The Glenn Beck Program
The Glenn Beck Program

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July 6, 2026

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The Glenn Beck Program opens with a blunt, data-driven argument about who really controls your life, using your monthly electricity bill as the evidence. Beck’s central thesis is that rising energy costs in blue states are not an accident of weather or markets but the direct result of deliberate policy choices—specifically, net-zero mandates and renewable portfolio standards that force utilities to build expensive green infrastructure regardless of cost or reliability. He then expands this argument into a broader claim: the same collectivist instinct that drives energy policy also fuels political division, white supremacy, and socialism, all of which share a common enemy in the American founding principle that individual rights come from God, not the state.

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  • 1 (00:06) **The Net-Zero Electricity Trap** - Glenn argues that rising electricity bills in blue states are a direct result of renewable energy mandates, not coincidence.
  • 2 (04:43) **The Hydropower Exception & The Dam Removal Fight** - Cheap power in blue states like Washington/Oregon comes from existing hydroelectric dams, which the same political coalition is now trying to tear down.
  • 3 (08:51) **Who Controls Your Life?** - The core argument: rising energy costs are a symptom of a deeper struggle over individual liberty versus collective control.
  • 4 (12:12) **The Real Division: CNN's False Narrative** - Glenn rebuts CNN's claim that the nation is more divided than during the Civil War, pointing to a one-sided political attack.
  • 5 (19:55) **The Unified Enemy: The Collective** - Glenn identifies the common thread between white supremacists, BLM, Palestinian activists, and fascists: all reject the individual in favor of the collective.
  • 6 (28:20) **Debunking the Nordic Socialist Myth** - Glenn dismantles the idea that Sweden, Denmark, and Norway are successful socialist states.
  • 7 (34:10) **The Swedish Reversal** - Sweden’s economic success came from reversing socialist policies, not doubling down on them.

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Show Notes

CNN blames President Trump for the current political divide in America, but Glenn points out all the divisive rhetoric from prominent Democrat politicians who have actively fueled America's divide. Glenn discusses the group "Patriot Front" and the recent viral incident involving a black woman on the Metro in Washington, D.C. Socialists will point to Denmark or Sweden when defending socialism, but Glenn lays out why places like Denmark aren't actually operating under socialism and exposes the intellectual dishonesty of conflating socialism with how these countries operate. 

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