American Ground Radio

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 23, 2026.

We start with a conversation about the future of public service in America. Senator Elissa Slotkin has talked about pursuing “signature cases” against people around President Trump, and David French has proposed impeaching administration officials. We ask whether that’s a recipe for ...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 21, 2026. 

We open with a polling firm called Wedgewood Polls, which admitted to fabricating most of its published numbers and called it a social experiment. Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin has permanently banned the firm from its averages and forecasts. We talk about which way the made-up numbers lean...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 20, 2026. 

We open by asking who will actually show up at the polls before Democrats start measuring the drapes in the Speaker’s office. Enthusiasm makes headlines, but turnout makes winners. We dig into an AARP survey of 43 competitive House districts that shows Republicans leading by 10 points amon...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 19, 2026.

We open the show with the “mostly peaceful” label that media outlets keep attaching to unrest, this time the riots in France, which have spread to Italy. We talk about the difference between a protest and a riot, and about why burning down businesses can’t make groceries, rent, or tr...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 16, 2026. 

We open by asking a question we’ve been asking for time immemorial: why do politicians lie? Our answer is that it works. We look at how a lie can raise millions of dollars before the truth gets its shoes on, and why conservatives should be the first to admit both parties do it. That leads ...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 15, 2026.

We start by looking at the Trump administration’s largest-ever campaign against the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, including the White House task force’s first public numbers on arrests and federal charges, the drop in violent crime, and why we think shared intelligence among law enforcem...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 14, 2026. 

We open with a new Institute for Family Studies report on “marriage deserts” and “marriage gardens,” the neighborhoods where married-couple households are rare and the ones where they’re the norm. We look at the numbers from Detroit, Clevel...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 13, 2026.

We open by digging into the controversy surrounding Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and what some of her political allies aren’t saying. We look at the questions around her financial disclosures, including a reported $30 million net worth that was later corrected, and at a rep...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 12, 2026. 

We open with Elon Musk, the modern-day Daddy Warbucks, whose political giving has reached more than $276 million since July, according to Reuters. That makes him the largest known donor of the 2026 midterms, with $366 million across the full cycle. We break down where t...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 9, 2026. 

We open with a hard look at the unrest in France, where student protests over overcrowded classrooms and crumbling schools have turned into burning cars, injured police officers, and thousands of arrests. We ask what separates legitimate protest from a breakdown of law and order, and what the Uni...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 8, 2026. 

We open by taking on Congressman Ro Khanna, who says he isn’t fully confident Speaker Mike Johnson would seat a Democratic majority if the party wins the House this November. We challenge him to name a single time Johnson has lied, walk through the Arizona certification timeline behind Adel...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 7, 2026.

We open with Hollywood’s slide: President Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on foreign-made movies, and why it’s no longer a laughing matter. Movie production spending in the U.S. has dropped from 74% to 42% over 25 years, and TV from 94% to 64%. We look at the foreign incentives, Californ...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 6, 2026. 

We open with a heavy question: do you agree with plea deals that take the death penalty off the table in exchange for a guaranteed life sentence? We walk through the case of 29-year-old Lauren Heike, killed on a Phoenix hiking trail in 2023. Her killer, Zion Teasley, has plead...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 5, 2026.

We open with the voter ID fight, where polling shows around 80% of Americans, including big majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and independents, support photo ID and proof of citizenship to vote. We make the case that Democratic opposition isn't backed by any grassroots movement,...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 2, 2026. 

We open with a story we think captures the American spirit: when storms grounded Marine One and Air Force One, President Trump got in the car and made the long drive from Denton, Texas, to Durant, Oklahoma, so a packed crowd wouldn't be left waiting in the rain. We talk about ...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 1, 2026. 

We open by asking whether the federal government should release the classified documents surrounding 9/11. Twenty-five years later, we say yes. We talk about protecting living intelligence sources and methods still used against terrorists, and about why the Saudi financing que...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for September 30, 2026. 

We open with a warning for the midterms: when politicians tell you what they plan to do, believe them. We walk through the health care and policy wish list a House Democratic working group has sent to Hakeem Jeffries, including Medicare for All, the Women's Health Protectio...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for September 29, 2026. 

We open with the Supreme Court's ruling that lets the administration keep deporting illegal immigrants to third countries while the case works its way through the courts. We ask who holds the constitutional authority to decide whether a foreign national can stay in the United States, and we also dig...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for September 28, 2026. 

We open by taking on a Kansas Senate candidate and former United Methodist pastor, Adam Hamilton, who preached a sermon calling for repentance over beef and cattle. We ask where that's found in Scripture, what happens when climate becomes the highest moral authority, and why the third-largest cattle...