April 15th is the deadline for filing your federal tax returns
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>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for joining us here on AFR on this Wednesday, April 15th, 2026. I'm Tim Wildmon with Wesley Wildmon. Good morning, Wesley. Good morning, Fred Jackson.
>> Fred Jackson: Good morning, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: All of America is so happy today because it's tax day and we're just patriotic people and we love giving money to the government. Who's with me on this?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I had forgotten until you just reminded me. I, didn't need to be reminded.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Or did I?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, April. Well, you'll, if you know, you'll be reminded one way or there's little three letter agency that'll come rs, send you a letter or phone call
>> Wesley Wildmon: or, or both or at the same time.
>> Tim Wildmon: They don't knock on your door. The irs, the internal Revenue service. The tax collection agency for our federal government. Anyway, it is April 15th, so yes, that is a deadline for tax report.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. And you know, when Chelsea and I first started, we really looked forward to getting the tax day. We first in line because you got
>> Tim Wildmon: a little bit back.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Got a little bit back and then each year it passes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right, right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: The older you get.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And the further you get in life, the less you get.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, you run out, you run out of breaks.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Fred Jackson: Because you know, your kids grow up, I, can't deduct them anymore.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: your house is paid for. Can't deduct that anymore.
>> Wesley Wildmon: There's a.
>> Tim Wildmon: Donations to, charities still count, right?
>> Fred Jackson: They still count. Yes. And you know, we've heard President Trump, he's been celebrating the tax breaks when the one big beautiful bill tax, on tips. We had that lady that showed up at the White House the other day. Of course it was orchestrated. She was doing a doordash lady. Doordash lady. Dropping off some McDonald's.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: And the president.
>> Tim Wildmon: Excuse me. If you interrupt. McDonald's needs to write Trump a big check because he's done more to promote their company. M. free. You talking about free advertising?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Than any other person. I mean, he, he loves him. Some McDonald's. Go ahead.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, and I think, the folks that are paid, you know, on an hourly basis, overtime, they're getting break on overtime. And exemptions for interest on certain car loans. Not sure what that's about. And deductions for some seniors. Some seniors, not all.
>> Tim Wildmon: What are they getting deductions for?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, he's,
>> Tim Wildmon: This is proposed or is this enacted?
>> Fred Jackson: This has been in place. The IRS is saying that about 53 million filers have taken advantage of some of the, steps in the great big beautiful bill that was passed. So, we will see. You know my tax Preparer, on April 15th, her busiest day.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, today.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Don't call wall to wall the lady. Do you hire a company or just an individual?
>> Fred Jackson: Or individual. Yeah. Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. So.
>> Fred Jackson: Very busy day.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So if her phone's off the hook.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: She's not, she's not taking a nap.
>> Tim Wildmon: She's overwhelmed. Trying to meet the deadline, I guess. The deadline's midnight.
>> Fred Jackson: Midnight tonight.
>> Tim Wildmon: So Wesley, you do you do this?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. We have a, we have a local person that we use, Chelsea 9 taxes. Except for Chelsea actually does all the heavy lifting.
Fred says he's thankful for his wife, who is an organizer
I get. I get overwhelmed. M Looking at all the paper. So Chelsea, I'm gonna give a shout out. Do it. Shout out to your wife.
>> Tim Wildmon: She. Yeah, well, me too. If I don't do anything, I don't even know what.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I stand in agreement and I'm like, thank you.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know this is, Maybe I shouldn't even admit this. I don't, I don't even. Alison, my wife handles all that stuff.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, that's right.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: We all have our gifts and talents. Right. And mine is not checkbook and paying taxes and paying bills. None of that. So anyway, she, she handles all that. So if it goes wrong, I'll only know when the authorities show up.
>> Fred Jackson: That's it.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I'll tell when they show up. I'll just say, go talk to her.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Let me help you out here, though.
>> Tim Wildmon: Nothing to do with it, sir.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Let me help you out here. That what we're saying is we're thankful for our wives.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, that's it as well. You know, in some, I don't know, in marriages, you know, you learn Pretty quick. Okay. This person can do this. This person can do that better. or likes to do something.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. That's another thing. Chelsea, my wife, she's an organizer.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, there you go.
>> Wesley Wildmon: She like, she likes to get these folders out and make sure everything's in the right spot.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's where your mom is. Your mom's very organized. She just. And for me, if I were ever to say, no, let me take that over.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, I've tr.
>> Tim Wildmon: That would. That would steal her blessing.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, and I don't want to. And it probably hurt her feelings or insult her. Yeah. Or insult her. Here, let me help you with this kind of book work and checkbook and stuff like that. If I were to say that, it would say, oh, you don't think I can do it?
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's it.
>> Tim Wildmon: and that would be. So I'm. So my attitude is hands off and let her do what makes her.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And stand in support.
>> Tim Wildmon: Which one are you in the marriage, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: I'm pretty well. The bookkeeper.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: The bookkeeper.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Do you like you. You enjoy that, or.
>> Fred Jackson: I. I do. Getting. Keeping organized and. Yeah. Ready to take the blame if things.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, I got to make sure I, One main thing. I got to make sure to bring that atm, receipt home.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: If I go by and get a couple hundred dollars out and that doesn't. The message doesn't get back to the
>> Wesley Wildmon: bookkeeper, then it's like, what?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, okay. where'd that money go?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
American Family Radio host Abraham Hamilton III will be with us today
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, lots to talk about today. Guess what? Abraham Hamilton III will be with us at the bottom of the hour. Otherwise known as Abe. He will be with us. he's the host of the Hamilton Corner each afternoon here on American Family Radio. Abe is also a constitutional attorney. You may not know that. so, he is, going to join us. We got several topics we want to bring up with Abe.
The United States has imposed a naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz
Well, right now, Fred sort of the world is watching to see what happens with this naval, blockade that the United States has implemented in what's called the Strait of Harmuds. Harmuz. Is that the way it's called?
>> Fred Jackson: Straight or Hormuz?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I know that probably a lot of Americans for this conflict with Iran started didn't even know where that was. But now, now they do. Now we do because we know It's a narrow 18. Ah, at its narrowest point, it's a 2018-20 mile stretch of, water between one country and another, those countries being Iran and the United Arab Emirates. And through that flows one fifth of the world's oil. One fifth of the world's oil comes through that strait. And, Iran has threatened to, you know, blow up ships that pass through there who don't pay them, you know, tribute, as they say, or, pay them. So what's the latest on this?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, the reports are from the scene is that several ships have been, able to pass through. We have. The US has naval vessels, several naval vessels that are kind of the gatekeepers right now in the Strait of Hormuz. We had this incident yesterday, where there was a Chinese flagged, vessel that, what we were told was attempted to leave. And because part of the deal right now the United States is demanding that it's going to stop ships that are bound for the Iranian ports on the Persian Gulf. So if you look at the Persian Gulf across the north, those are Iranian ports across the south, Kuwait, uae, those countries. So what the US has said, we're only going to allow ships in that are going to the Kuwait's, the UAE's, et cetera, et cetera. We're not going to allow those that have the intent to take on oil at the Iranian ports. Yesterday we had that Chinese vessel, that we talked about that turned around but then was released. And apparently, according to reports this morning, it did not have, it had methanol, on board. If that was the reason. It's, all of that, was part of the questioning last night when Fox Business reporter Maria Barton Roma had a sit down interview with President Trump. And he says, regardless of what happens at this point, and we can talk about what this point means, and where we're headed with this. He says, President Trump says we have set back Iran for at least 20 years. This is what he had to say. Cut number one, you keep saying, was,
>> Wesley Wildmon: is this war over?
>> Fred Jackson: I think it's close to over. Yeah. I mean, I view it as very close to over. You know, what? If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild that country. And we're not finished. We'll see what happens. I think they want to make a deal very badly. Now, that raised speculation. Okay, where are we at? Apparently there are reports this morning that, J.D. vance, tomorrow, as early as tomorrow, is set to sit down once again with the Iranian delegation. Remember what happened last weekend, met for 21 hours in Pakistan. the news was everybody walked away from the table, they were disgruntled, et cetera, et cetera. Apparently what happened was there was a deal put on the table. The delegation from Iran couldn't say yay or nay to it. They went back, and now they are ready to sit down again with the United States with, a goal of reaching some kind of ceasefire. So that's where we appear to be this morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, by the way, what in the world can you meet with 21 hours for? Huh? Yeah, that would.
>> Fred Jackson: well, you got translators, so it expands everything.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: By twice as much.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Surely there was a couple breaks in between.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I mean, what are they talking about? Can you imagine? I mean, can't you go in there, say, hey, yes or no? Yeah. Y' all gonna do this or not?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Even if you needed a little explanation on what. This is still 21.
>> Tim Wildmon: Here's what it is. But in all seriousness. Well, okay. we all hope and pray this is over.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: quote, very soon. I don't know what very soon means exactly, but it sounds like President Trump maybe knows something we don't know. Of course, he's a president. He might know something we don't know. And I don't think I'm just using, as they say, deductive reasoning here. I don't think Vice President Vance would be dispatched to go to another meeting with the, Is he going back to Pakistan?
>> Fred Jackson: M not sure whether it's going to be held, but the Pakistan Pakistanis are acting as the moderators.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. For those who don't know, you don't know the globe. Pakistan or Pakistan is a border country with Iran, and they're similar type people. They're Persian people. Okay. And so Pakistan, has offered to be a mediator, if you will, between the United States and Iran. So, because that's where Vice President Vance was last week. He was in Pakistan. Is in the capital name Islamabad or something like Islamabad. Correct.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: So. So, So you don't know the answer. Is he flying back over there to the same place to go back to the table?
>> Fred Jackson: I don't have that answer. Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: But nonetheless, they're. Vice President Vance is going to go back again. Correct me if I'm wrong, that's what the.
>> Fred Jackson: The speculation is.
The United States has put in place a naval blockade against Iran
There is a meeting as early as tomorrow.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, then I'm just. As I said, I'm just saying. Well, that sounds like, to me, something's been worked that they're going to go and confirm, because I don't think, based on what Vice President Bant said about this, I don't think he's going to go back over there to rehash the same old things they did last week, which Iran said no to. Does that make sense?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah, very much so. And the move, by the United States to set up this blockade, basically, because we're talking Iran gets for every tanker vessel that goes into their ports to get oil that's worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Iran. If you cut that off, then what else does Iran have at this point?
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right. So, again, to try to. I don't mean to sound like I'm talking down to folks who are trying to be dumb elementary here, but a lot of people just, you know, they got their. They're busy. They can't keep up with geopolitics here. But what you got is then this, you got President Trump, and the Pete Hexseth the Secretary of War instituted, put in place a blockade, a naval blockade. The naval blockade is the US Warships preventing anybody from going to the Iranian ports. Correct me if I'm wrong, this is
>> Wesley Wildmon: a counter to what they did. They.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well. And we're shutting off, shutting off their commerce.
>> Fred Jackson: That's it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so you're. Without firing a weapon on this one. You're stopping them from doing business, which hurts their. The money that comes into Iran, which keeps their war machine going. Does that make.
>> Fred Jackson: That's correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what we're doing. M. And, you know what? I also wonder on a side note, you don't think about these things because you just think, well, Navy and so and ships and so forth. There are a lot of sailors out there that haven't been home. Now, by home, I mean the U.S. haven't been home at. One of our, aircraft carriers was steaming toward Virginia. You know, what is it? No, not Virginia Beach. what am I thinking about? The Norfolk.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then told, no, don't go to Norfolk. Yeah. Go to the other side of the world.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. I think this is Ford. I think maybe.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I mean, they were almost. They were going to come home. They were looking forward to that. And then they're deployed to the Middle East. Of course, that's the life of a serviceman. You have to go where you never know on a moment's notice when you're going to be told, you got to go somewhere in the world to. To answer the call. And so. But I'm just thinking about. These are human beings.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: These aren't robots over there.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: in. That are serving our country that are on these ships were out there enforcing this blockade. And also that's. I Got to think that's a very stressful. Now, these are professionals. These are trained warriors, if you will, sailors, marines, army folks, Air force. But still, you're. You're in a very. You're. You're in a very hostile, environment over there. So you're. You have to be thinking about that some. Go ahead.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, and the enemy that you're up against, the Iranians and their religious beliefs, too. I mean, yeah, we're in complete control in all areas for the most part, especially in military, wise. Negotiating. Wise. We've got the front seat. But these people are, forgive me for a better word, but they're crazy. The enemy. And so, I mean, you would look at this logically and go, well, they're not going to mess with any of these ships. Blockade.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Probably won't, but that is a. They're not. They're not very reasonable people.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's what I mean. They're volatile. Yeah. You don't know.
Lebanon says it has had enough of Hezbollah terrorists
All right. You're listening to the radio program Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening. I'm Tim with Wesley and Fred. Go ahead, Fred.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, there's, a lot of interconnected things going on in our world right now. and we've. We've been focused on Iran a lot. But connected to that story is something very interesting that happened Yesterday in Washington, D.C. a delegation from Lebanon got together with a delegation from Israel. Now, why is that significant? Because of the presence of Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. There have not been diplomatic relationships between Israel and Lebanon M. Since 1948. They are sitting down for talks right now. And what has happened is that Lebanon has had enough of the Hezbollah terrorists. Now, Hezbollah terrorists, they're not only a threat militarily obvious to Israel, but they have enjoyed a political status in Lebanon. They're members of their government, even cabinet members of Hezbollah.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're talking about the terrorist organization funded by Iran.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes. So Lebanon says we've had enough. Because what happened was two days after we started the war, Israel and the United States started attacking Iran. Hezbollah in Lebanon started firing missiles into Israel, and Israel has been fighting back. But of course, as Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists have been known to do, they shoot from schools and hospitals. And so it's resulted in a lot of civilian deaths in Lebanon. So, as I say, Yesterday in Washington, D.C. they sat down for talks, Lebanon and Israel. And apparently those talks went really well because Lebanon is saying we want nothing to do with Hezbollah anymore.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Let me, sort of lay the picture for what Israel faces there on the north, Israel surrounded by, you know, they're surrounded by Muslim countries. And, for the most, they've had peace in the region. I know it's. That sounds crazy, to say, but they've. They've had peace with Jordan. I'm naming the countries that surround Israel that are Muslim countries, mostly Arab. They do have some Christians, but mostly. Mostly mother of them. And Egypt, Saudi Arabia. These are countries surrounding Israel that Israel has a good relationship with and has basically peace. But these. But on the north northern border of Israel, Lebanon, A country of Lebanon which used to be, predominantly Christian, strong Christian element. And the Beirut. We've all heard that town was known as the Paris of the Mediterranean. I mean, you go back to the middle of the 20th century. It was. It was a m. Beirut was a, a destination for European vacationers. I mean, it was a beautiful place. And then it. Then it got bombed. And anyway, it just. It's been a terrible situation in terms of that for many, decades now. But let me put this way. So people, imagine you live in Tennessee and you have, group of people that are launching, missiles from Kentucky, all right? And you say, well, if you're Tennessee, we can't tolerate this. There. The missiles coming in from Kentucky. And listen, I'm not against people in Kentucky. I'm just.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Or the Wildcat.
>> Tim Wildmon: This is just an analogy, so don't take it personally. But let's just say Tennessee said. Governor, Tennessee said, we're not going to put up with this. And so he said, okay, you know, the volunteers, okay, we're going to go. We're going to have to launch weapons ourselves and maybe infantry man. Infantry men into Kentucky so we can stop this. These people terrorizing our, citizens. Well, imagine, that's the same in this situation. Israel is Tennessee, and, that has. Lebanon is Kentucky. Okay, let's say that once the. The. The, Tennessee governor says, go kill the leader in Kentucky, and they do that, then guess what? The world goes, Israel's attacking. Israel's attacking, Lebanon. They don't go, wait a minute, hold on just a second. No, Israel didn't start this. Hezbollah, who resides in Kentucky. They started this. We're only. We, Tennessee, are only fighting back to defend our citizens.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And so it's. And then. And then many people in the world going where you're violating Kentuck sovereignty. Well, yeah, we are because we have to defend ourselves. That's the situation Israel finds itself in.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And what you've said Here now is good news because it means Lebanon, the government, Lebanon and the people of Lebanon have had it with Hezbollah using their. Their land to launch weapons, to launch attacks on Israel, and then Israel fires back into their country. So that's good news.
>> Fred Jackson: It is good news.
Interesting story out of Beijing this morning about Chinese-Russian meeting
And just one more thing. I know we have to go to break in just a second. Interesting story out of Beijing this morning. Chinese, meeting there with, representatives of Russia. And, I tell you what, very interesting what, the President Xi had to say. He said that the stability and certainty of China, Russian relations are particularly precious in the face of an international landscape intertwined with change and chaos. I bring that in only to say China and Russia are really good friends with Iran. They support the war against the United States. You put all this together, and if we had time, we talk about biblical proportions. Remember what the president of, Turkey said the other day, we might invade Israel?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: So you've got, world dynamics going on right now. Of biblical proportions.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Interesting.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, we're going to come back after the break, and, Wesley will get double the time.
>> Fred Jackson: That's it.
>> Tim Wildmon: To speak in the next half hour because he's not a potted plant.
>> Wesley Wildmon: No, I'm not. But we do got a guest.
>> Tim Wildmon: we do have a guest. Abraham Hamilton the third. Just FYI here. Abe can go, too. Yeah, yeah, he can talk.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. it was kind of stuffed up,
>> Tim Wildmon: but he can go.
>> Wesley Wildmon: He can go.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. We'll be back momentarily. Stay with us.
California legislature considering bill that would penalize reporters investigating fraudulent operations
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>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back everybody to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for joining us on the program, Today's Issues, Tim with Westy and Fred. And now we, we're joined by our colleague Abraham Hamilton the third, who's the host of the Hamilton Corner each afternoon, weekday afternoon, from 5 to 6 o' clock central time right here on American Family Radio. How you doing, brother Abe?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I'm doing well. Good morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good morning. Good morning. Fred, you had a question for Abe?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. There is a bill, Abe, that has been introduced to the California legislature by a Democrat by the name of Mia Banta. Now if that Mia Bonta. Mia Bonta, okay. Yeah. She just happens to be the wife of the state's Attorney general, Rob Banta.
>> Tim Wildmon: When you say California and then you say Democrat, I know this is not headed in a good direction. So, so you. So we have a Democrat state legislator.
>> Tim Wildmon: In California.
>> Fred Jackson: Wife of the ag.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wife of the AG and what does she want to do?
>> Fred Jackson: She wants to introduce a bill that she's calling privacy for immigration support services providers. Sounds kind of innocent, doesn't it? You know, we just want to help people out here. but this bill and this probably gives it away. It's also being called the Stop Nick Shirley act in California. Now I suppose a lot of folks are familiar. Nick Shirley, he is this kid that basically has exposed the incredible fraud that's going on in Minnesota. He's been out in California and he's been revealing what's going on there with the alleged hospice centers, which are all, you know, most of them are phony. so it's basically this bill is to shut down the Nick Shirley's. It's to stop them from investigating and reporting on fraudulent operations. Now they like to use the word immigration support services, what they don't want to put in there. But what's the truth? It's illegal immigrant services like food stamps, like medical, services, all this sort of thing.
>> Wesley Wildmon: How do you doing the job of the government.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, so they won't. This law, it's not a law yet, but it would penalize. Hey, talk about it if you would.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah. You know one of the things that's interesting that with Nick Shirley's investigative journalistic work in Minnesota, now in California, Rob Bonta, the AG has said that they're trying to crack down on fraud while his wife, his wife is in the California state legislature passing a bill that would, would interrupt the fraud being cracked down on. And one of the things that's interesting that this is a bill that includes criminal penalties. So you could have up to a $10,000 fine for violating the law. Should violating the measure, should it pass into law and be signed into law and up to a year in jail. You can go to jail.
>> Tim Wildmon: But how do you go after? How do you, how do you go after? So this journalist.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is a, is he a teenager?
>> Fred Jackson: He's, he's very young, 20s, in his
>> Abraham Hamilton III: 20s, early 20s, 20.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's just him and a cell phone, is it?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: But he does investigative journalism.
>> Tim Wildmon: and reports on it on the Internet. And it's gone viral.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: So. So he's hated by these left wingers. Right. Because he's exposed the fraud. Right?
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. So.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And, and the law is promulgated expressly to prohibit him from posting on the Internet and on social media. Posting the law explicitly posting, videos when he goes to the quality leering centers, you know. Yeah, videos. And, and also, and this is a portion that I agree, people should be able to be private, that you can't post private addresses online. But I don't see what Nick Shirley ever posted anybody's private address online. but express provisions prohibit the posting of the videos and the things recorded at the establishments. So if he was, if he did in California what he did in Minnesota, that the Californians would probably try to prosecute him.
>> Wesley Wildmon: But if this becomes law, I haven't looked. This is this morning in our show. Meaning was the first I've heard of this. So I'm very agreeing on this. What would be the Democrats position is that he's violating privacy. But I don't understand what they could possibly argue.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, and so he wouldn't be able to like Right. Right now he goes to the quality learning centers, he videos the outside of it. If he has a conversation with somebody inside of the place who's not able to explain why you're saying this is a learning center, but there are no children here and there haven't been any children here for the last two years, then he wouldn't be able to publish that online. If he were to do that in
>> Tim Wildmon: California, what they're trying to do, they're trying to shut this guy down.
This young man or anybody else who exposes the fraud that Democrats using him as an example
This young man or anybody else who exposes the fraud that the Democrats using
>> Wesley Wildmon: him as an example.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, they're not all, not all Democrats are fraudsters. I'm not saying that. I'm saying. But in the case of Minnesota, in the case of California, they are not, not all, all the people involved are liberal and Democrats and progressives. In the fraud. Now the fraud, some of it's in court has. Well, they got many convictions in Minnesota over this already, right?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I mean, yeah, indictments. They have indictments in Minnesota. I don't know how many convictions they've netted yet, but I know there might be some. But there are a bunch of indictments that have been yielded.
>> Tim Wildmon: But. But what, what, Nick, Shirley, this young man presented in Minnesota was. He was saying, like, okay, this, this, child care center is open and they get money from the federal government by applying for grants. But guess what? There's no kids who go to school here. That's right. That's what was going on. And he was exposing them and made them look bad. I tell you what, he better keep his head on a swivel because, there's a lot of money involved in this and a lot of powerful people. I'm not, you know, I'm just saying you need to. I'd carry a bodyguard with me everywhere I went if I could.
>> Fred Jackson: And you know, here's what's interesting. Also, of course, California, the Democrats there are against ice, you know, and they want them unmasked, Ice ages, all that sort of thing. Okay. this, this release, according to this bill, the program aims to protect these individuals from doxing, online harassment and other forms of intimidation that have reportedly been increased. So they're worried about these people being doxxed, but I. We're okay with that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right? Right, right, right.
>> Fred Jackson: That's a good story.
Virginia's governor wants to give Electoral College votes to whoever gets popular vote
>> Tim Wildmon: What's the other story you wanted to talk to Abe about? Wasn't there one other story?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, there's a story going on, Abe in Virginia. I know you're familiar with it. Spanberger, who sold herself as a moderate. Ain't no moderate.
>> Tim Wildmon: she won the governor's race.
>> Fred Jackson: She won the governor's race. Now she wants to do something that impacts the electoral college. Mm,
>> Tim Wildmon: What is that, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, basically she wants, she wants to give whoever gets the popular vote, they get all the.
>> Tim Wildmon: This passed, isn't it?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, it's passed.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah. She signed it into law. Yeah. It's not that she's wanting to do it. She signed it into law.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so what has happened in Virginia? They passed a law and the governor signed it where their vote Their, their Electoral College votes in a presidential election doesn't go necessarily to who the people of Virginia select, be it a Republican or Democrat. It goes those, those Electoral College votes go to whoever gets the most votes in America.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: That doesn't even sound. That, that, that alone doesn't even sound constitutional to me. can you do, can they do
>> Wesley Wildmon: that or does that, Is it, is this the same thing that they, that we hear about occasionally as we come up on election seasons where they say that the Democrats are trying to do away with the Electoral College? Is this the same?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. Yes, theoretically. Think what could happen here. think if the rest of the country, not the rest of the country, but let's say enough citizens in the country voted for a Republican. Now, President Trump, he won the popular vote.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, that was an anomaly.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: In the last few elections, a Republican has not won the popular vote. Now, okay, let's just say that, that, the Republicans won the final, won the popular vote across the United States, but the Electoral College hinged on California.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Well, because let's see if my analogy is going to work here. So California, let's just say California. all right, let me flip this. The Democrats win the popular vote. Yeah. Okay. And the Republicans.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You're trying to be objective with your analogy, but it's not. I know. M. It's usually one.
>> Tim Wildmon: Listen, when you're doing live national radio, you can't say, just forget what I said the last two minutes. It's hard to do. Abe, can you, tell me what I'm trying to say?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I can take a stab at it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Take a stab at it.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Stab at it. So if you have a situation to where the Electoral College would result, let's just say it like this. And a Republican win, but the national popular vote would be in favor of the Democrat candidate, which more than likely would mean that the Democrat candidate did not win Electoral College votes in the majority of the American states. But because states like California, NewSong York, Florida, et cetera, are so heavily populated, then you could win the national popular vote without winning a cross section of voters across the entirety of the United States, which is the exact purpose for which the Electoral College was created.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Because when the founding Fathers drafted our Constitution, they had to balance the interests of heavily populated metropolitan, urbanized states and more rural states. And so it was intentionally created that way to require whoever would be the Commander in Chief and would be the chief executive officer of our federal government that they had to have representative support across the entirety of the country as opposed to just being able to win in dense population centers.
>> Tim Wildmon: great job of telling me what I was trying to say right there. What it does is, I don't know why the citizens of Virginia would want to say, we'll just let the rest of America decide who we vote for.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, I just wonder how much of this, like, this is the first time hearing about it. I'm wondering, like, is this one of those things that just kind of happened before everyone realized it and because.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Well, no, people, people have been realizing it because here's the thing with what they did. Virginia has signed on to the National Popular Vote Compact, which says that if we ever get enough states that represent 270 electoral college votes, then this could be, could kick in. But right now there are 48 electoral college votes short of that. But they've been plugging away year after year after year, getting more states to sign on to it. And basically it's an end around the Constitution.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, this is a political, hissy fit by the Democrats who are still upset about Hillary Clinton not, not being in the White House when she won the popular vote. That's what this is all about. And they feel, the Democrats feel like we'll never again lose a popular vote in the US and so therefore, therefore, we're going to, we're going to Virginia's now in the hands of the Democrats at a legislative level. We're going to say we're going with the popular vote, whatever it may be, and they're counting on it being Democrat.
Abe Levin: April 15th is federal income tax day
All right, Abe, what do you got coming up on your show this afternoon?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Well, I don't know if you guys recognize it or yet recognize it or not yet, but it's April 15th, tax day.
>> Tim Wildmon: We've already talked about that.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: well, yeah, and a lot of Americans, unfortunately today don't realize that the federal income tax, the direct taxation on American citizens income is not a centuries long phenomenon, is relatively recent and it was brought to you by the progressives with Woodrow Wilson at the presidency. So do a little bit of historical, conversation about the history of the federal income tax today as we do not celebrate tax day.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, all right, well, I'm probably not going to tune in.
>> Fred Jackson: Okay.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: You don't know what you're missing, Tim.
>> Tim Wildmon: Don't take that personal. All right, Have a good day, Abe. See you later. Bye. Bye. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Tim, Wesley and Fred, next story.
Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress yesterday amid sexual assault allegations
Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, yesterday, I guess we'll stay in California For a few minutes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, I can't wait.
>> Fred Jackson: Okay.
>> Wesley Wildmon: well, the other day you wanted to get away from NewSong York as quick as possible, so.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Give them one.
>> Fred Jackson: California today, one more crack ex congressman from, California, Eric Swalwell, officially stepped away, from. Resigned from Congress yesterday.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Really? Why? Why?
>> Fred Jackson: So I'm going to tell you why. After yet another accuser has come forward. It's almost half a dozen women now are accusing him. And this lady yesterday, her name is Lana Drewes, she actually held a news conference and gave some details what she is alleging in her encounter with Eric Swalwin.
>> Tim Wildmon: We need to warn our listeners who have small children.
>> Tim Wildmon: are we about to play what she said?
>> Fred Jackson: A little bit. A little bit of it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. She claims that he, sexually assaulted her. True?
>> Fred Jackson: That is correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, go ahead.
>> Fred Jackson: That is correct. Cut number five, I believe he drugged my drink.
>> Tim Wildmon: I only had one glass of wine. When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already incapacitated, resuscitated, and I couldn't move my arms or my body. He raped me and he choked me. And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness, and I thought I died.
>> Fred Jackson: Now, the other victims have come forward, their testimony not quite as detailed as what we just heard from this lady. Now, we have to say that the lawyer for Eric Swalwell has said that he completely denies these allegations from all of these women and that he will vigorously, defend himself, because now, in. In NewSong York and in California, he is under formal investigation. All right. For these. Now, it's kind of interesting. The Democrat prosecutor in NewSong York City is a guy by the name of Alvin Bragg. Yeah, I think we've heard of him.
>> Tim Wildmon: I got a Christmas card.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Stand up guy.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes. So, we will wait and see. Now, there's some believe there's a bit of a backstory, to all of this, because as we have pointed out, Eric Swalwell was doing extremely well in the race to be the next governor of California up to about 10 days ago or less. But all of a sudden, all of this news comes out, and the Democrats in California say, eric Swalwell, you have to be out of here. Now, some people are saying they wanted Eric Swalwell out of there so that the remaining four or five Democrats in this jungle fight, they have a weird ballot in California. Republicans and Democrats all on the same ballot. The top two are going to win.
>> Tim Wildmon: The top two are going into a playoff. I mean, a, what do you know, call it. You call it a runoff.
>> Fred Jackson: A runoff. Yes, it is being reported that they wanted Swalwell out because he had so many votes, so that his votes would go to one of the other Democrats to ensure that Steve Hilton, the Republican, does not win this race. Now, that's what's being speculated.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I don't believe that. here's what I believe. I believe the guy got caught. his past caught up to him. Now he's denied it all, I guess, or some of it. He's kind of vague in his answers. And no, I don't believe you believe every accusation against somebody just because a woman claims, something. I don't, I don't believe that.
>> Fred Jackson: Who.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that the standard we're going to have now? Just because somebody claims something. Now, do you take that seriously and investigate it? And in this case, criminally perhaps? Yes, you do. But I'm saying, we have innocent to proven guilty in this country. And, but we also have people's, reputation.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We have.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, reputations at stake. But you also have. When you have a. When you have more than one person, especially with, with women, you have. And, and they don't have a political ax to grind. In other words, these are liberal women making these claims against a liberal politician. This isn't, this is a. This isn't a. The, you know, conservative Republican women making these claims against him. Eric Stall. Is it Swalwell.
>> Fred Jackson: Swalwell.
>> Tim Wildmon: and he was a rising star in the Democrat Party. I mean, he might have very well become governor of California.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: And. And so, that's why when you have multiple women saying the same thing and they have no political axe to grind or they're not in it for money, then, that gives their stories more legitimacy. you understand what I'm saying?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: but you know what's interesting? The reports about Swalwell have been out there for a long time. All right.
>> Tim Wildmon: yeah, but they've just been rumors.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. Democrats were asked in the last 48 hours about why didn't you guys speak up earlier?
Some Democrats are saying Democrats knew about the allegations against Rep. John Conyers
And so have a listen to this. You'll hear the voice. Everybody knows Nancy Pelosi's voice, but there's some others, too. these are Democrats saying, I did not know. Cut. Seven Republicans.
>> Tim Wildmon: And others are saying that Democrats turned kind of a blind eye, that they
>> : knew what he was up to about the allegations.
>> Fred Jackson: That is absolutely positive.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it's true that they may say that, but it is absolutely not.
>> Fred Jackson: You had no idea whatsoever.
>> Tim Wildmon: So I heard rumors of him being flirty. When you first heard these rumors, should you have acted.
>> Fred Jackson: When you first heard these rumors several
>> Abraham Hamilton III: years ago, the rumors I heard were that he was just a flirty, social guy. That's it.
>> Fred Jackson: I'm glad that those two resigned. And we have to be vigilant. Vigilant. Vigilant.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who's. That was Schumer. I know that that was Schumer.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. And he's referring to the fact that Congressman Gonzalez, Republican, has also resigned.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So, anyway, so both of them have resigned. So there's no, You know, the Republicans have a narrow margin in the House Representatives, like three or four votes, five votes, maybe. But now you've lost one Republican and you've lost one Democrat, so it's a wash. In terms of the school board in the House of Representatives. you know, I think people get drunk on their own power.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: This goes back to the beginning of time, probably. They get drunk on their own power and they abuse it. And, sadly, unfortunately, if the abuse involves, you know, attacking. Physically attacking a person, that's even worse. Okay. so if. But, the claims against him are pretty serious and even potentially criminal. It sounds like he's being accused of what Bill Cosby was accused of. Am I right?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. Spiking a drink.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, Drunk on their own power. I think. I think, you know, the Bible talks. If we are left to our own devices without the Holy Spirit of God to convict us, of, And to. And the accountability. Yes. And to give us guidance on how to live and behave and what's acceptable in the eyes of the Lord. And we know God's watching us. You know what I'm saying?
>> Fred Jackson: Absolutely.
>> Tim Wildmon: then people are sinners, and, some people are worse sinners than others.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And so anyway, we. I don't know what will happen with him, but he's. He's not going to run for governor.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Step down. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know where he goes from here, because I guess he better hope he doesn't get convicted of a. Of a rape charge. Right. I guess he's got that kind of situation to deal with.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: But he was a rising star in the Democrat Party. And, what's.
>> Wesley Wildmon: When he. When he stepped down, though, did he. Did he have to step down or just.
>> Fred Jackson: No, I think there was a lot of party pressure. Yeah. We're heading into midterms. You don't want.
>> Tim Wildmon: He was losing friends quick.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, yeah, but do you gain them by stepping down? You know what I mean? That's what I'm saying.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, I think the thing is, the Democrats see him now as a liability heading into the midterms, and they don't want to have to deal with that.
>> Tim Wildmon: They told him they're not supporting him anymore, I'm sure. And he's smart enough to know, I can't win if I don't have the party support. And plus, I don't know.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That didn't necessarily add to his, Possibility.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, no, but I think it says he knows he's got enough problems whether all of the accusations are true or not. He got, He got enough that he's. He's too far gone. He's damaged goods, so to speak.
American Family Association is hosting an Activate Summit 2026 this summer
All right. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. So, Iran, do you want to mention the thing or, you'll wait till later this.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I'll mention this now.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm mentioning this later, and then we'll
>> Wesley Wildmon: come back to this thing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I'm messing with.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know what I'm talking about.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I know what you're talking about.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Hey, here this summer, we have an Activate Summit 2026. We hosted our first one last summer, of 2025. Went so well, we're going to continue to make it an annual summit. An annual conference. It's called Roots to Fruit. Grounded in Truth and Growing in Grace. It's our annual conference here at our headquarters. Not at our headquarters, but where our headquarters is located. We have a conference center here in Tupelo, Mississippi, that we have leased out for the weekend of July 16th through July 18th. It's the cadence Bake Center. it's actually been changing out of the Huntington.
>> Tim Wildmon: They change it every year. Name on it.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Activate. you can go to afa.netsummit afa.netsummit. there you can find out all the information about the ticket cost. it also has a curriculum. Ah. Or a course for your kids that will go on simultaneously. There'll be a lot of interactions where we have things that we do as a family because it's a family event. However, we do have a.
>> Tim Wildmon: A kid's track.
>> Wesley Wildmon: yeah, an apologetic kids track that goes on at the same time that the main conference is going on. So you can find out about that. The deadline to get Your tickets is May 22nd. We're mentioning now. We'll come back and mention it throughout the week. So Bert Harper's a speaker. Jeff Schrieve's a speaker. Jessica Peck's a speaker. Josh Wood, Katy Foust, and Laura Pretherbridge. These are all of our speakers. And so go to afa.netsummit to find out all the information. We're inviting you. It's so we have a certain number of tickets, and last year we met our Max.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we need you to go selling out. We sold out.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Sold out last year.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's coming up when?
>> Wesley Wildmon: July 16th through the 18th. And we're gonna have our first ever Learning University live on Thursday night, Family night.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, I'll be there. So let me ask you this. how do you find out more? So the itinerary, schedule and everything is
>> Wesley Wildmon: where@activate afa.net summit and you can register there. You can see the schedule. You can see the layout.
>> Tim Wildmon: The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
