In recent years there has been an argument raised that America "doesn't have culture." Dr Jason Edwards, professor of Education and Humanities at Grove City College, and Grace Reilly strongly disagree. In this episode of Restoring America with Grace Reilly, Dr Edwards walks through our iconic history and culture, from the American West to our present political struggles today. He touches on why the American Dream is alive and well along with the core problems we are seeing in the education system today. The recent controversy at the Smithsonian is only one example of a much bigger problem.

The Republican Party was founded in a Wisconsin schoolhouse in 1854. Now the DSA is claiming the same state as socialist ground, and running to lead it.

In this episode, I talk with Dominic Davis, a Restoration News researcher who grew up in Wisconsin, about the governor's race and the history fight underneath it. We get into the Democratic primary, DSA state Rep. Francesca Hong, the "sewer socialism" talking point the left keeps reaching for, and a property tax fight that is squeezing farmers and families out of homes they have owned for decades.

Dom's argument is that if the DSA can win a whole state, it stops being a Milwaukee story and starts being leverage over the national Democratic Party.

A parent received a message inviting her kid into a school "Fellows program." It was really campaign work for a Democrat running for Congress, on the taxpayer's dime.

In this episode, I sit down with Victoria Manning, Senior Investigative Researcher at Restoration News and a former school board member, to talk through what she uncovered at a Virginia high school and why this keeps showing up in red districts, not just blue ones.

We get into the teachers unions behind the recent May Day walkouts, who's really funding and organizing them, Restoration News' new District Watch project for keeping an eye on your own district, her book, Behind the Wall of Government Schools, and more.

Special Guest: Victoria Manning.

The New York Post reported that the city's Department of Homeless Services plans to push out 55 families and move in roughly 110 single adult men, with no public hearing and no criminal background checks, in a shelter sitting directly across the street from a park where kids and families gather. In this episode, I dig into what Mayor Zohran Mamdani's homeless policy actually looks like on the ground in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.

Councilwoman Inna Vernikov is sounding the alarm. Meanwhile the nonprofit set to run the shelter is under federal investigation, and the city just handed it close to $200 million in contracts. The people of Brooklyn deserve a real answer.

Wisconsin's governor race is wide open, and a DSA socialist is currently leading the Democratic field to run one of America's most important swing states.

In this episode, I sit down with Robert Rose of Restoration News to break down why a purple state Trump won by fewer than 30,000 votes could tip the whole country, and why the Democratic candidates are racing to out-radical each other. We get into DSA state rep Francesca Hong leading the pack, former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, a property tax increase sitting Democrats are defending, and how the next governor's power over election law could shape 2028.

Wisconsin has sent socialists to power before. Robert explains why it could happen again, and what conservatives outside the state need to do about it.

For the next few weeks I'm taking you on the road with me from Florida to Connecticut, and when I'm back, Restoring America relaunches Season 2 with a brand new studio!

In this episode, I share what's coming: a stop at my alma mater, Grove City College, to sit down with professors like Paul Kengor and Carl Trueman at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. We get into economics, culture, and Marxism in a deeper format than usual, rolling out over the next few weeks along with some special edition episodes.

Season 1 grew more than I could have hoped, and that's because of you.

Before heading out on the road, Grace walks through the marriage wisdom that shaped her preparation, from Voddie Baucham on the war against God's design and the lie that marriage oppresses women, to Charlie Kirk on the Sabbath and a God-centered home, to Tim Keller on why the perfectly compatible soulmate doesn't exist. Along the way: why marriage is a covenant with God, why it comes before your kids, and why self-centeredness is the real threat to every marriage.

The radical leftists winning primaries call themselves "democratic socialists." The honest word is Marxists. The softer label is the strategy.

In this episode, I break down how the left manipulates language to manipulate you, from "pro-choice" to "climate change" to "democratic socialist." I get into why Marxist doctrine treats socialism as the transition and communism as the goal, the "permeation" strategy Sidney and Beatrice Webb laid out for infiltrating institutions, and a Students for Life debate that shows how to shut down the word games on abortion.

DSA candidates are on track to win deep-blue districts and join the squad in Congress this midterm cycle. Call things what they are.