The Wake Up America show with Austin Petersen

America's economic center of gravity is moving south as people, paychecks, factories, ports, film production and political influence follow the Sun Belt. Austin examines what is powering the shift and whether Southern states can preserve affordability and culture as they grow. Camellia Petersen joins the debate over proposed federal childcare aid for married families with a stay-at-home parent, and Liz Mair explains why new 340B prescription-data demands could put patient privacy at risk. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

More Americans are raising children while taking responsibility for aging parents, and the pressure is hitting time, savings, careers, and family relationships all at once. Austin, Stephanie Petersen, and Justin Petersen dig into the real cost of caregiving, home care versus nursing facilities, the guilt and boundaries that shape family obligations, and what grief and end-of-life decisions reveal about what matters most. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

New SNAP restrictions put soda, candy, energy drinks, and the government's definition of junk food at the center of a grocery-store fight. Austin opens with JD Vance's $120,000 chicken coop and America's backyard-hen boom. John Tamny of RealClearMarkets argues that Social Security is not the cause of the national debt and challenges the conventional case for entitlement reform. Then Joseph Wargo of the John Birch Society examines Greg Bovino's claim that 100 million illegal immigrants are in the United States, the assumptions behind that number, birthright citizenship, public safety, and economic pressure. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Donald Trump says communities that reject data centers risk becoming 'backwards and poor.' Austin examines the fight over power demand, local consent, tax revenue, China, and whether America can build the infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence. Camellia Peterson joins the conversation on parenting culture, TikTok mothers, public shaming, and local politics. Then Russ Greene explains why libertarians and MAGA voters are turning against data centers, how surveillance fears get mixed into the debate, and why opposition to energy and industrial growth could leave the country behind. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Homeland Security says Milo Yiannopoulos entered the United States legally, missed an immigration hearing, received a final removal order, and was sent back to Britain. Austin traces the political provocateur's rise through Gamergate, Breitbart, and Berkeley, then asks Tennessee Star reporter Tom Pappert whether the fast removal was routine enforcement, political revenge, or both. The episode also examines Hollywood's expensive culture-war hangover, including Disney's Snow White losses and whether audiences—not studios—get the final vote. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Gen Z has a list of Millennial habits it wants retired, from skinny jeans and side parts to LOL, Facebook Messenger, statement jewelry, and dial-up nostalgia. Austin and his cohost decide which critiques land and which can be ignored. The show also remembers Dolly Parton's humor, Appalachian roots, philanthropy, and Imagination Library legacy. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Bill Gates has issued a 5,784-word warning about artificial intelligence, and Austin examines Gates's proposals on employment, safety, regulation, and global coordination alongside the disturbing rise of autonomous AI agents. Missouri attorney Jennifer Bukowsky joins to challenge Boone County's attempt to regulate a grandmother's free community breakfasts. Jon Harris breaks down the right-wing backlash over interracial adoption and explains how Christianity, masculinity, family identity, virtue, and liberty fit together. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Austin examines the property-rights fight over a West Virginia city's attempt to outlaw backyard bees, then asks how Target's blackface-adjacent Halloween costume survived an entire corporate approval chain. Judge Andrew Napolitano joins to break down Texas classroom Ten Commandments mandates, Supreme Court precedent, religious liberty, and government-compelled displays. Daniel McCarthy explains Hasan Piker's mockery of Charlie Kirk, the Democratic candidates who use Piker's platform, and what political streaming reveals about the American left. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Artificial intelligence is moving software creation out of the gatekeepers' hands and into everyday life. Austin shows how vibe coding can build websites, automate work, create images, and even turn an idea into a physical object. Camellia Peterson joins to debate marijuana smoke, neighbors, nuisance rules, and where one person's freedom collides with another person's property rights. Jon Miltimore examines J.D. Vance's invocation of Huey Long, the rise of economic populism, wealth redistribution, inflation, federal spending, and Washington's shrinking appetite for reform. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s sudden death followed a rapid unraveling of plagiarism allegations, institutional loyalty, and a university DEI success story. Austin examines what Cambridge knew, how critics were treated, and the dispute over race, merit, and academic standards. Jon Miltimore joins to explain why J.D. Vance invoked Huey Long and to debate wealth caps, UBI, work, and opportunity. Dylan Allman takes up Anna Faris, Christian conversion, whether atheism is a luxury belief, and his book The Windowless Room. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Wake Up America turns personal on Freedom Family Friday. Austin and Stephanie Petersen share their baby’s gender reveal and the name they chose, then take on the Lindsay Clancy case through Stephanie’s perspective as a social worker and mother. They debate postpartum depression and psychosis, medication, personal responsibility, how life changes for both mothers and fathers after childbirth, and why class and social media shape public sympathy. Justin Petersen joins the family conversation in the second half. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new audio episode lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

GLP-1 drugs are doing more than shrinking waistlines. Austin Petersen examines Ozempic pricing, possible side effects, and how food manufacturers are redesigning portions, protein, and marketing for smaller appetites. He also follows the money behind Disney Adults and what the craze says about debt, nostalgia, and delayed adulthood. Camellia Peterson joins live from the Missouri State Fair for a look at state politics and the Lindsay Clancy case, including postpartum psychosis, treatment failures, and personal responsibility. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new audio edition lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Barry Goldwater is often reduced to a caricature. Austin Petersen revisits Goldwater’s record on desegregation, civil rights, constitutional limits, and the case for reviving his strain of Republicanism. Judge Andrew Napolitano joins to discuss meeting Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, then explains how ICE uses administrative subpoenas to identify online critics and where the legal limits stand. Tom Pappert of The Tennessee Star details the three-year court fight over the Covenant School records and the institutional failures those files may expose. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new audio edition lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

The Lindsay Clancy murder case raises a difficult divide: how should the law weigh psychiatric warnings, postpartum psychosis, treatment failures, and personal responsibility? Austin Petersen walks through the case and the competing arguments. Camellia Peterson then examines the McKenna West surrogacy dispute after West refused an abortion request and traveled to Texas. Finally, Reason contributing editor J.D. Tuccille explains a Texas court ruling that could upend federal suppressor registration—and the important limits on what the decision changes today. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new audio edition lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Alberta voters are headed toward an October 19 ballot that could begin the legal path to a binding independence referendum. Austin Petersen breaks down the verified petition signatures, Alberta's economic leverage, and the argument for becoming a new country—or even joining the United States. Economist Phil Magness then challenges JD Vance's case against the dollar's reserve-currency status and explains why federal spending, not King Dollar, is the deeper problem. Finally, Sam Brown explains how assassination conspiracy claims pushed him to reexamine his anti-Israel views, visit Israel, and publicly call himself a Zionist. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so every new audio edition lands in your feed. Watch the full video.

Austin Petersen and Steffi Petersen open with a blunt debate over parenting, public shame, and modesty before turning to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's decision to freeze her eggs and what it says about relationships, ambition, and family planning. Then they unpack fast-food workers' confessions about the menu items they would never order themselves—from kitchen shortcuts and nightmare customers to the McRib, buffets, and Golden Corral. This focused Wake Up America audio edition removes the livestream ad break, visual-only material, shop demonstration, member pitch, and closing housekeeping. Listen now and tap Follow on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so the next edition is waiting in your feed. Watch the complete video.

Austin Petersen breaks down the WNBA fight that followed DiJonai Carrington's flagrant foul on Sophie Cunningham—including the ‘white privilege’ accusation, Caitlin Clark's impact, player safety, and a league struggling to turn attention into growth. Camellia Peterson then joins Austin for a pointed debate over Massachusetts' new abortion law after Dobbs. New York Post columnist Kirsten Fleming closes the edition with her analysis of Cunningham, Carrington, Caitlin Clark, and the WNBA's activist culture. This focused Wake Up America audio edition removes livestream setup, commercials, visual-only material, and post-show housekeeping. Listen now and tap Follow on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so tomorrow's edition is waiting in your feed. Watch the complete video.

Austin Petersen confronts his own 2016 presidential-debate positions on Donald Trump, immigration, government, education, and foreign policy—and explains what changed. Judge Andrew Napolitano then breaks down how Flock license-plate cameras enable warrantless mass surveillance and why the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent it. Erika Donalds closes the edition with a practical argument for rebuilding patriotism, civic education, parental rights, and school choice. This commute-friendly Wake Up America audio edition removes livestream setup, commercials, shop pitches, visual-only material, and repeated filler. Listen now and tap Follow on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so tomorrow’s edition is waiting in your feed. Watch the complete video.

Canada now records roughly one in twenty deaths through medical assistance in dying, and Austin argues that a program sold for the terminally ill has expanded toward disability, poverty, loneliness, and mental illness. Camellia Peterson of Americans for Prosperity-Missouri joins the show on America's reading decline, whole books disappearing from classrooms, literature for boys, and why reading and handwriting still matter. Then Tim Golding of Michigan AFP explains Abdul El-Sayed's socialist agenda, why Republicans lost their edge on the economy, and the case for education, energy, and regulatory reform. This commute-friendly Wake Up America audio edition removes livestream setup, commercials, visual-only material, donation mechanics, and repeated filler. Follow the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so the next edition is waiting for you. Watch the complete video.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filmed herself taking an egg-freezing injection and called it resistance. Austin examines what the spectacle says about delayed family formation and demographic politics. Tom Pappert of The Tennessee Star joins the conversation on AOC, Abdul El-Sayed, socialism, and the Democratic Party's hard-left turn. Then Jeremy Kauffman debates the twenty-dollar burrito, food affordability, inflation, welfare, and whether the right still believes in free markets. This commute-friendly Wake Up America audio edition removes livestream setup, commercials, donation mechanics, and repeated filler. Follow the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so the next edition is waiting for you. Watch the complete video.

Austin opens with the story of a woman detained by ICE while trying to renew her immigration status, then turns to the day's most combustible question: when does fear of a dog breed become an unfair stereotype? Joe Trotter joins the discussion on immigration, citizenship, household surveillance, robot vacuums, and AI. The audio edition also gets into pregnancy energy gels, supply chains, and why seemingly ordinary products become part of larger political arguments. This is the commute-friendly audio edition of Wake Up America: the strongest parts of the live show, with stream setup, visual-only breaks, donation mechanics, trivia, and repeated filler removed. Follow the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so the next edition is waiting for you.

A growing number of young workers are bringing parents into job interviews, salary talks, workplace conflicts, and even calls to the boss. Austin Petersen digs into helicopter parenting, Gen Z's struggle with independence, and what employers say is happening in the workplace. He also examines a major campus free-speech survey and the widening tolerance gap between students. Camilia Peterson joins the show to explain why Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected an income-tax phaseout, how unions and ballot language shaped the result, and whether reformers will try again. This commute-friendly audio edition removes stream setup, visual-only material, sales pitches, bonus-content mechanics, and breaks. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so the next edition is waiting for you.

Judge Andrew Napolitano joins Austin Petersen for a sharp disagreement over President Trump's war in Iran, constitutional war powers, Israel, and how both parties change their principles when control of the White House changes. Austin also examines proposed restrictions on high-caffeine energy drinks and the Democratic Party's effort to win back religious voters. Megan Novak of Americans for Prosperity Wisconsin closes the edition with a look at Francesca Hong, the governor's race, taxes, energy policy, and the stakes for Wisconsin families. This commute-friendly audio edition removes stream setup, visual-only material, sales pitches, bonus-content mechanics, breaks, and trivia. Follow Wake Up America on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so the next edition is waiting for you.

ARE YOU RACIST FOR NOT LIKING PIT BULLS? Actor Jon Bernthal says being afraid of pit bulls is “dog racism”—the same as judging someone by race or sexual orientation. Austin breaks down why that comparison collapses, what the attack data shows and why parents should not be shamed for recognizing breed-specific risk. Then we examine a quieter national crisis: Americans are speaking thousands fewer words than they did two decades ago as smartphones, self-checkout lanes, remote work and app-based life replace ordinary human contact. Camellia Peterson joins us ahead of Missouri’s August 4 vote on Amendment Five, a proposal to phase out the state income tax and prevent future lawmakers from restoring it. We debate the “everything tax” argument, its impact on seniors and working families, and what voters need to know before heading to the polls. Finally, United States Cattlemen’s Association President Justin Tupper explains why the American cattle herd has fallen to its lowest level since 1951 and what that means for ranchers and beef prices. 🐕 Are pit-bull fears “dog racism”? — Jon Bernthal compares fear of pit bulls to racial prejudice. Austin examines breed history, attack statistics and the difference between human identity and selectively bred animal traits. 📱 The death of small talk — Americans are speaking far fewer words than they did in 2005. We explore how technology and isolation weakened everyday community—and how to rebuild it. 🗳️ Camellia Peterson on Missouri Amendment Five — Missouri voters will decide whether to begin eliminating the state income tax. We debate sales-tax warnings, government revenue and what the proposal means for working families. 🐄 Justin Tupper on America’s shrinking cattle herd — The national herd is at its lowest level since 1951. Tupper explains how consolidation, imports and production costs are affecting ranchers and grocery prices. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: Camellia Peterson @Rarecamellia | Justin Tupper @uscattlemen 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌐 4LibertyNetwork.com ❤️ WakeUpAmericaShow.com/suppor

THE PROBLEM WITH MISS RACHEL There is a difference between a free people and a managed people, and this week handed us four proof points. We start with the children's entertainer who spent her nursery trust on a democratic socialist slate three days before a Missouri primary. We get into the retirement promise being canceled in slow motion while the next generation walks into a job market the machines are already hollowing out. We walk you through the New York tax that turned into a searchable list of nearly a million homes, and the progressive professor who cheered it right up until his own name showed up on it. And we bring in a philosopher who has watched Europe forget how to defend a sentence and a border in the same week. A free people own what they earn, speak without asking permission, guard their own doorstep, and leave their children a country. We spend the hour making that case. 🍼 MS. RACHEL PICKS A SIDE — The most trusted face in your toddler's day handed out twelve endorsements across eight states, led by a St. Louis democratic socialist, and told five million parents these are the only people who care about kids. We follow the money and the trust behind it. 👴 THE END OF RETIREMENT — A record 11.6 million Americans past 65 are still on the clock, Social Security's cut date just moved to 2032, and the grandkids are graduating into 42 percent underemployment. Who broke the promise, and it was not the billionaire you were told to blae. 🏙️ THE LIST WITH YOUR NAME ON IT — New York's pied-à-terre tax became a public roster of nearly a million homes by name and address, and Scott Galloway learned the hard way that the list is the tax. Useful idiots, and the oldest lesson in politics. 🎙️ EUROPE'S TWO SURRENDERS — Dr. Stelios Panagiotou joins us on the Oxford Union meltdown and the fifty thousand who poured across one tiny Spanish border, and what both say about a civilization that no longer defends itself. GUESTS THIS EPISODE Dr. Stelios Panagiotou (@Panagiotou90St) Shop the merch: 4LibertyShop.comm The network: https://4libertynetwork.com/

PSYCHO-THERAPISTS WANT YOUR KIDS TO CUT YOU OFF This week we walk through a culture that keeps handing the most intimate parts of life to somebody else. We start with the "CEO parents" spending a quarter million a year on nannies, chefs, and potty-training consultants so they never have to clip a toenail, then jump to the Big Law partner whose ten-second park-bench kiss with a younger associate cost him tens of millions after a stranger's phone did the rest. We dig into the therapists coaching grown adults to go no-contact with their parents and the researchers calling it a family-wrecking racket, we meet the burned-out singles letting a spreadsheet decide whether their date went well, and then we clear the palate with an Australian mom who beat one-in-fifteen-million odds to deliver healthy identical quadruplets. We close in our own backyard, where the Bloodstained Men brought their anti-circumcision protest to a Jefferson City street corner, and we lay out the whole fight — consent, medicine, religious liberty, and where persuasion ends and the state has no business going. 👶 CEO PARENTING: Wealthy families are running the household like a company and delegating the "low-joy" tasks, with governesses hitting two hundred grand a year and one mom admitting she outsourced the doing but never the worry. 💋 THE TEN-MILLION-DOLLAR KISS: A Wachtell partner and a younger associate got caught on TikTok, and we ask whether a stranger should be able to torch your career from a park bench. ✂️ GO NO CONTACT: A third of estranged parents believe a therapist pushed their kid to walk away, and we follow the cottage industry cashing in on the cutoff. 📊 DATING BY SPREADSHEET: "Love hackers" no longer trust their own gut, so they rush home and ask a chart whether they had a good time. 👶 ONE IN FIFTEEN MILLION: A family that wasn't planning more kids said yes to four at once, and everybody came out healthy. 🩸 I DID NOT CONSENT: The Bloodstained Men hit Jefferson City, and we take the circumcision fight seriously from every angle — bodily autonomy, the medical data, and the religious-liberty line the European bans keep crossing. 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌐 https://4libertynetwork.com/ ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #FreedomFamilyFriday #AustinPetersen #Libertarian #CEOParenting #NoContact #Intactivism #Circumcision #ReligiousLiberty #BloodstainedMen #Parenting #CultureWar #4Liberty

⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open: Fauci Pleads the Fifth 0:30 Good Morning, Rise & Freedom — Today's Rundown 5:29 X Money: Elon Musk's FDIC-Insured Card Arrives 8:55 The Airline Card Racket: Delta's $9 Billion Amex Deal 11:41 Chase Sapphire's 100,000-Point Bonus & the $5,000 Leash 13:27 $895 Annual Fees: When a Premium Card Actually Pays 15:34 Shrinking Sky Club Access & the Pay-In-Full Rule 16:31 Who Really Pays for the Points? $1.25 Trillion in Card Debt 18:01 Swipe Fees & Harvard's $9 Billion Rewards Transfer 22:05 Break — Made in America 3D-Printed Gear 30:08 The Day the Smithsonian Told Austin to Put His Flag Away 34:14 Trump's Executive Order: Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian 35:58 Anthea Hartig & "History as a Prime Tool of Social Justice" 38:17 Clinton Alum William Galston: "Trump Has a Point" 39:27 Whoever Holds the Pen — A Libertarian Warning 41:35 From Nixon-Maxing to Goldwater-Maxing 42:33 The Goldwater Revival Starts Now + Ayn Rand's "Hippies of the Right" 44:48 Conscience of a Conservative: Where to Start With Goldwater 46:45 Break 55:09 GUEST: Camellia Peterson, Americans for Prosperity 55:55 Daniel Boone Regional Library Story Time & the Funding Threat 1:03:45 Missouri Amendments 4 & 5: Undoing the 2022 Sales Tax Freeze 1:17:53 Camellia's Goldwater Quote & Goodbye 1:23:14 Welcome Back — Six Live Shows on the For Liberty Network 1:23:52 GUEST: Tom Pappert, Tennessee Star — Month Five of the Iran War 1:25:25 Rockets on the Strait of Hormuz & Gas Prices 1:27:34 Caskets, Squeamish Voters & War Powers in Congress 1:29:29 Marjorie Taylor Greene's "MIGA" — Is America First Still America First? 1:34:31 The Strait Reopens: What Iran Actually Lost 1:41:07 Wrap-Up — 4LibertyNetwork.com & the Goldwater Revival TRUMP TAKES A SHOT AT THE WOKE SMITHSONIAN President Trump is taking aim at the Smithsonian—and Austin has firsthand experience with the institution’s ideological capture. Last year, a security guard inside the National Museum of American History told Austin to lower a handheld American flag because “some people find it offensive.” Now Trump is ordering warning signs outside that same museum, and even a former Clinton White House official admits the president has a point. We break down how activism replaced history inside America’s taxpayer-funded museums and whether a government warning label is the right solution. Then we expose the billion-dollar credit-card rewards machine, the spending traps hiding behind massive sign-up bonuses and why “free” airline perks are never actually free. Camellia Peterson joins us to debate Missouri officials threatening to withhold funding from the Daniel Boone Regional Library over a controversial story time. And journalist Tom Pappert confronts the widening divide inside the America First movement over the unauthorized war with Iran. 🦅 Trump vs. the Smithsonian — Austin recounts being told to lower an American flag inside the Museum of American History. Now Trump is ordering warning signs over the Smithsonian’s ideological activism. 💳 The credit-card rewards trap — Banks and airlines sell “free” travel while profiting from fees, overspending and high-interest debt. We explain when rewards cards help—and when they become a financial trap. 📚 Camellia Peterson on Missouri’s library fight — Missouri officials are threatening library funding over a controversial story time. We debate protecting children, local control and the dangers of government censorship. 🪖 Tom Pappert on the Iran war — American troops are dying in a conflict Congress never formally authorized. Pappert explains why the war is dividing the America First movement and whether there is a realistic way out. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: Camellia Peterson @Rarecamellia Tom Pappert @realTomPappert 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌐 4LibertyNetwork.com ❤️ WakeUpAmericaShow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #Smithsonian #DonaldTrump #AmericanHistory #AmericanFlag #WokeSmithsonian #CreditCards #CreditCardDebt #TravelRewards #AirlineMiles #CamelliaPeterson #Missouri #DanielBooneLibrary #FreeSpeech #LocalControl #TomPappert #Iran #AmericaFirst #WarPowers #Liberty #Libertarian #AustinPetersen

⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open: "No Justice, No Peace" 0:28 Welcome to Wake Up America — Five Years After "Trust the Science" 2:25 Today's Rundown: Ed Sheeran, the Fauci Files & Flock Cameras 4:55 Ed Sheeran Tells America to Relax About Six Pints 9:19 What the WHO Numbers Actually Say About Drinking 11:55 Industry Pamphlet vs. Government Chart — Who Do You Trust? 15:55 Whiskey, Cruise Ships & a Bottle Through Customs 17:55 Top Shelf vs. Bottom Shelf: Who's Still Buying Booze 21:55 Break — Coming Up: The Trial of Anthony Fauci 29:25 Rand Paul's Opening Statement: The Fauci Files 33:55 1,100 Pages: Private Doubt, Public Certainty 35:55 The DEFUSE Proposal & the Furin Cleavage Site 37:55 Did NIH Supervise the Research? "The Answer Is No" 39:55 "The Refusal to Admit Error Destroys Trust" 41:55 Austin Reacts: The "Fauci 5" & Fauci on Trump 43:55 Gain-of-Function & Wuhan: Where the Evidence Stands 49:55 Fauci's Own Statement: 38 Years Running NIAID 51:55 Fauci Invokes the Fifth Amendment 53:55 Section 192: The Contempt of Congress Warning 59:02 GUEST: Judge Andrew Napolitano, Judging Freedom 59:55 Can You Reject a Pardon? Pardons vs. the Fifth 1:01:55 Presidents Telling the DOJ Who to Prosecute 1:11:55 Todd Blanche's Confirmation & Prosecutorial Independence 1:13:55 "Take a Chainsaw to It" — The Flock Camera Clip 1:15:55 Congress, the Strikes & Who Owes Accountability 1:19:55 VAERS: 1.7 Million Adverse Events on the Record 1:21:46 Mini-Documentary: Nathan Hale 1:29:02 GUEST: Jack Codiga, Congressional Candidate From Charlotte 1:30:59 North Carolina Made Flock Get a License — Why That Matters 1:33:58 Guns, Principle & Filming the Camera on His Own Street 1:35:55 Charlotte Housing Prices & What Broke for Young Americans 1:42:36 Assimilation, Inherent Value & Closing Questions 1:47:59 Wrap-Up & New Sponsor Disclosure 1:52:11 Mini-Documentary: Nathan Hale (Full) THE FAUCI FILES JUST DROPPED Rand Paul just released more than 1,100 pages of Anthony Fauci’s pandemic diary—and the man who told America to trust the science apparently spent plenty of time documenting his own fame. We break down the “Fauci 5,” the celebrity encounters, the private warnings about a possible engineered virus, and the questions Fauci now faces under subpoena. Then we get into Ed Sheeran’s viral defense of British drinking culture, the federal government quietly abandoning its old drink limits, and why the real difference between a Friday night and a drinking problem cannot be calculated on a government chart. Judge Andrew Napolitano joins us to explain why Donald Trump’s former personal attorney should not be placed in charge of the entire Justice Department. And congressional candidate Jack Codiga exposes the Flock cameras quietly recording where innocent Americans drive. 📔 The Fauci files finally dropped — Rand Paul published roughly 1,141 pages of Fauci’s pandemic diary, revealing the flattering press clippings, honking cars, selfie-seeking interns and the morning Fauci appeared on all five Sunday shows. But behind the vanity are serious questions about what Fauci privately heard regarding COVID’s origins, what he told the public and whether government records were hidden or destroyed. 🍺 Ed Sheeran reignites America’s drinking debate — six pints and a bottle of wine might be “culture” in Britain, but the United States government just threw out its own numerical alcohol limits. We examine the collapse of the “sober Gen Z” narrative and why alcohol becomes a problem when it starts taking things from your life—not when a bureaucrat reaches a number on a chart. ⚖️ Judge Andrew Napolitano on the Justice Department — Todd Blanche once represented Donald Trump as a private client. Now he could become the nation’s top law-enforcement officer. Judge Napolitano explains why personal loyalty and the rule of law cannot share the same office, and why conservatives should fear a politicized Justice Department even when their side controls it. 📸 Jack Codiga on the Flock surveillance network — license-plate readers are tracking vehicles across Charlotte and storing drivers’ movements for weeks. Codiga joins us to discuss how the cameras are used, how the information is shared nationwide and why supporting law enforcement does not require accepting a surveillance dragnet. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: Judge Andrew Napolitano, constitutional scholar and host of Judging Freedom; Jack Codiga, Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina’s 12th District 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌐 4LibertyNetwork.com ❤️ WakeUpAmericaShow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #FauciFiles #AnthonyFauci #RandPaul #COVID #LabLeak #TrustTheScience #EdSheeran #Alcohol #GenZ #JudgeNapolitano #ToddBlanche #DepartmentOfJustice #FlockCameras #Surveillance #Privacy #JackCodiga #Liberty #Libertarian #AustinPetersen

⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open: Trump on Jobs + RFK Jr.'s "Real Food" 0:54 Good Morning — Today's Rundown 6:00 Tour of the New 4LibertyNetwork.com 8:20 The Central Park Kissing Video & the Internet Manhunt 9:38 What the Comment Section Got Wrong About Two Strangers 12:38 Is Filming Strangers Legal? Reasonable Expectation of Privacy 13:34 Why This Isn't the Coldplay Concert Story 16:09 Making Out in Central Park: A New York Tradition 17:58 The Record-Low 1.6 Fertility Rate Connection 19:09 Bars, Nightclubs & the Death of the Third Place 21:33 If Every Bench Is a Broadcast, What Happens to Public Life? 25:02 Break — Up Next: The Civilian Marksmanship Program 33:07 Half a Million M14s Fed Into the Shredder 33:34 The CMP Announcement: M14s Finally Come Home 34:44 What the M14 Actually Is (Standard Issue, 1957) 36:26 The Same Statute That Governs the Garand & 1903 Springfield 37:59 Why Supply Will Be Tight: 5 Million Garands vs. Scarce M14s 40:28 M14 vs. Springfield M1A: The Receiver Difference 41:47 Not a Functional Gap — a Provenance Gap 42:04 Price Talk: $4,000-$6,000 and a Likely Lottery 43:25 The Maryland & Rhode Island Federalism Wrinkle 44:34 How to Qualify: Gun Clubs, the VFW, the Legion & the FOP 49:18 CMP History: From Teddy Roosevelt to Today 52:20 Up Next: Kansas City's Bid Preference Program 59:26 GUEST: Camellia Peterson, Americans for Prosperity-Missouri 1:00:31 Kansas City Paid for the Study, Then Buried It 1:02:32 Race & Gender Preferences in City Contracts 1:04:42 The Baker Who Says the Program Is All She Has 1:07:20 Countdown to the Missouri Primary 1:08:53 Amendment 4 Explained 1:12:04 Staying Grounded Without Getting Blackpilled 1:23:28 Welcome Back — Rise & Freedom 1:24:49 GUEST: Maggie Modas on What Gen Z Saw in That Video 1:28:00 Why Nobody Can Get a Date Anymore 1:30:00 Alcohol, Risk & Learning to Talk to Strangers 1:34:00 Raising Kids in NYC & School Indoctrination 1:36:00 The Cato Survey: Gen Z Can't Name Why We Left Britain 1:38:00 Public School in Louisiana: What She Walked Into 1:42:00 Teachers as Untouchables — Should Republicans Fight? 1:44:00 America's 250th: Did We Do It Justice? 1:48:05 Starship Troopers: Satire That Became a Recruitment Ad 1:51:45 Mini-Documentary: Mercy Otis Warren THE CMP IS SELLING M14’s Today we're celebrating a real win for gun owners. The Civilian Marksmanship Program is bringing the M14 home, and we walk through what kept these American service rifles locked away for thirty years, why that barrier was never actually a law, and what it took to break it. Then we get into the Central Park video that turned two strangers kissing on a bench into a nationwide manhunt, and what it tells us about the surveillance state that showed up in your neighbor's pocket instead of on a government streetlight. Camellia Peterson of Americans for Prosperity joins us on Kansas City's race-and-sex contracting quotas and the lawsuit that could end them, including the part where the city paid for a study telling them to stop and buried it. And fan favorite Maggie Modas breaks down a new Cato Institute survey that found most young Americans can't say what the Fourth of July even celebrates. One more thing: our brand new website is officially live, so come see what we built at https://4libertynetwork.com/. 🔫 THE M14 COMES HOME: The CMP will sell surplus M14 rifles to qualified citizens for the first time ever, and the wall that kept them out of your safe was an ATF memo, not an act of Congress. We break down the shredder, the reversal, and what it means for the rest of the fight. 📱 THE CENTRAL PARK KISS: A man with a phone filmed two strangers kissing, posted it, and millions convicted them of an affair nobody can prove. The filming was legal, which is exactly why the only real check on this is the one we've stopped using. ⚖️ KANSAS CITY QUOTAS ON TRIAL: The city hands out contracts based partly on race and sex, its own consultants said drop it, and it refused. Camellia Peterson explains why Missouri's Attorney General is now in federal court over it. 📜 GEN Z FAILS AMERICA 101: A new Cato survey says most young Americans can't name why the colonies broke from Britain, and a third can't name George Washington. Maggie Modas on what happens to a country whose heirs can't describe it. GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🎙️ Camellia Peterson, Americans for Prosperity–Missouri — @RareCamellia 🎙️ Maggie Modas, Young Voices Commentator — @maggiemoda Support the show and shop the store: 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌐 https://4libertynetwork.com/ ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #M14 #CMP #SecondAmendment #2A #GunRights #Libertarian #KansasCity #EqualProtection #Cato #GenZ #July4th #AustinPetersen

FLOCK CAMERAS: SAFETY MEASURE OR SURVEILLANCE STATE? This morning we walk into the two rooms nobody voted to build, one a bathroom designed to kill your grandmother and one a hundred thousand camera network watching every road in America, and we ask how both of them got assembled while everybody was looking somewhere else. We break down why forty-three thousand seniors died from falls last year in houses the code book says are perfectly safe, then we follow Flock Safety from a solar panel on a pole in your subdivision to a server in Atlanta that five thousand police agencies can search without a warrant. Then Camellia Peterson walks us through the August 4 ballot and the strangest primary season in modern memory, and voice actress Mary McDonald-Lewis tells us what happened when she declined to say things she does not believe. 🚿 We get into the most dangerous room in your house, where falls now kill eleven seniors for every American killed by fire, where Medicaid must pay a hundred fifteen thousand dollars a year for a nursing home bed but not thirty dollars for a grab bar, and where six hundred thousand people sit on a waiting list for the cheaper option. 🚨 We roll through Flock Safety, an eight year old company worth eight point four billion dollars scanning twenty billion plates a month, the LAPD inspector general finding a thirty-two percent false alert rate before the department walked away, the Texas deputy who searched the national network for a woman who had an abortion, and the Supreme Court decision in June that just moved the ground under the entire business. 🗳️ Camellia Peterson of Americans for Prosperity Missouri joins us on Amendment 5 and the push to zero out the state income tax, the redistricting fight where six Republicans are running a primary in a district that may not exist in November, and what Massie, Paxton, and a wave of DSA wins say about where both parties are actually headed. 🎭 Mary McDonald-Lewis, the voice of OnStar and Lady Jaye on G.I. Joe, tells us how a single Facebook post burned down a self-funded production thirteen days from opening, why the theater added a values clause to its rental contracts afterward, and what synthetic voice cloning is doing to the industry she helped build. GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🎙️ Camellia Peterson, Americans for Prosperity Missouri | Mary McDonald-Lewis 🛒 Gear up at 4LibertyShop.com 🤝 Join the community at 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #FlockSafety #Surveillance #FourthAmendment #ALPR #AgingInPlace #Missouri #Amendment5 #AFPMissouri #MaryMcDonaldLewis #CancelCulture #AustinPetersen #Liberty #America250

The dictator Hasan Piker wore to a Democrat convention — and the tip screen America is finally revolting against | Wake Up America Hasan Piker put on Mao Zedong's uniform this weekend and a room full of College Democrats cheered. So today we tell you what that costume actually means: the largest famine in human history, the war on sparrows, the trap called "let a hundred flowers bloom," and the Red Guards who beat Xi Jinping's own father in a stadium. Plus — America is in open revolt against the guilt-trip tip screen, and the real history of tipping is more American than you think. Then: Camellia Peterson (Americans for Prosperity–Missouri) on the Missouri Republicans who killed school choice the second it hit their own backyard, and Tom Pappert (The Tennessee Star) on JD Vance declaring war on Milton Friedman — and squaring off with Marco Rubio for 2028. ⏱️ SEGMENTS 00:00 Cold open A1 — The war on the tip screen A2 — The dictator they cheered: the crimes of Mao B1 — Camellia Peterson: Missouri's school-choice collapse B2 — Tom Pappert: Vance vs. Friedman, Vance vs. Rubio 🎙️ GUESTS: Camellia Peterson (@RareCamellia) · Tom Pappert (@TomPappert) 👇 Sound off in the comments: where's YOUR line on the tip screen — and why is a Mao costume still a punchline? #WakeUpAmerica #Mao #HasanPiker #Tipflation #NoTaxOnTips #SchoolChoice #JDVance #MiltonFriedman #Liberty #Rumble

WHOSE AI SHOULD FRIGHTEN YOU MORE? A Beijing startup gave away an AI for free last week and knocked the American chip market into a bear market before lunch, and the two biggest names in American tech ran to Washington calling a free download a threat to your safety. We're also on the flag an HOA won't let a family fly, and the war power Congress hasn't used since 1942. 🗽 THE FLAG YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO FLY — An HOA told Amy Cooke to pull the flag she's flown 20 years or pay a hundred bucks. 78 million Americans live under a government with no bill of rights, and in 30 states the board can take the house. 🤖 THE FREE DOWNLOAD THAT TURNED WALL STREET RED — China dropped a model at half our price that beat every American one on a major benchmark. Within hours OpenAI was warning of "full AI communism," and Trump's own former AI czar called it a duopoly begging the government to strangle its competition. ⚔️ THE WORD CONGRESS WON'T SAY — The last time Congress declared war the way the Constitution requires was 1942. Judge Napolitano on how the power to send your kids to die slipped into one set of hands and never came back. GUESTS THIS EPISODE ⚖️ Judge Andrew Napolitano — Judging Freedom — @Judgenap 4LibertyShop.com 4libertynetwork.com wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #AI #China #KimiK3 #DavidSacks #OpenAI #HOA #FlagRights #WarPowers #Napolitano #Constitution #Liberty #LibertarianNationalism #America250 #Rumble

SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE CLICKED DISLIKE AND THE TICKETS SOLD OUT ANYWAY Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens tonight, and we're asking what it actually proves when the audience objects for eighteen months and Hollywood gets paid regardless. Then we walk through the Supreme Court quote everybody shared this week that Amy Coney Barrett never said, and what it costs us when we're the ones who stopped checking. We get into a Gen X psychiatrist's list of six things people miss about the eighties that reads like an inventory of liberties somebody took, the Wall Street Journal's push to rebrand middle age as "prime time" while the median first-time home buyer hits forty, employers quietly dropping marijuana screening because they can't find enough applicants, and the two-hundred-dollar-an-hour trainers selling American men longevity one hip thrust at a time. 🏛️ THE ODYSSEY CASTING -- A quarter-billion-dollar budget, the first feature ever shot on new IMAX 70mm cameras, a trailer past seven hundred thousand dislikes, and IMAX seats that sold out a full year early. Nolan waved off the backlash. Tracking says opening weekend clears a hundred million. We ask which one of those is the real vote. ⚖️ THE QUOTE THAT ISN'T -- Clarence Thomas told Orrin Hatch in 1991 he'd rather die than withdraw. Barrett supposedly said she's scared for her life. One of those is in the transcript and one of them somebody made up. We go through what was actually said on July 14 and why the fake one is doing all the work. 📻 WHAT WE MISS ABOUT THE 80s -- Being unreachable used to be the default state of a normal day. A repair used to be a fourteen-dollar part and twenty minutes with a screwdriver. Six things that came free and now have to be fought for. 🏡 PRIME TIME -- The median first-time home buyer in America is now forty years old. The Journal files that under milestones pushed later. We file it somewhere else. 🌿 THE TEST NOBODY'S GIVING -- Citigroup dropped it. Amazon dropped it. Home Depot dropped it. Employers quit screening for marijuana without a single federal mandate, and one lawyer says his clients would have no applicants left if they kept testing. 💪 GLUTES AND LONGEVITY -- Equinox says male bookings for its "Best Butt Ever" class are up seventeen percent. One executive spends sixteen hundred a month on peptides. Somewhere under all of it is a real point about aging. 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🔗 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #FreedomFamilyFriday #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Hollywood #AmyConeyBarrett #SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #GenX #Nostalgia #Housing #DrugTesting #Longevity #Libertarian #AustinPetersen #Liberty

SOCIALISM IS BLACK AND WHITE A poll came out of Michigan this week showing the socialist winning white Democrats and getting destroyed by Black Democrats in the same primary, and the explanation the internet landed on within the hour was that Black voters secretly agree but have been beaten into silence by a wicked country. We take that apart with a street in Detroit that no longer exists. Then we head to Europe, where a committee of publicly funded broadcasters just published twenty-three pages of cartoon diagrams instructing camera operators how to point a lens at a woman running, five years after that same continent fined a team of women a hundred and fifty euros apiece for putting shorts on. And the U.S. House voted 308 to 117 this week on what time it is, so we brought in Camellia Peterson to explain why the clock in Jefferson City is federal property. 🏛️ SOCIALISM IS SIMPLE: BLACK AND WHITE — The Detroit News poll broke 67-21 for the moderate among Black Democrats and 51-39 for Abdul El-Sayed among white Democrats. We get into Hastings Street, Black Bottom, the Chrysler Freeway, and what James Baldwin actually said after the famous line. Plus the DSA's own membership survey, the Detroit bankruptcy, and why the most churched bloc in the coalition will not vote for a creed that promises heaven through a budget. 📹 DEMONIZING MEN'S SEXUALITY — The European Broadcasting Union and European Athletics dropped "Raising the Bar" this week: twenty-three pages, thirteen camera angles you're urged not to use, green checks and red X's. The same institutional class wrote the ten-centimeter bikini rule, fined the Norwegians for covering up, defended "the ideal presentation of the sport" in writing, and has now identified the villain. It's the guy holding the camera. ⏰ THE CLOCK IS FEDERAL PROPERTY — Camellia Peterson joins us on the Sunshine Protection Act. Nineteen state legislatures have already voted on this and every one of them is sitting in a hallway waiting on a hall pass from Washington. Missouri's House passed it 107 to 31 in April and then just had to wait. GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🌺 Camellia Peterson — Americans for Prosperity Missouri — @RareCamellia Kelley Dennison - Colorado Republican Candidate for congress - AKA Goth Baddie 4LibertyShop.com expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 4libertynetwork.com wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #Socialism #Detroit #BlackVoters #ElSayed #Michigan #DemocratPrimary #DSA #WomensSports #EBU #TrackAndField #DaylightSavingTime #SunshineProtectionAct #Federalism #Missouri #AFP #Liberty #LibertarianNationalism #Rumble

MARCO RUBIO VS. THE HAGUE: AMERICA IS THE WORLD'S POLICE This morning we walk into the two rooms trying to run your life without a single vote from you, one in a Dutch office park and one in a Hollywood suite, and we ask why an unelected court and an unelected casting department both got told no in the same week. We break down Marco Rubio's whole-of-government campaign to take the International Criminal Court apart brick by brick, then we roll through Hollywood's casting war from Andy Serkis to Christopher Nolan and let the box office start settling it. Then economist Nick Cooper sits down to follow the money and the incentives running the Hague before you ever hear another word about "international justice." ⚖️ We dig into Rubio's July 13 announcement and the ICC's own record, a court that burned through two billion dollars and twenty-three years to convict barely a dozen people, every last one of them African, while its chief prosecutor sits suspended over a sexual misconduct investigation of his own. 🎬 We roll the tape on Hollywood's fidelity fight, from Serkis refusing to tick boxes on "The Hunt for Gollum" to Nolan spending a quarter of a billion dollars race-swapping Helen of Troy and calling the backlash "frightening," and we ask what the dislike counter is really measuring. 🧠 Nick Cooper joins us to strip the language of "human rights" off the ICC and follow the incentives, who benefits from the court existing, who picks up the tab, and whether the whole project was ever built to do what it claims. GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🎙️ Nick Cooper @realNickCooper 🛒 Gear up at 4LibertyShop.com 🤝 Join the community at 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #MarcoRubio #ICC #TheHague #AmericanSovereignty #TheOdyssey #AndySerkis #ChristopherNolan #Hollywood #AustinPetersen #Liberty #America250

RO KHANNA OR RO COMMIE? THIS IS WHO'S RUNNING IN 2028 This morning we follow the money and the lies straight from Beijing to the West Bank to Jefferson City, and we ask why a communist's family, a congressman's campaign trip, and a tax overhaul all landed on the same weekend. We break down the new reporting on China, Russia, and Iran weaponizing America's data center backlash, then we roll the tape on Ro Khanna's West Bank stunt and let Tom Pappert help us separate what happened from what Khanna wants you to believe. Then Camellia sits down to walk you through the two Missouri amendments on your August ballot before you ever pick up the pen. 🐉 We dig into the New York Times report on China, Russia, and Iran pouring gasoline on America's data center fights, and follow the money from a Shanghai communist's family straight into a socialist super PAC bankrolled by ex-AppLovin executives. 🎬 We roll the actual tape on Ro Khanna's West Bank "hostage" story, from the closed military zone to the machine gun that was actually a rifle, and ask how much of it was staged for a 2028 launch. 🗣️ Tom Pappert joins us to break down Khanna's account line by line against what the IDF, the Israeli police, and the ambassador are saying on camera. 🗳️ Camellia walks us through Missouri Amendments 4 and 5, the income tax phaseout and the initiative petition overhaul, and what fifteen million dollars in ad money doesn't want you reading in the fine print. GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🎙️ Camellia @RareCamellia 🎙️ Tom Pappert @realTomPappert 🛒 Gear up at 4LibertyShop.com 🤝 Join the community at 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #RoKhanna #WestBank #MissouriAmendments #Amendment4 #Amendment5 #China #DataCenters #AustinPetersen #Liberty #America250

RIP TO THE MAN LIBERTARIANS FEARED THE MOST This morning we dig into the death of the senator the left tried to bury with insults before his body was even cold, and we ask why an operator they call a swamp creature scared them more than any purist we've ever run. We follow that story straight into the parallel trial happening online around Charlie Kirk's murder, where a preliminary hearing calls the evidence overwhelming and a conspiracy machine keeps running anyway. Then we bring in two voices who were on the ground for it all, Joseph Wargo fresh off the FreedomFest floor in Vegas, and Austin Padgett to give us the libertarian movement's real receipts on the man we just lost. 🏛️ We trace Lindsey Graham's record from the Kavanaugh eruption to the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation and ask why the establishment feared an insider who took ground more than it's ever feared a movement that just names the swamp. ⚖️ We head into the other courtroom around Charlie Kirk's murder, where the preliminary hearing wrapped with prosecutors calling the case devastating, and we find the loudest doubt coming from inside Kirk's own movement. 🎪 We hand the mic to Joseph Wargo to give us the real story from four days on the FreedomFest floor, the 250th anniversary, the panels that mattered, and whether Gen Z actually showed up. 🔍 We sit down with Austin Padgett to settle the libertarian movement's twenty-year grudge against Lindsey Graham, from the NSA fight to the vaccine spat to the ironic ending nobody saw coming. GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🎙️ Joseph Wargo @Y_SWargo 🎙️ Austin Padgett @LudwigNverMises 🛒 Gear up at 4LibertyShop.com 🌎 Protect your future with expat strategies at expatmoney.com/austin 🤝 Join the community at 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #LindseyGraham #CharlieKirk #TylerRobinson #FreedomFest2026 #Libertarian #LibertarianNationalism #AustinPetersen #Liberty #America250

BOOMERS VS ZOOMERS This morning we dig into the economy nobody in the comfortable seats wants to name. We follow the money from a Gen Z generation that watched the foreclosure crisis from the back seat and decided the deal was a lie, all the way to the vanishing American family vacation now sorted by class, and we ask who actually rigged the table. Then we bring in two voices who live it, Young Voices Commentator Maggie Anders on the Gen Z sneer, and Camellia Peterson of Americans for Prosperity on the Missouri abortion ruling that just rewrote the map. 🎓 We take the Gen Z stare seriously and trace the anger back to its real source, the Federal Reserve policy that inflated houses out of reach on purpose while cable calls a broke generation entitled. 🏖️ We follow the great American vacation as it gets priced clean out for the bottom and metered for the top, and we find the cheaper road waiting at the trailhead. 🎤 We hand the mic to Young Voices Commentator Maggie Anders to tell us whether we got the sneer right or whether the boomers are still missing the point. ⚖️ We head to Jefferson City with Camellia Peterson to break down the single judge who struck forty Missouri abortion laws in one ruling and what it means for the rest of the country. 🇺🇸 GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🇺🇸 🎙️ Maggie Anders, Young Voices Commentator @maggiemoda 🎙️ Camellia Peterson, Americans for Prosperity Missouri @RareCamellia 🛒 Gear up at 4LibertyShop.com 🌎 Protect your future with expat strategies at expatmoney.com/austin 🤝 Join the community at 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support

America just turned 250 — and a card-carrying socialist is running its biggest city. On today's Wake Up America, Austin and Steffi Petersen break down the rise of the "Commie Caucus" after President Trump's 250th-anniversary war on communism — then bring you two rare pieces of GOOD news: America's nuclear reactors roaring back to life for the first time in 40 years, and EV batteries shattering every expectation. Plus, economist Jon Miltimore (@Miltimore79) joins to discuss why nearly half of young Americans are living with their parents, and economist Dan Mitchell (@danieljmitchell) joins to discuss JD Vance's claim that the GOP is now "more Alexander Hamilton than Milton Friedman." ▶ SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Petersens Patriots — $17.76/mo — 20% off the shop + exclusive in-person events: wakeupamericashow.com/support ▶ SHOP Merch, Founding Flavors Coffee, and the Richard Nixon Ringer Tee: 4LibertyShop.com ▶ JOIN THE COMMUNITY Discord: 4LibertyNetwork.com ▶ WATCH LIVE rumble.com/ap4liberty — Monday through Friday, 7–9 AM Central ▶ UNLOCK BONUS CONTENT $100 in Rants/gift subs/merch unlocks a 5-minute mini-doc on an American Revolution hero. $150 unlocks the Great Grift Off Liberty Loot game show, played live on your phone for real prizes. #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #Mamdani #JDVance #America250

This week on Freedom Family Friday, America turns 250 and somehow the stories are already insane. We get into the daredevil couple who climbed the Empire State Building antenna for a sky-high proposal and caught felony charges, Tim Walz’s pardon board wiping the record of a convicted child rapist right before deportation, Gen Z rest clubs where young people need permission to lie down in the park, Alex Karp and Palantir selling “own your data” sovereignty for the AI age, Sony pushing PlayStation toward a future where you buy games but don’t really own them, and the classic American movies that built the country’s self-image before the fireworks start. Pull up a chair, this one’s for the whole family. 🗽 The Empire State Building proposal that ended with “she said yes” and “you’re under arrest” ⚖️ Tim Walz’s pardon board gives a clean slate to a convicted child rapist facing deportation 😴 Gen Z rest clubs and the generation that forgot how to stop 🖥️ Palantir, NVIDIA, and the new fight over who owns your data in the AI age 💿 Sony’s digital-only PlayStation future and the slow death of actually owning games 🎬 The Fourth of July movie list every family should argue over before the fireworks 👨‍👩‍👧 Joining this morning: @SteffiP4Liberty and @JustinJPetersen 🛒 4LibertyShop.com ✈️ expatmoney.com/worldwar3 🌐 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support

THE COMMUNIST TAKEOVER BEGINS A democratic socialist just torched a thirty-year incumbent in Denver, and she's only the latest. Today we trace the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party one quiet primary at a time, from Mamdani's New York to Melat Kiros in Colorado, and we show you the 1954 law the Democrats themselves passed to stop exactly this — the one we're asking them to enforce. Then we step into the oldest economic fight in America as JD Vance crowns Alexander Hamilton over Milton Friedman, and we put both men in the ring to ask which one the right should actually be following. Camellia joins us to make the case for Missouri's Amendment 4, and investigative reporter Tom Pappert breaks down how a fringe ideology captured a major party in plain sight. 🚩 THE DSA COMMIE TAKEOVER — Kiros beats DeGette, the wave that started in New York, and the survivors and scholars who lived through this and are begging us not to repeat it. 🥊 HAMILTON VS. FRIEDMAN — Vance picks Hamilton over Friedman, so we run the tale of the tape: the central bank versus the pencil, the tariff versus the consumer, the empire versus the free country. 🏛️ AMENDMENT 4 — Camellia on who really gets to rewrite Missouri's constitution, the out-of-state cash, and the August 4th vote. 🎙️ TOM PAPPERT — how the socialist wave got built, who's funding it, and why the press keeps scrubbing the word out of the headline. ✍️ SIGN THE PETITION — the Democrats wrote the Communist Control Act. Tell them to enforce it: CommunistControlAct.com 🌹 GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🌹 📰 Tom Pappert (@realTomPappert) — award-winning lead reporter, The Tennessee Star 🌷 Camellia Peterson (@RareCamellia) — Americans for Prosperity, Missouri 🔗 LINKS 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌎 expatmoney.com/austin 🦅 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support

SCOTUS FUMBLED BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP This morning we start with the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization founded because women were once shut out by the Sons of the American Revolution, now refusing to define the word woman inside its own rulebook. We break down the 1,481 to 984 vote, the leadership warnings about D.C. law, the Biden-era legal memo behind the fear campaign, and the women inside the DAR who say this fight is not over. Then we go straight to the Supreme Court, where a 6-3 ruling against Trump’s birthright citizenship order left conservatives furious, Thomas and Gorsuch dissenting, and Congress holding the next real move. We explain the “subject to the jurisdiction” fight, the birth tourism loophole, and the bills already sitting in Washington that could force the clean test case the Court refused to give Trump. In hour two, Nick Cooper joins to talk about the future of libertarians, MAGA, and the right: one movement has the engine, the other has the rudder, and the next decade may come down to whether libertarians want to steer or keep yelling from the sidelines. 🗽 The DAR fight — the transgender membership vote, the undefined word “woman,” the Biden-era legal memo, and the restoration push from inside the organization ⚖️ Birthright citizenship — the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling, Thomas and Gorsuch’s dissent, birth tourism, and the congressional path after Trump’s executive order failed 🔥 Nick Cooper on MAGA and libertarians — why MAGA has the political engine, why libertarians have the intellectual rudder, and what it would take to actually win GUESTS THIS EPISODE Rick Brattin @RickBrattin Nick Cooper @realNickCooper 4LibertyShop.com expatmoney.com/austin 4libertynetwork.com wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #Liberty #SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship #Trump #DAR #SupremeCourt #JudgeNapolitano #MAGA #Libertarian #NickCooper #AustinPetersen

Walter Block was ejected from the Mises Institute after he wrote a Classical liberal defense of Israel after the October 7th terror attacks by Hamas. Austin Petersen interviews block about the incident, the controversy surrounding Hans Hermann Hoppe, and the moral views of Argentina's president Javier Milei in a wide ranging interview. More interviews like these can be found on the Wake Up America show streaming live on rumble at Rumble.com/ap4liberty

This week we open at the Nixon Library, where JD Vance told a cheering room that the deep state took down Richard Nixon and that the same machine later came for Donald Trump. We trace who actually leaked Nixon to the press, why a younger right has turned him into a folk hero, and the part nobody in that building wanted to admit. Then we head to Kansas City, where Dutch World Cup fans fell in love with American abundance the same week Democrats confessed they had been hoping the tournament would fail. We close with a man the movement tried to erase. Walter Block joins us on getting purged by the Mises Institute over Israel, his defense of Javier Milei, and where the liberty movement actually lives now. 📼 NIXONMAXXING: REJECTING BOOMER POLITICS — Vance stands in the Nixon Library and says the deep state took down Nixon. We follow the thread to the FBI's number-two man settling a grudge in a parking garage, the Kennedy lawyers who ran the prosecution, and the truth nobody wanted to say out loud, that Nixon helped build the machine that ate him. ⚽ DEMOCRATS CAN'T CHEER FOR USA — Foreign fans crossed an ocean to marvel at how vast and rich America is, the same week one party grappled with the World Cup going too well. We look at why the modern left can credit the Qataris for a peace deal but never the country it wants to run. 🎓 WALTER BLOCK UNFILTERED — The Mises Institute stripped him of a fellowship he held for decades, and his only crime was supporting Israel after October 7th. We ask the self-described Mozart of Libertarianism about the purge, about Milei halving poverty in a real country, and about the civil war splitting the freedom movement down the middle. 🎙️ GUESTS THIS EPISODE Walter Block (@WalterEBlock) — Austrian economist, Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in Economics at Loyola University New Orleans, author of Defending the Undefendable, and former senior fellow of the Mises Institute.

🎬 The banned movie Elon Musk just dropped on X for free, and the censorship story underneath it 🥗 RFK Jr. says food can undo a diagnosis. We checked what Stanford and Harvard actually found. 👊 A dad backs his 5-year-old against a bully, and the zero-tolerance rule that punishes kids for defending themselves 🏫 California buried abortion funding inside a teacher pregnancy-leave bill. We read the fine print. 🍼 Supernanny's warning that we are "slowly disabling" our own children 🪒 Baldmaxxing: the men walking away from the hair-loss industry and reaching for the clippers ⛽ The gas-station food glow-up turning the American road trip into a destination 👨‍👩‍👧 Joining this morning: @SteffiP4Liberty and @JustinJPetersen 🛒 4LibertyShop.com ✈️ expatmoney.com/worldwar3 🌐 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #FreedomFamilyFriday #CitizenVigilante #ElonMusk #RFKJr #FoodIsMedicine #ParentsRights #ZeroTolerance #AB65 #Baldmaxxing #RoadTrip #Libertarian #Conservative #Rumble

🗽 The New York intervention, the socialist sweep almost nobody voted in, and the 1954 law nobody's had the nerve to pick up 🦅 250 years of assimilation, the pause the open-borders crowd always leaves out, and the biggest immigration wave in American history 📱 Camellia Peterson on the invented stat that beat the truth, and why the lie travels faster 🔥 Maggie Anders on why young voters keep breaking left and what the Right is getting wrong

ARMED STONERS ARE NOW LEGALIZED THANKS TO THE SUPREME COURT This morning we break down the 9-0 Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Hemani, which says the government cannot automatically strip gun rights from Americans who use marijuana, with Donald Trump's own Justice Department ending up on the losing side. We get into Major League Baseball warning three Giants pitchers for writing Bible verses on their Pride Night caps, and the letters Senator Josh Hawley and Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway fired right back at the league. We cover the crude line UFC fighter Josh Hokit dropped after his win at the White House card and the backlash that came from his own side. We talk about the Alabama dad who got the police called on him for taking his daughters into an empty women's restroom, the Florida couple who chose to raise the daughter an IVF clinic mixed up at birth, and the more than one million foreign fans who came for the World Cup and fell in love with America. ⚖️ ARMED STONERS WIN AT SCOTUS: The Supreme Court rules 9-0 that Washington cannot automatically disarm marijuana users, and Trump's own DOJ is the side that lost. ⚾ MLB VS. THE BIBLE: The league warns Giants pitchers for writing Genesis on their Pride Night caps while Josh Hawley and Missouri's AG demand answers. 🥊 HOKIT AT THE WHITE HOUSE: A UFC fighter turns the biggest win of his life on the South Lawn into a crude insult, and even Dana White is not having it. 🚻 911 ON A GIRL DAD: An Alabama father gets the cops called on him for taking his two little girls into an empty women's restroom. 👶 THE BABY THEY KEPT: A Florida couple chooses to raise the daughter an IVF clinic mixed up, then tracks down her genetic parents and works it out. ⚽ THE WORLD FALLS FOR AMERICA: A million World Cup fans show up and lose their minds over Waffle House, Buc-ee's, and plain old American hospitality. HOSTS THIS EPISODE 🎙️ Justin Petersen (@JustinJPetersen) 🎙️ Steffi Petersen (@SteffiP4Liberty) 🛒 Shop: 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 Get your exit plan: expatmoney.com/worldwar3 🔗 The whole network: 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ Support the show: wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #FreedomFamilyFriday #SecondAmendment #SCOTUS #ReligiousLiberty #MLB #UFC #WorldCup2026 #Liberty #Libertarian

BRITAIN TRIED COVERING UP ITS PAKISTANI RAPE GANG PROBLEM Today we walk through the Rupert Lowe Rape Gang Inquiry report and the decades of institutional cowardice it documents, then we head to the ballpark where Major League Baseball warned three San Francisco Giants pitchers for writing a single Bible verse on their Pride Night caps while Missouri's attorney general fired back. We bring on Missouri liberty advocate Camellia Peterson to break down the religious liberty fight running through her home state, and comedian Lou Perez joins us on the first trillionaire in human history, FreedomFest, and the comedy line nobody else wants to touch. 🚨 RAPE GANGS — We break down the Rupert Lowe inquiry report and its estimate of at least 250,000 British victims across 149 districts, and the political class that buried the pattern for years to avoid being called racist. Borders, assimilation, and why libertarian nationalism rejects the whole framework. ✝️ MLB VS THE BIBLE — Three Giants pitchers wrote Genesis 9:12-16 on their Pride Night caps and the league hit them with a warning. Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway and Senator Josh Hawley came swinging back, and we lay out the double standard from BLM on the mound to a relocated All Star Game. 🎤 CAMELLIA PETERSON — The Missouri angle on the MLB fight, religious liberty and Title Seven, and the honest question of whether a state AG going after a private league sits right with libertarians. 🚀 LOU PEREZ — Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire in history, the wealth tax crowd lines up, FreedomFest hits Vegas this July, and we ask the comedian at the table about the White House UFC line even Shane Gillis backed away from. 🎟️ Join us at FreedomFest in Vegas, July 8-11. Use code 4Liberty100 for $100 off a Regular Attendee or VIP Full Pass: https://tinyurl.com/FreedomFest26 GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🎤 Camellia Peterson @RareCamellia 🎤 Lou Perez @LouPerez 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌐 expatmoney.com/worldwar3 📡 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #GroomingGangs #RupertLowe #MLB #ReligiousLiberty #FreedomFest #LouPerez #FreeSpeech

A FEDERAL GRAND JURY JUST INDICTED THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER FOR ALLEGEDLY PAYING NEO-NAZIS TO STAY NAZIS. Today we walk through the New York Post bombshell on the SPLC indictment, the alleged $3 million pipeline through shell companies to violent extremists, and the wider pattern of manufactured hate stories that have shaped American media for forty years. Then we head to California, where Arnold Schwarzenegger just blew the whistle on Sacramento's gas price racket, and Adam Smith's 250-year-old playbook explains exactly why Californians are paying nearly six bucks a gallon. Judge Andrew Napolitano joins us with his sharp new column asking whether America at 250 is still a republic or already an empire. Then we simulcast with Chris Salcedo on the future of the liberty movement, the collapse of the LP, and whether there's still room for a liberty wing inside conservatism. 🎯 SPLC INDICTMENT - The federal charging document, the Nazi-and-Nazi-hunter couple, and the donor-funded counterfeit economy that hijacked the civil rights movement 🛢️ CALIFORNIA GAS PRICES - Why the Iran ceasefire dropped prices everywhere except California, and how Sacramento built a fuel island on purpose ⚖️ JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - 250 years after the Declaration, is America a republic or an empire? 🗽 CHRIS SALCEDO SIMULCAST - The state of the liberty movement, the Libertarian Party collapse, and whether liberty has a future inside the conservative coalition GUESTS THIS EPISODE ⚖️ Judge Andrew Napolitano (@JudgeNap) 🎙️ Chris Salcedo (@CSalcedoShow) 🛒 Get the new America '76 — 250 Years collection at 4LibertyShop.com 🌎 Get your free Plan B report at expatmoney.com/worldwar3 📡 Join the network at 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #SPLC #Libertarian #Conservative #LibertyMovement #Republic #Empire #California #GasPrices #Newsom #AdamSmith #JudgeNapolitano #ChrisSalcedo #America250 #AustinPetersen