The Ignition News Podcast

Three stories today, and they all connect to the same root question: who holds power in this country, who gets to stay, and who gets to buy the politicians you thought you elected. First, Texas Republican Chip Roy introduced the Mamdani Act in Congress, naming it after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani because he needed a socialist Muslim villain. The bill would make any non-citizen deportable or...

An Important Episode, talking about what happens when power is backed into a corner. Dan talks about Kash Patel and his dangerous lack of fitness. We talk about the lawsuit against the Atlantic. Dan breaks an incredible story about how he overcame police harassment from the sitting governor of Nevada.

The United Nations World Food Program estimates that 45 million additional people will be pushed into acute hunger as a direct result of the war in Iran. Two thirds of them are in Africa. They had no vote in Operation Epic Fury. They did not ask for this war. And they are going to pay for it with their lives. In today's episode, we go deep on the supply chain most war coverage ignores entirely...

On Wednesday, April 16th, Israeli forces struck a location in southern Lebanon's Nabatiyeh district. When medics from the Islamic Health Association responded, they were struck in a second attack. When other emergency workers arrived to evacuate them, their ambulance was struck. When another ambulance came, it was struck too. Four strikes. One rescue mission. Four medics dead. Six wounded. Lebanon...

They are handing us a straw and telling us to share it. That is the Democratic Party's offer. That is what harm reduction voting actually means when you strip the language away. On today's show: I lay out exactly why I will deny Aaron Ford the Nevada governorship if Democrats coronate him without a fight. His $1.2 million war chest looks grassroots until you follow the money to hedge funds...

The Secretary of Defense compared the American press to the Pharisees who persecuted Jesus. The Pope condemned "a handful of tyrants" from a cathedral in Cameroon. The administration pulled $11 million from a Catholic orphanage program that has been running since the Kennedy era. And 40 Senate Democrats voted to block arms sales to Israel while their own leader voted against them. Four s...

Today on The Ignition News, Dan starts with a rant about the Apple Store (it has become a retirement home, iOS looks like a Fisher Price toy, moving on). Then: a lesson in accountability hiding inside a broken 3D printer. Dan's son Ben has been selling 3D printed resistance whistles to fund his own printer, and the Las Vegas Library District has quietly made that harder than it should be. Thre...

A man went to work at Amazon's PDX9 warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon on April 6th. He did not come home. When he collapsed on the warehouse floor, a coworker with CPR training asked her supervisor if she could help the woman already performing chest compressions. The supervisor told her to turn around, not look, and get back to work. For more than an hour, the conveyor belts kept moving. Today w...

First: Viktor Orban is out. After 16 years of dismantling Hungarian democracy, building the blueprint that the global far right copied, and making it genuinely dangerous to vote against him, the people of Hungary showed up in record numbers. The Titsa party pulled 53 percent. Orban got 38. More than 3.3 million Hungarians voted for Peter Magyar, the highest vote total in that country's history...

While the president fist-pumped the crowd at UFC 307 in Miami, the United States war with Iran entered one of its most dangerous phases yet. Peace talks in Islamabad collapsed after 21 hours of face-to-face negotiations. The sticking points: Iran's nuclear stockpile and control of the Strait of Hormuz. Washington walked out. Hours later, riding back to his Doral Resort after midnight, Trump po...

This is The Ignition News for Saturday, April 11th, 2026. Today's episode opens with a meditation on Walt Whitman's charge to "resist much, obey little," then moves into four stories that show exactly what happens when a government stops serving its people. A Denver-born American citizen named Brian Morales was deported to Mexico on April 7th after CBP agents refused to verify hi...

Today on The Ignition News: the working class is being pushed past its limits, and the evidence is everywhere. We break down a class conscious reading of what is happening to the American workforce, from AI driven job displacement to runaway executive compensation at companies like Verizon, and what it means that Starlink may eliminate the last category of entry level jobs that gave working people...

The Ignition News | April 9, 2026The Unraveling Coalition NOAA data released Tuesday confirmed that March 2026 was not just the hottest March in recorded history but the most abnormally hot month ever measured, coming in 9.35 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average. Nineteen thousand eight hundred locations set peak heat records. Two thousand set all-time records. The planet is keeping s...

April 8, 2026. The Ignition News opens with a lesson before it opens with the news. Two lessons, actually. One from a 14-year-old learning 3D printing at his local library and one from Harriet Tubman. Both say the same thing: there are no shortcuts in the work of liberation. Ben, Dan's son, recessed the word "resist" into his safety whistles to save time, printed 12 of them in two an...

This morning, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that a whole civilization will die tonight. The deadline for strikes on Iranian bridges and power plants is hours away. Iran has ended all talks. There is no deal. This is his fourth deadline and his second this week alone. On today's episode of The Ignition News, we cover where Operation Epic Fury stands right now: the Strait of Hormuz still c...

The world feels like it is unraveling in real time, and today on The Ignition News, Dan asks the question that keeps coming up: what do you talk about when it feels like the world is ending? On today's episode: Trump held a press conference where he claimed the U.S. could "finish Iran in one evening," while Pete Hegseth promised major strikes ahead. Meanwhile, the administration stil...

The Ignition News | April 4, 2026Four Stories. One Reckoning. Five weeks into Operation Epic Fury, Iran shot down an American F-15E Strike Eagle, the first confirmed kill of a US fighter jet since the war began. A pilot is still missing. The president had told us the operation was near completion. John Bolton went on CNN and said the White House was in panic mode. The Strait of Hormuz is still clo...

An F-15E was shot down over Iran today with one crew member still unaccounted for, just days after the president told the country the war was essentially won. Gas is now $4.09 nationally, up 37 percent since the conflict began. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, CENTCOM lied about the missing aircraft, and Iran lied about what kind of plane it was. Both sides are running disinformation while rea...

The Ignition News | April 2, 2026 This was supposed to be a recorded episode. Breaking news made it a live show. Pam Bondi is out as attorney general. The second cabinet firing in less than a month. Reports say she begged the president not to fire her during an explosive White House confrontation. Her replacement is Todd Blanche, the president's personal lawyer from the New York criminal trial...

It is April 1st, but the Ignition News is not playing games. Four major stories dominate today's show, and not one of them is a joke. The United States is five weeks into Operation Epic Fury with 13 service members dead and 300 wounded. The Washington Post is reporting that the Pentagon has been quietly drawing up plans for extended ground operations in Iran, including special forces and conve...

Gas has hit $4 a gallon nationally and over $5 in Las Vegas as the Iran conflict drags past a month with no end in sight. Farmers are warning that rising fuel and fertilizer costs are coming for your grocery bill next. A federal judge struck down Trump's executive order defunding NPR and PBS, calling it unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination, but much of the damage to public media has alrea...

There was a night in Wyoming when a little kid's dog died of antifreeze poisoning. It was midnight. It was snowing. And his father drove a Chevy Blazer out onto a frozen pond, got out with the headlights on, and fell backward into the snow making snow angels. That story opens today's show, and it is the through-line for everything that follows, because the point of all of this is not just to stop...

Last night I got attacked by a bat. And standing in my driveway at 10 o'clock, I had to make the decision millions of Americans make every day: risk dying or go into debt. Rabies is nearly 100 percent fatal without treatment. The treatment can cost thousands of dollars and push someone into bankruptcy. I went to the ER. I am going to be okay. But no one in this country should have to do that m...

It is Saturday, March 28th, 2026 and the streets are waking up. This is a special weekend edition of the Ignition News. Three stories connect today's edition to something bigger than any one headline. First, 36 House Republicans have now announced they will not seek reelection in 2026, breaking the record set in 2018 when Democrats retook the House. These are not fringe members. Foreign Affair...

We open with a direct question: does the United States actually have a functioning government? The evidence says no. Not for working people. The roads are crumbling. Airports in tourist destinations outperform ours. Spam calls have made the phone itself a source of daily anxiety. Phone stores, DoorDash, Uber Eats, all of it runs on the same model: extract from workers, extract from customers, extr...