If you want to know how bad it’s getting, look at what happened last night

Hope For America with Heather Delaney Reese · May 23, 2026 · 19m

Last night at 11:35, after thirty-three years of The Late Show on CBS and eleven years of Colbert behind that desk at the Ed Sullivan Theatre, the lights went down for the last time. After years of personal obsession with silencing voices that speak truthfully about him, the President of the United States was successful in removing a comedian from the air. This will be remembered in the history books as one of the darkest modern assaults on the First Amendment and a deeply dangerous escalation into authoritarianism.Based on the events of 5-21-2026The Breakdown:Stephen Colbert's show was…