Election 2026: How the GOP Became a Dead End for Conservatives | 1/15/26

Trump’s presidency will fail unless he stops Antifa attacks on ICE, completes the deportation mission, and confronts judicial supremacy. I explain why time is running out. Trump is facing the defining test of his presidency. As Antifa violence directly targets ICE and federal agents, deportations grind to a halt — not just because of the streets, but because of the courts. I explain why half measures are the worst possible option. The administration has absorbed all the political costs of immigration enforcement, while achieving none of the results. From Antifa’s coordinated tactics to judges blocking executive authority, this isn’t just about immigration — it’s about whether elections still matter in America. Judicial supremacy is now overriding border enforcement, national security, and even the power of the presidency itself. If this continues, Trump’s term will end with all the liabilities and none of the benefits — and red-state America won’t be spared, either. Plus, I touch on why Trump’s health care plan also suffers from all the political liabilities with none of the policy benefits.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’s be honest: There are zero redeeming qualities to nearly every GOP candidate running — both incumbent and challenger. There’s a reason for that. I explain why we are languishing from an endless feedback loop in which the more Republicans fail to serve as an alternative to Democrats, the worse the country gets and the more they can exploit the desperation of GOP voters to support them. To drive home this point, I’m joined by former Mississippi state Senator Chris McDaniel. He ran for statewide office three times, including in 2014, when he was an inch away from unseating legendary Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.). He explains why conservatives have gone backward in primaries and how they have become a dead end for people who actually want to change the system with no other motivation. Chris represented the movement we had that could have bloomed into everything this current online Right movement claims to support, but that won’t even tune in to primaries to make the difference.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump delivered a major economic speech yesterday, in which he advocated for all the policies that created inflation, fake wealth, and the K-shaped economy to begin with. He wants endless near-zero interest rates and more juicing of the housing and stock-market bubbles. Also, everything he is doing is executive actions with no plan to codify them in Congress. Next, I explain how Bibi Netanyahu is pushing for a phaseout of aid to his country, while Trump shockingly opposes it. Our main discussion today is about letting the housing bubble deflate on its own. We’re joined by Melody Wright, a mortgage finance and housing policy expert, who explains how prices are already coming down. There will be a crash, but on balance, that is a good thing. The problem is that everything the government is doing will lead to price increases. Trump is also misdiagnosing the problem as one of interest rates and supply. In fact, developers have overbuilt in most parts of the country. Rather than treating the delayed symptom of corporate ownership, the time has come to treat the cause, which is government ownership of housing. Let the bubble pop! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The good news is that Trump is finally admitting data centers are sucking out energy. Now it’s time he realizes China is beating us with a much smarter approach that doesn’t require such investment. Next, we’re joined by Rebecca Bextel, a local conservative activist in Teton County, Wyoming, who has exposed the low-income housing program as a bigger scam and grift than the Somali food and day-care scandal. She explains how local housing authorities use unlimited federal funds to pay off wealthy private equity firms to build unnecessary Section 8 housing in beautiful parts of the country. They are often exempt from property tax and zoning laws, violate eligibility criteria, and line their pockets while dumping out-of-state criminals and drugs into “Ghettostone” slums in the middle of the heartland. This is happening all across the country.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump and Republicans are joining Democrats in governing as “aristo-populists.” In today’s action-packed show, I analyze Trump’s housing plan, desire to cap credit card rates, and spat with Jerome Powell over near-zero interest rates through the prism of aristo-populism vs. free-market populism. Aristo-populism is the antithesis of principled governance in that you are swayed by the monied interests at the top of the food chain of policy, sell political access, and then get swayed by perceived public opinion at the bottom to overcorrect. Whereas free-market populism — being for the people — means driving down the middle without any favorable treatment of any one class or industry. I explain exactly how the housing policy fits into the duplicitous dynamic of the arsonist as the firefighter. Also, Trump continues to endorse only candidates who will support data centers rather than those who will actually fight the elites. Finally, there is no better time for a truly independent party and movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have good news and bad news to share. In good news, RFK Jr.’s change to the vaccination schedule is the most transformational medical change we have seen in recent years. We’re joined by civil rights attorney Aaron Siri, author of “Vaccines, Amen,” for an in-depth analysis of which vaccines were taken off the guidelines and which ones remain. He explains how this policy breaks the dam of medical tyranny. Aaron advises that the next step should be removal guidance for all vaccines that fail to stop transmission while we continue to fight in the states to end all forms of mandates. In bad news, I begin the show with news about housing, welfare, and foreign policy, where Trump continues to treat symptoms executively while exacerbating the causes of those problems when it matters. Meanwhile, no substantial legislative changes are taking place.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin by addressing Trump’s order to ban corporate purchase of residential homes. While I agree with reversing this odious trend, we must not forget that it is a mere symptom of the broader problem of high prices created by government debt, Federal Reserve policies, and HUD policies. Trump is treating the symptom while supporting all the governmental policies that caused high prices. Next, we’re joined by Tim Estes, an AI entrepreneur, who passionately makes the case that our government is working with the wrong companies and the wrong strategy on perfecting AI. The AI path we are on is supplanting human dignity, unnaturally drawing investment away from more promising aspects of the technology, and will actually result in losing to China. Estes has an app he is developing to help parents harness technology to make the internet experience human-led and to combat all of the mental, cognitive, and social ills this technology has wrought in recent years.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where is the sense of urgency to solve the issues that matter now, not after the midterm elections? We delve into Trump’s asymmetric focus on foreign policy relative to the core bread-and-butter issues crushing the people, like health care. I warn about how Republicans are about to cut a bad deal on health care. Plus, Trump is moving to the left on federal abortion funding. He also agreed to surrender U.S. corporate tax sovereignty to the globalists. Next, we’re joined by Shannon Everett of American Truckers United, who blew the lid off the silent crisis of illegal alien and foreign drivers destroying the trucking industry. We discuss how illegal aliens now compose a massive percentage of truck drivers and an even greater percentage of trucking accidents and criminal activity. Despite some federal action, the government is still failing to end this problem. We discuss numerous action items at the state and federal levels that must be addressed quickly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin today with a discussion about how there is more than meets the eye in Venezuela, and it can’t be just about drugs and oil. Either way, Trump must do a better job focusing on systemic economic reforms. We must also promote more candidates who will follow the Florida model in red states. We’re joined by Kevin Freeman, the leader of the transactional gold movement, for an update on how transactional gold and silver accounts are needed to restore true economic justice. We tackle the issue from all angles, and he shows how the movement away from gold has led to so many ills: communism, globalism, Islamism, and social rot. Kevin debunks the globalist premise that deflation is a bad thing; in fact, deflation should be inevitable in a functioning economy. Finally Kevin teases the coming of more innovative ideas to restore economic justice in a free-market structure so that young voters don’t turn to dark forces in their despair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to 2026 — the year of the 250th anniversary. Today, I discuss the need to "meet the moment." That means that rather than focusing on the 2026 and 2028 general elections, Trump must utilize the power he currently has to deal with the challenges of our time on economy, security, and culture. He must open an economic future, stem the demographic tide, push long-term reforms that will be harder to undo, and then build red-state fortresses. I list a dozen action items for him to do as an outline of what we will be covering this year. Plus, I offer baseline thoughts on some of the news of the day, such as the capture of Maduro and the Somali welfare scam in Minnesota. Finally, I announce an exciting new way to correspond with the show: @danielhorowitz on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices