The Derek Hunter Show · WMAL | CMLS Washington DC

HR 2 March 25th, 2026

·32 min·2 clips

Derek says the biggest voting problem is not illegal aliens but people voting for other people.

Derek starts with voter ID. He treats showing a driver's license as the lowest possible bar, and he says a marriage certificate should settle a name-change question without drama. He is not trying to make the process cute. The point is that voting is serious, and serious things ought to require proof that you are who you say you are. He says the system is already too soft. From there he pushes the larger claim that if people are not willing to do that basic step, he does not want them voting, and he says that plainly enough to leave no room for misunderstanding. A caller then jumps in on what to do with illegals in the country. That turns the hour toward the SAVE Act, with the caller calling it the most significant legislation of his lifetime and Derek answering that Congress is not the only problem. Congress is the bottleneck. Derek argues that even if the law passed, the fight would immediately move into the courts, where injunctions and lawsuits could stall implementation long enough to miss the 2026 midterms and maybe push the real fight to 2028. He does not sound hopeful. Instead he frames the whole thing as a contest between what gets signed and what actually survives contact with judges, attorneys general, and advocacy groups. Then he widens the lens. He reaches back through recent election history to argue that Republicans have won plenty of House and Senate races, and several presidential contests, without the SAVE Act, so the party has already proven it can win under the old rules. That is his way of saying the issue is not theoretical. He keeps circling back to the idea that Democrats and their allies are smart and strategic, and that they understand how to use institutions to hold power even when they lose elections. He gives the Obama years as the example. The story he tells is that lame-duck officials and later career civil servants were positioned to preserve a liberal agenda and keep a Trump agenda from taking hold, which he presents as institutional self-protection rather than neutral administration. That is the hour's closing note. Derek sends it to the Hadid carpet cleaning traffic center after driving home the same blunt claim that the people guarding the system know exactly how to use it.

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A relentless talk-radio hour about voter ID, court fights, and political power.

This hour makes a blunt case about voter ID, ballot access, and the way immigration and election fights get fused into one larger question of who sets the rules.

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