Gen Z swung for Trump, then turned around and gave Mamdani New York. Sean Griswold says both votes came from the same instinct.

In this episode, I sit down with Sean Griswold, a Turning Point USA chapter VP at Jacksonville University and a Restoration News fellow, about why our generation keeps moving. We get into the "it factor," affordability as a word nobody has defined, Social Security running out before we ever see it, and what the response to Charlie's death showed us about our own neighbors.

He also makes the case for voting the best candidate instead of the ideal one, with the midterms coming on November 3rd.

In June 2018, Maxine Waters told a crowd to confront Trump officials in restaurants and gas stations, and to absolutely harass them. Republicans moved to censure her. Democrats killed it.

In this episode, I follow what came after: the string of restaurant confrontations aimed at Trump officials, the cover Nancy Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries gave her, and April 2021, when Waters told protesters in Minnesota to get more confrontational during the Chauvin trial.

Then set that against January 6th. Trump said marching peacefully and patriotically, and he's the one the left calls an inciter. Three conclusions follow, and none of them are about one congresswoman.

Sen. John Kennedy is the funniest man in Washington, and he lands harder than most of the people who are actually trying to be serious.

In this episode, I sit down with Producer Clayton and go through Kennedy's best moments: the hearing-room lines, the cable hits, and the campaign ad where he told people who hate cops to call a crackhead the next time they need help. We get into why nobody can really argue with him, and why he might be the way people who can't stand politics end up paying attention anyway.

Then there's Margaret. Kennedy named his elliptical trainer after Margaret Thatcher, and I have no notes.

Bernie Sanders can't stop warning you about "the oligarchs." So I looked up the word and it describes him better than the billionaires he's attacking.

In this episode, I break down what an oligarch actually is: a small elite group where wealth and power converge, that controls state assets and uses political capital to bend outcomes its way. Then I hold that definition up against Bernie himself. He's one of the most powerful members of Congress and a textbook socialist who can't stop calling everyone else an oligarch.

Carl Trueman says we didn't drift away from God by accident. Once everything important in your life became a choice, external authority stopped being believable. God is the biggest external authority there is.

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Carl Trueman at Grove City College about his new book, The Desecration of Man. We get into expressive individualism, why worship turned consumerist, what the internet did to the word community, and the online push telling kids to cut off their parents.

He also lays out the argument at the heart of the book: only human beings can reach for godhood, and every time we try, we end up smaller. Pascal, the A-bomb, and AI all repeat Genesis 3.

In today's episode, I join Tiffany Meier and the panel on NTD in New York to rate the week's wildest headlines. We get into the migrant surge at Spain's border in Ceuta, RFK Jr. launching a cooking show as HHS Secretary, a Harris poll showing 73% of Gen Z now stay home on weekends, and Barna's new research on pastors handing sermon prep to AI.

Pastors are called to pray about what they preach. Putting AI in the middle of that should bother us more than it does.

In today's episode, I take the day's biggest stories in real time. The autopen pardon and Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth after telling Chris Wallace he had nothing to hide. What Josh Hawley was digging at with the money, and what Dr. Peter McCullough says a doctor in that chair is supposed to do. Then my generation: how Republicans actually beat a message of free stuff, why the free market is the honest answer instead of a better bribe, and the birth rate nobody wants to name.

Same thread running through all of it. Who gets protected, and who gets sold a story.

Mamdani quoted Margaret Thatcher on stage, got his laugh, then spent the rest of the answer arguing with the one part of it that's actually true.

In this episode, I take apart his rebuttal: Milton Friedman on why political freedom and free markets come as a package, what New York already learned the hard way about rent and price controls, and what happens to states like California and Connecticut when leftist policy gets lived out all the way.

He never answered Thatcher's actual claim. He went after it, the same way he went after Reagan, because making radical ideas sound normal starts with chipping away at the things everybody used to agree on.

Margaret Thatcher said socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, because they might not choose socialism. Today I'm going through some of the Iron Lady's best moments and why they land harder now than when she said them. Taxes and private industry. Politicians who think they can run everything. Budgeting a country the way you budget a household. Illegal immigration and what she called international chaos. And the U-turn speech that made her the Iron Lady. Underneath all of it she was making one argument, and it's the one we need most in our 250th year: liberty and economic freedom are the same fight, and a state you depend on ends up owning you.

In recent years there has been an argument raised that America "doesn't have culture." Dr Jason Edwards, professor of Education and Humanities at Grove City College, and Grace Reilly strongly disagree. In this episode of Restoring America with Grace Reilly, Dr Edwards walks through our iconic history and culture, from the American West to our present political struggles today. He touches on why the American Dream is alive and well along with the core problems we are seeing in the education system today. The recent controversy at the Smithsonian is only one example of a much bigger problem.