American Ground Radio

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 31, 2026. 

We open by digging into the Trump administration's crackdown on fraudulent commercial driving schools, walking through why English proficiency and real CDL training aren't bureaucratic red tape but a matter of public safety, and how the Biden-era rollback of licensing standard...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 28, 2026. 

We open with Florida's move to ban welfare cash assistance from covering tattoos, video games, theme park tickets, vaping products, and even psychic services, and we dig into why Governor DeSantis's crackdown on TANF spending should spread nationwide. We run through our Top 3, covering a Boston judge b...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 27, 2026.

We open by tearing into Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner's comments about wanting a "paperweight" from the wreckage of Trump's planned White House ballroom, walking through why that rhetoric crosses the line from political disagreement into celebrating the destruction of federal property, and how the broader cu...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 26, 2026.

We start by digging into the tangled state of the 2028 Democratic presidential field: Kamala Harris leads the national polling average, but red-state Democrats running in Iowa and Alaska are keeping her at arm's length, and her New Hampshire numbers tell a very different story than ...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 25, 2026.

We open with a hard look at a troubling poll: 62% of young Americans now say they view socialism favorably, and we dig into why that number keeps climbing, what young people are actually being sold versus the historical reality of socialist regimes, and why billionaire wealth isn't the piggy bank the left ma...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 24, 2026. 

Today's episode kicks off with the Supreme Court giving President Trump a win on mail-in ballots, putting the brakes on that Boston judge's nationwide injunction just ahead of the midterms. We dig into why ballot verification shouldn't be a partisan issue and take a swing at t...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for Aguust 21, 2026. 

We open with a pointed examination of antisemitism and New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani, arguing that his rhetoric and his choices—including naming zero Jewish lawyers to the judicial screening board despite roughly half of New York's lawyers being Jewish—amount t...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 20, 2026.

We open with a chilling case out of Albany, New York, where 35-year-old Jessica Bowie stands accused of pledging allegiance to ISIS and plotting to bomb the New York State Capitol while also expressing a desire to harm President Trump. We use the case to dig into the theological roo...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 19, 2026. 

We open with President Trump's decision to pause a threatened 50% tariff on Canada as the two countries close in on a new trade deal, and we dig into what's really at stake beneath the headlines: the possible revival of the Keystone XL pipeline, Alberta's push for a independence referendum, and why NAF...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full episode for August 18, 2026. 

We open by taking a hard look at the polling industry ahead of the 2026 midterms, breaking down Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini's analysis of 3,000 Senate polls over four election cycles, which found an average Democratic-leaning error of 3.7 points and Democrats overst...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avalone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 17, 2026.

We open by breaking down Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal's claim that the Supreme Court has been "captured" by Trump supporters, using it as a launching point to walk through the constitutional distinction between the representative and judicial branches, and why judicial independence matters even when rulings ...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avalone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 14, 2026. 

We open by digging into President Trump's tongue-in-cheek claim that he might declare the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, unpacking the international law questions, the strategic stakes of the world's busiest oil chokepoint, and why we think it's really a negotiating jab aimed at Tehran.

From there w...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 13, 2026.

We dig into why Democrats are running on impeachment instead of solutions, pointing to Massachusetts Congressman Jake Auchincloss naming impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth a midterm priority — and we lay out why that signals a party with nothing to offer on cost of l...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avalone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 12, 2026. 

We open with a legal argument that's hard to stomach: attorneys for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk are reportedly arguing that the death penalty shouldn't be on the table because their client hit exactly who he was aiming for. We dig into why that "good marksman" defense doesn't hold up, why Ut...

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avalone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 11, 2026. 

We open with Chicago's murder rate compared to Florida's major cities, and ask why the same activists offended by National Guard troops in D.C. and Chicago aren't offended by the gang violence claiming lives every day — plus why Chicago's strict gun laws haven't stopped t...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for August 10, 2026.

We kick things off with Iran's audacious demand for war reparations from the United States — and President Trump's brilliant response that flips the script and opens up Iran's own record of terror funding, hostage-taking, and brutality against its own people for the world to see.

Then we run thro...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for August 7, 2026.

We open up with a deep dive into the legal fight over President Trump's new White House ballroom, breaking down the deceptively simple question the Supreme Court may ultimately have to answer: is replacing the demolished East Wing an "improvement" to the executive residence, or...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for August 6, 2026.

President Trump signed two executive orders targeting birth tourism and birthright citizenship — one ending the practice of foreign nationals flying in just to give birth on American soil, and another restricting citizenship documents for children of alien enemies, foreig...

You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for August 5, 2026.

Democratic Socialists of America candidates had a big night in Tuesday's primaries — especially in Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the Democrat Senate nomination over Haley Stevens, and "Squad" member Rashida Tlaib fended off a primary challenge. We break down what these wins actually ...