What You Need to Know is both major U.S. political parties are gearing up for the national conventions where they will draft and adopt a new party platform. The Democrat and Republican party have diverged from each other over the past few decades. In contrast to the Republican party, the Democrat party will adopt many radical planks to their platform because of the radical factions within, but when it comes to upholding those issues the Democratic party ignores their platform because it isn’t why their voters vote for them.     

Jared Klickstein, author of the book, Crooked Smile: What It Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness, Addiction, & Crime, joins Ed to talk about his experiences he had during his days of addiction and homelessness. Jared points out that we are going at this issue in the wrong way and policies have only encouraged people to continue their ways. Fentanyl, according to Jared, is heroin on steroids and it has completely replaced it on the streets. Jared now helps people that were in his same situation in various recovery programs, and the shared experience helps him connect with these people to put them on the track of sobriety. 

Bayta Ungar-Sargon, Opinion Editor at Newsweek and author of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy and Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women, talks about her two books! THe Media has completely silenced one side of society so they can push woke ideologies. The elites have sold out working class citizens of America! The left’s perfect world would have 80% of people who aren’t considered “wealthy” living off of government welfare. Democrats used to be the party of the working class, but they’ve nearly lost the demographic entirely. The Trump “protectionist” economy is what we need to protect the dignity and hard work of middle class working class citizens.

Wrap Up: We the People must VOTE. Registering people to vote is each individual's duty during this election because you can't Make America Great Again without enough votes to make it too big to rig.