Restoring America with Grace Reilly

Asked how he wanted to be remembered, Charlie Kirk said courage for his faith. A year after his assassination, Grace goes through the moments where he shared it, from the campus stops to his testimony to his advice on keeping a Sabbath. Then she takes you inside his memorial in Arizona, where she sat through hours of worship before anyone spoke, and closes in prayer for his family.

In this episode, I get into why Governor DeSantis ordered Flock cameras off Florida's state highways, what reporters found when they looked at how officers actually use the system, and why a Texas city of 68,000 cancelled its contract after outside agencies ran 1.6 million searches through its cameras.

I also cover the 1984 comparison, China's Skynet network, and the car legislation almost nobody is talking about. Then the question this whole thing comes down to: is a little more safety worth this much less freedom?

If you want the deeper dive on the vehicle side of this, watch "Are We Living in 1984?! The Government's Plan to Surveil Every American Driver" next.

AOC rejoined the DSA after a seven-year lapse, and the DSA tied it straight to a 2028 run. Their Maoist caucus had already called her an opportunist.

In this episode, I get into why the timing matters, what the Liberation Caucus actually said about her, and why backing away from defunding the police is what set them off.

She didn't have to do any of this. She did it because she thinks socialism is mainstream enough now that the label helps her instead of costing her. That's the part worth sitting with.

The DSA's new platform calls for abolishing the Senate and putting the President and Supreme Court under Congress. Rep. Jeff Crank wants a vote.

In this episode, I'm back on a new set after getting married, and I'm catching up on the DSA. I go through the new platform, why democratic socialism has stopped being a softer word than communism, and what Mamdani is doing to private property in New York.

The choice now is socialism or America. Millions of Christians in this country still aren't registered to vote, and that's where this turns.

Paul Kengor says socialism stopped being a fringe position years ago. The Democratic Socialists of America figured out they never have to beat a Republican to win.

In this episode, I sit down with Paul in person at Grove City College to go through how it happened. The Obama-era polling that flipped, Bernie's two primary runs, the safe-district strategy, and the playbook that put Mamdani in charge of New York.

Paul also gets into why they fight so hard against the word Marxist, what Bella Dodd warned about the education system, and where young people can actually learn this, since the universities aren't teaching it.

Special Guest: Paul Kengor.

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.