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Reading achievement remains stagnant in lower elementary

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – What’s troubling about this report is that these children were not in school during the closures of the pandemic period in 2020 and 2021, yet their academic struggles mirror those of older students who experienced those disruptions earlier in their elementary school careers. It’s almost as if these students are meeting lowered...

Mar 18, 202657 min

Nothing to see here: How politicians distract the public

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Politicians and public officials deflect attention from uncomfortable issues, urging people to believe there is “nothing to see.” From election controversies to protests, congressional debates, and bizarre government programs, these moments reveal how distraction, messaging, and political theater often replace accountability when embarrassing problems or contradictions come into...

Mar 16, 202657 min

How canvassing can help combat voter apathy effectively

Truth Be Told with Booker Scott – Frustrated voters see promises without results and politics without accountability. When turnout drops, power shifts and chaos follows. Real change begins with ordinary citizens taking action—registering neighbors, knocking on doors, volunteering at polls, and demanding leadership that legislates. Democracy moves when people show up and refuse to stay silent...

Mar 15, 202657 min

Cognitive Combat! The information war for the American mind

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – America and the West are facing a sustained information warfare campaign designed to demoralize populations, divide societies, and destabilize governments without ever firing a shot. From classrooms and corporate training programs… to media, social media algorithms, and entertainment, narratives are seeded, amplified, and repeated until...

Mar 13, 202657 min

Morals, ethics, and the trouble with societal interpretation

The Human Equation with Joe Pangaro – Morals and ethics shape how people judge right and wrong, yet individuals often interpret them differently based on culture, experience, and changing social norms. These differences influence institutions, relationships, and public debate. Understanding how personal morals and shared ethical standards interact helps explain growing social tension and the challenge of maintaining trust...

Mar 13, 2026

HHS sends letter: States may not remove children from parents over gender

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The letter follows troubling reports of states removing children when parents declined to support their child's self-identification as another sex. “Surely we can all agree: No state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents’ will,” Trump stated during his SOTU.

Mar 13, 202657 min

The radical shift in America’s biggest city: The Mamdani factor

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – The Democrats have sold out the greatest city on earth to the lowest bidder, and the consequences will be felt in skyrocketing crime, economic flight, and a loss of the American spirit that built the place. Just a week ago, two radicalized teens swearing allegiance to the terrorist group ISIS tried to detonate an IED in the city...

Mar 13, 202656 min

SCOTUS says NO to California schools hiding gender identity from parents

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Supreme Court has blocked California policy that prohibits school personnel from informing parents when students request changes to their gender identity at school. SCOTUS states that “The State argues that its policies advance a compelling interest in student safety and privacy. But those policies cut out the primary protectors of children’s best interests: their parents.”

Mar 12, 202657 min

How healthcare failures leave vulnerable people unheard

Truth Be Told with Booker Scott – Healthcare systems fail vulnerable people when silence replaces honesty and institutions avoid accountability. Families navigate unanswered questions, patients carry hidden wounds, and communities struggle to respond. Real healing begins locally through compassion, informed consent, faith communities, and neighbors who show up, speak truth, and restore dignity where large systems fall short...

Mar 10, 202657 min

A faithful journey through identity, loss, and healing

Truth Be Told with Booker Scott – A man who spent decades living as a woman begins a painful journey back to truth after rediscovering faith. His story moves through loss, family estrangement, and the lasting effects of transition, yet finds redemption in repentance and reconciliation. It becomes a powerful reminder that compassion, conviction, and grace can guide healing for families and communities alike...

Mar 8, 202657 min

Utah State school board member urges parents to flee public schools

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A Utah State School Board member urges parents to withdraw their children from public schools, citing dysfunction, ideological indoctrination, and declining academic performance. The discussion explores why the system continues to fail and argues that classical education, moral formation, and engaged parents offer a path toward restoring meaningful learning for future generations...

Mar 4, 202657 min

Sacrificial lambs exposed: A Liberal journalist’s warning on how gender ideology harms children

The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Gail Macrae, BSN, RN – A liberal investigative journalist joins Gail Macrae to expose how gender ideology infiltrates schools, media, and healthcare, reshaping childhood through Comprehensive Sexuality Education, secrecy policies, and medical affirmation. She urges parents to reclaim authority, demand transparency, and protect children from irreversible harm driven by ideology over...

Mar 3, 202658 min

Payback politics: Threats, lawsuits, and revenge agendas

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Political payback escalates as Susan Rice, Donald Trump, and state officials trade threats and legal battles. From transgender policies and abortion pill disputes to vaccine liability shields, retaliation increasingly drives public life. As revenge replaces reason, Americans watch a system where power, punishment, and politics collide at every level...

Mar 2, 2026

“The Primate Myth” of modeling human nature wrongly

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Jonathan Leaf challenges the habit of modeling human nature on chimpanzees, arguing that the comparison distorts how we understand war, obedience, language, and belonging. He proposes that humans resemble cooperative herd animals more than violent primates, reshaping debates about evolution, identity, and social behavior...

Feb 28, 202658 min

The State of the Union confirms the deep political divides shaping America

The Human Equation with Joe Pangaro – The visible refusal to participate in basic gestures of respect—especially toward ordinary Americans highlighted in the speech—marks a deeper shift. It suggests that political identity now overrides even the most traditionally unifying moments. The State of the Union remains a powerful institution, but its meaning is changing...

Feb 27, 202657 min

Fighting the ‘cultural wars’ with truth!

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Like the Rhode Island man who went into a youth hockey game and started shooting. Some outlets acted like this man’s identification as a woman was irrelevant and not even worth mentioning. Others focus so much on it that they exclude all other information. Our unwillingness to speak the truth about the entire LGBTQIA+ agenda is leading us to...

Feb 27, 202658 min

Mass formation madness: Propaganda, psych meds, and child indoctrination

The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Gail Macrae, BSN, RN – Drawing heavily from Dr. Mattias Desmet's The Psychology of Totalitarianism, they explore "mass formation" – a collective hypnosis fueled by isolation, anxiety, and fear that demands conformity and suppresses dissent. The conversation quickly connects mass formation to real-world harms: COVID-era fear leading to unquestioned...

Feb 25, 202658 min

Schools are the bedrock of racial discrimination and anti-American values

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Only 17% of black students met third-grade reading proficiency levels, with Native American students only reaching 17.6% and Pacific Islanders coming in lower at 16.7%. As for graduation rates, 79.4% of black students received high school diplomas, while only 73.7% of Latino students and 61.5% of Native American students graduated...

Feb 25, 202657 min

The hidden ties between Prince Andrew, Epstein, and the CCP

Dr. Li-Meng Yan w/ The Voice of Dr. Yan – China does not stumble into influence. It builds it through proxies, honey traps, and carefully placed partners. Wealthy firms and flashy projects provide cover. When scrutiny arrives, those same partners are discarded or repackaged. The result is a slow, quiet erosion of trust between allies and a steady gain of leverage for an authoritarian...

Feb 25, 202657 min

Billions spent, California crisis worsens! Obama calls out homelessness problem

The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – From sprawling encampments to families living in temporary shelters, the human toll is evident across major cities. Data from policy researchers shows that California remains home to a disproportionate share of the nation’s unhoused population, with family homelessness rising at concerning rates. Obama’s remarks underscore a growing frustration shared by Americans across the political...

Feb 24, 2026

Ripped away, drop by drop, you lose your rights

The Prism of America’s Education with Host Karen Schoen – Now ask yourself, who is controlling all of this information? No matter where you go, no matter what you listen to, whether it's an education, or in the mind of a transgender, Marxist, or Communist, all the messages are always the same. Trump, MAGA, Grassroots, you are at fault. You are a racist, Trump is a pedophile, and Trump is a racist...

Feb 23, 202656 min

Facts matter. The lie has many versions, the truth only one

Byrne Unscripted with Martha Byrne – In a world shaped by screens and shifting narratives, truth struggles against distortion and convenience. This commentary examines digital communication, fractured relationships, media influence, and the danger of curated realities, urging readers to seek facts, question assumptions, and reclaim accountability through honest conversation and independent thought in modern society today...

Feb 23, 202657 min

Black history is American history. No need for a separate month

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – President Donald Trump hosts a Black History Month reception honoring historic and modern Black American contributions while supporters praise his policies and outreach. The celebration revisits the origins of Black History Month, highlighting key leaders, political perspectives, and ongoing debates about history, recognition, and national unity in contemporary American discourse...

Feb 23, 202657 min

Seeking truth amid violence and cultural division

The Human Equation with Joe Pangaro – Amid rising national tension and public fear, this piece explores how societies confront violence without surrendering truth. It examines controversial claims, challenges ideological reflexes, and calls for evidence based inquiry, empathy, and intellectual courage as the foundation for preventing tragedy and strengthening civic trust through honest dialogue and shared responsibility...

Feb 22, 202658 min

The mental health industrial complex

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Mental health in America has become a sprawling industry that manages distress rather than curing it. Drawing on clinical experience and psychoanalysis, Eric Greene argues that social breakdown is recast as personal pathology, diagnoses multiply, and medication becomes permanent, leaving patients labeled, compliant, and rarely restored to wholeness...

Feb 21, 202657 min

Paying the price for our national lack of vision

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – I’m old enough to have seen the original Star Wars trilogy in theaters. In Return of the Jedi, the emperor tells Luke, You will pay the price for your lack of vision.” Sadly, the American people are paying the price for our lack of vision. The Trump administration recently reversed an Obama administration decision that had found certain “greenhouse gases” to be dangerous...

Feb 20, 202657 min

When good intentions go wrong: America’s mental health crisis and the lessons we failed to learn

The Human Equation with Joe Pangaro – America confronts the consequences of abandoned mental health reform after Willowbrook exposes institutional abuse. Compassionate intentions collide with political neglect, leaving homelessness, incarceration, and untreated illness in their wake. This piece examines how unfinished policy reshapes communities and challenges us to rebuild humane, accountable systems of care for lasting...

Feb 20, 202658 min

Christians concerts are making a comeback with people returning to their faith

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – Across America, a renewed Christian revival draws families, young believers, and communities back to faith through packed churches, soaring Christian concerts, and bold cultural confidence. Inspired by tragedy and conviction, believers reclaim spiritual identity, fueling record baptisms, vibrant worship, and a growing movement reshaping culture, music, and public life today...

Feb 20, 202657 min

The division narrative is a political weapon

The Tenpenny Files – Americans are told the nation stands on the edge of division, yet new survey data reveal unexpected agreement across major cultural and civic debates. Public opinion challenges institutional narratives on race, gender policy, and education, exposing a widening gap between media messaging and the country’s shared constitutional instincts today broadly...

Feb 19, 202657 min

When “collegial” became “clickbait Congress”

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – A classic film meets modern politics as the filibuster takes center stage in today’s congressional battles. From 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' to current debates over majority rule, media influence, and youth activism, this discussion examines power, persuasion, and constitutional principles shaping America’s future at home and abroad...

Feb 19, 202658 min

The war for our sons begins at home

The Tenpenny Files – Hope erodes not first in culture, but in the home. Carl Barrett confronts fatherlessness, distraction, and spiritual drift shaping Generation Z. Drawing from Deuteronomy and prison ministry experience, he calls parents back to intentional leadership, daily discipleship, and accountable faith. The choice is clear: surrender the next generation to confusion or reclaim them with conviction and obedience...

Feb 18, 202657 min

Epstein files expose Russian KGB blackmail Empire targeting Western elites

Trevor Loudon Reports – Ghislaine Maxwell carried forward this legacy, partnering with Epstein in a blackmail empire. The latest Epstein file releases, despite heavy redactions, point unmistakably in this direction. Epstein's own activities link back to Iran-Contra money flows and overlap with figures like Larry King from the Franklin Cover-Up scandal in Nebraska, showing a consistent pattern of...

Feb 17, 202657 min

Protecting our children from ideological trafficking

The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Gail Macrae, BSN, RN – The "trafficking" process involves isolating children from parents, "love-bombing" them with activist affirmation ("I'll be your new family"), trauma-bonding to the ideology, and recruiting peers—creating rapid social contagion. Smith contrasts the rarity of true intersex conditions (

Feb 17, 202658 min

George Floyd: How the summer of Love put a target on the uniform

Byrne Unscripted with Martha Byrne – A personal reflection on law enforcement before and after 2020, this piece explores how politics, media, and cultural unrest reshape public trust and justice. Through firsthand experience and real cases, it argues that officers become symbols rather than individuals, facing scrutiny, career destruction, and abandonment in a system driven more by narrative than truth...

Feb 17, 202658 min

If American Olympians don’t like America, they should stay overseas

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – American Olympians compete under the USA banner while publicly criticizing the country that supports them, raising questions about patriotism, timing, and responsibility. Conservatives argue the Olympic stage should unite the nation, not divide it, emphasizing national pride, gratitude, and respect for the freedoms and opportunities that representing America provides on the world stage...

Feb 15, 202657 min

Unhealing pain: Common central pain syndromes

Unity Without Compromise with Dr. Steven LaTulippe – Central pain syndromes blur the line between emotional and physical suffering, driving conditions like migraines, IBS, and fibromyalgia. Understanding how the brain processes pain empowers lasting healing. By identifying emotional trauma, rejecting false cures, and retraining the brain, chronic pain becomes reversible rather than something merely managed...

Feb 15, 202657 min

Raising patients instead of children

America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Psychologist Luanna Devenis challenges modern therapy’s drift from restraint to ideology, arguing that children are increasingly treated as patients rather than developing individuals. She critiques overmedication, anxious parenting, and the rush to medicalize uncertainty, urging families and clinicians to slow down and restore responsibility, structure, and patience...

Feb 14, 2026

Minneapolis: Mob mentality, manipulation, and malevolence

Unleashed! The Political News Hour with Mayor Deb – Tensions rise in Minneapolis as anti-ICE protests shift from peaceful dissent to mob-driven confrontation. Questions emerge about law, order, and manipulation in a sanctuary city gripped by political and cultural division. Through historical and biblical reflection, deeper forces behind chaos, conformity, and selective outrage come sharply into focus...

Feb 14, 2026

America at 250 – Gallup says Americans are losing hope

The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – More Americans say they feel pessimistic about where the country is headed. As the nation approaches its 250th birthday, a deeper question emerges: What story will define this milestone? Will it be the story told by pundits and poll numbers—a narrative of decline and division? Or will it be the story written by ordinary Americans who refuse to let cynicism win?

Feb 14, 202657 min

Hospitals groom kids into the gender cult

The Nurses Report with David, Nicole & Ashley – Nurses expose how hospitals and schools advance radical gender ideology at children’s expense. Parents face secrecy, coercion, and legal pressure as medical systems prioritize scripts over biology and consent. This warning calls families, clinicians, and lawmakers to demand transparency, protect children, and restore evidence based care now nationwide across America...

Feb 14, 2026

Student protests: Grassroots or teachers’ union?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Student protests across the country are portrayed as spontaneous youth activism, but evidence suggests a coordinated effort led by powerful unions and activist groups. Ties between the National Education Association and organized movements raise serious questions about political indoctrination in schools, parental consent, and whether classrooms are being used to advance radical...

Feb 13, 2026

NFL punts with a halftime show that fans the flames of moral decline

Unleashed! The Political News Hour with Bruce Robertson – No matter which team you were rooting for, I think most people were disappointed with what they saw during halftime. While some would argue that the halftime show featuring Puerto Rican rapper, Bad Bunny, was visually appealing, we couldn't help but notice that the show was 100% in Spanish without subtitles, a decision that excluded 78% of...

Feb 13, 202658 min

Meta accused of enabling child predators on Instagram and Facebook

The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – These lawsuits may mark a turning point in how society confronts the dark side of social media. When states step in, it signals that the damage is no longer hypothetical—it is measurable, documented, and unacceptable. The question now is whether this accountability will lead to real change, or whether it will become just another headline before the next...

Feb 13, 202657 min

How the Super Bowl reminds Americans what it takes to win

The Human Equation with Joe Pangaro – In a society that often feels fragmented, sports remain one of the few places where people of different backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences come together for a common cause. For a few hours, the divisions fade, and the focus shifts to teamwork, effort, and the pursuit of excellence. That unity is not just uplifting—it is instructive...

Feb 13, 202658 min

Redeeming justice in a broken culture

The Tenpenny Files – Justice has shifted from moral truth to ideological demand, leaving clarity buried beneath power and grievance. Dr. Christina Crenshaw exposes how justice detached from its theological roots reshapes culture, institutions, and identity. Through lived experience, history, and worldview, she reveals what happens when justice is demanded without truth to define it...

Feb 12, 202657 min

Hegseth pulls military out of ‘Woke Harvard’

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Hegseth’s move away from Harvard marks a significant turning point in closing the chapter of Wokeism in higher education as other universities also end the destructive ideology. “We are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothing further to do, into the future, with Harvard University,” the president said in...

Feb 12, 202657 min

Becoming MomStrong in an era of cultural indoctrination

The Tenpenny Files – Motherhood now demands courage in a culture that shapes children without consent. Heidi St. John reflects on education, authority, and the rising pressure placed on families as values shift and trust erodes. She calls parents to reclaim responsibility, confront institutional influence, and protect formative years before time and conviction quietly slip away...

Feb 11, 202658 min

Bad Bunny was a bad bunny while TPUSA stood on its own

After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – The Super Bowl sparks a cultural clash as two halftime performances draw sharp contrasts in style, values, and audience appeal. Bad Bunny delivers a provocative, mainstream spectacle, while Kid Rock headlines a family-oriented alternative backed by Turning Point USA. Viewers divide along cultural lines, fueling ongoing debate over entertainment, media influence, and modern American values...

Feb 11, 202657 min

When nurses cross ethical lines and call for harm

The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Melissa Schreibfeder, BSN, RN, BC-FMP – Nursing’s ethical foundation faces growing strain as viral videos show self-identified nurses promoting political hostility and even harm. Melissa and Ashley examine how radicalization, media distortion, and professional silence threaten public trust, patient safety, and the core duty to care without prejudice...

Feb 11, 2026

Why active participation boosts voter turnout and trust

Truth Be Told with Booker Scott – Political life feels exhausting as every moment becomes a battlefield. Trust in elections erodes while accusations replace answers. Real confidence grows when ordinary citizens step in as poll workers, volunteers, and neighbors. Participation, not outrage, strengthens democracy, restores accountability, and reminds Americans that showing up still matters...

Feb 10, 202657 min