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Wake Up America with Austin Petersen
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The Founders didn't build a libertarian utopia or a progressive origin myth — they built libertarian nationalism, and 250 years later Washington can't define it. Austin reads what Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay actually wrote and makes the argument both sides need you to never hear. Then: Rubio quoted Cypress Hill and started a 2028 primary nobody announced. Vance was in Iowa explaining a war he privately opposed. We run both men through the libertarian nationalist scorecard. Jeremy Kauffman — blockchain entrepreneur and LP of New Hampshire chairman — joins to answer whether a party with no senators, no governors, and a peak of three percent still deserves to exist. The national LP censured his state party. He endorsed Trump anyway. And Maggie Anders, Young Voices Commentator, breaks down Spencer Pratt's run for Mayor of LA — second place in a fourteen-candidate field, Joe Rogan's backing, a viral Gotham ad, and five weeks to the June 2nd primary. Karen Bass called it a Trump impression. Los Angeles is a lot right now. 🏛️ Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay — what they actually wrote, why the Founders were libertarian nationalists before the term existed, and why both the left and the right need you to never make this argument ⚔️ The 2028 primary scorecard: Rubio vs. Vance on economics, foreign policy, and character — who passes the libertarian nationalist test and who is performing loyalty instead of governing by conviction 🗳️ The Libertarian Party at fifty-three years old — no presidents, no senators, one percent of the vote on a good night, and a state chairman who endorsed Trump over his own party's nominee 🎬 Spencer Pratt for Mayor of LA — the Palisades fire, the cover-up, the homeless industrial complex, the viral ads, and whether an outsider can actually crack the deep blue urban machine with five weeks to go GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Jeremy Kauffman — @jeremykauffman on X 🎙️ Maggie Anders — @maggiemoda on X ☕ SHOP THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION AND THE FULL LIBERTY STORE: → 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 PROTECT WHAT YOU'VE BUILT — OFFSHORE, LEGAL, AND YOURS: → expatmoney.com/AUSTIN 🤝 JOIN THE COMMUNITY ON DISCORD: → 4libertynetwork.com 💪 SUPPORT THE NETWORK AND KEEP INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE MEDIA ALIVE: → wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #250thAnniversary #July4th #LibertarianNationalism #Jefferson #Hamilton #Madison #Founders #Rubio2028 #JDVance #2028Primary #IranWar #LibertyParty #LibertarianParty #JeremyKauffman #SpencerPratt #LAMayor #KarenBass #PalisadesFire #LosAngeles #MaggieAnders #YoungVoices #MAGA #FreeState #NewHampshire #Liberty #Constitution #NaturalRights

The American right has a Jewish problem -- and it's not the one the Groypers think it is. Today we tell the story they buried in your history class: Haym Salomon, the Polish-born Jewish immigrant who financed the Revolution, raised the $20,000 that funded Yorktown, personally lent money to Madison, Jefferson, and Monroe at no interest, and died broke at 44 while Congress stiffed his family. Then we make the libertarian nationalist case for why Israel and America share the same civilizational DNA -- and why the foreign-amplified antisemitism operation currently running inside the right is not America First. It never was. Plus Judge Andrew Napolitano on the Trump DOJ indicting James Comey over a photo of seashells, and writer Kevin Boyd on Austin's libertarian nationalist manifesto. 💰 Haym Salomon -- the forgotten founder who financed the Revolution 📜 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- the 1903 Russian forgery that became Hitler's blueprint and never went away 🔍 DataRepublican's forensic breakdown of Nick Fuentes's synthetic X amplification ⚖️ Judge Napolitano on Comey, the First Amendment, Brandenburg, Watts, and a prosecution that should not survive first contact with a federal judge 📖 Kevin Boyd (@TheKevinBoyd) on Austin's libertarian nationalist manifesto -- what it gets right, what it demands, and whether the liberty movement can actually govern Guests: Judge Andrew Napolitano (@JudgeNap) · Kevin Boyd (@TheKevinBoyd) 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 💰 ExpatMoney.com/Austin 🎮 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support 📺 rumble.com/ap4liberty #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #LibertarianNationalism #HaymSalomon #Israel #Protocols #NickFuentes #Groypers #RonPaul #FirstAmendment #Comey #JudgeNapolitano #KevinBoyd #RiseAndFreedom

WAKE UP AMERICA WITH AUSTIN PETERSEN | MAY 4, 2026 CAN SPENCER PRATT SAVE LOS ANGELES? Early voting starts TODAY in the race to replace Karen Bass -- and the man from The Hills is polling in second place. We break down why the joke became a serious indictment of Democrat governance in America's second-largest city. THEN: Elizabeth Warren killed Spirit Airlines. Saturday morning at 3am, after 34 years and 17,000 jobs, Spirit shut off the lights. Warren's only response? Her 2024 tweet calling the merger block "a Biden win for flyers." Secretary Sean Duffy named names Saturday morning. We have everything. PLUS: The Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling Wednesday that effectively rewrites the Voting Rights Act -- and Florida redrew its congressional map within the HOUR. Dan McCarthy from Heritage joins us to break it all down. AND: Jon Miltimore of AIER joins us live as well as Dan McCarthy from Heritage. JOIN THE PATRIOTS: $17.76/month at wakeupamericashow.com -- 20% off all merch + exclusive in-person events SHOP THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION: 4LibertyShop.com JOIN THE DISCORD: 4LibertyNetwork.com WATCH LIVE: rumble.com/ap4liberty SPONSOR: Expat Money with Mikkel Thorup -- expatmoney.com/austin BONUS CONTENT: $100 raised = 5-min American Revolution hero mini-documentary (plays instead of commercials) $150 = Great Grift Off Liberty Loot LIVE game show -- play on your phone for real prizes

Austin Petersen and Jeremy Kauffman host an event in Manchester, New Hampshire to discuss the ideals that are driving conversations around the world.

ON MONDAY APRIL 27TH, THIRTY-SIX HOURS AFTER A MAN NAMED COLE TOMAS ALLEN WALKED INTO THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER WITH A SHOTGUN, A HANDGUN, AND KNIVES AND TRIED TO ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, WAKE UP AMERICA BUILDS THE COMPLETE CASE — FROM BUTLER TO WEST PALM BEACH TO THE WASHINGTON HILTON. THIS IS THE THIRD ATTEMPT ON TRUMP'S LIFE AND THIS MORNING WE TELL YOU EVERYTHING THE MAINSTREAM PRESS WON'T. Austin Petersen breaks down nine years of left-wing rhetoric that built the ideology behind Saturday night's attack — Hasan Piker justifying political murder in the New York Times five days before the shooting, Hakeem Jeffries calling for "maximum warfare everywhere all the time," Jimmy Kimmel calling Melania Trump an "expectant widow" three days before a man tried to make her one, and the left calling the whole thing staged before the smoke cleared. GUESTS THIS EPISODE: ▶ Maggie Moda —@MaggieModa— On the assassination attempt, Erika Kirk's heartbreaking moment Saturday night, and why the left can't stop targeting the widow of Charlie Kirk ▶ Jon Miltimore, Senior Editor at AIER — @Miltimore79 — On the free speech paradox at the heart of this attack: the left spent years arguing speech is violence, and Cole Allen just proved their speech produces it STAY CONNECTED: 🔴 Join Petersens Patriots — $17.76/mo at wakeupamericashow.com — 20% off the shop + exclusive events 🛒 250th Anniversary Collection — 4libertyshop.com 💬 Discord Community — 4LibertyNetwork.com BONUS CONTENT UNLOCKS: $100 in Rumble rants, gift subs, or merch = Lego-style mini doc on an American Revolution hero $150 = The Great Grift Off Liberty Loot game show — YOU play on your phone for real prizes Wake Up America airs live Monday through Friday 7-9AM Central on Rumble. #TrumpAssassinationAttempt #WHCD #ColeThomasAllen #WakeUpAmerica #HasanPiker #StochasticTerrorism #ErikaKirk #JonMiltimore #AustinPetersen #FreeSpeech #Rumble #Conservative #Libertarian #2ndAmendment #MAGA

It's Freedom Family Friday and the Petersen family is bringing the heat! Today's episode covers Missouri's landmark bathroom bill -- the redhead science story taking the internet by storm -- Kamala Harris telling Black women to say "imma get mine" while rocking a brand new accent -- the death of dating in America -- and the great workforce flip that nobody in Washington wants to talk about. 🪧 Missouri just passed HB 2536 -- every Democrat voted no 🧬 A Nature study says gingers are multiplying -- and science can't explain why 🎤 Kamala's "blaccent" is back and she wants Black women to be transactional 💔 Only 30% of young adults are actively dating -- and they don't know why 👩💼 Women now hold more jobs than men for the first time in 250 years -- and still do more housework Subscribe to Wake Up America and join the Freedom Family at wakeupamericashow.com/support 🛒 Shop 4Liberty: 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 Protect your wealth offshore: ExpatMoney.com/Austin 🎙️ Join the network: 4libertynetwork.com Featuring @SteffiP4Liberty #WakeUpAmerica #FreedomFamilyFriday #MissouriBathroomBill #Kamala2028 #DatingRecession #WorkforceFlip #Gingers #AP4Liberty Watch on Rumble: rumble.com/ap4liberty

🎙️ Jeopardy Bingo Night LIVE | Freedom Arcade Tonight's Freedom Arcade is going full game show — Jeopardy-style trivia meets live Bingo in one chaotic, competitive, can't-miss stream. Austin Petersen and Steffi Petersen are hosting a fast, funny night packed with trivia categories, surprise answers, and Bingo cards that'll have you on the edge of your seat. Think you know your stuff? Phrase it in the form of a question and find out. 🔥 Here's the twist… YOU can be on the show. Members can jump into the action LIVE through the Freedom Arcade video channel on Discord 👉 Join here: https://4LibertyNetwork.com 🎯 What to expect: Jeopardy-style trivia across rotating categories Live Bingo rounds with real-time audience participation Competitive rounds, curveball clues, and chaotic fun Austin and Steffi hosting the madness Prizes, bragging rights, and plenty of laughs 🚨 IMPORTANT: This is a MEMBERS-ONLY RUMBLE STREAM If you're not a member yet, now's your chance to jump in and be part of the action. So grab your Bingo card, brush up on your categories, and get ready to answer in the form of a question — Freedom Arcade style.

AMAZON BANNED YOUR CHURCH, YOUTUBE FLAGGED YOUR VIDEOS, AND PAYPAL SHUT DOWN YOUR ACCOUNT BASED ON THE HATE MAP OF AN ORGANIZATION THAT WAS SECRETLY WRITING CHECKS TO THE KU KLUX KLAN, AND THIS WEEK THEY GOT HIT WITH AN ELEVEN-COUNT FEDERAL INDICTMENT. The Southern Poverty Law Center has been federally indicted on wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering charges. The DOJ alleges they secretly funneled more than three million dollars to operatives inside the KKK, the Aryan Nations, the National Alliance, and the National Socialist Movement -- while using their hate map to get conservative and Christian organizations deplatformed, debanked, and destroyed. One of their paid operatives was in the leadership chat group that planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Biden's DOJ opened the investigation and closed it. Trump's DOJ reopened it. Now it's a grand jury indictment. We have the full breakdown -- the Charlottesville detail the media is burying, the Big Tech angle nobody else is running, and the question of who in Biden's DOJ decided this file wasn't worth pursuing. Then -- the science of fatherhood that the culture does not want you to hear. A Notre Dame anthropologist spent an entire pregnancy collecting his own saliva every week and sending it to a lab to measure his own testosterone in real time. What he found was later confirmed across 624 men in the largest longitudinal study of fatherhood ever conducted. Your brain physically rewires when you show up. Your testosterone doesn't drop -- it redirects. And fatherlessness isn't just a social crisis. It's a hormonal one, compounding across generations. Forty percent out-of-wedlock birth rate and nobody in Washington will say what the peer-reviewed science already knows. We will. 🏛️ SPLC INDICTED -- the shell companies, the Charlottesville operative, the seven hundred million dollar endowment with Cayman Islands accounts, and the Biden DOJ decision to bury the investigation 💻 THE BIG TECH ANGLE -- Amazon, YouTube, PayPal, Eventbrite, and Discover Card all enforced the SPLC hate map while the SPLC was allegedly on the phone with the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America 🧬 THE SCIENCE OF FATHERHOOD -- testosterone, gray matter rewiring, the generational hormonal crisis nobody is naming, and what Pete Davidson's tattoo removal actually tells us about male biology 🎙️ MAGGIE ANDERS breaks down the Sydney Sweeney backlash and the SPLC story as two chapters of the same collapse -- who controls the narrative in America and what happens when that control starts to crack 🗳️ JAMES WILEY -- the Red Flame of Liberty, former Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of Colorado, now running for Colorado Secretary of State as a Republican -- on Tina Peters, decertifying the machines, and why the sleeper race in Colorado matters to every liberty-minded voter in the country GUESTS THIS EPISODE: 🎙️ Maggie Anders -- @maggiemoda on X 🎙️ James Wiley -- @redflameliberty on X ☕ FOUNDING FLAVORS COFFEE AND THE FULL LIBERTY COLLECTION: → 4LibertyShop.com 🌍 PROTECT YOUR WEALTH AND EXPLORE LIFE OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM: → ExpatMoney.com/Austin 🤝 JOIN THE COMMUNITY ON DISCORD: → 4libertynetwork.com 💪 SUPPORT THE NETWORK AND KEEP INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE MEDIA ALIVE: → wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #SPLC #SouthernPovertyLawCenter #SPLCIndicted #BigTech #BidenDOJ #ElectionIntegrity #TinaPeters #LibertyNationalism #JamesWiley #SydneySweeney #Euphoria #Fatherhood #Testosterone #KKK #Charlottesville #ConservativeMedia #Rumble #FreedomMedia

WAKE UP AMERICA | THE SPLC WAS PAYING THE KKK, THE SUPREME COURT'S SECRET POWER GRAB, AND PETE DAVIDSON'S $700K MISTAKE Yesterday the federal government indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on eleven counts of fraud and money laundering — accusing the organization of secretly funneling three million dollars in donor money to Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and Aryan Nations members through shell companies, in order to manufacture the very extremism they were raising hundreds of millions of dollars to fight. Today we go through every line of that indictment — the prepaid cards, the shell companies, the Unite the Right connection, the hate map that was used to blacklist conservative America, and the question nobody in the legacy media will ask: how many of the dots on that map were kept alive on donor money? Then Judge Andrew Napolitano joins us to break open a story buried for ten years — how Chief Justice John Roberts and four colleagues secretly rewired the Supreme Court in February 2016 while Justice Scalia was on vacation, erased two hundred years of constitutional precedent, and gave birth to the Shadow Docket. This one will make your blood boil. Plus O.W. Root of The Fitting Room joins us on Pete Davidson's $700K tattoo removal journey, the cleanskin vindication, and what his laser bill tells us about American men, identity, and a culture that confused trend-following for self-expression. 🔥 THE HATE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX — The SPLC raised hundreds of millions fighting hate. A federal grand jury says they were funding it. The Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America was on their payroll. A member of the Unite the Right leadership group was on their payroll. And their hate map — the one used to blacklist the Family Research Council, Turning Point USA, Moms for Liberty, and dozens of other conservative organizations — was being populated by people they were paying. Charlie Kirk warned about it a year before the indictment. He's not here to see it confirmed. ⚖️ THE SHADOW DOCKET — In February 2016, Chief Justice Roberts passed notes to eight vacationing colleagues and asked them to rule on a case that wasn't before them — without briefing, without oral argument, without debate. Justice Scalia cast his final vote. He died the next day. And the Supreme Court has never been the same. 🪞 THE CLEANSKIN VINDICATION — Pete Davidson is thirty percent done removing two hundred tattoos at a total cost approaching seven hundred thousand dollars. The guy who never got the tattoo woke up this morning and felt the sun on his skin. It cost him nothing. That guy was always winning. 🎙️ JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO (@JudgeNap) joins Austin on the secret act of judicial tyranny hiding in plain sight — and whether Americans should still trust the Supreme Court to protect their liberties 🎙️ O.W. ROOT (@owroot) of The Fitting Room joins Austin on Pete Davidson, the cleanskin moment, and what tattoo culture tells us about how American men lost the thread on identity 🔗 WATCH LIVE & SUPPORT THE SHOW: rumble.com/ap4liberty 🛒 SHOP THE MERCH: 4LibertyShop.com 🌐 JOIN THE NETWORK: 4libertynetwork.com 💰 PROTECT YOUR ASSETS INTERNATIONALLY: expatmoney.com/austin ❤️ SUPPORT THE SHOW DIRECTLY: wakeupamericashow.com/support 🎁 SPEND $100 IN RUMBLE RANTS OR AT 4LIBERTYSHOP.COM — UNLOCK THE LEGO MINI DOCUMENTARY 🎰 SPEND $150 — TRIGGER THE GREAT GRIFT OFF LIVE GAME SHOW #WakeUpAmerica #SPLC #HateMap #KKK #FBIIndictment #KashPatel #CharlieKirk #ShadowDocket #JudgeNapolitano #SupremeCourt #PeteDavidson #Cleanskin #OWRoot #TheFittingRoom #LibertyFirst #RiseAndFreedom

JAMES CARVILLE WENT ON HIS PODCAST AND TOLD DEMOCRATS TO ADD TWO STATES, PACK THE SUPREME COURT WITH THIRTEEN JUSTICES, AND -- DIRECT QUOTE -- "DON'T RUN ON IT. DON'T TALK ABOUT IT. JUST DO IT." HE SAID THAT. ON A PODCAST. THAT EVERYONE HEARD. The man who predicted with absolute certainty that Kamala Harris would win the 2024 election has now laid out the Democrat blueprint for permanent one-party rule -- four new Senate seats, a rigged Supreme Court, and a redrawn political map designed so they never lose again. Today we answer him. Because we have a statehood list too. And ours is built on freedom, not party math. Alberta wants in. Cuba deserves a fresh start. And the State of Jefferson has been waving a double-cross flag at Sacramento since 1941. Meanwhile the Mayor of Philadelphia just told her constituents "how dare you" question her right to tax their Uber rides to cover a three-hundred-million-dollar budget hole -- in a city Democrats have run for seventy straight years. And Billy Corgan says rock music was purposely dialed down to kill young male energy in the culture. Gerard Michaels joins us to make the case. 🗺️ CARVILLE'S CONFESSION -- "Don't run on it. Don't talk about it. Just do it." Four Senate seats, thirteen Supreme Court justices, and a permanent Democrat majority -- all announced on a podcast he told you not to listen to 🏛️ THE FREEDOM STATEHOOD LIST -- Alberta's separatists have the signatures for a referendum and "Make Alberta Great Again" hats. Cuba could be the next South Florida. The State of Jefferson has 1.7 million people and zero representation. Our list is better than Carville's and we can prove it. 🚗 PHILLY MAYOR SAYS "HOW DARE YOU" -- Cherelle Parker wants a dollar-per-ride tax on Uber and Lyft to plug a three-hundred-million-dollar budget shortfall in a city Democrats have controlled for over seventy years. Not an audit. A tax. On the working class. 🎸 THEY TURNED DOWN THE VOLUME ON WHITE BOY RAGE -- Billy Corgan said rock was purposely dialed down at MTV in 1997. The energy didn't disappear. It just went looking for a new home. Gerard Michaels, @GerardVsEvil, joins Austin to break down what happened -- and where it went. 💰 BOOMERS VS. MILLENNIALS VS. GEN X -- The Wall Street Journal finally looked at the data. The villain in the generational wealth story doesn't have a birth year. It has a zip code. Washington, D.C. 🎙️ CAMELLIA (@RareCamellia) joins Austin to break down Carville's power grab, the Philly Uber tax, and what one-party governance looks like when the bill finally comes due 🎙️ GERARD MICHAELS (@GerardVsEvil) joins Austin on the deliberate suppression of young male cultural energy -- from Woodstock to Staind to the ballot box 🔓 BONUS CONTENT UNLOCKS -- Spend $100 in Rumble Rants or at 4LibertyShop.com and unlock the exclusive Mini Documentary. Spend $150 and trigger THE GREAT GRIFT OFF -- our Liberty Loot Live Game Show where you win for calling out the swamp. ☕ THE FULL LIBERTY COLLECTION -- hats, tees, mugs, coffee, and more: → 4LibertyShop.com 🌎 BUILD YOUR PLAN B -- second residencies, second passports, real options for freedom-minded families: → ExpatMoney.com/Austin 🤝 JOIN THE COMMUNITY ON DISCORD: → 4libertynetwork.com 💪 SUPPORT INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE MEDIA: → wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #Carville #Statehood #Alberta #Cuba #StateOfJefferson #CafecitoLibre #MailynSalabarria #PhillyUberTax #CherelloParker #WhiteBoyRage #BillyCorgan #GerardVsEvil #RockMusic #Camellia #Boomers #Millennials #GenX #RiseAndFreedom #AP4Liberty #4LibertyShop #4LibertyNetwork #ExpatMoney #ConservativeMedia #Libertarian #MaryMatalin #JamesCarville #SupremeCourt #PackTheCourt #FreedomList