Earlier this week, voters in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District elected Chris Stigall in the Republican primary to replace retiring Congressman Ralph Graves. In winning the GOP primary, Stigall is on a solid trajectory to be elected to Congress on November 3rd in the heavily Republican district.

In March of this year, Chris Stigall suddenly announced his candidacy for Congress… giving up his successful nationally-syndicated talk show on the Salem Radio Network in order to seek public service in the U.S. House of Representatives. In doing so, Stigall became just the latest in a long line of conservatives whose springboard into national politics was the Salem Radio Network. 

The pantheon of leaders who have graced SRN’s microphones include Bill Bennett, Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Education and the only talk host in America who was ever confirmed three times by the U.S. Senate; Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and Presidential candidate in 2012; current SRN host Larry Elder who stepped away to mount a 2021 campaign for Governor of California and Dr. Sebastian Gorka who hosted the “America First” talk show on SRN until January 2025 when he was tapped by President Donald J. Trump to become Deputy Assistant to the President........

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