July 21st, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 87738138118773813811. Welcome, America. Welcome, America. Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Is a communist, His wife is a communist and the duo run Nicaragua with an iron fist as communists do. Ortega was elected in the 1980s and then defeated. In part due to the great Ronald Reagan who helped push him out and supported the freedom fighters. But he’s held on to power now for about 20 years. And of course, elections in communist countries are phony anyway, just as they’re phony in some of the Islamist countries like Turkey. And Pakistan. But Ortega has boldly announced no more elections. Now he’s a communist, as I said. No more elections, he says. You know, if the Marxist Islamists and yes, the Democrat Party get their way. Elections will be nothing but a foregone conclusion in our country. A Potemkin exercise in phony democracy as they destroy the electoral processes established in our Constitution. And further alter our immigration system as well as electoral procedures in the states. You think that’s overstating it, Mr. Producer? Isn’t that why they’re doing these things? I don’t think there’s any question about it. I don’t think there’s any question about it at all. In addition, ladies and gentlemen, I started a discussion yesterday. That I want to continue today and I will continue on my FOX program and expect the backbench plagiarists to regurgitated. If they’re smart, if they’re not smart, they won’t. That’s this phrase, working people. Working people. Now working people we all identified only as working people. Those of us who actually work every day. Working people. But the Democrats, that is the Marxist communists. And the Islamists, they use it. They used it in a way where they they literally attempt to hijack the phrase. And they want everybody to believe that they are for working people. And so they they repeat it time and time and time again. We’re about working people, what to do for working people, Whether to provide working people. And as I. Thought through it last night and shared with you. And I’m thinking through it now and want to share with you again. Communism is all about working people, killing them, enslaving them and brutalizing them. And it’s always amazed me how the Communists talk up the working people, those 60 million people now slaughtered and starved to death. They were working people. Those concentration camps she has set up in communist China with millions of people. Those are working people in those concentration camps, those 30 to 40 million people Stalin murdered and starved to death. They were working people to the millions of people in North Korean concentration camps, as well as murdered and starved to death. More working people. Cuba’s populated with millions of enslaved working people and so forth and so on. You see, for the communists, the working people are key. They’re there to serve the state. They’re there to serve the centralized masterminds, the power structure. Only in free societies, and especially in this one in America, are quote unquote, working people, the heart and soul of the society of Freedom. I’ve independence. Of innovation, productivity and wealth creation. A prosperity. We’re in a society that truly respects the working people, that believes in the working people, that the working people are the backbone of our society, not the backbone of our government, not the backbone of political parties, the backbone of our society. We are the sovereign. Each one of you as individuals. An individual human being. You are a sovereign. Collectively, we are these sovereign. Communism doesn’t view the working people as the sovereign. They don’t view the working peoples, the sovereign, at all. The working people need to be manipulated. They need to be redefined. Re-educated. Anybody who steps out of line needs to be eliminated, shamed. Pushed out of the way. They don’t really mean working people. They mean enslaved people. The people are to be slaves to the state. The people are to be slaves to the masterminds. The people are to be slaves to an ideology that cannot work and never does work. Wherever it’s tried and whenever it’s tried. When you have people, very stupid people like Jon Stewart. Or Hassan Piker or Bernie Sanders. To tell you that there are people that don’t have enough to eat, people who do not have enough clothes, people who do not have enough homes. The fact of the matter is we have more people have enough food, more people, urbanites, clothing, more people have enough homes than any society on the face of the earth. It is not perfect because human beings are not perfect. So institutions cannot and will never be perfect. But there are institutions that are more perfect than other institutions. If you live in a slave state, that is where working people are effectively enslaved and work for the state. And after work for the state in order to be fed, have to work for the state in order to have clothing and housing and so forth. You have no opportunity. You have no opportunity for betterment. None whatsoever. They call it a classless society. Of course it’s classless. It’s a dehumanized society. So there are people who are more successful than other there. Different people who, based on merit and hard work, have achieved more than others. There aren’t people willing to take risks and that’s they’re willing to be killed summarily. The whole human factor is taken out of the ideology when we’re talking about communism. So people don’t have clothing or food or housing for a variety of reasons. It’s not. Uniquely and exclusively that system. It might be a person, him or herself. Who has decided to follow a course. It is a bad course of action for them, for their families and so forth and so on. And in America. The freest of the free societies, at least up to now. There are always adjustments being made. There’s always changes being made. There’s always reforms being made, even without the government dictated. Why? Because if some guy in his garage or some guy in his kitchen. I mean, some guy working on a car and goes to obviously. Comes up with a better idea, a niche idea. We might call it reform. We might call it improvement. They’re motivated not simply because they’re free, which is important. And they’re free to think for themselves. They’re free to try and fail. But because. Maybe they want to become famous. Maybe they want to become successful and wealthy. Whatever the reason is, it doesn’t matter. But that person in a communist regime is a threat thinking for him or herself, acting on his or her own motivations. This is why they classify us as groups. And from the communist perspective, we can never get out of the group. If you’re rich, that’s it and you’re bad and you need to be addressed, that is taken down. If you’re poor, that’s it. It doesn’t matter why you’re poor. It’s the system that we will blame. And therefore the system needs to be taken down. No individual responsibility because there’s no individual merit. Again, they don’t care about working people. They are dehumanizing working people. They are dehumanizing the massive middle class in the United States of America, which is the backbone of this society. The backbone of our culture and the backbone of our economic system. If you all decided not to work tomorrow, we’d go broke. The country would collapse. But there’s enough of us still. Probably most of us. Who think as individuals, Right. And we make the system work. So communism is about working people, killing them, enslaving them, brutalizing them. Controlling them. It is the most effective ideology ever imposed on human beings. It is an ideology that does not comprehend human nature and yet seeks to destroy it. There is some non defined general good. And that’s why people who’ve accomplished nothing. People have experienced almost nothing. That’s why those people. Can run regimes that are communist regimes because you need absolutely no knowledge, absolutely no experience. You just need an ideology. Backed up by an iron fist. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Affordability, they say. Where in the world is there a communist regime where there’s affordability? Show me one. And by affordability I mean not just the ability to afford electricity and. Gasoline and housing and clothing. And food and a car. And all the magnificent things that we have in our country beyond. Beyond that which is available for our sustenance. Well beyond that. But by affordability I mean availability. Availability. In this nation. We have availability and we have affordability. Now, there are some things you may want that you actually have to work for and you have to actually save for. It’s not a matter of affordability. It’s a matter of personal responsibility. There’s not another country on the face of the earth that has the variety of foods and drinks. At the prices we had them. Not another one. And so if there’s a little spike in the price of a gallon of gasoline. Well, we kind of freak out, don’t we? You want to get a sense for what it’s like to live in a soft tyranny? As Alexis de Tocqueville would call it, and democracy in America. Leading to a hard tyranny. Look at the northeast. Look at California. The price of gasoline, the massive sales taxes. Look at the price of electricity, the highest in the country. Why? You would think the people in New England and the North generally. Would want governors and legislatures that would bring the prices down, that would allow for more. Four more electrical lines would allow for a bigger grid that would allow for more pipelines to provide oil and natural gas. Because it could be really, really cold in the wintertime. And yet that’s not how they vote. That may be how you vote, but it’s not how a majority vote. In these blue states or purple states. They vote. In almost an economic suicidal fashion. They vote to drive up the cost and reduce the availability of these necessities. Because I actually believe. Getting to have something for nothing. They actually believe. That electricity and gasoline and oil must must come from the. From the tooth fairy, I guess. And they have easy targets when they don’t. They blame the very companies that are denied the permits. To drill for oil. To build pipelines. To build more infrastructure. To carry electricity to our homes. And so forth. And so on. And they’ve been taught to think that way. They’ve been taught to believe that way. And at colleges and universities, by our media and by the left. If there’s a price out there that’s too high, it’s the fault of the actual provider, not the government. Not the government. If there aren’t enough doctors in our system. That’s apparently the fault of the doctors in the hospitals, and yet it’s not. Did you know that the federal government determines how many medical students will graduate each year? Did you know that, Rich? You learned it from me, what, five, eight years ago? The federal government determines how many doctors there will be. State governments determine how many hospitals will be. There’s no free market system involved in this. And of course, the FDA determines whether lifesaving drugs will hit the market or not. And it costs pharmaceutical companies tens of billions of dollars to develop one drug over the course of 20 years. Well, who’s responsible for that? I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
So here’s Ortega the old Reuters Nicaragua’s long serving president Daniel Ortega. You notice these guys never leave voluntarily. They die in office. Said the Central American country will no longer hold elections, eliminating the possibility of an electoral challenge when his term ends next year and further entrenching the rule he shares with his wife, Rosario Morella. Now, keep in mind when you look at North Korea. The founder of North Korea was a Stalinist. He handed the country over to his son when he died. Like. Like in his will. And then when the sun handed the country over to his second son, that would be the founder’s grandson, like he was in the estate. He was in the will. Ortega, who has continuously held power since 2007. Following an earlier presidential term in the 1980, said the move will close off any path to the opposition, although he did not provide details about carrying out the ban. Quote, There won’t be any more elections here for them to try to seize the government and seize power. Elections are not about seizing the government or seizing power, are they? They’re about the people making a determination. But not in Nicaragua. Ortega said this in a speech on Sunday evening to commemorate the 1979 Sandinista revolution, which Ortega helped overthrow the US backed Somoza dictatorship. Now, Reagan said, enough of that. And of course, he funded the freedom fighters in Nicaragua and overthrew the Sandinistas. But he leaves office and then, of course, the Sandinistas. Our back. The days when parties backed by the Yankees, the United States, he says, and the and the Somoza ideas would return to power are over. Never again. So they always have to have. They always have to have a boogeyman. We’re not involved at all on their elections. And then you can hear the same kind of talk from a Bernie Sanders and an AOC. And anybody that’s with the Democratic Socialists of America, a.k.a. American Communists, the American Marxist, same thing, the billionaires, the billionaires. We get the billionaires and the billionaires. When Mao kicked 60 million people, excuse me, slaughtered 60 million people, killed them. It was not about the billionaires, was it? In Cuba, which is basically a concentration camp. It’s not about the billionaires, is it? In North Korea. Where people are starving to death and they’re in internment camps. It’s not about the billionaires, is it? Communist China? Not about the billionaires, is it? No, it’s not. And in New York City today, it’s not about the billionaires either. It’s about controlling the population. In fact, it’s about changing the population. Changing it. And the emphasis is on the people. Who are who are like sheep. They need to go on the public dole. They need to demand more from the government. They need to become reliant on the city government. And those who speak out and those who are entrepreneurs and those who are small businesspeople and those who say, no, they’re the problem. Don’t you know they’re the fascists? Are Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement Tuesday that Ortega’s decision to no longer hold elections lays bare their true authoritarian nature. Well, that’s for sure. And that the Nicaraguan people have the right to choose their own leaders through democratic elections. The Trump administration has described the Ortega government as a dictatorship. That’s funny, they have to say. The Trump administration described it as a dictatorship, not a dictatorship. And imposed sanctions on more than 2350 Nicaraguan officials and their relatives. See, there’s a class structure not in the United States where people can be rich and poor and then poor and then rich, powerful and then not powerful and so forth and so on. Where there are elections that change governments and change parties all the time. But not so in communist regimes. Not so in communist regime. That’s where the autocrats are. And yet they use the language, don’t they? They use the language. To describe that which they are, but they point the finger at their opponents. That’s what Bernie Sanders is expert at. Nicaragua’s last election in 2021 was widely disputed after Ortega detained opponents of business leaders and criminalize dissent. You know who else does hate America? Erdogan and Turkey. Erdogan in Turkey. No, no, no F-35s for Erdogan in Turkey or anything else, for that matter, as far as I’m concerned. Last year, Ortega further consolidated his power through a series of constitutional reforms. O constitutional reforms. U.S. of the sort the Democrat Party and their Marxist Islamists access is encouraging constitutional reforms. We eliminate the United States Senate. If we can eliminate it, we add four more Democrats by adding a city, D.C. and a territory Puerto Rico. That’s right. We eliminate real elections by eliminating the Electoral College. So we have direct elections where the the blue cities and states control the outcomes. It’s not a real election. That’s not really democracy, is it, America? That’s not the consent of the governed. Unless you’re in those 12 states, forget about the other 38 states. The Democrats have a million ideas. Oh, yeah. A million ideas, and they call it all democracy. The communists call everything democracy. They call it reform as well. They’re there to reform the system. The system is corrupt. We’re going to take it over. We’re going to rejigger it. We’re going to we’re going to make all these fantastic changes for the working people. The UN Human Rights Council has accused Ortega and Morelos Government that it’s his wife transforming the country into a authoritarian state and systematically violating human rights. Imagine that. Comes with the territory, doesn’t it? In 2018, Ortega responded in widespread anti-government protests with a crackdown in which more than 300 people were killed. Imagine that. Analysts and opposition politicians in exile, said the declaration put into focus the reality of two person rule under the Ortega’s, while revealing the couple’s fear of an opposition movement taking root. Or that’s why they have a police state. Ortega Morella are evidently afraid at the idea that the slightest political opening could create the conditions of dissent to manifest and threaten their grip on power. Now, if this sounds like the Islamist regime in Iran, you’re right. But the Islamist regime in Iran goes one step further. Those people are prepared to die for the cause. As long as we die also. The country in Nicaragua is transformed into a full fledged family run dictatorship. Felix Maradiaga, a presidential hopeful for the opposition. Imagine our brave. These people are. Who was jailed in Nicaragua from 2021 to 2023 before being expelled to the U.S.. Said he saw Ortega’s comments less as a show of force than as a confession of fear. Okay, well, all the words are important and all the comments are important, but there he is. And who’s going to stop them? Nobody. Nobody. Nobody’s going to stop them. Now, I have to say, when Reagan was president, he pushed a lot of these communists out of Central and South America. And I think. The president is of this mind to once he takes care of Iran. But the issue with Iran, to me, let me be blunt with you. We’ve got sort of an on again off again war. And that does not lead to victory ultimately. And on again, off again war. You know, it leads to victory. Victory. And I’m tired of people saying this regime can’t be defeated because it’s an ideology. All regimes are based on an ideology. All of them. Whether they’re communist or fascist, they’re Islamist. They’re all built on an ideology. The Soviet Union collapsed. We were told over and over again containment. Mutual assured destruction. They can’t be defeated. And so one man said no more with this detente. No more. With this defeatism, the Soviet Union could be defeated. And we can do it without sending in ground troops. And he did it. Reagan. And I’m here to. The Iranian regime can be defeated. But we have to be willing to embrace all of the potential resources and tools that are out there. Number one, the Iranian people must be armed. I know I sound like a broken record, but sometimes broken records are necessary. They can be trained. They can be armed. They can be supported with air support, with satellite monitoring of the enemy and so forth and so on. It can be done. If we have a CIA with the willpower to do it and hopefully a director is willing to do it. It absolutely can be done. Taking down the Soviet Union was much more complicated and difficult than taking down this Iranian regime. Number two. If we’re serious about defeating the regime victory, we must ignore what the Arab countries are telling us and what Turkey is telling us. And stop sidelining the third most powerful Air Force on the face of the earth. And one of the greatest intelligence services on the face of the earth, and that would be the Israeli Mossad and Air Force and the IDF. They’re in the neighborhood. Their cities have been hit. They are threatened all the time. But they like the Iranian people. Are poised. And motivated. To defeat the Iranian regime. You know, people talk about our helping Israel over these decades. Let me tell you something. Nobody has helped these Arab countries more than the United States. Most of the bases we have in the Middle East, they’re not in Israel. They’re in one Arab country after the other, aren’t they? And we have men and women who are positioned in these various. Arab countries on these various bases. We have defended the Arab countries. Against threats from Russia. Against threats now from China. And now threats from Iran. These monarchies and these dictatorships shouldn’t be dictating to us. How and when and how we defeat the Iranian regime. Nor should Turkey, which is led by a nationalist, socialist Islamist. A grave threat to us and its own people. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Welcome back, America. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I’m spending a lot of time and I’m going to spend more time over the course of the next weeks and months talking about communism. Islamism woke Reich neofascism because like never before in our lifetimes, this is a serious threat. These ideologies. The first two are not taking over the Democrat Party. It’s taken over some Democrat parties in our cities. In our communities and some states. It’s not theoretical. It’s reality. And the woke right? Neo fascists. Some of them have secreted themselves into our government. And to NGOs and the think tanks in and around Washington, D.C.. They’re making alliance ideological alliance. With the Marxist Islamists. They hate America. They trash America. They trash our past. And I notice they trash our great conservatives. Milton Friedman. Thomas Sole, William Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan. They tell us, just like the Marxist tell us. The world begins today. These people were failures. We can’t win on this stuff anymore. Ladies and gentlemen, the day we can’t win on the Constitution and the Declaration and our History and our Founders the day we can’t win on capitalism, which is called commerce for the rest of us, which wasn’t invented by anybody, it’s a practice that they came into existence. Without any ideology attached to it. Is the day we lose our country and the West dies. Do not believe the demagogues and the propaganda that they’re peddling. What is it? Podcaster? 99.9% of podcasters are losers. Our drug is. Are people have had criminal issues, are perverts. Not all of them. 99% of them are that or something else. Inexperienced and knowledgeable. Uninformed. But they know how to drop the F bomb this they know how to do. We’ll be right back.