December 30, 2025 • 40 mins
As 2025 comes to a close, Todd Huff lays out what lies ahead in 2026 — politically, economically, and culturally. From the midterm election landscape and potential House and Senate outcomes to economic growth, inflation realities, tariffs, immigration enforcement, and voter roll cleanup, this episode prepares listeners for what’s coming next. Todd also discusses the likelihood of government shutdowns, escalating media attacks, conservative infighting, independent journalism exposing corruption, and unresolved questions surrounding Epstein. This isn’t prediction — it’s expectation, grounded in history, human nature, and hard political realities. Buckle up, because 2026 is shaping up to be a high-stakes year for liberty, accountability, and the future of the country.
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Yesterday, my friends, we talked about the biggest stories, the
most consequential stories of twenty twenty five, stories that would
continue to leave their mark in twenty twenty six, and
some far beyond that. Today, what I want to do
is talk about what I anticipate in twenty twenty six.
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Some of these things that we anticipate will reflect some
of the stories we talked about yesterday as being the
most consequential stories. Those things go hand in hand. But
some of these might be new developments that are coming
down the political road here as we turn the calendar
to twenty twenty six. So that's where we're headed today.
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you align your money with your mission. Okay, let's get
to it today again. Talking these aren't well, let me
let me set the stage here. This isn't so much
predictions as much as it's just expectations of where I
think we are headed, based on things like history, based
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on human nature, based on the power dynamic, based upon
this being an election here, a midterm election here. Now
you know, you know almost certainly. So listen, We've got
people again all over the gamut that tune in here.
We've got people who are seasoned professionals. You've got the ability,
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as Rush Limball used to say, to read the seams
on the fastball. You can see what's coming and adjust
and make contact with that ball as it's coming across
home plate. You've got the ability to do that. Some
of you have followed it for a while. Maybe you're
still learning. Everybody's learning, by the way, everybody still learning, uh,
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but some some are still in kind of the middle
phase where you're you've come to grips with a lot
of the fundamentals, but you're still learning. Uh. Some of
the nuance that makes uh, you know, makes it possible
to really have a firm understanding and to to see
what's coming in to be prepared to deal with it.
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And then some are new folks new to politics. For
whatever reason. Some people haven't lived enough years to have
the amount of experience necessary. Some folks didn't didn't care
about politics. Whatever the reason, it makes no difference to
me which category you are in. In some respect, we're
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all in the same boat. We're all learning, we're all
trying to make the most of this. We're all trying
to push in the same direction here, in the direction
of the constitution, constitutional conservatism, and so forth, in the
direct of liberty. And so this is an election here,
and we know you know that historically that means losses
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for the party in power. That's just the way that
it works. It's easier to if you're the party out
of power, to stir up energy in your base to
go out and to push back against the losses you
had in the previous election. So that is the starting point.
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The Democrats have an advantage as far as that goes.
Now have we absolutely have a say in this, But
this is what history teaches us, so we should know
what we're up against. We're already in a very very
close House of Representatives, which is what there's only a
couple couple of Republican seats. If they were to flip,
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it would make it a Democrat majority House of Representatives,
which would mean no Speaker John and it would mean
a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries for the Democrats. We're very close
to that. That's why these fights about redistricting mattered so
much as we headed into as we head into the
midterms here. But regardless, here are things that I anticipate
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in that uh, you know, kind of with that framework
heading into the twenty twenty six midterm election year. First
of all, I'm going to say buckle up because it's
going to be tumultuous. There's going to be a lot
going on. So here's my expectations. These aren't predictions. These
these aren't you know what. This is just what I
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think as of right now as we're about to turn
the calendar from twenty twenty five into twenty twenty six.
So first, I think it's clear that the economy continues
to improve in twenty twenty six. It's of course not
going to be perfect. It never will be. There are
still pain in the overall economy, not just the economy,
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but just the nation's finances when you factor things in,
oh like the national debt and those sorts of things
that have real impact that we've continued to kick that
can down the road for years and years and years now,
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but I think things are noticeably going to be better
than where we have been, even in twenty twenty five.
You know, when you think about what we endured during
the four years of the Biden administration, we endured a
lot massive inflation. I think a lot of folks don't
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fully understand that inflation. Inflation isn't something that can be
really undone. It can be slowed down, but it can't
really be reversed. So when we see it, first of all,
I'm talking about true, genuine inflation. I'm not talking about
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every reason that causes prices to go up in the marketplace,
because not all price increases are inflation. We've gotten lazy,
and that's what we say in twenty twenty five, we
call any price increase inflation. But inflation is a phenomenon.
I've gone through this countless times. Forgive me if you've
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heard this fifty times on here, But inflation, it's important.
Inflation is a phenomenon that exists when the federal government,
and only the federal government can do this. When you
hear people debating who's responsible for inflation, it is an
exercise in pure sophistry because inflation is a specific phenomenon.
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All inflation leads to price increases, but not all price
increases are the result of inflation. So when you have inflation,
what you have is the federal govern creating more money
more money supply than actual real value created in the marketplace.
That's the simplest way to put it. And so the
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the economy, the value that we create economically in our
country every year or a month, however you want to
measure it, it has a value. It has a real
value that should correspond to, in a perfect world, the
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same amount of dollars. But that's not what happens. The
government will produce more dollars than real value. And what happens.
What happens because marketable markets seek an equilibrium. What happens
is the market understands this, and so things that you
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have more money to pay for because there's an excess
amount of dollars, they everything will rise so that the
money flows to them because they you know, you can
get the you can get more for them because there's
more dollars out there. And when that happens, what you've
done is you've watered down the value of all dollars
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because you've inflated the value of the things in the
marketplace just because there's more money, not because they're actually
worth more to the person buying it, but because you
pumped too much money into the market, into the economy,
I should say. And so what happens is you create
this this scenario where you're weakening the buying power, the
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purchasing power of the dollars. And I was telling my
son this last night. My son is, my son is
in this situation where he's having to look at and
understand these things in ways he's never understood them before.
Because he's got a little business. He's done really well
for himself. Very proud of the guy, but some of
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these things mean more to him. And I said, look,
it's you know, tax increasing taxes is bad, but that's
saying we're going to put more of a financial burden
on you today to pay more. Inflation, I would say,
is even is even worse because the money you have
socked away, stashed away, They say that that because of inflation,
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that becomes worthless because the value of those dollars isn't
what it was when you put it there. It's just
this insidious sort of thing. And so but once Trump
came into office, he can slow inflation, which he did
his policies of course, and they've adjusted something. There's a
lot of technical stuff that goes into this, but again
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at the just the basic understanding level that we're talking about,
this that's exactly what it is, and so you can't
reverse it. So it's it's like you're blowing up a
balloon and you blow it up with inflation. It's baked in.
It's already air in the balloon. Now you can say, well,
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let's let air out, but in reality, what happens is
all you do moving forward is you can slow the
rate of the air that you blow into the balloon.
It's already in there, and you can't really take it
out of the equation because it's already been done. You
can just slow it. And so then you have to
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have growth. And we've started to see growth. I shared
yesterday we had a four point three GDP growth in November.
We'll see what that looks like in December here, but
we're definitely on the right track. We've slowed inflation now
GDP is increasing, and I expect more of that in
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twenty twenty six. In fact, I would go as far
to say that twenty twenty six could show a major
economic boom. My friends, Now what we begin to see
and feel this real and proved movement, like this dramatic
improvement that I think could be coming prior to the
election to where people can associate what's happening with policy.
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I don't know. I hope so the election is not
until later in the year. But you know how this
game is played. Democrats the media, they'll tell you that
it's anything besides Trump's policies and that sort of thing.
But regardless, regardless of the impact that this has on
the election in twenty twenty six, the economy is going
to continue to show improvement. Everything's going to stay tight
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and close. I think when you talk about votes or
margins or majorities, I don't anticipate any blowouts. Of course,
there could be some quote unquote easy victories in certain
districts or states, but when you look at things on
a national level in the US Congress, I don't know
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if there's going to be many easy wins. That's just
the way that this is shaped up right now and
the way that it could be after the twenty twenty
six midterms as well. The midterms will be I expect
this to be the case. The midterms will absolutely be
a real fight. The Republicans, I expect, will hold on
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to the Senate. The outcome of the House of Representatives
is unpredictable. I would say it could flip Democrat. It
could it could remain Republican. It's possible for Republicans to
gain a couple seats, It's possible for them to lose
several seats. We shall see where that goes. There will be,
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of course, prepare yourselves for this. There's going to be
more negative news targeting Trump and Republicans in twenty twenty six.
This of course goes without saying, as I've said on
this program for years, this is the strategy. This is
the strategy the left always employees, not just against Trump.
You know, for those of you who are newer listeners,
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let me make this clear. This is not something that
is new that has happened to Donald Trump. It is
new in relation to how negative and how aggressive the
negative news coverage is about Trump. But this has always
been the playbook. The playbook by the media, by the
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Democrat Party against Republicans is really pretty simple. What they
do is they attack them. They malign them, and most
people just by nature think, you know what, I just
this fight isn't worth having. I don't want the negative coverage.
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You know, some of these folks, as weird as it
might sound, I mean Washington, d C. You hear a
lot of people talk about the Uniparty, And there's certainly
truth that there is an element of the Uniparty in Washington,
d C. There's no doubt about it. But if you
go in there as someone who's not part of the Uniparty,
you had better have some really thick skin and you
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really had better not care about being accepted into that
inner circle, the DC elites circle. But see, once you're
in there, once you're in there, just human nature, it
kicks in for a lot of folks. It's just it's easier,
it's easier to get along. It's easier when you're getting
invited to the parties. It's easier when you're part of
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the group versus ostracized and attacked. People don't like that,
and so the media knows this and they attack people.
And usually what happens is the Republican, the Conservative we'll
just say, you know what, this isn't worth it, and
they'll back off, and they'll say it's you know, it's
better to it's better to not have my reputation destroyed
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or whatever than it is to win on this particular issue.
Trump's not wired that way, though. Trump says, you know what,
if you hit me, I'm going to hit back a
little bit harder. And this tit for tat sort of
scenario has been how they've functioned for all of these well,
for all these years, with all these different candidates and politicians,
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except it's very rare for someone to hit back, and
not only hit back once, but to hit back again.
And so when both sides, both sides are programmed or
are prepared to simply ratchet it up one step higher
each and every time, there's no end in sight, and
the media doesn't have another strategy. The media doesn't have
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another strategy, and so this was unavoidable. And in fact,
you can go back to the early days of this show.
It's still shocking to me to see how much they
hate him. But we were talking about this in the
early days. It wasn't hard to see that Trump was
a fighter, that he was not really bothered, in fact,
in some cases, energized by what happened on when he's
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attacked and so forth. It almost gives him in or
he's got a remarkable ability to do this, but it's effective.
It's effective for people, at least for some people out there,
to see a bunch of negative news and one of
two things happens. They either just believe the negative news
and think, wow, it can't be possible for this money,
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this many bad things to be made up about one person,
so he's got to be as bad as they tell me,
or there's another group too that just that there's this
subtle undertone that says the cool people, the people who
are in the end crowd or whatever, they're the ones
who hate Trump. So in order to be part of
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the hit, I'm telling you, adulthood is like high school
for a lot of people. And a lot of people say, listen,
I'm just it's easier for me. It's easier for me
to just, you know, be on this side of the fence.
I don't really care. I just want to not step
in front of the bus. Saw. I don't want to
be canceled. I don't don't want the relentless assaults of
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you know, people on social media to come after me.
That's what a lot of people think. But that's not
what principled people think. That's not what people like Trump
think when he wants to get stuff done. So be prepared,
of course, for more negative news to hit Trump and
the Republicans in twenty twenty six. This is never this
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is not going to stop. By the way, locally here
in my state, I'm in Indiana. Most of you are
not in my state. A healthy chunk of you are
here on our home base Freedom ninety five in Indianapolis.
But in my state, you know that there was a
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redistricting fight. We talked about this for a while in
this program because it had national implications, had implications for
the election of twenty twenty six. I think that the
primary season, which will happen here in my state, we
have May primaries, So in early May, you're going to
see that there's a real Republican divide, and I think
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you'll find that in other places as well. I think
incumbents who underestimate the opposition that they face from people
like me, many of people like you people in this audience,
I think that they better not assume that they are
safe in this primary season. They are misreading the room
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if they think that this is the establishment, the country clubbers,
the moderate Republicans against conservatives who actually grasp what's at
stake nationally. My friends, this class is going to be
coming into the open in May. It's going to be
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happening before that, during the primary season. But be prepared
for that as well here in Indiana and elsewhere. I
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time out, my friends. You're listening to Conservative not Better Talk.
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I'm your host, Todd Huff back in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. We are talking here about what
to expect in twenty twenty six. When we left you
last segment, we were talking about the fight that is
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coming and it's continuing. But for many people who again
this is not you, This is for other people out
there who don't follow this as closely as we do,
it might come as a bit of a surprise. But
there is going to be There are going to be
real fights at the primary level in states like Indiana,
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and they're going to happen, and they're going to happen
for time to time to come. In fact, I've got
a group of you that have told me that you
want to basically stay in formed for my listeners in
Indiana to continue to work together to try to defeat
people who are Republicans in the primaries who are not
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fighting in such a way that we can win in
in these elections. These things matter tremendously, and if you
want to do that, just send me an email to
a tied up show. Just put Indiana, Indiana Primaries or
something in the in the subject line, and we'll get
you added to that list so that we can, as
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we start working with other groups like Turning Point Action
or whoever else here, give you ways to to well
step into the fight here and to actually see Republicans
grow a backbone and do what needs to be done
to ensure that liberty survives all of this chaos. My friend,
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I think as we look ahead the twenty twenty six,
we had better be prepared for more drama. And I'll
tell you something else you might have found. You might
have seen some reports from a what I guess you'd
just say, a citizen journalist named Nick Shirley. You may
have seen him on social media. It's remarkable what he's done.
He's gone up to Minnesota, He's gone and dug into
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these these groups that have allegedly been stealing money, fraudulently
taking state money for schools. These many of these, this
particular group is a group of Somalian refugees. That are
getting money. He's gone to these places in person, showing
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these schools. I believe they were school supposedly schools with
no kids in them. Of course the people came to
the door, they wouldn't talk to him, they shut the door,
and all that kind of stuff. I think we're gonna
find more of this corruption exposed, and it's gonna come
at the hands of people like well, citizen journalists like
Nick Shirley, because this the media is not interested in this.
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The media again, as I've talked about on here before,
as Rush used to talk about, it's the pr firm
of the Democrat Party, that is who the media is.
They're not interested in getting real information about what's really
going on out there, especially if it's detrimental to Democrats.
They're interested in pushing a political narrative. They're interested in
certain outcomes. That is not journalism, my friends, that's corruption. Well, listen,
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there's nothing wrong with sharing your opinions, but to do
so under the guys that you're presenting unbiased news is
a wild, wild thing to try to get away with.
It's one of the reasons why I refuse routinely. I
refuse to accept the well the allegation I guess that
I'm a journalist. I'm not a journalist. I am someone
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who has opinions. I come to this microphone every day
to try to persuade people to hear and receive truth.
That's what I want. I want people to believe in
the gospel of Jesus Christ. I want people to believe
in the principles that we've set forth in this country,
the constantitutional principles we've set forth, the concept of life, liberty,
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the pursuit of happiness, the things that you read in
the Declaration of Independence, the concepts that you'll capture by
reading the Bill of Rights or other founding documents or whatever.
That's what I want to see people accept. I think
that's good for our nation. That's good for liberty. As
Reagan said, liberty is always one generation away. Freedom is
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always one generation away from extinction. It is you don't
pass it along. I told my son this last night,
when we were talking about talking about taxes and all
this stuff. Is he's got his new business and so forth. Liberty,
freedom doesn't get inherited or passed along automatically. We have
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to do the work necessary to explain it so that
people appreciate it. The next generation accepts it, understands it,
embraces it, and not only that, is prepared to then
share it with the next generation. That's how this stuff works,
my friends. And so we've got a real problem here
in this nation, lots of them, and we're going to
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have more drama, more corruption exposed, because however bad we
think the government is, however much corruption, however much fraudulent
activity that's been happening with these government program it's probably worse.
And it's going to take people like Nick Shirley to
expose the truth. And you just keep digging. It gets
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uglier and uglier and uglier. But expect more of that,
more corruption to be exposed. Trump, of course, is trying
to do stuff about these things. Some of these things
he can't. These are, you know, state problems or people
are inside the bureaucratic state with a lot of insulation,
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a lot of things that prevent him from being able
to do what needs to be done, which is in
many cases just mass firings and so forth. But just
expect that in twenty twenty six, and expect the media
to basically say you're crazy for believing it. Expect the media,
the Democrat Party to say that it's not as bad
as they tell us it is. I saw I saw
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Charlemagne talking with Jasmine Krockett a clip on over the
Christmas holiday, and he was asking her about this. He
basically acknowledged, you know, there's waste, fraud and abuse. You know,
can't she acknowledge it? Well, yeah, she says, but it's
not as bad as they make it out to be. Okay, Well,
you can see what happens. You can see what happens
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when you continue to dig, when you shine a light
on a situation, and you'll see more and more of this,
more and more of this. There's a real risk, by
the way, as we get here in the next month,
actually a month from today, there's a real risk of
another government shut down. Funding expires for much of the
government on January thirtieth, not all of it, but certainly
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a big chunk of it. Given where we are with
the breakdown of the House of Representatives. I don't know.
I don't know if there will be another shutdown or not.
To be honest, right now, I probably lean I think
in percentages, I lean on the side that says there's
a better than average chance or a likely chance more
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than fifty percent that there will be a government shut
down because because of a couple things. Number One, the
Democrats think that this hurts Republicans. Number one, in a
political an election, hear that matters. Number one. Number two.
Number two, there are Republicans who have been told for
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a long time that if you just wait until the
next vote, we can fix the spending problem, we can
cut spending here or there, but there's never a will
to do that, and so the likelihood that that happens
is probably small. The small chance that there's going to
be real legitimate cuts, and that's going to cause some
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Republicans who have been told wait until next time, wait
until next time, they're going to say, well, I can't
continue to wait forever. We have to at some point
begin to make real cuts to suspending. And I don't
think Republicans some of them, some of them are not
going to be on board with the cuts, and some
of them will find it unacceptable that we continue to
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kick the can down the road. And actually, if you
remember what I said at the previous shutdown that this
I thought that they should have agreed to the you know,
to the vote to reopen the government, but also say
that this was the last time. So of course there's
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other things they should have done between that point of
time and now, and I don't know how much of
that has been done. But nonetheless, nonetheless, we find ourselves
on the verge of another shutdown, and it could be
another another shutdown, and it could be a lengthy shutdown.
So we'll see were that goes. There's going to be
a major fight over what I would call, in general,
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tariff dividends. Trump has Trump has secured more tariffs for
this country than we've seen in a long long time.
Trump has said he wants to send checks to the
American people. There's a couple of variations of this. Whether
it's a direct check or whether it's potentially a tax
cut where you will actually see the standard deduction increase
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six hundred to two thousand dollars or whatever. That's a
real legitimate thing. Whether this happens at all, how much
that's going to be, what form they take, I don't know,
but I expect Donald Trump to continue to push hard
for this, and I think we're going to see this
across the finish line sometime here early I say early,
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semi early in twenty twenty six. We'll see. Of course,
we've got Trump State of the Union coming up here
in a month or so, which I'm sure he'll hit
on that as well. So all right, got to qs
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Welcome back, my friends. On the eve of New Year's Eve,
twenty twenty five, we're going through what I think are
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twenty six, going through some of these things. Got more
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expect a major fight over tariff dividends. I think Trump's
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gonna win this in some way, shape, manner, or form.
There's a lot of reluctance among Republicans. I think they're
going to come to the realization that all these tariffs
have had a positive impact on things. They're not nearly
as detrimental as we were told, haven't been catastrophic. I
think that Trump says this is an election year, we
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need to we need to share with the American people
some of the successes. And I think that that's what
Whatever you think about this, I think that's what's going
to happen. I do I think that Trump wins this
in twenty twenty six. Deportations are going to continue. I
would say deportations are going to potentially increase in intensity,
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increase in frequency. I think that they're continually looking for
ways to do this, and there's reasons for this, which
is the next point I want to hit here Again.
I'm getting to as much of this as I can.
I've got fifteen points here. I'm on number ten. Voter
rolls and immigration enforcement is going to have an impy
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it's going to be it's going to show up in
the twenty twenty six mid terms between states cleaning up
their voter rules and between illegal immigrants being deported or
self deported or being deported. What's the number two point
two million, maybe a little bit more than that is
what the number of total deportations of people who are
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not supposed to be here, who are illegally in this country?
Two point two fewer, two point two million, fewer people
in twenty twenty six than there weren't twenty twenty five.
That's a that's a chunk, my friends, That's that's significant.
Got a lot of work left to be done, but
I think that you're going to begin to see this.
I think democrats know this. I think democrats know this,
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and I think that you combine this with there's a
there's a Supreme Court case called Louisiana versus Calay, which
could which could stop the federal well the requirement, by
in accordance with interpretation of the Voting Rights Act, for
certain districts to be drawn congressional districts to be drawn
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with race being the primary factor of the people in
the district. That may be overturned here by the Supreme Court,
which could which could turn maybe up to twelve or
so seats in the South that are blue blue seats
and red states that could potentially turn those red. That's coming.
You've got the voter rules being claimed, You've got the
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legal immigration, illegal aliens being deported. Don't think that this
is not going to show up on the voting on turnout,
because I think it absolutely is. So that's out there
as well. This is, by the way, the main reason
why the left loves open borders, because it gives them
the opportunity to import voters and to fundamentally change this
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country without having to persuade anybody to their insane ideas.
I think that there's a slightly better than fifty percent
chance that the Russian Ukraine war ends. It's always hard
with things like this. If you've ever read The Art
of War by Sun Zou, you know what I mean.
But I think that there's a better than fifty percent chance,
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slightly better than fifty percent chance that Trump is able
to negotiate an end to the Ukraine Russian war. So
that's good. I also think that there's a real risk
that the Israel Hamas ceasefire collapses for reasons that no
human being is going to fix these problems long term.
This runs deep, It runs for millennia. The religious component here,
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the hatred for the people of Israel, the brutality and
the evil of Hamas. I hope it doesn't, but I
think that there's a real risk that collapsing in twenty
twenty six. I already mentioned this briefly, but independent journalists
are going to keep exposing what the legacy media won't.
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I think that this is in part, in part a
kind of what I want to say, a just something
that happens in the wake of people who have been
inspired by Charlie Kirk, even though he wasn't a journalist
like that. I think there's a lot of inspiration to
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get the truth. I expect more of this sort of
thing to be happening. Unfortunately. I think that there's going
to be more conservative infighting, more of the stuff that
we've seen, fights about Eric Kirk, Candace Owens, all these
Ben Shapiro. I think there's going to continue to be that.
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I hope that we can move more towards unity than that,
but don't be surprised if that continues happening. And I
also think the fifteenth thing here that there's going to
be a lot of unresolved questions about Epstein. I think
a lot of people think that there's just a file
that tells us everything about Epstein and the victims. And
I'm not really sure that such a thing exists, or
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that we're ever going to see it if it does.
Regardless of my friends, buckle up for twenty twenty six
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some of these might be new developments that are coming
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you align your money with your mission. Okay, let's get
to it today again. Talking these aren't well, let me
let me set the stage here. This isn't so much
predictions as much as it's just expectations of where I
think we are headed, based on things like history, based
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on human nature, based on the power dynamic, based upon
this being an election here, a midterm election here. Now
you know, you know almost certainly. So listen, We've got
people again all over the gamut that tune in here.
We've got people who are seasoned professionals. You've got the ability,
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as Rush Limball used to say, to read the seams
on the fastball. You can see what's coming and adjust
and make contact with that ball as it's coming across
home plate. You've got the ability to do that. Some
of you have followed it for a while. Maybe you're
still learning. Everybody's learning, by the way, everybody still learning, uh,
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but some some are still in kind of the middle
phase where you're you've come to grips with a lot
of the fundamentals, but you're still learning. Uh. Some of
the nuance that makes uh, you know, makes it possible
to really have a firm understanding and to to see
what's coming in to be prepared to deal with it.
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And then some are new folks new to politics. For
whatever reason. Some people haven't lived enough years to have
the amount of experience necessary. Some folks didn't didn't care
about politics. Whatever the reason, it makes no difference to
me which category you are in. In some respect, we're
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all in the same boat. We're all learning, we're all
trying to make the most of this. We're all trying
to push in the same direction here, in the direction
of the constitution, constitutional conservatism, and so forth, in the
direct of liberty. And so this is an election here,
and we know you know that historically that means losses
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for the party in power. That's just the way that
it works. It's easier to if you're the party out
of power, to stir up energy in your base to
go out and to push back against the losses you
had in the previous election. So that is the starting point.
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The Democrats have an advantage as far as that goes.
Now have we absolutely have a say in this, But
this is what history teaches us, so we should know
what we're up against. We're already in a very very
close House of Representatives, which is what there's only a
couple couple of Republican seats. If they were to flip,
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it would make it a Democrat majority House of Representatives,
which would mean no Speaker John and it would mean
a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries for the Democrats. We're very close
to that. That's why these fights about redistricting mattered so
much as we headed into as we head into the
midterms here. But regardless, here are things that I anticipate
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in that uh, you know, kind of with that framework
heading into the twenty twenty six midterm election year. First
of all, I'm going to say buckle up because it's
going to be tumultuous. There's going to be a lot
going on. So here's my expectations. These aren't predictions. These
these aren't you know what. This is just what I
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think as of right now as we're about to turn
the calendar from twenty twenty five into twenty twenty six.
So first, I think it's clear that the economy continues
to improve in twenty twenty six. It's of course not
going to be perfect. It never will be. There are
still pain in the overall economy, not just the economy,
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but just the nation's finances when you factor things in,
oh like the national debt and those sorts of things
that have real impact that we've continued to kick that
can down the road for years and years and years now,
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but I think things are noticeably going to be better
than where we have been, even in twenty twenty five.
You know, when you think about what we endured during
the four years of the Biden administration, we endured a
lot massive inflation. I think a lot of folks don't
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fully understand that inflation. Inflation isn't something that can be
really undone. It can be slowed down, but it can't
really be reversed. So when we see it, first of all,
I'm talking about true, genuine inflation. I'm not talking about
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every reason that causes prices to go up in the marketplace,
because not all price increases are inflation. We've gotten lazy,
and that's what we say in twenty twenty five, we
call any price increase inflation. But inflation is a phenomenon.
I've gone through this countless times. Forgive me if you've
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heard this fifty times on here, But inflation, it's important.
Inflation is a phenomenon that exists when the federal government,
and only the federal government can do this. When you
hear people debating who's responsible for inflation, it is an
exercise in pure sophistry because inflation is a specific phenomenon.
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All inflation leads to price increases, but not all price
increases are the result of inflation. So when you have inflation,
what you have is the federal govern creating more money
more money supply than actual real value created in the marketplace.
That's the simplest way to put it. And so the
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the economy, the value that we create economically in our
country every year or a month, however you want to
measure it, it has a value. It has a real
value that should correspond to, in a perfect world, the
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same amount of dollars. But that's not what happens. The
government will produce more dollars than real value. And what happens.
What happens because marketable markets seek an equilibrium. What happens
is the market understands this, and so things that you
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have more money to pay for because there's an excess
amount of dollars, they everything will rise so that the
money flows to them because they you know, you can
get the you can get more for them because there's
more dollars out there. And when that happens, what you've
done is you've watered down the value of all dollars
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because you've inflated the value of the things in the
marketplace just because there's more money, not because they're actually
worth more to the person buying it, but because you
pumped too much money into the market, into the economy,
I should say. And so what happens is you create
this this scenario where you're weakening the buying power, the
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purchasing power of the dollars. And I was telling my
son this last night. My son is, my son is
in this situation where he's having to look at and
understand these things in ways he's never understood them before.
Because he's got a little business. He's done really well
for himself. Very proud of the guy, but some of
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these things mean more to him. And I said, look,
it's you know, tax increasing taxes is bad, but that's
saying we're going to put more of a financial burden
on you today to pay more. Inflation, I would say,
is even is even worse because the money you have
socked away, stashed away, They say that that because of inflation,
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that becomes worthless because the value of those dollars isn't
what it was when you put it there. It's just
this insidious sort of thing. And so but once Trump
came into office, he can slow inflation, which he did
his policies of course, and they've adjusted something. There's a
lot of technical stuff that goes into this, but again
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at the just the basic understanding level that we're talking about,
this that's exactly what it is, and so you can't
reverse it. So it's it's like you're blowing up a
balloon and you blow it up with inflation. It's baked in.
It's already air in the balloon. Now you can say, well,
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let's let air out, but in reality, what happens is
all you do moving forward is you can slow the
rate of the air that you blow into the balloon.
It's already in there, and you can't really take it
out of the equation because it's already been done. You
can just slow it. And so then you have to
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have growth. And we've started to see growth. I shared
yesterday we had a four point three GDP growth in November.
We'll see what that looks like in December here, but
we're definitely on the right track. We've slowed inflation now
GDP is increasing, and I expect more of that in
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twenty twenty six. In fact, I would go as far
to say that twenty twenty six could show a major
economic boom. My friends, Now what we begin to see
and feel this real and proved movement, like this dramatic
improvement that I think could be coming prior to the
election to where people can associate what's happening with policy.
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I don't know. I hope so the election is not
until later in the year. But you know how this
game is played. Democrats the media, they'll tell you that
it's anything besides Trump's policies and that sort of thing.
But regardless, regardless of the impact that this has on
the election in twenty twenty six, the economy is going
to continue to show improvement. Everything's going to stay tight
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and close. I think when you talk about votes or
margins or majorities, I don't anticipate any blowouts. Of course,
there could be some quote unquote easy victories in certain
districts or states, but when you look at things on
a national level in the US Congress, I don't know
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if there's going to be many easy wins. That's just
the way that this is shaped up right now and
the way that it could be after the twenty twenty
six midterms as well. The midterms will be I expect
this to be the case. The midterms will absolutely be
a real fight. The Republicans, I expect, will hold on
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to the Senate. The outcome of the House of Representatives
is unpredictable. I would say it could flip Democrat. It
could it could remain Republican. It's possible for Republicans to
gain a couple seats, It's possible for them to lose
several seats. We shall see where that goes. There will be,
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of course, prepare yourselves for this. There's going to be
more negative news targeting Trump and Republicans in twenty twenty six.
This of course goes without saying, as I've said on
this program for years, this is the strategy. This is
the strategy the left always employees, not just against Trump.
You know, for those of you who are newer listeners,
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let me make this clear. This is not something that
is new that has happened to Donald Trump. It is
new in relation to how negative and how aggressive the
negative news coverage is about Trump. But this has always
been the playbook. The playbook by the media, by the
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Democrat Party against Republicans is really pretty simple. What they
do is they attack them. They malign them, and most
people just by nature think, you know what, I just
this fight isn't worth having. I don't want the negative coverage.
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You know, some of these folks, as weird as it
might sound, I mean Washington, d C. You hear a
lot of people talk about the Uniparty, And there's certainly
truth that there is an element of the Uniparty in Washington,
d C. There's no doubt about it. But if you
go in there as someone who's not part of the Uniparty,
you had better have some really thick skin and you
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really had better not care about being accepted into that
inner circle, the DC elites circle. But see, once you're
in there, once you're in there, just human nature, it
kicks in for a lot of folks. It's just it's easier,
it's easier to get along. It's easier when you're getting
invited to the parties. It's easier when you're part of
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the group versus ostracized and attacked. People don't like that,
and so the media knows this and they attack people.
And usually what happens is the Republican, the Conservative we'll
just say, you know what, this isn't worth it, and
they'll back off, and they'll say it's you know, it's
better to it's better to not have my reputation destroyed
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or whatever than it is to win on this particular issue.
Trump's not wired that way, though. Trump says, you know what,
if you hit me, I'm going to hit back a
little bit harder. And this tit for tat sort of
scenario has been how they've functioned for all of these well,
for all these years, with all these different candidates and politicians,
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except it's very rare for someone to hit back, and
not only hit back once, but to hit back again.
And so when both sides, both sides are programmed or
are prepared to simply ratchet it up one step higher
each and every time, there's no end in sight, and
the media doesn't have another strategy. The media doesn't have
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another strategy, and so this was unavoidable. And in fact,
you can go back to the early days of this show.
It's still shocking to me to see how much they
hate him. But we were talking about this in the
early days. It wasn't hard to see that Trump was
a fighter, that he was not really bothered, in fact,
in some cases, energized by what happened on when he's
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attacked and so forth. It almost gives him in or
he's got a remarkable ability to do this, but it's effective.
It's effective for people, at least for some people out there,
to see a bunch of negative news and one of
two things happens. They either just believe the negative news
and think, wow, it can't be possible for this money,
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this many bad things to be made up about one person,
so he's got to be as bad as they tell me,
or there's another group too that just that there's this
subtle undertone that says the cool people, the people who
are in the end crowd or whatever, they're the ones
who hate Trump. So in order to be part of
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the hit, I'm telling you, adulthood is like high school
for a lot of people. And a lot of people say, listen,
I'm just it's easier for me. It's easier for me
to just, you know, be on this side of the fence.
I don't really care. I just want to not step
in front of the bus. Saw. I don't want to
be canceled. I don't don't want the relentless assaults of
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you know, people on social media to come after me.
That's what a lot of people think. But that's not
what principled people think. That's not what people like Trump
think when he wants to get stuff done. So be prepared,
of course, for more negative news to hit Trump and
the Republicans in twenty twenty six. This is never this
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is not going to stop. By the way, locally here
in my state, I'm in Indiana. Most of you are
not in my state. A healthy chunk of you are
here on our home base Freedom ninety five in Indianapolis.
But in my state, you know that there was a
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redistricting fight. We talked about this for a while in
this program because it had national implications, had implications for
the election of twenty twenty six. I think that the
primary season, which will happen here in my state, we
have May primaries, So in early May, you're going to
see that there's a real Republican divide, and I think
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you'll find that in other places as well. I think
incumbents who underestimate the opposition that they face from people
like me, many of people like you people in this audience,
I think that they better not assume that they are
safe in this primary season. They are misreading the room
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if they think that this is the establishment, the country clubbers,
the moderate Republicans against conservatives who actually grasp what's at
stake nationally. My friends, this class is going to be
coming into the open in May. It's going to be
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happening before that, during the primary season. But be prepared
for that as well here in Indiana and elsewhere. I
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I'm your host, Todd Huff back in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. We are talking here about what
to expect in twenty twenty six. When we left you
last segment, we were talking about the fight that is
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coming and it's continuing. But for many people who again
this is not you, This is for other people out
there who don't follow this as closely as we do,
it might come as a bit of a surprise. But
there is going to be There are going to be
real fights at the primary level in states like Indiana,
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and they're going to happen, and they're going to happen
for time to time to come. In fact, I've got
a group of you that have told me that you
want to basically stay in formed for my listeners in
Indiana to continue to work together to try to defeat
people who are Republicans in the primaries who are not
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fighting in such a way that we can win in
in these elections. These things matter tremendously, and if you
want to do that, just send me an email to
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we start working with other groups like Turning Point Action
or whoever else here, give you ways to to well
step into the fight here and to actually see Republicans
grow a backbone and do what needs to be done
to ensure that liberty survives all of this chaos. My friend,
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I think as we look ahead the twenty twenty six,
we had better be prepared for more drama. And I'll
tell you something else you might have found. You might
have seen some reports from a what I guess you'd
just say, a citizen journalist named Nick Shirley. You may
have seen him on social media. It's remarkable what he's done.
He's gone up to Minnesota, He's gone and dug into
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these these groups that have allegedly been stealing money, fraudulently
taking state money for schools. These many of these, this
particular group is a group of Somalian refugees. That are
getting money. He's gone to these places in person, showing
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these schools. I believe they were school supposedly schools with
no kids in them. Of course the people came to
the door, they wouldn't talk to him, they shut the door,
and all that kind of stuff. I think we're gonna
find more of this corruption exposed, and it's gonna come
at the hands of people like well, citizen journalists like
Nick Shirley, because this the media is not interested in this.
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The media again, as I've talked about on here before,
as Rush used to talk about, it's the pr firm
of the Democrat Party, that is who the media is.
They're not interested in getting real information about what's really
going on out there, especially if it's detrimental to Democrats.
They're interested in pushing a political narrative. They're interested in
certain outcomes. That is not journalism, my friends, that's corruption. Well, listen,
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there's nothing wrong with sharing your opinions, but to do
so under the guys that you're presenting unbiased news is
a wild, wild thing to try to get away with.
It's one of the reasons why I refuse routinely. I
refuse to accept the well the allegation I guess that
I'm a journalist. I'm not a journalist. I am someone
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who has opinions. I come to this microphone every day
to try to persuade people to hear and receive truth.
That's what I want. I want people to believe in
the gospel of Jesus Christ. I want people to believe
in the principles that we've set forth in this country,
the constantitutional principles we've set forth, the concept of life, liberty,
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the pursuit of happiness, the things that you read in
the Declaration of Independence, the concepts that you'll capture by
reading the Bill of Rights or other founding documents or whatever.
That's what I want to see people accept. I think
that's good for our nation. That's good for liberty. As
Reagan said, liberty is always one generation away. Freedom is
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always one generation away from extinction. It is you don't
pass it along. I told my son this last night,
when we were talking about talking about taxes and all
this stuff. Is he's got his new business and so forth. Liberty,
freedom doesn't get inherited or passed along automatically. We have
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to do the work necessary to explain it so that
people appreciate it. The next generation accepts it, understands it,
embraces it, and not only that, is prepared to then
share it with the next generation. That's how this stuff works,
my friends. And so we've got a real problem here
in this nation, lots of them, and we're going to
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have more drama, more corruption exposed, because however bad we
think the government is, however much corruption, however much fraudulent
activity that's been happening with these government program it's probably worse.
And it's going to take people like Nick Shirley to
expose the truth. And you just keep digging. It gets
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uglier and uglier and uglier. But expect more of that,
more corruption to be exposed. Trump, of course, is trying
to do stuff about these things. Some of these things
he can't. These are, you know, state problems or people
are inside the bureaucratic state with a lot of insulation,
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a lot of things that prevent him from being able
to do what needs to be done, which is in
many cases just mass firings and so forth. But just
expect that in twenty twenty six, and expect the media
to basically say you're crazy for believing it. Expect the media,
the Democrat Party to say that it's not as bad
as they tell us it is. I saw I saw
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Charlemagne talking with Jasmine Krockett a clip on over the
Christmas holiday, and he was asking her about this. He
basically acknowledged, you know, there's waste, fraud and abuse. You know,
can't she acknowledge it? Well, yeah, she says, but it's
not as bad as they make it out to be. Okay, Well,
you can see what happens. You can see what happens
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when you continue to dig, when you shine a light
on a situation, and you'll see more and more of this,
more and more of this. There's a real risk, by
the way, as we get here in the next month,
actually a month from today, there's a real risk of
another government shut down. Funding expires for much of the
government on January thirtieth, not all of it, but certainly
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a big chunk of it. Given where we are with
the breakdown of the House of Representatives. I don't know.
I don't know if there will be another shutdown or not.
To be honest, right now, I probably lean I think
in percentages, I lean on the side that says there's
a better than average chance or a likely chance more
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than fifty percent that there will be a government shut
down because because of a couple things. Number One, the
Democrats think that this hurts Republicans. Number one, in a
political an election, hear that matters. Number one. Number two.
Number two, there are Republicans who have been told for
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a long time that if you just wait until the
next vote, we can fix the spending problem, we can
cut spending here or there, but there's never a will
to do that, and so the likelihood that that happens
is probably small. The small chance that there's going to
be real legitimate cuts, and that's going to cause some
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Republicans who have been told wait until next time, wait
until next time, they're going to say, well, I can't
continue to wait forever. We have to at some point
begin to make real cuts to suspending. And I don't
think Republicans some of them, some of them are not
going to be on board with the cuts, and some
of them will find it unacceptable that we continue to
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kick the can down the road. And actually, if you
remember what I said at the previous shutdown that this
I thought that they should have agreed to the you know,
to the vote to reopen the government, but also say
that this was the last time. So of course there's
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other things they should have done between that point of
time and now, and I don't know how much of
that has been done. But nonetheless, nonetheless, we find ourselves
on the verge of another shutdown, and it could be
another another shutdown, and it could be a lengthy shutdown.
So we'll see were that goes. There's going to be
a major fight over what I would call, in general,
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tariff dividends. Trump has Trump has secured more tariffs for
this country than we've seen in a long long time.
Trump has said he wants to send checks to the
American people. There's a couple of variations of this. Whether
it's a direct check or whether it's potentially a tax
cut where you will actually see the standard deduction increase
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six hundred to two thousand dollars or whatever. That's a
real legitimate thing. Whether this happens at all, how much
that's going to be, what form they take, I don't know,
but I expect Donald Trump to continue to push hard
for this, and I think we're going to see this
across the finish line sometime here early I say early,
(32:49):
semi early in twenty twenty six. We'll see. Of course,
we've got Trump State of the Union coming up here
in a month or so, which I'm sure he'll hit
on that as well. So all right, got to qs
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Welcome back, my friends. On the eve of New Year's Eve,
twenty twenty five, we're going through what I think are
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twenty six, going through some of these things. Got more
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Build your legacy, secure your future. I mentioned before the break,
expect a major fight over tariff dividends. I think Trump's
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gonna win this in some way, shape, manner, or form.
There's a lot of reluctance among Republicans. I think they're
going to come to the realization that all these tariffs
have had a positive impact on things. They're not nearly
as detrimental as we were told, haven't been catastrophic. I
think that Trump says this is an election year, we
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need to we need to share with the American people
some of the successes. And I think that that's what
Whatever you think about this, I think that's what's going
to happen. I do I think that Trump wins this
in twenty twenty six. Deportations are going to continue. I
would say deportations are going to potentially increase in intensity,
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increase in frequency. I think that they're continually looking for
ways to do this, and there's reasons for this, which
is the next point I want to hit here Again.
I'm getting to as much of this as I can.
I've got fifteen points here. I'm on number ten. Voter
rolls and immigration enforcement is going to have an impy
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it's going to be it's going to show up in
the twenty twenty six mid terms between states cleaning up
their voter rules and between illegal immigrants being deported or
self deported or being deported. What's the number two point
two million, maybe a little bit more than that is
what the number of total deportations of people who are
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not supposed to be here, who are illegally in this country?
Two point two fewer, two point two million, fewer people
in twenty twenty six than there weren't twenty twenty five.
That's a that's a chunk, my friends, That's that's significant.
Got a lot of work left to be done, but
I think that you're going to begin to see this.
I think democrats know this. I think democrats know this,
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and I think that you combine this with there's a
there's a Supreme Court case called Louisiana versus Calay, which
could which could stop the federal well the requirement, by
in accordance with interpretation of the Voting Rights Act, for
certain districts to be drawn congressional districts to be drawn
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with race being the primary factor of the people in
the district. That may be overturned here by the Supreme Court,
which could which could turn maybe up to twelve or
so seats in the South that are blue blue seats
and red states that could potentially turn those red. That's coming.
You've got the voter rules being claimed, You've got the
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legal immigration, illegal aliens being deported. Don't think that this
is not going to show up on the voting on turnout,
because I think it absolutely is. So that's out there
as well. This is, by the way, the main reason
why the left loves open borders, because it gives them
the opportunity to import voters and to fundamentally change this
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country without having to persuade anybody to their insane ideas.
I think that there's a slightly better than fifty percent
chance that the Russian Ukraine war ends. It's always hard
with things like this. If you've ever read The Art
of War by Sun Zou, you know what I mean.
But I think that there's a better than fifty percent chance,
(38:46):
slightly better than fifty percent chance that Trump is able
to negotiate an end to the Ukraine Russian war. So
that's good. I also think that there's a real risk
that the Israel Hamas ceasefire collapses for reasons that no
human being is going to fix these problems long term.
This runs deep, It runs for millennia. The religious component here,
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the hatred for the people of Israel, the brutality and
the evil of Hamas. I hope it doesn't, but I
think that there's a real risk that collapsing in twenty
twenty six. I already mentioned this briefly, but independent journalists
are going to keep exposing what the legacy media won't.
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I think that this is in part, in part a
kind of what I want to say, a just something
that happens in the wake of people who have been
inspired by Charlie Kirk, even though he wasn't a journalist
like that. I think there's a lot of inspiration to
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get the truth. I expect more of this sort of
thing to be happening. Unfortunately. I think that there's going
to be more conservative infighting, more of the stuff that
we've seen, fights about Eric Kirk, Candace Owens, all these
Ben Shapiro. I think there's going to continue to be that.
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I hope that we can move more towards unity than that,
but don't be surprised if that continues happening. And I
also think the fifteenth thing here that there's going to
be a lot of unresolved questions about Epstein. I think
a lot of people think that there's just a file
that tells us everything about Epstein and the victims. And
I'm not really sure that such a thing exists, or
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that we're ever going to see it if it does.
Regardless of my friends, buckle up for twenty twenty six
Gotta Go, SDG.
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