Nancy Mace Puts 'Get Maced' on a Clock: A Fixed Nightly Show, 8PM Monday Through Thursday

For most of 2026, watching Nancy Mace's "Get Maced" operation meant checking her feed and taking what showed up. The studio monologues came near-daily, but on no fixed day and at no fixed hour: a video about the WNBA one afternoon, one about Pramila Jayapal the next, a swimsuit-montage channel intro whenever the mood struck. It was a loose stream of clips tied to whatever fight she was picking that day, not a program with a slot.

As of August 25, 2026, that is over. Mace has put "Get Maced" on a clock.

The banner across the top of her personal YouTube channel, @NancyRMace, now reads, in a black-on-yellow television-listing block: GET MACED, 8PM, MONDAY - THURSDAY. It is no longer a tagline. It is a schedule.

The schedule banner on Mace's personal @NancyRMace channel, read directly from the live page on August 25, 2026. Source: Nancy Mace / @NancyRMace on YouTube.

From "whenever" to appointment television

The channel's own description now spells the format out like a network promo. In Mace's own written copy:

"GET MACED, hosted by Congresswoman Nancy Mace, is the nightly show Washington wishes you'd skip. Politics, national security, committee fights, news of the day, and the occasional culture war worth winning. New episodes Monday through Thursday night at 8PM ET: a cold open, the day's biggest stories, and a close cable news won't give you. Recorded between Capitol Hill and the South Carolina Lowcountry. Fact-checked. Unfiltered. Funny. Done in 30 minutes or less."

Read that against what the operation was even two weeks ago. Maceopedia's economic analysis of the operation, published August 12, described the cadence as "near-daily" with "occasional viral spikes riding on a floor of tens of thousands," and noted there was still no Nancy Mace show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, only a feed of videos posted to her personal accounts. There was no announced time, no fixed days, no episode structure. Now there is a named hour (8PM ET), named days (Monday through Thursday), a stated runtime ("30 minutes or less"), and a described segment order ("a cold open, the day's biggest stories, and a close"). That is the vocabulary of a cable program, not a social-media habit.

The channel header the same day: the account is now verified, carries about 45,700 subscribers, and leads with the "nightly show" description. Source: @NancyRMace on YouTube, read August 25, 2026.

The word to hold onto is locks. An erratic feed asks nothing of an audience; you catch a clip when the algorithm serves it. A schedule asks for an appointment. By printing "8PM, MONDAY - THURSDAY" on her own channel, Mace is no longer just posting videos. She is committing to a programming grid and inviting viewers to show up for it at a set time, four nights a week. "Nightly show," as her copy puts it, minus Friday through Sunday.

The audience is growing, and so is the commitment

The formalization is not happening in a vacuum. When Maceopedia ran the numbers on August 12, the @NancyRMace channel had about 22,300 subscribers. As of August 25 it shows about 45,700 and a verification check next to her name. The subscriber base has roughly doubled in two weeks, and she has responded by tightening the loose operation into a scheduled show, the way a creator does once an audience is real enough to keep an appointment.

A representative "Get Maced" episode from Mace's own @NancyRMace channel (her August 11, 2026 video), embedded so readers can see the show's format for themselves. The fixed 8PM Monday-through-Thursday schedule described in this dispatch is the new development; Maceopedia catalogs that she posts the show and does not endorse or repeat its claims.

What the schedule is really for

A time slot is a small thing to print on a banner and a large thing to promise. It is also the clearest signal yet of what this whole build is for. A current member of Mace's staff told Maceopedia that the studio-video operation is a deliberate audition for a media career after she leaves office, in that staffer's words, "She thinks that's how she could pay the bills." Mace finished fifth in the June 2026 Republican primary for South Carolina governor, did not run for re-election to her House seat, and leaves Congress in January 2027, when her $174,000 salary, and the amplification that comes with holding federal office, both end. Standing up a scheduled nightly show now, while the seat is still hers, is exactly what auditioning for that exit looks like.

The schedule does not fix the two problems Maceopedia has already documented; if anything, it sharpens them. The first is that the reach is rented. The same clip that drew about 153,000 views on X drew only about 15,000 on this very YouTube channel, and her official House channel's recent videos draw 130 to 1,400 views apiece, the closest preview of what "Nancy Mace, private citizen" pulls without the office behind her. A fixed 8PM slot is only as valuable as the audience that keeps it, and much of the current audience is lent to her by the seat she is vacating. The second is legal. As Maceopedia has laid out, the immunity defense keeping her out of trouble in the defamation claim against her exists only while she holds federal office; a nightly, named-target show becomes an uninsured liability the day that shield disappears with the job. A program that runs four nights a week produces four times the exposure of a program that runs when she feels like it.

None of that is a diagnosis, and none of it is a prediction about whether the show succeeds. It is what the artifact shows: a sitting member of Congress has converted a scattershot video feed into a scheduled nightly program, on her own channel, in her own words, and put a clock on it. Readers can judge what the clock is counting down to.

The artifacts

• The schedule banner: @NancyRMace channel, "GET MACED, 8PM, MONDAY - THURSDAY," read August 25, 2026.
• The channel description: the full "nightly show Washington wishes you'd skip" copy, quoted verbatim above, from the same channel's About text.
• The channel: youtube.com/@NancyRMace, verified, about 45,700 subscribers as of August 25, 2026.

Sources & related coverage

• Nancy Mace's live @NancyRMace YouTube channel, banner, subscriber count, and description read directly on August 25, 2026.
• Maceopedia, Can Nancy Mace Make a Living Off Her New Podcast? (the economics of the operation, the ~22,300 subscriber baseline, and the rented-reach and legal-shield problems), The Congresswoman Has a Podcast Studio (the "pay the bills" staffer account), and Nancy Mace Rebrands Her Main X Account Into a 'Get Maced' Billboard.
• Maceopedia's evergreen hub: Get Maced: Nancy Mace's Podcast Operation.
• Congressional salary: rank-and-file Members of Congress are paid $174,000 per year, unchanged since 2009. See the Congressional Research Service, Salaries of Members of Congress.
• The defamation claim against Mace: Bryant's Third-Party Complaint in Berg v. Bryant, Charleston County Court of Common Pleas No. 2025-CP-10-03124, removed to federal court as No. 2:26-cv-00305-BHH-MHC. See the Maceopedia case hub for Berg v. Bryant.

This dispatch documents public artifacts from Nancy Mace's own YouTube channel, each linked, and quotes her channel's own description verbatim. The banner and channel copy are Mace's self-published promotional media, reproduced here as the subject of commentary and credited to her account; the channel banner image is cropped to the channel content only. Subscriber counts are read from the live page on the dates stated. The "pay the bills" staffer account is attributed to its source, a current Mace staffer speaking to Maceopedia, and cannot be independently confirmed. The February 2025 accusations underlying the defamation claim referenced here are Mace's statements; the men she named deny them and none have been proven, and Bryant's third-party complaint alleges they are false and defamatory, which Mace denies while asserting truth and official-immunity defenses. Nothing here adjudicates that litigation; the legal point concerns only the undisputed structure of her official-capacity defense. Maceopedia offers no clinical or personal characterization of Mace.