What is happening with the COVID lockdowns in China? What was discussed at the meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia on November 14th?  Newt’s guest is Dr. Weifeng Zhong.  He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.  He also runs the “Policy Change Index” project, which uses machine learning to read large volumes of propaganda text.

What is happening with the COVID lockdowns in China? What was discussed at the meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia on November 14th?  Newt’s guest is Dr. Weifeng Zhong.  He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.  He also runs the “Policy Change Index” project, which uses machine learning to read large volumes of propaganda text.

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Episode 489: China’s Lockdowns

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In Part Three of his "How to Win 2026" series, Newt Gingrich tackles the two hardest arguments in the entire 2026 campaign: the economy and Iran. On affordability, Newt makes the Republican case with specific facts and dollar figures: the steepest drop in prescription drug prices in sixty years, GLP-1 medications now available for $149 a month through TrumpRx, $82 billion in individual tax relief claimed in a single filing season, and concrete steps already underway on housing, energy, and regulation. On Iran, Newt is equally direct — the war has not gone as planned, the Iranian regime has proven more determined than expected, and there is no easy exit. But backing down, he argues, means gambling that a regime chanting "death to America" won't eventually make good on it.

In Part Three of his "How to Win 2026" series, Newt Gingrich tackles the two hardest arguments in the entire 2026 campaign: the economy and Iran. On affordability, Newt makes the Republican case with specific facts and dollar figures: the steepest drop in prescription drug prices in sixty years, GLP-1 medications now available for $149 a month through TrumpRx, $82 billion in individual tax relief claimed in a single filing season, and concrete steps already underway on housing, energy, and regulation. On Iran, Newt is equally direct &mdash; the war has not gone as planned, the Iranian regime has proven more determined than expected, and there is no easy exit. But backing down, he argues, means gambling that a regime chanting "death to America" won't eventually make good on it.

Episode 1035: How to Win 2026 — Part 3 The Republican Answer on Affordability and Iran

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In Part Two of his "How to Win 2026" series, Newt makes the case against today's Democratic Party — in their own words. This is the most substantive episode in the series — a methodical, documented case that today's Democratic Party has drifted far from the tradition of Roosevelt and Kennedy into something most Americans simply don't recognize. Using real names, real quotes, real dates, and actual congressional roll calls, Newt builds the argument across eight acts: Democrats calling to abolish ICE and defund the police; open hostility to Israel; a DSA national co-chair calling for abolishing the U.S. Senate on Fox News; candidates who denigrate America on tape; a coalition that rejects free enterprise while a government-run grocery store in Kansas City already proved the model fails; and a brand-new congressional report naming sitting Democrats in what prosecutors call the largest pandemic fraud scheme in American history.

In Part Two of his "How to Win 2026" series, Newt makes the case against today's Democratic Party &mdash; in their own words. This is the most substantive episode in the series &mdash; a methodical, documented case that today's Democratic Party has drifted far from the tradition of Roosevelt and Kennedy into something most Americans simply don't recognize. Using real names, real quotes, real dates, and actual congressional roll calls, Newt builds the argument across eight acts: Democrats calling to abolish ICE and defund the police; open hostility to Israel; a DSA national co-chair calling for abolishing the U.S. Senate on Fox News; candidates who denigrate America on tape; a coalition that rejects free enterprise while a government-run grocery store in Kansas City already proved the model fails; and a brand-new congressional report naming sitting Democrats in what prosecutors call the largest pandemic fraud scheme in American history.

Episode 1034: How to Win 2026 — Part 2 In Their Own Words — The Case Against Big Government Socialism

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Speaker Newt Gingrich launches a bold five-part series on how Republicans can win a historic victory in November 2026. In this opening solo episode, Newt argues that the coming election is not a referendum on the present — it's an argument about the future. Drawing on his famous 2016 "two parallel universes" exchange with Megyn Kelly, he explains how winning campaigns identify what's moving beneath the surface of public polling and stick to it with discipline. He walks through four historic examples — his own 1978 comeback, the 1988 Bush campaign, the 1994 Contract with America, and the rise of MAGA — to extract the single lesson each shares: find the true, provable contrast and never let up. Then he lays out four building blocks he believes can define the Democratic Party as unacceptable to most Americans for a generation.

Speaker Newt Gingrich launches a bold five-part series on how Republicans can win a historic victory in November 2026. In this opening solo episode, Newt argues that the coming election is not a referendum on the present &mdash; it's an argument about the future. Drawing on his famous 2016 "two parallel universes" exchange with Megyn Kelly, he explains how winning campaigns identify what's moving beneath the surface of public polling and stick to it with discipline. He walks through four historic examples &mdash; his own 1978 comeback, the 1988 Bush campaign, the 1994 Contract with America, and the rise of MAGA &mdash; to extract the single lesson each shares: find the true, provable contrast and never let up. Then he lays out four building blocks he believes can define the Democratic Party as unacceptable to most Americans for a generation.

Episode 1033: How to Win 2026 — Part 1 The Strategy for a Historic Republican Midterm Victory

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