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By Larry O'Connor
Want to make sense of the seismic shifts in American news, politics and entertainment? Larry O’Connor has a way of breaking down and explaining the most complicated topics as he delivers succinct,
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Kamala Harris told supporters the midterms are being rigged and to make the vote "too big to rig" — language that would have gotten a conservative channel demonetized two years ago. Larry O'Connor walks through what the Supreme Court actually allowed on Post Office ballot delivery, and the difference nobody on cable will explain: an absentee ballot you request because you're traveling, ill or in the military, versus states like California, Oregon and Colorado mailing live ballots to everyone on a stale voter roll. Then Scott Jennings takes apart a CNN panelist arguing that Trump is trying to stop people voting — while the host interrupts him and lets her finish. Trump's own words on turnout are in there too, and they say the opposite of what the panel claimed. Plus the California man arrested for registering and voting illegally, who was texting a federal agent about his midterm plans while he did it. Check out the latest news from Heartlander News: https://heartlandernews.com/ Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eight weeks from the midterms, every cable panel is explaining the 2026 election with a single number — Donald Trump's approval rating — while telling you Trump isn't on the ballot. Larry O'Connor makes the case that the number answers the wrong question. Elections are choices, not referendums, and being annoyed about grocery prices is not the same as wanting a 33-year-old democratic socialist running the country. He walks through why August polling always looks like this for Republicans, who actually answers polls in August, and why the "polls are tightening" story arrives on schedule every single October. Then the part nobody on television will connect: the anger about Iran isn't about the Strait of Hormuz, it's about what happened to gas prices — and the national average everyone quotes is being pulled up by one state. Gavin Newsom's California adds a premium to every gallon through regulations and taxes, and it lands in the number Democrats then blame on Trump. Plus the 2018 comparison the media keeps reaching for, why 2022 is the better analogy, and what Joe Biden's raid on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve actually bought him. Check out the latest news from Heartlander News: https://heartlandernews.com/ Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kmele Foster asked Jemele Hill one question about capitalism on CNN, and she had no answer for it. Jemele Hill argued on a CNN panel that capitalism is bound up with white supremacy. Kmele Foster answered with Adam Smith, private property and gains from trade, and asked her what any of it has to do with white supremacy. She never answered on the set. The next day she posted the argument on X and was met with a Community Note: enslaved labor produced roughly 10 to 13 percent of GNP around 1860, cotton 5 to 6 percent, and American economic dominance came from northern industrialization after 1865. She posted again and drew a second note. Larry O'Connor then turns to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the collapse of socialism across the Western Hemisphere and his description of American socialists as overeducated and underachieving, and to the House resolution denouncing socialism that 192 Democrats voted against. Tim Burchett walks off the floor with the last word. Check out the latest news from Heartlander News: https://heartlandernews.com/ Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kathy Hochul said on live television that she wishes ICE would disband, then blamed Donald Trump for defunding the police. At a press conference the New York governor claimed the federal government is withholding 40 percent of the state's counterterrorism money, $87 million, and translated it as Donald Trump defunding the police. Larry O'Connor walks through the vote: not one New York Democrat, not Chuck Schumer and not Hakeem Jeffries, voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security during the shutdown their own party ran at ICE and the Border Patrol. Hochul then goes further on television, calling ICE a rogue agency and saying she wishes it would disband and go back to the old Immigration and Naturalization Service. That is Abdul El-Sayed's talking point, and Larry sets it against the decades when the same coalition called the INS a secret police force, and against Hochul's own campaign stop at a New York mosque. The clip closes on the Times Square stabbing that killed one person and left another hospitalized, and the NYPD officers who ended it after a taser failed. Check out the latest news from Heartlander News: https://heartlandernews.com/ Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CNN told viewers that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed was "distancing himself" from Twitch streamer Hasan Piker — then Manhattan Institute's Jesse Arm read the anchor her own words back on live TV and the whole framing fell apart. Larry plays El-Sayed's FULL statement, the one CNN cut, and it never names Hasan Piker, never quotes what Piker said, and never says El-Sayed disagrees. Then Piker himself goes live to confirm it: El-Sayed isn't moderating on anything, and he's still their guy. For complete Medicare guidance, dial 580-308-0975 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/oconnor Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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