The Rob Maness Show

You just heard Vice President Vance say it plainly: we have been, and by the grace of God we always will be, a Christian nation. Not a theocracy. Not a test you have to pass to be an American. A creed. A shared moral language that gave us natural rights, duty to our neighbor, and the idea that the strong protect the weak. That foundation is why this country became a beacon of hope. And it is why the Left works so hard to pry church away from state, conscience away from law, and the people away from their own Constitution. If the church stays silent, somebody else will write the rules. That is not theory. That is what we have watched for years: mandates, speech codes, open borders dressed up as compassion, creeping Sharia law, and global arrangements that make life less affordable for the American worker. Today we talk about protecting liberty where it actually lives, in the Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, and the right of a free people to govern themselves. Joining me is Caleb Collier. Marine veteran. EMT. Former Spokane Valley, Washington, councilman who stood against a school vaccine mandate and fought to make his city a Second Amendment sanctuary. He hosts Church and State, where he tells Christians to get out of the pews and into the civic fight.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

National security competence is not optional for the people we send to Washington. You just saw that clip—national security knowledge is kind of important for a U.S. senator. Not a nice-to-have. Not a talking point. A requirement. Look at the world right now. Iran is still the chief sponsor of terror, racing toward nuclear capability and threatening our forces and allies. China is building the largest navy on earth and probing every weak point in the Pacific. Ukraine remains a meat grinder that drains American resources while the strategic picture keeps shifting. In that environment, the last thing this country can afford is senators who treat foreign policy like a press release or a focus group. We need leaders who understand deterrence, who know the difference between strength and bluster, and who have actually carried the weight of national defense decisions, not just talked about them. Peace through strength only works when the people in charge actually know what strength looks like and how to maintain it. That’s why today’s conversation matters. Joining me again is Chad Caton, a retired firefighter, former U.S. Navy Seabee, South Carolina native, and Republican activist who doesn’t mince words about the competence gap we’re seeing.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

Folks, right here in Mississippi, independent reporters, everyday citizens, and elected officials who are speaking out against creeping Sharia are getting smeared by the media, some lawyers, and even supposed allies. A Sharia-adherent judge, hijab and all, was just appointed in the small town of Benoit. When people report the facts, correct the record, or simply raise legitimate concerns, the Mississippi media doesn’t investigate. They attack. They dismiss. They call it bigotry instead of vigilance. This is how creeping Sharia works: quiet appointments, cultural pressure, parallel systems taking root while the press looks the other way, or worse, enables it through willful ignorance. Joining us first is Shannon Conner, an independent investigative journalist who broke the story. She’s been on the ground documenting this and taking the heat for routine, accurate reporting. Later we’ll bring in Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate Andy Gipson, who says it takes courage and prayer to ban Sharia law in our state, the same way Texas is doing and Florida already has. We’ll play more clips: the media smears, the complicity, Andy’s clear call to action, and patriots like Brigitte Gabriel urging every American to speak up now - before this becomes normal. This isn’t about one judge in a town of a few hundred. It’s about whether Mississippi will defend the Constitution or let incompatible ideologies gain a foothold.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

We’ve just seen the latest on the Iran front. Once again, Washington’s civilian leadership is steering us deeper into conflict while our readiness, our warriors, and our trust in the chain of command take the hit. This isn’t new. From endless proxy fights to decisions that hollowed out the force at home, the people in suits keep sending the people in uniform into harm’s way—and too often treating them as expendable when they push back. My guest today lived that reality. John Frankman is a former Army Captain and Green Beret with 7th Special Forces Group. Before putting on the uniform, he spent four years in Catholic seminary studying for the priesthood with the goal of becoming a chaplain, until he discerned God had a different mission for him. When the COVID vaccine mandate hit, John refused what he and many others saw as an unlawful and immoral order. On July 1, 2023, he voluntarily separated rather than compromise. He didn’t go quietly. He’s a signer of the Declaration of Military Accountability and has been fighting ever since for the thousands forced out and the readiness that was destroyed. Today he’s a candidate for Congress in Florida’s First District, the district with more military members and veterans than any other in the country. He’s running as a fighter for Faith, Freedom, and Florida First: medical freedom, closed borders, real accountability, and America First leadership that puts the force and the Constitution first. John knows what happens when civilian leaders get it wrong.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

We’ve just seen the latest on the Iran front. Once again, Washington’s civilian leadership is steering us deeper into conflict while our readiness, our warriors, and our trust in the chain of command take the hit. This isn’t new. From endless proxy fights to decisions that hollowed out the force at home, the people in suits keep sending the people in uniform into harm’s way—and too often treating them as expendable when they push back. My guest today lived that reality. John Frankman is a former Army Captain and Green Beret with 7th Special Forces Group. Before putting on the uniform, he spent four years in Catholic seminary studying for the priesthood with the goal of becoming a chaplain, until he discerned God had a different mission for him. When the COVID vaccine mandate hit, John refused what he and many others saw as an unlawful and immoral order. On July 1, 2023, he voluntarily separated rather than compromise. He didn’t go quietly. He’s a signer of the Declaration of Military Accountability and has been fighting ever since for the thousands forced out and the readiness that was destroyed. Today he’s a candidate for Congress in Florida’s First District, the district with more military members and veterans than any other in the country. He’s running as a fighter for Faith, Freedom, and Florida First: medical freedom, closed borders, real accountability, and America First leadership that puts the force and the Constitution first. John knows what happens when civilian leaders get it wrong.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

Today’s title cuts straight to the bone: The Marxist/Islamist Revolution in Your Face: One Communist is one too many. It’s not theoretical anymore. It’s here, bold, public, and accelerating. In New York City, the communist mayor is pushing government-run grocery stores paid for by you, the taxpayer. Private operators get stuck with the mess while prices get controlled into the ground. History has shown us this movie before: empty shelves, failed experiments, and freedom crushed under the boot of the state. Worse, he’s now outright doxxing private property owners, publishing names and addresses of nearly a million New Yorkers who might face his new taxes. That’s not governing. That’s a Bolshevik hit list. Capital flees hostile environments. What made New York, and America, great was capitalism, not this communist seizure of power. And a potential Democrat presidential contender is openly arguing we should make it harder for families to pass on the wealth they earned. Call it what it is: communism. This morning brings another warning shot. Abdul El-Sayed has won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan. Progressive darling, Bernie and AOC-backed, Medicare-for-All, abolish ICE, long ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, while claiming he’s “not a socialist.” One more Marxist-leaning voice advancing toward the U.S. Senate. One is already one too many. We’re joined once again by longtime TV news producer, former diplomat, and anchor at Talk Radio WABC in New York, Jake Novak.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

Springfield, Ohio, once a classic Midwestern working-class town, became ground zero in America’s immigration fight. Thousands of Haitians arrived under Temporary Protected Status. Locals raised alarms about overcrowding, strained services, cultural clashes, and yes, those viral reports about pets. The media and politicians called it all a “hoax.” Heritage residents were labeled racists, told to shut up, and gaslit for describing what they saw with their own eyes. But what if dismissing the story as a hoax was the real hoax? Today’s guest is New York Times bestselling author and lifelong Ohioan Joshua Lisec. He didn’t just tweet about it, he spent ten weeks on the ground in Springfield. He conducted original interviews, gathered public testimony and hard evidence, and commissioned the first professional poll of Clark County residents. The result is his forthcoming book, Haitians of Springfield: An Oral History, the first full-length account of this American migrant crisis. It documents what happens when one culture’s norms begin to supersede another’s, without a vote, without consent, and without recourse. Joshua shows the widening gap between the lived experience of foreign influx into middle America and the approved narrative that was force-fed to the rest of the country. This was not by chance. It was policy. And the people of Springfield paid the price.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

War is unpredictable. Getting to peace? Right now it looks a whole lot more like more war. You just saw Ukraine hit a key Russian strategic bomber base. A direct strike at the heart of Moscow’s long-range air power. Bold. Risky. And a reminder that this conflict can escalate in a heartbeat. President Trump cancels planned weekend strikes on Iran, citing diplomacy. Is this a genuine off-ramp, or just a pause while the region keeps boiling? Israel is conducting fresh self-defense strikes in Lebanon… while a ceasefire is supposedly in place that Hezbollah refuses to acknowledge. And a drone attack on a U.S. floating gas storage facility in Egypt puts the Suez Canal itself under threat. The entire map is a powder keg, and every fuse is lit from Southwest Asisa to Moscow. To break all of this down with no spin and no filter is a man who’s been there, retired Special Operations pilot, CDM Press President and CEO, patriot, and fearless truth-teller, L. Todd Wood.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

Friends, what you just saw is no conspiracy theory, it’s the documented reality of how Dr. Anthony Fauci and his inner circle ran a cover-up that shattered American life. Churches locked their doors. Schools closed and kids lost years of learning. Small businesses were crushed. Doctors were silenced. And public trust in government and medicine was deliberately destroyed, all while the same people who pushed the lockdowns, the mandates, and the experimental shots got richer and more powerful. Today we’re going to confront that wreckage from Dr Fauci’s lies of death and destruction head-on. My guest lived it, saw it, and has been sounding the alarm from a biblical and cultural perspective ever since. Dr. Alex McFarland is a youth, religion, and culture expert, the author of twenty books, including his brand-new release, 100 Bible Questions & Answers on Prophecy and the End Times. You hear him live every day on nearly two hundred stations across the American Family Radio Network, and he hosts The Alex McFarland Show on NRBTV. He also serves as Director of Worldview at Charis Bible College. Alex has watched the spiritual and moral collapse that followed the pandemic policies, and he’s not afraid to call it what it was: lies that cost lives and liberty.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

You just heard Secretary of War Pete Hegseth cut straight to the heart of it: “Diversity is not our strength.” Unity is. “Send me” becomes “Send us.” Duty. Honor. Country. For too long, that warrior ethos has been under deliberate assault at the very place charged with forging America’s future Army officers, the United States Military Academy at West Point. Joining us today is a man who’s lived it and is now fighting to restore it. Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Ed Kennedy. A prior enlisted infantryman, graduate of West Point Class of 1976 and Infantry officer. And for nearly two decades a graduate instructor at the Command and General Staff College. In his powerful new article for the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates, “Killing Woke At West Point,” Colonel Kennedy lays bare how DEI, Critical Race Theory, and Marxist ideology metastasized inside the Academy. He names names—faculty who rewrote history, elevated identity politics over warfighting, and even helped produce West Point’s first openly communist graduate. He shows how “Duty, Honor, Country” was quietly subordinated to race, gender, and grievance. Kennedy doesn’t just diagnose the cancer. He calls for the cure: a clean sweep of the root causes, full support for Secretary Hegseth’s war on woke, and a return to the timeless standards that once made West Point the envy of the free world. This isn’t about politics. It’s about whether the next generation of officers will lead American soldiers into battle with honor or fracture them with ideology.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

You just saw the trailer for Ohana, a TV series about organized crime and government corruption in Hawaii. That project is at the center of one of the clearest cases of weaponized prosecution I’ve seen. Chris Mazzei is a husband, a father, and a small-business owner. During the pandemic he and his wife Erin took out a PPP loan for that series. They relied on written guidance from the loan originator that projected payroll figures were acceptable—standard practice in traditional SBA programs. They were fully transparent. Most of the money was either repaid or never even used before sentencing. Yet federal prosecutors seized the family’s assets a full year before any charges were filed. They forced the family home into foreclosure. They threatened to criminally charge Chris’s 78-year-old mother if the couple didn’t take a plea deal or if they tried to submit exculpatory evidence. Ten days after sentencing, federal agents showed up at the foreclosure auction and bid on the Mazzei home, using money they had already seized from the family. The same government that called it fraud was ready to profit from more than a million dollars in equity they had taken from this family. Erin has already served her time. Chris has been in Washington fighting to expose the truth. Now his surrender date is August 20. This is what happens when the justice system is weaponized against ordinary Americans. It doesn’t just take your freedom—it attacks every part of your life.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

You just saw Ukraine’s drones strike transport ships in the Caspian Sea—vessels that have been moving military cargo between Iran and Russia. Iran is warning the attack “cannot go unanswered.” That raises the central question for today: Is the Iran war linking to, and potentially widening into the war in Eastern Europe? Or are these still separate theaters that just happen to share some of the same players and supply lines? Russia has leaned on Iranian drones and weapons. Iran has used the Caspian route. Now Ukraine is hitting that route. Does that force the two conflicts closer together, or can they still be contained? Look at the rest of the board: Houthis launching missiles toward Saudi Arabia again. President Trump meeting Lebanon’s President Aoun about ending hostility with Israel and dealing with Hezbollah. A new U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear cooperation deal that brings them into the Abraham Accords and further isolates Iran. Is the war widening, or are we watching parallel pressure points that still have room to stay separate? Joining me to work through that exact question is My guest today is independent journalist and combat veteran Matt Tardio.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

Another major victory: a federal appeals court rejected Joe Biden’s last-ditch effort to bury the audio recordings of his 2016-2017 interviews with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, the tapes will likely show Biden’s memory as “hazy,” “fuzzy,” and “poor” in the interviews. Fearing his unfitness for the presidency being exposed, Biden fought to keep them sealed. The Oversight Project fought harder, they won, and America will finally hear the truth. But the revelations keep coming. In New Jersey, the company that runs the voting system just confirmed there was no software glitch proving the Democrat governor to be a liar, after she was forced to admit state officials knowingly put thousands of non-citizens onto the voter rolls. And President Trump declassified documents covering up a seditious operation against him and revealing former FBI senior leader Nikki Floris admitted that she was “basically running a shadow government” while suppressing China election-interference intel on fake IDs for mail-in ballots, then testified under oath that no foreign power was hacking our systems. And Senator Jim Banks just dropped the Citizenship Act of 2026, declaring the children of invaders are not entitled to birthright citizenship, putting into law what the Supreme Court blocked from President Trump’s executive order. That’s why I’m bringing in the man helping drive these fights: Jeff Clark, Vice President of Litigation at the Oversight ProjectDiscover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

Life is unpredictable, folks. In a flash, South Carolina has lost its senior United States Senator. Lindsey Graham passed away suddenly, and the entire state, and really the whole country, is reeling from the news. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, his staff, and every South Carolinian who counted on him for more than two decades. Graham was a veteran who brought that same sense of duty to the Senate. He fought hard on national security and foreign policy, and whether you agreed with him on every issue or not, you knew where he stood. As the President just said, this is a big loss. We’re going to spend today unpacking exactly what this means. Our guest will walk us through what some are already calling the “new 40-day Senator” and how the seat will be filled. Then we’ll hear directly from South Carolina’s Congresswoman Nancy Mace on Graham’s passing and his legacy. And finally, we’ll discuss something Will Cain highlighted yesterday, that Graham was one of the few politicians who didn’t get rich off his office. He left public service the same way he came in. To help us break all of this down from a strong conservative perspective, I’m joined live right now by South Carolina native and Republican political expert Chad Caton, National Field Director for The Conservative Caucus.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

We just watched that Vatican News clip that hints the Vatican is flirting with Marxism through a globalist world view and policies but folks, that’s not a question anymore — it’s a warning. Last October in Rome, the fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements was hosted under Vatican leadership. Pope Leo himself stood before these groups and declared, 'I am here. I am with you!' He called their struggles 'legitimate and necessary' and praised them as 'social poets.' But a new 144-page report from the Lepanto Institute rips the mask off. Many of these so-called popular movements are steeped in Marxism — openly celebrating Karl Marx, pushing socialist revolution, and demanding abortion and radical LGBT policies. And it gets darker. Part Two of the investigation shows several of these organizations are also practicing outright paganism: Mayan shamans invoking spirits and Nawales, Candomblé rituals with spirit possession and offerings to Orixás, and 'mistica' ceremonies worshiping Mother Earth as divine. One group even gifted the Holy Father a tapestry honoring a pagan spirit. All of this is being brought inside the Church under the banners of 'synodality' and 'accompaniment.' Is the Church reaching the poor… or is Marxism and paganism reaching the Church? Joining me live to break it all down is the man who led this investigation: Michael Hichborn, founder and president of the Lepanto Institute.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

Today we’re cutting through the noise on the biggest story in the world: real efforts for peace in the Middle east and to stop the killing in Ukraine while the wars continue to rage across multiple fronts. From Switzerland, where Vice President JD Vance laid out what the U.S. accomplished at the Lake Lucerne Summit — Iranians agreeing to let IAEA inspectors back into the country as a major first step toward ending their nuclear weapons program. Four big accomplishments negotiated in one day. We’ll also examine what that deal means for Lebanon and whether Hezbollah is getting a lifeline out of these talks. Then we shift to President Trump’s own words — now that the Iran piece appears wrapped up, he’s turning his full attention to Ukraine. He told Macron he’s had good conversations with both Putin and Zelensky, and both leaders are open to a deal. “Maybe we can do something,” the President said. And we cannot ignore the brutal reality on the ground: the battle over energy and infrastructure. Russian drones just struck a cargo ship in the Black Sea and killed civilians in Ukraine as Moscow continues using every weapon in its arsenal — including energy leverage and sanctions warfare. To break all of this down with no spin and no filter is a man who’s been there — retired Special Operations pilot, CDM Press President and CEO, patriot, and fearless truth-teller — L. Todd Wood.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

You just heard President Trump at the G7 laying out the new Iran framework. He made it clear: technical discussions on removing every stockpile of enriched nuclear material begin right away. And unlike the old Obama deal that sent pallets of cash, any relief Iran gets will be earned on merit - not handed over by American taxpayers. This is moving fast. Oil prices are already reacting to the Strait of Hormuz opening, but big questions remain about verification, Iran’s nuclear program, terrorism funding, and what this means for Israel and our own national security. We’re joined once again by longtime TV news producer, former diplomat, and anchor at WABC radio in New York — Jake Novak.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

Loose lips sink ships. That World War II warning still rings true today — except now the danger isn’t just enemies listening in. It’s loose lips even with our allies. We just watched that chilling clip: Israel’s Prime Minister reportedly had a direct hand in writing Section 224 of this year’s NDAA. Think about that — a foreign leader shaping America’s defense law. That’s not partnership. It’s something else. We’re going to ask the hard questions today: Should we be merging our industrial base and fusing our intelligence with allies? Or are we handing over the keys to our own house? We’ll look at the reports that President Trump is furious with Israel right now — and what that tells us about the state of the alliance. And Iran? It’s still all about the nukes. The mullahs have never stopped racing for the bomb, and every day we pretend otherwise is another day we’re playing with fire. President Trump is close on a deal, even with the nuclear weapons, with Iran and he should be angry that an ally is disrupting that. To cut through the noise and give us straight talk from the inside, I’m joined right now by retired CIA officer, intelligence expert, and publisher of AND Magazine — Sam Faddis.Discover other shows on the Talk Red Podcast Network, and get your daily fix of news, sports, and entertainment at https://TalkRed.com.

You just heard President Trump at the G7 laying out the new Iran framework. He made it clear: technical discussions on removing every stockpile of enriched nuclear material begin right away. And unlike the old Obama deal that sent pallets of cash, any relief Iran gets will be earned on merit - not handed over by American taxpayers. This is moving fast. Oil prices are already reacting to the Strait of Hormuz opening, but big questions remain about verification, Iran’s nuclear program, terrorism funding, and what this means for Israel and our own national security. We’re joined once again by longtime TV news producer, former diplomat, and anchor at WABC radio in New York — Jake Novak.