While the $17.6 billion settlement Meta (Facebook) agreed to last week with 47 states and several U.S. territories might seem like a huge admission that the company’s addictive social media algorithms have been harming children, a close look at the details shows a lot left on the table.
A study found that donors who send money in response to Democratic fundraising spam are overwhelmingly elderly, and a surprisingly concentrated group of them accounts for the bulk of the money raised.
Birth tourists. Sham marriages. Fake Mexicans. And a Chinese “honeypot” named Fang Fang. Peter Schweizer says they’re all connected, and he shows how on the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast.
The federal government’s war on public assistance fraud is racking up some successes across the nation, but not every state seems to want to be successful. The federal government recovered about $2 billion worth of fraud in 2025, but the really big fraud is most likely happening in the states whose governments seem the least interested in treating it seriously.
Wild election results in Michigan have many Democratic Party establishment figures worrying about insurgent socialists taking over their party, with uber progressive Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed being the latest to score a win over an established Democratic candidate. But for author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, the real question is not whether the Democratic Socialists of America are “making inroads” in the party or not.
Wynton Hall is the author of the New York Times bestseller ‘Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI’ and an expert on the emerging and unsettling capabilities of AI in many forms, including its use on the battlefield as well as an agent of espionage and even sabotage. He joins hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers on The Drill Down to discuss what is happening in the outer reaches of AI research and its potential.
President Donald Trump’s televised speech on election security to the nation last week may have had more viewers, but for Eric Eggers the bombshell information came the next day during the Homeland Security secretary’s press conference.
Political parties may soon make a comeback. A new Supreme Court decision “could fundamentally change the equation in American politics,” says Peter Schweizer about a Supreme Court decision on campaign finance.
The Supreme Court’s decision in the birthright citizenship case is “a monumentally terrible decision,” says author Peter Schweizer, whose latest bestseller exposed China’s efforts to exploit birth tourism on an industrial scale.
U.S. immigration officials had to send back a credentialed FIFA referee from Somalia.
California’s glacial counting of primary election votes is a feature, not a bug. The state’s election laws are deliberately designed to make elections as untraceable and lengthy as possible. As author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer asks, “If you make election fraud legal, is it still fraud?”
“Our research and reporting is causing massive reverberations not just in Beijing but in Mexico City,” says author and President of the Government Accountability Institute Peter Schweizer.
The shots that rang through the ballroom at the Washington Hilton last week bounced off the same walls as when President Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed 45 years ago. But the reaction to the two events shows how much our culture has degraded.
The California legislature wants to criminalize citizen journalists who try to expose massive fraud in the state’s “migrant services” programs. AB 2064, dubbed by its critics the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” would classify asking questions at migrant service centers in the state as harassment and expose the journalist to a $10,000 fine and possibly a year in jail.
Rep. Eric Swalwell’s sudden political death was no accident, but a strategic hit job by an unethical California Democratic Party and its media enablers. “Swalwell was pushed out for strategic purposes,” says investigative journalist Peter Schweizer.
With the Supreme Court considering Donald Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. to non-citizens, investigative reporter Peter Schweizer warns that America is about to face a tsunami of voters who are technically U.S. citizens but were reared and reside in Communist China.
Are there administration insiders profiting from knowing news about the war with Iran before the public does? Recent news stories from the world of “prediction markets” seem to indicate that may in fact be happening.
Breitbart News social media director and author Wynton Hall explained that his new book, Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, is design to “provide hope, give solutions” and help conservatives prepare to seize the benefits of AI while avoiding its pitfalls.
The hype around artificial intelligence (AI) is so thick and constant that people are fatigued by it. Unfortunately, though, that fatigue will allow bad actors to dominate the race to AI dominance, which would be a very bad thing.
Many who are commenting on the missile strikes by U.S. and Israeli military have seized on the idea that in attacking Iran Trump is dragging America into yet another entanglement in the Middle East. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, host Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers explore that allegation and pick the winners and losers.
Words like “mind control” and “brainwashing” get tossed around, but it is a very real science and a very dangerous game that former CIA operative and now conservative talk show host Buck Sexton calls by its scientific name of “menticide,” the murder of the mind.
Did politics destroy journalism, or was it the other way around? Author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, host of The Drill Down, sees the case for both but believes journalism has done more damage to itself than politicians could manage to do to them.
Well, I’ve characterized immigration and mass migration as civilizational warfare. Is the latest weapon deployed in this war a Bad Bunny?
In the week since The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon debuted atop the bestseller lists, Mexico’s president and ambassador to the U.S. have tried to dismiss the book’s findings about Mexican consulates interfering in U.S. domestic politics, waving off multiple quotes from numerous Mexican politicians and consular officials themselves.
Peter Schweizer has come out strongly against “kimmeling.” That’s his new verb for shunning your own family members at the Thanksgiving table for their crime of voting for President Donald Trump.
Sen Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) office released records showing that prosecutor Jack Smith had subpoenaed the phone call data from 8 Republican senators while he pursued a case against President Trump in 2022. Smith’s case began at President Biden’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the codename “Arctic Frost.”
It’s harder than ever to buy a home, thanks to immigration, environmental regulations, and zoning restrictions. The word “crisis” gets used too often, but housing certainly qualifies.
During the government shutdown, Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins has been reviewing data from 29 states administering the food stamp program. Rollins’s review has found EBT cards that have been carrying balances of more than $10,000. It found cards that haven’t been used in years. It found cards issued to people who never existed.
A new book warns that it will take decades to undo the damage that “social emotional learning,” a mind-altering system of control, has done to childhood education.
Voting security is always a hot topic around election time, but manipulation of our electoral system is a bigger problem that we have to worry about all the time.
Seamus Bruner, VP of Research for the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), is just back from a White House panel last week where independent journalists who have covered Antifa’s activities explained their findings for several Cabinet secretaries and President Donald Trump himself, a surprise attendee.
The federal government remains shut down and, depending on whom you believe, this is either because Democrats want to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants, or Republicans want to jack up costs on ordinary Americans.
The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey has raised cries of “lawfare” from Democrats declaring that President Donald Trump’s administration is going after his political opponents.
“Evil is on the rise in America, and overseas,” says author and talk show host Bill O’Reilly. “Evil is very simple: It’s when one human being hurts another human being on purpose with no remorse.”
President Donald Trump threatened George Soros and his son, Alex, with prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act
Seeing Trump’s early success in tamping down crime in D.C., Peter Schweizer asks: “Why are these leaders not willing to take steps to address it and deal with it?”
Veteran stock market wizard Nancy Pelosi has come out in support of a bill that will ban members of Congress from trading in stocks or options.
“Liberty gives people who oppose liberty — evil people – the freedom to destroy it.” That’s radio and Fox News host Mark Levin’s take on why free societies are attacked by those who, like leftist New York City mayoral candidate
Experts are on a run of bad luck lately. Climate change predictions, Covid vaccine promises, jobs statistics, and economic analysis of the effect of the Trump administration’s tariffs have failed to improve experts’ credibility.
Was the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing really an FBI deep-cover operation that went wrong? That is the conclusion of a new book by an author who has studied the worst incident of domestic terrorism in America’s history for more than 20 years.
