The Wake Up America show with Austin Petersen

Why Joseph McCarthy Was Right

Flock Cameras: Safety Measure or Surveillance State?

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

Hasan Piker Praises Mao — Let’s Talk About the Tens of Millions He Starved

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 is a Greater Threat to National Security? America’s or China’s?

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

Will DEI Ruin The Odyssey? Freedom Family Friday

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 Simple: Black Don’t Support It Like White People Do

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 Sets the Record Straight for the ICC: America is the World’s Police

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’s Israel Palestine LARP. This is Who is Running Democrat in 2028?

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

Did Lindsey Graham Win?

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: Who’s Really Suffering More?

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