Radio Show Hour 1 – 2026/04/25

The Political Cesspool Radio Show delivers a fiery, hour-long live broadcast on April 25, 2026, centering on the U.S. Department of Justice’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on 11 counts including wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. Host James Edwards frames the indictment as a long-overdue reckoning, celebrating it as a personal and ideological victory after two decades of what he describes as relentless attacks by the SPLC on his radio program, sponsors, and allies. He expresses joy at the prospect of the SPLC’s financial and legal destruction, citing a decade-long fraud scheme involving millions funneled to far-right groups through shell companies and anonymous informants, including a $270,000 payment to an unidentified 'F-37' linked to the Unite the Right rally. The episode features guest Jason Kessler, organizer of Unite the Right and author of *Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech*, who confirms the indictment is a bombshell but warns against conspiracy theories falsely implicating him or others. Kessler stresses that the real story—systemic government and media hostility toward white identity expression—has been obscured by misinformation, and he calls for a re-examination of the civil lawsuit *Sines v. Kessler*, which relied heavily on inflammatory online rhetoric from an unverified informant. The show underscores a broader narrative of conservative resistance against what it portrays as a corrupt, left-wing establishment, with guests arguing that the SPLC’s downfall is both deserved and a symbolic turning point in the culture war.