Joe Oltmann Untamed | Joe’s Conversation W/ General (Ret.) Holt: System Reset | 08.26.26

Today, Joe opens with a gut-check on America's broken election system — starting with reports that Michigan Democrats are quietly restoring dead voters to the rolls after they'd already been removed. Joe breaks down viral posts calling the system "fraudulent" and in need of a total reset, then turns to Sheriff Dar Leaf's continuing investigation into Michigan's Secretary of State office, plus a fiery clip from Tina declaring flatly that the machines are cheating and ballots are being harvested. It's a segment built around one question: when the evidence keeps piling up and nobody in power will touch it, who's actually accountable to the American voter?

Joe sits down with Brigadier General (Ret.) Blaine "Blaino" Holt — a decorated Air Force veteran, former second-highest-ranking U.S. military official at NATO, and current Newsmax contributor — for a wide-ranging conversation on what's really driving Trump's foreign policy and his war on the administrative state. Holt lays out whether there's a single coherent "Trump doctrine" tying together Venezuela, Iran, and Russia-Ukraine, what he thinks the real endgame in Iran looks like after his own "surrender terms" comments, and where the pressure campaign is most at risk of stalling. Then Joe presses him on his boldest claim yet — that "there's no way this regime gets to remain in place" — asking how you tell the difference between dismantling a politicized bureaucracy and simply replacing it with a new one.

Joe calls out a Republican Party he says is too feckless to stop the "uniparty" from Washington to Sacramento, spotlighting California's newest taxpayer-funded proposal and a leaked tape of U.S. House candidate Jeremey Ross questioning whether America is even his homeland. And Joe looks into New York, where Mayor Mamdani's government-run grocery stores are set to undercut the very immigrant-owned bodegas whose tax dollars are funding them — a real-time case study, Joe argues, socialism will be eating the people it claims to help. It all adds up to the show's central theme: the system is stacked, and it's time for a reset.