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The State of Play in the Senate
Season 15 Episode 156
Erick Erickson walks the whole 2026 Senate map, refusing to back off his warning that Ken Paxton is a bad general election candidate against James Ta…
1 month, 1 week ago
Pete Hegseth Leak
Season 15 Episode 155
Erick Erickson opens by explaining why the Iran war cannot be negotiated like a normal conflict: the Islamic Republic's Mahdiism means the Ayatollahs…
1 month, 1 week ago
S15 EP155: Hour 2 - Trump vs the Data Centers Backlash, Plus Venezuela Oil
Season 15 Episode 155
Erick Erickson reads President Trump's Truth Social post warning that communities rejecting data centers will end up "backwards and poor," then expla…
1 month, 1 week ago
Deporting Milo
Season 15 Episode 155
Erick discusses the progressive dystopia that is America as the Handmaid's Tale even as progressives like Kathy Hochul are willing to cover their hea…
1 month, 1 week ago
Trump Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America, Plus Howard Lutnick's Canada Deal Sabotage
Season 15 Episode 154
Erick Erickson opens Open Line Friday on President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" and asks the obvious question: who…
1 month, 1 week ago
Callaway Drops Good Good Golf, Plus Flock Cameras, Data Centers and Where the Adults Went
Season 15 Episode 154
Erick Erickson uses the Callaway Golf and Good Good Golf blowup, a bad driver ad, a public apology, and a canceled partnership, to make a much bigger…
1 month, 1 week ago
Dolly Parton Tribute, Plus Iran's Strait of Hormuz Collapse and Chevron's Venezuela Deal
Season 15 Episode 154
Erick Erickson closes Open Line Friday with major Iran news, reporting from Axios and Barak Ravid that the United States has broken Iran's grip on th…
1 month, 1 week ago
Ratcliffe's Moscow Warning, Latvia Border Emergency, Plus Mike Collins Implodes in Georgia
Season 15 Episode 153
CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a surprise trip to Moscow to warn Vladimir Putin off any attack on NATO, and hours later Latvia declared a border em…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Lindsay Clancy, Postpartum Depression, Trump's Midterm Plea, and Hassan Piker's Michigan Problem
Season 15 Episode 153
Erick Erickson maps the midterm Senate landscape after President Trump tells voters to "pretend I'm on the ballot," with Karoline Leavitt's last day …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Johnathan Hamby, Lindsay Clancy, and Why America Must Reopen the Mental Hospitals
Season 15 Episode 153
Erick Erickson closes the show with the most personal monologue of the day, previewing his Atlanta Journal Constitution column on Johnathan Hamby, th…
1 month, 2 weeks ago