The Midterm Message Every Christian Needs to Hear | Guest: Richard Landes | 9/22/26

September 22, 2026

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The Midterm Message Every Christian Needs to Hear

Guest: Richard Landes | The Glenn Beck Program | September 22, 2026

Glenn Beck opened his show with a single number that set the tone for the entire episode: 32 million. That's how many Americans who call themselves Christians and attend church regularly did not vote in the last presidential election, according to pollster George Barna. Fourteen million of them were sitting in evangelical pews. Forty-one million born-again Christians stayed home. By contrast, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has published a plan to mobilize 3 million new Muslim voters this November, including 2 million brand-new registrations, with caravans to the polls leaving straight from Friday prayers.

Beck's central argument was not that Muslims are doing something wrong. "The problem is not that Muslims are organizing," he said. "Registering your neighbor and driving them to the poll is not a plot. It's called U.S. citizenship. It may be the most American thing in this entire story." The problem, he argued, is that Christians are not organizing.

The Mechanism: What CAIR Is Doing That Churches Aren't

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1 (02:17) **The Polls and the Muslim Voter Drive** - Beck opens with a new Texas poll showing Democrats sweeping Tarrant County and contrasts it with CAIR’s organized plan to register 3 million new Muslim voters.
2 (09:30) **The Christian Non-Voter Crisis** - Beck presents George Barna’s data on the massive number of churchgoing Christians who do not vote, making the scale of the problem clear.
3 (11:44) **“God’s Got This” and the Pastor’s Role** - Beck rebukes the passive “God’s got this” attitude and directly addresses pastors who hide behind the Johnson Amendment.
4 (14:44) **The Thirty Pieces of Silver** - Beck shares a personal object lesson about integrity and warns pastors against selling out for fundraising.
5 (16:56) **The Black Robe Regiment and the Quiet Pulpit** - Beck traces the history of the American pulpit’s civic engagement from the colonial election sermon to its silence before any law required it.
6 (20:54) **The Call to Action for Listeners** - Beck gives a concrete, low-barrier action plan for churches and individuals to get out the vote.
7 (25:26) **The Insiders Poll and a Personal Challenge** - Beck polls his audience to verify their registration and challenges the purpose of his own show.

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Show Notes

Glenn discusses a terrifying new poll from Texas showing Democrats leading in every race. What will happen to the country if Texas flips blue? Glenn calls out how the Council on American-Islamic Relations is going all out to turn Texas into a blue state, and Glenn also calls out southern pastors for being complicit in this ongoing attack on southern faith and culture. Glenn reacts to the latest footage exposing the church of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D), which is as progressive as you can imagine. The shoe company Converse has been forced to apologize and pull an ad because it was accused of portraying a lynching. Glenn calls out the overreaction and calls the attacks on Converse and the model in the pulled ad a witch hunt. Glenn reacts to the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial who was doxxed, threatened, and turned into a political enemy, solely for standing by his principles. What happens to a country when society targets a juror for voting his conscience? Richard Landes, Infidel Awareness Month historian and founder, joins to explain how America’s first foreign war began due to Americans being viewed as infidels. Taylor Swift’s reaction to her husband Travis Kelce's touchdown at the last Chiefs game went viral, and Glenn says this reaction is good for marriage.

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