The Tony Kinnett Cast

The Tony Kinnett Cast is The Daily Signal's flagship program, with a new episode weeknights at 7PM Eastern, featuring national news, politics, commentary, interviews, and analysis from a Hoosier's commonsense, middle-of-the-country perspective.

In under a year, Kinnett's equal parts broadcast and podcast has grown from a small radio show on 93WIBC Indianapolis to a nationally syndicated simulcast on radio, TV, and livestreaming services around the nation. Now you can enjoy the best The Daily Signal content from its senior investigative columnist every weeknight here, our livestreams on YouTube, X, and Facebook, or wherever one of our syndicated stations is on air!

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Ep. 640 - Liberals Mock 9/11 Anniversary, Media...
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, anti-Israel activist Anas Shuaib was filmed shouting "Allahu Akbar" near the 9/11 memorial in New York City — with footage capturing AOC and Mayor Zohran Mamdani laughing nearby. Meanwhile, CBS's Gayle King froze on live television after learning the lone holdout juror who refused to let Lindsay Clancy walk free was a Black man. A suspected Houthi strike just hit Saudi Arabia's critical East-West pipeline, sending oil past $107 a barrel. Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker joins us LIVE.
114 min
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Ep. 639 - GOP Midterm Convention Gets HEATED on...
Bernie Sanders is convening a bipartisan Senate briefing on "extraordinary AI dangers" — built almost entirely around a viral resignation from a researcher who, it turns out, worked at Anthropic for about six weeks and has documented ties to a British far-left "hacking democracy" NGO. Meanwhile, night one of the GOP's first-ever midterm convention delivered a genuine earthquake: Democrat Sen. John Fetterman appeared on video praising his Republican Pennsylvania colleague, sending his own party into a fury, while Trump's promised $5,000-per-adult dividend drew skepticism from Fox News and even some Republicans. And in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis are now in what analysts are calling their most serious open war since 2022.
92 min
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Ep. 638 - A DEMOCRAT SENATOR Speaking at GOP Mi...
Iran's regional war just went nuclear on two fronts — literal explosions near Kharg Island as oil prices flirt with $100 a barrel, and a genuine civil war reigniting in Yemen where the Houthis are now fighting the Yemeni government AND al-Shabaab simultaneously. President Trump says gas prices come down after the midterms — not before. Meanwhile, the first-ever Republican midterm convention kicks off tonight in Dallas, and the 2026 election machinery is a genuine mess from Missouri's map fight to a federal judge blocking USPS's mail-ballot rule for the second time this week.
83 min
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Ep. 637 - Iranian Tankers SUNK, Missouri Map Ma...
The tanker war in the Gulf keeps escalating — the U.S. Navy destroyed or disabled three Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island this week after Iran fired ballistic missiles at an American carrier and destroyer, and Tehran is now threatening a "more painful" response. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is neck-deep in two separate midterm fights — one over Missouri's congressional map, one over Trump's mail-ballot rule — as New Hampshire votes today and the Senate battlefield keeps expanding into states nobody expected.
82 min
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Ep. 636 - Another Strike in Iran? Massive Cash ...
We're tracking reports of anti-air activity over Tehran and a ballistic missile fired from Isfahan today as the Iran war grinds into its seventh month — and Axios reports the Trump team is already drafting a post-war containment strategy as the regime shows real cracks. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just handed the GOP a fresh cash advantage heading into the midterms, and the Lindsay Clancy jury may be headed for a mistrial after a full week of deadlock.
83 min
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Ep. 635 - Midterm Constitutional CRISIS, AI Cyb...
A constitutional crisis is now emerging in Missouri as their Supreme Court changes the rules after a primary for the first time in U.S. history. The midterm war over AI regulation heats up and lawmakers continue sounding alarms over Chinese state-sponsored AI hacking. Meanwhile, Florida Senate nominee Angie Nixon and Democrats nationwide are once again reaching for racism as their go-to defense after a MAGA influencer's ugly personal attack. And CAIR just fired back at its growing list of state terror designations by branding two major Jewish organizations "anti-Muslim extremists."
75 min
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Ep. 634 - Shooting in Minneapolis, Migrant Riot...
A shooting in Minneapolis including two police officers injured, the Trump administration goes ALL-IN on South America moves, Spain protests migrants amid teargassing, Democrats fight each other over socialism and polling.
89 min
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Ep. 633 - Strikes Underway in Iran as Regime Pa...
U.S. forces are hitting Iran again tonight after Tehran fired on American bases in Jordan, and President Pezeshkian is openly admitting the country is facing "many problems" under crushing sanctions. Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson is forcing House Democrats to go on record over court-packing, a House Judiciary hearing is digging into sanctuary-policy deaths today, and both Texas nominee James Talarico and Michigan nominee Abdul El-Sayed are scrambling after resurfaced comments blow up their campaigns on the same day.
73 min
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Ep. 632 - 9 States Targeted for Voter Fraud, Il...
DHS is launching a voter fraud investigation surge across nine states starting today, deploying agents typically used for human trafficking and drug smuggling cases to hunt down illegal registrations ahead of the midterms. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just handed Trump a win on his White House ballroom, federal officials shut down over 270 fraudulent CDL schools tied to hundreds of trucking deaths, and Trump is threatening to hit Iran "hard" after the first real exchange of fire in a month. LA County GOP Chair Roxanne Hoge joins us LIVE.
84 min
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Ep. 631 - BREAKING: Mail-in Ballots Now REQUIRE...
AG Todd Blanche just charged 81 members of a violent Puerto Rico gang responsible for $50 million in fentanyl trafficking and multiple murders, while a former DIA IT specialist pled guilty to trying to hand classified secrets to a foreign government over a dead drop. Meanwhile, Iran's regime is quietly bracing for another uprising as fuel panic spreads and state media pushes contradictory claims about how much oil is actually still flowing through Hormuz. And President Trump picked today, of all days, to formally rename Lake Ontario "Lake America."
86 min
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Ep. 630 - Rubio Shuts Down Immigration, China i...
The State Department just paused visa interviews worldwide after a Biden-appointed judge struck down Rubio's 75-country immigrant visa freeze — rather than fight country-by-country, the administration is retraining every consular officer on earth. Meanwhile, the DOJ and FBI disrupted a massive Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation that breached the DOJ, NASA, the Federal Reserve, and the Senate itself, and the State Department dropped a bombshell tying Portland's Rose City Antifa directly to Hamas, the IRGC, and Hezbollah through a shared tech network.
90 min
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Ep. 629 - Oil SURGES Through Strait of Hormuz, ...
Iran's economy is in freefall as the U.S. naval blockade chokes off fuel imports, and cracks are showing at the top — Mayors and foreign ministers are fist-fighting as riots continue in more cities by the day. Meanwhile in Minnesota, state officials are literally suing two rival Somali gangs just to keep them away from the State Fair after they promoted a violent showdown on social media. The Trump administration is preparing the single largest mass visa revocation in U.S. history.
87 min
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Ep. 628 - MAJOR Supreme Court Election Victory ...
The Supreme Court just handed Trump a 6-3 win on his mail-ballot executive order, lifting the injunction that had blocked USPS from enforcing it — exactly the outcome we told you was coming. Meanwhile, Iran's economy is buckling under the U.S. naval blockade, with fuel shortages sparking lines at gas pumps and fresh protests as the regime's misery index spikes into triple digits in some provinces. And in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed's attempt to distance himself from Hasan Piker keeps failing to stick the landing.
84 min
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Ep. 627 - Supreme Court & White House Fights, M...
The Supreme Court just handed President Trump a win, temporarily allowing construction on his White House ballroom to continue despite two lower courts ruling it illegal without congressional approval. Meanwhile, Trump is opening the floodgates on beef imports to fight grocery prices — and some Republicans and ranchers aren't happy about it. Add in a wave of online fighting over data centers and postpartum mental health, plus brand new midterm polling, and it's a packed show tonight.
81 min
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Ep. 626 - Terror Attack Thwarted, DOJ Seizes Er...
The FBI just announced it disrupted an ISIS-inspired plot to bomb the New York State Capitol while lawmakers were inside. Meanwhile, federal agents seized former Rep. Eric Swalwell's phone and laptop and raided his D.C. home as part of a sexual assault investigation — and he's not the only House Democrat facing fresh scrutiny tonight. And after months of investigators warning it was coming, an ActBlue co-founder finally pled the Fifth before Congress.
83 min
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Ep. 625 - Democrats' ActBlue Scandal Gets WORSE...
LA Mayor Karen Bass is bragging that every $5 donated to her reelection campaign gets turned into $35 — courtesy of Los Angeles taxpayers, through a city program that matches donations 6-to-1... all through ActBlue. Meanwhile, the UK Home Office is handing migrants a literal instruction pamphlet explaining that child abuse and assault are illegal in Britain — yes, that's a real government document in 2026. And in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed is facing brutal new scrutiny after comparing himself to Jesus, just as new reporting reveals his mother worked for a U.S.-designated terror-financing organization.
92 min
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Ep. 624 - Florida's Big Primary Fight, Democrat...
Florida holds its primary today — governor, Senate, and House races all on the ballot in the last major primary batch before November. Meanwhile Chuck Schumer just quietly told the Washington Post Democrats can win the Senate even without Michigan, an extraordinary admission about Abdul El-Sayed's chances there. And Iran just fired two ballistic missiles at the UAE, prompting Abu Dhabi to cut off all trade and financial ties with Tehran on the same day Trump posted a graphic labeling the Strait of Hormuz "new U.S. territory."
80 min
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Ep. 623 - OOPS: Insiders Panic as Democrat Sena...
Democrat Senate candidates keep making the same insulting argument against voter ID: that Black voters and women are too poor or too incompetent to get a REAL ID or birth certificate. It's condescending, it's not backed by the data, and Democrat insiders know it's a losing message heading into November. Meanwhile, Abdul El-Sayed's Islamist-funding problem in Michigan keeps getting worse, and the Iran ceasefire deadline just expired with President Trump telling Tehran to wave the white flag.
70 min
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Ep. 622 - Somali Temporary Protected Status END...
A federal judge's repeated stays blocking the end of Temporary Protected Status for Somalis finally ran out today, clearing the way for termination after months of what DHS called open defiance of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Luigi Mangione stood up in federal court and admitted it himself: "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan, and he died" — a guilty plea that guts a year of online conspiracy theories and folk-hero mythmaking overnight. And Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is having the worst 48 hours of his campaign.
76 min
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Ep. 621 - Chinese Sniper Buys Building Overlook...
A Chinese intelligence official and trained sniper purchases a historic building overlooking the White House. Michigan's new Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing brutal online mockery after old reporting resurfaced showing Detroit's animal shelter had a 74% kill rate under his watch.
76 min
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Ep. 620 - Karoline Leavitt OUT, Major DOJ Fraud...
Karoline Leavitt just announced she's stepping down as White House Press Secretary at month's end, a genuine shakeup less than three months from the midterms. Meanwhile, Attorney General Todd Blanche had a monster day at the DOJ — arresting the former SPLC CFO on fraud charges and busting one of the largest marriage fraud rings in U.S. history. And after last night's primaries thinned the socialist herd in Wisconsin and Minnesota, the survivors are already making their case for dumbest person in the Senate.
79 min
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Ep. 619 - Media Outrage Over Assassination Atte...
Primary night is here in Minnesota and Wisconsin, with democratic socialists once again threatening to hijack the Democratic Party — and the GOP dealing with its own headaches. Meanwhile, the Washington Post just revealed President Trump secretly swapped planes in Turkey last month after intelligence uncovered a credible Iranian plot to shoot down Air Force One — and somehow the legacy media's outrage is aimed at the deception, not the attempted assassination.
90 min
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Ep. 618 - BOMBSHELL: Fauci Knew About Miscarria...
Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul just released Anthony Fauci's own texts from January 2021 — and they show him privately warning colleagues the mRNA injection's second dose "theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester," while he and other officials kept telling pregnant women the shots were perfectly safe. Meanwhile, the online left's favorite rich socialists are getting torched for demanding everyone else pay more taxes while sitting on millions themselves.
66 min
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Ep. 617 - Senators REFUSING to Leave for Recess...
Senate Republicans are in open revolt against their own majority leader today, as Mike Lee and a growing bloc refuse to let John Thune send the chamber home for August recess without a vote on the SAVE America Act. Meanwhile, the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party just turned cannibalistic — AOC is catching heat from her own movement for propping up Hakeem Jeffries, and Abdul El-Sayed spent the night before his primary win poolside with Hasan Piker, a man who just got caught defending Mao Zedong on camera.
84 min
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Ep. 616 - Is Cuba About to Collapse? Saudis Mob...
Secretary Rubio just slapped fresh sanctions on Cuba's military supply chain, warning the regime is "in ruins" — is the communist government finally on its last legs? Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is bracing for renewed conflict as the reality sets in that the Gulf states can't stay on the sidelines of the Iran war forever. And in Washington, Anthony Fauci just got hit with a bipartisan-adjacent gut punch: the Senate Homeland Security Committee voted him in contempt of Congress, and Chairman Rand Paul is skipping the floor vote entirely to hand-deliver the referral straight to the DOJ today.
82 min