'I don't want to be lectured every day': Declining MAGA network slammed by former host

A major right-wing podcast host slammed the MAGA network where she used to have a show while weighing in on its brutal decline.

The Daily Wire has become the kind of media outfit that its founders "claimed they were getting into the business to fight," far-right podcaster Candace Owens told The Washington Post in a Saturday article about her former employer's fall.

Owens said that founder Ben Shapiro's message on The Daily Wire has basically been, "lecture, lecture, lecture, lecture, everyone's terrible but me," she told The Post. "And people just don't want to see it. That's not interesting. I don't want to be lectured every day."

In 2024, Owens left The Daily Wire after the company accused her of "antisemitism and extreme rhetoric," according to The Post.

She told the outlet that "the company made disastrous financial choices in pursuit of mainstream fame and legitimacy," but "its most severe error, she argued, was that the company became more intolerant about the ideas it would promote, leading to ideological clashes over Israel and other matters."

The Daily Wire's top content can't keep up with Owens' show in the rankings anymore. Shapiro's podcast ranks 43rd on Spotify's charts, according to the Washington Post, which is about thirty spots behind Owens.

Meanwhile, Shapiro's YouTube views have dropped about 70 percent since December 2024, according to The Post, citing data from VIDIQ. The Daily Wire's YouTube channel has seen its subscriber base mostly shrink since the start of 2025, the outlet added.