The Glenn Beck Podcast

“Humanity needs forgiveness,” Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel says, two years after a young Islamic radicals knife should have killed him. Like Erika Kirk, he shocked the world by publicly forgiving his attacker. Glenn wants to know why — and what forgiveness actually is. “Forgiveness is one thing. Justice is another,” the bishop says. Mercy is not permission. In the lingering shadow of 9/11 and the more...

The Western world is about to experience a major shift that could signal the end of the globalist, socialist, collectivist chaos of the past 20 years … but not without one last desperate final breath. That is, if Roy H. Williams’ “Pendulum Theory” holds up, as it has for the past few thousand years. Roy joins Glenn Beck to discuss where we are in history — what he calls a “we” generation, where so...

The 2026 midterm elections are not looking good for Republicans, journalist Mark Halperin warns. But is it time to panic? Is there still a way for conservatives to win? And is that even the best-case scenario for the Right, especially with the 2028 presidential elections in mind? Mark and Glenn discuss what Republican candidates must immediately start doing to combat Democrats who are hammering th...

What’s a bigger threat to America: Islamists or Marxists? With the midterms approaching, New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, author of "The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America," argues the two are impossible to separate. Affordability is driving people into the arms of the Islamist-aligned Democratic Socialists of America. Can Republicans win them back on the economy in the m...

As whispers on the ham radio reveal hidden sanctuaries across a fractured America, the Remnant begins to rise—small circles of believers, witnesses, and survivors bound not by power but by covenant. But then, as fires start to seal off every road and Sanctuaries begin to vanish, a new power rises across the fractured nation—calm voices with no faces, miracle-like stability, and a leader known only...

In the seventh month of collapse, Sanctuary begins to change as strange moments, quiet miracles, and a rising discernment reshape the survivors who remain. As factions harden beyond the tree line, the remnant keeps a journal of grace that spreads through the camp like a quiet fire. When Washington goes dark and the flag is lowered for the last time, America fractures into a patchwork of AI-regulat...

When the power grid collapses, America falls into a darkness deeper than night. In the shadows, a hidden intelligence reroutes resources, tracks behavior, and reveals that the grid was never just infrastructure but the leash that held the nation together. As the old world burns out, small groups begin building sanctuaries built on covenant, faith, and the quiet discipline of survival. The farmer e...

As the Western world collapses, Malmö, Sweden, falls to radical rule and Minneapolis begins to mirror it with foreign flags, community checkpoints, and ideologically controlled streets. The farmer watches the West fracture as foreign peacekeepers expand, new borders appear, and the Reclamation Nations move to manage America’s decline. But as America slips into a muted calm, an unseen intelligence...

A farmer watches as the dollar collapses and America unravels into bank failures, food shortages, and riots. Local radio networks, barter economies, and Remnant communities rise to survive the chaos. / Disturbing rumors arrive from Dearborn, MI, as militias, cartels, separatists, and foreign actors battle for control. But everything changes when cities fall silent, foreign peacekeepers land on US...

In 1876, as America turns 100, Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call, Philadelphia dazzles millions at the Centennial Exposition, and the Wild West forges legends from Custer’s Last Stand, Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, and Wild Bill Hickok. But the year’s greatest drama unfolds at the ballot box when Democrat Samuel Tilden wins the popular vote while disputed returns leave Rep...

Reconstruction promised freedom but delivered a brutal fight over who would truly count as an American. This episode begins with the 1866 New Orleans Massacre, then plunges into President Andrew Johnson’s war with Radical Republicans, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and the first presidential impeachment. Along the way, William H. Seward gambles on Alaska, Theodore Judah’s impossible railroad dream...

In April 1865, victory turns to catastrophe. Just days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender, Abraham Lincoln is assassinated at Ford’s Theatre, Secretary of State William Seward is nearly murdered in his bed, and Washington erupts into panic. This episode follows John Wilkes Booth’s desperate escape, the massive manhunt that ends at a burning Virginia barn, and the pursuit and capture of Confederate pr...

America’s Civil War reaches its bloodiest turning point as Abraham Lincoln carries private grief into a national struggle for survival. From the fields of Gettysburg and the siege of Vicksburg to the slaughter at Cold Harbor, Sherman’s march, and the desperate race to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, this episode follows Lincoln, Grant, Lee, and a nation pushed to the brink. Hear how the Gettysburg...

Before Abraham Lincoln could take office, conspirators were already plotting to kill him. From a covert escape through Baltimore to the first cannon blast at Fort Sumter, this episode plunges into the tense, violent opening of the Civil War. Follow Lincoln’s election, the collapse of the Union, the chaos of Bull Run, Grant’s brutal victory at Shiloh, Lee’s invasion of Maryland, and the bloodshed a...

Before John Brown became a martyr to some and a monster to others, he made a vow dedicating his life to the destruction of slavery. This episode follows the radical abolitionist through the chaos of Bleeding Kansas, the vicious murders at Pottawatomie Creek, and Brown’s foolhardy attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Meet Frederick Douglass, the former slave who pricked the nation’s cons...

An assault on a congressman in Washington launches a chain of events that would permanently redraw the map of North America.  This episode traces the remarkable rise of Sam Houston from his Cherokee roots, political scandal, and exile, through the Alamo, San Jacinto, and the fight over Texas annexation.  Then President James K. Polk turns Manifest Destiny into war, sending American armie...

Two American giants collide in the brutal birth of modern politics. John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson were born the same year, but they represented two radically different Americas. One was a polished diplomat raised for public service; the other was a fiery frontier warrior who carried bullets, grudges, and political rage. Their rivalry explodes through the “corrupt bargain” of 1824, the vicio...

On the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, Glenn Beck speaks aboard the USS Midway in San Diego, California, as part of Moms for Liberty’s “Sea to Shining Sea” event. Glenn asks a question we all must all answer: Do we still have the courage, bravery, and selflessness of the Greatest Generation? Because, as Glenn explains through historical stories about the Battle of Midway, D-Day, America’s founding, and...

America declares war on the most powerful empire on earth and almost immediately discovers it may have picked a fight it cannot win.  This is the story of how America’s second war for independence erupted into disaster, humiliation, and legend.  Washington DC is engulfed in flames. Dolley Madison races to save a priceless portrait, while an unknown clerk rescues the nation’s founding documents.  F...

A single night of terror in the mountains of Haiti in 1791 ignites a slave revolution that forever alters America’s destiny.  This episode follows the astonishing chain of events leading to the Louisiana Purchase, the greatest land deal in American history.  Napoleon’s collapsing Caribbean empire, Thomas Jefferson’s constitutional dilemma, and Robert Livingtson’s high-stakes negotiations all colli...

As the French Revolution turns into a blood-soaked spectacle, the shockwaves reach across the Atlantic to President Washington’s desk. Follow Washington through the most volatile years of his presidency: cabinet warfare between Hamilton and Jefferson, street mobs stirred up by Citizen Genet, a deadly yellow fever outbreak, and the explosive Whiskey Rebellion that forces Washington back onto the ba...

In this episode we enter the pressure-filled launch of America’s government and get to know the major figures who shaped its destiny.  Relive George Washington's reluctant ascent to the presidency, from his Mount Vernon solitude to a triumphant inauguration amid national fears of monarchy.  Discover how James Madison championed the Bill of Rights against skeptics, ensuring fundamental American fre...

The American experiment nearly collapsed before it ever truly began.  Plunge into the chaos of post-Revolution America:  mutinous soldiers surrounding Congress, a government too weak to defend itself, and a nation fracturing under the failed Articles of Confederation.  From Shays’ Rebellion shaking the states to the top-secret, sweltering summer in Philadelphia where Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, a...

The American Revolution teeters on the edge of collapse before roaring back to life with Washington’s daring crossing of the Delaware River and a Christmas surprise attack at Trenton. Experience the heartbreak of Brandywine, the comeback at Saratoga, the frozen crucible of Valley Forge, and the global shakeup triggered by a French alliance. Along the way, Benedict Arnold betrays a nation, an ensla...

America’s break from Britain begins with midnight riders, musket smoke, and a gritty nation staring down the world’s greatest empire. In this explosive chapter, ride with Paul Revere on his moonlit warning mission, stand on Lexington Green as the first shots shatter centuries of order, march with Washington as he stares down defeat, and witness the fiery words of Common Sense ignite a revolution....