The Red State-Blue State Divide with Grover Norquist | Restoration Spotlight

Apr 14, 2026
Hayden Ludwig
Restoration Spotlight Podcast

Blue states are taxing their people to death while red states are abolishing taxes.

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Americans are fleeing Democrat-led states and moving to Republican-run states in unprecedented numbers. The cause: Economic policies that are stagnating blue states and supercharging red states. That's redrawing the political map, says Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist, and granting Republicans incredible opportunities they cannot miss—today on Restoration Spotlight.

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Hayden Ludwig is Founder and Managing Editor of Restoration News, launched in 2023, and Executive Director of Research Operations at Restoration of America. He specializes in election integrity and dark money, authoring the first investigations into the 2020 election "Zuck Bucks" scandal and unearthing the world's largest dark money network run by Arabella Advisors. He publishes regularly at RealClearPolitics, American Greatness, the American Spectator, and the American Conservative. Hayden is also a member of the board of directors at the National Legal and Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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