Episodes

Host Radell Lewis sits down with Pastor LaTrina Slater, a mental health professional with over twenty years in the field and author of a new book chronicling her journey reconciling Christianity with her identity as a gay woman. LaTrina serves as pastor of an affirming church and founded Grace Revolution, a ministry focused on youth, adults, and families in marginalized communities. This conversation lands in the middle of a national reckoning over Christian nationalism, after President Trump po...

Host Radell Lewis breaks down the most consequential week in American politics in 2026 on this episode of Purple Political Breakdown, the nonpartisan show built on political solutions without political bias. We open with the assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner, where 31 year old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California breached a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives. We walk through the man...

Host Radell Lewis sits down with Laura, candidate for Ohio's 7th Congressional District, to break down one of the most flippable Republican seats heading into 2026. Once a R+15 district, OH-7 is now R+5 after redistricting, and incumbent Max Miller squeaked by at 51 percent even in a friendlier map. With recent child abuse allegations surfacing against Miller and a brand new county (Ashland) full of farmers no one has bothered to talk to, this race has every ingredient for a flip. Laura brings 2...

What if finding your representatives, tracking their votes, and holding your government accountable was as easy as opening an app? In this episode of Purple Political Breakdown, host Radell Lewis sits down with Devin Neal, co-founder of Civic, the new civic engagement app built to make democracy accessible before the 2026 midterms. Devin brings serious technical firepower to this mission. He is a software engineer with experience at Google, Meta, and Cash App, holds degrees in computer science a...

Radell Lewis is back for another Saturday breakdown on the Purple Political Breakdown, the nonpartisan political analysis show built on political solutions without political bias. This week is loaded. The U.S. Navy's seizure of the Iranian cargo ship Tosca by the USS Spruance has blown up the fragile Strait of Hormuz ceasefire, and the blockade is doing damage to oil markets, global shipping, and the Trump administration's leverage all at once. Radell breaks down why Iran may actually be gaining...

Host Radell Lewis sits down with two Ohio libertarian write-in candidates ahead of the May 5, 2026 primary in a double feature episode of Purple Political Breakdown. First up, Jason Stoops, an auto mechanic from Wilmington running in OH-1, who shares how he was politically retaliated against by his local administration, why he believes cash-pay healthcare beats the insurance bureaucracy, and how the FirstEnergy scandal exposed the rot in Ohio's GOP machine. Then drunk uncle Mike Veloff joins fro...

On this episode of Purple Political Breakdown, host Radell Lewis sits down with Dr. Bryan Hambley, Cincinnati leukemia physician and Democratic candidate for Ohio Secretary of State in the May 5, 2026 primary. Bryan grew up on a small family farm, trained as a blood cancer doctor at UC Health, and launched his outsider campaign in January 2025, well before the filing deadline, because he has watched his patients and Ohio communities suffer under a broken, gerrymandered democracy. Radell and Brya...

What does the Democratic Party actually stand for, and can anyone deliver the elevator pitch? Radell Lewis sits down with Pisco, a lawyer turned political streamer from Live and Learn, to break down the identity crisis facing the Democratic coalition. They tackle whether Democrats should lean into populist rhetoric to compete with MAGA, how to handle politically toxic influencers like Hasan Piker and Nick Fuentes, and where the line falls between pragmatic alliance building and dangerous associa...

Host Radell Lewis breaks down the week's biggest political stories with the kind of depth cable news won't give you. In this episode of Purple Political Breakdown, we dig into whether Senator Jon Ossoff can hold Georgia in the most expensive Senate race of 2026 as his home state becomes ground zero for the AI data center buildout reshaping American politics. Inside the episode: The collapse of U.S. and Iran peace talks in Islamabad, Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade, and the Senate's fourth fail...

Host Radell Lewis breaks down Ohio's 2026 State Auditor race between Republican Frank LaRose, Democrat Annette Blackwell, and Libertarian write-in Aidan Jeffery, then runs through a wild week of Ohio political news on Purple Political Breakdown. This episode covers why the Auditor's office matters (hint: it's the only statewide office with the power to catch public officials misusing your tax dollars), how current Auditor Keith Faber's run for Attorney General is part of what reporters are calli...

Radell Lewis is joined by Elijah and returning guest Tom of the Tom Foolery Show for a Socratic breakdown covering the political chaos of the week. The panel dives into Donald Trump's AI Jesus meme and why it may be the ultimate litmus test for exposing paid MAGA influencers. Ashley St. Claire's recent revelations about the inner circle of MAGA content creators, bullet-point group chats, and off-the-books payments come under the microscope, alongside the viral Wall Street Journal quote about Tru...

Radell Lewis sits down with Zee, Founder of Sole Strategies and Executive Director of National Ground Game, the force behind the Unfuck America Tour. This conversation cuts straight to the heart of what Democrats are getting wrong and what it takes to actually win. Zee breaks down how her team has generated over 100 million organic views, raised $700,000 from small dollar donors, and flipped Escambia County blue for the first time since 1960. They tackle why TPUSA dominated college campuses for ...

Purple Political Breakdown with Radell Lewis breaks down the biggest political stories of the week with zero partisan spin and maximum accountability. This episode covers the U.S.-Iran ceasefire that collapsed almost immediately after Israel struck Beirut, killing over 254 people, while 230 oil tankers remain stuck in the Persian Gulf and Iran charges over $1 million per ship for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight" triggered more than...

Can eight Democrats really unseat Trump-backed Congressman Max Miller in Ohio's 7th Congressional District? On this episode of Purple Political Breakdown, host Radell Lewis dives deep into one of the most crowded and competitive congressional primaries in the 2026 midterms. From former FBI agent Ed FitzGerald's political comeback to union ironworker Brian Poindexter's surge of labor endorsements, Radell breaks down every candidate, follows the money, and gives his honest assessment of who actual...

Is the American Dream of homeownership slipping away, or is it being taken? In this episode of Purple Political Breakdown, host Radell Lewis sits down with Ashley Thomas III, National President of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB), the nation's oldest minority real estate trade association, founded in 1947 to fight for democracy in housing. Ashley is also the CEO and Founder of LA Top Broker, Managing Broker of First Security Investment Co., Inc. (one of the country's oldes...

The Iran war just got real. An F-15E Strike Eagle has been shot down over Iran, marking the first U.S. aircraft lost to enemy fire in Operation Epic. With one crew member missing, gas prices surging past four dollars a gallon, and Defense Secretary Hegseth firing top generals during active combat, the cracks in the Trump administration's war strategy are impossible to ignore. Radell Lewis breaks it all down on this episode of Purple Political Breakdown. On the Supreme Court front, justices heard...

Radell Lewis breaks down one of Ohio's most important and overlooked races: the 2026 Secretary of State election. With Frank LaRose term-limited out and running for auditor, five candidates across three party primaries are competing to control how Ohioans vote, how businesses get registered, and how ballot language gets written. Radell goes candidate by candidate through Republican primary frontrunner Robert Sprague (Ohio's current treasurer who dropped out of the governor's race in under three ...

Purple Political Breakdown host Radell Lewis and co-hosts Elijah and Danny break down the biggest political stories of the week in this Socratic Breakdown open panel. The U.S.-Iran conflict continues to escalate as oil prices spike, peace deals collapse, and troops from the 82nd Airborne deploy toward a potential Kharg Island invasion, all while Trump questions NATO membership over European allies refusing to cooperate. The Supreme Court deliberates on birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendme...

xxxxxxxxxxx Host Radell Lewis breaks down the biggest stories shaping America right now on the Purple Political Breakdown. This week: the U.S. Iran war enters its fourth week with ceasefire negotiations stalled over the Strait of Hormuz, nuclear threats, and rising gas prices. The DHS partial shutdown has pushed TSA call out rates past 11% nationally, with airports in Houston, Atlanta, and Baltimore hit hardest. Is Supreme Court reform finally on the table? Radell dives deep into court packing, ...

What is going on in Ohio? In this episode of Purple Political Breakdown, host Radell Lewis breaks down the biggest stories coming out of the Ohio Statehouse heading into the 2026 midterm elections. President Trump is calling for an end to no-excuse mail-in voting nationwide, and Ohio officials from both parties are responding. The Ohio House is advancing new abortion restrictions under House Bill 347, testing the limits of the 2023 constitutional amendment that 57 percent of voters approved. Ohi...

Should Democrats punish MAGA when they regain power, or should they focus on fixing what's broken? On this Socratic Breakdown, Radell Lewis and Elijah dive into one of the most heated debates in progressive politics right now: accountability versus retaliation. With Democrats winning surprise special elections in Florida and the 2026 midterms on the horizon, the question of how to handle the Trump era looms large. Radell breaks down the difference between government overreach (like the Stephen C...

Are Americans too cynical to recognize when government actually works? Radell Lewis sits down with David Martin, host and producer of The Good Government Show, to explore the stories of public servants and local leaders making real differences across the country. From a recidivism program in Berks County, Pennsylvania that dropped reoffending rates from 60% to just 5%, to micro loans helping small business owners grow, to rural hospitals reopening in communities that desperately need them, David...

Radell Lewis breaks down the biggest stories in American politics right now on this week's Purple Political Breakdown live show. The U.S. and Israeli war on Iran has entered its third week with 13 American service members dead, 200 troops wounded across seven countries, and oil prices surging toward $180 per barrel. Joe Kent, Trump's own counterterrorism director, resigned over the war, calling it unjustified, and then appeared on Tucker Carlson's podcast to insinuate Israel may have been involv...

Radell Lewis sits down with Jerrad Christian, Democratic candidate for Ohio's 12th Congressional District, for a conversation about the issues hitting Ohioans hardest right now. From the gerrymandering compromise that reshaped Ohio's congressional map to the property tax crisis squeezing homeowners and retirees, no topic is off limits. Jerrad grew up in rural Appalachian Ohio in a working poor family where government programs were not abstract policy debates but the difference between eating and...