Glenn Beck responds to SHOCK POLL revealing how many Americans want to leave the US
As America approaches its 250th birthday, patriots are gearing up for festivities and traditions, while many Democrats are fantasizing about living in another country.
In a new poll from Elon University conducted by YouGov between April 30 and May 4, 55% of Democratic respondents answered that there is another country they would rather live in than the United States.
Glenn Beck was disheartened by the data.
“If anyone on this continent ever had a right to say, ... ‘This country is a fraud. These documents are a lie,’ ... it was Martin Luther King and the people who lived at that time,” he says.
He recounts how in King’s day, “Black Americans [were] being beaten for trying to vote; children [had] fire hoses turned onto them; men [were] being lynched, and the murderers [were] walking free.”
But instead of listening to the voices in the Civil Rights Movement denouncing the American project as “rotten to the root,” King, Glenn says, “reached for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ... and he called them a promissory note.”
“This is the solution to our problems!” he exclaims.
In his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, King expressed genuine belief in America’s promise that all had a right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” but argued that black Americans had received a “bad check ... marked ‘insufficient funds.’”
This hopeful yet demanding position Glenn calls “extraordinary.”
“He could have torn the note up; he could have said that promise is worthless. But he didn’t. He said he refused to believe that the bank of justice was bankrupt,” he declares. “He didn’t come to Washington to renounce the founding; he came to cash the check.”
This is what allowed King to change the world, Glenn says.
But many of today’s disgruntled Americans wouldn’t fit in with King. Unlike him, they don’t believe in the American project.
“King said, ‘The promise is real, so pay it.’ Today, they say, ‘The promise is fraudulent, so what’s the point of staying or living within the system?’” Glenn says.
The latter group, he says, is perpetuating a dangerous narrative: “If the documents are the disease, then there is no cure to be found inside the house. There’s no way out except the exit door or the match.”
To the 55% who long to leave the country, Glenn gives a sobering message: “Nearly every country on the menu you’d flee to has a lot more [soft despotism], not less.”
The “antidote,” he says, is neither flight nor destruction; it’s the Bill of Rights.
“That is the tool that Frederick Douglass picked up. That’s the tool that King picked up. When the majority had failed him, he didn’t appeal to a foreign flag; he appealed to the promise the majority had signed and broken — and he demanded America honor it,” Glenn passionately recounts.
“The Declaration is your check. ... The Constitution is that check. The Bill of Rights is your enforcement clause. They are not the thing standing between you and a country worth loving. They are the only road to that country worth loving.”
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Why did the stock market crash on good jobs news? Glenn Beck unpacks the sick game Wall Street is playing
Last Friday, the stock market had an abysmal day, losing well over $1 trillion. It was the worst single-day drop of 2026 for the S&P 500 and the worst day in over a year for the Nasdaq, which fell over 4%.
This sudden and dramatic dip surprised many because it occurred immediately after a jobs report revealed that May saw the addition of 172,000 new jobs — over twice the amount that experts forecasted. Unemployment also stayed the same at 4.3%
The report showed that “by every plain English measure, Americans are working; things are good,” says Glenn Beck.
“So why did the market panic on news that you and I would call encouraging?” he asks.
On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn unpacks “the whole game” that is the Federal Reserve and Wall Street’s addiction to cheap money.
“For two years, Wall Street has been betting on one thing above all else ... but it’s not [AI],” he begins.
“It's the Federal Reserve about to make money cheap again, and they love cheap money.”
Wall Street, Glenn explains, was expecting the government to slash interest rates soon. But when the job market came in strong, those hopes were suddenly dashed.
“Have you ever leaned on a door that you thought was closed or unlocked, and you fell through? It was kind of like that on Friday,” he analogizes.
On top of that, the AI trade was already experiencing a backslide.
Wall Street, having had high hopes for AI growth, discovered just days before the stock market plummet that Broadcom (a prominent AI chip maker) did not raise its future predictions as many had anticipated — even though Google’s parent company had just announced it was raising a massive $85 billion to buy more AI chips and build data centers.
As a result, its stock dropped significantly, and it brought several other tech/AI stocks down with it.
“So understand what actually happened here,” says Glenn. “It wasn't the good news that scared everybody Friday. It was the truth that the Fed is not riding in to rescue the overpriced stocks, and maybe, just maybe, the AI miracle has a price tag attached to it that somebody should check before buying stock.”
This is tough news to stomach, he admits.
“That 401k or pension that you're counting on rides on the market, and days like Friday took a big bite out of it. Also, you want a mortgage on the house. The 10-year is now above 4.5%. The rates are punishing,” Glenn sighs.
“It's going to stay that way. Your grocery bill, your gas, your rent. Inflation is at 3.8% means they're not coming down soon, and a Fed that has to say ‘tough on the price inflation’ and is going to — that means it's going to be tough for a while,” he continues.
But there’s a silver lining we can’t ignore.
“America's strength ... has never come from cheap money or get-rich-quick fevers. It never has. Pain always comes from that — always,” Glenn declares.
“Where America has always rallied, done well, and fixed herself is when people who make things, fix things, grow things, show up and are encouraged to do what they do best.”
Glenn urges his listeners to stop “[hanging their] hope on the Fed or on Washington or the next shiny thing the market is chasing.”
“Get out from under your debt wherever and however you can; build something that doesn't depend on a rate cut; strengthen your family and the people around you,” he implores.
“The real security was never something that was printed on a building on Constitution Avenue. It was built in your home with your hands and with your character.”
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Glenn Beck’s powerful response to influencer couple who aborted their Down syndrome baby
Social media influencer couple Jesse and Ashley Ridgway had been sharing their excitement about becoming first-time parents with their audience when one day they announced “a very difficult decision”: They were choosing to “terminate the pregnancy” because prenatal testing showed the baby had Down syndrome.
In the announcement, Jesse wrote, “Down syndrome isn’t a ‘blessing,’ it is objectively s**tty from a health perspective,” and listed various medical challenges associated with the condition.
He concluded his announcement by thanking his audience for being “understanding” about their decision.
But the majority of responses the couple received were the opposite of understanding.
The Ridgways’ announcement sparked a furious response from pro-life and disability advocates, as well as parents of children with Down syndrome, many of whom called the couple’s decision “evil” and accused them of being “murderers.”
While Glenn Beck was heartbroken by the Ridgways’ decision, he is plagued by a fear that goes deeper than one couple’s decision to abort their child: What happens when society begins measuring human worth by intelligence, independence, health, or convenience?
Citing LDS premortal life doctrine, Glenn speculates that the valiant angels in heaven who “fought on the front lines and cast Satan out” and thus needed less mortal testing were perhaps sent to Earth as people with Down syndrome.
“Have you ever met a Down syndrome kid? ... Their default is love; their default is kindness,” he says, recalling his years working with Special Olympians.
“As a father of a daughter with cerebral palsy who has taught me more than anyone I know, she is my hero. The way she deals with things, her spiritual connections, the way she’s disciplined herself, the things she’s overcome. She’s my hero,” he continues.
While there have been many challenges that have come with raising a child with a disability, the hardest one, Glenn says, has been “seeing your child left out of things, seeing your child not understood.”
“But through all the pain that our children face and all the pain that we face, it is so worth it,” he says. “But you have to realize that life is not about you.”
But that’s the problem with abortion advocates, Glenn argues. They do have a self-centered perspective of life, believing life is about only them — their freedom, ambitions, and desires. Even those who claim that abortion benefits would-be disadvantaged children are merely masking their egocentrism, Glenn says.
He warns that when we make a practice of eliminating the weak, we “become more and more like an animal and less and less like a human being.”
To hear more of Glenn’s powerful monologue, watch the video above.
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Glenn Beck unveils the TRUTH about Scott Pelley's FIRING from '60 Minutes'
Veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson knows what really happened inside CBS News with the firing of "60 Minutes" reporter Scott Pelley — and it’s not what the left is making it out to be.
“The story is she [Bari Weiss] just appointed a new producer for '60 Minutes' and Scott Pelley, who you know, one of the lead guys there, he said this guy’s going to kill '60 Minutes' ... there’s a big showdown in the newsroom, and he’s fired, and now Pelley is upset and making a big deal,” Blaze media co-founder Glenn recounts to Attkisson.
“The left is upset about all of this,” he adds, before asking Attkisson if she has any “insight” about his firing.
“I do, I mean, Scott Pelley was not a popular anchor in terms of his skill as an anchor as well as his personality. And I can’t explain why he persisted in the chair for some years anyway, because gosh, quite a while before they removed him, I was told by a level above David Rhodes that they were trying to fix what they called the Scott Pelley problem,” she tells Glenn.
“One of the issues they had with him was, as it was told to me, he takes his managing editor role too seriously. He was interfering with the correspondent stories in a way that was not productive. And the veterans were complaining, and longtime CBS names that you would recognize, were complaining to the high executives about this,” she continues.
While Attkisson was told that the show would be “all about” her investigative reporting under Pelley, she instead was censored by the anchor.
“The very first week, the very first investigative piece, one of the best ones I think I ever did that I offered them, he censored, never aired. And that was the pattern,” she tells Glenn.
This story was on high school students being lured into going on “amazing global trips” as ambassadors — but instead the children were getting injured, and in some cases, they were killed.
“I don’t know if it was people connected at a higher level that didn’t want these stories to air,” Attkisson says.
While Pelley claims that the new editor in chief of CBS, Bari Weiss, is the one “censoring the stories” and that management had instructed him to “inject lies” into his reporting, Attkisson doesn’t believe it.
“I believe that most likely based on my experience, they were trying to make the stories more balanced and fair. And the culture among some at CBS ... was not to do so. And I think they don’t understand or came to not understand the very basic tenets of journalism,” she explains.
“Weiss is simply trying to tug CBS News back a little bit closer to the center, but the inmates have been running that asylum for a long time, and they’re going to go down quietly,” she adds.
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‘We killed them a second time’: Former pro-Palestine activist tells Glenn Beck what caused her to flee the movement
Taryn Thomas was a dedicated Black Lives Matter and pro-Palestine activist in high school and later at Stanford University. But after years of faithful activism, the narrative she once fully embraced began to unravel. Ideological inconsistencies and a visit to an exhibit honoring the Nova Music Festival victims eventually led her to renounce the BLM-Palestine allegiance and begin a new journey as an outspoken critic.
Taryn joined Glenn Beck on a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program” to share her journey, the October 7 attacks’ impact, and how the pro-Palestine movement at Stanford evolved into something that could only be described as “anti-Israel and anti-American.”
Taryn explains that at 16-years-old, she was conditioned by BLM leadership to believe that “for [black people] to be free, Palestine has to be free.”
By the time she reached college, she was prepared to lead the coalition. Taryn helped organize and mobilize student protests and the early encampments that sprang up on Stanford’s campus right after the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.
“By October 20, Stanford already put up its encampment, ‘Sit-In to Stop the Genocide.’ This is before the families had even finished identifying its dead. This is a week before a single [Israeli] soldier had even crossed into Gaza,” she tells Glenn.
The group’s rapid labeling of the conflict as a “genocide” and the immediate ostracism of anyone who mourned the Israeli lives lost made Taryn wary.
“I felt like I wanted a two-state solution, but ... I never wanted to talk about it with anyone because everyone was anti-Zionist, and it felt that ... the safest position was the most radical one,” she says.
In June 2024, one of the Stanford protests got so out of hand, Taryn started to seriously question her membership.
“They broke into the Stanford University’s president’s office and caused $700,000 in damages, 12 students received felonies, and they spray-painted disgusting things, such as ‘death to Israel,’ ‘death to America,’ ‘kill cops,’ ‘pigs taste best when dead,’” she recounts.
“At some point, our pro-Palestine movement became more of an anti-Israel, anti-American one. And I no longer could recognize what we were doing anymore.”
Shortly after distancing herself from the organization, Taryn was invited to see the Nova Music Festival exhibit.
“I thought I would find Zionist propaganda and Zionist lies, and I wanted to reaffirm my pro-Palestine position more than anything,” she admits.
What she found, however, was the exact opposite.
“I found instead, you know, half-written ‘I love yous’ and last messages sent to parents and loved ones,” she reflects.
“These are kids my age going to a music festival that I would have went to, and it was just not political. Nova Music Festival was not a political thing, and yet we had compressed them and flattened them into this political narrative, and in doing so we killed them a second time,” she confesses.
At the exhibit, Taryn also got to experience the sick celebrations of Hamas soldiers.
“One of the audio recordings that we had heard was a terrorist calling his dad saying that he had killed 10 Jews with his own bare hands and celebrating. And I thought I was going to hear horror, and instead the dad congratulated his son,” she tells Glenn.
“This was who we were calling our martyrs. ... I always called myself an anti-Zionist but not anti-Semitic, and that completely deconstructed that,” she adds.
Taryn notes that seeing the “ordinary” faces and hearing the life stories of the Nova Music Festival victims made her realize she was rooting not against evil oppressors but against everyday people like herself.
“That could have been your kids; that could have been my friends,” she laments.
Her heart changed, Taryn returned to Stanford “genuinely scared” to share what she had learned. For a while she kept her new beliefs to herself, but once she traveled to Israel and saw what life was like for the people, she knew her silence had to end.
“It made me realize I need to start speaking up about this,” she says.
To hear more of Taryn’s story, watch the video above.
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