Rufo & Lomez

Republicans just got annihilated. The Iran war plus soaring costs crushed the party, and young voters fled in droves. Jeremy Carl joins Lomez to dissect the worst GOP beatdown since Watergate. 00:00 — GOP’s Election Disaster 01:13 — The Senate Firewall Falls 03:46 — Did Iran Doom the GOP? 08:41 — Young Voters Abandon Republicans 13:22 — The Economy Beats the Culture Wars 18:38 — Good GDP, Bad Real...

Can America still become one people? Noah Smith joins Lomez for an honest debate over immigration, assimilation, ethnogenesis, and the future of American identity. Sponsors: ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checkout for 20% off. 00:00 — Noah Smith on Politics, Economics & “No Opinion” 01:34 — Noah Smith vs. t...

America is being robbed blind, over half a trillion dollars a year, and the politicians in charge are either too weak or too complicit to act. We lay out the scale of the fraud, the scams, and the political corruption, and why Washington can't seem to stop it. Sponsors: ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checko...

Is it about race, class, or something else entirely? We confront America's most uncomfortable immigration debate. 00:00 — The Bo French Tweet Sparks a Firestorm 03:20 — Why Indian Immigration Became a Flashpoint 07:45 — Indian American Success—and the Backlash 12:10 — H-1B Visas: Skilled Worker Pipeline or Wage Pressure? 17:30 — Immigration, Assimilation, and the Ellis Island Comparison 22:00 — Ar...

Investigative reporter Brian Chau reveals who is bankrolling the “AI will kill everyone” panic and buying influence in Congress. Sponsors: ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checkout for 20% off. 00:00 – “AI Will Literally Kill Everyone” – Inside the Doomer Mindset 05:12 – The ‘AI God’ Theory: Recursive Self‑Im...

Bari Weiss and her 2018 New York Times article on the Intellectual Dark Web launched Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and the Weinstein brothers into the mainstream. Nearly a decade later, we dissect how that moment imploded into conspiracy rabbit holes, algorithm addiction, and the collapse of a would‑be heterodox revolution. Sponsors: ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subs...

One year after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Right remains without a clear leader. Its coalition unity is shattered, and its leadership vacuum is only deepening. 0:00 – Charlie Kirk Assassination: One Year Later 3:12 – “Hinge Event” After 9/11: How Kirk’s Death Changed Everything 8:45 – Right-Wing Meltdown: Why the Coalition Shattered After Kirk 13:27 – Inside Charlie Kirk’s Power: Charis...

Col. Rob Maness was inside the Pentagon on 9/11. He provides an unfiltered, minute-by-minute account of the attack, the chaos, and the rescue efforts he witnessed firsthand. He connects that day to America's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Ukraine, and he makes the case that America is back to a "September 10" mindset today. 0:00:00 25 Years After 9/11: Are We Back to ‘September 10th’ America...

From The Pendragon Cycle to the future of the GOP, Jeremy Boreing lays out a long-term strategy for rebuilding conservative culture. Sponsors: ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checkout for 20% off. 0:00 – The Fantasy Epic Owning Amazon Prime 3:15 – How Jeremy Boreing Beat Hollywood at Its Own Game 7:42 – Why...

With the RNC convention landing in Dallas next week, the midterm math is starting to look ugly for Republicans. Rufo & Lomez ask the question nobody in the White House wants to answer: why is J.D. Vance the one holding the bag? ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checkout for 20% off. 00:00:00 – JD Vance’s case...

Rutgers scientist Dr. Richard Ebright lays out, in forensic detail, how Anthony Fauci funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, buried the evidence, and orchestrated a fraudulent cover-up paper and why his 2025 pardon is quietly backdated to the exact year the violations began. 00:00 – Fauci’s Backdated Pardon 04:12 – Gain-of-Function Pause in 2014 08:35 – What Is EcoHealth Alliance? 12:49 – Why...

Three controversies collide: Meta's $17 billion settlement, the disturbing TikTok defense of Lindsay Clancy, and former Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino's explosive claim to Tucker Carlson that the Trump administration wants him dead. 0:00 – Happy Birthday Chris! 4:18 – Meta hit with $17 billion: is social media the new Big Tobacco? 9:02 – Are we medicalizing sin? The “addiction” label out of contr...

Nick Freitas tackles federal power, abolishing agencies like the Department of Education, rebuilding assimilation, and why a 20‑year strategy of faith, marriage, and children beats the left’s revolution. 00:00:00 Nick Freitas on the Right Reorganizing 00:05:10 Blackpilled Conservatives & Demoralization Ops 00:10:45 Collapse of Trust: Institutions, COVID, Media Lies 00:16:30 “Woke Right,” Neocons &...

Jason Arday's fraud, James Fishback's chaos campaign, and America's rollout of facial-recognition drones don't look related until you see them as three symptoms of the same collapse in institutional trust. 00:00 – American Psychosis & the Jason Arday Fraud Exposed 04:12 – Cambridge’s Racial Fairy Tale and Academic Plagiarism 09:35 – What “Epistemic Closure” Really Looks Like in Universities 15:02...

Foreign policy expert Zineb Riboua explains how Third-Worldism became the Left’s new organizing ideology, why Israel became its obsession, how China and Iran fit into the picture, and what happens when anti-Western politics moves beyond the Left. 0:00:00 – What Is Third Worldism? Zineb Riboua Explains 0:01:19 – From Woke 1.0 to Third Worldism: The Left’s New Phase 0:03:50 – Reparations, Redistribu...

Dr. Paul Gottfried has spent decades watching the Left evolve. His conclusion is chilling: Wokeness may be more culturally powerful than American communism ever was. 0:00 – From New Left to Trump: Paul Gottfried’s Big Picture 1:23 – “Post‑Marxist Left”: Why Today’s Left Isn’t Marxist 4:18 – Marxism vs Wokeness: What Actually Changed? 7:21 – Why the Working Class Is Abandoning the Left 10:00 –Today...

Israel, Iran, and the $20 burrito: Everything Is a proxy fight for 2028. Rufo & Lomez connect the dots between grocery inflation, the Michigan primary, and Tucker's third-party trial balloon and how it all leads to the same place. 0:00:00 – The $20 Burrito Meltdown 0:02:19 – Is Inflation Really to Blame for Expensive Burritos? 0:04:10 – The Brutal Truth About Beef Prices 0:08:59 – When Chipotle Be...

Former CIA Targeter Sarah Adams warns that Islamist influence isn't just overseas anymore. Sarah argues the Muslim Brotherhood has spent decades building political power inside America and says both Democrats and Republicans have been quietly cultivated for years. 0:00 – Why We’re Really at War with Iran 2:34 – Inside America’s Botched Strike on Iran’s Nukes 6:58 – Iranian Sleeper Cells in the U.S...

From ‘Kill the Infidels’ chants at Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mosque to government price-fixed bananas ;  Rufo & Lomez expose how Bin Laden’s ideology is merging with the Left’s pure spectacle politics… and why conservatives did nothing about it. 0:00 – NYC’s Socialist Banana Scheme 1:40 – Price Commissars in New York City 3:35 – Government Groceries = Soviet Throwback 6:55 – Why Economics Won’t...

The revolution succeeded but the Online Right is falling apart. Discover why the insurgent energy that crushed woke is now exhausted and directionless. 0:00 – Has the Online Right Lost Its Purpose? 0:39 – How Meme Culture Helped Elect Trump 3:49 – From Anti‑Woke Wave to “What Now?” 5:55 – “America Will Be Woke No Longer” 9:03 – Did the Anti‑Woke Right Actually Win? 12:13 – Nick Fuentes, Transgress...

Alex Priou dissects Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," revealing the philosophical, political, and moral differences between Nolan's blockbuster and Homer's enduring classic. 0:00 – Nolan’s Odyssey: Why This Film Is a Big Deal 0:40 – Is Nolan’s Odyssey a Progressive Trojan Horse? 2:51 – Homer vs. Nolan: What the Original Odyssey Really Asked 5:34 – Guilt, Sin, and “Zeus’s Law”: Christian or Progre...

TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet opens up on the splintering of the Right after Charlie Kirk's death, Tyler Robinson's guilt, Candace Owens' betrayals, and the proxy war over Israel tearing apart the Right. 0:00:00 The Assassination of Charlie Kirk & Birth of Conspiracy Theories 0:02:45 Inside the Tyler Robinson Case: DNA, Bullet, Rifle 0:07:40 Wild Theories vs Courtroom Facts 0:09:35 Roof Cam: Th...

Lindsey Graham's death exposes the Left's deranged hatred. Governor Hochul's statewide assault on data centers fuels the Democrats' war on AI and technological progress, while socialist Zohran Mamdani is forced to backtrack after the Little Italy backlash. 0:00:00 - Lindsey Graham Is Dead – And the Left Is Celebrating 0:00:31 - Lib Wine Mom Meltdown: The Sick Fantasies of the Anti-Graham Left 0:03...

The raw truth behind Spencer Pratt’s insane Los Angeles mayoral run. Pratt’s creative director, Gabriel Mann, reveals paid gang ballot harvesting, how Democrats rigged the election, and why Hollywood tolerates sexual abusers but blacklist conservatives.   00:00:00 – The 10-Minute Script That Blew Up L.A. Politics 00:03:15 – “Like Batman”: Pratt’s Burned-Out Lot Origin Story 00:06:10 – Ze...

Michael Tracey dissects the sexual misconduct allegations against Maine socialist Senate candidate Graham Platner, exposing the role of Democratic Party power brokers, #MeToo-era moral panics, and media-driven political hit jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices