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Welcome to Last Call , a look at the biggest stories Jim and Greg covered over the past week on the 3 Martini Lunch. This week, they discuss how the Democrats' huge midterm election victories will shape the next Congress and - yes - the 2028 presidential campaign, Tucker Carlson suggesting the U.S. and Israel will soon nuke Iran, the left building momentum for making the Death Tax much worse, and...

Glenn sits down with Anthony Scaramucci, whose new book, All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump , argues that elite missteps on trade, labor, finance, and monetary policy, rather than racism and ignorance, let Trump exploit real economic anxieties. Anthony says too much wealth and power at the top has narrowed opportunity for everyone else, and he backs a co...

Toss out the cyanide white pill and don't touch that dial! Bad night on Tuesday, but we ain't done for yet. In fact, we got work to do—and the job starts with an assessment of what the bleep just happened. To that end, Steve and James chat with Sean Trende, head of the Poll Vault and senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics. We leave the blame game to others, and instead think through how it...

On Open Line Friday, Erick reminds listeners that Donald Trump is still president for two more years, praises Melania Trump's Ukraine peace diplomacy, and lays out the AP exit poll data showing voters blamed tariffs and the Canada trade war, not just Iran war gas prices, for the midterm wipeout. Then he turns on the Georgia and Texas Republican parties, crediting Brian Kemp and the Rick Jackson ca...

On Open Line Friday, Erick shuts down the third-party dream and lays out a king-for-a-day plan to fix Congress: grow the House of Representatives to 1,000 members, pay them $300,000, and lift donation caps so money flows to disclosed candidates instead of dark money groups. He also tells a Georgia caller how to take over the Republican Party from the precinct up, makes the case that governor-elect...

On Open Line Friday, Erick argues that America's political crisis is really a spiritual crisis, telling pastors to stop trading the gospel for a seat at the table, to quit pushing the lesser of two evils, and to hold the Republican Party to account as readily as the Democrats, with Josh Howerton, James Talarico, and the Christian nationalism fight inside the PCA and Southern Baptist Convention in...

A long week comes to an end, and Craig Coglianese and Jim Geraghty conclude that it is probably for the best that incoming Tennessee governor Marsha Blackburn is not considering Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to be the appointed U.S. senator from her state. Meanwhile, President Trump says that when the stock market crashes, the American people have only themselves to blame, and the White House...

The Left wants REVENGE, Russell Brand is facing major controversy, and Tucker Carlson and Possum Lady are taking political commentary to a whole new level! Mock and Daisy are breaking down another wild week in politics, starting with the latest developments surrounding Russell Brand and the serious allegations against him. Megyn Kelly's commentary on the case raises questions, and the Chicks have...

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour , Lance Izumi, senior director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the real-world effects of DEI, how it is degrading the American education system, and how some courageous Americans are fighting back against the DEI takeover. You can read Izumi's new book,...

What went wrong for Republicans in the midterms, and what needs to change before 2028? Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action President Kevin Roberts joins the Daily Signal's final episode of "Midterm Report" to break down the election results and identify what he sees as two major problems for conservatives: economic and affordability concerns, and a failure to effectively communicate their acco...

Guest: John Petrakis Host Scot Bertram talks with John Petrakis, assistant professor of politics at Hillsdale College, about the history of euthanasia in the West, how countries that legalize euthanasia often start a slippery slope, and his recent essay, “ What’s Behind the Rise of Euthanasia in the West? ” To learn more about Hillsdale College, visit www.hillsdale.edu.

Judge Glock, director of research at the Manhattan Institute, discussed his new article about what DOGE achieved with Jace Lington. Glock argued that if you set aside the inflated rhetoric about cost savings, DOGE actually made significant cuts to the size of the federal workforce. They talk about civil service reform, USAID and IRS debates, and which reforms could endure, while distinguishing mea...

Scott Jennings joins The Chicks on the Right for a BRUTALLY honest conversation about the Republican Party's devastating midterm election losses, Donald Trump's messaging failures, and what conservatives MUST do to rebuild before 2028. After Republicans suffered major setbacks, Scott Jennings isn't holding back. The CNN conservative commentator breaks down what went wrong for the GOP, why voters r...

The editors discuss the blue wave in the midterm elections, the 39th Annual Erasmus Lecture, and Bob Dylan's audience with Pope Leo XIV.

Following Donald Trump's dramatic political comeback, his second administration is pursuing a sweeping counter-revolution aimed at reversing decades of progressive policies and restoring American power. Victor Davis Hanson explores Trump's agenda on immigration, energy, trade, the military, and foreign policy, including the war in Iran and America's changing relationship with Europe, drawing from...

Henry warned Republicans they were in for a terrible night— and he called it close !—but how could anyone have anticipated an electoral massacre of such proportions? Henry's got a short rant to go over what we know so far and to consider some of the popular takes on what went wrong. We're taking a week off, but Beyond the Polls will be back after that to get an early start on assessing the road to...

On Tuesday, America voted in the midterm elections. Unless you live under a rock, you have probably heard much about what the results of the election might mean for our country, but there has been little coverage of what the results of the midterms might mean for education. What might a backlash against the Trump administration mean for plans to dismantle the Department of Education? What will a n...

On the morning after the Republican midterm wipeout, Erick pushes back on JD Vance's one-cause blame of the Iran war and asks when Pete Hegseth gets fired. He walks through the exit data on corruption, Trump's presidential library fundraising, the cruelty of the immigration process, tariffs and cost of living, and plays Ronald Reagan's 1974 choice, not an echo speech. His case: the GOP is recovera...

Erick shows how the Republican mid-decade redistricting push blew up in the party's face, from Indiana and South Carolina to Georgia and Texas, and how it drove record Black voter turnout that cost Republicans Senate seats in the South. He breaks into the show with a market freefall, the Dow down 1,600 points and the Nasdaq in correction on AI and data center fears, then makes the case that cruelt...

Erick says President Donald Trump oversold and underdelivered in his second term, and that broken promises on the Iran war, tariffs and the economy are why Republicans got wiped out in the midterm elections. He warns Trump may cut bad deals with Democrats for a legacy, defends the filibuster against the Save America Act argument, and blames House saboteurs like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Ma...

The Republican Party is facing a major WAKE-UP CALL after the 2026 midterm elections, and the battle over the GOP's future is already heating up! JD Vance's viral post about why Republicans lost voters has sparked a heated debate among conservatives, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warns the party could be facing an "extinction-level event." On today's episode of The Chicks on the Right, Mock...

Craig Coglianese is in for Greg Corombos, and Craig and Jim sigh relief that Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito isn't going anywhere, and Senate Republicans won't have to rush through a confirmation hearing in the lame duck session. Vice President JD Vance blames the war against Iran for the GOP wipeout in the midterms, which feels like only half the story. Meanwhile, Mississippi is still counting...

On this edition of Hayden's History Hour , Federalist Staff Editor Hayden Daniel discusses three Civil War battles that are each referred to as "the Gettysburg of the West": the Battle of Glorieta Pass in the far west, the Battle of Westport on the plains, and the Battle of Franklin in Tennessee. He explains how these lesser-known battles that happened away from the war's epicenter affected the Ci...

The Democratic Party just enjoyed its most successful midterm elections since 1974. Traditionally red states have flipped blue, which will carry lasting consequences for future presidential elections. The poll results reveal broad dissatisfaction among voters with Trump’s economy, governance, and corruption, and with the President himself. Join us to unpack the race outcomes, the reasons behind th...

The Trump administration has made a number of moves recently to try to curb widespread abuses in the “skilled” foreign-worker pipeline, including the H-1B and OPT programs. The Center for Immigration Studies is publishing several reports and a podcast on this subject by Senior Legal Fellow George Fishman, a 30-year veteran of immigration policymaking on Capitol Hill and the executive branch. Fishm...