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Patriotism Means Showing Up

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich joins Sean with his blueprint for Republicans to defy history and win the 2026 midterms. Drawing on lessons from the Contract with America and the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, Gingrich argues that the key is winning the argument, exposing the opposing agenda, and convincing Americans that voting is a patriotic responsibility. Sean and Newt discuss turnout, the Democratic Socialist movement, and why staying home could determine the country’s future. Sean also reflects on 25 years of national radio, the approaching anniversary of 9/11, and his gratitude to the audience that has supported the show from the beginning.

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Get your tickets now at supermodocross.com. All right. News round up and information overload our R-Toe free telephone numbers eight hundred nine four one Sean broadcasting live. We are in beautiful Dallas, Texas for the Republican midterm convention. It's the first time they have ever done this in a moment. We'll be joined by our friend and former speaker of the house, one of the great brilliant, you know, conservative minds of all time, New King Rich. He is put together a series of five. Part series of podcasts. We have them linked on our social media. We have it on Hannity.com. I strongly urge everyone to not only listen, but then you can you can take a lot of that information and pass it on to your friends, your family, your neighbors, your coworkers, and strangers you run into. I'll give you one example. And for example, in episode three, it's a five part series. How to win 2026 is the series.

New King Rich tackles the two hardest arguments in the entire campaign. And that is the economy in Iran. It's always an honor of privilege and a pleasure to have back former speaker of the house, New King Rich. This series is going pretty viral and people are paying attention to it. I hope the Republicans that are engaging in these campaigns actually take the time to watch it. Well, as I've been going around here like you in Dallas, the number of candidates. Who come up to me and say that they're using it in their campaigns, they're sharing it with all their campaign volunteers. It's clearly having an impact. And that's why I did it. We did prove in 1994 with the contract with America. And then in 96 when we became the first real estate majority since 1928, we had some sense of what works. And I put all of that together in these five podcasts because I think we're in the most important off your election in modern times, certainly in over a century.

And I think it's going to come down to, can we win the argument that they are just absolutely totally unacceptable? And can we convince people that in fact, they have to go out, they have to have to block these big government socialists from seizing power. And they have to give the country a chance to keep moving forward. Look, I had Bill O'Reilly on. I thought he made a very insightful argument. If you vote for any Democrat, you're really voting for one ideology and that entire DSA agenda because that's what now dominates the party. But the exception of John Federman, there's no elected Democrat that has had the moral strength, clarity, and courage to take on this radicalism. If anything, they, they, they, they cower in bow at the altar of the leaders of this

movement. And they've gotten more emboldened. They've gained more power in the process. And you know, most of us were not paying as close attention as we should have since 2019. There's been 250 of them elected. We have over 40 more on the ballot this year alone. They will vote as one block. They will vote the way the DSA mandates that they vote. And that's just a fact. And I think anyone that wants to take issue with that, I'll, I'll let them call in, but I'm just telling you, um, if vote for any Democrats like voting for El Sayed, Talleriko, Troy Jackson, and the squad and AOC and Pocahontas and, and Grandpa Bernie. So look, one has pretty simple story. There are no moderate Democrats, um, the very first vote to organize the Senate or to organize the House will be on the Democratic side of votes to empower the most radical anti-American ideology ever to be on the ballot and American history.

And then that's when I put together the English 360.com and the newsletter I did is available for free. Um, 20 questions for Democratic candidates. And the 20 questions just come straight out of the platform of the Democratic Socialist Party. And when you read these questions and you realize how basically they want to replace America the most anti-American movement inside the US that we've ever seen. And they're very clear that they, they do not like the United States. They do not like our government. They don't like our culture. Uh, and they want to change all of it and they want to use the power of government to change it. You see, when, when AOC came out and made that infamous remark on one of the Sunday shows, when asked about about the agenda, now there's a printed agenda on the DSA website.

And on the website, it says eliminate the Senate. We would no longer as citizens be able to pick the president. Uh, they're saying one by one, James Clyburn, the latest to join the chorus of people saying it, they want to pack the courts. They want open borders. As a matter of fact, they want to abolish borders, amnesty for illegals, end all deportations, abolish ICE, defund the Department of War. Uh, then of course eliminate cash bail, abolish prisons, police, they want public ownership of most corporations. Then they want their cradle to grave new green deal, which would even, you know, if Mamdani had it this way, it would even include date night baby government babysitters for your kids as well as government, uh, healthy food, government jobs, government guaranteed salaries and a government guaranteed pine box for when you croak. And then you could be buried in government land on top of like 50 other people. I have no idea how they'll do it. So that's what they're saying.

Now when Bale C said, no, no, that was woke 1.0 crazy. Um, we didn't mean that. I took that and interpreted that to mean we're just going to lie, but our agenda is not going to change. And I'm predicting that what they have on this website is eventually going to be taken down. But I don't think their, their hearts are changing or their values or views are going to change. Well, look, if somebody comes along and in every aspect of their campaign, they're for higher taxes, more borrowing, bigger government, more bureaucrats. Remember when they say something's going to be free, that means somebody's going to pay for it because it's not free. None of these things are free. But I think they're colliding with the reality that it's kind of like crawling out from under a rock. When you see what they have said, it's so horrifying that a lot of their candidates, I think, are

just simply going to fall apart as people look at these. The sense of what they're counting on is they want the American people to develop amnesia and forget everything they ever said before this week. And I think they're going to find this impossible. I mean, in the modern era, we have all this stuff on videotape. You know, we're not asking you to believe us. We're asking you to believe them. And just look at what they've said and what they believe. So deep in your heart, knowing you as many years as I have, and you're going to be a guest on my podcast soon. And when you are, I'm going to get your version of how we first met, but we met in a holiday in hotel room because I was broadcasting, which was almost impossible to do because of the inferior technology at the time. And somehow we got the show on the air. And that's where we met and a relationship developed from there.

And I'm very honored that you gave me a front row seat to history. When I got to MC the night you became speaker and watched the whole plan develop. I guess my question for you is how, how do we get the turnout level that would be the equivalent of a presidential election year? Because look, history is history. Historical trends are real. And that is the party in power tends to lose seats in midterms. And I think we can defy history and defy the odds this year because there's never been a moment that I can think of where one party has gone this off the rails. I mean, I think the key message is pretty simple. This is a matter of patriotism. If you love America, you have to vote because every American who fails to vote is creating an opportunity for people who clearly hate America.

And so it's got to begin to be a patriotic duty that everybody who suits the flag, everybody who says the pledge of allegiance. Everybody who believes that America is truly an exceptional country that they have. They simply have to go vote. I tell every group I'm with, contact everybody you know in the whole country. Your email list, your Christmas card list, your relatives, and make sure that all of them vote because frankly, if everyone votes, we're going to win by a big margin. And of course, if you look at places where the crazy wing of the Democratic Party has been winning, it's with very, very low turnout. This place is where people have given up on the political process and just refuse to come out and vote. And that's where these hardened folks have done really well in places like New York City.

But I think anybody who stays home is the vote for the hard left. And we have to make that clear that to fail to vote is to allow these people to take over your country and change it in profound fundamental ways. When I went up to it was election day and I had moved from Huntsville, Alabama in 1992 and watched the entire evolution of the contract with America, predicated on renewing American civilization. And it was election day, 1994. And it was at the Cobb, Galleria. And I was emceeing your event that night. And I had a moment where I saw you and I asked you, how's this going to turn out tonight? And I remember you told me the exact number of seats that you believed that you were going to win. And for the first time in 40 years, Republicans would take back power. You nailed it.

It was, I believe 54 of my memory serves me well. And you won 54 seats that night. And Republicans had been a permanent minority up to that point. How do we treat this? What lessons can we learn from your experience and take into this coming midterm? Of course, that is exactly why it does five podcasts that people can get on your website or they can get by going to... In which 360, yeah. But here's the key lesson. If you win the argument, I'll, you know, I live through this. I watched George H.W. Bush go from 19 point down, points down in May to winning by 8th and November. It's a swing of every fourth American. I watched Ronald Reagan beat Vice President Mondale to the Mondale carried one state. I watched Nixon beat McGovern.

I watched Trump come from behind when nobody thought he could in 16. And you can tell that by the way. I always tell people, yeah, go to YouTube and pull up election like coverage from 1916 or 2016. And you'll see the left. All of these left-wing reporters disintegrating as it sinks in very, very big things. By the way, we can shock the world. And that's what you're saying. And if everybody listening treats this year, this election year, like it's the most important election in your life. And it is in many ways because they want to fundamentally just completely change the country for the worst. It can happen. And, you know, Fox News projects that Republicans will pick up a majority in the house and increase their majority in the Senate. It can happen. But it's going to take everybody doing their part.

I can talk to you all day looking forward to having you coming up on an episode of my podcast. We're going to go into great, great detail during that podcast. And then I'll tell everybody where they can just, you know, watch the, you know, abbreviated version of your five podcasts because we're going to get into all of this. This has to be considered a patriotic election, not a political election. All right. We have new five podcasts. You can link to Hannity.com, all my social media. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back on the other side. We'll get to more your calls coming up. We are in Dallas for the first ever Republican midterm convention. Donald Trump speaking tonight in, in my hour, he is going to be the featured speaker tonight. And he's arrived. He's on the ground in Dallas as we speak. Anyway, full coverage nine to 11 tonight on the Fox news channel. Eastern eight to 10 local. You know, I keep reminding people everyone needs a personal safety, security strategy.

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This is it. It's all the line. Now the pressure is on to deliver. And for the world's best 22 dirt bike racers, only one will go home number one. If all comes down to this, go experience all of the action live coming to dignity, health sports park in Los Angeles, California, September 19th. Get your tickets now at supermodocross.com. All right. So a reminder that last week, Linda and myself, we had a bet. Would you care to remind the audience what the bet was? I don't know why I would take that victory lap from you. That seems unfair. Okay. Fake news. You're pulling the truth. That's all the truth. That's for me. Letting you have your victory lap. Okay. But the reality is, is I said to you, it's going to be a hung jury. You're right. And what did I say? No way, boss. I said, no way. Do you know why? Because for a brief moment, I had a lapse in judgment.

And I believed that there was a subset of people in the state of Massachusetts and all that is holy that had the wherewithal to put a child murderer in prison. I know. I lost my mind. It'll never happen again. I promise you that. Okay. And what was I telling you about the jury pool in the state of Massachusetts that doesn't have a single? They're not. I'm not going to have a congress that's a Republican, not a single senator that's a Republican. And they have a governor that just signed into law, an abortion bill that allows abortion up to the moment of birth. What did I tell you about that state? Hey, tell me they're nuts. I got it. I just listened. I had a momentary lapse of judgment. I believed in the spirit of goodness and people that they would look at an eight month old baby and say, yeah, that's too far. All right. But I was wrong. Okay. Last night, I showed both Blair and Linda a picture of the Dallas Morning News. And it has Abbott versus Newsom.

And when I saw it, I said, oh, this is the perfect opportunity. I said, I don't have access to my social media accounts. So I said, guys, can you put up on social media cover of the Dallas Morning News Abbott versus Newsom? And then I challenged both of them for what would be red state, blue state debate 2.0. And I predicted that Gavin would say no. And I know that I'm going to end up being right. I think Gavin is a spineless, gutless coward and he won't do it. I mean, he threw in the, he threw in the white flag as surrender. You know, when the debate with Rhonda Santas was wrapping up and I, I'd gone six minutes over and I wanted to keep my word. And I said, guys, we have already went over. It's time, you know, I made you promise we'd stop. Gavin says, oh, we're just getting started. I love to keep going. I said, would you like to continue? Because I have time. We can continue. And he said, absolutely. I asked Governor DeSantis, would you like to continue? Said, absolutely.

I said, great. Quick break, right back. We'll continue right here on the Fox News channel. Red versus blue, the great state debate. The, the second we went to black, Gavin Newsom and his quote unquote team, they came charging out of a green room where apparently they had been telling members of my staff all throughout the debate that they were going to walk in and drag them off the stage during the middle of it. And they threw in the white flag as surrender. And Gavin then was pulled out of the room and didn't continue the debate. So if he's, if he wants to be president, I think you got to stand up to your own staff. I mean, I have no problem standing up to my staff when, Linda, when, you know, I think that maybe they cross a line doesn't happen very often occasionally. Little things come up and I happen to be a really good boss and very nice and kind to everybody. Am I not? I'm sorry. You broke up on me. What were you saying? I apologize.

You think you're, you think you're funny? I broke up on you. I know. I'm hilarious. So you said to me last night, I'm wrong. No, listen, I admit it. In this case, you are 100% right. You have a beautiful $100 gift come in your way tomorrow. I hope you enjoy it. I think how are you going to give it to you? How are you going to get me $100? How are you pulling that off? I'm like getting you $100. I'm getting you something of the value of $100. Okay. So you don't have, first of all, I told you I didn't want your money. Number one. That's right. That's why I'm not giving you money. What you're giving me something to do. What you're going to do is you're going to do it. What you're going to do is you're going to do it. What you're going to do is you're going to do it. Request by the way, Vemmo is used by millions of people. I don't use Vemmo. It is. I carry cash the old fashioned way. I probably shouldn't tell the whole world like I just did, but I do. All right. And then you said, no, Gavin's going to go to this. He'll do it. I do. I listen. I think he needs. Listen. First of all, I think, you know, the bromance may be able to be rekindled.

You know, I think that wifey got in the middle, but there's a chance. I have not shared publicly the last text that Gavin sent. It was three words. The last word was Sean. I'll only give that as a clue. Thank you, Sean. No. It was a little more street than that, but you're not even close to be very blunt. You forget you, Sean. Kind of getting a little closer. Listen, sometimes you know in relationships, you have a heated moment. I'm sure he regrets the language and the vernacular. No, he didn't. Maybe he regretted it. He would have written me an apology. Oh, sometimes it's hard to say. Maybe you give me all of branch. I did give him the olive oil of plants. I said, that's not very nice. Got it. I said, that is not very kind. All right. Back to our phones, eight hundred nine four one, Sean. If you want to be a part of the program, all right. Andrew in new joysy. What's up, Andrew? How are you, sir? Glad you called welcome to beautiful Dallas.

Welcome to Texas. God bless Texas. God bless, Texas. God bless America. Hey, man. Sean, I know what you guys missed a big opportunity on telerico. When a couple of weeks ago, you had a friend of yours on Chris something and he stated about telerico say and put up a welcome mat on our border and and then and lock your doors. So what is telerico trying to say that that the people that they're going to let into America, we have to worry about locking our doors. Oh, look, all I could say, all I could say is I got another telefreco cut. You want to hear the latest one where he says God, Yahweh, Allah all lead to the same divine truth. Here's what he said. I've gotten a chance to speak at some of our local mosques and I find such wisdom and comfort

and inspiration from faith traditions all over the world. And I find that they're all kind of a equal pathways to truth. You know, that's how I think it, you know, I always think of all of the world's faith traditions as like a circle with, you know, that divine mystery of the universe in the middle. And we all have different names for that mystery, right? Whether it's God or Yahweh or Allah or Nirvana, the great spirit, whatever you call it, this is all, you know, different pathways to the same kind of fundamental truth of reality. So yes, it's something I, I'm, it's, it's how I, how I try to stay grounded and stay rooted. Well, okay. I have asked in interviews with many imams over the years, why does the Quran have in it the words take neither Christians nor Jews for your friends? I don't know how he reconciles that with his interpretation. God is non-binary according to James Tallerico.

There are six genders according to Tallerico. You know, Tallerico thinks that, you know, all trans people, including biological men, need access to abortion. I didn't know a biological man can have, can get pregnant. I didn't know he had a uterus. You know, little do I know I have to go back to school. I have to take more biology classes. I don't know, we're dealing with crazy here. By the way, speaking of crazy, let's go back to California. Listen to this doctor butch wear UCSB professor telling a Marxism conference to be ready for war in the streets. Y'all ain't dream big enough yet. And also, some of these clickity-clack revolutionaries have never been in a f***ing gun fight, but some of us that grew up in the hood know what guns are like. The hell cast said it best. Brand new raven about gas. They made them gas. They got some f***ing that'll blow out our backs. You are ready for a war in the streets. No you ain't. Y'all ain't nowhere near ready for a war in the streets.

You better get ready for both kinds of war. And if you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready. Get ready for a war in the streets. Gavin Newsom's communist utopia, California. He's Gavin on with Don Lemon on his podcast, bragging about California giving universal healthcare regardless of immigration status. In other words, not only do people not get punished for not respecting our laws and our borders and our sovereignty in California, the one to the go bankrupt, even though they have the highest income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, and the worst government services, they're going bankrupt because all the very high illegal immigrant population there is getting free healthcare courtesy of California taxpayers. Listen. So with what they will say on Fox News is why is Gavin Newsom out here in South Carolina has stayed as some jambles and he's not serving the people of South Carolina. Well, I mean, I mean, serving the people of California, excuse me. I think they deserve more than a $7.25 minimum wage here.

I think they deserve more than a governor refuses to expand Medicaid. We not only expand in Medicaid, but we have, we only stay in America. Providing universal healthcare regardless of pre-existing conditionability to pay and your immigration status. I know how offensive that is to people and I get how controversial that is. We delivered that. We delivered that. And if you want more of that vote for any Democrat because they're all the same. All right, let's get to our busy telephones 800 941 Sean. If you want to be a part of the program, Bill and Arizona, what's up, Bill? How are you? Hello, Sean. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm perfect. And thank you for so much for taking my call. I'm completely honored and humbled to be talking to a great American. Well, I'm honored you called, sir, and thank you for joining us. Well, I just have a couple of memories that always come around this time of year with the anniversary of 911.

And the first one is the evening of 911, less than 12 hours after the attacks, after they were allowed to go back to the Capitol. When we had Congress that came out on the Capitol steps and lined up and sang, God bless America. Now if that's not unity, I don't know what is. I don't know why they can't become unified again. It's not going to happen with this radicalized, leftist Marxist movement that now dominates their party. I'll see knows it because she was only 11 years old when that happened. Yeah. And I think that, you know, we've got to just face the reality. You are voting for in whoever you would vote for. That is a Democrat. You are voting for the movement.

That's what you've got to take away from this election. Maybe you don't like the Republican that represents you. Maybe that Republican is a weak Republican. That's all possible. Maybe it's not, but does that Republican support any of the DSA agenda? I'll take that over the lunatics that would fundamentally shred our constitution and alter America and make it unrecognizable. That makes this the biggest choice election in our lifetime. All right. That's going to wrap things up for today. Let not your harpy troubled a special two hour edition of Hannity tonight, nine to 11 Eastern and that would be eight to 10 central time where we are here in Dallas for the first ever Republican midterm convention. We are loaded up for the two hours. We got vice president advanced Ted Cruz, Caroline Levin. We've got Brett and Martha. We've got new Gingrich also John Thune will join us.

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