‘A dangerous movie’: Glenn Beck warns ‘Citizen Vigilante’ signals a dark moral shift after Germany bans it



“Citizen Vigilante,” a 2026 action thriller starring Armie Hammer, has sparked such intense controversy, Germany outright banned it.

The film centers on a vigilante who rebels against the government to target violent criminals and rapists (often portrayed as Muslim migrants) along with the corrupt officials enabling them. Maintaining his anonymity, he builds a massively popular social media presence, rallying the public against the reigning authorities.

“[‘Citizen Vigilante’] is being viewed with satisfaction in some communities,” Glenn Beck says, calling it “extraordinarily dangerous.”

Unlike other iconic anti-hero characters in films like “The Equalizer,” “Death Wish,” and “Pale Rider” who reluctantly step in to quell evil, Hammer’s character, Glenn says, not only “wants to” be a punisher of evil, but he compels others to join him in that endeavor.

Calling this film indicative of “an enormous moral shift,” Glenn warns that “the gunfighter that stays becomes the tyrant.”

Instead of washing the blood from his hands and “[riding] away in the sunset” after his mission is accomplished, Hammer’s character revels in his notoriety as a social media star and vows to continue his vigilantism until citizens learn to take justice into their own hands.

“This is a dangerous movie,” Glenn says.

“I think the whole point was to ... point out actual things that are happening ... like in the U.K. There are some very bad things that are happening because of mass illegal immigration. The governments are failing. They’re turning a blind eye to it,” adds Jason Buttrill, Glenn’s head researcher and writer.

He doesn’t believe, however, that Hammer’s vigilante character is presented as the solution to disorder and corruption.

“They showed that this is not a good guy. He’s a very bad guy. He’s an evil guy. If government fails to protect their people, if they allow these things to happen, there will be a Bubba effect, and you will not like the devil that shows up afterwards,” he explains.

Glenn agrees but fears that most spectators will miss this and interpret Hammer’s character as the answer to society’s ills.

“If you’re over in England or you’re in Germany, that stuff is happening,” he says, referring to how some governments are willfully enabling a breakdown of law and order by protecting and covering for violent criminals (especially migrants), while ordinary citizens suffer unchecked crime, two-tier policing, and suppressed criticism of mass immigration.

Glenn is deeply concerned that citizens suffering under this kind of soft totalitarianism will watch this movie and say, “Damn right — that’s exactly what should happen.”

But “you’re not gonna like the guy who shows up,” he warns.

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Glenn Beck sounds alarm as democratic socialists gain ground: ‘Every single socialist experiment fails’



Socialism is no longer knocking at the door of American politics — it’s winning elections.

And New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is leading the charge.

“We raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers instead of taking more from those with the least. Throughout this process, I have been reminded of the words of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek: ‘If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists,’” he said in a recent speech.

“If these past months have shown us anything, it is that socialists not only understand economics just as well as the capitalists who came before, but that we can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles,” he added.


Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck can’t believe how far their movement has come, pointing out that while “every single socialist experiment fails,” democratic socialists like Melat Kiros — who just won the primary in Colorado — continue to gain ground.

“She says, ‘We’re taking our system back, and we’re taking our country back,’” he says. “What do you mean you’re taking your country back?”

“When you’re talking about getting rid of capitalism, you’re not taking it back,” he continues. “So, the question is, is this just the edges of the party, or ... is this a death knell for the next election?”

And while those who want to shrink the government’s power over American citizens are the ones being called extremists, democratic socialists want to expand it.

“And here’s something else that nobody seems to notice,” Glenn says. “Every successful socialist movement in history claimed to represent the workers. ... Where are the workers today? Where are they?”

“Today’s movement represents the graduates. Look where all the energy comes from. The elite universities, the prestigious media, the nonprofits, the government bureaucracy, the professional advocates, the activists, the commanding height of culture,” he continues.

“Karl Marx predicted the revolution would come from the factory floor. Instead, it seems to be coming from the faculty lounge,” he adds.

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CFTC chairman tells Glenn Beck: Congress must act now to stop a government-controlled digital dollar



The battle over digital money is one of the most important financial fights happening in Washington today — and chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Michael Selig is sounding the alarm.

“We saw the crackdown under the Biden administration, all the de-banking and the attacks really on the crypto industry, and Bitcoin’s continued to survive and thrive. And of course, it’s been volatile, but it’s held up as a decentralized currency,” Selig tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck.

“It’s something that is censorship-resistant, something that the government can’t confiscate,” he adds.

“Are we passing anything that’s saying that cryptocurrency can never become a central bank digital currency? Are you concerned about that at all?” Glenn asks.


“I’m very concerned about central bank digital currencies, and we in the Trump administration have been very clear that that’s not going to happen under our watch,” Selig answers, noting that the president even put out an executive order in January of last year that prohibits central bank digital currencies.

“We put out a report that I was part of on the president’s working group on digital assets that specifically states that it is a policy of this administration to prevent a central bank digital currency from coming to fruition,” he explains.

“But of course, the prior administration was pushing that, and we had to withdraw some of their actions on them,” he adds.

“Is there anybody in Congress — I mean, is there any way to get this passed before this president leaves office?” Glenn asks.

“Well, that’s our concern,” Selig says. “We want things to be future-proof. We need to make sure that a central bank digital currency is never possible, and legislation is the most important and future-proof thing in Washington.”

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‘The phenomen​on is real’: Anna Paulina Luna teases major disclosure on ‘Glenn Beck Program’



The American people have not been getting the full story on alien disclosure, and while Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) isn’t yet allowed to tell it, she isn’t shying away from teasing it.

“Under the last administration, we were being obstructed, and really, until President Trump gave the green light for them to start releasing stuff,” Luna tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, “we would not have been able to talk about or share some of the investigations that have been conducted by the federal government. We wouldn’t have been able to talk about some of the footage that you’re now seeing.”

“Do you know something that has not been released?” Glenn asks. “Do you know things that you feel the American people should know?”

“There will be an announcement soon on one other kind of factor to all this, but ... I think it’ll just kind of give the assurance that people will understand that the phenomenon is real,” Luna responds.


“What I will say is, without a doubt the phenomenon is real,” she adds.

“Are you leaning one way or another? Foreign or not earthly?” Glenn asks.

“I think when you talk about these things, I don’t want to say not earthly because we don’t know ... but what I would say is that energy is real, and a lot of these — you can see in some of them orbs — they can’t explain it,” Luna responds.

“And so I think that gets into a deeper discussion," she adds.

Glenn wants to dig deeper, asking, “Is this a defense, or is this a spiritual question? Which is the bigger question — defense or philosophical/spiritual?”

“I think that it will really kind of make people ask the fundamental question of, ‘Do you believe?’” Luna explains.

“Do you believe in God or not, and then do you believe that we’re the only creation, not speculating on nefarious or bad,” she adds.

“I don’t understand how people are saying that this is going to make everybody question their faith,” Glenn answers. “If I find out that there are other beings, why would I question my faith?”

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Is Mitch McConnell still fit to serve? Glenn Beck investigates Washington's silence



Senator Mitch McConnell was confirmed to have been hospitalized on June 14 for an unknown condition — but that was now weeks ago, and the people of Kentucky have received no meaningful updates about his condition.

Now, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is asking questions that Washington refuses to answer.

“Here are the rumors. And they’re rumors. If they’re true, they’re tragic. If the rumors are false, then somebody needs to step up and tell the American people the truth. Either way, this is not how a constitutional republic is supposed to function,” Glenn says.


According to these rumors, it’s been three weeks since the people of Kentucky have heard about the condition of Senator Mitch McConnell.

“His office has issued really carefully worded statements. He’s recovering. He appreciates everyone’s support. They don’t say what happened. They don’t say when he’s going to return,” Glenn explains. “They don’t answer even the basic question every citizen has a right to: Can he still do the job?”

“Is he still thinking? And this is not a cruel question, but the guy is a sitting senator, and it’s a question that matters, because this is bigger than Mitch McConnell. We watched America do this with President Biden,” he continues.

“Republicans are now the mirror image of the people they criticized,” he says. “You know, if your party has spent years demanding honesty about the president’s health, you kind of have an obligation to demand honesty about your own leader in your own GOP.”

“This is not about left or right. This is about representation,” he adds.

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Bodies are piling up in record heat — but Europe is still banning air conditioners



Europe is warming at an unprecedented rate. England is experiencing record-breaking temperatures this summer, with the month of June being the hottest the country has ever recorded. In the same month, Spain saw over 1,000 heat-related deaths, and in France 40 people died from drowning in one week’s time, as people rushed to bodies of water to escape the suffocating heat.

Sadly, these deaths aren’t uncommon. The World Health Organization estimates that roughly 175,000 people die from heat-related causes in Europe every year.

The irony is that Europe has some of the world’s most ambitious climate policies. Many countries have rules limiting how cold public buildings or offices can be set; energy costs price the majority out of purchasing air conditioning; and the public largely views climate change as an urgent crisis demanding immediate aggressive action.

Glenn Beck is nauseated by the number of Europeans dying from what’s an easily fixable problem.

“It’s a box in a window that blows cold air. What a crazy thought,” he scoffs, citing a study that found that “air conditioning cuts heat deaths by as much as 75%.”

“So, you would think with bodies piling up that Europe might be like, yeah, we got to get a box in every window. ... You’d think that that would be one thing everybody could agree on, but you’d be wrong,” he sighs.

Glenn plays a recent clip of British climate activist Dr. Kush Naker urging Brits to essentially ditch their gas-powered air conditioners.

“If you can switch your electricity provider to one that’s completely renewable, or you speak to your MP and tell them that we need to get off oil and gas ... those are the sorts of things that means that we can actually make our grid green and that we can actually have air con without making climate change worse,” he said.

“Good Morning Britain” anchor Richard Madeley pushed back, “But all of that would take a heck of a long time. Are you saying in the interim you shouldn’t have air con? You should wait until you can say, hand on heart, ‘Yep, it’s green energy that’s keeping me cool?’”

Despite the fact that thousands are dying from the heat, Naker — who was also addressing a mother of young children whose bedrooms are often hotter than the threshold of what’s considered safe — replied, “We need to be honest about the fact that it has costs, right? And then when we face these sorts of costs, we then need to make a decision: Well, who should we prioritize?”

“These people are out-of-their-mind nuts!” Glenn exclaims.

He then shares a harrowing story out of France, where several schoolchildren have fainted or been hospitalized from classrooms reaching over 100-degree temperatures.

In late June 2026, during a severe heat wave in Nîmes, a young pupil at École Primaire La Planette fainted in class as temperatures hit around 104 degrees F with no air conditioning.

Parents, frustrated by the conditions, crowdfunded money to buy and install AC units themselves.

“Problem solved, right? Of course not! You’re in France,” Glenn scoffs, calling the mayor of Nîmes a “communist.”

The left-wing municipality in Nîmes, led by communist Mayor Vincent Bouget, ordered the removal of the parent-funded air conditioners. The stated reason was that it “set a precedent” and created inequality, as not all neighborhoods/schools had parents with the means to do the same.

“Everybody sweats together. I just want you to know that’s not a glitch. That is the socialist philosophy. ... You’re all going to be miserable,” Glenn says.

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