Wallbuilders Live! With David Barton & Rick Green

The headlines move fast, but America’s core ideas move the needle. We open with a surprising deep dive into the Monroe Doctrine—penned by John Quincy Adams and issued by President James Monroe—and connect it to modern policy choices around Venezuela and hemispheric security. When you judge action by founding-era principles instead of social media noise, foreign policy looks less like a personality contest and more like constitutional muscle memory at work.From there, we head west to a major shift in the Ninth Circuit. A two-to-one ruling leaned on the Supreme Court’s Bruin decision to strike down California’s open carry restrictions in large counties, arguing that firearm regulations must align with the nation’s historical tradition. The state claimed citizens could apply for licenses, yet admitted none had been issued. That gap between policy on paper and rights in practice is exactly what the new Second Amendment framework is designed to expose, and it marks a notable change in a circuit once nicknamed the