Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

In just a few days, this country votes, and if you turned on the news this morning, you were told the result is already settled. The averages have called it. The markets have priced it. The maps have colored it in. And that certainty is exactly why you should be skeptical.

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00:00 – What's at stake if Democrats take Congress

03:50 – Is this a normal midterm swing or a blue wave?

09:47 – What the House, Senate and governor polls are showing

15:45 – Why this year's Senate battlegrounds are all Trump states

23:42 – Why some of these races could signal the next 20 years

26:37 – Michigan Senate: Abdul El-Sayed vs. Mike Rogers

35:14 – Texas Senate: Ken Paxton vs. James Talarico

39:46 – What it would take for Paxton to win Texas

45:11 – Ohio governor: Vivek Ramaswamy vs. Amy Acton

52:37 – Georgia governor: Rick Jackson vs. Keisha Lance Bottoms

56:40 – Nevada governor: Joe Lombardo vs. Aaron Ford

59:57 – Why Democrats are leading in the Kansas Senate polls

1:03:20 – Why Scott Perry and John McGuire are in toss-up races

1:11:51 – What's at stake in four swing-state legislatures

1:19:41 – What Democrats would do if they win the House

This is Episode 612 of Making the Argument, published October 30, 2026.
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Franck Zanu asked people across Africa one question: what’s your word for “maintenance”? The host of Zanu Project Rethink joins Nick to explain what he thinks their answers reveal, why he says colonialism isn’t what’s holding Africa back, and why Japan could adopt Western systems when so many African nations struggled to. Then Nick asks what Africa should do differently, and Frank’s answer isn’t the one you’d expect.

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0:00 Nick introduces Franck Zanu and the viral 'maintenance' question
2:22 Zanu says African languages have no word for maintenance
10:26 How Africa's countries were formed under colonial rule
19:51 Singapore and India split up after independence; African countries didn't
30:12 Why Japan adopted Western systems, and Africa struggled
37:59 How language shapes a culture's sense of time
44:42 What should Africa do differently?
52:34 No monuments or written language to trace Africa's past
54:48 Should the West stop intervening in Africa?
1:00:11 Slavery, America's race narrative, and why the anger never fades
1:06:09 Where to find Franck Zanu and Zanu Project Rethink

This is Episode 611 of Making the Argument, published October 29, 2026.
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Rafe Heydel-Mankoo says Britain has had more immigration in 20 years than in the 2,000 years before it. The New Culture Forum senior fellow tells Nick how Tony Blair’s government quietly took over Britain’s institutions, why the Conservatives, who promised to cut immigration, kept raising it, and what Denmark’s left-wing government did that Britain’s leaders never did. Then he explains why he believes Britain may have only 10 to 15 years left to turn things around.

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00:00 – Why England can't celebrate its own identity
04:58 – How Tony Blair's government took over Britain's institutions
08:05 – How the left manufactured grievances in Britain
11:51 – How empire guilt is used against Britain
14:23 – Why the Conservatives broke their promise on immigration
18:37 – Why Britain's elites never feel the cost of mass migration
21:41 – Is social cohesion about race or shared values?
25:32 – How Denmark's left won the argument on immigration
29:25 – Is Islam a unique problem for integration in the West?
36:00 – Why the left won't see the downside of mass migration
41:27 – How America assimilated its early immigrants
45:16 – What a good immigration policy looks like
49:35 – How to take back Britain's schools
55:35 – Why Rafe says Britain has only 10 to 15 years left

This is Episode 610 of Making the Argument, published October 28, 2026.
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On the night Brazil counted its votes, the country’s own election court changed the rules. And then one man who issued the order used to be Lula’s criminal defense lawyer. Did the Left just seize power in Brazil, and what could happen next?

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00:00 – Why the left is celebrating Lula's win in Brazil

03:25 – What Brazil's election map reveals about Lula's win

08:36 – Why the runoff numbers don't add up

16:54 – The judge who kept the polls open two extra hours

24:13 – What this would look like in a US election

27:27 – Why Brazil's markets crashed after Lula's win

30:26 – What happens when you can't trust the courts

34:57 – Lula's plan to regulate social media after winning

39:15 – The loophole that could legally turn America into a dictatorship

43:55 – Why Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court

47:23 – Why Jefferson didn't want the Supreme Court to have the final say

52:34 – What Democrats would do with a trifecta

55:40 – Why Nick says some countries can't vote their way out anymore

1:01:33 – Why Brazil is a warning for America

This is Episode 609 of Making the Argument, published October 27, 2026.
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Hillsdale military historian Mark Moyar joins Nick to break down the war in Iran. They look at what America’s strikes have actually achieved, why he says the regime proved more resilient than Washington expected, and why Nick believes Tehran is running the same playbook North Vietnam used against America. Then Dr. Moyar lays out what a long-term strategy would need to look like, and why it has to survive the next time Democrats are in power.

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00:00 – Was going to war with Iran a good idea?

02:16 – Why taking out Iran's leaders didn't change the regime

05:37 – How Iran is using North Vietnam's strategy against America

08:57 – Did the strikes set back Iran's nuclear program?

11:43 – Why a nuclear Iran is different from a nuclear Pakistan

14:45 – How a nuclear Iran would change the Middle East

16:29 – What the strikes did to Iran's navy, missiles and proxies

19:15 – The biggest miscalculation in the war with Iran

21:33 – Why Iran's protesters couldn't bring down the regime

23:36 – Why Nick thinks Iran is waiting out the midterms

27:07 – Dr. Moyar's long-term strategy for Iran

31:12 – Can oil shipments get around the Strait of Hormuz?

33:02 – Why China won't pressure Iran for us

34:12 – Should America back rebel groups inside Iran?

This is Episode 608 of Making the Argument, published October 26, 2026.
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