The Ricochet Superfeed

On Election Day, Erick sees surprising Republican turnout in Georgia, Texas, Ohio and Florida, reads Henry Olsen's Washington Post warning of a GOP wipeout, and predicts Republicans lose the House but hold the Senate. He pleads with listeners to vote down ballot, argues pastors should stop telling Christians to vote for the lesser of two evils, and takes a Sacramento caller on Steve Hilton and whe...

On Election Day, Erick Erickson tracks Republican turnout in Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Florida and Nevada, blasts Vivek Ramaswamy and Roger Marshall for torching their own campaigns, and explains why Pete Buttigieg is catching heat for distancing himself from Abdul El-Sayed and Hassan Piker. He takes calls on single-payer health care, the 2028 fallout for J.D. Vance and Rubio, and why a third party ne...

On Election Day, Erick says the 58.7 million early votes (up from 45.9 million in 2022) make turnout the whole story, explains why rain helps Republicans in Florida, Louisiana and Texas, and warns that crying "stolen election" is a mistake. He covers DOJ and FBI target letters to 20 Democrats, including Marc Elias over the Mary Peltola ballot controversy in Alaska, and answers callers on why local...

Join Jim and Greg for the Tuesday 3 Martini Lunch as they react to Hillary Clinton and Kara Swisher's list of wacky midterm election conspiracy theories, major voting malfunctions in a key New York County, Tucker Carlson suggesting the U.S. and Israel will soon nuke Iran, and The View' s Ana Navarro's embarrasing campaign comment. First, they sigh as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and p...

Election Day is HERE, and the political drama is already heating up! From a newly released video involving a Trump accuser to Tucker Carlson's controversial Iran claims, Mock and Daisy are breaking down the biggest stories, wildest reactions, and most unbelievable moments making headlines. The Chicks kick things off by celebrating National Chicks on the Right Day and reminding Americans to GET OUT...

Guest: Kevin Slack Host Scot Bertram talks with Kevin Slack, associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College, about the tradition of American folktales, “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ,” and the brand-new online course, “ American Folktales: The Literature, Lore, and Legends of America .” To learn more about Hillsdale College, visit www.hillsdale.edu.

With Election Day less than 24 hours away, control of the House and Senate hangs in the balance. Historical midterm patterns, polling accuracy and recent election results offer reasons to question expectations of a Democratic takeover. Several key Senate races, controversial candidates and last-minute developments could influence the outcome. The results will also determine how much of President D...

On the eve of the midterms, Erick Erickson reports on the brutal early voting data that has Republican strategists panicking in Georgia, Texas, Iowa and even Florida, then explains why he still believes the polls overcount Democrats and why undecided voters break for the incumbent party. He urges frustrated Republicans to vote for Rick Jackson, Greg Abbott and other state-level candidates even if...

On the eve of the midterms, Erick Erickson breaks down the Alaska scandal in which Mary Peltola's campaign allegedly recruited a Democrat named Daniel J. Sullivan to run as a Republican against Senator Dan Sullivan, and why he thinks it could be election fraud. He argues that normal, non partisan voters are angry at the GOP over tariffs, the Iran war, diesel and fertilizer prices, and the cruelty...

On the final day before the midterm elections, Erick Erickson tells anxious Republicans that gridlock in Washington is good for the stock market, the states, and your rights, and explains why a divided Congress still faces Obamacare premium hikes, the national debt, and a lame duck Donald Trump who could reset his economic team. He also takes on Tucker Carlson's claim that Trump plans a nuclear st...

Join Jim and Greg for the Monday 3 Martini Lunch as they dig into former Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Haley Stevens endorsing GOP nominee Mike Rogers over DemocratAbdul El-Sayed, PBS & Politifact telling us it's totally normal not to know who won on Election Night, the left building momentum for making the Death Tax much worse, and a dead dog getting his voting rights restored in...

Y'all, Democrats have a LOT to say about Haley Stevens after her surprise endorsement of Mike Rogers, and the reactions are something ELSE! From James Carville's jaw-dropping comments to Stacey Abrams, Mehdi Hasan, and other Democrats weighing in, we're breaking down the political fallout, Trump's response, and Stevens' awkward Anderson Cooper interview. But that's just the beginning! We're also d...

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War , Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes. Release date: 30 October 2026

Israel has spent the three years since October 7th in direct conflict with its enemies. But in the aftermath of its mother-of-all elections, it now faces three big dilemmas. In this episode, Dan sits down with Ark Media contributor Tal Becker to examine the branching pathways that confront Israel, as conflicts continue to mount–both internal and external. Plus, is the information war the most cons...

The Chicks on the Right sit down with Bulwark Capital Management's Zach Abraham for his predictions ahead of the midterm elections, breaking down key races in Texas and Washington, the growing appeal of socialism among young voters, and what a potential Democratic sweep could mean for Wall Street. Plus, why political gridlock might actually be good for the stock market and why Washington's reckles...

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 Barack Obama downplaying Abdul El-Sayed's radical affiliations as him just wanting everyone to have health care, Jim's latest discoveries in the convoluted immigration story of Rep. Ilhan Omar, evidence Alaska Democrats deliberately sought to sow confusion am...

Socialism is gaining ground on the American left, but what do voters actually think about it? Emily Seidel, president and CEO of Americans for Prosperity and senior adviser to AFP Action, joins the Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey on this episode of “Midterm Report” to reveal what AFP has learned from conversations with roughly 10,000 Americans in competitive Senate states. Seidel says 56% of those survey...

Washington has a really bad habit of mistaking paperwork for progress. In some places, like the billion forms needed to get a driver's license, this is simply annoying. But in programs meant to help children and families, pencil pushing masquerading as actual work is dangerous. The federal government has produced thousands of pages of guidance and demand endless compliance reviews while still fail...

What is magic, and why does it keep returning in new disguises? For a special Halloween episode, host Ryan Shinkel is joined by essayist and novelist Tara Isabella Burton, author of Social Creature , Here in Avalon , Strange Rites , and Self-Made, to trace the Western esoteric tradition from the Renaissance to the present. Burton describes learned magic as the search for hidden correspondences bet...

John Yoo is back this week, but Lucretia is away for once, but in her place we have special giest Michael Stokes Paulson of the University of St. Thomas Law School in Minnesota, who is the author of, among many other significant legal articles, "Captain Kirk and the Enterprise of Constitutional Interpretation: Some Modest Proposals from the 23rd Century." It turned out to be very timely as we rece...

Steve and James embrace the Halloween mindset with a chat about a cast of characters who transcend space, time, and barriers of language and even reality. They brace themselves for the midterms, swap a couple scary movie suggestions, and offer a proper send-off to Sir Patrick Stewart. Andrew Roberts joins to discuss his latest biography, Napoleon and His Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal. Along...

Erick opens Open Line Friday with the state of play in the U.S. Senate, explaining why late undecided voters tend to break for the incumbent party and why he still thinks Republicans hold the Senate even as early voting in Georgia, Texas, and Kansas looks grim for the GOP. He breaks down the polling averages for James Talarico, Abdul El-Sayed, Mike Rogers, Roger Marshall, Ossoff, and Keisha Lance...

Erick explains why he will vote the whole Republican ballot but leave the Georgia Senate line blank over Mike Collins, takes pushback from caller Joy, and argues that Republicans cannot win the culture war while tariffs and diesel prices wreck the economy. He also covers the fake Dan Sullivan fallout in the Alaska Senate race, Chinese farmland purchases in Texas, Florida Amendment 3 on property ta...

Erick uses Open Line Friday to go after AI hiring tools, from the Workday class action lawsuit over alleged age and race discrimination to the New York Times report on Gen Z job seekers rejected by chatbots, and he calls on Congress to ban AI from vetting job applicants. He also takes caller Vince on the Workday rejection loop, then turns to the collapse of SAT vocabulary rigor, his son's classica...

Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn sits down with Curt Mills, executive director of the American Conservative, to examine the six-month-old Iran War. Mills lays out the conservative case against it and discusses Israel’s geopolitical position, noting that Netanyahu’s government likely pushed the U.S. toward war and that continued support for Israel could fracture Trump...