“Tooth and tail.” That’s the phrase new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth uses to describe how money is spent (and wasted) by the Pentagon. It captures the difference between spending money to support warfighters and spending it on the mushrooming support operations that are supposed to keep the troops ready.
In the annals of government reform efforts, the efforts of Elon Musk and his task force of DOGE techies are more than tough love.
During his first term, the “resistance” to President Donald Trump’s agenda began on many different streets across American cities. But this time around, it’s still getting organized on one downtown DC street in particular: K Street.
Citing revelations in Peter Schweizer’s most recent book, Taiwan’s top prosecutor ordered an investigation into Zhang An Le, known as “White Wolf,” on suspicion of assisting Mexican drug cartels to produce fentanyl.
As the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes to the full Senate, healthy food activist and entrepreneur Vani Hari is thrilled by the national attention on his “Making America Healthy Again” movement.
Is DeepSeek really a deep con? A psyop tossed out to shake up the financial markets? The release of a Chinese-made artificial intelligence engine called DeepSeek sent a bulldozer through Wall Street this week. Rival AI companies lost hundreds of
“The ball’s in Pam Bondi’s court,” James Comer says of the Biden Five on the latest Drill Down podcast with Peter Schweizer.
Peter Schweizer says TikTok is a valuable weapon in Communist China’s war with the West. ByteDance does joint research with Chinese intelligence agencies on how to manipulate people online.
Artist and photographer Dan Fleuette joins the Drill Down to describe how he creates art through personalities on the political right.
Bill and Hillary Clinton were once masters of the “dark arts” of politics – spinning history and enriching themselves while running a global charity that became famous as a grift machine. Their skill even had a name: “The Clinton Blur.”
The cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has produced some ugly reactions. Liberal politicians and commentators seized upon Thompson’s murder as an excuse to complain about insurance companies. But their outrage should be directed at the federal government, says
“Use the power of the purse as a hammer.” That’s the advice to President-elect Donald Trump from education reformer Richard Corcoran, who served as president of the New College of Florida and former House Speaker of the Florida State Assembly.
As President-elect Donald Trump busily assembles his new administration, Democrat super-lawyer Marc Elias is quietly trying to reverse a key Republican win in a U.S. Senate race.
Democratic election law specialist Marc Elias is the topic on the last pre-election episode of “The Drill Down” with Peter Schweizer.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, joins Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.
A new report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) categorizes fifty different threats to election integrity according to whether they concern the influence of “dark money,” lawfare operations, voter fraud, or election fraud.
In the wake of the ongoing devastation of Hurricane Helene, Americans are wondering what happened to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA is supposed to respond to disasters, not be one.
On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers talk about election-security matters, including a practice called “smurfing.”
With Joe Biden forced out of the presidential race, why should anyone still care about the corruption story that implicated him, his brothers, and his son, Hunter Biden? Because “the same people in the same crooked institutions that protected him
Kamala Harris has her own history of making false claims and even doubling down on them, Peter Schweizer notes in the latest episode of “The Drill Down.”
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers consider the Springfield issue in the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast.
Groups such as the “Voter Participation Center” pretend to be politically neutral, because their non-profit status requires it, but a look at how they target their registration appeals using big tech tells a different story.
Regarding Tim Walz’s National Guard service, Schweizer and Eggers wonder why he hasn’t simply said, “I made a mistake. I apologize,” and owned up to the misrepresentations he’s been making about it for twenty years.
The DOJ formally alleged in court filings this week that Hunter Biden was involved in influence peddling overseas, confirming the reporting of Peter Schweizer in the 2018 book Secret Empires.
amala Harris’s selection of Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate raises many troubling questions about Walz’s connections to Communist China, notes Peter Schweizer in the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast.
Investigative journalist Gerald Posner — whose deeply researched studies of the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. made him a preeminent authority on political assassinations — says he can understand why so many people think there’s
President Joe Biden’s mysterious announcement ending his campaign for re-election invites comparisons to the politics of 1968, but Peter Schweizer sees another comparison – to the politics of 2008.
“Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee,” Peter Schweizer says on the most recent episode of the Drill Down podcast. “He will be forced to step down by the big money.”
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers talk about scroll addiction on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers note that the influx of illegal immigrants since President Joe Biden took office means that the potential pool of illegal voters has risen dramatically.
“How far we have fallen with the standards for government,” Peter Schweizer says of the apparently coordinated efforts to prosecute Donald Trump before the 2024 elections.
A new report by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has validated a key claim in Peter Schweizer’s latest book, Blood Money.
Sports betting apps offer lots of “first bet free” come-ons to hook the new bettor. “The people who should be paying attention to this are not, and that’s because they’re getting paid,” says Peter Schweizer.
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers, who guest-hosted Sean Hannity’s radio show this week, are joined by New College of Florida president Richard Corcoran and former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker.
Peter Schweizer notes that one of the leading climate change apostles, former vice president Al Gore, is these days co-running an investment fund called Millennium Generation.
Peter Schweizer is worried lawmakers will be drawn into “small ball” facts and miss the bigger picture of how Chinese and Ukrainian foreign nationals corrupted then Vice President Joe Biden by enriching his family members.
Peter Schweizer suggests seven questions the House Oversight Committee should ask in order to get to the real truth about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.
For most Americans, Thanksgiving means family, feasting, and travel. Here at The Drill Down podcast, that means finding out that airlines have been speed-hiring new pilots, that some of them go nuts, and that the man directing the Biden administration’s lavish infrastructure spending used to funnel paving contracts to his cousin when he was mayor of New Orleans.
The people who want you to “just eat the bugs” are controlling more than you think. Some call them “global elites.” But author Seamus Bruner offers a better description for them: Controligarchs. Bruner is Director of Research at the Government
Peter Schweizer says a recent poll offers a blueprint of Democrats’ 2024 strategy to take down Donald Trump again.
