Erick Erickson's Show Notes

Welcome! Dolly Parton died peacefully in her Nashville home yesterday at 80 years old. 🚨 BREAKING: Meta Agrees to Pay $16.7 Billion to Settle Social Media Case - CNBC 🗳️ HEADLINE: Sen. Darline Graham beat Rep. Ralph Norman in South Carolina's special GOP Senate runoff, securing the November ballot line for her late brother's seat and handing Trump a badly needed endorsement win.

Dolly Parton is one of the last Americans truly loved by people across the ever increasingly divided tribal American landscape. I do not know what her spiritual condition was when she died. She grew up in the church, has openly talked about her spiritual drift, what became a communal spiritualism, and, towards the end of her life, waking up at 4 am every day, getting on her knees, and having heart-to-hearts with Jesus. What her actual views were, I do not know.

Hello, America. It is August 25th. I’m Erick Erickson. “The Four Things You Need to Know” starts now. I asked yesterday about your thoughts on the immigration system and the father of the sailor who’s probably being deported. First Chevalier says, I’ve long said I wouldn’t entertain talk about a pathway to citizenship unless and until the border was secured. First, the border is secured.

Welcome! My friend David Bahnsen, who is always gracious enough to let me pick his brain on economic matters, has a great new book out on investing that you can order here.

We are seventy days out from the midterm elections. The polling right now has a Democrat bias. My friend Patrick Ruffini has done the deep dive, and the pattern holds. Pre-Labor Day polling runs about five points friendlier to Democrats than the actual result, and after Labor Day that bias washes out.

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Welcome! College football returns this week. Also. Philip is out sick, so I’m doing this myself. Also, we should be talking about the sanctions on Iran, but we’ve got a trade war brewing with Canada. Wall Street expects TACO. Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47 1:39 PM · Aug 24, 2026 · 459K Views 614 Replies · 1.32K Reposts · 6.94K Likes 💵 Treasury may spend $1 trillion on bond buybacks. We are $40 trillion in debt.

Personal Note:We still have tickets for the Not Safe For Radio Show, which will be Saturday, October 10, 2026, at the Gas South Arena in Gwinnett County, Georgia. There’s a great Westin Hotel on site. There’ll be new material so those who came last year won’t suffer through all the same stories. It is the Not Safe For Radio Show because some of the material is not kid friendly or mother approved and they’re stories I cannot talk about on radio. I hope to see you there.

Welcome to The Weekend Notes. If you didn’t get to catch all 15 hours of my radio show this week, I have good news. I pulled together the highlights: the best monologues, top tweets, and the stories that sparked the biggest conversations 🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS: It’s the Not Safe For Radio show, things not safe to say on radio, not safe in front of kids or my mom, but a ton of fun stories on an off-the-record night, October 10th at the Gas South Arena, great hotel on site, tickets are on sale now.

(Watch Above) 🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS: It’s the Not Safe For Radio show, things not safe to say on radio, not safe in front of kids or my mom, but a ton of fun stories on an off-the-record night, October 10th at the Gas South Arena, great hotel on site, tickets are on sale now. Come hang out with me, text show to 33-777 for details. Hello, America. I’m Erick Erickson. It is August 21st, and these are “The Four Things You Need to Know” before you get home this afternoon.