The Kinzinger Report

Pulling the Plug | Republicans Sink Trump's ICE Pick — September 18, 2026

The White House pulls its nominee to run ICE after Republican opposition in the Senate. Rand Paul wanted DHS files on the two American citizens killed by federal agents i

Begging for Mercy | Vance's Desperate Closing Message for the Midterms — September 17, 2026

JD Vance gives the Republican closing message for the 2026 midterms, and it amounts to begging voters for another chance. Adam breaks down why the White House can't ask f

The Revolt Begins | Republicans Start Breaking With Trump Over the Iran War — September 16, 2026

The Pentagon's inspector general and the Congressional Budget Office just revealed the true cost of the Iran war: dozens of aircraft destroyed, bases hammered by missile

The Final Blow | The Supreme Court Ends the War on Mail-In Ballots — September 15, 2026

The Supreme Court rejects the Trump administration's attempt to rewrite mail-in voting rules weeks before the midterms, and a whistleblower report reveals a new scheme: f

Brought to You by Russia | Putin's Inner Circle Paid for Don Jr.'s Wedding — September 14, 2026

A ProPublica investigation reveals Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas wedding was bankrolled by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch in Vladimir Putin's inner circle who paid hundred

He Quit | The Man Running Trump's Revenge Probe Walks Away — September 11, 2026

 Joe diGenova has resigned from the Justice Department's grand conspiracy investigation into Trump's enemies, saying on his way out that indictments without evidence are

Rigging the Census | How Trump's New Plan Redraws Political Power — September 10, 2026

The Trump administration wants to change who counts in the 2030 census. A new Commerce Department proposal would exclude millions of immigrants, including people here leg

The 9/11 Lie | Trump Turns the 9/11 Anniversary Into a Story About Himself — September 9, 2026

Trump told a fake story about firefighters carrying him to safety at Ground Zero on 9/11, days before the 25th anniversary. There's no record he was there until September

The Shadow Secretary | The Unconfirmed Aide Who Ran DHS and Shopped It to Foreign Governments — September 8, 2026

The Wall Street Journal reports that Corey Lewandowski secretly ran Trump's Department of Homeland Security as an unpaid, unconfirmed adviser, controlling billions in DHS

Workers Organize Anyway | A Labor Day Reckoning With Trump's War on Unions — September 7, 2026

Adam Kinzinger marks Labor Day with a special episode on Trump's assault on organized labor, from stripping nearly a million federal workers of collective bargaining to f

A True Warrior | Trump Salutes the Fox Anchor Fired for Serving Him — September 4, 2026

Fox News fired Maria Bartiromo after she leaked internal Fox guidance about Trump's 2020 election claims straight to the White House. Adam Kinzinger breaks down how she f

The Exodus Begins | Republicans Flee Trump's Midterm Convention — September 3, 2026

Republicans are skipping Trump's first-ever midterm convention in Dallas. Politico surveyed more than 70 GOP candidates and most are staying away or won't answer, with sw

Nobody's Buying It | Trump's Numbers Collapse and the GOP Blames Biden Again — September 2, 2026

Trump's approval rating just hit 33 percent, a record low for his second term and his worst numbers since January 6th. Republican approval is down 14 points, 71 percent o

The Pentagon Revolts | Army Secretary Resigns as Military Chiefs Warn Hegseth on Iran — September 1, 2026

Adam Kinzinger breaks down the revolt inside the Pentagon. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned after telling President Trump how many generals Pete Hegseth has fired, an

They've Had Enough | Trump's Own Voters Revolt in Farm Country — August 31, 2026

Adam Kinzinger breaks down why Trump is losing farm country. Cattle ranchers and farmers are furious over tariff-free beef imports, soaring fuel and fertilizer costs, and

The Case That Wasn't | Rand Paul's Fauci Prosecution Stalls at the DOJ — August 28, 2026

Adam Kinzinger breaks down why the case against Anthony Fauci is falling apart. Rand Paul's committee held Fauci in contempt of Congress, but Trump officials at the Justi

The Panic Begins | Republicans Race to Fix an Economy Trump Says Is Fine — August 27, 2026

Adam Kinzinger breaks down the White House's quiet admission that the affordability crisis is real. After a year of Trump calling high grocery prices a Democrat scam, a J

Not So Fast | Judges Throw Out the GOP's Plan to Flood the Airwaves — August 26, 2026

A federal appeals court just blocked the Republican plan to buy midterm TV ads at the discounted candidate rate, throwing out Trump's FCC guidance days before the 60-day

Who Gets a Ballot? | Supreme Court Lets Trump's Mail Voting Order Take Effect — August 25, 2026

The Supreme Court just cleared the way for Trump's executive order restricting mail voting, lifting a freeze that covered 23 states, while the Postal Service says ballots

Election Integrity? | The DOJ's New Election Monitor Was Convicted of Hacking Elections — August 24, 2026

Adam Kinzinger breaks down the DOJ's apparent hire of a convicted election hacker into the office that polices voting rights, plus the White House sitting on the 2024 for