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 Conservative talk is the last beacon of Free Speech in America. Here on AGR, we believe the Greatness of America comes from the Greatness within you! If you're not ready to give up on your country, then this is the podcast for you! Political Science Politics & Government
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  • America Isn’t Divided—The Media Is | Iran Poll, DHS Fight, and Supreme Court Fallout

    America Isn’t Divided—The Media Is | Iran Poll, DHS Fight, and Supreme Court Fallout
    May 4 2026
    Stay connected with us at americangroundradio.com, on Facebook, and Instagram. You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for May 1, 2026. We open with a number the media doesn't want you to focus on — 74% of Americans, including a majority of Democrats and independents, agree it is in America's national interest to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. That's according to a Harvard Harris poll, which leans left by about five points. We talk about what it means that three out of four Americans agree on a major national security issue in a country the media tells us is hopelessly divided, why the media's obsession with conflict distorts our understanding of where most Americans actually stand, and why the real division in this country isn't between the American people — it's between the American people and the people who claim to speak for them. In our Top 3 Thing You Need to Know, the 76-day Democrat shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is officially over — Republicans passed a funding bill over total Democrat obstruction, and Democrats got none of the changes they wanted. ICE and Border Patrol are fully funded. Then President Trump signed an executive order creating Trump IRAs — retirement savings accounts available to Americans who can't access them through their employers, with up to $1,000 in federal matching funds for those earning under $35,000 a year. A 25-year-old who invests $165 a month under the program could have $465,000 by retirement. And President Trump has pulled his second Surgeon General nominee and named Dr. Nicole Sapphire — a licensed radiologist and director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering — to the position, after the Senate refused to confirm a nominee who had never completed her medical residency and holds no state medical license. Our American Mamas Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burleson dig into divorce law and whether the system is biased against fathers — and the Kentucky data that is turning heads. After Kentucky made 50-50 shared custody the legal default in 2018, the state's divorce rate fell roughly 25% over the next several years. We talk about why that makes sense, why the financial and custody certainty of equal sharing may be causing couples to work harder to stay together, what firsthand experience with biased family courts looks like, and why loving your children more than you hate your ex is the only standard that actually protects them. We cover the rhetoric-to-violence pipeline — specifically the logical endpoint of eight to ten years of Democrats and media figures calling President Trump a fascist, a Hitler, a pedophile, a rapist, and an existential threat to democracy. We explain why you cannot spend a decade using that language and then stand at a podium after another assassination attempt saying there's no place for political violence. If you believe what you're saying, the violence is the logical conclusion. And that is exactly the problem. In our Digging Deep segment, we do a comprehensive state-by-state accounting of the redistricting war following the Supreme Court's ruling on racial gerrymandering — mapping out where Republicans and Democrats each stand to gain seats, which states are moving, which might move before this fall, and what the net effect could be on House control. We walk through Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, and a list of Southern states now emboldened by the Supreme Court decision — and on the Democrat side, California, Virginia, and Utah. When you add it all up, Republicans could be looking at a net gain of anywhere from 8 to 26 seats through redistricting alone — in a House currently separated by six seats. We explain who actually started this war — hint: it was Eric Holder and Mark Elias — and why the Supreme Court just changed the rules of the game. We also cover Representative Jamie Raskin's claim that the Supreme Court has been gerrymandered — and explain why that sentence has no meaning, why the Supreme Court is not a political body, what it's actually supposed to do, and what it tells you about where the left is right now that their best argument against a ruling they don't like is a word that doesn't apply. Then we play Fake News Friday — real news, fake news, or really fake news — including John Hinckley Jr. weighing in on the Washington Hilton, Seth Moulton's Nazi submarine comparison to Pete Hegseth, Kamala Harris calling the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps British Redcoats in front of King Charles, and whether President Trump is really considering renaming ICE to the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement so the media will be forced to call them NICE. We also address the UAE's warning that no Iranian arrangements on the Strait of Hormuz can be trusted — and talk about why the UAE may actually benefit from keeping the strait closed, since they have a pipeline ...
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    42 mins
  • Intersectionality vs. Need: Who Really Gets Housing

    Intersectionality vs. Need: Who Really Gets Housing
    May 1 2026
    Stay connected with us at americangroundradio.com, on Facebook, and Instagram. You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for April 30, 2026. We open with a media language lesson — because after 76 days of Democrats in the Senate shutting down the Department of Homeland Security, headlines across the country said the House finally ended the shutdown, as if Mike Johnson was the problem. We correct the record, explain exactly how budget reconciliation allowed Republicans to fund DHS, ICE, Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, Secret Service, and TSA without a single Democratic vote, and ask the question nobody in big media wanted to answer — what does it say about a political party that was willing to leave the Secret Service tip line unmonitored for 76 days, right up until someone walked into the White House Correspondents' Dinner with a shotgun? In our Top 3 Things You Need to Know, the Florida legislature passed a new redistricting map in a single day — passing the House on party lines and the Senate 21 to 17 — expected to flip four Democrat seats Republican and help Republicans hold the House this fall. Then first-time unemployment claims fell to 189,000 last week, the lowest level since 1969, and as a percentage of the workforce, an all-time record low — at a time when there are 143 million more people in the country than there were the last time numbers were this good. And Maine Governor Janet Mills dropped out of the Democrat Senate primary, leaving the party's nomination to go to political newcomer Graham Plattner — the candidate who made national news when it was revealed he has a literal Nazi tattoo on his chest that he claims he didn't know was a Nazi symbol. Our American Mamas Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burleson tackle the viral TikTok trend of men introducing their AI companions to their families as boyfriends or girlfriends — and why a supportive mom validating her son's relationship with a chatbot isn't love, it's enabling. We talk about why AI companions mirror and validate rather than challenge and grow you, why that's the opposite of what a real relationship does, why kids with imaginary friends are actually developing healthier coping skills, and why joy — not just happiness — is the standard we should be holding our lives to. We also play the clip of Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton on CNN saying Pete Hegseth is guilty of war crimes — and that Allied nations tried and executed Nazi submarine captains for doing the same thing. We call this what it is — rhetoric that gets people killed — and connect it directly to the pattern of political violence that has now produced at least four armed attempts on the president's life and 19 documented assassination plots, more than any president in American history. In our Digging Deep segment, the Free Beacon obtained through open records the actual rubric that Portland, Oregon uses to determine who gets homeless shelter services first — and it is not need-based. It is intersectionality-based. A woman who is a domestic violence survivor with a six-year-old child who has been homeless for over a year scores lower than a non-white, non-straight, non-English-speaking applicant with fewer boxes checked. In Maryland and Minnesota, race is the single biggest factor in determining whether someone gets housing benefits — more important than whether they are actually currently homeless. We connect this to the Supreme Court's racial redistricting decision this week and ask whether in the 250th year of this nation, we have figured out what all men are created equal actually means. We also cover the Comey indictment — specifically how Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche personally stepped in to pursue the case after Pam Bondi had shelved it. We explain why this isn't primarily about winning a conviction — it's about throwing cold water on an environment where coded threats against the president have become casual, normalized, and consequence-free. We also cover former Senator Ben Sasse — diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer in December, sleeping 15 hours a day from chemotherapy, and spending the time he has left giving interviews about whether he loved enough, whether he did what he was called to do, and whether any of us are living as if time actually runs out. For our Bright Spot, a Harvard Harris poll — not a right-leaning outlet — shows that 52% of Americans support U.S. military airstrikes on Iran, 54% say they were justified, 74% say the U.S. is winning, and 78% say Trump was right to agree to a temporary ceasefire. We talk about what these numbers mean for the midterm narrative that the Iran conflict is a political liability — and why you should never bet against the American people. We also address Tucker Carlson's claim that President Trump has contempt for normal Americans and doesn't care about Baltimore or rural America — and explain ...
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    42 mins
  • Two Landmark Rulings That Could Reshape American Elections Forever

    Two Landmark Rulings That Could Reshape American Elections Forever
    Apr 30 2026
    Stay connected with us at americangroundradio.com, on Facebook, and Instagram. You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for April 29, 2026. We open with a landmark day at the United States Supreme Court — two massive decisions that will reshape elections, redistricting, and the fight for life in America for decades to come. We dig deep into the Callais decision, which effectively ends the use of race as a primary basis for drawing congressional districts, overturning decades of lower court precedent that the majority says forced states to engage in the very racial discrimination the Constitution forbids. We walk through Justice Alito's majority opinion line by line, explain what Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act actually says versus how it has been misapplied, cover Justice Thomas's concurring opinion noting that redistricting was never in the Voting Rights Act to begin with, and ask the question Barack Obama apparently hasn't considered — if racial gerrymandering is the only way black candidates can win, how did you get elected president? We also cover the Supreme Court's ruling protecting crisis pregnancy centers in New Jersey from a politically motivated fishing expedition by the state's attorney general, who demanded 10 years of donor records from a clinic that had committed no crime — simply because it doesn't perform abortions and actively counsels women on alternatives. The Court said that's not an investigation. That's political retribution designed to silence free speech through fear of association. In our Top 3 Three Things You Need to Know, North Carolina has identified 34,000 dead people still on its voter rolls through a routine data cross-check — a number state officials say was far higher than expected. We talk about why this isn't unique to North Carolina, why 17 blue states are currently refusing to cooperate with federal voter roll verification efforts, and why every illegal vote cast in the name of a dead person is an act of voter suppression against a living one. Then the Supreme Court strikes down racial gerrymandering in a ruling that could eventually reshape dozens of congressional districts across the country. And the United Arab Emirates — the target of more than 2,800 Iranian missile and drone attacks in the past month — announced it is leaving OPEC, potentially beginning the unraveling of the entire organization that Iran helped found. Our American Mamas Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burleson tackle a question that applies to Apple, private schools, churches, and businesses of every kind — why do organizations so often decline or collapse after losing their founders? We talk about Steve Jobs and what happened to Apple in the 1990s without him, a private school in Arlington, Texas that had a waiting list and is now closing its doors after pushing out its visionary founder, and why jealousy among the people closest to the founder is almost always at the root of it. The lights of the party are gone. And it goes dark. We dig deep into the redistricting earthquake — walking through exactly what the Supreme Court's ruling means for Louisiana, which had been forced by a lower court to draw a 250-mile-long, two-mile-wide district linking black neighborhoods from Baton Rouge to Shreveport. Louisiana will have to redraw its maps for the third time since 2020. We also connect the ruling to Representative Cleo Fields' press conference response, correct the historical record about Louisiana's voting history, and point out the uncomfortable truth that it was the Democrat Party — not the Republican Party — that wrote and enforced the poll taxes, literacy tests, and property requirements that Fields invoked to condemn today's decision. We also cover the April Gallup survey showing that high cost of living remains the number one financial concern for Americans, with 55% saying their financial situation is worsening — and we put that in context against the continuing inflation baked in from Biden-era spending that is still working its way through the economy. For our Bright Spot, the U.S. Geological Survey has discovered 2.3 million metric tons of economically recoverable lithium in the Appalachian region — enough to manufacture 130 million electric vehicles, 180 billion laptops, or 500 billion cell phones, and enough to replace 328 years of lithium imports. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum calls it reclaiming America's mineral independence. We call it one of the most significant resource discoveries on American soil in a generation — even if most of it sits under blue states that have spent decades fighting mining. We also cover Rosie O'Donnell claiming the White House Correspondents' Dinner assassination attempt was staged — including apparently Butler, Pennsylvania — and respond accordingly. And we close with King Charles presenting President Trump with the bell of the HMS Trump, a British ...
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    42 mins
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