Effective September 30, 2025, the federal government will no longer issue paper checks for any disbursements, including Social Security and other benefits, vendor payments, or IRS refunds. All agencies and executive departments must transition to a form of electronic funds transfer to make and receive payments. March 26th 2025 --- Please Like, Comm…

Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross and conservative pundit Scott Jennings clashed Monday night when he claimed “none” of the angry town hall attendees protesting the Trump administration are Republican voters. March 26th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the K…

After missing the first key state insurance briefing of the year while traveling in Bermuda, questions have been raised about the attendance record of California's Insurance Commissioner since Ricardo Lara assumed office in 2019. March 26th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show…

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, disparagingly called Gov. Greg Abbott “Hot Wheels” to mock his use of a wheelchair Saturday, prompting fierce backlash from Republicans. March 26th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spoti…

Steve Hilton joined the show to discuss his new book “Califailure” March 25th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ Weekdays 11 AM -2 PM Pacifi…

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The country's largest teachers' union and progressive organizations have filed legal challenges to the Trump administration's attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. March 25th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts,…

March 24th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ Weekdays 11 AM -2 PM Pacific on News/Talk 580 AM & 105.9 KMJ | Website | Facebook | Podcast | …

Dale Anderson from Project Survival Cat Haven joins the show to discuss AB 892. March 24th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ Weekdays 11 AM…

Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, to "tread very carefully," days after the Democrat got attention from Trump allies for suggesting Elon Musk should be "taken down." March 24th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app…

Gavin Newsom is trying to reinvent himself as a cuddly moderate just in time to run for president in 2028, but in the internet age, that's not always so simple. Essentially everything the California governor has ever said is archived online, which is making it more difficult for him to blatantly lie to the American people. March 21ST 2025 --- Pleas…

Congressmen Kevin Kiley and Tim Walberg sent a letter to the California Interscholastic Federation Demanding the California Interscholastic Federation Stop Defying Federal Law. March 21ST 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spo…

Mental illness continues to escalate among left-wingers, and Tesla has become their latest target. As RedState reported, numerous domestic terror attacks have been carried out recently in protest of Elon Musk and DOGE, with Tesla dealerships suffering firebomb attacks. March 21ST 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on a…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start dismantling the Department of Education. March 20th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you…

A Senate bill that would have repealed the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) gas tax increase of 65 cents a gallon and end the new LCFS Low-Carbon Fuel regulations that were adopted last year, was killed in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on Wednesday despite bipartisan support for the legislation. March 20th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment …

Voters in southeast Fresno are gearing up for an election to fill the seat held by former District 5 City Councilmember Luis Chavez. In November, he won a seat on the Fresno County Board Of Supervisors leaving his council seat empty following his swearing-in. Luis joins the show to discuss today's election. March 18th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment …

President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for at least 90 minutes Today about ending the war in Ukraine, the White House said, noting that the two leaders agreed that "negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East." March 18th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'T…

We take a look back at covid and how it still effects us 5 years latter. March 17th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ Weekdays 11 AM -2 PM …

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members. March 17th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton S…

Josh "The Incredible Hok" Hokit (4-0-0) is a Pro MMA Fighter out of Fresno, California, United States and the #16th ranked Pro Mens Heavyweight in US West. March 14th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wher…

A Virginia high school track athlete is facing a misdemeanor charge after a viral video appears to show her hit her competitor in the head with a baton. The competitor, who was from a different high school, says she was diagnosed with a concussion and possible skull fracture. March 14th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Sho…

California approved a 22% rate increase by State Farm General Insurance, its largest home insurer, on Friday in response to the devastating wildfires that swept Los Angeles in January. March 14th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podca…

Over a two-day period, 239 "wasteful" contracts with a "ceiling value" of $1.7 billion have been terminated, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Thursday, including a grant intended to teach transgender and queer urban farmers about "food justice." March 14th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all pl…

About 150 protesters supporting Mahmoud Khalil occupied the lobby area of Trump Tower on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Thursday, calling for the release of the anti-Israel activist who was detained over the weekend. March 13th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available o…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said Russia agrees in principle with the U.S.-led ceasefire plan backed by Ukraine earlier this week, but stopped short of signing up to any deal, arguing that it needed further negotiation and must lead to “enduring peace.” March 13th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on a…

Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, abruptly adjourned a congressional hearing on Tuesday after Rep. Bill Keating, D-Mass., vehemently objected to Self recognizing Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., as "the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride." March 12th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton …

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that mass layoffs—nearly 50 percent—are just a first step toward eliminating the Department of Education and returning power to the states and the parents. March 12th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, A…

A downtown Fresno restaurant owner was taken by surprise when major construction began on his patio without prior notification. Ian Cookson, owner of Libelula Restaurant, discovered the high-speed rail electrical project underway after midnight on March 4, when construction crews removed a significant portion of concrete from his patio. March 12th …

Steve Hilton Talks About Tariffs & The CA Governor Race March 11th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ Weekdays 11 AM -2 PM Pacific on News/T…

President Donald Trump shopped for a new Tesla on the White House driveway on Tuesday, selecting a shiny red sedan to show his support for Elon Musk ‘s electric vehicle company as it faces blowback because of his work to advance the president’s political agenda and downsize the federal government. March 11th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow…

A Palestinian activist who helped lead student protests at Columbia University faces deportation after being arrested over the weekend by federal immigration officials. March 11th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Yo…

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California suggested this week that the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports was “deeply unfair.” March 7th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you liste…

The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for the capture of Ryan Wedding, 43. Wedding, who competed in a snowboarding event for Canada in the 2002 winter Olympics, is wanted for allegedly running "a transnational drug trafficking network." March 7th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all p…

In February, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk dropped a bombshell allegation: he had offered the Biden administration assistance in saving the astronauts, but Biden declined for “political reasons.” On Tuesday, one of the astronauts said that Musk’s accusation was absolutely true. March 7th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on al…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights who decades ago upset leaders in his own party when he defied state law and issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, suggested Democrats were in the wrong in allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports. March 6th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Foll…

Several Democrat mayors representing so-called “sanctuary cities” testified before members of Congress about illegal immigration. Predictably, there was no shortage of unhinged moments that derived from this hearing. March 6th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available…

Actress Cheryl Hines reportedly gave her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an ultimatum to move her to Washington, DC, or else, following his messy sexting scandal with political journalist Olivia Nuzzi. March 6th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW …

Speaking for around an hour and 40 minutes, Trump delivered an address full of bombast and personal attacks, calling Joe Biden the worst president ever and decrying “radical left lunatics.” March 5th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple P…

President Donald Trump spoke about Greenland potentially becoming part of the United States during his joint address to Congress. “We strongly support your right to determine your own future. And, if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America." March 5th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platf…

Chants of "DJ" erupted from the House chamber Tuesday night as President Donald Trump gave 13-year-old cancer survivor and aspiring police officer Devarjaye "DJ" Daniel the "biggest honor of them all" by swearing him in as an honorary Secret Service agent. Of course the Democrats had their own remarks..... March 5th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment an…

Steve Hilton joins the show to discuss CA news, the upcoming return to office that was mandated by Gov. Newsom for all state workers, & President Trump's congressional speech. March 4th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spoti…

California state workers will be expected to return to the office in-person at least four days a week, after a new executive order was issued by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday. The change will require all agencies and departments under Newsom's administration to begin a new expectation of four in-office days a week as of July 1. March 4th 2025 --- Ple…

Democrats are set to lose their minds & plans are being made to openly disrupt Trump's speech. The plan includes the use of "eggs" and possibly a coordinated "storming out." March 4th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify…

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Bureau had dropped off a “truckload” of Jeffrey Epstein files after she’d set a hard deadline for their turnover. March 4th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or w…

After meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Sunday, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky told the British Broadcasting Company he's still willing to sign the minerals deal that was supposed to be signed Friday in Washington, D.C., before discussions in the Oval Office went off the rails March 3rd 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray…

Federal agents arrested two Guatemalan men on Friday accused of operating one of the largest human smuggling operations in the United States. The two were picked up near downtown Los Angeles and are accused of moving 20,000 illegal immigrants into the U.S. from Guatemala since 2019. March 3rd 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Applet…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is stepping up, proclaiming that the United Kingdom would not only pledge billions in support for Ukraine but would also put British boots on the ground in Ukraine. March 3rd 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Appl…

President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for being “disrespectful” Friday in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, then abruptly called off the signing of a minerals deal with the U.S. that Trump said would have moved Ukraine closer to ending its war with Russia. February 28th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow '…

President Trump is convinced that someone in the Biden family left behind the bag of cocaine that was found in the West Wing in July 2023 — and has vowed to conduct an investigation. February 28th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podc…

Tim Walz had a melt down where he said under Trump the country is "being stolen by fascists and Nazis and we’re trying to do all we can." February 28th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you l…