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Tom Mullen Talks Freedom
by Tom Mullen
Tom Mullen has been writing about freedom for over a decade. He is the author of Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? and A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America. His writing has been featured in Newsweek, The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, RealClear Markets, The Daily Caller, LewRockwell.com, 321 Gold! and The Foundation for Economic Education. Now, Tom is bringing his unique perspective and penetrating analysis to his new podcast, Tom Mullen Talks Freedom. The podcast will feature a variety of formats, including interviews, solo commentary, and Q&A. The show will start with 3 episodes per week and ramp up to 5 per week in the not-to-distant future.
Episodes
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Episode 241 Trump still has no path to victory in Iran
Summary: The U.S. has escalated its attacks on Iran in kind, rather than in scale. Over the weekend, the U.S. hit a desalination plant in Iran while Iran responded by hitting two desalination plants in Kuwait and Bahrain, respectively. But even here Iran has the advantage on the escalation ladder...
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Episode 240 What are we celebrating this July 4th?
Summary: America celebrates its 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Most Americans believe that “a new nation” was born in 1776, forming “a democracy” charged with doing “the will of the people.” All of that is completely wrong. Tom explores what really happened. Links: Watch the video version of...
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Episode 239 Trump's unconditional surrender to Iran
Summary: Early in the Iran War, President Trump declared that he would accept nothing other than “unconditional surrender” from Iran. But in the Memorandum of Understanding Trump signed last Thursday, the U.S. agreed to every one of Iran’s demands to end the war, gaining only a reaffirmation of...
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Episode 238 Has Trump acquiesced to all of Iran's demands?
Summary: President Trump celebrated his birthday with UFC on the White House lawn and the announcement of a memorandum of understanding with Iran. Neither side has released a copy of the MOU, but an Iranian leak, if accurate, suggests it may be a stunning victory for Iran. Links: Watch the video...
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Episode 237 Trump Abandons Meet the Press Interview and All Connection with Reality on Iran
Summary: Before being put on tilt by Kristen Welker and abandoning his Meet the Press interview, President Trump demonstrated he has abandoned all connection with reality on Iran. Links: Watch the video version of this episode here! Read the transcript: President Donald Trump interviewed by NBC...
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Episode 236 The Israel First War Party Defeats Thomas Massie, Buys Seat for Non-Entity
Summary: Thomas Massie has been the most libertarian member of the House of Representatives since his election in 2012 and he has been re-elected by comfortable margins ever since. But after running afoul of President Trump and the Israel First War Party, Massie was defeated by Ed Gallrein, who...
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Episode 235 Trump's Housing Affordability Plan is as Unrealistic as his Iran War strategy
Summary: President Trump continues to insist the United States can force Iran to submit to U.S. demands that it cease uranium enrichment, hand over its existing enriched uranium, dismantle its missile program, and cease supporting its proxies. Meanwhile, Iran refuses to even negotiate further...
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Episode 234 We're already in the post-Iran War period
Summary: Two months to the day after the United States and Israel launched its war on Iran, it appears to be all over but the proverbial shouting. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and the Trump administration’s claims that its government is in disarray and its economy on the verge of collapse…
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Episode 233 Trump imposes fake blockade in latest exit attempt from Iran War
Summary: President Trump has imposed a “blockade” of the Straight of Hormuz as his latest desperate attempt to find an exit ramp from the Iran War. But 90% of Iranian oil exports are to China and Chinese ships are sailing right through. Meanwhile, Israel and Lebanon have separately agreed to a...
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Episode 232 Trump buys time with ceasefire but a deal with Iran seems unlikely
Summary: President Trump postponed his catastrophic attack on Iran’s energy and other civilian infrastructure at the zero hour, citing negotiations with Iran, including an Iranian 10-point plan Trump called ‘workable.’ But no one could possibly imagine the U.S. agreeing to Iran’s proposal and…
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Episode 231 Trump provides no new answers to Iran quagmire in rambling address to nation
Summary: President Trump addressed the nation on Wednesday evening but provided no new answers as to how the U.S. will exit the Iran War. Trump claims most objectives have been met, but facts on the ground seem to indicate Iran is holding all the cards. Links: Watch the video version of this...
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Episode 230 There is Only One Way Out of the Iran War for Trump
Summary: Three days into his second extension of the 48-hour deadline set on March 21 for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, the strait is still closed, Trump continues to claim he is close to a deal, but Iran says U.S. proposals received through intermediaries are ‘unrealistic.’ There appears to...
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Episode 229 Who in Iran, if anyone, is the Trump administration talking to?
Summary: The Trump administration maintains it is having “talks” with Iran aimed at reaching an agreement to end hostilities. Iran continues to publicly deny any talks are occurring. Tom discusses three possibilities for what is really going on behind the scenes in the Trump administration as yet...
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Episode 228 Iran Calls Trump's Bluff; The Donald Responds with Another
Summary: On Saturday, President Trump gave Iran 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or the U.S. military would destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure, beginning with the largest site first. Iran responded that if so attacked they would destroy the energy infrastructure and vital desalinization...
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Episode 227 Trump's Strait of Hormuz Argument Is Dumb, Dishonest, or Both
Summary: Evidence continues to mount that the Trump administration launched the Iran War with no plan to deal with the consequences countless experts predicted if Iran were attacked. Apparently unable to reopen the Strait of Hormuz unilaterally, Trump now claims its closure is really Europe’s and...
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Episode 226 War, Taxation, Regulation, and the Political Means
Summary: Trump certainly isn’t the first politician who campaigned hard on an issue and then did precisely the opposite once in office. It’s so regular an occurrence that people construct elaborate theories for why politicians and other government officials do the things they do. Tom suggests...
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Episode 225 The Iran War Multiverse
Summary: The Trump administration has maintained the U.S. military has been wildly successful in the opening days of the Iran War. It claims to have destroyed 80%-90% of Iran’s missile capabilities and is close to victory. The war’s critics paint precisely the opposite picture. They claim U.S....
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Episode 224 The bogus arguments for presidential war powers
Summary: President Trump has attacked Iran without a declaration of war by Congress or even a congressional authorization to use military force. Like its predecessors, the Trump administration justifies its actions with bogus claims about the declaration of war power, executive war powers, and…
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Episode 223 Iran Won't Go Quietly with Col. Douglas Macgregor
Summary: After another military buildup on Iran’s doorstep, the Trump administration suddenly changed the terms of the negotiation to an offer Iran could not accept. It then launched an air attack coordinated with Israel on Iran that the administration says could last weeks, although the…
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Episode 222 Trump's attack on Iran violates Congress' most important law and nobody cares
Summary: President Trump commenced a joint military action with Israel against Iran on Saturday, violating arguably the most important law ever passed by Congress, not to mention the Constitution itself. But as usual, nobody seems to care. And contrary to a popular misconception, the War Powers...
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Episode 221 The State of the Union is Delusional
Summary: The State of the Union address has long been a self-congratulatory Roman spectacle, with the sitting president taking credit for things he either had nothing to do with or hadn’t occurred at all, along with making promises no government on Earth can possibly keep. But the 2026 SOTU marks...
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Episode 220 Trump Makes Iran an Offer They Can't Accept a la Serbia 1914
Summary: Just as the Austro-Hungarian Empire did Serbia in 1914, Trump has made Iran an offer they can’t accept rather than one they can’t refuse. Tom breaks down the similarity between the situations today and in 1914, along with important differences. Links: Watch the video version here! The...
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Episode 219 Trump finally delivers for his supporters with climate rule change with Eric Peters
Summary: Trump squandered a good part of his first year in office focusing on foreign adventures that made a mockery of DOGE and delivered no benefit to American citizens. But on Thursday, Trump finally delivered a win for his supporters by rescinding an EPA rule designating carbon dioxide a…
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Episode 218 Epstein, George Floyd, MeToo, and A Quarter Century of Mass Hysteria
Summary: The Epstein saga is only the latest in a quarter century of virtually constant mass hysteria. Tom looks at the similarities between Epstein and moral panics in the past and their propensity to destroy the lives of innocents, trample our liberties, and drive political decisions based...
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Episode 217 Bondi Bombs in Congress
Summary: Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before Congress to answer questions related to the DOJ’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Congressman Thomas Massie brings hard evidence of dangerous ineptitude and possible coverup. Bondi is too compromised and inept herself to give the one…
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Episode 216 Mass Epsteria
Summary: With yet another massive dump of “Epstein Files,” there still doesn’t seem to be hard evidence of anyone besides Epstein committing prosecutable crimes. But a huge portion of the population is heavily invested in finding that evidence whether it exists or not. Is it all mass hysteria or…
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Episode 215 Is ICE using excessive force from a libertarian perspective?
Summary: The core of libertarianism is property rights, including the rights to life, liberty, and justly acquired possessions. For those libertarians who believe government should exist at all, they must decide what, if any, land the government should control, who truly owns “publicly held”…
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Episode 214 The Strange Similarities Between the Charlie Kirk and JFK Assassinations
Summary: Candace Owens has even trustworthy alternative media voices divided on whether she is uncovering important discrepancies in the official story about Charlie Kirk’s death or cynically exploiting a tragedy. But regardless of who’s right, there are a number of strange similarities between...
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Episode 213 Reviving Our Republic with Mike Bedenbaugh
Summary: The Trump administration’s summary execution of “narco-terrorists” has sparked fierce debate across the political spectrum. Tom’s guest Mike Bedenbaugh says this rejection of due process is symptomatic of the fundamental damage to our federal republic that he talks about repairing in his...
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Episode 212 Trump's summary executions of Venezuelan "narco terrorists" are unconstitutional and acts of war
Summary: The Trump administration has been summarily executing suspected drug dealers from the air and now says he will begin hitting land targets. These extrajudicial murders are unconstitutional, un-American, and unprovoked acts of war against Venezuela. Links: Summarily Murdering Venezuelan...
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Episode 211 Trump's neocon Venezuela project and Elon Musk's socialist utopian dream
Summary: Fittingly, DOGE Is laid to rest just as Trump inexplicably pivots to acts of war against Venezuela. Spending is already increasing twice as fast under Trump as under Biden, and no, AI will not make work optional or money obsolete, regardless of what dreamy socialists like Elon Musk might...
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Episode 210 What if there are no Epstein clients? with John Ziegler
Summary: Millions of Americans are invested in the narrative surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The left believes release of the so-called “Epstein client list” will finally bring down their arch-nemesis, President Trump. The right is split between believing it will expose a vast...
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Episode 209 Are any immigration narratives true? with Thomas Eddlem
Summary: The bias and corruption of legacy media have given rise to a plethora of alternative media via webcasts, podcasts, and blogs. But just because they tell a different story doesn’t make all alternative media accurate. Thomas Eddlem joins Tom to dispel some fake news on immigration. Watch…
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Episode 208 Why the Trump Administration Can't be a "Mediator" in the Ukraine War with Daniel McAdams
Summary: The media tell us the Trump administration has expended tremendous effort trying to “mediate” between the Ukrainian and Russia governments to bring about an end to the Ukraine War. Time magazine reports that Putin missed a chance to swing the U.S. to his side when relations cooled…
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Episode 207 Americans would make better political decisions with no news media at all
Summary: The American fairy tale says the so called “free press” hold the government accountable and informs the public so they can make informed political decisions. In reality, not only does the news media misinform the public, the public would make better political decisions if no news media...
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Episode 206 A Fair Assessment of the Economic Arguments for Trump's Tariffs with Bob Murphy
Summary: Libertarians and other free market advocates tend to dismiss Trump’s tariff policy out of hand as simply economically ignorant mercantilism. But the policy advisors around Trump are not ignorant of free trade arguments but rather are highly credentialed economists whose true arguments…
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Episode 205 How tariffs could kill the dollar with Peter Schiff
Summary: Many people are debating the effects of Trump’s tariffs on traditional free trade vs. protectionism grounds. But Peter Schiff says no one is talking about what artificially reducing trade deficits with tariffs may do to the U.S. dollar and U.S. bonds. Guest Bio: Peter Schiff is the…
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Episode 204 Trump believes international trade is another 'war' the U.S. has to win with tariffs
Summary: President Trump has designated April 2, 2025 “Liberation Day,” as he claims the reciprocal tariffs he imposes on American importers will make the rest of the country freer. But tariffs don’t make a country freer or richer and aren’t beneficial even as a response to like treatment from...
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Episode 203 There is no binary 'political spectrum'
Summary: Pundits constantly refer to a supposedly binary “political spectrum” with extreme conservatism on one end and extreme liberalism on the other. Often libertarians are talked about as if they fall somewhere between these two extremes. But this is a false paradigm. Conservatives,...
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Episode 202 Is a Recession Coming and Will It Be Trump's Fault? with Jonathan Newman
Summary: The stock market has entered correction territory and financial pundits wonder if a recession is coming. Are Trump’s tariffs to blame? Mises Institute economists Jonathan Newman, Ph.D joins Tom to discuss the economy, recession fears, Trump’s policies, and the business cycle. Guest Bio:...
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Episode 201 What James Madison Said About the Alien Acts of 1798
Summary: In order to deport illegal immigrants who belong to criminal gangs more expeditiously, President Trump has invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. His premise in justifying using this due process workaround is that the state of illegal immigration and its related maladies like drug…
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Episode 200 Five Years Later the Covid Regime Still Must Be Dismantled
Summary: It has been five years since the federal and most state governments announced American society would be shut down for “two weeks to flatten the curve.” What followed was a series of atrocities that were immoral, unscientific, unjustified, and completely ineffective. The Covid Regime must...
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Episode 199 Federal taxes and spending explained
Summary: DOGE has dominated the news with its recommended cuts to the federal budget. But most people have no idea how most of the $7 trillion per year is spent or how it's funded. Tom breaks down federal spending and tax revenues to clarify where the money comes from and where it goes. Links:...
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Episode 198 Why Ian Freeman Should Be Trump's Next Pardon with Jacob Hornberger
Summary: President Trump made good on his promise to Libertarians to pardon Ross Ulbricht, given a life sentence by the government for creating a website. Jacob Hornberger joins Tom to discuss the case for similarly pardoning Ian Freeman, the popular libertarian radio personality who was…
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Episode 197 Can Trump Save Automobile Ownership from the Administrative State? with Eric Peters
Summary: The administrative state has waged a war against automobiles for decades, its intensity increasing exponentially with each new Democratic president. They have regulated full-size sedans out of existence and soon will do the same for all internal combustion engine vehicles if they are not...
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Episode 196 Tom Mullen on Rand Paul Review with Kurt Wallace
Summary: Tom appears on the Rand Paul Review webcast, hosted by Kurt Wallace, to discuss RFK, Jr., Trump, tariffs, and all things liberty movement. Links: Watch the video version of this interview Free Gifts from Tom: Get a free copy of It’s the Fed, Stupid at itsthefedstupid.com! Learn more…
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Episode 195 Three Economic Land Mines That Could Blow Up Trumps Agenda
Summary: Everyone is talking about tariffs, which very well could pop the post-Covid bubble. But there are at least two other economic land mines lurking that could cause an economic crisis and blow up Trump’s agenda. Links: Episode 183 Economics was invented to refute Trump’s tariff arguments...
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Episode 194 The Federal Reserve's Stealth Easing is About to End...Then What?
Summary: Since Summer 2023, the Federal Reserve has been reducing its balance sheet and thus reducing the base money supply available to member banks. However, the $2 trillion that has flowed out of the money supply during this “tightening” has been matched dollar for dollar by money flowing back...
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Episode 193 Is Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship Constitutional?
Summary: As part of his agenda to halt the mass migration of illegal immigrants into the United States, President Trump signed an executive order indicating the administration’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment as not extending citizenship to children born in the United States to mother’s who...
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Episode 192 Property Rights in Taylor Sheridans Yellowstone
Summary: The popular television series Yellowstone raises interesting questions about property rights. Who has the best claim to the land that comprises the Yellowstone ranch? The Duttons? The developers? Or the Native Americans? Most people will be surprised by Tom’s answer. Links: Watch...
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Tom Mullen has been writing about freedom for over a decade. He is the author of Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? and A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America. His writing has been featured in Newsweek, The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, RealClear Markets, The Daily Caller, LewRockwell.com, 321 Gold! and The Foundation for Economic Education. Now, Tom is bringing his unique perspective and penetrating analysis to his new podcast, Tom Mullen Talks Freedom. The podcast will feature a variety of formats, including interviews, solo commentary, and Q&A. The show will start with 3 episodes per week and ramp up to 5 per week in the not-to-distant future.
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