In this week's episode of Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom with Gary Bauer, senior vice president of public policy at the James Dobson Family Institute, Bauer shares his skepticism concerning the constant barrage of bigoted alarmism flowing from the mainstream media about the dangerous march of “Christian Nationalists” in America. What concerns these alarmists the most are citizens who profess love for Jesus, love their country, and believe that Almighty God had His divine hand on the founding of the nation. According to the intelligentsia, folks who hold to this view are deluded and pose a clear and present danger to democracy, and thus must not be tolerated by civil society. Bauer says the real danger to our republic is screeching neo-Marxist totalitarians who defame followers of Christ.

In this week's episode, Gary Bauer shares little-known details from NASA’s Apollo 8 mission that took its three astronaut crew 10 orbits around the moon over six days. Although Crew Commander, Frank Borman, Lunar Module Pilot, Fred W. Haise Jr., and Command Module Pilot, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., accomplished all mission objectives, they are perhaps best remembered for their first-of-its-kind Christmas Eve telecast from outer space. The crew read verses from the first chapter of Genesis and then wished viewers, “Good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth.” As there is nothing new under the sun, this event, which was beloved by the vast majority of Americans, infuriated the late Atheist and Separationist, Madalyn Murray O’Hair so much that she sued NASA administrator Thomas Paine and the U.S. government, arguing that the astronauts violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. To quote a famous repetitive refrain from the late author Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse-Five seems apropos: “And so it goes…”

In this week's episode, Gary Bauer contrasts President Joe and Jill Biden’s holiday greeting to that of former President Donald Trump. Here is a portion of the former President’s text from his video message released to social media on Christmas Eve: “In this holy time of year, Christians everywhere give thanks that over 2,000 years ago, God sent his only son into the world to be the savior of all mankind. The birth of Jesus Christ is the true miracle we celebrate each Christmas. He is the ultimate source of our joy, our hope, and our sense of peace, and goodwill as we gather with family and loved ones. It is such a great time of the year. This is why we can never stop saying that beautiful phrase, 'Merry Christmas.’”

In this week's episode of Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom with Gary Bauer, Bauer calls out a grossly overofficious Pennsylvania school board who believes they are the arbiters of what can and cannot be seen by kids riding on school buses, as it relates to high national holidays. Bauer goes on to “school” this rogue group of neo-Marxists on the historical and true meaning of Christmas.

In this week's episode, Gary Bauer exposes the Left's attempt to brand Americans who love both Jesus and their country as ‘Christian Nationalists.’ In homage to 1930 Fascism, the left has uncorked a full-scale propaganda campaign, spearheaded by Hollywood film director, Rob Reiner who will release his new documentary God and Country, in February just in time for the 2024 election. ‘Christian Nationalism’ is the left’s latest boogeyman of the day. Meathead, the character played by Reiner in the 70s sitcom All in the Family, hopes the film will fool enough Americans into believing the Nazis are back and controlling the Republican Party to reelect President Joe Biden, whose low poll numbers have the Democratic Party seriously spooked.

In this week's episode, Gary Bauer embarks on a journey that traces the origins of the first Thanksgiving celebrated by the Pilgrims in the autumn of 1621. This first Thanksgiving came as a result of a harsh 1620 winter, where as many as half the original colonists died. It was after a strong crop harvest the following year that the Pilgrims decided to hold a day of celebration and prayer, and they invited their Native American friends, who had helped them along the way, to join them. Fast forward 168 years, when our nation’s first President, George Washington, issued the Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789, which described in its opening sentence what the occasion was all about. President Washington wrote: “Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor…” Seventy-four years later, Abraham Lincoln in his 1863 proclamation urged all Americans to observe the last Thursday of November “… as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.” The fact that Lincoln could call for such a day even during ...

In this week's episode of Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom, Gary Bauer chats with Kirk Cameron, American actor, evangelist, and television host. Kirk shares what challenged him to launch his child reading program in public libraries. He saw how libraries in large cities were not being utilized by locals because they had become overrun by crime, drugs, and homelessness. As Christians, Cameron says, we must take a stand for riotousness in the public square. “We need to bring the blessings of heaven to our cities…so that the goodness of God, not only in salvation but also in the positive influence Christianity, will have an impact on our society,” Cameron insisted.