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The Erick Erickson Show
The Erick Erickson Show cuts through the chaos with bold clarity and biblical conviction. Broadcasting live each weekday, Erick tackles the stories that matter - from Washington to Wall Street to your backyard - with fearless analysis rooted in Christian truth and conservative principles. No tribal talking points. No partisan spin. Just straight talk from a host who believes in the sovereignty of God, the greatness of America, and the importance of holding everyone accountable - right or left.
Episodes
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP144: Hour 1 - The Iran Economic Fight
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promises unprecedented economic measures and a blockade of Iranian ports as $4 gas and $80 oil collide with the midterms, and…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP144: Hour 2 - The Pessimists
Erick Erickson wades into the fight between Ben Shapiro and the Federalist's John Daniel Davidson over whether the American dream still works, and answers with…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP144: Hour 3 - Trust Fund Commies
Stacey Abrams sits down with Kamala Harris and declares that the South has lived under soft authoritarianism since 1776 and that America has backdoored its way…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP143: Hour 1 - Tariff Fire
Erick opens on the Wall Street Journal's tariff refund story (over 40 S&P 500 companies reporting some $9.6 billion, with Apple near $2.2 billion, Nike at $986…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP143: Hour 2 - The V-8
Erick argues that precedent matters, tracing how Democrats spent decades using lawsuits and court settlements (California's Proposition 8, the state's refusal…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP143: Hour 3 - Drone Wars
Erick digs into a troubling defense story: in the Combined Resolve war games in Germany, Ukrainian drone operators wiped out a US armored brigade every single…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP142: Hour 1 - Hong Gone
Erick breaks down a wild primary night: Democratic socialist Francesca Hong loses Wisconsin after Governor Tony Evers talked David Crowley back into the race…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP142: Hour 2 - The Progressive Madrasas
On the seventh anniversary of his syndicated show, Erick Erickson tells the untold story of how Rush Limbaugh "lied through his teeth" to launch his radio…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP142: Hour 3 - Doom is Coming
Erick walks through a sobering Washington Post editorial on America's fiscal reckoning: with Social Security projected insolvent by 2032 and the Medicare…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP141: Hour 1 - The Great Escape
Erick opens on the Washington Post's exclusive that President Donald Trump secretly slipped out of Turkey after the NATO summit in Ankara, boarding the old Air…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP141: Hour 2 - El Sayed Just Hates Everything Normal
Erick tears into Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed after CNN's Andrew Kaczynski and the KFile surface old clips of the democratic socialist…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP141: Hour 3 - The intersectional Mind Virus
Erick pivots from Zohran Mamdani to the Flock camera fight, using the Manhattan Institute's Stu Smith to trace the organized opposition to license plate…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP140: Hour 1 - Competition at War
Erick Erickson opens on the fight to let Ukraine build its own Patriot missiles and the Lockheed and Raytheon protectionism blocking it, as Ukraine…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP140: Hour 2 - Headed to Woke 2.0
Erick Erickson breaks down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's first big TV interview in two years, a soft sit-down with ABC's Jonathan Karl, and argues "Woke 2.0" is…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP140: Hour 3 - Protect the People
Erick Erickson takes apart the left's redefinition of violence, playing James Talarico's claim that poverty, pollution, and prison are all "violence," then…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP139: Hour 1 - Economy Before Culture
Erick opens Open Line Friday on the ugly July jobs report: the economy lost 23,000 jobs, average wages rose just two cents while inflation outran them, and…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP139: Hour 2 - Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
Erick breaks down Donald Trump's Punchbowl News interview with Jake Sherman, where the president insists voters are angry at other Republicans and not at him…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP139: Hour 3 - Deal Or No Deal
Erick makes the case for Florida voters to throw scandal-plagued Congressman Cory Mills out of Florida's 7th District, walking through the House Ethics…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP138: Hour 1 - The Burrito Again
Erick takes on the viral "$20 burrito" affordability debate that lit up the right after a Turning Point USA student's tweet, arguing that tariffs, Fannie and…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP138: Hour 2 - Ascending Socialists Must Lie
Erick catches the Democratic Socialists contradicting themselves in their own words: Bernie Sanders on Pod Save America swears no serious Democrat wants to…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP138: Hour 3 - Ohio's Senators Unite
Erick tracks the fast-collapsing Max Miller scandal as both Ohio Republican senators, his father-in-law Bernie Moreno and John Husted, now publicly call on the…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP137: Hour 1 - Don't Get Cocky After Michigan
Erick breaks down Abdul El-Sayed's Democratic Socialist win in the Michigan Senate primary over Haley Stevens, his Morning Joe damage control on Israel…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP137: Hour 2 - We Lack the Power to Power the Future
Erick makes the case that the United States simply does not have the electrical capacity to repatriate manufacturing or feed the AI boom, walking through Scott…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP137: Hour 3 - The $20 Burrito
Erick tears into the right's $20 burrito panic and the affordability fight between Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, and the Turning Point USA crowd, calling out the…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP136: Hour 1 - What the Pollsters Tell Me
Back early from vacation, Erick pulls back the curtain on what Republican pollsters, focus groupers, strategists, donors, and corporate money men are all…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP136: Hour 2 - The US is Losing to Iran
Erick argues the United States is losing to Iran by choice, driven by an isolationist wing embedded around President Trump and Vice President JD Vance that…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP136: Hour 3 - Mike Rowe's $240K Electricians, the Data Center Boom, and Iran's Strait of Hormuz Games
Erick makes a full throated defense of America's data center boom, playing a Mike Rowe clip about Plano, Texas electricians under 30 making north of $240,000…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP135: Hour 1 - Mamdani's Grocery ID, JD Vance's Post-Liberal Whisperers, and the Socialist Surge
Erick returns from a week at Lake Burton to a world still in chaos: Iran spurns peace as Trump halts strikes, the democratic socialists surge with Texas…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP135: Hour 2 - The Source of the Antagonism
Back from Lake Burton, Erick breaks down Marco Rubio's Fox News interview on the funded, organized protest network tied to Cuba, China, Neville Roy Singham…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP135: Hour 3 - The WSJ Corruption Story, Josh Trevino on World War II, and China vs American Leadership
Back from vacation, Erick sounds the alarm on a confirmed Wall Street Journal story about a Trump fundraiser pressing corporations like Apple for cash and…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP134: Hour 1 - Sophie Cunningham: Hero
Erick opens with a raw, personal plea for his annual childhood cancer Care-a-thon benefiting Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, sharing his wife's stage four…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP134: Hour 2 - Beat the Socialists With a Good Economy
Erick builds a full monologue on Nate Silver's Cooperative Election Study data showing the Democratic Socialists of America are not the poor but downwardly…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP134: Hour 3 - Oil Skyrockets
Erick argues Iran is deliberately holding the American economy hostage as Brent crude tops 100 dollars after the Houthi strike Saudi ships in the Red Sea…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP133: Hour 1 - The Economy and Falling Behind
Erick opens the week's big theme, a full diagnosis of the Democratic Socialists of America, arguing the movement is not the poor but downwardly mobile rich…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP133: Hour 2 - The New Jersey Voter Registration Scandal
Erick breaks down New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill's admission that a motor vehicle software glitch registered roughly 6,600 noncitizens to vote (about 400…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP133: Hour 3 - What's Limiting Us in Iran?
Erick makes the case for letting Israel off the chain against Iran, reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants a face to face with Donald Trump at…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP132: Hour 1 - Democrats Going Backwards
Erick opens with Van Jones breaking ranks and calling the far left's ideas "insane, nutty, moronic, dangerous, bigoted," then walks through the Tim Walz pardon…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP132: Hour 2 - Trump Policies Are Hurting the Economy
Erick connects lost American institutional knowledge (nobody can build an IMAX 70 millimeter projector anymore, and Plant Vogtle had to reteach the country how…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP132: Hour 3 - Coveting and Liberty
Erick Erickson builds the hour around a theological indictment of socialism: the Democratic Socialists have taken the one commandment that lives entirely in…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP131: Hour 1 - The Outrage Machine
Erick opens on a detained suspect and an incendiary device outside New York's 26 Federal Plaza, then builds his signature monologue on "the outrage machine"…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP131: Hour 2 - Casualties Mount With Iran
Erick races through the day's biggest headlines: an anti-ICE activist who poured gasoline and set a fire outside New York's 26 Federal Plaza immigration court…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP131: Hour 3 - The War on What Works
Erick closes the day with his capstone thesis that America already knows what works and the left, joined by part of the right, is choosing decline: Photo ID…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP130: Hour 1 - The China Influence Play
Erick opens Open Line Friday by dissecting President Donald Trump's prime-time address on election interference, including the DHS claim that roughly 278,000…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP130: Hour 2 - The Death Spiral in Politics
On Open Line Friday, Erick Erickson breaks down why China's Kimi K3 model just seized the number one spot on the front-end code arena, shoving Anthropic's…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP130: Hour 3 - Andrew Ross Sorkin's Debanking War, and Kelly Paul's American Story"
On Open Line Friday, Erick Erickson opens with a personal Rush Limbaugh memory: how Rush secretly went to bat for him as the only guest host allowed to talk…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP129: Hour 1 - Candidate Quality Matters
Erick argues candidate quality will decide 2026 and spares no one, ripping GOP picks like Mike Lindell in Minnesota (against Amy Klobuchar), Colorado's…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP129: Hour 2 - Power for the Sake of Power
Erick strings together breaking audio into a single alarm about rising left-wing political violence: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealing he survived an…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP129: Hour 3 - Zohran Mamdani's War on Landlords, Detroit's Warning, and the Woke Attack on Gone with the Wind
Erick makes the case that democratic socialism always ends the same way, opening with Zohran Mamdani's plan to bar New York landlords from checking…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP128: Hour 1 - Attacking the Courts
Erick unloads on the online right for attacking Justice Amy Coney Barrett after her House testimony about death threats, a bulletproof vest, and a swatting…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP128: Hour 2 - Daylight Saving Time
Erick breaks down the House's bipartisan vote to make daylight saving time permanent and why Senator Tom Cotton and a bipartisan bloc from Alaska to the…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP128: Hour 3 - The Corruption Problem
Erick Erickson delivers a candid monologue on the dangers of self-dealing in the Trump administration, warning that failing to police corruption risks handing…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP127: Hour 1 - War Is Back on the Menu
War is back on the menu. Erick opens on the restart of the Iran conflict: a five hour U.S. bombing campaign, a full blockade of Iranian ports, and President…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP127: Hour 2 - The Insanity Spreading on the Left
Erick unloads on Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page of Juno) for calling the gender binary a myth, using it to argue that while the left's wokeism is fading, its…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP127: Hour 3 - Trump Relitigates 2020
Erick pushes back hard on rumors that President Trump will use a Thursday national address to declare the 2020 Georgia election stolen and delegitimize…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP126: Hour 1 - Lindsey Graham and Conspiracies
In this powerful opening hour of The Erick Erickson Show, Erick pays tribute to the late Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away at 71 from a tear in his…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP126: Hour 2 - Back to Schrodinger's Strait
Erick breaks down the escalating crisis with Iran as the U.S. conducts strikes and President Trump announces America will guard the Strait of Hormuz — and get…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP126: Hour 3 - Ro Khanna's Subject Changing Stunt
Erick discusses the appointment of Darlene Graham-Norden (Lindsey Graham's sister) to the U.S. Senate and reflects on Graham's legacy. He dives deep into the…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP125: Hour 1 - Always Somebody Else's Fault
Erick Erickson broadcasts live from Las Vegas and dives deep into the dramatic collapse of Graham Platner's Senate campaign in Maine. Platner officially drops…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP125: Hour 2 - Peace No More
Erick Erickson takes listener calls on an Open Line Thursday, discussing the realities of immigration enforcement, ICE operations, and why Hispanic Americans…
The Erick Erickson ShowS15 EP125: Hour 3 - To Be Counter-Cultural
Erick Erickson makes the case that true counterculture today looks very different from the 1960s: going to church, reading physical books, socializing in…