MONDAY, OCTOBER 12th, 2026
Good morning! Today's roundup covers 10 of the biggest shows on the right, including Steven Crowder's case for the Fort Hood shooter's looming execution, Ted Cruz's blunt words for Tucker Carlson, and Morning Wire's rundown of a deadly Houthi missile strike in Riyadh. Here's what you need to know.
The Ben Shapiro Show — "Ben Shapiro Takes On College Students At TPUSA"
Shapiro delivers a midterms speech and takes audience Q&A on a college campus tour stop, warning that a Democratic-controlled Congress would mean impeachment, investigations and court-stacking. He also fields hostile questions on Israel, Candace Owens and vaccines.
Predicts a Democratic Congress would pursue Trump impeachment, investigations, military defunding and eventually court-stacking
Says ‘Woke 2.0’ is coming back in a worse form and criticizes Democratic candidates in several states
Credits the Trump administration on the border, race-based admissions and China, while disagreeing with some tariffs
Rejects the genocide charge against Israel; audience members pushed back
Says Candace Owens grew extreme and that RFK Jr. is wrong that vaccines cause autism
The Charlie Kirk Show — "6-Year-Old Boy Saves His Sister After Mom Tries To Murder Sister"
The hosts open with an unverified story of a 6-year-old boy who allegedly shielded his sister from their mother's attack, then interview writer Peachy Keenan about whether recent cases of maternal violence reflect social contagion — a conversation that widens into feminism and the conservative movement.
Hosts list recent cases of mothers accused of harming children and ask whether they are copycats of the Lindsay Clancy case
Keenan argues some cases are social contagion, especially among women
Argues feminism sold women lies about delaying marriage and putting career first
Describes a conservative debate over reclaiming the word ‘feminism’
Says Paramount's new owner is not a conservative and expects better movies but not conservative values
VINCE — "Sen. Mike Lee's Exclusive wi/ Vince on the SAVE America Act!"
Vince Coglianese interviews Sen. Mike Lee about the SAVE America Act, a voter-security bill Lee authored, and the stakes of the midterms. They also cover Senate procedure, the ‘blue slip’ custom for judicial nominations, and Lee's possible role as Judiciary Committee chair.
Lee argues the midterms are critical given the national debt, rising Treasury yields and cost-of-living pressures
Says a large non-citizen population and looser registration rules create election-security risks, which he says are underreported
Notes the SAVE America Act needs 51 votes rather than 60, with a filibuster possibly pressured through extended floor debate
Describes the difficulty of whipping votes with narrow margins and suggests budget reconciliation could replicate some provisions
Explains the blue slip custom that lets home-state senators block certain nominees; changes would need broad Republican support
Verdict with Ted Cruz — "In Defense of Western Civilization: Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg One-on-One"
Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson sit down with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg to discuss his viral Tucker Carlson interview and make the case for a muscular, pro-Western foreign policy — with Cruz harshly criticizing Carlson throughout.
Rees-Mogg says he took the Carlson interview because he believes in debating controversial people
Both argue peace through strength and say fighting Nazi Germany was morally necessary
Cruz calls Carlson ‘the most dangerous demagogue in America’ and speculates without evidence about Qatar funding
Discuss deterring China over Taiwan, US-UK ties and the Anglosphere
Criticize mass migration and multiculturalism in Europe
Louder with Crowder — "The Fort Hood Shooter Firing Squad Is Justice"
Crowder and his team defend the announced firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, which they say Defense Secretary Hegseth confirmed as a public event on Dec. 3 — arguing for deterrence and debating a public or livestreamed format.
Hosts say Hegseth confirmed a public firing-squad execution at Fort Hood on Dec. 3
Call the 2009 attack radical Islamist terrorism rather than ‘workplace violence’
Reject the ‘vengeance’ charge, framing it as military justice and deterrence
Debate public vs. livestreamed vs. family-only; Crowder says he would livestream it
Cite WWII firing squads and Washington's 1776 execution of Thomas Hickey as precedents
The Megyn Kelly Show — "Talarico's Mystery “Flu” Absence, NYC ICE Shooting, New White House Press Secretary: AM Update 10/12"
Kelly's Oct. 12 roundup covers Texas Senate candidate James Talarico's unexplained absence and the online speculation it set off, a federal agents' shooting in Manhattan with conflicting official accounts, and Trump's pick for a new White House press secretary.
Talarico reappeared after a week-plus out of view; he had said he was sick with the flu
Commentators pushed claims linking him to an Ohio facility; the facility and Talarico deny it, so it is unconfirmed
Agents shot a 28-year-old man in Marble Hill with his son in the car; officials and NYC Mayor Mamdani gave conflicting accounts
A judge temporarily blocked the man's deportation
Trump named a Trump Media adviser to replace Caroline Leavitt as press secretary
The Michael Knowles Show — "Knowles REACTS To Single Women COPE TikToks"
Knowles plays TikTok clips of single women praising their independent lives and responds from a conservative Catholic view, arguing their self-presentation is partly performance and that marriage is central to human flourishing.
Says single-life freedom depends on partnered friends with free time
Argues a creator rejecting life milestones is chasing online fame
Gives a theological rebuke to an ‘I am love’ self-sufficiency clip
Calls late-30s unmarried women an ‘epidemic’ and blames a decadent culture
Says marriage is hard to achieve today but central to flourishing
The Matt Walsh Show — "Feminists Have Created The Worst Song In Human History"
Walsh attacks feminist social media content as hypocritical and performative, starting with the viral ‘I am Jane Doe’ trend after a Cornell sexual assault allegation, before dissecting the viral song ‘Labor’ by Paris Paloma.
Mocks parents filming lessons for small boys as performing for the camera
Argues the Cornell account is false; this is his characterization and not established
Says feminists assume women never lie
Says ‘Labor’ is hugely popular with feminist creators
Contends fans lack the domestic life the song describes while defending traditional roles
Morning Wire — "The High-Stakes Battle Over Global Energy"
Morning Wire covers a Houthi missile strike on Riyadh's airport that killed an American, a reported temporary US-Russia diesel deal and energy ceasefire, and the death penalty debate after Tennessee's failed Christa Pike execution.
Houthi missile hit King Khalid International Airport, killing an American and about a dozen others
Trump reportedly struck a temporary diesel deal with Putin before the midterms
Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire announced, though a Russian strike was already reported
Tennessee's governor paused executions after Pike survived a two-dose attempt
Pentagon set Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution for Dec. 3; Hegseth defends it while Tillis and Pope Leo object
The Andrew Klavan Show — "Ep. 1299 - The West Against The West"
In Ep. 1299, Klavan argues Western civilization is threatened both by the left and by right-wing critics of the West, and that it survives only if individuals live out its values.
Condemns Hamas's Oct. 7 attack and rejects the genocide label for Gaza
Says Tucker Carlson is wrong to question whether Britain should have fought WWII
Blames French riots on a leftist and Islamist takeover of school protests
Welcomes Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. and Bari Weiss at CBS News
Praises Marco Rubio's Athens speech and the 1571 Battle of Lepanto