Blockades, Warsh, SPLC Bank Fraud, Battle for the Ballot

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

News, Politics

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In a rare three-person show, Trey is joined by Justin and Mike. They start by looking at the United States’ standoff with Iran. The trio explores the strategic confusion of mission accomplished with the ongoing naval blockade. They also point to the not-well-publicized 30-day sanctions relief granted to Russia to mitigate global oil shortages. Next, they turn to Federal Reserve Chair nominee Kevin Warsh. The discussion covers the recent news of the ending of the 12-12 committee deadlock, along with a bit of disagreement over how much latitude Warsh has from President Trump. Mike and Trey agree there are positive aspects to Warsh’s positions while Justin is more hesitant, but Trey is worried Warsh was not willing to call out the winner of the 2020 election. After that, they move to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the groups’ alleged shell companies to fund informants. While those in MAGA see this as a way for SPLC to manufacture extremism, the guys agree that the bigger issue is with the way that SPLC has had mission creep and slowly expanded a more fully left-vision of hate. They close the show with a discussion on Virginia’s new voter-approved congressional map that could grant Democrats a 10-1 seat advantage in a state where roughly 46% of voters chose Donald Trump in 2024. Mike gets deep into the problematic misleading of the ballot language, and Justin discusses how redistricting plans in Texas might backfire in a wave election. Check out the ⁠Future of Our Former Democracy⁠ podcast Curious about what sort of POTUS you’d be? Find out in the ⁠Fantasy President⁠presidential simulator. The Politics Guys on ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠X⁠ Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at⁠ patreon.com/politicsguys⁠ or⁠ politicsguys.com/support⁠. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of⁠ The Democracy Group⁠, a network of podcasts that examines what’s broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.5	I'm Trey Orndorff, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University.
1:08.1	And today I'm joined both by Justin Holmes, a professor of political
1:11.8	science at the University of Northern Iowa, but also by Mike Baranowski, a professor of political
1:17.2	science. Gentlemen, welcome to the politics, guys. It's good to be here. It's fun to do a three-person
1:23.0	show. You know, I get to... I've done one of these in a long time. I feel like what's going to
1:26.8	happen is you all are going to fight, and I'm going to end up being, like, the referee. That's what I think's going to... That's my guess, so listeners, that's my prediction right now. We're going to find out if ref tray is correct. But before we get into any of that, we've got a new supporter, Mike. So why don't you introduce this? Yes, we'd like to thank Colin,
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