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Thank you Jackie N Charlotte , Jay Humbard , Carolyn Baum , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. CNN is engaged in a systemtic lie to its audience and I’ve got all the evidence to show it. CNN altered its reporting about the Iran bombing and is not just refusing to acknowledge it left out key details, but is doubling down that its original repor...

Even on Memorial Day, the news waits for no one. But also, I wanted to try a new set up in my home office so I figured I could use the Afternoon Briefing as an excuse to tinker. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ewerickson.substack.com/subscribe

I said something yesterday on my radio show that has stirred the pot and earned me unmitigated hate mail from all corners of the internet. I made a flipant comment that the coordinated coverup of Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline by Democrats and members of the media was worse than the events of January 6th. After careful consideration… I stand by… This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

For all the hand-wringing over a so-called constitutional crisis, the reality is this: President Trump keeps winning at the Supreme Court. Time and again, progressive judges in the lower courts have tried to block the lawful exercise of presidential power—and time and again, the Supreme Court has struck them down. Whether it’s firing federal employees, deporting violent gang members, or declining...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis joined me on radio to share that Senator Marco Rubio’s replacement will be named in the coming days. The Governor also commented on the urgency of calling a special session of the Florida legislature to expedite Trump’s deportation plans claiming, "This can't wait… People say it's premature. It's never premature to do the right thing." This is a public episode. If you...

When Rush Limbaugh was guiding me through the early years of my radio career, he often warned that I should rarely have a guest on my show because talk radio is an intimate conversation between me and my audience. I have internalized this advice and, you will notice, rarely have guests on my show. The lone exception in recent months was today when Meta’s Joel Kaplan joined me. Joel is a former law...

I don’t know Susie Wiles.  I once blamed her for some of Trump’s bad endorsements and only later learned I was just being used by people who didn’t like her and had an ax to grind.  It was a reminder of just how self-interested some people are.  A lot of people see Donald Trump not so much as an advancement of policy interests, but an advancement of their own bottom line. To Susie Wiles and Chris...

After nearly a month of the American press corp doggedly covering President Biden, they have dutifully retreated to their partisan posts and resumed parroting Democratic talking points now that Harris has the nomination. When Republicans began pushing the failures of Harris’s time as Border Czar, USA Today, Time Magazine, CBS, and Axios (within hours of each other) quickly buried the story and pub...

I am old enough to remember the media’s obsessive hatred of George W. Bush. Countless MSNBC hosts opened their nightly shows in the early 2000s with some reference to George W. Bush being Hitler while simultaneously being Dick Cheney’s puppet for Halliburton. While Barack Obama was given a Nobel Peace Prize for simply showing up, Bush was never given an ounce of credit for his PEPFAR program that...

It is a remarkable turn of events for Donald Trump. The former President led the nation and much of the Western World to realize that the Chinese spy app TikTok threatens national security. During his tenure in office, Trump tried to bar TikTok’s operations in the United States because the company is, ultimately, owned by the Chinese Communist Party. There is copious evidence China uses the app to...

Union County, North Carolina is making headlines today because county leaders have finalized plans to ban fluoride in the drinking water. Despite every dentist in the county protesting the decision, county residents claim that since the CDC got COVID-19 wrong, they probably got fluoride wrong too.  Even though fluoride has been in the drinking water since the 40s and offers well-documented protect...

TRANSCRIPT: I may be destroying my career here. I might be, but if Michelle Obama does become the Democratic nominee for president, you can stop listening to me. I don't think it's going to happen for a lot of reasons, including the number of Democrats who really believed Joe Biden was going to be a one term president and behind the scenes are deeply resentful of him and also resentful of Obama fo...

Tim Alberta has a new book out about the American church in an age of extremism. Progressive atheist Rob Reiner has a new documentary out about the dangers of Christian nationalism. Some friends participated with both Tim’s book and Reiner’s documentary. I have other friends who are antagonists towards it all. Some proudly call themselves Christian Nationalists because it gets a rise out of all th...

Now that we have had the DeSantis vs Newsom debate, Republican primary voters deserve the Nikki Haley vs Ron DeSantis conversation. I am formally inviting both of them to Atlanta to have this conversation moderated by me. Without the distractions of Vivek or an obnoxious audience, let’s have a conversation between these two candidates about the issues Republican primary voters care about. Each can...

Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama joined me to talk about his military holds in the Senate. President Biden says the senator’s holds risk military readiness. Members of the military say the military is ready. This is an attempt by the Biden Administration to deploy progressive social policy into the military, using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. Sadly, few Republicans are publicly standing...

By request, this is my show open today. Happy Independence Day. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ewerickson.substack.com/subscribe

Tim Keller has died. He has been battling pancreatic cancer. Two years ago, for Good Friday, he spoke to me about his fight with cancer, his faith, and about culture. You can hear the conversation above. I got to know Tim as a critic of his who discovered that much of what I heard about what Keller had said or written was vastly different from what Keller had actually said or written. He reached o...

Riley Gaines is a 12-time All-American swimmer from the University of Kentucky who would much rather be in dental school than doing interviews with people like me on the radio. Instead, Gaines has been thrust into the national spotlight for having the courage to say that young women should not have to compete against men in sports or change in front of men in locker rooms. That is exactly what hap...

This is a transcript of my radio monologue today in Charleston, South Carolina after the Nikki Haley event. You’ll want to hear this. If I sound a little different, it's because I'm actually in a hotel. I brought all my radio equipment over, and I am broadcasting live from the Charleston Place Hotel in downtown Charleston. My daughter and I were here for Nikki Haley's event, saw it about an hour a...

Live on my show today, I interviewed Congressman Dan Bishop (R-NC). He is one of the twenty conservatives refusing to vote for Kevin McCarthy for Speaker. Earlier today, Fox News reported that Bishop would quit if McCarthy won. That isn’t true. Bishop talked about how that story came about, why he is holding out, and what his end game is. To get a true sense of what is going on, take time to liste...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit ewerickson.substack.com Chris Wilson is my favorite pollster in America. He does not do public polling. He does the expensive internal polling that candidates rely on for strategy. He is the person whose polling had Glenn Youngkin winning when all the public polls showed Youngkin losing Virginia last year. I talked to Chris about pollin...

Please listen to the audio above. I said that on February 23, 2022. It is so easily predictable. You have to remember that in many states, historically, the GOP dominated early voting and Democrats dominated day of voting. But the situation is now reversed, and Democrats tend to use absentee and early voting while Republicans show up on election day. As Republican skepticism of absentee balloting...

Today, Herschel Walker joined me on my radio show. We discussed the allegations against him, his mental health, and his debate tomorrow against Raphael Warnock. The campaign put no ground rules on the interview. I wanted to make sure everyone could hear our conversation so those in Georgia, in particular, can make up their mind about November. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss thi...

My friend Josh Trevino has a very perceptive piece about Putin using nukes in Ukraine. Josh thinks Putin will use them . I think Josh is probably right for the reason he states. We have, for a very long time, embraced a doctrine of reciprocal nuclear force. If Russia uses nukes, we use nukes. It worked as a very simple deterrence. Quoting Josh, They no longer hold , and here is the very dangerous...

I have to cut the music out because of licensing rules. I got to keep in a couple songs, but pretty much everything else is stripped out. Nonetheless, I wanted to make the podcast version of today’s show available for everyone. Have a Happy Easter. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ewerickson.substack.com/subscribe