The Rush Lindell Show

On Tuesday, July 7, Graham Platner's Maine Senate campaign implodes overnight after a new sexual assault allegation from a former girlfriend sends Democratic leaders scrambling for cover. Rush and Reagan break down exactly how bad it is, why the party's outrage feels awfully convenient, and what happens next in a race that could decide control of the Senate.

Topics covered: the allegation itself and Platner's denial, the pattern of past controversies (that Nazi-style tattoo, the texts, the Reddit posts) that made this feel inevitable, the Democratic exodus with Khanna and Gallego pulling endorsements while Warren and Sanders stay conspicuously quiet, Maine's tight legal deadlines for replacing him, and whether Susan Collins just got handed a free pass to reelection.

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Tuesday, June 30: The Supreme Court drops its ruling on Trump v. Barbara — the birthright citizenship case — on the final day of its term, and the legal arguments the government brought into that courtroom did not survive contact with the justices.

Rush and Reagan walk through the government's failed attempt to redefine domicile within the 1898 Wong Kim Ark precedent, the two ruling paths the Court could take and why the narrow statutory route matters more than cable news will admit, and the documented reality of birth tourism versus the constitutionality of the executive order used to address it. They also pull apart the DOJ's parallel denaturalization push — 250 cases targeted by October 2026 against a 27-year average of 11 per year — and what it means when both tracks are running at the same time. The question underneath all of it: is American citizenship permanent, or does it now come with an asterisk?

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Monday, June 29 — Trump launched a war that broke the Fed's rate-cut path, and now he's still demanding cheaper money.

Rush and Reagan walk through Kevin Warsh's first FOMC meeting, where rates held at 3.5–3.75% and nine of eighteen officials flipped from projecting a cut to projecting a hike — a full reversal in three months. They trace the 4.2% CPI spike directly to the Strait of Hormuz oil disruption that began February 28th, the day the Iran war launched. They examine whether Warsh's five-task-force reform agenda is genuine central banking or political cover-building. And they perform a mock press conference that satirizes the contradiction of demanding rate cuts while running an inflationary war — then explain why the joke isn't really a joke.

Closing out: what Warsh walks into at the July 29th FOMC meeting, with a fragile ceasefire already punctured and October hike odds climbing. If you have a take on whether Warsh survives the political trap, tell us — we're reading responses all week.

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Friday, June 26 — the Supreme Court is days away from ruling on birthright citizenship, and most of the media still hasn't caught up to what's actually at stake.

Rush and Reagan break down Trump v. Barbara, the case Newsweek is already comparing to Dobbs in constitutional weight. They walk through the five words at the center of the 14th Amendment fight and why 128 years of settled law may not protect the government's position. They expose the administration's denaturalization quota machine — 100 to 200 referrals per month per USCIS internal guidance — running quietly alongside the SCOTUS case. They map both possible outcomes and explain why a Trump loss doesn't stop the legislative track, and a Trump win creates implementation chaos affecting 150,000 children per year.

Watch who writes the opinion. Roberts means narrow. Thomas or Alito means something else entirely. The 14th Amendment battle does not end with one ruling — and next week, that becomes impossible to ignore. Weigh in: does quota-driven denaturalization concern you more than the SCOTUS outcome itself?

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Thursday, June 25 — The Supreme Court just handed Republicans a redistricting weapon, and states are already using it.

This episode breaks down the House majority fight that most political coverage is ignoring. Rush and Reagan walk through the 6-3 Alito ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, why Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama moved within days, and how the resulting maps could shift up to 19 House seats before the 2026 midterms.

They cover the state-by-state redistricting fallout — DeSantis targeting four Democratic incumbents, Tennessee cracking majority-Black Memphis across rural districts. They run the cold seat math: Republicans hold 218, Democrats need three, and 36 GOP incumbents are walking out the door — a single-party retirement record. And they debate the real question underneath all of it: can a redrawn map stop a wave election, or does 2018 already answer that?

Florida's appellate challenge under the Fair Districts Amendment is still active. The maps are not settled. If you think this race is playing out in the Senate, you're watching the wrong chamber — weigh in and tell us where you think the gavel lands.

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Wednesday, June 24 — the Senate map just moved against Republicans, and most of Washington is still looking the other way.

Rush and Reagan break down the Cook Political Report's June 11 ratings shift that dropped Alaska and Ohio to toss-up and pushed North Carolina into Lean Democrat territory — and what it means for a party defending 23 of 35 seats. They walk through the structural math behind Democrats' four-seat path, the candidate quality problem the GOP created for itself in North Carolina with Michael Whatley, and why Iowa moving in an R+13 state is the number nobody in Republican circles wants to explain. Then the main event: Susan Collins down nine points in Maine, $99 million in Republican ad reservations, and a race that may decide Senate control.

The meta-story is the one the GOP should be losing sleep over — and Rush and Reagan don't let it off the hook. Five months left. Tell us where you think this ends up — and tune in Thursday for the next race breakdown.

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Tuesday, June 23 — Trump signed a peace deal with Iran at the Palace of Versailles, and the loudest critics are conservatives.

Rush and Reagan break down the 14-point US-Iran MOU: what the ceasefire actually says versus what the press release claims, and why the nuclear provisions look nearly identical to the Obama-era JCPOA Trump spent years attacking. They map the conservative media revolt — Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post all broke with Trump on the same day — and ask whether the critics cheering the war ever had a plan for ending it. They decode the Trump-Netanyahu rupture, including the expletive-laden call one hour before signing and Israel's complete absence from the negotiating table. And they deliver an honest verdict: Iran kept its enrichment infrastructure and gained immediate sanctions relief, so the MOU buys time, not victory.

The standard is simple — judge this deal on day 61 by what the IAEA can actually verify. If enrichment continues and the stockpile stays, the war didn't end. It paused. Weigh in: did Trump get a win, or give one away?

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Monday, June 22 — The Supreme Court is deciding who gets to be an American, and the administration is already acting like the answer is settled.

This episode breaks down the Court's packed end-of-term sprint: the birthright citizenship case (Trump v. Barbara), the administration's contested "domicile" theory under the 14th Amendment, and why even a narrow ruling could rewrite 128 years of precedent. Then the number that should stop you cold: a secret USCIS quota pushing 100 to 200 denaturalization referrals per month — against a historical average of 11 per year. Rush and Reagan argue these aren't two separate stories. They're two hands of the same policy squeeze. The roundup covers independent agency firings, transgender athlete bans, and mail-ballot deadlines — all landing before July. The split-decision scenario is the one to watch, and the denaturalization quota is already running regardless of how the Court rules.

Bookmark SCOTUSblog. Connect the dots. Weigh in — are the guardrails holding?

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Friday, June 19 — the President of the United States said "I love the inflation" on the same day CPI hit 4.2%, a three-year high, and Rush and Reagan are not letting it go quietly.

This episode breaks down the May CPI print and what is actually driving the headline number versus core inflation. It traces the tariff-to-price pipeline — how retailers spent 2025 absorbing costs and are now passing them to consumers in 2026. It dissects Marjorie Taylor Greene's CNN appearance where she called Trump's remark a "punch in the gut" and what that signals about base tolerance, not just media optics. And it works through the real political math for swing-district Republicans six months from November.

The closing argument is the sharpest part: what a principled conservative accountability case actually looks like — separate the two inflations, demand a real policy timeline, and stop treating CPI as a political prop. Rush's final line reframes Trump's quote as a confession. Watch the Section 122 tariff expiration on July 24th — that is the next real fork in the road.

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Thursday, June 18 — DHS Secretary Mullin said ICE would be at World Cup stadiums every day, then LA County Sheriff Luna put a no-enforcement commitment in writing. Nobody in the White House has explained that contradiction.

This episode covers the full four-month policy arc from February to now: how a 96% strike authorization vote by UNITE HERE Local 11 extracted an unprecedented right to strike over ICE threats, why Human Rights Watch went zero for nineteen with FIFA sponsors, and how Iran's national team was bused back to Tijuana the same night they drew with New Zealand — while their winger's visa quietly expired and got fixed by the State Department.

Rush and Reagan also take apart the media coverage that treated the enforcement pause as a humanitarian baseline instead of asking who actually blinked and why. The legal authority never changed. The political position did. That distinction is the story.

What happens when the truce runs out? Weigh in — and subscribe for new episodes every weekday.

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