Huge Primaries in Kentucky, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Idaho. 3.6 Million Independents Shut Out.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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Politics, News, National Security, News Commentary, Daily News, Veteran

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's Tuesday, May 19th — a huge primary day in Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Alabama — and 3,557,000 independent Americans are being locked out of the elections deciding their representation. Paul Rieckhoff runs a solo briefing on the closed-primary problem nobody in the rigged two-party system wants to talk about: taxpayer-funded elections, run in public schools by public poll workers, that exclude anyone who refuses to put on a jersey. With 93% of House races and 80% of Senate races already decided by primaries, this isn't a procedural quirk — it's a structural assault on representative democracy.

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0:00.0	Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrod.
0:01.5	Tomorrow's Whiskey, Tango, Foxtry, Wednesday.
0:03.6	But, you know, it was a ballroom.
0:05.8	Then it was a military facility.
0:07.9	Kind of sounds like a bunker.
0:10.3	So maybe next time, when there's a January 6th,
0:13.4	maybe it'll be a place for him to hunker down safely
0:15.9	because he and Steve Bannon and others have already said
0:19.2	he ain't leaving in 2028.
0:37.2	Welcome to Independent Americans.
0:39.7	Welcome to episode 527.
0:42.6	I'm your host, Paul Reikoff, and it is Tuesday, May 19th, Primary Day.
0:47.5	And I'm coming to you from New York City, and the weather here is hot.
0:52.2	Holy smokes, it's hot.
0:54.3	It's going to go up to like 95 degrees today.
0:57.3	We have got to stay cool because it is a very important primary Tuesday in America,
1:02.6	something you may not be tracking on, but you need to.
1:05.5	I'm going to get to that and much more.
1:07.1	But first, today's artist of the day is the great Chris Cornell. Chris Cornell,
1:13.1	who had an amazing solo career, contributed to numerous movie soundtracks, Soundgarden,
1:20.0	audio slave, Temple of the Dog, one of the greatest vocalists of all time, in my view. He died
1:26.1	on May 18th yesterday back in 2017. So we want to
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