Episodes

Surveillance cameras now watch nearly every street in America, and the man who tried to stop the first version of them says the country never had the debate. Jim Gilmore was Governor of Virginia when the legislature sent him a bill putting cameras on red lights. He vetoed it, and he wrote in the vet...

The socialism resolution on the House floor this week does two things at once, and Democrats only fought one of them. It condemns socialism, and it calls on Congress to pass the SAVE America Act — the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — which requires proof of citizenship to register and phot...

Two self-described socialists are now major-party nominees for the United States Senate, and the organization behind them says in writing that it wants the Senate abolished. Jenny Beth Martin spends most of this hour on big-government socialism with two men who have actually been on a ballot, and it...

The Mayflower Compact was signed the day before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, and it is the first agreement on governing between two groups of people in the history of the world that no monarch signed. Lawrence Reed calls it the most meaningful early benchmark in the American story, because every...

Voter identification went two different directions in the same week, in two states 900 miles apart. In Oklahoma, voters themselves wrote photo identification into the state constitution, which means no future legislature can take it back with a simple majority. In Ohio, a federal judge appointed by ...

There is a job board on the internet built for illegal aliens, and one of the listings on it recruits campaign door knockers to get out the vote for Democrats. It pays 25 to 40 dollars an hour. It says people with a criminal record are encouraged to apply. Victoria Manning of Restoration News found ...

Foreign money in American elections is legal in one place almost nobody watches, and Jason Snead's team found it. Federal law has banned foreign nationals from giving to candidates and political action committees for decades. It says nothing about ballot measures, which are treated as part of a stat...

South Carolina's Senate runoff is decided tomorrow, and fewer than 400,000 Republicans will likely make the choice. Jenny Beth Martin opens on the two names on that ballot: Congressman Ralph Norman, who told the Senate to hold a talking filibuster on the SAVE America Act, the Safeguard American Vote...

The Ninth Amendment is the one the Supreme Court almost never uses, and constitutional scholar Bill Norton says that is because we have been reading it wrong since the day it was written. In this bonus conversation with Jenny Beth Martin, Norton walks through the amendment scholars now call forgotte...