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Wake Up America with Austin Petersen
If you’re tired of being gaslit by corporate media, sick of shallow hot takes, and ready for fearless truth delivered with wit, fire, and facts, Wake Up America is your daily briefing for the battle of ideas.
Hosted by Austin Petersen — former presidential candidate, media entrepreneur, and unapologetic defender of liberty — this high-energy political talk show cuts through the noise with bold analysis, sharp humor, and evidence-driven commentary.
Every episode delivers:
• Hard-hitting breakdowns of the day’s biggest political headlines
• Libertarian-leaning, America-First perspective grounded in facts
• Deep dives into economics, culture, foreign policy, and constitutional principles
• Interviews with lawmakers, policy experts, journalists, and rising voices
• Rapid-fire solo segments that blend history, philosophy, and modern politics
This isn’t performative outrage. It’s strategic thinking for people who care about Western civilization, individual liberty, and limited government.
Austin brings a unique mix of nationalist instinct and libertarian economics — defending free markets, calling out corruption on the right and left, challenging reckless foreign policy, exposing government overreach, and defending American values without apology.
Expect:
🔥 Breaking news analysis
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🎙 Smart, pointed interviews
⚔ Culture war clarity
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Whether the topic is Congress, the Supreme Court, Big Tech censorship, immigration, economic chaos, global conflicts, or the internal battles within the conservative movement — Wake Up America gives you the tools to understand what’s happening and why it matters.
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Armed Stoners Officially Legalized: Freedom Family Friday
3d ago00:59:20Tap to summarizeARMED 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
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Why Is The UK Protecting Pakistani Muslim Rape Gangs?
3d ago02:02:18Tap to summarizeBRITAIN 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
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SPLC Floozy Pays Nazi Boyfriend To Keep Racism Alive
4d ago02:15:22Tap to summarizeA 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
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Is Beauty A Rightwing Concept? Culture Wars and American Aesthetics
5d ago01:57:21Tap to summarizeJUSTIN GAETHJE TOOK THE UNDISPUTED LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE ON THE SOUTH LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE, AND HALF OF WASHINGTON CALLED IT THE END OF CIVILIZATION. We start on the South Lawn, where a fighter nobody believed in won a world title on the Army's birthday, and we get into why the managerial class fears an open gate. Then we cross to Starmer's Britain, where speech is policed and a teenager dies in handcuffs while police chase a slur instead of a killer. We close with two guests on the fights closer to home. 🥊 Justin Gaethje takes the belt on the South Lawn, the "superior taste" crowd calls it the collapse of civilization, and a German tourist crosses an ocean to say three words: I love Americans. 💂♂️ Starmer's Britain polices speech while Henry Nowak bleeds out in handcuffs, parents get arrested over a WhatsApp message, and the speech sickness eyes our own fence line. 🗳️ Camellia on Missouri's August ballot, the path to killing the income tax, and the fight over citizen-led petitions. 🛢️ Tom Pappert on the new U.S.-Iran deal, the Strait of Hormuz, and why the war party is calling an exit ramp a sellout. 🎙️ GUESTS THIS EPISODE 👤 Camellia Peterson (@RareCamellia) 👤 Tom Pappert (@realTomPappert) 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 expatmoney.com/worldwar3 📡 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #JustinGaethje #UFCWhiteHouse #America250 #FreeSpeech #Starmer #HenryNowak #Missouri #IranDeal #Liberty #LibertarianNationalism
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Who Wants To Be A Trillionaire? Elon Musk Fights Off The Parasite Class
6d ago01:52:56Tap to summarizeTHE LEFT JUST TOLD A MILLIONAIRE WELDER NOT TO CELEBRATE -- AND THE SUPREME COURT PUT THE FOUNDING FATHERS ON TRIAL FOR DRINKING This Friday SpaceX pulled off the biggest IPO in Wall Street history, made Elon Musk the first trillionaire on record, and turned roughly 4,400 blue collar workers into millionaires in a single morning. We dig into the welder who got handed stock he didn't understand a decade ago and woke up a millionaire, the parade of politicians who looked at that and demanded their cut, and why the Ayn Rand split between producers and looters explains the whole circus. We trace the word "robber baron" back to the medieval lords who chained the Rhine and taxed everyone who passed, and back to Vanderbilt, the man who cut fares for the working class and got branded a villain for it. Then we head to the Supreme Court, where the Justice Department is arguing that men like James Madison were habitual drunkards who'd lose their guns under their own Second Amendment. We close on the open ocean with a man who looked at every failed libertarian utopia and decided to build the plumbing first. 🚀 ELON MUSK AND THE WELDER MILLIONAIRES -- the record SpaceX IPO, the 4,400 workers who cashed in, and the producers versus looters fight Rand warned us about ⚖️ THE FOUNDING FATHERS ON TRIAL -- how United States v. Hemani forced the government to call Madison and Jefferson drunks just to defend a 1968 gun statute, and what originalism really means for your rights 🎙️ JON MILTIMORE -- the myth of the zero sum economy and why blue collar equity terrifies the welfare state 🌊 MITCHELL SUCHNER OF ARKPAD -- floating houses that survive typhoons, a working ocean resort off the Philippines, and the positive libertarian plan that doesn't end in a shootout GUESTS THIS EPISODE Jon Miltimore -- @miltimore79 Mitchell Suchner, founder of ArkPad -- @M_Suchner 4LibertyShop.com expatmoney.com/worldwar3 4libertynetwork.com wakeupamericashow.com/support rumble.com/ap4liberty FreedomFest 2026 -- code 4Liberty100 -- https://tinyurl.com/FreedomFest26 #WakeUpAmerica #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Trillionaire #AynRand #SecondAmendment #SupremeCourt #Originalism #Seasteading #ArkPad #Libertarian #FreeMarkets #Liberty
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The Libertarian Nationalists’ Case For Israel (And Against AntiZionists)
2w ago02:08:21Tap to summarizeTHE LIBERTARIAN MOVEMENT HAS A CHOICE -- FOLLOW MILEI BACK TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION OR KEEP MAKING EXCUSES FOR PEOPLE WHO FILM THEIR OWN WAR CRIMES. We make the libertarian case for Israel, trace how the liberty movement went from auditing the Fed to flying Russian flags at antiwar rallies, and ask what it means that the Mises Institute purged Walter Block for defending massacre victims. Plus -- Seattle spent $465,000 on four talking toilets ahead of the World Cup, got the window smashed in fourteen days, and called it a promising start. Judge Napolitano on Section 702 expiring this month and why it barely matters. Tom Pappert on Massie, the USS Liberty, and how to honor dead American sailors without losing your mind. 🗽 LIBERTARIAN CASE FOR ISRAEL -- Milei named the moral inversion at the UN that most of the liberty movement refuses to name. We trace the full arc from Ron Paul to the Mises Institute purging Walter Block for defending Israel after October 7th. 🚽 WELCOME TO THRONE -- Seattle's $465,000 World Cup toilet has a welcoming voice, tropical wallpaper, and a smashed window. The city tried this in 2001 and sold it on eBay for $12,000. They came back with ceiling fragrance. ⚖️ JUDGE NAP ON SECTION 702 -- The law expires this month. Former NSA agents told the Judge the agency spies on whoever it wants regardless. He explains what that means for every American. ⚓ TOM PAPPERT ON THE USS LIBERTY -- Massie put survivors in the gallery and called for a new investigation. Tom walks through what Massie proved, what he only alleged, and how to talk about thirty-four dead Americans without feeding something uglier. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: ⚖️ Judge Andrew Napolitano -- @JudgeNap 📰 Tom Pappert -- @realTomPappert 🛒 Merch: 4LibertyShop.com 💰 Protect your wealth: expatmoney.com/worldwar3 🌐 Network: 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ Support the show: wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #4Liberty #Israel #Libertarian #JavierMilei #WorldCup2026 #Seattle #FISA #Section702 #JudgeNap #USSLiberty #ThomasMassie #AustinPetersen
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Food Stamp Rolls Decline - Welfare Queens Revolt!
2w ago01:56:18Tap to summarizeTHEY CALLED REAGAN A RACIST FOR CALLING FOR WELFARE REFORM. THE USDA JUST FOUND 244,000 DEAD PEOPLE STILL ON THE ROLLS. Reagan described the fraud in 1976 and the press called it fantasy for fifty years — today we trace the line from Linda Taylor's Cadillac to the Roman grain dole to 4.3 million off the SNAP rolls and explain why what Brooke Rollins just did is something no Roman emperor ever managed. Then we take the Wall Street Journal's story calling North Korea the world's most surprising economic success story and run it through the same template Lloyd George used when he rode the autobahn in 1936 and came home calling Hitler the George Washington of Germany. Camellia from Americans for Prosperity Missouri joins us on Pete Hegseth landing Mormons outside the Christian column while erasing atheist and pagan service members entirely. Gerard Michaels is here on Henry Nowak — the eighteen-year-old stabbed five times in Southampton who died in handcuffs because his killer played the race card and the officers cuffed the dying man instead of the man with the knife. 🪙 244,000 DEAD RECIPIENTS. LAMBORGHINI OWNERS ON SNAP. A MILLIONAIRE WHO QUALIFIED WITH A BROCHURE. ONE IN FOUR DOLLARS GOING TO FRAUD. WE TRACE THE WHOLE LINE. 🌏 THE WSJ CALLED NORTH KOREA AN ECONOMIC SUCCESS STORY. LLOYD GEORGE SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT HITLER'S GERMANY. THE REGIMES CHANGE. THE HEADLINE NEVER DOES. ⛪ HEGSETH PUT MORMONS OUTSIDE THE CHRISTIAN COLUMN AND ERASED ATHEIST, HUMANIST, AND PAGAN SERVICE MEMBERS ENTIRELY. CAMELLIA FROM AFP MISSOURI JOINS US. 🔪 HENRY NOWAK DIED IN HANDCUFFS WHILE HIS KILLER WALKED FREE. GERARD MICHAELS ON WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A COUNTRY TRAINS ITS COPS TO DO THAT. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Camellia — @RareCamellia 🎙️ Gerard Michaels — @GerardvsEvil 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 expatmoney.com/worldwar3 🗣️ 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #4Liberty #SNAP #FoodStamps #Reagan #WelfareReform #NorthKorea #Hegseth #HenryNowak #RomanHistory #Annona #BrookeRollins #MenWithoutWork #OBBBA #Libertarian #LibertyNews #PoliticalCommentary
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How to Spot The Modern-Day Political Charlatan
2w ago02:11:53Tap to summarizeTHE REPUBLIC HAS ALWAYS HAD CHARLATANS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE NOW IS THEY HAVE PODCASTS, CABLE NEWS CONTRACTS, AND MILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS. Today on Wake Up America, we trace the charlatan problem from the founding era to the modern media machine. Dr. Benjamin Church spied for the British. Benedict Arnold was grifting before West Point. The Conway Cabal tried to remove George Washington through anonymous attacks. James Wilkinson commanded the U.S. Army while secretly taking Spanish money. Then we bring the pattern forward to Hunter Biden, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Scott Pelley, Ro Khanna, and the modern system that rewards the costume long after the record has fallen apart. 🇺🇸 The first American traitor, Benedict Arnold’s long road from hero to fraud, and the founding-era system that survived because Washington held 🕵️ The Conway Cabal, James Wilkinson, stolen credit, backroom plots, and America’s first political hit jobs 🎙️ Hunter Biden, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Scott Pelley, Ro Khanna, and the modern charlatan machine 🔥 Jon Miltimore joins to break down Spencer Pratt, Karen Bass, Nithya Raman, and the Los Angeles mayor’s race 🇺🇸 Taylor Burks joins to talk Missouri’s new Fifth District, Amendment 5, tax reform, Bitcoin, and the August 4th primary Guests: @Miltimore79 @TaylorWBurks Watch Wake Up America live weekdays 7–9AM CT: https://rumble.com/AP4Liberty Support the show: https://wakeupamericashow.com/support Shop the 250th Anniversary Collection: https://4libertyshop.com Get the free Expat Money report: https://expatmoney.com/worldwar3 4Liberty Network: https://4libertynetwork.com #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #4LibertyNetwork #Charlatans #AmericanRevolution #BenedictArnold #TuckerCarlson #CandaceOwens #HunterBiden #RoKhanna #ScottPelley #LosAngeles #Missouri #MO5 #Bitcoin #Liberty #Politics
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Missouri or Misery? A Guide for Midwestern Summer Vacation
2w ago02:05:01Tap to summarizeMISSOURI OR MISERY? A MIDWESTERNERS GUIDE TO THE BEAUTIFUL SHOW-ME STATE Five acts dropped from the Freedom 250 Mall concert in 24 hours. The same artists had no problem performing for Obama. Vanilla Ice is performing anyway and doesn't understand what the problem is. Plus: the case for Missouri as America's most underrated summer vacation, the Everything Tax on Missouri's August ballot, and a welfare check on Shawn Ryan after he spent three hours blackpilling Megyn Kelly on his own podcast. 🎤 AMERICA TURNS 250 — The social media mob declared celebrating America's birthday a career-ending association. Martina McBride sang in the Obama White House without a second thought. Vanilla Ice doesn't vote, doesn't care, and is performing June 26th. His mom is proud of him. 🗺️ MISSOURI OR MISERY — Wild horses in the Ozarks protected by an act of Congress. The first federally protected river in American history. A ruined Gilded Age castle on a cliff above a lake. A quarry in Rolla with Caribbean-blue water and a 65-foot slide. The wine country that saved France and built Napa Valley. The French put up statues. Everyone else calls it flyover country. ⚖️ AMENDMENT 5: THE EVERYTHING TAX — Missouri's August ballot measure creates a pathway to eliminate the income tax through expanded sales taxes. The state auditor can't tell voters how high taxes could go. Camellia from Americans for Prosperity breaks it down. 🎙️ SHAWN RYAN'S BLACKPILL SESSION — Ryan admitted on his own show he is "blackpilled," ran through a printed list of Trump grievances, and called core MAGA "pedophiles supporting the Israeli lobby." Tom Pappert joins us to assess the damage. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Camellia — Americans for Prosperity Missouri | @RareCamellia 🎙️ Tom Pappert | @realTomPappert 🛒 Rep the movement: 4LibertyShop.com 💰 Protect your wealth offshore: expatmoney.com/worldwar3 📡 Join the network: 4libertynetwork.com 🔥 Become a member: wakeupamericashow.com/support 📺 Watch live on Rumble: rumble.com/ap4liberty Join the network: 4libertynetwork.com Become a member: wakeupamericashow.com/support Watch on Rumble: rumble.com/ap4liberty #WakeUpAmerica #4Liberty #Freedom250 #VanillaIce #America250 #MissouriOrMisery #Missouri #Amendment5 #EverythingTax #ShawnRyan #MegynKelly #Blackpilled #DelaneyhHall #LibertyMovement #Ozarks
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Voter Fraud in LA? Spencer Pratt’s Voter Vibe Shift
3w ago02:01:09Tap to summarizeIT'S FREEDOM FAMILY FRIDAY This week's Freedom Family Friday covers six stories that the mainstream media either buried, botched, or refused to ask the second question on. From a professor who wants to infect you with ticks to make you vegan, to Shawn Ryan's three-hour blackpill session with Megyn Kelly, to the ballot counting in Los Angeles that just keeps going — we break down what's actually happening and why it matters. 🦟 A Western Michigan professor published a peer-reviewed paper arguing society has a moral DUTY to spread tick-borne disease to stop people from eating meat. The paper is real. So is our response. ⚖️ A viral X trend about women still in contact with their "ex rapist" raises the conversation nobody wants to have about due process, false allegations, and the men who lose everything before a single charge is filed. 🧬 A YouTuber with four million subscribers announced he terminated his pregnancy over a Down syndrome diagnosis — and opened up the eugenics question America refuses to answer honestly. 🗳️ Polls closed Tuesday in Los Angeles. It is Thursday. Only 62% of the vote is counted. California law allows mail-in ballots to arrive seven days after election day. Late ballots break left. They always do. 🎙️ Sharon Stone went on a podcast and told a 25-year-old story about her ex-husband walking out of a doctor's appointment. The internet delivered its verdict in four minutes. We have a few questions. 😮💨 Shawn Ryan declared himself fully blackpilled on the entire American political system in a three-hour session with Megyn Kelly. His grievances are largely factual. What he did with them is the problem. HOSTS THIS EPISODE 🎙️ Austin Petersen @AP4Liberty 🎙️ Steffi Petersen @SteffiP4Liberty Shop the merch: 4LibertyShop.com Get off the dollar: expatmoney.com/wworldwar3 Join the network: 4libertynetwork.com Support the show: wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #FreedomFamilyFriday #LibertyMovement #ElectionIntegrity #DueProcess #DownSyndrome #Eugenics #ShawnRyan #SharonStone #SpencerPratt #CaliforniaElection #AlphaGal #Bioethics #Blackpill #Milei #Rumble
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