The Rick Robinson Show

On this episode of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick argues that voters are starting to notice the gap between political slogans and real-world consequences. The show opens with Trump’s newly signed border enforcement funding package, the Senate fight over FISA, and the tension between giving elected leaders the tools voters asked for while refusing to hand the surveillance state a blank check.Rick then connects the Middle East crisis to kitchen-table economics, breaking down the U.S. Apache incident near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s pressure strategy, Israeli-Hezbollah tensions, and how energy instability drives inflation back home. The second half turns to California, where San Francisco voters rejected a costly business tax measure, and Los Angeles’ slow-count mayoral race raised new election-confidence concerns around mail ballots, Skid Row registration payments, service-address voting, and alleged paid-vote claims. Rick closes by tying it all back to Oklahoma’s upcoming primary, warning that voters deserve more than slogans on taxes, schools, energy, insurance, state power, and public safety.

On this episode of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick breaks down Oklahoma's primary eve chaos, from early voting totals and ballot access to the GOP governor race, attack ads, and the confusing Trump endorsement of Mike Mazzei. The show digs into the major candidate lanes for Gentner Drummond, Mazzei, Charles McCall, Chip Keating, and Jake Merrick, including the Inola aluminum smelter controversy and foreign-ownership concerns.Rick also covers Oklahoma's state revenue numbers, the U.S. Senate primaries, Democratic governor candidates, judicial races, and SQ 832, the minimum-wage ballot question. Nationally, the show ties in Trump's reported Iran/Hormuz deal, the G7 summit, America 250, UFC at the White House, Hakeem Jeffries leaving impeachment on the table, and a late quick hit on financial questions around the Obama Presidential Center.

America’s 250th birthday should be an easy celebration — flags, fireworks, history, and gratitude. Instead, patriotism feels weaker, more divided, and strangely controversial. Today, Rick connects the dots among declining national pride, decades of centralized, test-driven education, the collapse of civics and U.S. history proficiency, and the rise of socialist-aligned candidates filling the civic vacuum. America does not need propaganda. It needs memory.

Texas voters just sent Washington a message loud enough to shake both parties. John Cornyn is out, Ken Paxton is in, and the old idea that seniority equals automatic renewal took a serious hit. But the Texas reset did not stop with Republicans — Democratic voters rejected Maureen Galindo’s radicalism in TX-35, Al Green’s impeachment-theater era came to an end, and Oklahoma’s governor race is already showing signs of voter restlessness.Today on The Rick Robinson Show, we break down what the Texas runoffs really mean, why Republicans cannot sleepwalk into November against James Talarico, what Oklahoma voters need to know before the June primary, and why trust keeps showing up as the central issue in story after story — from Biden’s Hur tapes to Minneapolis police leadership to activists getting reality hilariously wrong outside an ICE facility.And because America is still bigger than the political mess, we close with the loud, weird, patriotic build-up to America’s 250th birthday — Hoover Dam, White House UFC, IndyCars on the National Mall, tall ships and all.

TRRS 05-20-26 #ChatlivesMatterDay -- Power, Payback, and Political MathThomas Massie loses his Kentucky primary, Hakeem Jeffries talks about ‘breaking’ MAGA, Democrats drag SEC athletes into redistricting politics, and the FBI’s January 6 answers keep getting messier. Then we hit New York City’s budget fantasy, Texas demanding cities show their books, and why voters, taxpayers, and the math eventually notice everything

The Redistricting fight did not go the way Temu Obama hoped the UFO files dump happened, or did it? Can we trust Trump and red lines anymore? All this and more is discussed on this episode.