The Rob Maness Show

Secretary Rubio just stood in the White House for Hispanic Heritage Month and said the quiet part the cable networks will not touch. The choice in these midterms is not left versus right. It is common sense versus communism. Secure borders or open ones. Paychecks that buy groceries or an inflation tax dressed up as compassion. Parents in charge of their kids, or a bureaucracy that thinks it owns them.
The press spent the week screaming that Latino voters have abandoned President Trump. Same outlets that swore 2024 was a fluke. Reuters, NBC, Telemundo, all reading from the same sheet. Approval in the twenties. Democrats up twenty points. Texas is supposedly back in play. Florida too. Funny how the panic always lands four weeks before an election, and funny how it never includes the Latinos who actually live with the consequences. The ones who watched prices jump after Washington picked another war. The ones who want the border enforced and still do not want their citizen cousins treated like suspects. That is not a realignment collapsing. That is a media class hoping you will not check the sample. My guest today Bianca Gracia has been in those rooms. She is Executive director of Latinos for America First and a White House correspondent. She is not guessing from a crosstab in Brooklyn. We are going to put the polls on the table, play the clips the networks will not run, and ask the only question that matters on November third. Common sense, or communism.

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Last Wednesday an Omani co-pilot named Hamam al-Hammami grabbed the crash axe on a Flydubai flight packed with Israelis headed for Tel Aviv and went after his captain. The UAE is calling it a terrorist attack. He had already flown that route once and backed off. This time he meant to crash the jet into Ben Gurion Airport. The captain was stabbed and still got the door open. Passengers piled in and stopped him. The airplane dropped thousands of feet before they got it back. Netanyahu says Islamist radicalization. Trump says if Iran is in it, the answer will be hard. Investigators are still peeling that onion. Yesterday look at RAF Fairford in the UK. A dozen B-1s that had been sitting in England to cut the flight time into Iran got pulled home in a single day. British counter-terror police had already picked up men near the fence over a suspected plot to hit the base. London says it has strong indications Iran was involved. Tehran denies it. The bombers left anyway, tankers still scrambling behind them. You do not empty a forward bomber base on a Sunday because the weather turned. Here at home the domestic fight is on in earnest for the midterm elections. Ballots start dropping in Arizona this week. Governor, attorney general, secretary of state, the legislature, Congress. Arizona is still a key state, and the people who think elections are a sideshow have not been paying attention. With us is today Wendy Rogers, Arizona state senator for District 7 and a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. She flew as a pilot and will give us an inside the cockpit viewpoint on the hijacking and has spent her time in the legislature on election integrity, the border, and veterans. She is on the ballot again November 3rd and working hard to get out the vote in all races.
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This episode was supposed to be about Trump’s reset of America’s foreign policy alone, but you just watched it and we’re covering this first. A Flydubai flight out of Dubai, bound for Tel Aviv, drops roughly seventeen thousand feet in under two minutes. The co-pilot, an Omani national, stabs the captain and tries to take the aircraft down with about a hundred and eighty people on board, most of them Israeli. The passengers and extra crew fight their way into the cockpit with help from the wounded Captain, regain control, and the jet lands in Saudi Arabia. Everybody walks off. Prime Minister Netanyahu is calling it an attempted jihadist terror attack. President Trump says the man was either a terrorist or a whack job. The investigation is still open. The pattern is not. That is the threat environment we are operating in this week, and it does not stop at thirty-five thousand feet. Iran’s president stood at the United Nations, a country still at war with the United States, and told the world he will not be bullied, he will not give up the nuclear program, and that Washington and Jerusalem are the real aggressors. We issued the visas. He used the stage. That is the host-country obligation colliding with a regime that has spent decades funding the proxy war. On the same trip, the President signed the Greenland security agreement with Denmark and Greenland. Not annexation. Permanent American control over security, new bases, and a hard bar on Chinese or Russian military presence, binding even if Greenland goes independent. He wanted the deed. He locked the Arctic. And out of the Xi summit, The President has a commitment not to support Iran, trade-truce extension, a reciprocal tariff cut on non-critical goods, a coal commitment, and an artificial-intelligence channel. We’re joined once again by TV news producer, former diplomat, and anchor at Talk Radio WABC in New York, Jake Novak.







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Strap in, because today we’re talking about the despicable ideology that’s slithering into our schools, our boards of education, and our neighborhoods while too many people pretend it’s just another “religion of peace.” Sharia law is not a religious belief or lifestyle choice. It’s a total system, political, legal, and military, that treats non-believers as second-class at best and targets at worst. John Guandolo laid it out plain in Texas: Islam and jihad mean complete and total war. Not a metaphor. Not “some extremists.” The doctrine itself. Look at what’s happening right now. CAIR rolling up to the Texas State Board of Education trying to shape what your kids get taught. A teacher in Texas pushing the same crap in the classroom. And a man who actually lived under Sharia in Iran standing up in McKinney, Texas, warning us what happens when that system takes root. Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Tennessee, and now Mississippi are seeing the same pattern in different phases. They don’t hide it. We just refuse to call it what it is. This isn’t about hating anybody. It’s about refusing to import a legal code that debases women, executes apostates, and puts Islamic law above the Constitution. If you think that’s “Islamophobia,” you’ve already surrendered the language. My guest today doesn’t just talk. Paul Brown built Wasson Watch Company to glorify God with Swiss-made watches, served as a Marine, worked intel at DIA, and fights for preborn babies at clinics and the Texas Capitol.







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What you just heard is not a slogan. It is a warning. There is an information operation underway right now designed to suppress the Republican vote before a single ballot is cast. Call it what it is: a manufactured doom campaign. Polls are weaponized. Headlines are coordinated. The message is simple and relentless, the race is already lost, stay home, don’t bother. That is not analysis. That is psychological warfare. If they can convince enough of our people that turnout is futile, they do not have to win the argument. They only have to win the absence. Turnout is the decisive terrain. Always has been. Always will be. Joining me today is a man who understands that fight from the ground up. Chad Caton, retired firefighter, United States Navy Seabee, South Carolina native, Republican activist, and host of I’m Fired Up. Chad has been in the trenches of party politics, county organization, and the information battle that too many consultants treat like a parlor game. Walk us through this doom operation as you see it, who is running it, how it is meant to suppress our vote, and what serious people do about it before November.







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You just watched a retired Green Beret put a name on the unlawful COVID Vaccine order. September 14, 2021. Dr. Terry Adirim was Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. She told military doctors they will use the emergency-use Pfizer shot, interchangeably, with a licensed Comirnaty shot. Three weeks earlier, Secretary Austin had limited the original order to a fully licensed product only. But the same formula is not the same under thew law. An emergency-use shot comes with a right to say no. Only the President can waive that right, and only in writing. No waiver was ever signed. In 2021, the Pentagon conceded that fact in open court. In May 2025, the Department itself called the mandate unlawful as implemented. About 8,700 troops were thrown out for refusing. More than 3,000 left with less than an honorable discharge. More than two million were ordered to take a shot the Pentagon now calls unlawful. Under oath last month, Adirim said she was fully aware of the adverse events. Walter Reed had already briefed her on heart inflammation in young troops when she issued her letter modifying the order. She still wrote the word "will" in the order and she put no warning on the page. Of course she did not sue the chain of command. She sued the man who said it out loud. Ivan Raiklin, the former Green Beret and the Constitutional attorney you just heard







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You just saw President Trump do something long overdue. He banned CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House. Not because they criticize him. Because they repeatedly publish fiction and call it news. The First Amendment protects the right to speak and publish. It does not give any outlet a constitutional right to a hard pass, a seat in the briefing room, or a place in the press pool. Access to the people’s house is a privilege, not an entitlement. Every president has controlled it. The only difference now is that this president is using it against outlets that spent years lying about him. This morning a judge temporarily restored their credentials. Watch what happens next. They will treat that ruling as a license to keep doing exactly what got them thrown out. The Constitution was written to restrain government, not to force the President to host people who treat the truth as optional. Joining me now is retired Army Colonel, attorney, and author Tom Anderson, better known to many of you as Cynical Publius and of course a fellow member of the Massively Influential Conservative Influencers recently attacked by the Washington Post fake news media outlet.







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The question hanging over everything right now: is the panic that artificial intelligence is about to wipe out humanity a genuine alarm… or something closer to a hoax, a liability play, or a well-funded effective altruism researchers cult? A former Anthropic researcher resigns, posts that AI could end civilization inside a decade, and the thing explodes to well over a hundred million views in a day. Within hours, more than twenty elected officials, almost all Democrats, are on camera demanding immediate, sweeping regulation. Bernie Sanders dusts off a bill that would create a new cabinet-level agency, put people in prison for twenty years, and even let the government physically destroy technology it doesn’t like. He compared it to building nuclear weapons. Our guest today, Larry Ward, founding member of the National AI Association, CEO of MarketRithm, has been in this space for two decades. He is not saying AI carries zero risk. He has been warning about bias, about autonomous systems, about treating this as a synthetic entity instead of just another tool. What bothers him is the choreography. The account that posted the warning had almost no history. Followers exploded overnight. A Wall Street Journal exclusive dropped within minutes. The first amplifiers weren’t random citizens; they were people inside the same funded nonprofit networks tied to the companies and investors themselves. That is not how organic panic usually works. That is sequenced. And it is aimed straight at the midterms. We’ve seen this movie: manufacture the crisis, terrify the public, then build a bureaucracy that outlasts the scare and hands the next century’s most powerful technology to the people who can’t even keep their own email servers secure. Meanwhile China keeps building. Larry Ward has an article out in Human Events about all this and is here today to help us see the reality instead of the fantasy. Is this a real existential threat, a liability dodge, or an Effective Altruism cult that Palantir’s CEO just called out? And more important—how should free people actually use this technology so it serves humanity instead of the other way around?







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For the first time, the Secretary of the Air Force stood up and said it out loud: the United States now has on-orbit space control weapons. Not “we’re developing.” Not “we might.” We have them. In orbit. Capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile action. That is a line that cannot be uncrossed. Space is no longer a sanctuary. China and Russia have been building and testing the tools to blind us, jam us, and kill our satellites for years. GPS, comms, missile warning, targeting, the backbone of how America fights, sits up there in the open. Until last week, Washington pretended we were still playing by 1967 Outer Space Treaty rules while our adversaries were not. Deterrence only works if the other side believes you can and will respond. That’s why they said it. That’s why the new Chief of Space Operations followed it up the next day: Guardians already operate those weapons. The questions that matter now are the ones they won’t answer in public. What kind of weapons? Kinetic or non-kinetic? How many? How quickly can they be used? And what happens when Moscow and Beijing stop objecting to the idea and start matching the capability in the open? To sort signal from noise we have a man who has flown the missions, built the companies, and never stops telling the truth: former Special Operations pilot, CEO of CDM Press, L. Todd Wood.







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You just heard that congressional testimony. No Democrats in the room. Hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children released to unvetted sponsors. A hotline that went unanswered while kids called for help. Cartels treating children like inventory. NGOs cashing taxpayer checks while kids disappeared. That is not a policy disagreement. That is a war being waged against the most vulnerable, and for too long this country looked away. Today we fight it. Joining me is Ali Hopper, President and Co-Founder of Guard Against Trafficking. She doesn’t theorize from a think tank. She interviews incarcerated traffickers. She works the border. She has testified before the House and Senate. She wrote Florida’s anti-grooming law that other states are now copying. She has seen how grooming works, how the pipelines operate, and how the last administration’s open-border experiment handed predators a ready-made supply of children. This is not abstract. These kids were placed in homes with criminal records. Welfare checks were two unanswered phone calls. Some of those children have now been recovered. Many have not. President Trump has made locating them a priority. The cartels are still in the business. The demand has not gone away. And the people who enabled it still have not been held to account. Ali Hopper is here to tell us what she has seen, what is still happening inside our own communities, and what it actually takes to stop it.







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