Glenn Beck: The Democratic primary elections are exposing the radical left in real time
Wisconsin Democratic candidate for governor Francesca Hong campaigned in Milwaukee alongside two of the most controversial left-wing figures possible: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and political commentator Hasan Piker.
The pair appeared at a rally at South Milwaukee High School to endorse Hong, who is a Democratic Socialists of America member with a long history of anti-Israel activism.
When Piker was introduced, he told the people of Milwaukee that “Wisconsin is the heart of the historic American socialist movement.”
“He’s right partly about history, maybe more right than he knows,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says, pointing out that Piker received a standing ovation.
“And then you have the woman standing next to him. She’s the one who described the murder of 3,000 Americans as ‘some people did something.’ Oh, OK. Well, yeah, they flew planes into buildings,” he adds.
When a reporter asked Hong whether campaigning with Piker and Omar was a risk, she said, “What would be a risk is to not build the broadest coalition possible.”
“Coalition is the oldest word in the story, and Wisconsin really invented it,” Glenn says, noting that in 1910, Emil Seidel was elected mayor of Milwaukee.
“He was mayor, the first socialist mayor to run in a major American city. Same city that sent the first socialist to Congress that same year. And they kept electing socialist mayors on and off for the next 50 years,” he explains, adding that these socialists were known as “sewer socialists” because they campaigned on sewers, garbage collection, water, milk inspection, paving, and municipal housekeeping.
However, they wanted more than sewers. Like Piker, who in that gymnasium “didn’t talk about sewers.”
And neither did Hong.
“She said yes to state-run grocery stores. Yes to cracking down on tech. Yes to freeing Palestine. Yes to a statue of Scott Walker built for the express purpose of letting people tear it down. That’s all more than sewers,” Glenn says.
And just a week ago, the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America went on Fox and called for the abolition of the Senate, the replacement of the presidency and Supreme Court, the abolition of ICE, open borders, the defunding of the Pentagon, open prisons, and putting large corporations under public ownership.
“Nobody had to leak that. Nobody hacked anything. She said it out loud on a Sunday show. And the plumber on your porch is still talking about your groceries bill. That is the way socialists work,” Glenn explains.
“If somebody is just talking about the sewers, that probably is a good thing. But you must then see who’s standing around them,” he continues.
“They’re in their own party, and they’re talking about it openly. They’re proud of it,” he adds.
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Glenn Beck says Bill Maher may be ‘the most important man on the planet’ after shocking DSA monologue
In his June 2026 interview with Vice President JD Vance, Bill Maher noted that the Democratic Party’s direction — specifically the embracing of democratic socialists — could cost it his support.
“If this is where they’re going, my vote is in play,” he admitted.
Although Maher took a lot of flak for his honesty, he has refused to soften his stance. During a recent episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the longtime Democrat illustrated why his vote was up for grabs by reading aloud statements from the Democratic Socialists of America platform.
His audience audibly gasped.
“This is not a conservative audience. It's not a church crowd in Tulsa. It's Los Angeles, an audience that shows up on a Friday night to laugh at Republicans,” says Glenn Beck, who played the clip of Maher.
“Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communist, that's not one of them. And it's not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates,” said Maher.
“'You work as much as you are able and no more than needed,'” he read from the DSA platform, then responded, “If that was any closer to Karl Marx's dictum ‘from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,’ they'd be sued for plagiarism.”
He then noted that in 2020, New York City’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani actually tweeted this exact quote from Marx.
“Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy, he laments the fall of the two of the most murderous regimes in history: the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao’s China,” Maher continued.
He then turned his sights to Mamdani’s radical housing czar Cea Weaver.
“Cea Weaver said, ‘If you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over’ and ‘impoverish the white middle class,’” Maher quoted.
But it was Weaver’s 2017 tweet — “Elect more communists” — that made the audience gasp.
Maher praised their reaction, saying he was “glad” they were shocked.
Glenn is encouraged too — but even more so that it’s Bill Maher who’s sounding the alarm.
“We're in a moment here right now, and Bill Maher may be the most important man on the planet to stop this,” he says.
“Everything he said in that entire monologue, and I urge you to go watch the whole thing and then share it, is published. It's sitting public,” he adds, emphasizing the DSA’s unapologetic communist sentiments.
The country, Glenn says, needs to understand the gravity of the situation we’re in right now right as the DSA grows ever more popular.
On its website, beneath its spiel about creating a communist utopia, is a list of objectives that ought to make our blood run cold. Glenn reads several of them:
- “Abolishing the police and prison system”;
- “Abolishing the Senate”;
- “Abolishing the electoral college”;
- “Replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress, answerable only to Congress”;
- “Defunding the Department of War”;
- “Closing all of our overseas bases”;
- “Abolishing ICE”;
- “End to all detention and deportation”;
- “Amnesty for everyone regardless of status”; and
- “End to sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran.”
“And in the preamble, the sentence that ties the whole thing together, they are building a party to draft a new Constitution and to create a new Democratic Socialist republic,” Glenn adds.
Many people, he notes, mistakenly believe that DSA supporters are “fringe,” but they’re wrong.
“This isn't a small organization anymore. On the Fourth of July, they announced they passed 121,000 members, which according to their own numbers, makes them the largest socialist organization in American history, larger than Eugene Debs’ socialist party at its peak in 1912,” says Glenn.
“Also, the Marxist Unity Group Faction, the one that Maher named, holds three of the 25 seats on that national board. Five of their members won congressional primaries this year,” he adds, noting that the “loudest voices” calling out the DSA right now are actually Democrats.
Right now, the most important thing, says Glenn, is not that we “beat” the DSA; it’s that we “provide the introduction” to the DSA, like Maher did for his audience, so that the public can see firsthand the evil agenda it has planned for the country.
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Glenn Beck: Think today's headlines are CRAZY? We survived this exact crisis before
Every generation seems convinced it is living through America’s darkest hour.
At the moment, America is facing political tribalism dividing families, mounting debt, and endless wars — but despite it all, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has a message of hope for Americans.
Glenn points out that there’s a “faction in this country” that wants to blow up the United States and “dismantle the Constitution,” that we have overwhelming debt, we're at war with a country that would “rather die than surrender,” and families have broken apart.
“I mean this is like the worst war we’ve ever fought in some ways,” he says, adding, “The Civil War.”
“The one where the line ran straight down the dinner table. The economy grinds on, the government doesn’t listen,” he continues, noting that “our country has gone godless” and “insane.”
But the good news is there’s good news.
“I’ve been reading history, the letters, the real thing, the words these people wrote in their own hand while the fires were still burning,” Glenn says.
“And I have to tell you, the more I read, the more I keep landing on one sentence,” he continues.
That sentence is, “We have been here before.”
“The exact shape of the things that are scaring us the most already have a date on it,” Glenn says, calling history a “map.”
“It tells you what worked. Patience over panic. Voting over getting into the streets and revolution, the ballot over the barricade, recovering our true sight, remembering what the thing was built to do instead of throwing it all out,” he explains.
“Every time we’ve stood where we’re standing now, the way out was never the loud thing. It was people who knew their own history well enough to stop being afraid of doing the quiet, stubborn, un-newsworthy work of governing themselves,” he continues, adding, “That’s it.”
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Glenn Beck’s URGENT warning: The AI singularity is already here, and nobody’s talking about it
In an interview on the “Relentless” podcast last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that we are now “in the singularity.”
Altman was pleased, adding, “I’ve been waiting for this my whole life, and I think it’s going to be incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world.”
Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck doesn’t share his excitement.
“That comes from terminology about a black hole. You get to the point of singularity. It means you’re now in the gravitational pull of the black hole and that you’re past the point of return. You cannot reverse the engines. You are going into the black hole,” he says.
“We are there. So now what do we do?” he asks.
The first thing that needs to be done, he says, is “make sure that China doesn’t control” the outcome of AI.
“Let’s make sure that it’s not evil immediately because it’s a surveillance tool for China,” he says.
The second point of action is negotiating.
“Your town must negotiate hard for you,” he says, using data centers as an example.
“If they want to build in your town, you have two choices. You can say no or you can say no unless, unless we have no more property tax, unless you’re paying for 20% of everybody’s electricity,” he says.
“You negotiate like hell, and you ask for the moon and the stars,” he continues.
“And it should not be done in the darkness. This should never come to a community where the community hasn’t had an open discussion and a vote,” he adds.
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