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Daily Show Notes · June 26, 2026 · Real News. Real Talk. Real America.

9:00  Are AI Chatbots Training Americans to Hate America?

Schools may not be the only place our children are being shaped. As the United States approaches its historic 250th anniversary, new research from the Media Research Center reports that popular artificial intelligence chatbots are being programmed to push a narrative hostile to America.

• MRC researchers tested the leading AI models to see how they view the milestone, and found a stark divide in how the technology shapes public perception.
• Anthropic's Claude AI cast doubt on celebrating the nation, echoing the controversial 1619 Project and claiming that gratitude is the wrong frame for the anniversary. The chatbot changed its stance only after researchers confronted it about its logical inconsistencies.
• Elon Musk's Grok AI stood alone with an unequivocal, pro America response, detailing how the American experiment has elevated global living standards and defeated totalitarianism.
• ChatGPT, the most widely used AI chatbot worldwide, landed somewhere in between, saying that many Americans do celebrate, although it is ultimately a personal choice.

Worst Media Quotes of the Week:

• Chuck Todd: The only reason people think Barack Obama was liberal is because he is black. Former NBC Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd to former CNN correspondent Chris Cillizza, on the So What with Chris Cillizza podcast on Substack, June 22.
• Robin Roberts to Barack Obama: framing the former president's center as the promise of democracy and asking how he deals with freedoms being taken under Trump. ABC Good Morning America co host Robin Roberts, June 17.
• Joy Reid: claiming nobody black she knows is excited about the Fourth of July. Former host Joy Reid on her podcast, June 19.

Panelist: Michael Morris, Director, MRC Free Speech America

Source: MRC Free Speech America

9:20  The View Says Nobody Wants Voter ID

On The View, Whoopi Goldberg dismissed the push to require identification at the polls, claiming the bill just does not have the votes and that nobody wants it. Now we know: The View is not a news program, it is a comedy show.

Panelist: Michael Morris, Director, MRC Free Speech America

Source: The Gateway Pundit

9:35  Monologue: A Reflection on U.S.

Jake's weekly monologue.

9:45  Iran's Revolutionary Guard Strikes Ship Leaving the Strait of Hormuz

• U.S. officials say Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind a drone strike Thursday on a cargo ship flying the Singapore flag as it left the Strait of Hormuz.
• The drone damaged the ship's bridge several miles off the coast of Oman, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center.
• The International Maritime Organization said it is temporarily pausing its vessel evacuation operation in the region following the attack.
• Will President Trump respond militarily to the IRGC violation of the ceasefire?
• How can anyone negotiate with so called Iranian moderates when the IRGC threat hangs over the talks in Switzerland?

Panelist: Paul Davis, Vice President, The Institute of World Politics

Sources: Fox News · Iran · Fox News Opinion · UKMTO via Fox News

10:00  Patriot Plea: A J6 Journey From Prison to a Run for Congress

January 6, 2021 remains a political battlefield. Caught in the crossfire was John Strand, a Hollywood actor turned civil rights advocate, who walked into the Capitol as a licensed security guard at a permitted rally and walked out branded an insurrectionist.

• The FBI placed him on a Most Wanted poster, and a SWAT team's battering ram shattered his front door.
• The media mocked him as MAGA Zoolander. The DOJ tried to crush him. Instead he became a symbol of defiance, now known as The Maverick Conservative.
• Patriot Plea was written in prison, the firsthand account of a political prisoner who paid the price for telling the truth.

Panelist: John Strand, author of Patriot Plea: The J6 Journey of a Political Prisoner in the Divided States of America and a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Florida's 19th District

10:20  The DSA, the Teachers Unions, and the Fight Over School Choice

• The DSA has made significant inroads with America's young people. Why is that?
• Both teachers unions have declared war on school choice to dissuade parents from sending their children to schools where they will not be exposed to indoctrination.
• The O'Keefe Media Group caught a Las Vegas middle school teacher breaking policy and pushing LGBTQ propaganda onto 11 year old children.

Panelist: Brian Jodice, National Press Secretary, American Federation for Children

Sources: The Gateway Pundit · federationforchildren.org

10:30  The Very Young and the Very Old: Guardianship and Conservatorship Reform

You have heard about child protective services. What about senior protective services? As attention grows around government accountability and family rights, the American Made Foundation is expanding its focus beyond child protective services to investigate adult guardianship, conservatorship, and protective services systems.

• After a year documenting complaints involving CPS, family courts, and parental rights, the organization says it has uncovered striking parallels with families navigating guardianship proceedings for elderly or vulnerable adults.
• Allegations from families who say loved ones have been isolated, financially exploited, or denied due process under court appointed guardianship.
• The role of the newly expanded United Law Coalition in examining constitutional rights, family rights, and government accountability.
• Growing calls for transparency, oversight, and reform in guardianship systems nationwide.

Panelist: Maureen Steele, cofounder of the American Made Foundation and coauthor of The CPS Pipeline: State Sanctioned Kidnapping

11:00  Election Integrity: From the Supreme Court to a Long Island Ballot Scandal

• What was your reaction to President Trump refusing to sign the housing bill until the Save America Act is placed on his desk? If he does not sign, the housing bill becomes law automatically in ten days anyway.
• ETI notes that Americans overwhelmingly support commonsense election safeguards, including proof of citizenship requirements and voter identification measures.
• Thomas Jefferson said, when the people fear the government there is tyranny, and when the government fears the people there is liberty.
• Voting cases are before the Supreme Court, with decisions expected soon. How important are they to election integrity?
• A little known election tampering case in Hempstead, Long Island is raising questions about the validity of school board races. New York State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa has ordered a new school board election in the Hempstead Union Free School District after an investigation found the district clerk destroyed ballots and removed them from her office to benefit incumbent board member Victor Pratt, who also performs locally as a DJ. The original election took place on May 19, and state officials overturned the results on Thursday.

Panelist: Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia Attorney General and National Chairman of The Election Transparency Initiative. Cuccinelli is a Senior Fellow for Homeland Security and Immigration at the Center for Renewing America and previously served as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under President Trump.

Source: The Gateway Pundit

11:20  A Colonial Assassin and the Plot to Kill Washington

Another work of historical fiction offers a unique view of the American Revolution. In 1776, the fate of the Revolution lies in the hands of an impoverished farm boy whose skills from his dark past are all that can stop a British assassin from killing George Washington.

• The Continental Army is on the run, suffering defeat after defeat, as the war pits neighbor against neighbor across the colonies.
• Jeb Wright, the son of smuggler parents, returns from exile in France hoping to reunite with his childhood sweetheart, Rebecca Bennett, only to find her betrothed to a mysterious British officer, Major Donovan Huxley.
• Huxley keeps a terrible secret, one that could doom Rebecca, Washington, and the Revolution.

Panelist: Dave Meek, author of Jeb Wright, Colonial Assassin, Book 1 of the Jeb Wright series and a former U.S. Navy Flight Officer · davemeekauthor.com

11:30  Countdown to 250: A Personal Reflection on Citizenship

Celebrating 250 years of American independence. This Friday, Dr. Sabrin shares a personal note: he received his citizenship papers on June 25, 1959, while studying the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in his junior high social studies class. He swore allegiance to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and says he has remained faithful to that oath, unlike many public officials from both parties.

• Dr. Sabrin's reaction to DSA candidates winning big in New York and heading to Capitol Hill in January.
• Why young Americans are being drawn to the allure of communism.

Panelist: Murray Sabrin, PhD, Mises Institute Associated Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Finance at Ramapo College of New Jersey

11:50  Salute the Troops

Expressing pride in our active servicemembers and our veterans.

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