurance premiums, and hold big insurance companies account...

Eighty-two years ago, 160,000 men stormed the beaches of Normandy. Most of us have forgotten what gave them the courage to do it. In this episode I get into the line Reagan drew between using force to free people and using force to conquer them, why Clarence Thomas says faith is where real courage actually comes from, and what that asks of the rest of us. Most of us will never storm a beach. We ca...

Your rights do not come from Washington. They do not come from Congress, the courts, or the White House. Justice Clarence Thomas made that clear in a powerful lecture at the University of Texas, and it cuts straight to the heart of the question behind Restoring America: what are we actually restoring America to? In this episode, I react to Thomas’s speech on the Declaration of Independence, God-gi...

Spencer Pratt has Karen Bass and the entire LA establishment rattled — and tomorrow, California votes. I sat down with someone who's actually on the ground for it all. In today's episode, I talk with Kyle Campbell — host of Politically Basic, an LA resident, and an advisor on the Steve Hilton for Governor campaign — about what the headlines aren't telling you the day before the primary. We get int...

In celebration of America's 250th birthday, Rededicate 250 was held on the National Mall to rededicate the nation to God, and critics immediately labeled it "Christian nationalism." But that label is designed to silence Christians, not describe them. In this episode, I react to the Rededicate 250 event and break down what the critics are getting wrong. I cover the historical connection between Chr...

Texas Democrat candidate for Senate, James Talarico, is under fire for trying to justify abortion and other evils with the Christian faith. Yesterday, Republican voters decided his challenger: Ken Paxton. The Democrats have been saying they have a great chance if Paxton were to become the candidate, which he did. So does Talarico have a chance? Today we let him speak for himself and you can see if...

Eric Church was tasked with inspiring the graduates of UNC Chapel Hill last weekend, but he ended up reminding us all what really matters in life. He said the simple truth that we hardly hear in today's culture. Every point he made pushed back against what this generation hears from the secularists on a daily basis. He delivered a message of hope filled with important reminders and reflections for...

Zohran Mamdani wants to spend $30 million of New Yorkers' money on five city-run stores that won't open until 2029. That's four times what a comparable private store would cost. In this episode I go through why this idea has already been tried elsewhere, and what actually happened. In today's episode, I cover the economic mess already unfolding under Mamdani's leadership and how government-control...

While the administration’s pro-family agenda is a welcome change, IVF raises serious moral and ethical concerns that can’t be ignored. Grace looks at the growing debate inside the pro-life movement, the destruction of embryos in the IVF process, the broader fertility crisis affecting America, and why cultural and policy solutions matter if we actually want to support family formation. If we’re ser...

Society used to have standards for beauty, and we walked away from them. Postmodernism told us truth is subjective and anything goes, so we went from Saint Peter's Basilica to strip mall churches, from classical music to profanity-laced pop, from architecture that stopped you in your tracks to buildings that are just boxes. The people who built those great cathedrals spent their entire lives on so...

The 2026 Met Gala pictures made their rounds again this week, and the outfits keep getting harder to look at. How a culture dresses tells you something real about what it believes. What walked that red carpet this year and what Grace Kelly wore to hers are not just different fashion choices. They reflect completely different ideas about beauty, the body, and God. I was raised to never wear jeans t...

Charlie Kirk had a gift that very few people in the Christian conservative movement actually had. He could sit across from someone who disagreed with him - completely, FUNDAMENTALLY, disagreed with him and stay in it. And somehow, in doing that, he held together a coalition of people who FRANKLY don't always get along. What happened since his assassination has been deeply discouraging. There was u...