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9:06

Show Open:

• Trump tout’s affordability while inflation rages across America on everything from food to furniture to cars! (NY Post/ Taylor Herzlich, Business Reporter at New York Post)
  • With a social-media post that said “STOP LYIN” about there being an affordability crisis, President Trump claims he’s whipped inflation.
  • Republicans say “prices” Dem-Com’s say “Costs.”
    • But consumers are still feeling the squeeze.
    • Target’s prices are up 5.5% nationwide this year and Walmart’s are up 5.3%, according to an analysis by DataWeave, which looked at roughly 16,000 items across each retailer’s website.
    • Amazon’s price hikes have averaged more than 12%, according to a report.
    • After seven months under Trump’s tariffs, Americans are paying more for nearly everything — from a cup of joe and plush living room sofas to children’s toys.
    • But certain groceries, particularly meat, are still up for various reasons. Bananas are up 8.6%, mostly because of tariffs, as almost none are produced domestically. Chicken and eggs have fluctuated because of bird flu.
    • Beef is up across the board — up more than 19% for steak, and 14% for ground beef. Ranchers blame smaller herds because of drought. They are also helped by tariffs on foreign beef, and Trump says he’s considering consumer relief by boosting Argentinian imports.
    • “Putting Joe Biden’s inflation crisis firmly behind us has been a Day One priority for President Trump,” White House spokesman Kush Desai told The Post in a Thursday statement.
    • “Americans are paying less for essentials like gas and eggs, and today the Administration inked yet another drug pricing deal to deliver unprecedented healthcare savings for everyday Americans.”
    • CPI for food stands at 3.1% (double-digit under Biden)

Panelist: 

DIAL Producers and Callers

9:20

Segment Topic:

Though the Trump Administration has done a lot to dismantle the green energy apparatus, there is a new backdoor threat coming through the courts.

• • • • In his latest op-ed at RealClearEnergy, energy expert and Power the Future spokesman Larry Behrensexposes how “environmental activists and their trial lawyer allies are attempting to do in the U.S. what the U.N. could not: force a carbon tax on working families.”
      • Larry argues that carbon tax proponents won’t make their case before Congress because they know Americans have rejected the idea — according to one poll, more than half 55% say they are unwilling to pay even $1 more per month on their energy bills for climate action.  (Power the Future/Larry Behrens)

Instead, activists and supporters are hoping for sympathetic judges to help pass on a tax to working families. And they’re counting on the public not to notice before it’s too late.

Panelist:

Larry Behrens, Communications Director at Power The Future, a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs

9:35

Monologue:

“For which it stands”

10:08

Segment Topic:

• If you stand for election integrity, could that mean that you will be targeted by the FBI?
• We now know factually that former Attorney General Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, and Christopher Wray and other FBI Executives approved the opening of Operation Arctic Frost.
  • Heritage Foundation created: “Oversight Project.”
  • Arctic Frost was not an investigation. It was an atrocity disguised as law. It was the deliberate choice of powerful men and women to weaponize the instruments of justice against political opponents. It was the perversion of law enforcement into a machinery of fear. Those who conceived it, approved it, and carried it out are not public servants. They are perpetrators. The Americans who suffered under its grip are victims, and they deserve justice, compassion, and national repentance. (Roger Stone)
  • Arctic Frost was not law enforcement. Arctic Frost was political persecution. The United States Department of Justice under the Biden administration and its obedient enforcers within the Federal Bureau of Investigation transformed investigative power into political warfare. They spied on eight Republican senators including Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Lummis, and Marsha Blackburn under the false pretense of national security. According to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the government admits it accessed their tolling data, who they called, when they called, and for how long. It was a monstrous violation of privacy and a direct assault on the separation of powers. No warrants justified it, no legitimate predicate supported it, and no moral conscience could defend it. It was tyranny in its rawest form, the same kind of state sponsored repression that history will forever associate with totalitarian regimes.
  • Newly released FBI records have exposed the staggering scope of this political dragnet. One hundred ninety-seven subpoenas were issued in the Arctic Frost operation, targeting more than four hundred thirty individuals and organizations, including approximately one hundred sixty Republicans, of whom forty five were close allies of Donald J. Trump and about one hundred eleven were alternate electors, campaign staff, and state legislators. Among the entities swept up were Turning Point USA led by Charlie Kirk, the Republican National Committee, and the Republican Attorneys General Association. Investigators even sought phone records from Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and senior aides. These subpoenas primarily sought call metadata, not content, for the critical period from January four through January seven, two thousand twenty-one, surrounding the events of January six. The information was drawn from FBI files released by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa in October two thousand twenty five, corroborated by whistleblower disclosures and internal DOJ documents as detailed in Grassley’s oversight release.
  • Nearly one hundred Republican linked groups and private individuals were also targeted in the same operation. Activists, nonprofit directors, faith-based leaders, and private citizens were swept into an Orwellian dragnet simply because of their associations and beliefs. The data collected on them was stored, indexed, and shared internally within the Justice Department. Their names were marked as subjects of interest in a campaign designed to freeze opposition to the ruling party. This was not oversight. This was oppression.

Among the high-profile individuals targeted in this campaign of intimidation and lawfare were Michael T. Flynn, Jeff Clark, Peter Navarro, Rudy Giuliani, and Leah Hoopes. These patriots stood with President Trump’s cause when many recoiled. They carried the torch of resistance when others cowered. So, the regime came for them. The regime also came for the organizations aligned with Trump’s campaign and political movement, as well as trusted media outlets including CBS News, Fox News, and Newsmax. None of these entities were safe. None of their advocates spared. The message was clear that dissent will be crushed.

Panelists

Commander Gregory Stenstrom, Co-Founder of Patriot.Online, Pennsylvania Election Integrity Investigator

Lea Hoops, Pennsylvania Election Integrity Investigator

10:33

Segment Topic: 

• Whether it is fentanyl, COVID or organ harvesting: The CCP is genocidal.
• 200,000 Americans killed by fentanyl overdoses over the past three years:
• 7 million deaths from COVID
  • Investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann estimated that approximately 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners were killed for their organs between 2000 and 2008. More recent estimates suggest tens of thousands of individuals, including Uyghurs, may be killed for their organs each year.
  • UNC School of Medicine (Center for Bio-
  • ethics) reports that: As of today, China claims to perform at least the second- highest number of annual transplants.
  • The number of human organs available for
  • medical transplantation has been augmented by the practice of forcibly harvesting organs without free, voluntary consent from people incarcerated in China’s
  • prison system, principally political and religious dissidents. 
  • Medical and human rights organizations in other countries have decried this state practice as a violation of
  • basic human rights, and have criticized the Chinese state and transplant community for abandoning the medical profession’s core ethical commitments in their decision to use execution as a means to organ “donation.”
    • During last week’s trade negotiations, China’s genocide was not mentioned, even though Trump had leverage to use against China.
    • Make America Fentanyl Free’ campaign was established to help President Trump lower overdose deaths!
    • Fentanyl is the leading cause of deaths among Americans ages 18 and 45!
    • Tariffs slapped on China for fentanyl, do NOT have any performance standards attached to it.

Panelist:

Joshua Philipp, Senior Investigative Reporter with The Epoch Times and host of Crossroads.

Jaclyn Stapp, Board Member: Make America Fentanyl Free

11:05

Segment Topic:

• It has been three days since Tuesday’s election. Has your opinion changed on why we saw the outcome?
  • The Democrats appear to have been emboldened by Tuesday’s results; even crowing about the 2026 midterms. A bit premature perhaps?
  • David, you have been outspoken about the cost of everything being a problem for Trump and the Republicans, this morning’s NY Post:
  • Trump tout’s affordability while inflation rages across America on everything from food to furniture to cars. The CPI is around 3% and yet, those prices driven higher by Biden are never coming down (with the exception of commodities).
  • Will this be THE issue for the 2026 midterms?
• Rob Carson, what are your callers saying about Tuesday’s results?
  • The Democrat’s refusal to reopen the government has seriously impacted our air transportation system. If the American public is taking these delays and cancellations in-stride, does that not embolden those who keep the government closed and insist on continuing the Obamacare subsidies?
• Michael, in your book: Reviving Our Republic: 95 Theses for the Future of America, those results did not reflect the views of an electorate concerned of losing 250 years of liberty.
  • Doesn’t the shutdown reflect that Congress is BROKEN? How do you fix it if California is going to send 5 more communists to Capitol Hill?

Michael Bedenbaugh, tell us about your Project 2026 initiative.

Panelist:

David Zere, Host: Breaking Point, Real America’s Voice News

Michael Bedenbaugh, author of Reviving Our Republic

Rob Carson, Host: The Rob Carson Show

11:33

Segment Topic:

• Chris, the Democrats have used the shutdown the further destabilize America. As of this week, it isn’t illegal immigrants sleeping at airports, it is air travelers and Chuck Schumer does not seem to care.
  • Did the Democrats assume that Latino’s who came to the U.S. from Latin-American countries would be comfortable living under the same socialist-Marxist systems from their home countries? They have been trying for over 30 years to transform this country into the United Socialist States of America.  Did they miscalculate Latino’s search for freedom and liberty?
• President Trump received a record number of Latino votes last year. Why?
• Are you concerned that California’s gerrymandering will send more Latino, Democrat Communists to Capitol Hill in 2027?

Panelist:

Chris Salcedo, Host: Chris Salcedo Show (5PM/ET) on Newsmax, Author: The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino (available December 9^th)

The host of the Chris Salcedo Radio Show heard on AM 700 KSEV, Houston and on 820 AM WBAP in Dallas/Fort Worth and he also hosts “The Salcedo Storm Podcast.”

No one in media uses the term LEFTIST more than Chris!

For decades, leftists in the media and in the Democrat Party have tried to sell a simple equation: to be Latino is to be liberal. They’ve claimed that any resistance to their radical, anti-American agenda—whether it’s open borders, defunding the police, or socialist economic policies—is racist. But that narrative was never true, and millions of Latinos are proving it wrong every day.

The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino tells the story mainstream media refuses to cover: how a growing number of Hispanic Americans are standing up for faith, family, freedom, and the Constitution. This movement isn’t theoretical. It’s political, cultural, and spiritual—and it helped re-elect President Donald J. Trump in 2024.

Latinos are done being told what to think. They’re thinking for themselves—and voting like it.

11:50 Salute the Troops

US Army, PFC, Miguel A. Villalon

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