The Rob Maness Show

It’s Throwback Thursday, and five days out from Election Day I want to throw it back to what Mississippi has always been: a state that shows up. On Tuesday, November 3, every Mississippian has a choice. In the U.S. Senate race, Cindy Hyde-Smith is fighting for re-election against Democrat Scott Colom, and the national Democrats know it. Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker have all come here to campaign for Colom, and Chuck Schumer’s top super PAC dropped $1.2 million into ads. That is why President Trump came to Corinth on Monday night and told a packed Crossroads Arena, “I can’t take a chance.” In the House, President Trump has endorsed Trent Kelly in the First District, Michael Guest in the Third and our own Mike Ezell here on the Coast in the Fourth. Here are the dates. If you qualify to vote absentee, in-person absentee voting at your Circuit Clerk’s office ends this Saturday, October 31, at noon. Mail-in absentee ballots must be postmarked by November 3 and received by November 10. On Election Day, polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and bring your photo ID. Do not sit this one out. Vote Republican up and down the ballot and keep a Republican Senate and House behind President Trump’s agenda.



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When America falls, who picks up the pieces? Not the HR department, and not the bureaucrats waiting on a rescue that never comes. My guest is a retired Army infantry colonel, a Gulf War and Kosovo veteran, a trial lawyer, a senior columnist at Townhall, and the author of the People’s Republic series, the books he says were a warning sign, not a how-to manual. His new novel, American Warlord, comes out November 3, Election Day. It is the story of Vic Kinkaid, a widowed trucking manager and student of Roman history, who has to become the man history demands after riots, shortages and a pandemic called Covid-X wipe away our institutions. Kurt says the past is a sneak preview of the future. Rome’s republic did not die in a day; it died after a century of conflict. We still have a republic, and we still get to vote to keep it. That is why every Republican needs to vote on November 3 and keep a Republican Congress behind President Trump’s agenda.


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If you think the left’s warnings about “saving democracy” are just campaign slogans, you have not seen the Democracy Files. For the past week my guest has been publishing the receipts: recorded Zoom calls, chat logs, handouts and strategy documents from a network of former USAID democracy officers, retired flag officers and protest groups. In their own words, they discuss “red lines” for declaring our elected federal government illegitimate, war-game an “election meltdown,” draft an options memo for governors, and talk about consulting federal workers on “blocking” inside their own agencies. I call it the Illegitimacy Playbook. None of this asks you to take anyone’s word for it. The tapes and documents are posted for anyone to check, and when she got one attribution wrong, she corrected it publicly that same night. That is why her credibility holds, and why her critics have gone quiet. My guest calls herself just a tool builder. Her website opened federal grant spending to ordinary citizens, and her new book, Unelected, explains how this network evolved over a hundred years. She does not dig alone. Her Democracy Files partners, SKDoubleDub33 and Lisa Logan, deserve credit too. With Election Day one week from today, every voter needs to hear this.



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Welcome back, America. It’s More War Monday, and we are giving this entire hour to one book, because it explains the fight we are in better than anything I have read this year. The headlines hand you a thousand separate fights: tariffs, deportations, firings, court battles, NATO, energy, China. The legacy media calls it chaos. My guest says it is one project. Franklin Roosevelt’s generation built two orders we have lived under ever since. At home, a permanent government of unelected agencies and experts who keep ruling no matter whom you elect. Abroad, a postwar system where America carries the burdens and is told that serving its own citizens is shameful. Donald Trump is dismantling both. He is the counter-FDR, and this is the restoration. At home, elections have to matter. Abroad, nations have to matter, and American power has to serve the American people. Today we walk the book part by part, from the dodged bullet and FDR’s coup to the road to 2028. My guest was on PayPal’s startup team, served as policy director to Governor Mike Huckabee, and runs Martin Capital and The Rod Martin Report from right down the coast in Destin. His new book is Trump’s New World Re-Order: Dismantling the Deep State and Ending Postwar Globalist Rule.




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You can see the latest warning from France. Open borders and a left that refuses to enforce the rules produce chaos, cities on fire, police under siege, order collapsing. That’s not our future. America still has the chance to choose differently, and the difference starts with secure elections. That’s the mission today: Secure Elections Equals Winning and Defending America’s Constitution. The midterms are the proving ground. When we protect the vote, we protect the Republic. The Trump Justice Department is doing its job for all of us, charging illegal aliens and non-citizens for casting ballots they had no right to cast. Dozens of cases, real indictments, real accountability. For years the left and legacy media called it a myth. It never was. Enforcement is how we keep the franchise for American citizens only. But there’s a deeper fight coming. DataRepublican just released The Democracy Files—I’ve named it OPERATION DENIAL. Former USAID operators and retired flag officers have mapped out how to declare the federal government illegitimate and pressure a rewrite of the Constitution if they don’t like the midterms. We are not going to let that stand. In the second half of the show, retired Army Colonel and attorney Tom Anderson—known to many of you as Cynical Publius—will break down exactly what those documents show and what it means for the rule of law. First, though, we have the right person to talk about locking in the win. Ashley Hayek is Executive Vice President of the America First Policy Institute and President of America First Works. She’s a strategist who ran national coalitions for the 2020 Trump-Pence campaign, built a top fundraising firm starting at age 22, and has spent years turning America First ideas into state and federal policy wins. She’s also the author of Beat the Elites and Beat the Cheats, a proud Marine wife, and mom of five.


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America. Let’s cut the crap. Ukraine cannot win this war. Not with another pile of your tax dollars, not with more of our missiles, and not with another round of tough talk from people who will never see the front line. Russia is not about to roll tanks into NATO territory either. That story has been the same empty threat for years, useful for fundraising and cable hits, useless for anything else. This ends one of two ways: a deal, or a longer, bloodier grind that makes everything worse. Peace is the only way out. The longer the Washington Blob pretends otherwise and resists President Trump’s peace efforts, the more people die, the more money disappears, and the weaker we get on the things that actually matter, deterring China, the border, Iran, and keeping this country from sliding further into debt and dysfunction. That’s the reality. No slogans, no victory speeches, just the hard math of a war that was never ours to win and a Russia that is not currently the existential threat to Europe the permanent war crowd needs it to be. My guest today has been saying this from the start. Former Special Ops pilot, CEO of CDM Press, and one of the few still willing to tell it straight.


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Today we are highlighting one of the most calculated power plays in modern American politics: the deliberate counting of illegal aliens in the census, paired with aggressive gerrymandering, to inflate Democratic House seats, shift Electoral College leverage, and lock in control of federal resources. States are currently required to count every person residing here for apportionment purposes. Democrats have weaponized that rule. By including millions of non-citizens who are here unlawfully, they boost the population totals in blue strongholds. Those inflated numbers then drive the drawing of congressional districts that make it structurally harder for Republicans to compete. Combined with race-based map drawing and selective enforcement of election rules, the result is a system tilted before a single ballot is cast. Joining us today is Marshall Yates, Strategic Counsel at the Oversight Project and the leader of its REPAIR Initiative, Redistricting and Election Protection for American Integrity and Representation. Yates previously served as Assistant Director of the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs, as Chief of Staff on Capitol Hill, and as Executive Director of the Election Integrity Network. He also worked on the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group and as a staffer on the House Judiciary Subcommittee examining the weaponization of the federal government. He is now leading nationwide litigation and oversight efforts to challenge who gets counted in the census and these maps to protect the integrity of representation.



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Virginia used to be for lovers. Now it’s a sanctuary playground for criminal illegal aliens, and the Democrat politicians running the place are fine with that. The Commonwealth that once stood for the rule of law has become a case study in what happens when elected officials put open-borders ideology ahead of public safety. The Virginia Attorney General is even going after a sheriff for the simple act of cooperating with ICE. Illegal criminals are being released instead of held. Violent offenders who never should have been here continue crime sprees while the same officials who lecture the rest of us about “justice” look the other way. On top of that, early voting is stretched out to 45 days heading into the midterms, another move that benefits the side that prefers longer counts and looser rules. This isn’t compassion. It’s a failure to enforce the law. And the people paying the price are the legal residents of Virginia who just want their communities safe. Joining me today is Virginia State Senator Bryce Reeves. He’s a U.S. Army veteran and Ranger who has served both in uniform, in law enforcement, and in the Virginia Senate, where he has consistently pushed back against policies that undermine law enforcement and border security.

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If you think America’s divisions are just heated rhetoric, you haven’t been paying attention, and you haven’t heard from someone who watched his own country collapse from the inside. Guy Paul Nohra was fifteen in Beirut when the Lebanese Civil War turned neighbors into enemies. He put down a school uniform, picked up a rifle with the Christian militia, and fought to keep his neighborhood from being wiped out. After surviving that slaughter, his parents got him out to the United States. He became a citizen in 1983, earned a degree from Stanford and an MBA from the University of Chicago, and went on to co-found Alta Partners, raising more than two billion dollars across eight funds and investing in over 180 healthcare and life-sciences companies. He made the Forbes Midas List, later ran for governor of Nevada, and now hosts the podcast In Layman’s Terms. He is not a theorist. He is a man who lived the consequences of political rhetoric turning into civil war, and he sees the same patterns taking root here, dehumanization of opponents, the steady advance of political Islam in Europe and parts of the United States, and the refusal to confront either one. His new book, Not On Our Watch: A Young Soldier’s Warning to America, draws the direct line between what destroyed Beirut and what is fracturing this country now. He is here. We’ll talk about Lebanon, the midterms, Iran, Nigeria, and whether we still have the will to stop this before it stops us.



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It’s Columbus Day, America. And I’m not apologizing for it. While the professional grievance industry spends another year trying to turn a man who risked everything to open the New World into a cartoon villain, the rest of us are supposed to sit quietly and pretend Western Civilization just appeared by magic. It didn’t. Men like Columbus made it possible. Flawed, courageous, driven by faith and ambition, he same ingredients that built the freest, most prosperous civilization in human history. The people who want to erase that don’t just hate a holiday. They hate the inheritance itself. That’s the real fight. Not statues. Not names on a map. The war to defend the West is happening right now in school boards, in boardrooms, in the border crisis, and in the midterms. If we lose the culture, the elections become a formality. If we win the culture, everything else gets easier. That’s why Mayor JD Longo is back with us today. Marine combat veteran, mayor of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, the kind of man who still thinks duty matters and who understands that Pennsylvania is ground zero for whether this country keeps its nerve or keeps apologizing. We’ll hit the midterms, the numbers, the Fetterman-McCormick dynamic, the visa fraud Vance just called out, and what it actually takes to stop the slow-motion surrender.

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