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Teachers' unions are bankrolling Democrat campaigns while black kids in Baltimore can't read. Administrator salaries keep climbing while test scores keep falling. Two centuries ago, America was the best-educated nation o

Hosted by Hayden Ludwig · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 167 episodes
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Teachers' unions are bankrolling Democrat campaigns while black kids in Baltimore can't read. Administrator salaries keep climbing while test scores keep falling. Two centuries ago, America was the best-educated nation o

Will America protect the right to life enshrined in the Declaration of Independence? Or will we fall to the Left's cult of death, and sacrifice our liberties along with our lives? That's the topic today with Victoria Cob

Global cooling. Overpopulation. Global warming. Climate change. The names keep changing—but the agenda never does. Too many humans have it too good, and elites are determined to stop them. Craig Rucker has spent four dec

Every ten years, America counts its people. Whoever controls that count controls Congress. Here's what most Americans don't know: non-citizens—including illegal aliens—are counted in the census. And that count determines

Fentanyl flooding our streets. Chinese nationals buying farmland next to 342 U.S. military bases. Manufacturing gutted. A biological weapon unleashed on the world. Beijing has been waging war on America for decades—witho

Most Americans first heard about Medicaid fraud when a YouTuber knocked on doors at "daycare centers" in Minnesota and found—nothing. No kids. No staff. Just addresses billing taxpayers millions of dollars. That was the

The Supreme Court returned abortion to the states. But mifepristone, the chemical abortion pill, doesn't respect state lines. It ships to any address in any state—including the ones that banned abortion—and the numbers a

Wisconsin hasn't had a Republican governor since Scott Walker. Six years later, the state is paying for it. Property taxes skyrocketing. Milwaukee's schools in financial collapse. A Democratic field racing toward sociali

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Kevin Mooney, senior investigative researcher for Restoration News on his new book, Climate Porn. Listen as we dive into the lies behind the climate grift, the collaps

For 40 years, big climate has manipulated the public into surrendering their freedoms and emptying their wallets in the belief we were saving the planet from ourselves. In reality, we were impoverishing our children whil

It's a lawsuit with the potential to end abortion pill trafficking as we know it. In this episode, Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Gabriella McIntyre unpacks the case.

Anti-ICE activists are storming churches and shutting down churches. The Trump administration is acting where Democrats won't—but what are the long-term ramifications to the Constitution? We're threading that needle and

Americans are fleeing Democrat-led states and moving to Republican-run states in unprecedented numbers. The cause: Economic policies that are stagnating blue states and supercharging red states. That's redrawing the poli

The state of gun rights has never been more perilous... or free. That's the conundrum of 2026. Decades of court battles have left Democrats more desperate to claw back our freedoms even as they've expanded Second Amendme

Is the climate movement facing extinction? Is "peak oil" a lie or our future? And who will dominate the 21st century? It's geopolitics and the end of Big Green today on Restoration Spotlight, with host Hayden Ludwig and

What happens when China loses access to 20 percent of its oil imports? Or when Cuba loses all of it? President Trump is moving lightning fast to isolate America's Communist rival and topple enemies, and Restoration News

Trump and Congressional Republicans pledged to deport violent illegal aliens from our communities in 2024. So far, they're making good on that pledge—and Restoration News Senior Investigative Researcher Victoria Manning

Democrats spent more than twenty years degrading the Armed Forces that keep our country safe. America's military is underprepared for the wars ahead because woke officers refocused it on Marxist priorities, from Critical

It was a truism that the number of abortions fell each year in America over the past thirty years. Now abortion is spiking to 15-year highs because of the explosion of the abortion pill... and women and babies alike are

It was a truism that the number of abortions fell each year in America over the past thirty years. Now abortion is spiking to 15-year highs because of the explosion of the abortion pill... and women and babies alike are
Tom Tiffany
Congressman · U.S. Congress
1 appearance on this show
Grover Norquist
ATR President · Americans for Tax Reform
1 appearance on this show
J.P. De Gance
Communio
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Megan Basham
culture reporter for the Daily Wire · The Daily Wire
1 appearance on this show
Hannah Faulkner
author, speaker
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Joe Rigney
President and Associate Professor · Bethlehem College and Seminary
1 appearance on this show
Karen Kingsbury
Best-Selling Author/Filmmaker
1 appearance on this show
Ned Ryun
American Majority
3 appearances on this show
Terry Schilling
President · American Principles Project
2 appearances on this show
Jason Miyares
Attorney General of Virginia · Commonwealth of Virginia
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Paul Kengor
Professor of Political Science at Grove City College · Institute for Faith & Freedom at Grove City College
1 appearance on this show
Todd Bensman
Media Commentator, Reporter and Fellow · The Center for Immigration Studies
1 appearance on this show
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