Speaker
Dan Bongino
Appearances over time
5 episodes
Episodes
5
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
According to IRS data and ChatGPT queries cited on the show, the top 1% of earners pay approximately 40% of all federal income taxes — far more than most liberals believe.
Mamdani-backed socialist candidates won all three of their New York City primary races on election night, June 23, 2026.
Bongino warns that democratic socialist candidates are winning seats in state legislatures, city councils, and state senates nationwide, and that no red state is immune from the coming political wave.
Politico published an article titled 'Democrats grapple uncomfortably with World Cup success' during America's 250th anniversary summer, which Bongino cited as evidence of reflexive anti-Americanism on the left.
Congressman Ro Khanna, who rails against concentrated wealth and billionaires like Elon Musk, has a median estimated net worth of $232.7 million.
Daria-Lisa Chevalier, who won a U.S. House Democratic primary, co-founded a group whose stated goal is 'the total eradication of Western civilization.'
In a classic clip replayed on the show, Al Sharpton claimed the top 1% pay 'very much less than 5%' of income taxes; the actual IRS figure at the time was 34%.
Starting July 6th, Bongino is giving away $1,776 every week to a live chat participant — no strings attached, funded out of his own pocket.
The 1990 Temporary Protected Status law explicitly states there is no judicial review of any determination regarding designation or termination — yet liberals brought it to court anyway.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton pleaded guilty to one count of retaining classified information in a diary entry and faces up to 5 years in prison and a $2 million fine.
A Wall Street Journal analysis found that a 22-year-old in 2011 would have accumulated over $800,000 by retirement if the Bush 2005 Social Security partial privatization plan had passed, using actual S&P market returns.
The leader of the Antifa-inspired attack on a Texas ICE facility was sentenced to 100 years in prison; 7 other defendants received a combined 350 additional years.
After USAID was defunded, right-leaning candidates won in Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Honduras, Colombia, and Costa Rica — seven consecutive Latin American elections.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that asylum claimants must physically arrive in the United States to claim asylum; they cannot claim it from Mexico.
A Trump team video cited in the episode states Iran has killed Americans every year since 1979, totaling 47 years of attacks, 160 deaths, and 180 attacks on Americans.
When asked about Chicago's ongoing violence, Mayor Brandon Johnson cited missed policy opportunities from Lyndon Johnson's presidency 60 years ago. Bongino points out the absurdity: the people committing crimes today don't know who Lyndon Johnson was, and Johnson's excuse lets real killers off the hook.
A charitable organization calling itself the Algae Salvation Society — acronym ASS — exists solely to preserve the algae bloom in Washington's Reflecting Pool to spite Donald Trump. The segment captures how unhinged Trump Derangement Syndrome has become when adults celebrate pond scum as resistance.
The FBI's AI-powered National Threat Operations Center triaged an incoming tip and stopped a planned school shooting in North Carolina in real time. The same system is being used to catch murderers and rapists on state and federal warrants who would have slipped through due to insufficient human capacity.
A Pittsburgh transplant who moved to Portland considered himself far-left before arriving — then watched homeless people have mental breakdowns on the sidewalk while his neighbors walked past to get lattes. Protesting Tesla, fighting for 'men to have babies,' and punishing anyone who disagrees pushed him further right.
Federal authorities arrested the second most wanted fraudster in America, allegedly behind a $1.2 billion Medicare conspiracy. The Biden administration had time to arrest pro-lifers outside abortion clinics but let this man flee the country with his money.
The next concentrated Democratic political attack will be on the Electoral College, framed as racist. Bongino warns this is existential: if the Electoral College is abolished, California effectively picks every president. He cites Federalist 68 to rebut the racism framing.
Ro Khanna openly called for subpoenas and investigations of Elon Musk the moment Democrats retake power. Bongino argues this isn't about ideas — it's about eliminating an obstacle to concentrated government power, and it's exactly the kind of government weaponization Democrats claimed to oppose under Trump.
The FBI's 2025–26 numbers are staggering: 20% drop in the national murder rate, 45,000 violent crime arrests, 24,450 criminal enterprises disrupted, 6,900 child victims located, and 8 of 10 most wanted fugitives captured. Bongino says critics who claim 'nothing is happening' are ignoring the largest documented crime reduction in modern American history.
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico reportedly shared a single checking account with his mother and had her cover $1,500 in moving expenses at age 32. Bongino pairs this with Talarico's on-camera admission that his 'whiteness' limits his imagination, asking Texas voters to reject him.
Daria-Lisa Chevalier, who just won a U.S. House Democratic primary, co-founded CUAD — a group whose public mission statement calls for 'the total eradication of Western civilization.' This isn't a fringe interpretation: it's their own written words.
Beyond ideology, Chevalier's CUAD group explicitly pledged to 'translate the resilience in Gaza to unrest and violence in America.' Bongino insists this is not metaphor — it is a literal statement of intent posted publicly.
New York State Senate winner Aber Kawas argued Americans should not be expected to apologize for 9/11 because the US has colonized other lands. Bongino, who served in the NYPD near Ground Zero, reacted with fury — reminding listeners that 9/11 happened in New York.
Within 30 minutes of Kamala Harris calling for the Electoral College to be abolished on the Don Lemon show, Jemele Hill claimed it was created to protect slavery. Bongino cites Federalist 68 — Alexander Hamilton's own explanation — which says the opposite: the EC was meant to protect minority rights and limit slaveholder power.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt itemized USAID expenditures: $1.5M for DEI in Serbian workplaces, $70K for a DEI musical in Ireland, $47K for a transgender opera in Colombia, $42K for a transgender comic book in Peru. Bongino points out that since USAID was defunded, 7 of 7 Latin American elections have gone right.
Joy Reid told viewers no Black American she knows celebrates the Fourth of July. Bongino responds with the Harlem Hellfighters, the 369th Infantry Regiment, and the Battle of New Market Heights — where 14 Medals of Honor were awarded to Black soldiers — arguing Reid deliberately hides this heroism to stoke rage.
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- Society & Culture 18%
- Government 13%
- Education 9%
- History 7%
- Business 4%
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