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Anson Frericks spent 11 years climbing to the top of Anheuser-Busch, eventually becoming the legacy beer brand&#8217;s president of sales and distribution.
And then, he watched in horror as the company he loved traded its relationship with customers for an elitist stakeholder capitalism scorecard. Most Americans can date Bud Light&#8217;s collapse to February 11, 2023 — the day that transgender-identifying social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney posted a video of himself drinking Bud Light in a bathtub, a paid promotion that permanently altered the brand&#8217;s reputation.
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But as Anson recounts in his bestselling book, &#8220;Last Call for Bud Light,&#8221; the Mulvaney campaign was just one of many poor decisions that led to Anheuser-Busch losing $30 billion in market value. The company&#8217;s executives, he wrote, &#8220;had lost touch with Anheuser-Busch’s brand. With its mission. With its consumers.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-worked-at-anheuser-busch-when-bud-light-imploded-heres-what-i-learned?author=Anson+Frericks&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=I+Worked+At+Anheuser-Busch+When+Bud+Light+Imploded.+Here%E2%80%99s+What+I+Learned.">READ AN EXCERPT FROM ANSON FRERICKS&#8217;S BESTSELLER &#8216;LAST CALL FOR BUD LIGHT&#8217;</a>
Frericks had seen the writing on the wall before the Mulvaney fiasco. He left Anheuser-Busch in 2022 and partnered with Vivek Ramaswamy to found <a href="https://strive.com/story">Strive Asset Management</a>, whose &#8220;bold vision&#8221; was &#8220;to depoliticize corporate America and restore the voices of everyday citizens in the American economy by leading companies to focus on excellence.&#8221;
Frericks breaks down all that and more in the premiere episode of The Daily Wire&#8217;s newest show, &#8220;Titans On Tomorrow.&#8221; The series brings Shapiro face to face with the founders, CEOs, and investors building the next decade of business and finance during a transformative time for the global economy.
In this exciting premiere episode, Shapiro and Frericks break down Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s fall from the top of the beer world to the punchline of a national joke. They also discuss why companies like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard have outsized power over corporate America, and how Strive is fighting back; whether corporate neutrality is enough, or if conservatives need to push harder; why he left the culture wars behind to build an AI company tackling serious mental illness; and what&#8217;s next as AI, biotech, and capital markets reshape the American economy.
Watch Episode One of &#8220;Titans On Tomorrow&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-show-titans-on-tomorrow-ep-1?contentProgram=The%20Ben%20Shapiro%20Show&amp;contentType=ShowEpisode&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel">exclusively at The Daily Wire.</a>

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When Mat Nuclear was 15 years old, he realized he really liked debating vegans. 
He found them on the internet. First, it was on Discord. Then he took to TikTok and became one of the most feared debaters on social media. 
Next came Jubilee. Nuclear walked into &#8220;Surrounded,&#8221; Jubilee’s viral video series that throws one combatant to the wolves in a roundtable debate, and faced off against Amanda Seales, a self-proclaimed black radical who came armed with the usual talking points on systemic racism and reparations. 
&#8220;I debated Amanda Seales,” Nuclear told The Daily Wire, “and I destroyed her.” 
He pressed her on whether doling out $50,000 reparations checks would actually move the needle on median black household income. He brought up the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to puncture her tidy narrative that U.S. history runs in only one racist direction.
&#8220;That&#8217;s when my career kicked off,&#8221; Nuclear explained. Clips of the 18-year-old debater soon went viral on social media. Then Charlie Kirk called. So did Ben Shapiro.
&#8220;I&#8217;m really impressed,&#8221; Shapiro said at the time. &#8220;It&#8217;s really rare that I bring somebody from your age-range on the show, so again, well done.&#8221;
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Now, Nuclear starts a new chapter at The Daily Wire.
The teenage debate phenom will be streaming live every night of the week, debating leftists on TikTok about the biggest arguments in politics and culture. He promises call-ins and “a lot of chaos” while debating “the most important and controversial issues in America.”
“I love having controversial conversations and debates. You can expect that from my show 100,000 percent,” Nuclear said. “It’s going to be really fun, really epic.”
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Part reaction, part debate, part broadcast from the ruins of rationality — Mat&#8217;s getting into it all.
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Nuclear says his role models are great thinkers like Thomas Sowell, Ben Carson, Clarence Thomas, and Shapiro.
He fondly recalls the first Shapiro clip he ever watched — the one where Shapiro <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bB0Tpotg_I">took apart</a> transgender-identifying man Zoey Tur and kept his cool even when Tur threatened to beat him up. 
&#8220;That guy is great,&#8221; Nuclear remembers thinking. &#8220;He&#8217;s really smart, and he&#8217;s destroying these people.&#8221; 
Nuclear was not driven to the Right by any lofty manifesto, he says. It was from seeing clips like these while watching leftists flounder on easy questions.
&#8220;What really convinced me,&#8221; he says, &#8220;was when I saw that leftists didn&#8217;t know what a woman was.&#8221;
Nuclear’s whole game is refusing to let them squirm away from the truth. His strategy is to draw back the conversation to what actually happened, take down the straw man by articulating his side of the story, and ask tough questions that expose the double standard. 
And he&#8217;s convinced it works, especially on people his own age — who are not, he insists, the lazy cynics as older generations imagine, but a generation that will move the moment someone hands them a clean argument instead of a condescending lecture.
“I think the way to convince young people is to convince them that this is the rational position. This is the normal position,” Nuclear said.
When he&#8217;s off camera, Nuclear can be found reading and researching — the key to being a good debater is to do the homework. He&#8217;s also, by his own account, a fairly normal 19-year-old: he swims, hikes, and logs quite a few hours on video games.
Nuclear is excited to start his new chapter at The Daily Wire, and you can find him on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/matnuclear/">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://x.com/MatNuclear?lang=en&amp;fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPOTM2NjE5NzQzMzkyNDU5AAGn3jKSEVEJ12uPlNGIcwqTOJ687w6jEyUq5qVVeqEjz7bSbGPhUygeF8HtD3g_aem_ePC_yWA99BnT8OOFlKAg6w">X</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@MatNuclear2025">YouTube</a>, and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@matnuclear">TikTok</a>, where his episodes will stream daily, with the live shows landing on The Daily Wire immediately after.

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WASHINGTON—Daily Wire Senior Investigative Reporter Luke Rosiak is on Capitol Hill today to brief lawmakers on the massive Medicaid fraud he exposed with an explosive, multi-part investigation.
The House Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses is holding it first hearing, titled “Universal Basic Fraud: Vulnerabilities in Medicaid Waiver Programs.” Task Force Chairman Brandon Gill (R-Texas) said the task force is &#8220;going after institutions that stopped fearing accountability and abused the American people.&#8221;
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Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is once again showing her Left-wing extremist views in action. On Wednesday, May 27, Spanberger <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/05/29/spanberger-removes-virginia-tech-rector">fired</a> Virginia Tech Board of Visitors rector John Rocovich from the board.
Spanberger failed to cite any specific incidents in her letter, which accused Rocovich of violating, &#8220;the Code of Conduct for Commonwealth Appointees to Boards, Authorities, &amp; Commissions, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors’ Code of Ethics, and the governing statues requiring board members to act in accordance with the best interests of Virginia Tech.&#8221;
Rocovich wrote his own letter in response, a scathing takedown of Spanberger&#8217;s blatant partisanship and denial that he had violated any of the Board&#8217;s code of ethics.
It is an unprecedented move to oust Rocovich, who has served on the board three times, totaling 16 years, under both Republican and Democratic administrations — the latest as an appointee of Governor Glenn Youngkin in 2022.
Rocovich called Spanberger&#8217;s letter &#8220;deeply offensive,&#8221; and it is &#8220;legally unsupported, and wholly inconsistent with the Governor’s own publicly-stated principles regarding the proper relationship between the executive branch and the governance of Virginia’s public universities.”
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I never have served for personal gain, for partisan advantage, or for any purpose other than the betterment of Virginia Tech and the students it educates. I challenge anyone to identify a single action I have taken on this Board that was inconsistent with the university’s mission or the interests of the Commonwealth.
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Read Rocovich&#8217;s letter:
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Your understanding of American history likely depends on what textbooks you were handed in school. Unfortunately for today&#8217;s students, textbooks are now driven by politics — and none of them tell the whole story.
Take a gander at the major textbook publishers to see how bad it&#8217;s gotten. Pearson Education <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/textbook-bias-is-a-real-problem/">recently launched</a> an initiative called Pride 365, the aim of which is to teach gay pride every day of the year. Houghton Mifflin went all-in on Black Lives Matter, and McGraw Hill has an &#8220;Equity Advisory Board.&#8221;
Unsurprisingly, textbook manufacturers that have embraced leftism to this extent are not portraying American history in a positive light. One popular AP U.S. History textbook <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/anti-trump-american-history-textbook-blatantly-biased-critics-say">instructs</a> students that President Donald Trump&#8217;s election was racist. Another <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/textbook-bias-is-a-real-problem/">claims</a> that the American dream is a &#8220;myth&#8221; and says the United States is one of the most unequal countries in the world.
Pick up a high school history textbook at random, and you&#8217;ll find some version of the same narrative: the country was founded by slave owners and built on stolen Indian land. Democrat savior Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved America from Republican boogeyman Herbert Hoover&#8217;s Great Depression with his New Deal.
With textbooks like these, it&#8217;s no wonder American children are quick to be ashamed of their country and accept leftist ideas and Democratic policies as inherently good and right. As long as these views dominate the American mainstream, Americans will think it&#8217;s wrong to love their country and its history.
Enter Matt Walsh.
Beginning this year, the Daily Wire host has been working to tell the American story in his groundbreaking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/real-history-with-matt-walsh">series</a>, &#8220;Real History With Matt Walsh.&#8221; Walsh doesn&#8217;t shy away from complicated chapters in American history — the series has thus far tackled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/rhs-260118?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel">slavery</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/rhs-260322-civil-war-sub?elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel">Civil War</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/rhs-260222?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel">American Indians</a> — but lets the facts speak for themselves. The goal is not to make viewers ashamed of the United States, but to better understand what really happened.
His latest installment, out now exclusively on DailyWire+, tackles the history of the Civil Rights movement. It’s been presented as one of the most successful movements in American history, reversing decades of racism against black Americans and laying the groundwork for racial equality.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/real-history-ep-4-civil-rights-pt1?contentProgram=Real%20History%20with%20Matt%20Walsh&amp;contentType=ShowEpisode&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel">WATCH: THE REAL HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS</a>
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But is any of that true? Or did the Civil Rights movement actually set the country on the wrong track? Was America the racial hellscape we were taught it was before the country passed the Civil Rights Act, or was it actually better than it is today? 
Take Martin Luther King Jr. He&#8217;s now one of the most famous figures in American history, with a federal holiday dedicated to honoring the assassinated activist. He won the Nobel Peace Prize. Is MLK really who we think he is? Was the movement he led actually about non-violence?
&#8220;He had a dream — just not the dream you thought it was,&#8221; Walsh says in a trailer for the episode. &#8220;Were his true aims a color-blind society, or something far more radical? Who bankrolled him? What unfolded behind the scenes in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963? Was civil disobedience actually peaceful?&#8221;
Walsh notes that he was unable to play a clip from King&#8217;s famous &#8220;I Have A Dream&#8221; speech because King&#8217;s estate has a habit of suing news outlets that play clips from the speech.
&#8220;What they&#8217;re doing makes it very difficult to judge Martin Luther King Jr. not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character,&#8221; Walsh says.
&#8220;King&#8217;s movement fundamentally transformed our country and our system of government,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;These questions demand answers, and as Americans we are entitled to a full accounting of King&#8217;s movement.&#8221;
Walsh sets out to answer those questions. Watch Part I of &#8220;A New Constitution&#8221; now, exclusively on DailyWire+.
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The Daily Wire dives into the incredible details of one of America’s most daring rescue missions in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/daily-wire-explains-the-world-ep-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mini documentary</a> that hit the platform on Thursday.
Just over a month after the United States launched its massive military operation against Iran, a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down by Iranian forces on April 3, sending the fighter jet’s two crew members directly into enemy territory.
It marked the first time in more than 20 years that a U.S. warplane was lost to enemy fire, but President Donald Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth had a bigger problem: finding the missing Americans and bringing them home.
The jet’s pilot was rescued by U.S. forces within hours, but the weapons system officer, a colonel who ejected from the jet, vanished in some of the most remote and treacherous terrain on earth.
Back in Washington, U.S. officials quickly drew up a daring plan to rescue the colonel before Iranian forces could capture him. American officials knew the stakes. Either an American soldier would fall into the hands of a terrorist regime, die of dehydration, or the U.S. military would go into hostile territory and get him.
The next 48 hours would prove to be one of the greatest success stories in American military history, a rescue that President Donald Trump called an “Easter miracle.”
The Daily Wire’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/daily-wire-explains-the-world-ep-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Race To Rescue</a>” provides a detailed account of the incredible mission to find the missing U.S. colonel and bring him home. “The Race To Rescue” is now available exclusively for DailyWire+ members.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/daily-wire-explains-the-world-ep-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: THE RACE TO RESCUE</a>
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