The Rush Lindell Show

Two conservative voices, one mission, completely different playbooks. One host brings the fire and volume, the other counters with razor-sharp wit and a perfectly timed eyebrow raise. Together they tackle the week's political chaos, media nonsense, and culture war casualties with opinions that actually mean something—and they're not afraid to call each other out in the process. If you want political commentary with real conviction and zero corporate polish, you've found your show.

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Today · 17 min
Tuesday: Trump Called Off the Same Iran Strike Twice
Rush and Reagan track Trump's whiplash on Iran — calling off history's biggest planned strike twice in a week, then branding Tehran "unbelievably duplicitous" — while Iran insists it's only talking to Oman about Hormuz, not Washington. In this episode, we cover Lead Story / Iran War, Economy / Energy, Accountability / Analysis, and more. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
Thursday · 16 min
Thursday: Alex Jones Wants Trump Impeached Now
On Thursday, July 30, Alex Jones did the unthinkable and called for Trump's impeachment over the Iran war, and Rush Lindell and Reagan aren't letting the moment pass quietly. They pick apart whether the war powers argument holds up even as they question the messenger delivering it. This episode covers a lot of ground fast. Oil crossing $100 a barrel and Leavitt's unanswered draft comment get separated fact from fear. The actual congressional vote counts, a 214-208 House win and a failed 47-49 Senate resolution, expose defectors nobody's tracking yet. Rush's satirical mock floor speech on Article I lands some laughs before Reagan pulls things back to the human cost: American troops killed in Jordan, strikes on Aqaba, and a war Congress never actually debated. They close with three concrete things to watch heading into the midterms, plus predictions listeners can hold them to. Tune in tomorrow to see who's right. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
July 28 · 14 min
Tuesday: $100 Oil, Split Votes, One Bad Prediction
On Tuesday, July 28, Rush and Reagan tackle a hard truth: Congress just voted twice on Iran war powers, and neither vote actually stops Trump from waging war. With three American troops dead in Jordan and a fourth in Iraq, the hosts dig into why a nonbinding resolution and a failed binding one both amount to Congress talking tough while ceding real authority. This episode covers a lot of ground. Rush and Reagan grade their own prior predictions on the ceasefire collapse, owning what they got wrong. They trace triple-digit oil prices and near-four-dollar gas straight back to the widening war, separating panic-driven spikes from real structural risk. They break down which Republicans are crossing party lines and why, including Trump's blunt insult toward defectors. And Reagan walks through the legal distinction between concurrent and joint resolutions that explains why Congress's votes are more symbolic than binding. Expect sharp disagreement, a few laughs at Trump's Truth Social threats, and a serious look at collapsing GOP support as prices climb and questions swirl around Hegseth. Next episode: watch for that new benchmark both hosts committed to on the record. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
July 23 · 15 min
Thursday: Trump's Iran 'Peace Deal' Is a 12-Night War
Rush opens fired up over CENTCOM's twelfth straight night of strikes on Iran, framing it as a war dressed up as diplomacy, until Reagan corrects the record on how many separate waves of strikes there have actually been. In this episode, we cover Lead Story / Iran War, Callback / Accountability, Defense Spending / War Economics, and more. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
July 21 · 16 min
Tuesday: Trump's Iran Deal Is Dead, Who Called It?
The Iran MOU is dead, and on Tuesday, July 21, Rush Lindell and Reagan tear apart exactly how it collapsed. Trump killed the deal himself at the NATO summit, and within weeks his rhetoric flipped from praise to calling Iran's leaders "scum." This episode covers the full timeline from tanker attacks to CENTCOM's 80-plus target strikes and Tehran's defiant response from Ghalibaf. Rush and Reagan break down oil's 6% spike, CFR's read on why prices still sit below prior war highs, and shipping data showing Hormuz is rattled but not shut. They also revisit their own MOU predictions with blunt self-criticism, dig into Max Boot's limited-war thesis, and expose the overlooked detail that the deal only guaranteed 60 days of toll-free shipping. A parody Yelp review of Iran's Foreign Ministry keeps things sharp before the final verdict: gas prices, not diplomacy, may decide what happens next heading into midterms. Who called it right? Listen and decide, then tell us where you land before the next episode drops. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
July 16 · 15 min
Thursday: Dems Grab the House, But Can the Firewall Hold?
Thursday, July 16: DDHQ's new 2026 midterm forecast has Democrats favored to retake the House while the Senate sits at a knife's-edge 50-50, with JD Vance as the tiebreaker "asterisk man." Rush and Reagan dig into what that 57% probability actually means before anyone calls it a done deal. From there, the show turns structural: mid-decade redistricting quietly padded the GOP's House position by roughly five seats, a shift Rush calls the party's "insurance policy" and Reagan insists gets separated from any Trump approval bump. The Senate breakdown maps all eight DDHQ-flagged races into Rush's "Firewall" thesis, stress-tested against North Carolina, Alaska, and Texas, where even a clean sweep leaves Democrats one seat short. A satirical DNC war-room bit gets deflated fast, and a look at Trump's climbing approval versus a shrinking generic-ballot cushion sets up both hosts' predictions, with a Lear Capital read in between. Rush stakes a number on the Senate map. Reagan reminds him a hundred-plus days is a long time. Tune in next episode as the Firewall thread gets tracked again, and weigh in with your own call on the eight races in play. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
July 9 · 14 min
Thursday: SCOTUS Passed the Buck, GOP Has No Plan
The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling isn't the 6-3 landslide everyone's reporting on Thursday, July 9 — it's actually a 5-4 constitutional squeaker, and Rush and Reagan break down why that distinction changes everything. This episode covers Trump's Truth Social demand for Congress to act despite the legal contradiction baked into his own request, Kavanaugh's concurrence that dodged the Fourteenth Amendment entirely, Stephen Miller's apocalyptic "knife wound" rhetoric versus what federal law may already handle, and the GOP's three-way strategy collapse between Rand Paul's state-by-state amendment push, the Lee-DeSantis-Johnson caucus, and competing statutory bills from Cotton and Cornyn. Listeners get a clear-eyed look at why none of these Republican plans solve the actual vote math, plus a satirical imagining of what happens when you put all these competing GOP factions in one room. The hosts close by weighing this ruling against Trump's other major losses this term, making the case that the real fight just moved from the Court to a gridlocked Congress ahead of the midterms. Next episode: what happens when the amendment caucus and the statute crowd actually sit down together. Got a theory on how this plays out? Send it our way. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
July 7 · 14 min
Tuesday: Platner's Collapse Just Saved the GOP Firewall
On Tuesday, July 7, Graham Platner's Maine Senate campaign implodes overnight after a new sexual assault allegation from a former girlfriend sends Democratic leaders scrambling for cover. Rush and Reagan break down exactly how bad it is, why the party's outrage feels awfully convenient, and what happens next in a race that could decide control of the Senate. Topics covered: the allegation itself and Platner's denial, the pattern of past controversies (that Nazi-style tattoo, the texts, the Reddit posts) that made this feel inevitable, the Democratic exodus with Khanna and Gallego pulling endorsements while Warren and Sanders stay conspicuously quiet, Maine's tight legal deadlines for replacing him, and whether Susan Collins just got handed a free pass to reelection. Rush is already calling him 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 30 · 19 min
Tuesday: The Birthright Ruling the Media Is Already Getting Wrong
Tuesday, June 30: The Supreme Court drops its ruling on Trump v. Barbara — the birthright citizenship case — on the final day of its term, and the legal arguments the government brought into that courtroom did not survive contact with the justices. Rush and Reagan walk through the government's failed attempt to redefine domicile within the 1898 Wong Kim Ark precedent, the two ruling paths the Court could take and why the narrow statutory route matters more than cable news will admit, and the documented reality of birth tourism versus the constitutionality of the executive order used to address it. They also pull apart the DOJ's parallel denaturalization push — 250 cases targeted by October 2026 against a 27-year average of 11 per year — and what it means when both tracks are running at the same time. The question underneath all of it: is American citizenship permanent, or does it now come with an asterisk? Tomorrow the analysis continues. Subscribe, leave a five-star review, and send this to someone who is only reading the headlines. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 29 · 18 min
Monday: Trump Picked Warsh to Fix Rates. Now He's Eyeing a Hike.
Monday, June 29 — Trump launched a war that broke the Fed's rate-cut path, and now he's still demanding cheaper money. Rush and Reagan walk through Kevin Warsh's first FOMC meeting, where rates held at 3.5–3.75% and nine of eighteen officials flipped from projecting a cut to projecting a hike — a full reversal in three months. They trace the 4.2% CPI spike directly to the Strait of Hormuz oil disruption that began February 28th, the day the Iran war launched. They examine whether Warsh's five-task-force reform agenda is genuine central banking or political cover-building. And they perform a mock press conference that satirizes the contradiction of demanding rate cuts while running an inflationary war — then explain why the joke isn't really a joke. Closing out: what Warsh walks into at the July 29th FOMC meeting, with a fragile ceasefire already punctured and October hike odds climbing. If you have a take on whether Warsh survives the political trap, tell us — we're reading responses all week. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 26 · 20 min
Friday: The Birthright Bomb Is About to Drop — Are You Ready?
Friday, June 26 — the Supreme Court is days away from ruling on birthright citizenship, and most of the media still hasn't caught up to what's actually at stake. Rush and Reagan break down Trump v. Barbara, the case Newsweek is already comparing to Dobbs in constitutional weight. They walk through the five words at the center of the 14th Amendment fight and why 128 years of settled law may not protect the government's position. They expose the administration's denaturalization quota machine — 100 to 200 referrals per month per USCIS internal guidance — running quietly alongside the SCOTUS case. They map both possible outcomes and explain why a Trump loss doesn't stop the legislative track, and a Trump win creates implementation chaos affecting 150,000 children per year. Watch who writes the opinion. Roberts means narrow. Thomas or Alito means something else entirely. The 14th Amendment battle does not end with one ruling — and next week, that becomes impossible to ignore. Weigh in: does quota-driven denaturalization concern you more than the SCOTUS outcome itself? 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 25 · 18 min
Thursday: The House Map Was Redrawn While You Slept
Thursday, June 25 — The Supreme Court just handed Republicans a redistricting weapon, and states are already using it. This episode breaks down the House majority fight that most political coverage is ignoring. Rush and Reagan walk through the 6-3 Alito ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, why Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama moved within days, and how the resulting maps could shift up to 19 House seats before the 2026 midterms. They cover the state-by-state redistricting fallout — DeSantis targeting four Democratic incumbents, Tennessee cracking majority-Black Memphis across rural districts. They run the cold seat math: Republicans hold 218, Democrats need three, and 36 GOP incumbents are walking out the door — a single-party retirement record. And they debate the real question underneath all of it: can a redrawn map stop a wave election, or does 2018 already answer that? Florida's appellate challenge under the Fair Districts Amendment is still active. The maps are not settled. If you think this race is playing out in the Senate, you're watching the wrong chamber — weigh in and tell us where you think the gavel lands. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 24 · 20 min
Wednesday: The Senate Firewall Republicans Thought Was Safe
Wednesday, June 24 — the Senate map just moved against Republicans, and most of Washington is still looking the other way. Rush and Reagan break down the Cook Political Report's June 11 ratings shift that dropped Alaska and Ohio to toss-up and pushed North Carolina into Lean Democrat territory — and what it means for a party defending 23 of 35 seats. They walk through the structural math behind Democrats' four-seat path, the candidate quality problem the GOP created for itself in North Carolina with Michael Whatley, and why Iowa moving in an R+13 state is the number nobody in Republican circles wants to explain. Then the main event: Susan Collins down nine points in Maine, $99 million in Republican ad reservations, and a race that may decide Senate control. The meta-story is the one the GOP should be losing sleep over — and Rush and Reagan don't let it off the hook. Five months left. Tell us where you think this ends up — and tune in Thursday for the next race breakdown. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 23 · 19 min
Tuesday: Trump's Iran Surrender or Masterstroke? The Right Can't Agree
Tuesday, June 23 — Trump signed a peace deal with Iran at the Palace of Versailles, and the loudest critics are conservatives. Rush and Reagan break down the 14-point US-Iran MOU: what the ceasefire actually says versus what the press release claims, and why the nuclear provisions look nearly identical to the Obama-era JCPOA Trump spent years attacking. They map the conservative media revolt — Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post all broke with Trump on the same day — and ask whether the critics cheering the war ever had a plan for ending it. They decode the Trump-Netanyahu rupture, including the expletive-laden call one hour before signing and Israel's complete absence from the negotiating table. And they deliver an honest verdict: Iran kept its enrichment infrastructure and gained immediate sanctions relief, so the MOU buys time, not victory. The standard is simple — judge this deal on day 61 by what the IAEA can actually verify. If enrichment continues and the stockpile stays, the war didn't end. It paused. Weigh in: did Trump get a win, or give one away? 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 22 · 19 min
Monday: SCOTUS Is About to Decide Who Gets to Be American
Monday, June 22 — The Supreme Court is deciding who gets to be an American, and the administration is already acting like the answer is settled. This episode breaks down the Court's packed end-of-term sprint: the birthright citizenship case (Trump v. Barbara), the administration's contested "domicile" theory under the 14th Amendment, and why even a narrow ruling could rewrite 128 years of precedent. Then the number that should stop you cold: a secret USCIS quota pushing 100 to 200 denaturalization referrals per month — against a historical average of 11 per year. Rush and Reagan argue these aren't two separate stories. They're two hands of the same policy squeeze. The roundup covers independent agency firings, transgender athlete bans, and mail-ballot deadlines — all landing before July. The split-decision scenario is the one to watch, and the denaturalization quota is already running regardless of how the Court rules. Bookmark SCOTUSblog. Connect the dots. Weigh in — are the guardrails holding? 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 19 · 18 min
Friday: Trump Loves the Inflation. Your Wallet Doesn't.
Friday, June 19 — the President of the United States said "I love the inflation" on the same day CPI hit 4.2%, a three-year high, and Rush and Reagan are not letting it go quietly. This episode breaks down the May CPI print and what is actually driving the headline number versus core inflation. It traces the tariff-to-price pipeline — how retailers spent 2025 absorbing costs and are now passing them to consumers in 2026. It dissects Marjorie Taylor Greene's CNN appearance where she called Trump's remark a "punch in the gut" and what that signals about base tolerance, not just media optics. And it works through the real political math for swing-district Republicans six months from November. The closing argument is the sharpest part: what a principled conservative accountability case actually looks like — separate the two inflations, demand a real policy timeline, and stop treating CPI as a political prop. Rush's final line reframes Trump's quote as a confession. Watch the Section 122 tariff expiration on July 24th — that is the next real fork in the road. Weigh in after you listen. New episodes drop every weekday. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 18 · 19 min
Thursday: DHS Blinked on the ICE Truce and Everyone Saw It
Thursday, June 18 — DHS Secretary Mullin said ICE would be at World Cup stadiums every day, then LA County Sheriff Luna put a no-enforcement commitment in writing. Nobody in the White House has explained that contradiction. This episode covers the full four-month policy arc from February to now: how a 96% strike authorization vote by UNITE HERE Local 11 extracted an unprecedented right to strike over ICE threats, why Human Rights Watch went zero for nineteen with FIFA sponsors, and how Iran's national team was bused back to Tijuana the same night they drew with New Zealand — while their winger's visa quietly expired and got fixed by the State Department. Rush and Reagan also take apart the media coverage that treated the enforcement pause as a humanitarian baseline instead of asking who actually blinked and why. The legal authority never changed. The political position did. That distinction is the story. What happens when the truce runs out? Weigh in — and subscribe for new episodes every weekday. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 17 · 20 min
Wednesday: SCOTUS Has One Week Left and the Right Has No Idea What's Coming
Wednesday, June 17 — the Supreme Court is sitting on roughly 20 unissued opinions with no warning on timing and a hard deadline at the end of June. Rush and Reagan hand you the cheat sheet before the rulings land. They break down the birthright citizenship fight in Trump v. Barbara and why the nationwide injunction question buried inside it may matter more than the citizenship ruling itself. They cover the two transgender athlete cases and why a narrow legal holding will get covered as something far broader. They walk through a pair of Second Amendment cases — including one tied to the same statute that convicted Hunter Biden — that are getting almost no press despite major downstream consequences. And they close on the election law double-header: mail-ballot grace periods and 50-year-old campaign spending limits, both likely to drop before the 2026 midterms. Every case comes down to the same fight: where does authority begin and where does it end. Knowing that before the headline hits is the whole point. If you found this useful, leave a five-star review and send it to someone who will be asking you what the rulings mean. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 16 · 17 min
Tuesday: Georgia Hands Trump His Report Card
Tuesday, June 16 — Georgia Republicans may be handing Jon Ossoff a Senate seat while they fight each other in prime time. Rush and Reagan are tracking live results from two high-stakes GOP runoffs: Burt Jones versus Rick Jackson for governor, and Mike Collins versus Derek Dooley for Senate. They break down what Trump's endorsement record actually means when the scoreboard is live, including a sharp look at Jackson's $100 million spending machine and the nickname that captures his whole campaign. They dig into the Collins-Dooley race as a Kemp-versus-Trump proxy fight, complete with a damning anonymous quote from inside the Georgia GOP. And they put Ossoff's $31 million cash-on-hand advantage in its proper context — a gift from months of Republican infighting, not Democratic strength. The Senate majority math is unforgiving. Georgia is a load-bearing seat, not optional insurance, and Cook Political Report has already moved it to Lean Democrat on a state Trump won. Who wins tonight shapes how much runway Republicans have left before November. Weigh in — did tonight's results change your read on Georgia? And check back for the first post-runoff fundraising filing. That number will tell you everything. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell
June 15 · 20 min
Monday: The Supreme Court Is About to Light Everything on Fire
Monday, June 15 — the Supreme Court has 23 cases left to decide before summer recess, and the ones still on the table are the ones that actually reshape the country. Rush and Reagan break down what's coming: the birthright citizenship fight in Trump v. Barbara, which asks five justices to rewrite 128 years of precedent and affect 250,000 U.S.-born children annually. The trans athlete bans out of West Virginia and Idaho, where the scope of the ruling matters as much as the outcome. The strange-bedfellows Second Amendment case where the NRA and the ACLU landed on the same side — against a law the Trump DOJ is defending, the same law that convicted Hunter Biden. And Trump v. Slaughter, which could gut the 91-year-old precedent protecting independent agency heads from presidential firing — with the Federal Reserve as the unresolved fault line nobody wants to touch. They close with a mock nickname draft for all nine justices based on oral argument performance. Reagan gets the last word. How do you read a Supreme Court ruling when it drops with no warning? Rush explains what to look for — and what the headlines will almost certainly miss. Weigh in after you listen. 📣 We Want to Hear from You! 📝 Submit a question Links Claim my Silver Offer https://go.heymato.com/rushlindell