Conservative activist Riley Gaines delved into the update her podcast just received, telling the Washington Examiner the rebrand aims to “bring people to the truth.”
Gaines’s show was previously called Gaines for Girls and launched in 2023 on the Fox-owned Outkick to discuss topics impacting women, including women’s rights in sports. Since then, Gaines said she is ready to expand the show’s range, leading to its rebrand, The Riley Gaines Show, this year.
“I think the past two years, where I am now in the position, professionally, that I’m in, it’s just never where I intended to be, and so it’s been a lot of rolling with the punches and adapting and learning, and just now I feel like I’m in a place where I’m really, really ready to lean in and broaden the things that we speak about and the platform and the audience that we speak to,” Gaines told the Washington Examiner.
Gaines aired the first episode of her rebranded show last week, where she spoke with YouTuber Nick Shirley and his investigation into Minnesota’s fraud scandal. She said in her next episode, airing Wednesday, she speaks with an alleged victim of the defendant in West Virginia v. B.P.J.
This case is one of two major cases regarding transgender athletes partaking in women’s sports that the Supreme Court is hearing arguments for on Tuesday.
Gaines also said another topic she hopes to discuss on her show is motherhood, saying she would like to speak to a “certain person” connected to President Donald Trump who just announced her pregnancy. Gaines declined to specify who this person is, but it’s possible she was referring to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who announced she is pregnant with her second child last month.
The rebrand of Gaines’s show comes less than a year before the 2026 midterm elections, a pivotal year for Trump’s second term. When asked about her plans for the show’s involvement in these elections, Gaines said she aims to “bring people to the truth,” suggesting this should not be “partisan.”
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“And I think if you understand the political landscape that we’re in and the different issues that we’re talking about, I think that definitely aligns more so with one side of the aisle, whether it’s talking about immigration, the border, crime, etc.,” Gaines said. “But I don’t want to say that the goal is to convert people to the Republican party, it’s to bring people to the truth, to pursue goodness and justice on all accounts.”
Gaines was one of several prominent conservative speakers attending Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest last month, the first since the organization’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk, was killed in September. During her speech, Gaines discussed the “emptiness” that feminism has brought, opposed to the “empowerment” it promises, and also said Kirk’s messaging on family and parenthood resonated “deeply” with her.
