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Can America still become one people? Noah Smith joins Lomez for an honest debate over immigration, assimilation, ethnogenesis, and the future of American identity. Sponsors: Patriot Mobile : Join the movement today. Go to PatriotMobile.com/PAT or call 972-PATRIOT. Use promo code PAT for a FREE MONTH of service. Real estate agents: Go to RealEstateAgentsITrust.com. That’s RealEstateAgentsITrust.com. BlazeTV: $40 off a BlazeTV+ annual subscription with code POLLWATCH40. ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checkout for 20% off. 00:00 — Noah Smith on Politics, Economics & “No Opinion” 01:34 — Noah Smith vs. the DSA Left 05:05 — Is America Fundamentally Good? 07:07 — Abundance Politics: What Does “Abundance for Americans” Mean? 10:44 — Who Could Lead the Democrats in 2028? 14:52 — Israel, Palestine & the Challenge of a Jewish Candidate 18:43 — Immigration and the Politics of Ethnic Conflict 25:39 — Irish and German Immigration: How Assimilation Happened 31:57 — Is Today’s Immigration Wave Historically Unprecedented? 35:38 — “Replenished Ethnicity”: Does Immigration Slow Assimilation? 43:23 — Immigration, Ethnic Majorities & Political Balkanization 47:35 — Can “American” Become a Shared Ethnicity? 55:31 — Would an Immigration Pause Help or Hurt Assimilation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America is being robbed blind, over half a trillion dollars a year, and the politicians in charge are either too weak or too complicit to act. We lay out the scale of the fraud, the scams, and the political corruption, and why Washington can't seem to stop it. Sponsors: ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checkout for 20% off. 00:00 — America's $500 Billion Fraud Problem 03:00 — Inside the $40 Million Medicaid Fraud Allegation 07:00 — Gavin Newsom's “Empire of Fraud” 11:00 — Why High-Profile Arrests Aren’t Enough 15:00 — The Politics Behind Medicare and Medicaid 19:00 — Can Washington Stop the Money? 23:00 — Reform, Collapse, or Opt Out? 27:00 — How AI Could Catch Fraud at Scale 31:00 — Blockchain, Transparency, and Fraud Bounties 35:00 — Why There’s No “Fix-It Room” in Washington 40:00 — The Talent Problem in Politics 45:00 — Public Service Without the Payoff 50:00 — Staying in the Fight Without Becoming a Martyr Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it about race, class, or something else entirely? We confront America's most uncomfortable immigration debate. 00:00 — The Bo French Tweet Sparks a Firestorm 03:20 — Why Indian Immigration Became a Flashpoint 07:45 — Indian American Success—and the Backlash 12:10 — H-1B Visas: Skilled Worker Pipeline or Wage Pressure? 17:30 — Immigration, Assimilation, and the Ellis Island Comparison 22:00 — Are Indian Americans Assimilating? 27:00 — Race, Class, and the “Indian Question” 32:20 — Homogeneity, Diversity, and American Identity 37:00 — Is Mass Immigration Changing American Culture? 42:20 — Indian Americans, Politics, and Blue-State Assimilation 47:30 — Grind Culture vs. the American Dream 53:00 — Vivek Ramaswamy and the Credential Arms Race 59:00 — Immigration Reform, H-1B Changes, and What Comes Next Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investigative reporter Brian Chau reveals who is bankrolling the “AI will kill everyone” panic and buying influence in Congress. Sponsors: ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checkout for 20% off. 00:00 – “AI Will Literally Kill Everyone” – Inside the Doomer Mindset 05:12 – The ‘AI God’ Theory: Recursive Self‑Improvement or Sci‑Fi Fantasy? 11:03 – Paperclip APOCALYPSE: How Doomers Think AI Turns Humans Into Office Supplies 16:44 – Reality Check: Superhuman at Math…But Still TERRIBLE at Writing 21:58 – Will AI Help Some Rando Build a Doomsday Bioweapon? 27:21 – State Bioweapons vs Lone Wolves: Who’s the REAL Threat? 33:09 – Inside Effective Altruism: From ‘Saving Africa’ to Saving Imaginary Future Billions 39:02 – When ‘Doing Good’ Means LYING: The Dark Logic of Effective Altruism 44:35 – Brian’s EA Conference Story: Intelligence, Narcissism, and Straight‑Up Deception 51:10 – The ‘Rogue AI’ HACKS Were STAGED? What Really Happened at OpenAI & Anthropic 57:48 – Hugging Face Incident: Cybersecurity Test or Manufactured AI Scare? 1:03:30 – Why AI Doomers Are Winning: Billions in PR, Media Plants, and DC Influence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bari Weiss and her 2018 New York Times article on the Intellectual Dark Web launched Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and the Weinstein brothers into the mainstream. Nearly a decade later, we dissect how that moment imploded into conspiracy rabbit holes, algorithm addiction, and the collapse of a would‑be heterodox revolution. Sponsors: ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checkout for 20% off. 0:00 – Bari Weiss, the NYT, & the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ 3:12 – Bari Weiss Predicts the Collapse 8:45 – From Free Speech Heroes to Cranks: The Fall of the IDW 14:20 – “Classical Liberal” Was Always Fake 19:05 – The Myth of Deplatforming Alex Jones & Milo 23:50 – How Peterson & the Weinsteins Went Off-Grid 29:30 – When Heterodoxy Became a Drug 34:10 – Charles Murray vs. the Weinsteins: Who Was Right All Along? 39:42 – Neocons Did It First (and Better) 45:15 – The Algorithm Fried Their Brains 51:00 – Was the IDW Just a Media Grift? 56:20 – NYT vs. IDW: Who Looks Sane Now? 1:01:40 – The IDW’s Kamikaze Mission Explained Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One year after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Right remains without a clear leader. Its coalition unity is shattered, and its leadership vacuum is only deepening. 0:00 – Charlie Kirk Assassination: One Year Later 3:12 – “Hinge Event” After 9/11: How Kirk’s Death Changed Everything 8:45 – Right-Wing Meltdown: Why the Coalition Shattered After Kirk 13:27 – Inside Charlie Kirk’s Power: Charisma, Humility & Raw Influence 18:50 – How Kirk Made Changing Your Mind a Superpower 23:39 – One Man, Massive Power: The Truth About Political Capital 29:05 – Can Anyone Replace Charlie Kirk? 34:42 – JD Vance: The Only Man Who Can Rebuild the MAGA Coalition? 41:03 – Candace Owens, Conspiracies & Cash: Monetizing Charlie’s Death 47:18 – Checked-Out Conservatives: Has Idealism on the Right Died? 53:02 – Real Voters or Just Clicks? The Mirage of Online Right-Wing Clout 59:40 – From Opposition to Power: Why the Right Can’t Figure Out Governing 1:06:11 – Scott Adams & Charlie Kirk: The Lost Architects of Trumpism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Col. Rob Maness was inside the Pentagon on 9/11. He provides an unfiltered, minute-by-minute account of the attack, the chaos, and the rescue efforts he witnessed firsthand. He connects that day to America's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Ukraine, and he makes the case that America is back to a "September 10" mindset today. 0:00:00 25 Years After 9/11: Are We Back to ‘September 10th’ America? 0:02:45 Inside the Pentagon on 9/11: Colonel Maness's Account 0:06:10 Nuclear War Game on 9/11: Coincidence or Something More? 0:10:35 “We Are Under Attack”: The Moment It Became Clear 0:15:20 Chaos at the Pentagon: Fire, Asbestos, and Triage in the Hallways 0:20:40 Who Really Did 9/11? Inside the Future Operations Group 0:25:05 Afghanistan vs. Iraq: Why One War Was Justified and the Other a ‘Bad Idea’ 0:30:30 We Won the War in 2005 — Then We Lost the Strategy 0:36:15 Patriot Act & FISA 702: How 9/11 Still Haunts American Freedom 0:42:00 Iran Since 1979: Ending a 50‑Year War with Blockades and ‘Economic Fury’ 0:48:10 Can America Outlast Iran’s Fanatics? Political Will vs. Religious Zeal 0:54:25 Ukraine, NATO, and Russia’s Red Line: Did the West Push Too Far? 1:00:10 Can Trump End Two Wars at Once? Predictions on Iran & Ukraine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From The Pendragon Cycle to the future of the GOP, Jeremy Boreing lays out a long-term strategy for rebuilding conservative culture. Sponsors: ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checkout for 20% off. 0:00 – The Fantasy Epic Owning Amazon Prime 3:15 – How Jeremy Boreing Beat Hollywood at Its Own Game 7:42 – Why Conservative Movies Keep Failing 12:30 – Will & Grace, Game of Thrones, and the Real Power of Story 18:05 – Rebuilding a 100‑Year Hollywood Machine from Scratch 23:40 – 300 Crew Members, 79 Shoot Days, and Everything Went Wrong 29:10 – Real Bulls, Real Blood: The Insane Pendragon Stunt Everyone Thinks Is Fake 34:25 – Why Conservative Money Won’t Build the Next Facebook or HBO 40:55 – Are Conservatives Doomed by a Failure of Imagination? 47:20 – Lady Ballers vs. Pendragon: Politics, Polemics, and Real Art 53:45 – Evangelicals: The GOP’s Most Powerful Bloc… and Its Weakest Link? 1:00:30 – Tucker Carlson, Israel, and the Coming Right‑Wing Realignment 1:08:10 – Can the Right Actually Build Institutions to Replace Hollywood? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the RNC convention landing in Dallas next week, the midterm math is starting to look ugly for Republicans. Rufo & Lomez ask the question nobody in the White House wants to answer: why is J.D. Vance the one holding the bag? ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RUFO at checkout for 20% off. 00:00:00 – JD Vance’s case for Republicans in the midterms 00:04:05 – Betting Markets FLIP: Why Democrats Are Favored to Win 00:08:30 – Is the GOP message on fraud and crime falling flat? 00:12:55 – How the Iran conflict is dragging down Republican support 00:17:40 – Is JD Vance Being Set Up to FAIL for 2028? 00:22:00 – SHOCK NUMBERS: 3 Million Fewer Illegal Immigrants 00:26:35 – Deportations, Cheaper Rent, More Jobs: Did Trump Actually Deliver? 00:31:20 – Do Trump’s tariffs actually help American workers? 00:35:55 – From Reagan to Trump: the right’s ideological transformation 00:40:35 – Obergefell, gay marriage, and the collapse of the religious right 00:45:10 – Has Trumpism Turned the Right Into a Nihilist Casino? 00:49:45 – Can the right hold together in the new media ecosystem? 00:54:25 – Final 2026 midterm predictions: House and Senate outlook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rutgers scientist Dr. Richard Ebright lays out, in forensic detail, how Anthony Fauci funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, buried the evidence, and orchestrated a fraudulent cover-up paper and why his 2025 pardon is quietly backdated to the exact year the violations began. 00:00 – Fauci’s Backdated Pardon 04:12 – Gain-of-Function Pause in 2014 08:35 – What Is EcoHealth Alliance? 12:49 – Why the U.S. Funded High-Risk Coronavirus Work in China 17:03 – Dick Cheney, NIAID, and the Shift to Biodefense & Bioweapons Research 21:44 – Evidence SARS‑CoV‑2 Came from a Wuhan Lab, Not a Wet Market 26:58 – DARPA, NIH Grants, and the ‘Blueprint’ for Engineering SARS‑CoV‑2 32:37 – Furin Cleavage Site: Statistical Case for a Lab-Engineered Virus 37:50 – Debunking the Wuhan Wet Market Zoonotic Origin Narrative 42:05 – Alleged Scientific Misconduct: Andersen, Garry, Rambaut, Holmes 47:21 – Fauci's “Big Ask” to Shape COVID Origin Science 53:09 – Indictments, David Morens, Peter Daszak, and Slow Fauci Accountability 58:26 – Dr. Ebright’s Personal Cost & Backlash from the Scientific Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three controversies collide: Meta's $17 billion settlement, the disturbing TikTok defense of Lindsay Clancy, and former Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino's explosive claim to Tucker Carlson that the Trump administration wants him dead. 0:00 – Happy Birthday Chris! 4:18 – Meta hit with $17 billion: is social media the new Big Tobacco? 9:02 – Are we medicalizing sin? The “addiction” label out of control 14:47 – Should we ban social media for kids under 16? 20:31 – Screen time, parenting, and the myth of “digital skills” 26:05 – Screens, video games, and raising kids in a digital world 32:12 – Fertility crisis, phones, and the future of the gene pool 38:40 – Lindsey Clancy, TikTok hysteria, and modern motherhood 45:55 – Postpartum psychosis, meds, and the ugly truth about modern moms 52:23 – Greg Bovino’s claim of 107 million illegal immigrants 58:41 – Immigration numbers: facts vs fantasy on the right 1:05:09 – Why getting mad at your phone isn’t real politics 1:11:56 – From online outrage to real power: can the right actually govern? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Freitas tackles federal power, abolishing agencies like the Department of Education, rebuilding assimilation, and why a 20‑year strategy of faith, marriage, and children beats the left’s revolution. 00:00:00 Nick Freitas on the Right Reorganizing 00:05:10 Blackpilled Conservatives & Demoralization Ops 00:10:45 Collapse of Trust: Institutions, COVID, Media Lies 00:16:30 “Woke Right,” Neocons & Leftist Debate Tactics 00:22:05 After Trump: What Holds the Right Together? 00:28:00 Libertarians vs National Conservatives on Power 00:33:40 Should the Right Seize Institutions or Scrap Them? 00:39:20 Hart‑Celler, Mass Immigration & American Identity 00:44:55 Cultural Homogeneity, Assimilation & Trust 00:50:30 Why Young Men Are Demoralized: Porn, Gaming, No Purpose 00:56:05 Masculinity vs Modern Feminism: How We Were Lied To 01:01:25 AOC, Frozen Eggs & the New Feminist Archetype 01:06:30 How the Right Actually Wins: Faith, Family, Children Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Arday's fraud, James Fishback's chaos campaign, and America's rollout of facial-recognition drones don't look related until you see them as three symptoms of the same collapse in institutional trust. 00:00 – American Psychosis & the Jason Arday Fraud Exposed 04:12 – Cambridge’s Racial Fairy Tale and Academic Plagiarism 09:35 – What “Epistemic Closure” Really Looks Like in Universities 15:02 – Digital Lynching, George Floyd Myths, and Media Manipulation 20:47 – Nathan Cofnas vs. Cambridge: Race, IQ, and Scapegoating 27:10 – Why Elite Academia Is Non‑Reformable from the Inside 33:28 – How to Defund Higher Ed: $150 Billion in Taxpayer Subsidies 39:55 – Spinning Off STEM and Letting Liberal Arts Sink or Swim 46:20 – GOP Civil War: Byron Donalds vs. Meme Candidate James Fishback 52:03 – The Rise and Limits of Online Right‑Wing Populism 57:41 – Goy Slop, School Lunches, and Real Economic Anxiety 1:03:18 – AI Data Centers, Job Panic, and Anti‑Tech Populism 1:09:44 – Flock Cameras, Drones, and the Coming Surveillance State Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Foreign policy expert Zineb Riboua explains how Third-Worldism became the Left’s new organizing ideology, why Israel became its obsession, how China and Iran fit into the picture, and what happens when anti-Western politics moves beyond the Left. 0:00:00 – What Is Third Worldism? Zineb Riboua Explains 0:01:19 – From Woke 1.0 to Third Worldism: The Left’s New Phase 0:03:50 – Reparations, Redistribution, and the New Left Coalition 0:07:20 – Why Third Worldism Attracts Elite White College Students 0:09:50 – Why Israel Became the Left’s Obsession 0:16:40 – China, Iran, and the Middle East: The Hidden Axis 0:21:10 – How Third Worldists Flipped U.S. Opinion on Israel 0:28:50 – Islam as Symbolic Politics in the New Left 0:39:05 – Third Worldism as the Next Stage After Woke 0:55:15 – Third Worldism on the Right: When Anti-Imperialism Goes MAGA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Paul Gottfried has spent decades watching the Left evolve. His conclusion is chilling: Wokeness may be more culturally powerful than American communism ever was. 0:00 – From New Left to Trump: Paul Gottfried’s Big Picture 1:23 – “Post‑Marxist Left”: Why Today’s Left Isn’t Marxist 4:18 – Marxism vs Wokeness: What Actually Changed? 7:21 – Why the Working Class Is Abandoning the Left 10:00 –Today’s “Socialists” Are Just Playing Communist 17:06 – Woke 2.0: What Comes After Peak Wokeness? 23:05 – Is Trumpism the Triumph of Paleoconservatism? 28:51 – Does Trump Have an Actual Ideology? 38:10 – Inside the Gen Z Right: Energy, Chaos, Potential 48:43 – How the Left Captured Every Major Institution Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices