The Rush Lindell Show

The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling isn't the 6-3 landslide everyone's reporting on Thursday, July 9 — it's actually a 5-4 constitutional squeaker, and Rush and Reagan break down why that distinction changes everything. This episode covers Trump's Truth Social demand for Congress to act despite the legal contradiction baked into his own request, Kavanaugh's concurrence that dodged th...

On Tuesday, July 7, Graham Platner's Maine Senate campaign implodes overnight after a new sexual assault allegation from a former girlfriend sends Democratic leaders scrambling for cover. Rush and Reagan break down exactly how bad it is, why the party's outrage feels awfully convenient, and what happens next in a race that could decide control of the Senate. Topics covered: the allegation itself a...

Tuesday, June 30: The Supreme Court drops its ruling on Trump v. Barbara — the birthright citizenship case — on the final day of its term, and the legal arguments the government brought into that courtroom did not survive contact with the justices. Rush and Reagan walk through the government's failed attempt to redefine domicile within the 1898 Wong Kim Ark precedent, the two ruling paths the Cour...

Monday, June 29 — Trump launched a war that broke the Fed's rate-cut path, and now he's still demanding cheaper money. Rush and Reagan walk through Kevin Warsh's first FOMC meeting, where rates held at 3.5–3.75% and nine of eighteen officials flipped from projecting a cut to projecting a hike — a full reversal in three months. They trace the 4.2% CPI spike directly to the Strait of Hormuz oil disr...

Friday, June 26 — the Supreme Court is days away from ruling on birthright citizenship, and most of the media still hasn't caught up to what's actually at stake. Rush and Reagan break down Trump v. Barbara, the case Newsweek is already comparing to Dobbs in constitutional weight. They walk through the five words at the center of the 14th Amendment fight and why 128 years of settled law may not pro...

Thursday, June 25 — The Supreme Court just handed Republicans a redistricting weapon, and states are already using it. This episode breaks down the House majority fight that most political coverage is ignoring. Rush and Reagan walk through the 6-3 Alito ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, why Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama moved within days, and how the...

Wednesday, June 24 — the Senate map just moved against Republicans, and most of Washington is still looking the other way. Rush and Reagan break down the Cook Political Report's June 11 ratings shift that dropped Alaska and Ohio to toss-up and pushed North Carolina into Lean Democrat territory — and what it means for a party defending 23 of 35 seats. They walk through the structural math behind De...

Tuesday, June 23 — Trump signed a peace deal with Iran at the Palace of Versailles, and the loudest critics are conservatives. Rush and Reagan break down the 14-point US-Iran MOU: what the ceasefire actually says versus what the press release claims, and why the nuclear provisions look nearly identical to the Obama-era JCPOA Trump spent years attacking. They map the conservative media revolt — Fox...

Monday, June 22 — The Supreme Court is deciding who gets to be an American, and the administration is already acting like the answer is settled. This episode breaks down the Court's packed end-of-term sprint: the birthright citizenship case (Trump v. Barbara), the administration's contested "domicile" theory under the 14th Amendment, and why even a narrow ruling could rewrite 128 years of preceden...

Friday, June 19 — the President of the United States said "I love the inflation" on the same day CPI hit 4.2%, a three-year high, and Rush and Reagan are not letting it go quietly. This episode breaks down the May CPI print and what is actually driving the headline number versus core inflation. It traces the tariff-to-price pipeline — how retailers spent 2025 absorbing costs and are now passing th...

Thursday, June 18 — DHS Secretary Mullin said ICE would be at World Cup stadiums every day, then LA County Sheriff Luna put a no-enforcement commitment in writing. Nobody in the White House has explained that contradiction. This episode covers the full four-month policy arc from February to now: how a 96% strike authorization vote by UNITE HERE Local 11 extracted an unprecedented right to strike o...

Wednesday, June 17 — the Supreme Court is sitting on roughly 20 unissued opinions with no warning on timing and a hard deadline at the end of June. Rush and Reagan hand you the cheat sheet before the rulings land. They break down the birthright citizenship fight in Trump v. Barbara and why the nationwide injunction question buried inside it may matter more than the citizenship ruling itself. They...

Tuesday, June 16 — Georgia Republicans may be handing Jon Ossoff a Senate seat while they fight each other in prime time. Rush and Reagan are tracking live results from two high-stakes GOP runoffs: Burt Jones versus Rick Jackson for governor, and Mike Collins versus Derek Dooley for Senate. They break down what Trump's endorsement record actually means when the scoreboard is live, including a shar...

Monday, June 15 — the Supreme Court has 23 cases left to decide before summer recess, and the ones still on the table are the ones that actually reshape the country. Rush and Reagan break down what's coming: the birthright citizenship fight in Trump v. Barbara, which asks five justices to rewrite 128 years of precedent and affect 250,000 U.S.-born children annually. The trans athlete bans out of W...

Friday, June 12 — the U.S. is hosting the World Cup, and it's already turning people away at the door. Somalia's CAF Referee of the Year was denied entry at Miami after 11 hours of questioning. Iraq's star striker spent seven hours detained at O'Hare — while his team's photographer was sent home entirely. Iran's national team is sleeping in Tijuana and commuting across the border on game days. And...

Thursday, June 11: Republicans are defending 23 Senate seats in 2026, and the primaries they are running may already be deciding the outcome. Rush and Reagan work through the full toss-up map with one central argument — a primary vote is a general election bet, and candidate quality is the only variable that separates a survivable map from a lost majority. Georgia's June 16 runoff hands Jon Ossoff...

Wednesday, June 10 — the President of the United States walked into Madison Square Garden for an NBA Finals game and got booed through the national anthem. Rush and Reagan break down Trump's historic MSG appearance and what the crowd response actually signals, then turn to Zohran Mamdani — the democratic socialist who went from 1% in the polls to mayor of New York City — and ask the honest questio...

Tuesday, June 9 — Steve Hilton's election night confetti has dried, and the lead is gone. Rush and Reagan break down how California's jungle primary produced the exact result Republicans set themselves up for: years of anti-mail-ballot messaging suppressed GOP turnout by mail, Becerra overtook Hilton as those ballots were counted, and Trump called it stolen on Truth Social without a single piece o...

Monday, June 8 — The Supreme Court is in its final sprint, and the rulings coming before June 26 could fundamentally reshape the country. Rush and Reagan break down the two biggest cases on the docket: the transgender athlete bans, where oral argument signals point toward a likely majority to uphold the bans but the scope of the ruling may matter more than the outcome itself; and birthright citize...

Friday, June 5 — a sixth-generation Iowa farmer just became the first candidate to defeat a Trump-endorsed opponent in the entire 2026 midterm cycle, and the margin was 0.8 points. Rush and Reagan break down exactly what happened in Iowa's congressional primary: who Zach Lahn is beyond the MAHA branding, why incumbent Randy Feenstra's debate-skipping record may have cost him more than Trump's endo...

Thursday, June 4 — The Supreme Court is about to hand the White House a loss on birthright citizenship, and Rush argues conservatives should be glad it happened. Rush Lindell and Reagan break down Executive Order 14160, why every lower court blocked it, and what the April 1st oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara actually revealed about the administration's legally thin domicile theory. They walk thr...

Wednesday, June 3 — DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin went on national television and threatened to pull customs officers from JFK, LAX, and O'Hare, which would effectively shut down international travel at America's busiest airports. Rush and Reagan break down what triggered it: a Memorial Day standoff at Newark's Delaney Hall detention facility where local police never showed up. They build the con...

Tuesday, June 2 — Trump's endorsement record now stands at 118 and zero, and the Republican Party just watched a four-term Texas senator lose his own primary by 28 points. Rush and Reagan break down the 2026 primary season race by race: Thomas Massie out after 14 years, Bill Cassidy running pro-Trump ads while Trump funded ads to end his career, and John Cornyn gone in the most significant GOP Sen...