Dan Bongino wastes no time. Within seconds of the intro jingle, he declares this will not be a comforting show — no warm oatmeal, no Sunday morning coffee. 'The evil is not coming. The evil is here.' He frames the episode around the June 23, 2026 New York City Democratic primaries, which he describes as a watershed moment comparable to the late 1930s. His tone is urgent, almost apocalyptic, but he insists it is neither melodrama nor hyperbole. He explicitly calls out 'fake astroturf MAGA' infiltrators who he believes are facilitating the radical left's advance from inside the conservative movement, reserving the word 'traitor' — deployed 'carefully and deliberately' — for those who accommodate open calls for violence against Western civilization. The chapter closes as he transitions to the first sponsor read.

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With the sponsor break behind him, Bongino launches into the substance: a candidate-by-candidate breakdown of what he calls a 'communist takeover' of New York City's Democratic Party. He begins with Daria-Lisa Chevalier, who wants to abolish prisons, abolish ICE, abolish borders, defund police, oppose all deportations including for violent criminals, and who once posted that she wiped her hand on an American flag. Next comes Claire Valdez, who supports granting citizenship and voting rights to illegal immigrants, taxpayer-funded gender transition treatments, and the elimination of private health insurance. Finally, Brad Lander, who defeated incumbent Dan Goldman — himself described as a radical — by an estimated 20-30 points, and who wants to abolish ICE, forgive $2 trillion in student debt, and expand the Supreme Court. ^{[1] — Dan Bongino "3-for-3 socialist sweep in NYC primaries: Mamdani-backed socialist candidates won all three of their New York City primary races on electio…" 07:07 Play} Bongino calls Lander's primary win over Goldman a live demonstration of his cannibalism theory: the left devours its own when they're not extreme enough.

This is the emotional core of the episode. Bongino displays what he says is CUAD's own public mission statement: 'We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.' He is furious that anyone — particularly right-wing commentators he labels antisemites — would frame the threat as being solely about Jews. His argument is that the Jews are targeted first precisely because antisemitism is a convenient mobilization tool, but the real target is all of Western civilization. ^{[1] — Dan Bongino "Daria-Lisa Chevalier, who just won a U.S. House Democratic primary, co-founded CUAD — a group whose public mission statement calls for 'the…" 10:28 Play} He then escalates: a second CUAD document he cites pledges to 'extend the successes of the Palestinian resistance to the heart of the empire itself' and 'translate resilience in Gaza to unrest and violence in America.' ^{[2] — Dan Bongino "Beyond ideology, Chevalier's CUAD group explicitly pledged to 'translate the resilience in Gaza to unrest and violence in America.' Bongino…" 12:50 Play} He demands listeners read these primary sources themselves rather than accept secondhand interpretation, and warns that anyone — regardless of their political tribe — who accommodates this agenda is setting themselves up to be the next target.

The target shifts from a congressional race to a state senate primary, but Bongino argues the danger is the same. Aber Kawas, a Palestinian-American Democratic socialist, won her New York State Senate primary — a race that, as Bongino notes, should be about subway fares and apple orchards, not Gaza. ^{[1] — Dan Bongino "New York State Senate winner Aber Kawas argued Americans should not be expected to apologize for 9/11 because the US has colonized other la…" 17:36 Play} Her victory tweet celebrated that 'Palestine was on the ballot.' Then Bongino plays the clip that ignites him: Kawas expressing that she finds it 'reprehensible' that Muslims must apologize for 9/11, framing the attack in the context of American colonialism. Bongino, a former NYPD officer in the 75th Precinct whose ESU colleagues died on 9/11, responds with a raw, personal fury. He recounts staring at ESU Truck 7 members during routine tours who would be dead within a year, crushed in the towers. His message to Kawas: 'Shove it up your ass.' The segment is one of the most emotionally charged of the episode.

Bongino reads aloud a tweet from a self-described Islamic expert named Offer bin Abinstock, which has gained close to a million views, predicting that Islam will 'wipe out' the United States in a process worse than anything happening in Western Europe. The tweet warns that American Jew-haters will 'pay a heavy price with compound interest' and that the U.S. will slide into civil war that makes Syria look like 'child's play.' Bongino agrees with the threat assessment but rejects the doomer conclusion. He pivots to an almost spiritual defense of American exceptionalism: by pure statistical probability, the U.S. should not exist — not after two wars with Britain, the Civil War, and two World Wars. He credits divine protection, then pivots to George Washington's voluntary relinquishment of power as evidence the founding generation gave America something worthy of defending. The chapter closes with Bongino connecting this history to the urgency of the present moment.

The cannibalism theory — Bongino's long-running thesis that the radical left inevitably turns on its own — is validated in spectacular fashion. Dan Goldman, who led congressional efforts to weaponize the government against Donald Trump and who is himself a radical progressive, lost his NYC primary by an estimated 20-30 points. Then, on primary day itself, a Brooklyn coffee shop called 'Poetica' posted a now-deleted photo of Goldman with the caption asking if his coffee 'doesn't taste like genocide juice.' ^{[1] — Dan Bongino "Congressman Dan Goldman — a radical leftist who led the charge to weaponize Congress against Trump — lost his primary by 20-30 points AND w…" 30:00 Play} Goldman is now under investigation by the Justice Department over the incident, per the Fox News clip played on air. Bongino uses this to issue a warning to fake MAGA figures and antisemites who think they will be spared by professing hatred of Jews: Goldman's fate shows that insufficient radicalism is a death sentence within this movement, and no declaration of Jew-hatred will protect you from being the next meal.

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Moving beyond New York, Bongino flags a Michigan U.S. Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, as another product of the same DSA model as Chevalier and Mamdani. The clip he plays shows El-Sayed and commentator Wajahat Ali framing journalistic scrutiny of El-Sayed's positions — including his relationship with Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who said the October 7th rapes would not change his views — as casual Islamophobia rooted in anti-Arab animus. Bongino is withering: this same audience, he notes, would call itself MeToo, yet shows zero concern for the rapes on October 7th. The real goal of the 'Islamophobia' accusation, he argues, is to get you to participate in your own political and literal decapitation by silencing any challenge to their agenda. He connects this to his history of covering AOC from her first election, citing audience members who once told him to stop focusing on her because she'd go away — and using the current Mamdani sweep as proof they were wrong.

Bongino delivers one of the most concrete pieces of evidence in the episode: eight members of an Antifa group that attacked a Texas ICE detention facility were sentenced, collectively, to 450 years in prison, with the leader receiving 100 years alone. ^{[1] — Dan Bongino "Antifa leader: 100-year sentence: The leader of the Antifa-inspired attack on a Texas ICE facility was sentenced to 100 years in prison; 7 …" 38:55 Play} He attributes this prosecution to work that began during his own tenure at the FBI and credits the Trump administration's NSPM-7 national security directive for enabling it. He then plays Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's statement calling the sentences 'a travesty and totally unjustified,' claiming the charges are 'bullshit terrorism charges' and that 'Americans hate the fascist Trump regime.' Bongino's reaction is incendiary: he argues that Tlaib and 'doomers' — the pessimistic commentators who claim the Trump administration is doing nothing — are functionally aligned, both wanting the public to lose faith in the government it elected. He closes the segment with a brief, sardonic sidebar about Trump's Iran MOU: the difference from Obama's deal, he jokes, is that everyone Obama negotiated with is now dead.

The episode pivots to a rapid-fire news cycle moment: the previous day, Bongino had discussed on-air how the Electoral College is an obstacle to the radical left's direct-democracy ambitions. Within 30 minutes, Kamala Harris appeared on Don Lemon's show calling to consider abolishing it, and Jemele Hill — a sports commentator Bongino dismisses as knowing 'nothing about anything' — posted that the Electoral College was created to protect slavery. ^{[1] — Dan Bongino "Within 30 minutes of Kamala Harris calling for the Electoral College to be abolished on the Don Lemon show, Jemele Hill claimed it was crea…" 42:15 Play} Bongino is almost gleeful at the speed of the vindication: he cites Federalist 68, in which Alexander Hamilton explicitly describes the EC's purpose as protecting smaller, anti-slavery states from being politically overwhelmed by large slave-holding states with high populations. He urges listeners to read it themselves on Grok or any search engine. The segment becomes a broader argument that the radical left's effort to dismantle constitutional guardrails — the EC, the Senate, the courts — is an extension of the same Western-civilization-eradication agenda.

Bongino turns to the SAVE Act — the federal voter ID legislation — and its opponents. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois took the Senate floor to argue that requiring birth certificates or passports for voter registration is too burdensome because Americans don't know where their documents are. Bongino mocks this argument mercilessly: 'You're too stupid to find your birth certificate, but you can cheat the election.' He then pivots to the PolitiFact fact check — originally pitched as debunking Senator Marsha Blackburn's claim that the Obama Presidential Center requires photo ID — which in its body confirms that Illinois residents seeking the local discount must show photo ID to prove residency. Bongino frames it as a gotcha gift from PolitiFact itself: you can vote on your word but can't get a museum discount without ID. The segment crystallizes his argument that voter ID opposition is not about protecting voters — it's about enabling fraud.

Bongino returns once more to the PolitiFact story, now treating it as a standalone punchline: PolitiFact rated 'false' Marsha Blackburn's claim that the Obama Presidential Center requires photo ID to enter — then confirmed in the very same article that Illinois residents must show photo ID to receive the resident discount. Bongino walks through the logical absurdity: you can walk into a polling booth, declare yourself a citizen with no documentation, and cast a ballot that determines who governs the country; but you cannot receive a local museum discount without proving your home address with a government-issued ID. He calls PolitiFact's 'false' rating — rather than 'mostly false' — a sign they are embarrassed but too committed to the narrative to acknowledge what they themselves wrote.

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Bongino broadens his geographical scope beyond New York to Texas, arguing the radical left threat is not parochial. His target is James Talarico, a Democratic socialist running for Senate in one of America's most conservative states. ^{[1] — Dan Bongino "Texas Senate candidate shares checking account with mom at age 32: Texas Senate candidate James Talarico reportedly shares a single checkin…" 58:58 Play} First he plays a clip of Talarico in an interview saying his 'whiteness' and 'masculinity' limit his imagination about what's possible, and that he must 'continually press against' these limits. Bongino is gleefully contemptuous — noting Talarico is running as a vegan in the 'barbecue capital of the world' and asking Texas voters for help. He then plays a Fox News report by wounded veteran Johnny Joey Jones revealing that Talarico reportedly shares a single checking account with his mother, who covered $1,500 in moving expenses when Talarico was 32. Bongino connects Talarico to the broader DSA / socialist accommodator pattern he's been tracing throughout the episode, and pleads with Texas not to send him to Washington.

Bongino pivots to education, citing a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. The federal program in question offers donors a $1,700 tax credit when they contribute to a scholarship fund that parents can use for school expenses — including private school tuition. States opt in at zero cost: no payments, no administration, just a declaration of participation. ^{[1] — Dan Bongino "American Financing customers save avg $800/mo: American Financing reports its customers are saving an average of $800 a month by refinancin…" 28:01 Play} Despite this, virtually every Democrat-led state refused to join — with only two exceptions. Bongino ties this directly to the teachers unions: Randy Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers and a figure he's described previously as a dangerous influence on children's education, opposed it. He argues that Democratic governors dutifully fell in line with Weingarten's instructions, sacrificing a genuine educational benefit for working-class families to protect union power. For Bongino, this isn't a policy disagreement — it's evidence that the people holding power actively want your children stuck in inferior schools.

Bongino plays back a 2025 White House press briefing in which Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt itemizes USAID spending: $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbian workplaces, $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $42,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. ^{[1] — Dan Bongino "USAID: $1.5M for DEI in Serbia: USAID spent $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces — one of many examples cited by Press Secret…" 1:04:15 Play} The implicit argument is that USAID was not aiding American interests but funding the same global network of left-wing influence operations Bongino has been describing all episode. He then notes a remarkable data point: since USAID was defunded by the Trump administration, seven consecutive Latin American elections have gone to right-of-center candidates — suggesting the agency was actively tilting elections abroad. He also references Ro Khanna's push to investigate or arrest Elon Musk for overseeing DOGE's discovery of this waste, calling Khanna one of the most dangerous men in America.

The penultimate content segment is dedicated to dismantling the 'nothing is happening' narrative that Bongino attributes to blackpillers, doomers, and, he argues, their ideological allies on the far left. ^{[1] — Dan Bongino "4 FTOCs on 4 continents in 24 hours: The FBI executed 4 Foreign Transfers of Custody on 4 separate continents in 24 hours, including appreh…" 1:06:06 Play} He plays a press conference clip from FBI Director Cash Patel announcing that the Bureau executed 4 Foreign Transfers of Custody on 4 separate continents within a 24-hour window, including the arrest of Hilmi — a man who perpetrated a multi-billion dollar fraud — brought back from Turkey via the U.S. Ambassador Tom Barrack's relationship with the Turkish government. Bongino also references a fraud task force, a repurposed DOJ division, and an FBI Most Wanted Fraudsters list, all cited by a Fox analyst as part of the Trump administration's strategy to demonstrate accountability ahead of midterms. He frames the entire pattern — Antifa sentencing, overseas fraud arrests, USAID defunding, DOGE — as evidence that institutions are working, and that doomers serve the same function as Rashida Tlaib: making people give up.

Bongino brings the episode to a close with an emotional summary, cycling back through every major figure — Chevalier, Mamdani, Kawas, Valdez, Lander, Talarico — and their most extreme positions. He acknowledges, almost warmly, that he's been unusually profane today, and that a doctor recently told him his cortisol levels are dangerously high. But he refuses to apologize for his intensity: 'I'm not watching this place go down.' He echoes the episode's central motif — the armor of God, standing your ground, every generation has its fight — and closes with a plug for Rumble (rumble.com/bongino), a reminder that Vince Colanase streams at 8 AM on rumble.com/vince, and an invitation to Haley Carradilla's Scrolling with Haley at noon. Haley Carradilla herself delivers the final 20 seconds, directing listeners to find the show wherever they get podcasts.