The Rick Robinson Show

Wednesday’s show changed course as new details emerged about the Trump administration’s agreement with Iran. Rick examines the widening gap between the administration’s original red lines and the terms taking shape in the MOU—from Iran’s ballistic missile program and nuclear infrastructure to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. He also explains why some form of agreement had become economically...

On this episode of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick argues that voters are starting to notice the gap between political slogans and real-world consequences. The show opens with Trump’s newly signed border enforcement funding package, the Senate fight over FISA, and the tension between giving elected leaders the tools voters asked for while refusing to hand the surveillance state a blank check. Rick th...

On this Finally Friday edition of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick argues that the fine print is where the real story lives. The show starts with the failed push to attach the SAVE America Act to the GOP’s immigration enforcement package, then moves into the May jobs report, which beat expectations with 172,000 jobs added, unemployment holding at 4.3%, and upward revisions to March and April. Rick dig...

On this episode of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick breaks down Oklahoma's primary eve chaos, from early voting totals and ballot access to the GOP governor race, attack ads, and the confusing Trump endorsement of Mike Mazzei. The show digs into the major candidate lanes for Gentner Drummond, Mazzei, Charles McCall, Chip Keating, and Jake Merrick, including the Inola aluminum smelter controversy and f...

Do young Americans really prefer communism over capitalism — or have they been taught the complaints without ever learning the cost? Today on The Rick Robinson Show, we dig into the polling, the education pipeline, activist networks, soft-on-crime city policy, and last night’s election results to ask how socialism became normal-sounding to a generation buried under rent, debt, inflation, and broke...

America’s 250th birthday should be an easy celebration — flags, fireworks, history, and gratitude. Instead, patriotism feels weaker, more divided, and strangely controversial. Today, Rick connects the dots among declining national pride, decades of centralized, test-driven education, the collapse of civics and U.S. history proficiency, and the rise of socialist-aligned candidates filling the civic...

Today on The Rick Robinson Show, we’re drawing the line between politics and power abuse — from the apparent swatting attempt at Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home to blue-state Democrats floating a 100% tax on anti-weaponization payouts.  We’ll look at voter wake-up calls in Georgia, California, and Texas, America 250 already turning into a cultural food fight, Oklahoma’s SQ 832 minimum wage vote,...

Texas voters just sent Washington a message loud enough to shake both parties. John Cornyn is out, Ken Paxton is in, and the old idea that seniority equals automatic renewal took a serious hit. But the Texas reset did not stop with Republicans — Democratic voters rejected Maureen Galindo’s radicalism in TX-35, Al Green’s impeachment-theater era came to an end, and Oklahoma’s governor race is alrea...

Today on The Rick Robinson Show: courts, consequences, fake consensus, and political institutions that only seem to love the rules when the rules help them win. Rick breaks down Virginia’s court-retaliation fight, the DNC’s Biden-free 2024 autopsy, Iran’s reported assassination-bounty talk, Rubio at NATO, New York’s anti-ICE push, Senate GOP dysfunction, California’s fake grassroots politics, and...

TRRS 05-20-26 #ChatlivesMatterDay -- Power, Payback, and Political Math Thomas Massie loses his Kentucky primary, Hakeem Jeffries talks about ‘breaking’ MAGA, Democrats drag SEC athletes into redistricting politics, and the FBI’s January 6 answers keep getting messier. Then we hit New York City’s budget fantasy, Texas demanding cities show their books, and why voters, taxpayers, and the math event...

Oh looky looky, the CIA is getting outed on The Hill along with Dr. Fauci -- So again Rick Eleventy trolls ZERO Plus Fraud rediscricting and news updates 

The Redistricting fight did not go the way Temu Obama hoped the UFO files dump happened, or did it? Can we trust Trump and red lines anymore? All this and more is discussed on this episode.

TRRS 05-06-26 The Bill Came Due Last Night  Politicians have spent years talking about democracy, public safety, clean government, immigration, and accountability. Now voters are starting to ask a simple question: are they actually walking the walk? Today on The Rick Robinson Show, we dig into the breaking FBI searches tied to Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, the legal fight...