Guest host Gen. Blaine Holt and guests examine property tax fraud, government transparency, foreign aid waste, and threats to liberty in the United States and Europe.

Guest host Brigadier General Blaine Holt (USAF, Ret.) leads a three hour examination of the financial, legal, and political pressures bearing down on ordinary citizens at home and across the West. The morning opens with Texas developer Mitch Vexler, who lays out his criminal complaint alleging systematic property tax fraud by appraisal districts, a practice he argues violates multiple constitutional protections and puts tens of millions of American households at risk of foreclosure. John Hart of Open the Books follows with a case for real time government transparency, describing new tools designed to give citizens, rather than the administrative state, the power of data and oversight.

In the second hour, Holt turns to Europe for a warning about where unchecked government power can lead. Irish farmer and activist Peter Connolly details the fuel tax protests and migration pressures straining Ireland, and former UK Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen of Restore Britain describes mass demonstrations in London, arrests over social media posts, and what he sees as the cost of energy and immigration policy on British life.

The final hour features development economist Dr. Emily Brearley, author of Aid Inferno and a former World Bank insider, who argues that decades of foreign aid spending through USAID and international NGOs failed the world's poorest while enriching a Washington based aid industry. Drawing on his own military command experience in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan, Holt connects her findings to broader questions of national security, accountability, and reform under Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Throughout, the program returns to a single theme: transparency, property rights, and citizen engagement as the line of defense against concentrated power. The episode closes with the recurring Salute the Troops tribute.

FEATURED GUESTS

Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt (USAF, Ret.), guest host, former Deputy U.S. Military Representative to NATO and host of the Dangerous Intellectuals podcast

Mitch Vexler, founder and president of Mockingbird Properties (Texas), property tax fraud investigator

John Hart, CEO of Open the Books and former communications director for the late Senator Tom Coburn

Peter Connolly, Irish farmer, activist, and commentator on European agricultural and EU policy

Andrew Bridgen, former UK Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire, affiliated with Restore Britain

Dr. Emily Brearley, development economist, former World Bank senior economist, and author of Aid Inferno

Your News Talk America with Jake Smith

Broadcast weekdays on The Talk of Delmarva (92.7 and 98.5) and streaming online at WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com.

Listen live, participate, and become a program Patriot by visiting:

RealNewsTalk.com from 9 - Noon Eastern

Follow the latest national conversations, interviews, and commentary from voices shaping America’s political landscape.

Produced by DTD MEDIA. © 2026 DTD MEDIA, All Rights Reserved.

Guest host General Blaine Holt (USAF, Ret.) covers California's fuel-refining crisis with Mike Ariza, the WHO's disease narratives with Dr. Peter McCullough, defending liberty locally with Lt. Col. Darren Gobb, and fighting child trafficking with Nate Lewis of The Innocent.

Guest host General Holt fills in for Jake Smith on Your News Talk America, opening with a wave of primary results and historic incumbent retirements ahead of the 2026 midterms before diving into a deeply reported look at California's collapsing refining capacity. Former Valero Benicia refinery operator Mike Ariza explains how the state went from dozens of refineries to a handful, why fuel imports now make up roughly 40 percent of supply, and how shutdowns combined with the Strait of Hormuz disruption could trigger cascading effects on fuel, ports, food supply chains, and military readiness across the western United States. The conversation makes the case for federal intervention through the Defense Production Act.

Dr. Peter McCullough joins to scrutinize the global health narrative coming out of the WHO and CDC, examining Ebola, hantavirus, and norovirus coverage, the science behind transmission claims, available therapeutics, and what he argues is a recurring pattern of fear messaging that sidelines treatment in favor of vaccine development. The show then turns to American liberty with retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Darren Gobb, who argues that the real fight for constitutional freedom begins not in Washington but in homes, families, and local government.

The episode closes with Nate Lewis of The Innocent, who outlines concrete, community-level ways citizens can engage in the fight against child exploitation and human trafficking, from local protector teams to funding officer training.

This is a news/talk discussion focused on energy policy, national security, public health, individual liberty, and child protection — with practical steps for listeners who want to get involved at the local level.

Blaine — Guest host (in for Jake Smith); writer at Newsmax and the "Dangerous Intellectuals" Substack; founder of Zerient (zerient.com)

Mike Ariza — Former senior refinery operator, Valero Benicia facility; energy supply-chain analyst

Dr. Peter McCullough — Physician with The Wellness Company

Lt. Col. Darren Gobb (U.S. Army, Ret.) — Co-founder of Restore Liberty

Nate Lewis — The Innocent (theinnocent.org), anti-trafficking organization

Your News Talk America with Jake Smith

Broadcast weekdays on The Talk of Delmarva (92.7 and 98.5) and streaming online at WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com.

Listen live, participate, and become a program Patriot by visiting:

RealNewsTalk.com from 9 - Noon Eastern

Follow the latest national conversations, interviews, and commentary from voices shaping America’s political landscape.

Produced by DTD MEDIA. © 2026 DTD MEDIA, All Rights Reserved.

Brig. Gen. (ret) Blaine D. Holt and Tom Luongo on dollar liquidity as the master variable behind bond yields, oil prices, Iran pressure, and the political battle reshaping 2026.

Guest host Brig. Gen. (ret) Blaine D. Holt closes out a three-hour edition of Your News Talk America with a deep-dive interview alongside Tom Luongo, host of Gold, Goats 'n Guns and Newsmax newsletter author, on the global economic chessboard. The conversation cuts past surface market noise to examine dollar liquidity as the single dominant variable driving everything from Treasury yields and oil prices to central bank behavior in London, Brussels, and Beijing.

Luongo and Holt frame the current moment as fifth-generation warfare between sovereigntist and globalist forces, arguing that rising bond yields, currency stress in the euro and pound, and the scramble for marginal barrels of oil are downstream of a deliberate strategy to drain offshore dollar leverage and pull capital back inside the United States. The discussion covers the future of the Federal Reserve under Kevin Warsh, the shift from LIBOR to SOFR, the role of stablecoins as middleware for a bifurcated dollar system, and how genius and clarity legislation could reroute credit creation away from the City of London and back to American banks and entrepreneurs.

The conversation then turns to the political battlefield: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's testimony, the scope of Southern District of Florida investigations, Trump's primary challenge to Thomas Massie as a litmus test for endorsement power, the Iran pressure campaign and the question of whether the Strait of Hormuz is genuinely contested, and a provocative theory connecting Guantanamo expansion, Cuba operations, and the possibility of a delegate-seated 2028 convention. The hour closes with Holt's debrief tying together the day's earlier interviews with Victoria Coates, Tom Del Beccaro, and Lance at RedPost Energy, and a call to American entrepreneurs to put freedom to work.

• Brig. Gen. (ret) Blaine D. Holt — Guest host, USAF (Retired); President of Factor X at Xeriant; Newsmax military and foreign affairs contributor; host of Dangerous Intellectuals
• Victoria Coates — international affairs
• Tom Del Beccaro — domestic liberties and constitutional history
• E.M. Burlingame — referenced as an entrepreneur about to go active
• Lance / RedPost Energy — high technology and energy
• Tom Luongo — Host of Gold, Goats 'n Guns; Newsmax newsletter author (the third hour's featured interview)

Your News Talk America with Jake Smith

Broadcast weekdays on The Talk of Delmarva (92.7 and 98.5) and streaming online at WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com.

Listen live, participate, and become a program Patriot by visiting:

RealNewsTalk.com from 9 - Noon Eastern

Follow the latest national conversations, interviews, and commentary from voices shaping America’s political landscape.

Produced by DTD MEDIA. © 2026 DTD MEDIA, All Rights Reserved.

Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt guest-hosts YNTA, breaking down the CIA-DNI document standoff, the historical roots of the deep state, the Trump-Xi Beijing summit, and the medical fear cycle now hitting American headlines.

Guest host Brigadier General Blaine Holt (Ret.) takes the YNTA microphone for Jake Smith and delivers three hours of straight-talk national security analysis, opening with the still-unresolved story of the CIA reportedly removing roughly 40 boxes of material from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — a move that runs against a standing presidential executive order and has constitutional-crisis implications. Lt. Col. Tony Shafer joins the conversation to walk through the bureaucratic warfare between Langley and the DNI, and what it says about the entrenched intelligence community under Director Tulsi Gabbard and DNI counsel John Ratcliffe.

The second hour pulls the camera back. Col. Roxanne Towner Watkins traces the historical roots of today's deep state from the late-1800s Fabian Society through Operation Paperclip, Operation Gladio, the Rockefeller-funded London School of Economics, and the Lugar bioweapons labs in Ukraine and Georgia. The conversation connects CIA tick-drop operations against Cuba in the 1960s to today's alpha-gal syndrome outbreaks and the broader "strategy of tension" being used to pressure the American public.

Hour three turns to the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing. Joshua Philipp of Epoch Times' "Crossroads" unpacks what actually happened — the Strait of Hormuz pressure play, Chinese cash-flow problems, the purge of Xi's defense-industry leadership after the J-20 program was exposed as a farce, and why Chinese foreign direct investment in the U.S. may be a sovereignty trap dressed as a trade deal. The show closes with Dr. Mary Bowden on the simultaneous Hantavirus, norovirus, Ebola, and alpha-gal stories now flooding the news cycle, and whether the medical establishment is dusting off the 2020 playbook.

Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF (Ret.) — Guest host; Newsmax contributor; host of the Dangerous Intellectuals podcast

Lt. Col. Tony Shafer — Former military intelligence officer; CIA-trained case officer; Newsmax contributor

Col. Roxanne Towner Watkins, USAF (Ret.) — Researcher on CIA history, clandestine operations, and the Fabian Society

Gordon Chang — Author and China analyst (referenced as featured in an earlier hour)

Joshua Philipp — Senior investigative reporter, Epoch Times; host of "Crossroads"

Dr. Mary Bowden — Texas physician; author of the forthcoming book Dangerous Misinformation

Your News Talk America with Jake Smith

Broadcast weekdays on The Talk of Delmarva (92.7 and 98.5) and streaming online at WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com.

Listen live, participate, and become a program Patriot by visiting:

RealNewsTalk.com from 9 - Noon Eastern

Follow the latest national conversations, interviews, and commentary from voices shaping America’s political landscape.

Produced by DTD MEDIA. © 2026 DTD MEDIA, All Rights Reserved.

Jake Smith breaks down President Trump's two-day China summit with Xi Jinping, weighing what was — and wasn't — accomplished on rare earths, Taiwan, Iran, and trade. Dr. John Marshall Callahan, professor at the Institute of World Politics and former Deputy Spokesperson at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, joins to assess the optics of the visit, the operational security measures taken by U.S. staff in Beijing, and the dual-use military support China continues to provide Tehran. The conversation turns to escalating activity in the Strait of Hormuz, the potential restart of Operation Epic Fury, and whether U.S. Marines could move on Karg Island as Iran runs out of oil storage capacity.

Professor Alan Dershowitz joins to discuss his decision to dedicate the remainder of his career to defending Jewish civil rights in America, his concern about the trajectory of the Democratic Party, and the constitutional case for preventative action against Iran's nuclear program drawn from his latest book, "The Preventative State." Alan Parker, president of the Justice Foundation, presents the organization's new Declaration of the Right to Life in the U.S. Constitution, tracing the argument through the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and the Declaration of Independence.

Constitutional law professor Ilan Wurman, author of "The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction," walks through the war powers framework behind the Maduro operation and the Iran strikes, and explains how Supreme Court decisions on the Voting Rights Act reshaped the current redistricting fight. Chris Salcedo, host of The Chris Salcedo Show and author of "The Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino," weighs in on the Latino vote heading into the 2026 midterms and the role of Senate Republicans in stalling the America First agenda. Mises Institute scholar Dr. Murray Sabrin closes the show with a constitutional argument on the war powers question and a preview of his forthcoming Second Declaration of Independence.

Additional segments cover Hakeem Jeffries' "crush their souls" remarks and Kamala Harris's roadmap for court-packing, D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood, and electoral college reform; the EU's intervention in the Paramount-Skydance acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery with Gerard Scimeca of Consumer Action for a Strong Economy; and a preview of Freedom 250 in Washington with John Glasgow of Newsmax.

• Dr. John Marshall Callahan — Professor, Institute of World Politics; former Deputy Spokesperson, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Alan Parker — President, The Justice Foundation
• Professor Alan Dershowitz — Constitutional scholar; author, "The Preventative State"
• Gerard Scimeca — Chair, Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE)
• Professor Ilan Wurman — Julius E. Davis Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School; author, "The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction"
• Chris Salcedo — Host, The Chris Salcedo Show (AM 700 KSEV Houston / 820 AM WBAP Dallas-Fort Worth); host, Salcedo Storm Podcast; author, "The Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino"
• John Glasgow — Host, Sunday Report, Newsmax
• Dr. Murray Sabrin — Mises Institute-associated scholar; emeritus professor of finance, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Your News Talk America with Jake Smith

Broadcast weekdays on The Talk of Delmarva (92.7 and 98.5) and streaming online at WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com.

Listen live, participate, and become a program Patriot by visiting:

RealNewsTalk.com from 9 - Noon Eastern

Follow the latest national conversations, interviews, and commentary from voices shaping America’s political landscape.

Produced by DTD MEDIA. © 2026 DTD MEDIA, All Rights Reserved.

Jake Smith breaks down the CIA whistleblower's bombshell testimony on Fauci and the COVID cover-up, an alleged CIA raid on DNI Tulsi Gabbard's office, Iran's intensifying crackdown, and Trump's summit with Xi Jinping — with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Dr. Steven Mosher, Rabbi Michael Barclay, and reporters from the Washington Examiner.

Anchorman Jake Smith leads with the explosive Senate testimony of a CIA whistleblower confirming that agency scientists concluded early on that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan lab — and that Dr. Anthony Fauci personally intervened to overrule them. Jake plays Fox News audio of committee chairman Sen. Rand Paul detailing how Fauci commissioned scientific papers in secret, pressured intelligence analysts, and shielded himself from accountability over gain-of-function research funding. Not a single Democrat attended the hearing, and the CIA publicly attacked the proceeding while it was still underway. Jake asks the question now hanging over Washington: will the preemptive Biden pardon allow Fauci to walk away from what may be the most consequential cover-up in modern history?

The program also examines the alleged CIA seizure of files from DNI Tulsi Gabbard's office — documents tied to the JFK and MLK assassinations and the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind-control program. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says the raid happened and has threatened a subpoena; Judge Andrew Napolitano says the CIA has no legal authority to conduct law-enforcement raids on U.S. soil and questions whether it occurred at all. Judge Napolitano also breaks down his latest column, "When Killing Becomes Commonplace," on the Navy's continued destruction of suspected narcotics boats — 56 vessels and 190 people killed without charges — and the overturned Murdaugh murder convictions in South Carolina.

International coverage centers on Iran, where former political prisoner Homera Hasami describes the regime's escalating executions of protesters and MEK members, the loss of Iran's supreme leader and senior commanders, and a planned mass demonstration in Washington, D.C. Dr. Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and one of the first China experts to publicly blame the Wuhan lab, analyzes Trump's upcoming summit with Xi Jinping, Beijing's loss of proxies in Venezuela and Cuba, and the demographic collapse triggered by China's one-child policy. Both guests address Pope Leo's controversial decision to bestow the Vatican's highest diplomatic honor on Iran's ambassador.

Rounding out the broadcast: Rabbi Michael Barclay on the terroristic attack outside a Brooklyn synagogue, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, California's AB 2017 push to make Islamic holidays state holidays, and the Paul Kessler case; Washington Examiner congressional reporter Lauren Green on the third reconciliation bill targeting federal fraud and how the Virginia Supreme Court redistricting decision is reshaping the 2026 midterm map; Homeland Security reporter Anna Giaritelli on DC crime statistics and Glock switch trafficking; and streaming-industry CEO Sean Stockell on subscription fatigue and the return of ad-supported viewing. Jake also announces that Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt will be guest-hosting beginning Monday. Your News Talk America is powered by your voice through the DIAL interactive listener platform — likely the only station in the country using it — letting listeners submit and vote on questions in real time at RealNewsTalk.com.

• Anna Giaritelli — Homeland Security Reporter, Washington Examiner
• Lauren Green — Congressional Reporter, Washington Examiner
• Homera Hasami — Former political prisoner in Iran; Iranian opposition advocate (NCRI)
• Judge Andrew Napolitano — Former NJ Superior Court judge; columnist, "When Killing Becomes Commonplace"
• Rabbi Michael Barclay — Host of "The Rabbi's Table: Dialogue Not Debate," CRN Digital Talk Radio
• Dr. Steven Mosher — President, Population Research Institute; internationally recognized authority on China
• Sean Stockell — Streaming expert; CEO, Your Home Digital
• Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt — Foreign policy and military analyst (announced as guest host beginning Monday)

Audio of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) from Fox News was played during the program but he was not a live guest.

Your News Talk America with Jake Smith

Broadcast weekdays on The Talk of Delmarva (92.7 and 98.5) and streaming online at WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com.

Listen live, participate, and become a program Patriot by visiting:

RealNewsTalk.com from 9 - Noon Eastern

Follow the latest national conversations, interviews, and commentary from voices shaping America’s political landscape.

Produced by DTD MEDIA. © 2026 DTD MEDIA, All Rights Reserved.

The YNTA panel breaks down China's illegal Glock switch pipeline, the Van Hollen–Patel Senate clash, the national redistricting fight, the Vatican's diplomatic honor for Iran's ambassador, and New Jersey's battle over parental rights.

Jake Smith and the YNTA panel open this morning with a national security story making waves: China has been selling illegal Glock switches to Americans through the mail. Washington Examiner homeland security reporter Anna Giaritelli joins the program to break down the investigation and what it means for U.S. law enforcement and border policy.

The panel also examines the heated Senate exchange between Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen and FBI Director Kash Patel, and turns to the escalating redistricting battles unfolding across the country. Epoch Times senior reporter Nathan Worcester, Louisiana radio and television host Jeff Crouere, and New American magazine publisher Dr. Steve Bonta weigh in on where the redistricting wars are headed and what's at stake heading into the next election cycle.

In the second half of the program, the panel looks at Pope Leo's decision to bestow the Vatican's highest diplomatic honor on Iran's ambassador, Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Maktari, and what the gesture signals about Vatican–Tehran relations. Then, Alvin Lui of Courage Is a Habit and former eight-term Pennsylvania Congressman Dr. Tim Murphy join the conversation to discuss the fight over parental rights in New Jersey and the broader debate over parenting and mental health in America.

Your News Talk America is live talk radio powered by your voice — heard on 92.7 WGMD and 98.5 The Talk of Delmarva, and streaming at RealNewsTalk.com.


FEATURED GUESTS

• Anna Giaritelli — Homeland Security Reporter, Washington Examiner
• Nathan Worcester — Senior Reporter, The Epoch Times
• Jeff Crouere — Radio and Television Talk Show Host (Louisiana)
• Dr. Steve Bonta — Publisher, The New American magazine
• Alvin Lui — President, Courage Is a Habit
• Dr. Tim Murphy — Former Eight-Term U.S. Congressman (Pennsylvania); Licensed Psychologist

Your News Talk America with Jake Smith

Broadcast weekdays on The Talk of Delmarva (92.7 and 98.5) and streaming online at WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com.

Listen live, participate, and become a program Patriot by visiting:

RealNewsTalk.com from 9 - Noon Eastern

Follow the latest national conversations, interviews, and commentary from voices shaping America’s political landscape.

Produced by DTD MEDIA. © 2026 DTD MEDIA, All Rights Reserved.

Jake Smith breaks down Trump's Beijing summit with Xi Jinping, the legacy media's defense of Cole Allen, ABC News burying a Disney cruise scandal, Israel's Iron Dome deployment to the UAE, and Jonathan Pollard's run for the Knesset.

Truthful Tuesday on Your News Talk America with Jake Smith centers on President Trump's high stakes trip to Beijing for a face to face with Xi Jinping. Jake delivers a sharp monologue, "A Fool's Errand," tracing every American president's pilgrimage to China back to Nixon's 1972 handover and arguing that normalization has cost the United States its industrial base, military technology, and intellectual property. Panels with Heritage Foundation policy analyst Andrew Harding, Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon G. Chang, and retired Marine Colonel Grant Newsom dig into Xi Jinping's grip on the PLA, the trillion dollar Chinese investment push reported by the New York Times, and why CEOs from Apple, Tesla, BlackRock, Boeing, Citi, and Goldman Sachs are accompanying the delegation.

The broadcast also turns hard against the legacy press. Jake walks through Media Research Center reporting that CNN and MSNBC have effectively become defense attorneys for Cole Thomas Allen, the man who attempted to assassinate President Trump at the Washington Hilton, while ABC News gave zero minutes of coverage to a child exploitation sting that pulled Disney cruise workers off ships for deportation. The FCC license implications for Disney owned ABC stations are examined in detail.

Iran, Israel, and the new Middle East alignment frame the international hour. Professor Paul Davis of the Institute of World Politics, founder and president of JANUS Think, breaks down U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee's disclosure that Israel has sent Iron Dome batteries and personnel to the United Arab Emirates, the UAE's departure from OPEC, and reports that Iranian leadership is arranging transportation to Russia in case the regime collapses. i24 News senior correspondent Owen Alterman, reporting from Tel Aviv, walks through his explosive interview with convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who is now running for the Knesset and blaming Prime Minister Netanyahu for the failures of October 7th.

Closing segments cover Trump's pro natal pivot with Sean Carney of 40 Days for Life, including the Moms.gov launch and the IVF rule, plus Todd Sheets, author of 2008, What Really Happened, on Chinese EVs, supply chain decoupling, and why tariffs were the right call. National security, election integrity, FCC enforcement, and the demographic future of the country run through the entire broadcast.

3. FEATURED GUESTS

• Andrew Harding, policy analyst for national security and Indo-Pacific affairs, The Heritage Foundation
• Sean Carney, leader, 40 Days for Life
• Paul Davis, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of World Politics; founder and president, JANUS Think
• Gordon G. Chang, senior fellow, Gatestone Institute; author of Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America
• Colonel Grant Newsom, United States Marine Corps (retired); author of When China Attacks
• Todd Sheets, author of the newsletter On Wealth and Progress; author of 2008, What Really Happened
• Owen Alterman, senior correspondent, i24 News, Tel Aviv

Your News Talk America with Jake Smith

Broadcast weekdays on The Talk of Delmarva (92.7 and 98.5) and streaming online at WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com.

Listen live, participate, and become a program Patriot by visiting:

RealNewsTalk.com from 9 - Noon Eastern

Follow the latest national conversations, interviews, and commentary from voices shaping America’s political landscape.

Produced by DTD MEDIA. © 2026 DTD MEDIA, All Rights Reserved.

Jake Smith covers Trump's Iran patience strategy, the Virginia Supreme Court striking down Democratic gerrymandering, the property tax revolt sweeping the states, and a look at the private space race.

Jake Smith opens the week with a deep dive into the Iran nuclear standoff after President Trump dismissed Iran's latest multipage proposal as "totally unacceptable" over the weekend. Dr. John Marshall Callahan, Professor at the Institute of World Politics and former Deputy Spokesperson at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, joins Jake to explain Trump's tactical and operational patience approach, the role of Pakistan as mediator, and what the deployment of UK and French naval assets to the Strait of Hormuz means for the blockade. Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF (Ret.), returns later to discuss Putin's claim that the United States pulled out of a secret plutonium deal with Iran, reports of a covert Israeli base in Iraq, and Hezbollah backing off after the IDF strike on its Radwan special forces chief.

In a bonus segment added that morning, Ryan Morgan, Pentagon reporter for The Epoch Times, breaks down the latest from the Defense Department and what it signals for U.S. operations going forward. On the home front, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli walks through the Virginia Supreme Court's Friday ruling striking down the Democrats' redistricting maps, explains why three justices dissented despite a clear constitutional violation, and looks ahead at the SAVE Act and the Senate Republican move to oust John Thune. Patrick Semmens of the National Right to Work Foundation discusses former Southwest Airlines flight attendant Charlene Carter's nearly $1 million jury verdict after six years of legal battles, a religious discrimination case that became a flashpoint in the Right to Work movement.

Jake's monologue, "Starving the Beast," takes on the property tax rebellion building across America, with Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Texas all examining ways to eliminate or restructure property taxation. Plus a fascinating conversation with author Rainer Zitelmann on The New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars, examining how SpaceX and other private companies are leaving government space programs behind. The show closes with Salute the Troops, honoring First Lieutenant Frank Luke Jr., the World War I ace and Medal of Honor recipient.

Real News. Real Talk. Real America. Show notes at RealNewsTalk.com.

FEATURED GUESTS

• Dr. John Marshall Callahan, Professor at the Institute of World Politics, former Deputy Spokesperson at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Ryan Morgan, Pentagon Reporter, The Epoch Times
• Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF (Ret.), Host of Dangerous Intellectuals Podcast
• Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia Attorney General, National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative, Senior Fellow at the Center for Renewing America
• Rainer Zitelmann, author of The New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars
• Patrick Semmens, Vice President, National Right to Work Foundation

Your News Talk America with Jake Smith

Broadcast weekdays on The Talk of Delmarva (92.7 and 98.5) and streaming online at WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com.

Listen live, participate, and become a program Patriot by visiting:

RealNewsTalk.com from 9 - Noon Eastern

Follow the latest national conversations, interviews, and commentary from voices shaping America’s political landscape.

Produced by DTD MEDIA. © 2026 DTD MEDIA, All Rights Reserved.

Jake Smith covers the Iran War Powers debate with Senator Chris Van Hollen, the Virginia Supreme Court redistricting reversal, the $2 trillion wealth flight from blue states, AI designer baby investments, and the collapse of Spirit Airlines.

Jake Smith opens with the April jobs report showing 115,000 jobs added and unemployment steady at 4.3%, with senior research fellow Dr. Julia R. Cartwright of the American Institute for Economic Research weighing in on what the numbers say about the broader economy. Cartwright also breaks down the front-page New York Post story revealing that blue states have lost $2 trillion in wealth to red states over the past decade, with New York alone hemorrhaging $660 billion. She returns later to explain why state energy policy, not AI data centers, is the real driver behind rising electricity prices.

Public health researcher Victoria Akyea joins to discuss her new Washington Examiner op-ed on the Bernie Sanders backed "More Perfect University" project, an effort to counter Turning Point USA's influence on college campuses. Air Force Captain Mark Harris (Ret.) walks listeners through Houses of the Holy, his 17-years-in-the-making book exposing what he describes as a deeply entrenched network of government corruption, organized crime, and Masonic influence. Author Solomon Schmidt discusses A Pen to Change the World, the first complete biography of J.K. Rowling.

Christian Action Network President Martin Mawyer raises alarms over a Mother Jones investigation revealing that Silicon Valley figures including Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Brian Armstrong, and Marc Andreessen are funding embryo screening and genetic editing technology that could pave the way to designer babies. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen makes a notable appearance to defend his push for a War Powers Resolution against ongoing U.S. operations in Iran, with Jake pressing him on the constitutional questions. Plus: a major Virginia Supreme Court ruling on Democratic redistricting, the SAVE Act and noncitizen voting, the death of Spirit Airlines, and Dr. Murray Sabrin kicks off Countdown to 250.

Real News. Real Talk. Real America. Show notes at RealNewsTalk.com.

• Dr. Julia R. Cartwright, Senior Research Fellow in Law and Economics, American Institute for Economic Research
• Victoria Akyea, MPH, doctoral student and public health professional, Institute for Women's Health
• Captain Mark Harris, USAF (Ret.), author of Houses of the Holy: A Nightmare Web of Hate, Crime and Child Abuse
• Solomon Schmidt, author of A Pen to Change the World: The Life of J.K. Rowling
• Martin Mawyer, President, Christian Action Network
• Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland), United States Senate
• Avi Fortenberry, President, Americans for Citizen Voting
• Dr. Murray Sabrin, Associated Scholar at the Mises Institute, Emeritus Professor of Finance at Ramapo College of New Jersey

Note: Ken Cuccinelli was scheduled to appear but cancelled due to a press conference on the Virginia Supreme Court ruling.

Your News Talk America with Jake Smith

Broadcast weekdays on The Talk of Delmarva (92.7 and 98.5) and streaming online at WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com.

Listen live, participate, and become a program Patriot by visiting:

RealNewsTalk.com from 9 - Noon Eastern

Follow the latest national conversations, interviews, and commentary from voices shaping America’s political landscape.

Produced by DTD MEDIA. © 2026 DTD MEDIA, All Rights Reserved.