Rod Martin published a piece called "Trump's Top 25 Achievements: The List Every Conservative Should Know and Use," and his argument is that Republicans do not have a record problem, they have an information problem. The record is there. The voters have not heard it. Martin puts that squarely on us, writing that when you say Republicans need to do a better job telling this story, you are pointing at yourself, because you are the Republicans. This full hour goes through all 25 items in order: the border and public safety, the economy and taxes and energy, the fight over who actually runs the government, faith and family, and peace through strength. We are 50 days from Election Day, and the hour ends with a specific assignment.
Rod Martin joins Jenny Beth Martin for the full hour. He was on the startup team at PayPal with Peter Thiel, served as policy director to Governor Mike Huckabee, chairs the Institute for the American Future, and writes The Rod Martin Report.
Today's topics:
Why Rod Martin says Republicans have an information problem, and why he puts the blame on our own side
Item 1: illegal crossings at their lowest level in half a century, catch-and-release finished, Remain in Mexico back, and releases into the country down 99.9 percent
Item 2: negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least 50 years, nearly 3 million people gone, and the plane ticket program
Item 3: the Laken Riley Act, mandatory detention, and the provision that lets states sue federal officials who refuse to enforce it
Item 4: violent crime down 9.7 percent, the largest annual drop since the FBI began keeping national estimates in 1936
Item 5: the 2017 tax cuts made permanent and expanded, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and most taxes on Social Security benefits ended
Why every single Democrat voted no on making those cuts permanent, and what the alternative was
Item 6: 646 deregulatory actions against 5 regulatory actions in fiscal 2025, a ratio of 129 to 1
The repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, the crown jewel, and the $1.3 trillion Martin puts on it
Item 7: $18 trillion in announced investment commitments, and how much of it is steel in the ground today
Item 8: reshoring at Ford, Toyota, General Motors, Honda, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis
Item 9: tariffs as leverage, and the answer to the conservative who says a tariff is just a tax on Americans
Item 10: America outproducing Saudi Arabia and Russia combined, and the first year above 100 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas
Item 11: more than 40 years without a new privately developed non-light-water reactor, then 5 in one summer
Item 12: Trump v. Slaughter, decided 6 to 3, and the 1935 precedent that had insulated independent agencies from the voters
One President and 5,000 political appointees against 2.8 million bureaucrats, a ratio of 560 to 1
Item 13: Trump v. CASA, and what the map looks like now that nationwide injunctions are limited
Item 14: the United States Agency for International Development, its budget, and what happened after it closed
Item 15: the smallest federal workforce since 1966, and the 94 percent working from home before it
Item 16: ending racial and sex-based preferences across the executive branch
Item 17: life, from the Hyde Amendment enforced and the Mexico City Policy expanded to 23 pro-life activists pardoned
Item 18: the federal government recognizing 2 sexes again, and the 3 dozen health systems that ended those programs without a law
Item 19: the Education Freedom Tax Credit, the first nationwide school choice program in American history, plus Trump Accounts
Item 20: the White House Faith Office, the Religious Liberty Commission, and the task force on anti-Christian bias
Item 21: the alliance target raised from 2 percent of output to 5 percent by 2035, and how it was extracted
Item 22: Beijing at both ends of the Panama Canal, Panama out of Belt and Road, and what Martin calls the Donroe Doctrine
Item 23: 8 peace deals in 8 months across 4 continents, including conflicts that had run 40 years
Item 24: Golden Dome, and directed energy replacing an $11 million interceptor with $2 of electricity
Item 25: every active military component meeting or exceeding its 2025 recruiting goal
Your assignment for the next 50 days: sign up to watch the polls at helpatthepolls.com, then take a get out the vote shift
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