The Worst RINOs in America
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Are Democrats really the problem in Washington? Much of the dysfunction actually stems from Republicans in safe red districts who know they’ll never be punished for how they vote. We expose some of the worst RINOs in Congress, and how could we get rid of them.
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00:00:00 Why Do Republicans Always Seem to Lose?
00:02:03 The Biggest Problem is Weak Republicans In Safe Districts
00:7:22 Five RINOs in Congress Who Need to be Primaried
00:08:57 Mike Kelly in Pennsylvania’s 16th District
00:18:00 How Primary Challenges Moves the Overton Window to the Right
00:22:33 Dave Joyce in Ohio’s 14th District
00:27:43 Brett Guthrie in Kentucky’s 2nd District
00:32:57 Hal Rogers in Kentucky’s 5th District
00:38:25 Tony Gonzales in Texas’ 23rd District
00:43:15 Brandon Herrera is Challenging Gonzales
00:47:08 The Importance of Primarying RINOs
00:52:02 Rewarding Champions like Scott Perry
00:56:20 We Need To Clean House
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I get asked all the time, Nick, you are in elected office, you are in a legislature, you know what goes on behind the scenes. |
| 0:08.4 | What is the problem with the Republican Party? |
| 0:11.0 | Why is it that when Democrats get into power, they get the things they want? |
| 0:14.1 | And when Republicans get into power, they can't seem to accomplish anything. |
| 0:18.0 | Well, there's a few reasons. |
| 0:20.7 | But I'm going to give you one of the most important |
| 0:22.8 | reasons today. That's what we're going to discuss. And I'm not just going to give you, I'm not just |
| 0:27.4 | going to give you platitudes. I'm going to give you specifics. I'm going to explain why the issue |
| 0:31.9 | I'm going to discuss today that all three of us are going to discuss today is one of the single most |
| 0:37.0 | important things, one of the single most important things, |
| 0:38.2 | one of the single most important issues for why you can't get the stuff you want out of a |
| 0:42.3 | Republican legislature. And we're going to tell you exactly what you can do about it, |
| 0:48.4 | exactly what you can do about it. And here's a hint right off the bat. It actually isn't |
| 0:54.0 | the Republicans that we get mad at a lot. |
| 0:57.4 | And those are the Republicans in like the swing districts. |
| 1:00.6 | Yep, sometimes they take votes we don't like. |
| 1:02.9 | Yep, they usually don't carry the bills that we really consider to be good, |
| 1:05.8 | hardcore conservative bills. |
| 1:07.2 | But they're actually not the main problem. |
| 1:10.1 | The main problem is this other category. |
| 1:13.6 | And we're going to give you five examples of people that probably need to lose their seats in |
| 1:19.8 | Congress if we ever want to have the kind of legislative success that the Democrats always seem to be |
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