LARRY with Larry O'Connor

Fresh off his viral Smithsonian takedown, Congressman Brandon Gill turned his attention to the American Bar Association — grilling its president on the group's own diversity, equity, and inclusion language. Larry walks through Gill's relentless line of questioning: whether the ABA president will admit to her own "implicit biases," whether race and gender factored into Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination, whether the Court should reflect America's racial makeup, why there's never been a transgender Supreme Court justice, and whether race should factor into law school admissions. She dodges nearly every question — and Gill never lets her off the hook.

For the first time, prominent Democrats are publicly breaking with the DSA wing of their own party. Larry breaks down John Fetterman calling out Bernie Sanders for legitimizing the socialists, James Carville's furious rant accusing DSA candidates of disrespecting Black political leaders like Jim Clyburn and MLK, and Zohran Mamdani's attempt to rebrand socialism by claiming a public library counts (spoiler: it doesn't). Plus the brewing Michigan Senate primary between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, where Democrat Hillary Scholten refuses to campaign with El-Sayed over his 9/11 comments and sexist attacks, and a closer look at the DSA's actual platform — abolishing the Senate, the Electoral College, and the presidency — raising the question of whether members who oppose the Constitution should be seated in Congress at all.

Part two of the New Jersey non-citizen voter registration story: CNN's homepage has nothing on it, but John Solomon of Just the News actually called the software company behind New Jersey's voter registration system — and they say there was no glitch at all. Larry walks through the DOJ's new investigation into the state, a very telling Freudian slip from former Governor Phil Murphy about how rarely voter fraud gets "uncovered," CNN and MSNBC's attempts to change the subject (TSA software risk, "Trump pouncing on it"), an old ABC News fact-check that aged badly, and Ro Khanna's real concern about this election cycle: keeping ICE away from polling places.

House Republicans grilled the Smithsonian's American History Initiative director in a fiery oversight hearing this week, and Larry breaks down every viral moment. From a land-acknowledgment habit that opens nearly every meeting, to exhibits depicting bondage and cross-dressing aimed at kids, to a leaked "white supremacy culture" document that lists objectivity, politeness, and the nuclear family as red flags — Congressman Brandon Gill's methodical takedown steals the show. Plus: the director can't say whether America is the greatest nation in history, can't define "woman," gets pressed on abortion by Lauren Boebert, and Jasmine Crockett blames a soccer rivalry on racism.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat behind a desk with an American flag and delivered a formal address on Benjamin Netanyahu — laying out a list of war crime accusations before admitting what everyone already knew: he has no legal authority to arrest him. In this episode, Larry breaks down the claims in Mamdani's speech, the manipulative stagecraft behind it, his contradictory answer about a meeting request from the Iranian consulate, and old footage showing Mamdani calling Israel "not a country, just an idea" and dismissing a two-state solution as "physically impossible." Plus reactions from JD Vance calling him "a total clown" and resurfaced debate footage of Mamdani dodging every foreign policy question on the campaign trail.

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New Jersey's Democrat governor Mikie Sherrill just admitted that roughly 6,600 noncitizens were improperly registered to vote — and she's blaming it on a "software glitch." In this episode, Larry breaks down why that excuse doesn't hold up, exposes the media's double standard in covering the story, and walks through exactly how the state's honor-system approach to voter registration let this happen. He also revisits a year's worth of Democrat and media clips insisting noncitizen voting "doesn't exist," contrasts it with how strictly the IRS checks your taxes, and makes the case for why the Save America Act would close this loophole for good.

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Larry revisits Texas Senate Democratic nominee James Talarico's rough week courting black voters, starting with a fiery town hall confrontation from a woman angry that he beat Jasmine Crockett in the primary. From there it gets worse: at a second forum, Talarico is asked point blank if he supports reparations and an "anti-black crime bill," and responds with promises of tuition relief, homeownership grants, and baby bonds — while invoking his Christian faith. Larry argues that's not what reparations means to the voters demanding it, then digs into Talarico's contradictions on policing (claiming law enforcement is "weaponized" against black communities while defending his record against defunding it), his push for the stalled George Floyd Act, and his closing pitch on gerrymandering, the Supreme Court, and the Voting Rights Act. The takeaway: a candidate scrambling to shore up a base that's still furious he isn't Crockett.

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A day after an anti-ICE extremist tried to firebomb 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, the host breaks down what actually happened — and who's been cheering it on. FBI and NYPD press conference footage reveals the suspect, 43-year-old Army veteran Andrew Arrabaca, showed up armed with gasoline, fireworks, an airsoft rifle, two axes, a hammer, a machete, and three knives, wounding three people. The host contrasts the muted response from NYC Mayor and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani with resurfaced footage of Mamdani confronting Tom Homan as a state assemblyman, and argues that Democratic rhetoric branding ICE as "Gestapo" and a "secret police" is fueling real-world violence against federal agents. For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 580-308-0975 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to askchapter.org/oconnor

NYC Democratic Socialists of America chairman Gustavo Gordillo sat down with Martha MacCallum on Fox News, and it did not go well for him. We break down his dodgy answers on whether the DSA wants to abolish the US Senate (their platform says yes), his defense of government-run utilities using New York's failed wind farm projects as evidence, his claim that his own immigrant success story is "the exception," and his stunning assertion that no one has a constitutional right to a return on investment. We also dig into the DSA's actual platform — eliminating the Senate and Electoral College, ending deportations, defunding the Pentagon, and a wealth tax — and his claim that American "imperialism" is why his family fled Peru.

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat down for a New York Times podcast and acted less like a mayor and more like he's already running the country. In this breakdown, we go through his claims that "democratic socialism" fixed New York's potholes and crime, his threat to have Prime Minister Netanyahu arrested under an ICC warrant if he visits the UN, his sanctuary city defiance of federal immigration law, and his refusal to say whether he's ever even been to the US-Mexico border. We also cover his ties to consultant Morris Katz — the man behind scandal-plagued candidate Graham Platner — and UN Ambassador Mike Waltz's response to Mamdani's Netanyahu threat.

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After Trump's address on election interference, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) scolded CBS for airing it live — then spent the weekend making the media rounds himself. In this breakdown, we catch Warner contradicting himself in real time: telling Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation that China has no proven ability to interfere in U.S. elections, then telling Jonathan Karl on ABC the same day that China "has the capabilities." Warner also calls the SAVE Act's citizenship and photo ID requirements "Jim Crow," then falsely claims Virginia already requires photo ID to vote — a claim Karl corrects him on, on air. We break down the contradictions, the walk-backs, and why Warner dodges the idea of a national voter ID standard.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio convened a State Department summit titled "The Resurgence of Political Terrorism," delivering a forceful speech that names Antifa and allied far-left networks as a coordinated, transnational terrorist threat — with ties to groups like Iran's proxy networks and the Cuban regime. We break down the key moments, including Rubio's description of how these networks move money, training, and militants across borders, and his historical data on left-wing political violence in America dating back to the 1970s. We also contrast this with years of statements from officials like James Comey, Christopher Wray, and the Obama and Biden administrations downplaying or denying that Antifa operates as an organized threat, and we share a firsthand account of the 1954 armed attack on the U.S. House chamber by radical nationalist gunmen, whose bullet holes are still visible in the Capitol today.

After President Trump's prime-time address on Chinese election interference, major networks either ignored the speech or rushed to debunk it, while Democrats dismissed the claims as a "fairy tale." So we pulled the tape. This video walks through years of on-camera statements from Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Kamala Harris, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken — all warning, in their own words, that foreign countries (Russia, China, Iran) were interfering in U.S. elections and that voting systems were vulnerable to hacking. We line those old clips up against their reaction to Trump's speech last night and let you decide who's being consistent.

In a prime-time address from the White House, President Trump unveiled newly declassified documents alleging that China carried out a massive, years-long effort to interfere in the 2020 election — including the theft of 220 million U.S. voter files, a scheme to produce fraudulent driver's licenses for illegal voting, and a coordinated campaign to pay off journalists and business leaders to turn against him. We break down the president's claims point by point and show you the actual documentation released on the White House website to back them up — the same documents most corporate media outlets have ignored or dismissed as "old news." We also look at how intelligence officials allegedly kept this information out of Trump's daily briefings, and what Congress could do right now to secure U.S. elections going forward.

Abdul El-Sayed, the self-described socialist neck-and-neck for the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan, releases tax returns showing he and his wife made nearly $700K last year — despite years spent solely in public-sector jobs. The panel digs into his "defund the police" rhetoric (while he pays for armed private security), the Israel/AIPAC fight roiling his primary against Haley Stevens, and his pick for Senate Majority Leader: Chris Van Hollen, whose own record includes defending a Senate candidate's Nazi tattoo, championing a deported MS-13 gang member, and endorsing Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor.

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Tim Walz finally addresses his pardon of an illegal immigrant convicted of child molestation, arguing deportation "wouldn't make Minnesota safer" and that "we can't all be judged by our worst day." Then Texas Senate candidate James Talarico claims a border wall is unnecessary because God already built one out of cliffs and mountains, and Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin describes ICE agents involved in recent shootings as having killed people "in cold blood." The panel breaks down all three moments and what they say about the Democratic Party's stance on immigration enforcement.

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JD Vance sat down with Joe Rogan for three hours and the panel breaks down the most explosive part: election integrity. They dig into the "super sus" LA mayoral race where mail-in ballots swung the outcome and passed a tax hike, make the case for voter ID, explain why the SAVE Act is stuck behind Senate filibuster rules, and unpack how counting illegal immigrants in the census shifts congressional seats and Electoral College votes away from law-abiding states. Clips from Vance's press gaggle with Mike Johnson round it out, plus a preview of Trump's big election-integrity speech.

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Gavin Newsom is out with a new pitch, and Larry says it's really an audition for the socialist wing of the Democratic Party. First up: Newsom blames homelessness on "red tape" that blocks new construction — Larry breaks down why it's actually cost, not lack of building, driving the crisis. Then Newsom goes after wealth inequality and Elon Musk in language that echoes Hugo Chavez, prompting a closer look at why Musk really left California (hint: it's not just taxes). Finally, Larry unpacks Newsom's new favorite phrase, "democratize the economy," and explains why it's just socialism with a fresh coat of paint.

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President Trump is teasing a "really big" Thursday speech on election integrity — and Larry connects the dots to Georgia, a Republican-dominated state that somehow keeps sending Democrats to the Senate. That brings in Senator Jon Ossoff's MSNBC sit-down with Jen Psaki, where Ossoff dodges questions on election security by pivoting to gas prices, accuses Trump of "Jim Crow 2.0," and calls Georgia racist — while Larry fact-checks the claim with rising Black voter turnout under the state's 2021 reforms. Plus: a jaw-dropping MSNBC graphic, a flashback to the 2020 Georgia election-night broadcast that raised eyebrows in real time, and Ossoff's not-so-subtle message to the CIA.

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Joe Biden just announced his new memoir, "Promise Me, America" — and Larry breaks down the announcement video line by line. From the eerie echo of his "Promise Me, Dad" book about Beau (written while Hunter was allegedly on a crack binge), to everything conveniently missing from the "achievements" reel: the border crisis (6.9M+ apprehensions), the inflation Democrats denied in real time, and the Afghanistan withdrawal. Plus, Lindsey Graham's unforgettable nickname for Biden, and the worst decision of his presidency — before he even took office.

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