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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.
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🔥 Breaking news analysis
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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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Hasan Piker Had It Coming: A Message for All Commies in America
6d ago02:06:03Tap to summarizeHASAN PIKER WENT TO CUBA, LIVESTREAMED FROM A GENERATOR-POWERED FIVE-STAR HOTEL, AND NOW THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT IS ASKING QUESTIONS. THIS IS WHERE THE COMMUNIST LARP GETS PAPERWORK. The Communist Control Act passed the Senate 85-0 in 1954, survived in Title 50, and was built around one basic distinction: Americans can hold ugly political opinions, but organizations taking direction or support from foreign communist governments are a different legal animal. Seventy years later, Hasan Piker, CodePink, the Nuestra América Convoy, Cuba, CCP-linked influence networks, and OFAC subpoenas are dragging that old question back into the room. Today we break down the law, the money, the Cuba trip, and whether “it was just political speech” works when federal investigators start asking about sanctions, travel, logistics, and coordination with a regime on the State Sponsor of Terrorism list. 🕵️ The Communist Control Act, Hubert Humphrey, Eisenhower, CPUSA, and the anti-communist law still sitting in Title 50 🌴 Hasan Piker’s Cuba trip, the Nuestra América Convoy, CodePink, luxury hotel livestreams, and “Communist Cuba” as content tourism 💰 Neville Roy Singham, pro-China funding networks, CodePink, Progressive International, and the foreign-influence machine behind modern left-wing activism ⚖️ OFAC subpoenas, Treasury scrutiny, Cuban sanctions, and the line between protected speech and material support for foreign communist governments 👞 PLUS: The Libertarian Party convention melts down over professionalism, dress codes, stolen property, and whether the liberty movement can survive the circus GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Camellia — @RareCamellia 🎙️ Jeremy Kauffman — @jeremykauffman Get Expat Money’s free report, 8 Countries To Escape World War III, at expatmoney.com/worldwar3 Shop the 250th Anniversary Collection and all Wake Up America merch at 4LibertyShop.com Join the community at 4libertynetwork.com Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #HasanPiker #CommunistCuba #CodePink #Cuba #Communism #OFAC #LibertarianParty #AustinPetersen #4LibertyNetwork
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Dr. StrangeTrump, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Tell People Who Hate America To Get Out
1w ago00:56:28Tap to summarizeFreedom Family Friday is back and nothing at the dinner table is off limits. Harvard's been handing out A's like participation ribbons for thirty years, graduation crowds are booing AI into the ground, and Thomas Massie just lost the most expensive House primary in history — so we're having the conversation the liberty movement doesn't want to have. 🎓 Harvard admits 60% of grades were A's — faculty cap it at 20%, students call it racist 🤖 Grads boo AI at ceremonies nationwide — Schmidt, Borchetta, and Caulfield all get the treatment 🗽 Harvard students call America fascist, name Denmark and New Zealand as better options, decline free flights out 🎬 Denzel Washington: "I follow God, I don't follow man. You can't be canceled if you haven't signed up." ⚖️ Thomas Massie loses 55-45 — Austin on why the liberty movement needs to stop mistaking online applause for a coalition HOSTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Steffi Petersen @SteffiP4Liberty 🎙️ Justin Petersen @JustinJPetersen Shop the 250th Anniversary Collection: 4LibertyShop.com Protect your wealth abroad: expatmoney.com/AUSTIN Join the community: 4libertynetwork.com Support the show: wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #FreedomFamilyFriday #ThomasMassie #Harvard #CancelCulture #DenzelWashington #AI #LibertyMovement #AP4Liberty #Rumble
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The Libertarian’s Guide to Being Less Of A Loser: ft @blakekresses @ToryAnarchist
1w ago02:00:20Tap to summarizeTHE LIBERTARIAN PARTY IS DEBATING WHETHER A MAN CAN SHOW UP TO THEIR NATIONAL CONVENTION IN A TUTU. THIS IS WHERE THEY ARE IN 2026. Thomas Massie lost his congressional seat this week in the most expensive house primary in American history. The first person to eulogize him was a democrat from california who immediately started recruiting his voters. Javier Milei cut poverty in Argentina from 41 percent to 27 percent in under two years by actually governing. The American liberty movement has the same ideas and a dress code problem. Today we make the diagnosis and write the prescription. 🩺 Fifty-three years, zero congressional seats, one thong, one pistol in the trash, one libertarian moment fumbled on morning joe 💊 Milei, the dojo, the manifesto, and what the american liberty movement has to become to find its american milei 🔒 Thomas massie's border record, the maga vs libertarian rift, and why the liberty movement's open borders problem finally caught up with it 📖 Why massie's loss was inevitable, what the ron paul coalition never understood about governing, and what rand paul has to do before 2028 GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Blake Kresses — @BlakeKresses 🎙️ Daniel McCarthy — @ToryAnarchist Shop the 250th Anniversary Collection and all Wake Up America merch at 4LibertyShop.com Protect your wealth and plan your future at expatmoney.com/AUSTIN Join the community at 4libertynetwork.com Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #LibertarianNationalism #ThomasMassie #JavierMilei #LP2026 #MAGA #AmericaFirst #Liberty #AustinPetersen #Rumble
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Death Of The Tea Party: Thomas Massie’s Loss and Why Libertarians Are To Blame
1w ago01:54:12Tap to summarizeTHOMAS MASSIE IS GOING HOME TO HIS FARM THIS MORNING — AND THE LIBERTY MOVEMENT NEEDS TO HEAR WHY. Thirty-four million dollars and a presidential endorsement bought a congressional seat in Kentucky last night. This morning we are sitting with exactly what was lost, whose fault it actually is, and what the movement does next. Plus Judge Napolitano on Trump's $1.8 billion constitutional end-run, and Mike Ter Maat on what comes after the libertarian party. 🏛️ The real cost of Massie's loss — by bill number, vote count, and dollar figure — and the honest reckoning of how Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the groyper network handed the opposition everything they needed. ⚖️ Judge Andrew Napolitano on Trump's $1.8 billion IRS self-settlement 🗳️ Mike Ter Maat — former LP VP nominee and author of Broken — on the national campaign he says has never been attempted in 250 years of American political history. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: ⚖️ Judge Andrew Napolitano — @Judgenap 🗽 Mike Ter Maat — @miketermaat_ Shop freedom merch: 4LibertyShop.com Build your Plan B: expatmoney.com/AUSTIN Stream live: 4libertynetwork.com Support the show: wakeupamericashow.com/support FreedomFest 2026 — use code 4Liberty100 for $100 off your Regular Attendee or VIP Full Pass: https://tinyurl.com/FreedomFest26 #WakeUpAmerica #ThomasMassie #LibertyMovement #RandPaul #Epstein #AIPAC #Constitution #JudgeNapolitano #MikeTerMaat #FreedomFest #LibertarianParty #PRIMEAct #GOP #Kentucky #ElectionResults #ManagedDecline #AmericaFirst
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250th America’s Manifest Destiny: Harrisburg to Havana
2w ago02:03:04Tap to summarizeWe mark the 250th anniversary by reading the parts of the Declaration nobody puts on the merch -- Jefferson's criminal charges against a king who blocked western settlement, strangled immigration, and held land promises over men who had bled for them. Then we turn to Cuba, where classified intel says the island has acquired 300+ military drones from Russia and Iran. We go back to the Bay of Pigs to establish the one rule that covers everything that comes next: half measures are always wrong. And we close with the hardest question in the room -- if the Castro regime falls, can the Cubans still on the island actually govern themselves, or does the best argument for a free Cuba walk around Miami? Plus the prediction market corruption story for what it actually is -- not a technology problem, but the oldest compensation trap in the republic. 🇺🇸 A1 -- Jefferson's grievance, the Proclamation of 1763, and the manifest destiny already baked into the founding documents ⚔️ A2 -- Bay of Pigs, the half-measure doctrine, Cuba's drone arsenal, and the statehood question Washington isn't ready to ask 🎙️ B1 -- Jon Miltimore on prediction markets, insider trading, and why Polymarket didn't invent the corruption 🇨🇺 B2 -- Mailyn Salabarria on growing up inside Castro's Cuba and whether a free Cuba can govern itself GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🎙️ Jon Miltimore -- Senior Editor, American Institute for Economic Research | @miltimore79 🇨🇺 Mailyn Salabarria -- Speaker, The Dissident Project | @MailynSpeaks 4LibertyShop.com expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 4libertynetwork.com wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #Cuba #BayOfPigs #DeclarationOfIndependence #America250 #ManifestDestiny #PredictionMarkets #Polymarket #Kalshi #InsiderTrading #Libertarian #AustinPetersen #Rumble
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MASSIE VS MAGA DEBATE Feat. @realTomPappert and @TheVinoMom
2w ago02:05:15Tap to summarizeMASSIE VS MAGA Feat. @realTomPappert and @TheVinoMom Thomas Massie has become the fault line between the liberty right and the MAGA right. Trump wants him gone. Massie’s defenders say he is one of the last real constitutional conservatives in Congress. His critics say he has become a political liability surrounded by bad strategy, bad timing, and a coalition problem that could poison the movement he helped build. Austin is joined by Tom Pappert and Tiffany Cianci for a full Massie vs MAGA debate. 💸 Massie vs Trump: the debt fight, the One Big Beautiful Bill, and the 3 a.m. vote where every Republican folded except Massie 🥛 The pro-Massie case: Tea Party roots, Ron Paul liberty politics, raw milk, small farms, anti-surveillance votes, anti-war votes, and his COVID stand against both parties 🔥 The anti-Massie case: Epstein strategy, MAGA backlash, Ryan Matta controversy, and whether Massie picked a fight that helps nobody ⚖️ Cynthia West allegations, hidden replies, election-week timing, and the transparency standard Massie built for everyone else 🗳️ Tom Pappert and Tiffany Cianci debate whether Kentucky should keep Massie or move on THIS EPISODE: Tom Pappert @realTomPappert, and Tiffany Cianci @TheVinoMom 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 💰 expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 🌐 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #MassieVsMAGA #ThomasMassie #MAGA #Trump #Kentucky #Libertarian #TeaParty #RonPaul #RandPaul #EpsteinFiles #DebtClock #RawMilk #AustinPetersen
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Why This Libertarian Changed His Mind on Immigration...
2w ago02:06:01Tap to summarizeWHY A LIBERTARIAN CHANGED HIS MIND ON IMMIGRATION -- AND THE ELECTION PLAYBOOK THAT COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING ELSE. On today's show, we break down the Japan mosque protests, how Cato's immigration data has been misleading the movement for decades, and lay out a fully updated standard for who belongs in this country. Camellia from AFP-Missouri covers the Supreme Court's unanimous redistricting win, the AI bill that died 11-0 the same morning a billion-dollar factory broke ground in Independence, and what both tell us about Jefferson City's real priorities. Then Cliff Maloney joins us with Run Right -- nine million doors, 418 wins, and the hard truth about why conservatives keep losing winnable races. ⛩️ Thousands of Japanese citizens protest a mosque in Fujisawa -- and what it reveals about civilizational confidence 📊 How the Cato Institute's immigration analytics have been misleading libertarians for thirty years 🍔 The Bacon Cheeseburger Standard -- what it means, why it matters, and why it's not a joke anymore 🗺️ Missouri Supreme Court upholds the gerrymandered congressional map -- the August primary is locked in 🤖 The AI liability bill Missouri Republicans killed 11-0 after stripping child safety provisions to satisfy the White House 🏗️ Nebius breaks ground on a gigawatt-scale AI factory in Independence -- 400 acres, $650M to local schools, and a Yandex connection worth asking about 📖 Cliff Maloney on Run Right, Disney Politics, ballot chasing, and why unless you are politically feared you will not be politically respected GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🌸 Camellia -- AFP-Missouri -- @RareCamellia 🚪 Cliff Maloney -- Run Right -- @Maloney 🛍️ Shop the rebellion: 4LibertyShop.com 💸 Build your Plan B: expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 🌐 Join the network: 4libertynetwork.com 🗽 Support the show: wakeupamericashow.com/support 🎟️ Join us at FreedomFest in Las Vegas -- use code 4LIBERTY100 for $100 off: tinyurl.com/FreedomFest26 #WakeUpAmerica #Immigration #LibertarianNationalism #Missouri #AI #RunRight #FreedomFest #ElectionStrategy #CatoInstitute #CheeseburgerStandard #4LibertyNetwork
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”Cow Money” & Cover-Ups: The Thomas Massie Allegations & The Kentucky Primary Bombshell
2w ago02:00:05Tap to summarizeNSFW. THOMAS MASSIE IS FACING EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS FROM A FORMER ROMANTIC PARTNER — AND THE TIMING, ONE WEEK BEFORE THE MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSE PRIMARY IN AMERICAN HISTORY, RAISES AS MANY QUESTIONS AS THE CLAIMS THEMSELVES. We break down the Cynthia West allegations against Rep. Thomas Massie, the congressional slush fund that has paid out millions in taxpayer-funded silence, and the founding fathers who set the precedent for all of it. Will Chamberlain and Judge Andrew Napolitano join to walk through the legal architecture — what the allegations actually mean, what could be prosecuted, and what happens after May 19th. 🏛️ Sex scandals of the founding fathers, a pattern as old as the republic ⚖️ The congressional slush fund that paid $18M to silence misconduct victims 🔍 Cynthia West's allegations against Massie — what she claims and what's verified 📋 The dismissed October 2024 abuse affidavit and what it means for her credibility ⏰ Why the timing of this story is suspicious — and why that doesn't make it false 🤔 The hypocrisy question: can the king of transparency survive a transparency test 👨⚖️ GUESTS: Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) and Judge Andrew Napolitano (@JudgeNap) 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 💰 expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 🎙️ 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #ThomasMassie #WakeUpAmerica #Epstein #Kentucky #Congress #AustinPetersen #Rumble #JudgingFreedom #NSFW
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THE NIMBYS HELPING CHINA WIN THE AI WAR (AND THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW IT)
3w ago01:46:29Tap to summarizeAmerica turns 250 and the left is still lying about what the founders believed about education. Then we go after the NIMBYs blocking data centers while China builds the future. Camellia from AFP-Missouri breaks down the new laws Governor Kehoe just signed — including the child grooming statute and the hemp ban that is about to start a fight. And Mike Ter Maat, the 2024 LP vice presidential nominee who walked out the door with forty-five people behind him, joins us to answer the question: Should the LP be abolished? 🎓 What Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton actually believed about education — and why the federal bureaucracy claiming their legacy has the worst results in thirty years 📉 45% of seniors below basic in math, 32% can't find details in a text — Isabel Paterson called it in 1943 and nobody listened 🏗️ 188 opposition groups in 40 states blocked $98 billion in data center projects in a single quarter — while China executes a national AI strategy with no planning commissions and no petition drives 💸 America outspent China 23-to-1 on AI and the performance gap is now 2.7 percent — the Sputnik moment is here and our response is a HOA meeting ⚖️ Missouri's new laws: child grooming defined in statute, the divorce pregnancy barrier gone, hemp-derived THC banned in November, predatory ADA lawsuits restricted 🗳️ Mike Ter Maat on leaving the LP, the Republican Liberty Caucus, and what "unprecedented in 250 years of American political history" actually means GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Camellia — @RareCamellia on X 🎙️ Mike Ter Maat — @miketermaat_ on X 🛒 SHOP THE FULL LIBERTY COLLECTION: → 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 PROTECT WHAT YOU'VE BUILT: → expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 🤝 JOIN THE COMMUNITY: → 4libertynetwork.com 💪 SUPPORT INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE MEDIA: → wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #Education #FoundingFathers #IsabelPaterson #PublicSchools #DataCenters #NIMBY #AI #China #DeepSeek #Luddites #MikeTerMaat #LibertarianParty #FreedomFest #RLC #Missouri #Camellia #AFPMissouri #ChildGrooming #HempBan #250thAnniversary #Liberty #Constitution #Redistricting #Conservative #Libertarian
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AOC Has Plans to Become a God-Queen
3w ago01:59:46Tap to summarizeAOC WANTS TO BECOME A GOD-QUEEN Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says her agenda is bigger than any election — and she means it. Tom Pappert joins to break down the redistricting war reshaping the 2026 midterms after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Jon Miltimore on the EEOC suing the New York Times for racial discrimination — and why the paper's defense sounds exactly like what conservatives have been saying for a decade. And Navy SEAL sniper instructor Brandon Webb wrote a parenting book that is not what you expect. 🗽 AOC's "forever" agenda — and the last guy who talked like this turned Venezuela into a famine ⚖️ Tennessee wipes out its only Democratic seat — Tom Pappert on the redistricting sprint nobody saw coming 🗞️ The EEOC just sued the New York Times for DEI discrimination — Jon Miltimore on how the legal reckoning finally arrived 🪖 Brandon Webb trained SEAL snipers — now he's teaching parents how to raise kids who don't break GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Tom Pappert — @realTomPappert on X 🎙️ Jon Miltimore — @miltimore79 on X 🎙️ Brandon Webb — @BrandonTWebb 🛒 SHOP THE FULL LIBERTY COLLECTION: → 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 PROTECT WHAT YOU'VE BUILT: → expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 🤝 JOIN THE COMMUNITY: → 4libertynetwork.com 💪 SUPPORT INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE MEDIA: → wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #AOC #Socialism #Venezuela #HugoChavez #DEI #NewYorkTimes #EEOC #Meritocracy #Redistricting #Tennessee #VotingRightsAct #SCOTUS #TomPappert #JonMiltimore #BrandonWebb #PuddleJumpers #NavySEAL #Parenting #2026Midterms #Liberty #Conservative #Libertarian
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