The Rush Lindell Show
The Rush Lindell Show is a conservative political podcast featuring two hosts with contrasting styles: one delivers high-energy, fiery commentary while the other counters with sharp wit and dry humor. Together, they dissect the week's political chaos, media nonsense, and culture war issues, offering unapologetic opinions. They are unafraid to challenge each other, providing a dynamic listening experience. The show promises political commentary with genuine conviction, free from corporate polish.
Episodes
Tuesday: Cook Moves 18 Races, Is the House Gone?
On Tuesday, October 13, the House map is the story: is Cook Political Report spotting a real Democratic wave, or are the pundits just stampeding together?
Rush Lindell and Reagan dig into Cook's October 9 update, which moved eighteen races and now projects a Democratic gain of nine to nineteen seats, or 224 to 234 in the chamber.
Herd or math? Rush says raters copy each other. Reagan says the nu
Thursday: Early Votes In, GOP Panic or Real Problem?
On Thursday, October 8, Rush Lindell and Reagan tackle the question rattling Washington: do more than 700,000 early ballots across 30 states signal real trouble for Republicans, or just a skewed sample?
They open with the headline numbers and what a pile that size can and can't tell you. Then they go state by state on Democratic ballot-request shares in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine and North Carolin
Tuesday: Hegseth's Brass Cut Burns His Own Side
On Tuesday, October 6, Rush Lindell and Reagan take on Pete Hegseth's plan to cut one in five generals and admirals, and ask whether it is a long-overdue shake-up or a purge.
First, what Hegseth actually announced at Quantico, how the 20% breaks down, and why the Jan. 1 deadline for roughly 170 slots matters. Then, why Republican senators say they were blindsided and what they want in notice and
Friday: Jobs Day, Then the Court Takes Over
Thursday, October 1: Two dates three days apart, Friday's jobs report and Monday's Supreme Court opening, are fighting for control of the November conversation.
Rush Lindell and Reagan grade their own Fed calls first. Rush earns a D-plus and Reagan a B for the right call with the wrong reasoning. Then they lay out what to expect from the September payroll number, with forecasts running from about
Wednesday: Texas Turns Purple, and We Owe You Crow
This beat no longer re-quotes Rush's prior 'Texas stays red' line or re-stages the Cook Political Report toss-up move as fresh news — it briefly nods to the cold open's admission and treats the toss-up rating as already-established fact before moving to the early-voting deadline (October 19) and teasing three separate polls without naming them yet. The toss-up reclassification and the GOP-favored
Thursday: Seven Toss-Ups, NH's Shocking Flip
New Hampshire just blew up the Senate map on Thursday, September 24 — Cook Political Report yanked Sununu-Pappas from Lean Democratic to Toss Up, and Rush Lindell and Reagan aren't letting that slide. This episode is the full seven-seat scorecard the show has been promising for weeks, ranking every race that decides whether Republicans keep their 53-47 majority.
Rush and Reagan grade Alaska and I
Tuesday: Silver's Wipeout Call vs. Cook's Cold Feet
Tuesday, September 22: Nate Silver just called the political forecasting industry asleep at the wheel — and Rush Lindell and Reagan put his brand-new FLIPR model on trial to see if he's right.
This episode breaks down whether Silver's Senate and House projections actually hold up against the old guard, or if it's just a louder spreadsheet. Topics covered include the FLIPR model's Senate numbers v
Wed: We Bet Cuts, The Fed Hiked—We Blew It
Thursday, September 17: Rush and Reagan finally admit it on air — the Fed just hiked rates instead of delivering the cut they called for months, and Trump is not happy about it. The vote landed 12-0 for a quarter-point hike to 3.75-4%, the first increase since 2023, with 16 of 18 officials signaling more hikes ahead.
This episode breaks down where the prediction went wrong, why Trump's trad
Tuesday: We Bet Cuts—Now the Fed's About to Answer
This beat established the binary being graded tomorrow: a hike to 3.75-4.00% or a surprise hold, with no cut option left on the table despite the show's months-long cut thesis, and closed with an added exchange affirming they won't dodge their own scoreboard. Reagan's insistence on evidence before victory-or-defeat is spent and should not be re-litigated. Next beat must explain the mechanics of th
Wed: Trump's $5K Bribe or Genius Turnout Play?
Thursday, September 10: Trump closes his Dallas convention speech with a jaw-dropping promise — a $5,000 dividend for every American adult, contingent on Republicans sweeping the House and Senate this November. Rush and Reagan grade the bet live, and it's messier than it sounds.
This episode breaks down the actual price tag on the pledge, the trillion-dollar funding gap nobody in the campaign has
Tuesday: The GOP's Hail Mary Convention in Dallas
On Tuesday, September 8, Rush and Reagan tear into the GOP's first-ever midterm convention in Dallas and ask the question nobody in the party wants answered: is a 100-plus speaker lineup a show of strength or a five-alarm panic dressed up as strategy?
From there, the show gets sharper. Trump's approval slide and the Democratic enthusiasm edge get measured against 2018's messy lessons. Reuters/Ips
Thursday: Johnson Punts the Shutdown Past Nov. 3
The House passed a stopgap funding bill 370-48 on Thursday, September 3, and Rush and Reagan aren't buying the victory lap Speaker Johnson is taking. That lopsided margin looks less like consensus and more like both parties dodging a fight they knew they'd lose before the midterms.
Rush and Reagan break down what's actually in the bill and what it means for the months ahead. They trace this year'
Tuesday: Warsh's Jackson Hole Tell Guts Our Cut Call
On Tuesday, September 1, Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech puts Rush and Reagan's September rate-cut call in front of a firing squad. The hosts break down exactly what Warsh said, why his use of AI-driven productivity to justify staying tight flips the usual Fed playbook, and how markets reacted in real time as hike odds jumped from a coin flip to over 55% on CNBC and past 66% on CME FedWatch. The
Thursday: We Called The Fed Wrong—Or Did We?
Thursday, August 27, the Fed might hike into an election and Rush and Reagan are here to admit their rate-cut-saves-the-midterms call may be flat-out wrong.
They walk through how July’s softer inflation data set up their original thesis, then stack that against Kevin Warsh’s bruising confirmation fight and the summer oil spike that flipped market odds toward a September hike. From there, they unp
Tuesday: Kushner's Secret Meeting Has Johnson Panicking
On Tuesday, August 25, a closed-door meeting between Jared Kushner and Hakeem Jeffries becomes the prism for whether the White House is secretly hedging on who will control the next House of Representatives.
The episode unpacks why this off-camera conversation matters, how it collided with progressive anger at Jeffries, and what it reveals about the gap between public confidence and private prepa
Thursday: 33% Approval and $4 Gas Is No Coincidence
Trump's approval just hit thirty-three percent on Thursday, August 20, and Rush Lindell and Reagan tear into what's actually driving the collapse. This episode digs into the Reuters/Ipsos crosstabs showing Democrats now beating Republicans on economic trust for the first time in a decade, then follows the money down to $527 in extra household fuel costs since the war began. Rush and Reagan clash o
Wednesday: Trump Hits 33 and MAGA Starts Flinching
Trump's approval hit 33 percent on Wednesday, August 19, and Rush Lindell and Reagan aren't letting the White House spin it away. Five separate pollsters are landing in the same range, echoing the December 2017 floor Trump eventually clawed back from.
This episode digs into whether MAGA erosion is real or just noise, testing old predictions against fresh NBC/Newsweek identification numbers and a
Tuesday: Trump Called Off the Same Iran Strike Twice
Rush and Reagan track Trump's whiplash on Iran — calling off history's biggest planned strike twice in a week, then branding Tehran "unbelievably duplicitous" — while Iran insists it's only talking to Oman about Hormuz, not Washington.
In this episode, we cover Lead Story / Iran War, Economy / Energy, Accountability / Analysis, and more.
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Thursday: Alex Jones Wants Trump Impeached Now
On Thursday, July 30, Alex Jones did the unthinkable and called for Trump's impeachment over the Iran war, and Rush Lindell and Reagan aren't letting the moment pass quietly. They pick apart whether the war powers argument holds up even as they question the messenger delivering it.
This episode covers a lot of ground fast. Oil crossing $100 a barrel and Leavitt's unanswered draft comment get sepa
Tuesday: $100 Oil, Split Votes, One Bad Prediction
On Tuesday, July 28, Rush and Reagan tackle a hard truth: Congress just voted twice on Iran war powers, and neither vote actually stops Trump from waging war. With three American troops dead in Jordan and a fourth in Iraq, the hosts dig into why a nonbinding resolution and a failed binding one both amount to Congress talking tough while ceding real authority.
This episode covers a lot of ground.
Thursday: Trump's Iran 'Peace Deal' Is a 12-Night War
Rush opens fired up over CENTCOM's twelfth straight night of strikes on Iran, framing it as a war dressed up as diplomacy, until Reagan corrects the record on how many separate waves of strikes there have actually been.
In this episode, we cover Lead Story / Iran War, Callback / Accountability, Defense Spending / War Economics, and more.
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Tuesday: Trump's Iran Deal Is Dead, Who Called It?
The Iran MOU is dead, and on Tuesday, July 21, Rush Lindell and Reagan tear apart exactly how it collapsed. Trump killed the deal himself at the NATO summit, and within weeks his rhetoric flipped from praise to calling Iran's leaders "scum."
This episode covers the full timeline from tanker attacks to CENTCOM's 80-plus target strikes and Tehran's defiant response from Ghalibaf. Rush and Reagan br
Thursday: Dems Grab the House, But Can the Firewall Hold?
Thursday, July 16: DDHQ's new 2026 midterm forecast has Democrats favored to retake the House while the Senate sits at a knife's-edge 50-50, with JD Vance as the tiebreaker "asterisk man." Rush and Reagan dig into what that 57% probability actually means before anyone calls it a done deal.
From there, the show turns structural: mid-decade redistricting quietly padded the GOP's House position by r
Thursday: SCOTUS Passed the Buck, GOP Has No Plan
The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling isn't the 6-3 landslide everyone's reporting on Thursday, July 9 — it's actually a 5-4 constitutional squeaker, and Rush and Reagan break down why that distinction changes everything.
This episode covers Trump's Truth Social demand for Congress to act despite the legal contradiction baked into his own request, Kavanaugh's concurrence that dodged t
Tuesday: Platner's Collapse Just Saved the GOP Firewall
On Tuesday, July 7, Graham Platner's Maine Senate campaign implodes overnight after a new sexual assault allegation from a former girlfriend sends Democratic leaders scrambling for cover. Rush and Reagan break down exactly how bad it is, why the party's outrage feels awfully convenient, and what happens next in a race that could decide control of the Senate.
Topics covered: the allegation itself
Tuesday: The Birthright Ruling the Media Is Already Getting Wrong
Tuesday, June 30: The Supreme Court drops its ruling on Trump v. Barbara — the birthright citizenship case — on the final day of its term, and the legal arguments the government brought into that courtroom did not survive contact with the justices.
Rush and Reagan walk through the government's failed attempt to redefine domicile within the 1898 Wong Kim Ark precedent, the two ruling paths the Cou
Monday: Trump Picked Warsh to Fix Rates. Now He's Eyeing a Hike.
Monday, June 29 — Trump launched a war that broke the Fed's rate-cut path, and now he's still demanding cheaper money.
Rush and Reagan walk through Kevin Warsh's first FOMC meeting, where rates held at 3.5–3.75% and nine of eighteen officials flipped from projecting a cut to projecting a hike — a full reversal in three months. They trace the 4.2% CPI spike directly to the Strait of Hormuz oil dis
Friday: The Birthright Bomb Is About to Drop — Are You Ready?
Friday, June 26 — the Supreme Court is days away from ruling on birthright citizenship, and most of the media still hasn't caught up to what's actually at stake.
Rush and Reagan break down Trump v. Barbara, the case Newsweek is already comparing to Dobbs in constitutional weight. They walk through the five words at the center of the 14th Amendment fight and why 128 years of settled law may not pr
Thursday: The House Map Was Redrawn While You Slept
Thursday, June 25 — The Supreme Court just handed Republicans a redistricting weapon, and states are already using it.
This episode breaks down the House majority fight that most political coverage is ignoring. Rush and Reagan walk through the 6-3 Alito ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, why Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama moved within days, and how the
Wednesday: The Senate Firewall Republicans Thought Was Safe
Wednesday, June 24 — the Senate map just moved against Republicans, and most of Washington is still looking the other way.
Rush and Reagan break down the Cook Political Report's June 11 ratings shift that dropped Alaska and Ohio to toss-up and pushed North Carolina into Lean Democrat territory — and what it means for a party defending 23 of 35 seats. They walk through the structural math behind D
Tuesday: Trump's Iran Surrender or Masterstroke? The Right Can't Agree
Tuesday, June 23 — Trump signed a peace deal with Iran at the Palace of Versailles, and the loudest critics are conservatives.
Rush and Reagan break down the 14-point US-Iran MOU: what the ceasefire actually says versus what the press release claims, and why the nuclear provisions look nearly identical to the Obama-era JCPOA Trump spent years attacking. They map the conservative media revolt — Fo
Monday: SCOTUS Is About to Decide Who Gets to Be American
Monday, June 22 — The Supreme Court is deciding who gets to be an American, and the administration is already acting like the answer is settled.
This episode breaks down the Court's packed end-of-term sprint: the birthright citizenship case (Trump v. Barbara), the administration's contested "domicile" theory under the 14th Amendment, and why even a narrow ruling could rewrite 128 years of precede
Friday: Trump Loves the Inflation. Your Wallet Doesn't.
Friday, June 19 — the President of the United States said "I love the inflation" on the same day CPI hit 4.2%, a three-year high, and Rush and Reagan are not letting it go quietly.
This episode breaks down the May CPI print and what is actually driving the headline number versus core inflation. It traces the tariff-to-price pipeline — how retailers spent 2025 absorbing costs and are now passing t
Thursday: DHS Blinked on the ICE Truce and Everyone Saw It
Thursday, June 18 — DHS Secretary Mullin said ICE would be at World Cup stadiums every day, then LA County Sheriff Luna put a no-enforcement commitment in writing. Nobody in the White House has explained that contradiction.
This episode covers the full four-month policy arc from February to now: how a 96% strike authorization vote by UNITE HERE Local 11 extracted an unprecedented right to strike
Wednesday: SCOTUS Has One Week Left and the Right Has No Idea What's Coming
Wednesday, June 17 — the Supreme Court is sitting on roughly 20 unissued opinions with no warning on timing and a hard deadline at the end of June. Rush and Reagan hand you the cheat sheet before the rulings land.
They break down the birthright citizenship fight in Trump v. Barbara and why the nationwide injunction question buried inside it may matter more than the citizenship ruling itself. They
Tuesday: Georgia Hands Trump His Report Card
Tuesday, June 16 — Georgia Republicans may be handing Jon Ossoff a Senate seat while they fight each other in prime time.
Rush and Reagan are tracking live results from two high-stakes GOP runoffs: Burt Jones versus Rick Jackson for governor, and Mike Collins versus Derek Dooley for Senate. They break down what Trump's endorsement record actually means when the scoreboard is live, including a sha
Monday: The Supreme Court Is About to Light Everything on Fire
Monday, June 15 — the Supreme Court has 23 cases left to decide before summer recess, and the ones still on the table are the ones that actually reshape the country.
Rush and Reagan break down what's coming: the birthright citizenship fight in Trump v. Barbara, which asks five justices to rewrite 128 years of precedent and affect 250,000 U.S.-born children annually. The trans athlete bans out of
Friday: ICE at the World Cup and It's Already a Mess
Friday, June 12 — the U.S. is hosting the World Cup, and it's already turning people away at the door.
Somalia's CAF Referee of the Year was denied entry at Miami after 11 hours of questioning. Iraq's star striker spent seven hours detained at O'Hare — while his team's photographer was sent home entirely. Iran's national team is sleeping in Tijuana and commuting across the border on game days. An
Thursday: Republicans Are Walking Into a Senate Trap
Thursday, June 11: Republicans are defending 23 Senate seats in 2026, and the primaries they are running may already be deciding the outcome. Rush and Reagan work through the full toss-up map with one central argument — a primary vote is a general election bet, and candidate quality is the only variable that separates a survivable map from a lost majority.
Georgia's June 16 runoff hands Jon Ossof
Wednesday: Trump Crashed the Knicks Party and the Left Wants the Senate Back
Wednesday, June 10 — the President of the United States walked into Madison Square Garden for an NBA Finals game and got booed through the national anthem.
Rush and Reagan break down Trump's historic MSG appearance and what the crowd response actually signals, then turn to Zohran Mamdani — the democratic socialist who went from 1% in the polls to mayor of New York City — and ask the honest questi
Tuesday: Trump Cries Fraud in California — Is He Wrong?
Tuesday, June 9 — Steve Hilton's election night confetti has dried, and the lead is gone.
Rush and Reagan break down how California's jungle primary produced the exact result Republicans set themselves up for: years of anti-mail-ballot messaging suppressed GOP turnout by mail, Becerra overtook Hilton as those ballots were counted, and Trump called it stolen on Truth Social without a single piece
Monday: SCOTUS Is About to Hand the Right a Culture War Win
Monday, June 8 — The Supreme Court is in its final sprint, and the rulings coming before June 26 could fundamentally reshape the country.
Rush and Reagan break down the two biggest cases on the docket: the transgender athlete bans, where oral argument signals point toward a likely majority to uphold the bans but the scope of the ruling may matter more than the outcome itself; and birthright citiz
Friday: Iowa Just Handed Trump His First Loss. Now What?
Friday, June 5 — a sixth-generation Iowa farmer just became the first candidate to defeat a Trump-endorsed opponent in the entire 2026 midterm cycle, and the margin was 0.8 points.
Rush and Reagan break down exactly what happened in Iowa's congressional primary: who Zach Lahn is beyond the MAHA branding, why incumbent Randy Feenstra's debate-skipping record may have cost him more than Trump's end
Thursday: The SCOTUS Loss That Could Win the War
Thursday, June 4 — The Supreme Court is about to hand the White House a loss on birthright citizenship, and Rush argues conservatives should be glad it happened.
Rush Lindell and Reagan break down Executive Order 14160, why every lower court blocked it, and what the April 1st oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara actually revealed about the administration's legally thin domicile theory. They walk th
Tuesday: Trump's Plan to Kill Flights at Sanctuary City Airports
Wednesday, June 3 — DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin went on national television and threatened to pull customs officers from JFK, LAX, and O'Hare, which would effectively shut down international travel at America's busiest airports.
Rush and Reagan break down what triggered it: a Memorial Day standoff at Newark's Delaney Hall detention facility where local police never showed up. They build the co
Tuesday: The Purge Is Real and Your Congressman Is Next
Tuesday, June 2 — Trump's endorsement record now stands at 118 and zero, and the Republican Party just watched a four-term Texas senator lose his own primary by 28 points.
Rush and Reagan break down the 2026 primary season race by race: Thomas Massie out after 14 years, Bill Cassidy running pro-Trump ads while Trump funded ads to end his career, and John Cornyn gone in the most significant GOP Se
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