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- Thursday: Hot CPI, $4 Gas, and Warsh's Hike DilemmaThursday, October 15: September CPI came in hot at 3.7%, and the pump, the Iran war and the Fed are now one kitchen-table story. Rush and Reagan score the number against their Fed scorecard. They ask whether the Oct. 27-28 FOMC hikes again after September's move. They trace the gas price back to the Iran war and the Senate votes that kept it going. Then each host argues how much of this is Trump's war and how much is Warsh's Fed. You decide who won, so tell us where you land.
- Tuesday: Cook Moves 18 Races, Is the House Gone?Tuesday, October 13, and the House story is still Cook Political Report's shift of 18 races toward Democrats, last Friday's (Oct. 9) update. Rush calls it pundit herd behavior. Reagan brings the math. We go through the Iowa, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Virginia races, test whether the NRCC's cash edge can stop the slide, and ask whether Jeffries is posturing or has the numbers. Then each host picks the five seats that decide the House and grades the other's list. You judge who wins. Tell us where we're wrong.
- Thursday: Early Votes In, GOP Panic or Real Problem?Thursday, October 8: more than 700,000 ballots are already in, and Democrats hold a bigger share of ballot requests in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine and North Carolina than they did in 2024. Is that a real enthusiasm gap or a mail-ballot mirage? Rush and Reagan fight it out. We go state by state through the early numbers. We look at who actually votes early and who waits for Election Day. We hit the one stat that cuts against the Democratic story. Then each host grades the other's read in a who-won-the-argument segment. Weigh in: who scored the points, the panic caller or the warning caller?
- Tuesday: Hegseth's Brass Cut Burns His Own SideTuesday, October 6: Pete Hegseth says he is cutting 20% of the nation's generals and admirals, and Republican senators say they were blindsided. Rush calls it overdue accountability. Reagan asks why the Senate heard about it when everyone else did. Here is what we cover. What the 20% actually means, according to Hegseth's own speech. Why GOP senators are demanding notice. What the Iran war is costing, with three competing figures. How Republican candidates like Mike Rogers are talking about ending the war. And our midterm scorecard. We disagree, loudly, and we keep it inside the family. Tell us who won the argument.
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- Friday: Jobs Day, Then the Court Takes OverFriday, Oct. 2: the September jobs report lands, and three days later the Supreme Court opens a term loaded with culture-war cases. Rush and Reagan break it down. They score the jobs number against their Fed-hike scorecard and look ahead to the Oct. 27-28 FOMC meeting. They run the gas-price and inflation math that sits on every kitchen table. They preview the docket, from AR-15 bans to a voter proof-of-citizenship case to climate-liability suits. Then each host has to argue that the other's topic matters more to November voters. Weigh in and tell us who won.
- Wednesday: Texas Turns Purple, and We Owe You CrowWednesday, September 30 — three new polls just blew up the 'Texas stays red' take we gave you last week, and Cook Political Report agrees with the voters, not us. Today: we walk through the Marist, TPOR, and Big Data Poll numbers putting Talarico ahead of Paxton, unpack whether the mistress-scandal and ethics headlines are driving it or just riding shotgun, and pull back the curtain on Greg Abbott's suddenly-not-so-safe race against Gina Hinojosa. We also go where the pundits aren't looking — the South Texas House seats redistricting was supposed to lock down — and check whether New Hampshire's Pappas flip means this is bigger than one state. Grade our own homework with us. Tomorrow: we go state by state on where early voting could actually flip a map nobody saw coming.
- Thursday: Seven Toss-Ups, NH's Shocking FlipThursday, September 24 — Republicans are clinging to a 53-47 Senate majority, and seven toss-up seats will decide if it survives November. Rush and Reagan finally deliver the race-by-race breakdown they promised, grading Alaska and Iowa as the quiet corners of the map, unpacking Ohio's GOP-favored lean and the Paxton-Cornyn shake-up in Texas, and digging into Michigan's open-seat scramble and Maine's quiet slide toward Democrats. Then the shocker: Cook Political Report just moved New Hampshire from Lean Democratic to Toss Up, even with Chris Pappas presumed to be the favorite in a blue-trending state. The two rank all seven seats from safest hold to about-to-slip and each place a bet on which flips first — bets that get graded down the road. Think they've got the order wrong? Tell them which seat you'd flip first.
- Tuesday: Silver's Wipeout Call vs. Cook's Cold FeetTuesday, September 22 — Nate Silver just launched a midterm model that says the pros are sleeping on a GOP wipeout, and Rush and Reagan turn their own accountability gimmick on him instead of the Fed. First up: Silver's FLIPR model puts Democrats near 65% to flip the Senate, right in line with prediction markets, while Cook Political Report is still calling seven races toss-ups. Then the House math gets messy fast — Split Ticket, Inside Elections and Cook Political Report all land on wildly different seat counts. The real twist comes when Cook's own New Hampshire rating moves the opposite direction from Silver's confidence, right as the four-flip Senate math looks clean. The hosts grade the model, walk the actual battleground map, and land a verdict that isn't the easy one. Next episode: which of these seven GOP-held doors actually holds.
- Wed: We Bet Cuts, The Fed Hiked—We Blew ItWednesday, September 17 — the Fed just torched Rush and Reagan's months-long prediction with a unanimous 12-0 vote to hike rates a quarter point to 3.75-4%, the first increase since 2023. Trump's handpicked chair defied him publicly, and the president fired back on Truth Social demanding 1% rates while somehow still backing his guy. Topics covered: the live accountability reckoning on a dead prediction, the Trump-Warsh split-screen showdown, what a real hike does to mortgages, credit cards and car loans, and why this lands in mailboxes right as midterm season heats up. Rush eats crow, Reagan keeps the receipts. Tomorrow: we start a new scorecard — think we'll get it right this time? Let us know.
- Tuesday: We Bet Cuts—Now the Fed's About to AnswerTuesday, September 15 — the rate-cut thesis this show has run on for months hits its moment of truth tomorrow. Rush and Reagan grade their own prediction against Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole tell, walk through how hike odds swung wildly from a coin flip to near-certainty in six weeks, and lay out exactly what a hike to 3.75-4.00% (or a surprise hold) does to mortgages, credit cards, and the grocery bill heading into the midterms. Also: why the CME futures market basically stopped pricing in a cut at all, and what happens to this show's credibility if they got it wrong. Tune in tomorrow to find out which way it actually broke — and hold them to it.
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One host brings the fire and volume, the other counters with razor-sharp wit and a perfectly timed eyebrow raise. Together they tackle the week's political chaos, media nonsense, and culture war casualties with opinions that actually mean something—and they're not afraid to call each other out in the process. If you want political commentary with real conviction and zero corporate polish, you've found your show.
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