JD Vance tells Steve Deace the creepy reason James Talarico disturbs him: ‘I don’t know what this guy is up to’



The overlap between conservative Christians and the Make America Healthy Again movement — which seeks to reverse America’s chronic-disease epidemic by tackling its root causes — is a natural fit, according to Vice President JD Vance.

“A lot of the most committed MAHA people are Christian conservatives because, I think, Christians, we recognize that our bodies are temples created by God. ... We’re supposed to be respectful of God’s creation, and obviously our bodies are the act of God’s creation we have the most direct control over,” he tells Steve Deace.

But there are other “Christians” in this country who support the very policies that spit on the sanctity of the human form and even seek to destroy it.

“You’re kind of seeing frankly theological heretics from church denominations that they’ve basically broken and shattered into a thousand pieces,” says Deace.

Leading the charge in Texas is Democrat Senate candidate and professing Christian James Talarico — a man who treats gender ideology for children, unrestricted abortion, and kids in drag as if they were gospel.

To combat the moral confusion people like Talarico cultivate, Deace believes Republicans need a theologically rooted counter-strategy.

“What it means to be in a country that is governed by God-given rights and what that God demands, expects, and has done for us — I think we have to be way more comfortable in having these sorts of deeper conversations on the campaign trail, given how openly heretical a lot of Democrats are with what they’re espousing these days,” he says.

“If we just return fire with technocratism, people are going to choose a bad theology over no theology,” he adds.

Vance calls Deace’s proposal “exactly right.”

“It’s the churches that aren’t afraid of what the Bible actually says that are actually the most energetic and the most vibrant,” he says, “and I think, frankly, those churches are going to be the foundation for rebuilding the center of the United States of America.”

Talarico, in Vance’s telling, represents the opposite.

“I don’t know what this guy is up to. ... He’s well-versed in liberal political theology, but he also has a weird obsession with children in drag,” he says.

“People who are particularly concerned with drag queens and particularly focused on the beauty of 11-year-olds dressed in drag or how wonderful it is that you have a 10-year-old who's taking puberty blockers, very often you peel back the onion, and those people I think have some pretty sick sexual fetishes.”

While Vance acknowledges that he doesn’t "know that that’s true of James Talarico,” the progressive’s comments and record on children in drag and puberty blockers give him serious pause.

“All I know is that it’s very odd when you have a grown man talking about the beauty of 11-year-olds in drag,” he tells Deace. “I would rather a grown man focus on literally anything else.”

To hear the full interview, which covers upcoming midterm elections, AI and data centers, and economic health, among several additional topics, watch the interview above.

Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Biblical advice for parents with children gone WOKE: ‘Their story isn't over’



Some parents pour years into raising their children in faith and still are forced to watch them walk away. And as a homeschool mother of seven is watching her youngest become a prodigal, she reaches out to BlazeTV host Steve Deace to ask whether she had failed.

And his answer was unequivocal: The story isn’t over.

“None of the stories of your children are finished yet,” he responds. “And for those of you that have prodigal kids, you’re maybe in the most trying time of that story. But the story isn’t written yet.”

Deace uses St. Augustine and his mother, Monica, as an example, explaining that she prayed for her son for “17 years.”


“And he would go on to eventually become arguably the most formidable mind the church has produced in the post-canon era, even to this very day, nearly 2,000 years later,” he explains.

“So that’s I think the most important thing that I could say,” he continues. “Do not quit. Do not give up. Their stories aren’t written yet. They’re not finished yet. So keep that perspective for as long as you can. The story is not over yet.”

“Many of the social pathologies and contagions that are acute in this era have their mustard seeds in the era that you and I grew up in. But even despite that, you and I both agreed emphatically it was still ... simpler,” he adds.

Deace explains that it was “simpler” because there “was not an expectation when you sent your kids off to school on the first day of school that you were going to have to deprogram them every single night when they got home.”

“Going to college was considered a rarity and a reward as opposed to smart kids that now are like, ‘I’m never going there because I don’t want to become a gay race communist,’” he says.

“So it’s never easy to raise kids. But it was certainly simpler in the era that you and I grew up in compared to the era we’ve been raising our own kids in,” he continues.

“Their stories aren’t finished yet, either ... so if you’re in that prodigal era, do not give up on the Lord. Do not give up on prayer, even till your dying day,” he adds.

Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

One year after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Steve Deace says the void remains: 'Felt like losing a brother'



A year after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, BlazeTV host Steve Deace is still struggling to process the loss of his friend — and the spiritual warfare that's begun escalating in his absence.

“It is still hard to believe that Charlie is gone. I still can’t believe that this really happened,” Deace says. “It’s still kind of surreal to me. Despite how many tears I’ve shed over the last year, more than I can count, more often than I can count.”

“Felt like losing a little brother to me. Just one that was more talented and better looking. But the other reason I’ve shed so many tears over the last year for this, and I mean there have been moments where I have just sobbed, it’s because I didn’t just lose a friend and a brother,” he continues.

“I understand [what] the church in our country lost with Charlie as well,” he adds, “It is, folks, it’s a gaping void that may never be filled.”


And this “dysfunction” plaguing the Republican Party, Deace explains, is happening “because Charlie’s not here.”

“And I’ve talked about this before, how much behind the scenes Charlie was keeping at bay, holding at bay,” he says.

“And a lot of the instigation and impetus for what we’ve seen, which is the stuff out of church history books, out of the Bible, just open spiritual warfare breaking out into the natural world, into the seeing realm, the trigger for a lot of it was his assassination,” he continues.

“If you were here,” he adds, addressing his old friend, “this would not be happening at the rate that it is, if at all. And I think it’s further confirmation of the apostolic calling on Charlie’s life, his martyring, and its aftermath.”

Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Steve Deace's GOP warning: Stop the ‘golden age’ hype — we can't WIN with $6 gas



As the midterm elections draw closer, BlazeTV host Steve Deace is sounding the alarm on what he sees as the biggest threat to conservative victories: the economy.

“We have to fix the things we can fix, OK? We can’t win with fuel prices this high,” Deace says, noting that “there’s just no amount of radicalization Democrats will assume publicly for us” before midterms if this doesn’t happen.

And candidates like James Talarico are taking full advantage of this.

“There’s nothing left for Talarico to do,” Deace says. "I mean, the only thing left for Talarico at this point is just to admit he’s a minor-attracted person, I mean, and just show pedophile photos at campaign stops," he jokes. "He’s literally violated every other norm of Western civilization and Christendom in the country, right? And done so proudly.”


“So I don’t think there’s an amount of radicalization that they will collectively embody on our behalf that will justify us believing we’re going to win if fuel prices remain this high,” he continues, pointing out that “we have to control what we can control.”

“Traditionally, the party that won the presidency loses the next midterm. We can’t control any of that,” he says. “What we can do, though, is we can’t control how much inflation’s baked into the cake because of the previous administration. We can control, though, what we’re doing to contribute to things.”

“We have got to get the price of fuel down collectively because it leads to an increase in prices in virtually everything else,” he continues. “That's ... number one.”

Deace also believes that conservatives also have to stop pretending “that folks that blew up their personal lives like Ken Paxton are somehow the next St. Ignatius.”

“Why don’t we just simply say, ‘Well, that sucked. And he should not have done that, OK? And he has to bear generational responsibility for that,'” he says.

“James Talarico getting elected from the state of Texas as a U.S. senator: going to destroy a lot more marriages, families, homes, ways of life. I think we just need to be just honest with people,” he continues. “Stop the 'golden age' crap.”

Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Anne Hathaway’s new sci-fi dinosaur flick has a weird bone to pick with the nuclear family



“The End of Oak Street” — the sci-fi thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor that follows a 1982 suburban family as their neighborhood is ripped through a wormhole into a dinosaur-filled prehistoric landscape — is garnering mixed reactions. While critics have been overwhelmingly positive in their feedback, audiences are conflicted, with some praising the spectacle as a fun, surprising throwback and others complaining about plot holes and pacing issues.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace falls into the critical camp, but his complaints have less to do with narrative gaps and uneven pacing and more to do with the “worldview” the film promotes.

On this episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” Deace gives his brutally honest review — spoilers included!

“We have got to talk about the worldview of this film, and since this is not, you know, some cinematic brilliance, I'm fine spoiling it,” says Deace.

His primary issue is the characters.

McGregor plays Greg Platt, a struggling suburban dad who’s secretly working as a pizza delivery driver. Hathaway, who plays his discontented wife, Denise, also has her secrets. Unbeknownst to everyone save her embittered widowed neighbor, she’s been writing a book — but it’s not just any book. It’s a semi-autobiographical novel about a woman who wants to leave her family.

Their daughter is Audry, a cosmology-obsessed lesbian who dreams of going to Cornell to study under Carl Sagan, who famously wrote, “The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

Deace finds this ironic since “[Sagan’s declaration] turned out to be, according to modern science, completely total science fiction.”

“Modern conventional science doesn't believe that anymore [but] believes the universe actually had a beginning and has an end,” he notes.

The family's younger son Brian has his own coming-of-age subplot. He has a crush on the new kid in the neighborhood — a black Catholic girl named Jeanette who, much to his dismay, has a crush on his sister, Audry.

“Can you see some of the seeds getting planted here?” Deace smirks.

When the dinosaurs come out and wreak havoc on the neighborhood, the family’s happy facade begins to crumble.

“Here's what you find out. The dad actually lost his job, OK? But he is so emotionally bullied by the wife that he doesn't have the balls to tell her he lost his job because he doesn't want to take it from her anymore, so he's day-drinking in the garage and delivering pizzas at night to help pay the bills,” says Deace.

Greg, he explains, sneaks into the basement one day and finds his wife’s secret book.

“It's basically her feminist manifesto: Nobody understands me. I'm taken for granted as a woman. I give give give give give. The kids are ungrateful. The husband doesn't love me and cherish me the way that I should. I'm a desperate housewife here, and I want to leave my family and go and find my inner child and discover myself,” Deace summarizes.

Add to that the overlapping crushes between Audry, Brian, and Jeanette, and it’s clear what the film is trying to say, he argues: “Everything in the suburbs is a lie.”

“Your Reagan '80s thing is a lie. The past you want to go back to that you think was taken away from you never was there,” Deace continues.

“Underneath the surface, these women were taken advantage of and wanted to be freed by feminism, and the men were a bunch of wussies and wouldn't provide or do their jobs ... and you're raising sons to be creepers, and the daughters want to expand to their lesbian fortunes, and they're being also inhibited by the strident tyrannical standards of the suburbs.”

But eventually this undercurrent shifts.

“It's girlbosses against dinosaurs until they go up against the Tyrannosaurus rex,” laughs Deace.

“Guess who leaps in to save them? ... The dad! The dad that they all betrayed, they all looked down on, they all thought they were better than, that they all emasculated,” he answers.

“And in the process, he gets bitten in half by the Tyrannosaurus rex and sacrifices himself ... and it's at that moment now the family realizes what douchebags they've really been this entire time, and they just explode in appreciation and tragic sadness for the loss of the dad.”

The film concludes idyllically, with the Platts going back in time through the wormhole to save Greg and the rest of the slaughtered victims.

“The idyllic ending they all get to at the end is the very nuclear family they spent the entirety of the film deconstructing on the way there,” scoffs Deace. “What does this all mean? I have no idea.”

To hear more of his analysis and commentary, watch the video above.

Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Steve Deace: Why America must PAUSE AI data centers before it's too late



The race to build the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence is accelerating at breakneck speed, but BlazeTV host Steve Deace warns that the public is being asked to accept sweeping changes without meaningful scrutiny.

“There’s a real sense that this stuff has just kind of gone from zero to 60 like that,” he explains. “Like why do we have to do all this like right now, right? And you know, we’re all realizing now the aftermath of ‘we have to shut the country down right now. It’s the worst thing right now. You don’t want to kill Grandma right now.’”


“And now, you know, we’re seeing the evidence of how much of that was a lie from the very beginning. So anticipate moving forward that an instant crisis that needs to be solved right now that no one knew about 10 minutes ago is going to be met with wide swaths of suspicion,” he continues.

However, there is a nuanced discussion to be had on data centers.

“Two things can be true at once, right? We certainly shouldn’t be taking people’s land in order to put up a monstrosity that almost none of the people in that community will then ultimately get a job to work at. At the same token, we need data,” Deace says, noting that the government simply needs to “pause and listen to the people.”

“Hear what they have to say. Make your case to the people. I would not just pause. I would pause for a purpose. And it would be a purpose of we’re going to have a national conversation about this,” he adds.

Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The WNBA's war on reality: Will the league survive the transgender madness?



The Women's National Basketball Association is struggling to define the very category it was created to promote, and BlazeTV host Steve Deace couldn’t be less impressed.

“Something called the Women’s National Basketball Association is having a deep probing conversation of what the term ‘woman’ means. It’s not right-wing parody. It’s not a Babylon Bee spot. It’s not a meme. It’s not a troll,” Deace tells XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey.

“This is literally what is occurring right now,” he continues, adding, “Make sense of it, please.”

“They’re not discussing what a woman is. They’re discussing how do we get through this without doing anything,” Sey tells Deace. “That’s what they’re discussing.”


“They’re in a panic, and they’re going, ‘How do we say something but do nothing?’ That’s basically what they’re talking about,” she adds.

While other leagues have made it clear that they will not be allowing men in women’s sports, the WNBA remains one of the last leagues with a clear “agenda.”

“And that agenda is not women’s basketball. It’s politics,” Sey says. “That’s all it is. It’s woke politics. That's their agenda. It’s a joke. The whole league is a joke.”

And if you look at it from a financial perspective, it makes even less sense.

“They’ve never made money in 30 years. They’re totally subsidized by the NBA. They have a chance right now to actually make money. They have a golden goose in Caitlin Clark. They won’t lead with her. They won’t market her,” Sey explains.

“Little girls are showing up across the country. They’re buying her jersey. They’re buying tickets. It’s like they don’t want to run this like a business. They just want to be in the politics,” she says.

“Not to mention all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans. I mean, half of them are married to each other. Like this is not a legitimate business. It’s a clown car,” she adds.

The league is digging itself into a hole, and it could pull itself out of it, but Sey tells Deace that it won’t.

“I think the only sensible thing they can do is to stand up and say, ‘This is the WNBA. We were wrong. It’s not about inclusion. This is elite female athletes, and it’s female athletes only,’” she explains.

“And you know what would happen, Steve, if they did that? It would be two weeks of noise from the activist class, and then it would be over, and they’d get back to basketball,” she continues, adding, “But they won’t do it because they’re not in this for basketball.”

Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Steve Deace: Young men’s energy will go somewhere — the right must decide where



On a recent episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” the BlazeTV host framed a stark choice facing the American right when it comes to the nation’s young men: channel their energy into constructive leadership and real solutions, or watch it keep flowing toward pure grievance and nihilism.

He frames this dichotomy by holding up two very different figures. On one side you have Zach Lahn, the Iowa Republican nominee for governor — a sixth-generation farmer and businessman who shocked the establishment by defeating a Trump-endorsed congressman in the primary and has positioned himself as a paradigm-shifting “Iowa First” candidate focused on regenerative agriculture, cost-of-living pressures, and health freedom.

On the other side is James Fishback, who was a Florida Republican candidate for governor this election cycle. Fishback lost the Republican primary to Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), but Fishback is still important to analyze as someone who has built a following among younger men through aggressive online content, “anti-Israel” rhetoric, and a style Deace dismisses as pure grift.

What happens next, he warns, will shape an entire generation and the future of the nation.

The predicament America’s young men are facing today, Deace explains, is dire.

“Here's the current deal on the table for them, particularly if they're white: You're automatically a racist. You're automatically to blame for things that happened hundreds of years before you were ever born. There's an automatic aura of suspicion around you. Your life will be half over probably before you can afford a home,” he says.

“The likelihood you will find a wife that is not proud of the amount of men she bedded on the way to meeting you and hasn't had an abortion or three ... shrinks by the day, and you went to college to get a job that we're probably going to give to an Indian or a Muslim,” he continues.

This unfortunate set of circumstances, Deace argues, creates a restless “energy.”

“That energy is going to find conduits. It's going to go somewhere,” he says. “It'll be up to us to determine which direction we'll go.”

The “constructive channel,” Deace says, will lead to “action” that sparks positive change.

“That's what Zach Lahn represents. That's what I think frankly JD Vance represents. ... They represent younger men who understand we are in radical need of paradigm shifting,” he explains.

On the other hand, Fishback, according to Deace, has “no credentials at all,” “couldn't survive a background check of page one of Google search,” and has a campaign built on “obvious grift.”

“James Fishback will go away. ... What you don't know though is there'll be another one next year and then there'll be more — unless there's a constructive outlet for this energy,” Deace warns.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Is it time to axe political polling? Firm collapses after admitting its numbers were a ‘social experiment’



Median Strategies, which presented itself as an independent polling and research firm, recently shut down after the Los Angeles Times exposed it for fabricating a survey showing a large lead for Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral race. Its other fabricated results, including one showing Francesca Hong with a large lead in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, were also revealed as part of the same operation.

After repeated inquiries from the Times, Median Strategies admitted the numbers were completely made up as a “short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification.”

Once exposed, it withdrew all its prior polling releases, claimed no political funding or financial motives were involved, and shut down without revealing the identities of those involved.

Even more disturbing, Steve Deace’s producer and co-host Aaron McIntire points out, is that Median Strategies’ polling numbers for Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary “largely mirrored the results from established pollsters like Marquette and Public Policy Polling.”

The scandal begs the question: If fake numbers can so easily pass as legitimate and shape political reality, should public polling itself be banned?

On this episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” Deace reacts to the Median Strategies scandal; the panel also proposes ideas to to curb the influence of unreliable polling.

“We've created this entire society now where stuff is determined by polling that most of us can't ever recall we've ever taken part in,” says Deace, likening political polling to a sports betting scenario where a gambler loses his money before the game is ever played because an obscure panel of analysts already determined the outcome.

“What have I been saying about we should prosecute these polling institutions for fraud? Exhibit 666 right here,” says co-host Todd Erzen.

Deace has a proposal to fix the issue: “The elections determine who wins and what policies we're going to do — like when people actually go and vote.”

Then “when you're in office and if you won the election, do what you got elected to do, and then let the people decide in the next election whether they like that or not rather than constantly reacting and responding to things we're not even sure are true,” he adds.

“I think this is a great idea, and here's how you prosecute it. ... If you ban public polling, the first defense is going to be, ‘Well, that's freedom of speech.’ No, you prosecute it as a violation of freedom of speech," says McIntire.

He argues that Median Strategies allegedly created its fake poll numbers to “deceive people” in order to “squash their vote.”

“That would seem to be a violation of the First Amendment to me,” he says.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Lindsey Graham's sister ridiculed over embarrassing admission: 'Not my thing'



Skepticism over whether the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) is qualified to keep his seat was greatly compounded on Tuesday by a troubling admission she made during a debate with Ralph Norman, the Republican congressman who is also running to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

Darline Graham, a former commissioner with the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, was appointed last month by Republican South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster to finish her brother's term. Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly on July 11.

'What are we doing here?'

Graham and Norman both advanced from the special GOP primary on Aug. 11 and are on the ballot in the primary runoff on Aug. 25.

Immediately after the candidates fielded some questions about the U.S.-Iran war and what to do about the apparent depletion of critical American munitions, debate moderator Greta Van Susteren asked Graham, "Are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues for the United States?"

The Pentagon noted in its 2026 National Defense Strategy document that communist China's historic military buildup affects America's interests because "the Indo-Pacific will soon make up more than half of the global economy."

"The American people’s security, freedom, and prosperity are therefore directly linked to our ability to trade and engage from a position of strength in the Indo-Pacific," said the NSS document. "Were China — or anyone else, for that matter — to dominate this broad and crucial region, it would be able to effectively veto Americans’ access to the world’s economic center of gravity, with enduring implications for our nation’s economic prospects, including our ability to reindustrialize."

RELATED: Drain the swamp? Meet the refill

As for Taiwan, the island nation sought by Beijing is a "semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse" that ranks among America's top-five merchandise trading partners.

After having Van Susteren repeat the question, Graham responded, "I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not, on national security — I'm not that informed on national security."

Graham paused for a moment, then added, "But I do support the military," then referenced her brother's and father's military service.

'This is not something you inherit.'

"I'm not a polished politician up here. National security is not my thing, not my area of expertise," continued South Carolina's first female senator, "but I do support the military."

Norman didn't immediately make hay of Graham's admission but instead answered the moderator's original question, stating, "Taiwan is a definite ally, and we have a trading relationship with them that is beneficial to the United States, chips being one of them and others."

RELATED: ‘Birthright senatorship’ betrays America First

Peter Zay/Anadolu/Getty Images

Norman further emphasized the need for America to deter China from taking over Taiwan, in part by sustaining Trump's "peace through strength" approach abroad.

While Norman didn't pounce on Graham's admission, others on the right did en masse.

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, noted, "I’m sorry, but respectfully, even accounting for her being new to the job, this is embarrassing and inexcusable. China’s threat toward Taiwan is a bit of a big deal, especially — it would seem — for a member of the U.S. Senate."

BlazeTV host Steve Deace tweeted, "What are we doing here?"

"I did not think I had heard that right," wrote South Carolina state Sen. Matt Leber (R). "This admittance should be the end of this race."

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley tweeted, "Lindsey Graham was well informed on the United States’ national security. Darline Graham admits she’s not. This is not something you inherit. And it’s critical in the U.S. Senate."

Graham faced far less ridicule over her suggestion during the debate that there were "50 million people in South Carolina."

President Donald Trump has endorsed Graham and is scheduled to attend a rally with her in Myrtle Beach on Friday.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!