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Streaming live Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9:30am Pacific, host Michael Boldin covers the latest news from the nullification movement – plus essential history lessons from the founders and old revolutionaries. All with a mind on strategy to support and advance the constitution and liberty today – and in the future.
Latest Episodes
General Welfare Warnings
Supporters of the monster state want you to believe that the "general Welfare clause" empowers the government to pretty much ...
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The National Debt is a National Curse
Washington, Jefferson, Madison - their warnings on a massive, permanent national debt have been totally ignored. And until they're heeded, ...
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Necessary is Supposed to Mean Necessary
When the Constitution was ratified, the word necessary meant, well, necessary. But in just a few short years, that was ...
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When Things Went Off the Rails, Revisited
The Constitution is not in force in any meaningful way. But it didn’t get like this overnight - not even ...
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Conscience, Muse and First Lady of the Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren was one of the most formidable intellectuals in eighteenth-century America. Her prolific writing on the most important ...
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Emergency Powers are Forever
Once ANY government is allowed to overreach and expand its powers, the genie will never voluntarily go back in the ...
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Category: 10th Amendment
The 10th Amendment: An Introduction
What does it mean, why did they think it was so important? And would we even have a constitution today ...
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The 10th Amendment: Sovereignty of the People of the Several States
In the system of the Founders, the powers of both the "general government and the state governments" are "emanations of ...
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The 10th Amendment and the Virginia Ratifying Convention
In Virginia, there was pretty fierce debate over the ratification of the Constitution. The principle of delegated and reserved powers ...
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Category: Nullification Essentials
Nullification: An Introduction
Relying on the federal government to limit its own power is not just bad strategy - it’s dangerous to the ...
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Did James Madison Reject Nullification?
Opponents of nullification often cite James Madison - author of the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 - as conclusive evidence that ...
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James Madison: How to Defeat Federal Programs
In response to the hated Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, on Dec 21 and Christmas Eve, Virginia passed a ...
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Category: Right to Keep and Bear Arms
4 Essential Steps to Nullify Federal Gun Control
All gun control is a violation of your natural right to keep and bear arms. But the ATF and their ...
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2nd Amendment Preservation: Foundation to Nullify Federal Gun Control
Using advice from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and others - and following up on the success implementing these strategies on ...
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Self-Defense: The First Law of Nature
The top-10 quotes from the founding generation on the natural right to keep and bear arms. Thomas Jefferson and George ...
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Category: In the Founders’ Words
Precedent Has Always Been the Problem
And no, we’re not referring to the courts, at least not this time. Wisdom and warnings from John Dickinson, George ...
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James Otis, Jr: Firebrand of the Revolution
Few today know James Otis, Jr. - born Feb 5, 1725 - whose 5 hour oration against the Writs of ...
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George Washington’s Warnings: Top-3 from his Farewell Address
Almost totally ignored today, George Washington's Farewell Address was packed full of advice and warnings for the future. On this ...
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Category: Federal Courts
The Supreme Court is a Big Part of the Problem: Police State Edition
Much of the police state we live under today has been given a green light by the Supreme Court - ...
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Who Decides? James Madison on Interpreting the Constitution
For the “Father of the Constitution,” giving interpretive supremacy to any one branch would destroy the separation of powers. So ...
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The #1 Reason the Supreme Court is a Waste of your Time
Under the monster state we all face today, no matter who sits on the supreme court, the federal government will ...
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Category: Police State
Copposition: Thin Blue Line vs the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
In state after state, after state ...the most aggressive - and effective - opponents of legislation to protect or advance ...
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Top-4 Lies in Support of Qualified Immunity
A legal doctrine created out of thin air by the federal courts, and then forced on all 50 states - ...
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State-Federal Task Forces and the National Police State
Through the proliferation of joint law enforcement task forces, the federal government is creating a national police force that operates ...
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Category: Nullification Strategy
Who is Supposed to Keep the Feds in Check?
Who is responsible for keeping the federal government within the limits of the Constitution? It’s definitely not about somehow magically ...
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Compliance is Violence: Dickinson and Spooner on the Path to Liberty
John Dickinson and Lysander Spooner were separated by nearly a century in life, and possibly even more in their political ...
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Partnerships Don’t Work When Half the Team Quits
The federal government and the states are partners in almost every major domestic policy area. And, as leading founders like ...
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Category: Essential History
When Did Things Go Off the Rails?
The Constitution is not in force in any meaningful way, but when did things get like this? Some people think ...
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Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of Why it Exists
Most people associate passage of amendments in the 1st Congress with the dogged persistence of Rep. James Madison. But if ...
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Common Sense: The Most Brilliant Pamphlet in History?
First published on January 10, 1776 - Thomas Paine’s Common Sense defended and inspired the cause of independence like no ...
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Category: Surveillance
Fusion Centers Facilitate Spying on Everybody
Fusion centers were sold to the public as state-federal partnerships to go after "the terrorists." But to keep their budgets ...
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Stolen Loot, Secret Spending and Stingray Surveillance
Asset forfeiture, federal equitable sharing funds, secret warrantless surveillance and more. All unconstitutional - and all in a day’s work ...
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Federal Stimulus Funds Gun Control Surveillance
A gun control surveillance technology - “acoustic gunshot detection” - has been funded by unconstitutional federal grants to local police ...
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Category: War Powers
War Powers and the Constitution: An Overview
“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question ...
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James Madison: Universal Peace
In a little-known 1792 essay, James Madison recognized that “a universal and perpetual peace” is something that might never exist ...
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Liberty is the Price of Endless War
When most people talk about federal overreach, they generally focus on domestic issues - education, healthcare, social policy, mandates, and ...
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Category: Asset Forfeiture
Stolen Loot, Secret Spending and Stingray Surveillance
Asset forfeiture, federal equitable sharing funds, secret warrantless surveillance and more. All unconstitutional - and all in a day’s work ...
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Criminal: The Federal “Equitable Sharing” Asset Forfeiture Program
In 1984, a Senator from Delaware who now lives in the White House helped create the federal civil asset forfeiture ...
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2nd Amendment: What the Heck is Happening in Texas?
Some bad news, followed by more bad news, unfortunately. A “2nd Amendment Sanctuary” bill in Texas has a pretty major ...
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Category: Nullification Movement
State of the Nullification Movement 2021
We were warned. Relying on the federal government to magically limit its own power would guarantee that power would always ...
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Status Report: Nullify Federal Gun Control
States have the power to pull the rug out from under federal gun control enforcement. Get a status report update ...
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Dozens of Small Towns Reject Federal Bribe Money
With federal “funding” comes federal strings - and federal control. And while most state and local governments are happy with ...
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Category: Federal Reserve
Inflation: An Introduction
Supporters of the monster state love using the term “inflation” not to describe inflation, but the effects of it. That ...
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Thomas Paine: The Evils of Paper Money
While most people associate support for sound money with founders like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in 1786 Thomas Paine ...
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Using the Financial System as a Foreign Policy Weapon
The U.S. doesn’t only project power across the globe through its massive military. It also weaponizes the U.S. dollar, using ...
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Category: Brutus’ Antifederalist Papers
The Dangers of Consolidation: Antifederalist Brutus No. 1
Whether they supported or opposed the Constitution - virtually everyone at the time of ratification was in agreement on at ...
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Consolidation vs Natural Liberty: Antifederalist Brutus No. 2
With a natural rights foundation - along with warnings about consolidation and people with power - in his 2nd of ...
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Oppress and Plunder: Antifederalist Brutus No. 3
In his 3rd essay, Antifederalist Brutus made the case that ratification should be rejected because representation in Congress was far ...
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Category: Cato’s Antifederalist Papers
Urging Caution: Antifederalist Cato No. 1
Just days after the proposed Constitution was signed in Philadelphia, the first of Cato’s Antifederalist papers was published in the ...
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Hamilton’s Dictatorship: Antifederalist Cato No. 2
In response to the first published antifederalist paper from Cato, Alexander Hamilton (likely) launched a scatching attack. Writing as Caesar, ...
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Consolidation Leads to Force: Antifederalist Cato No. 3
In his 3rd paper, Cato focuses on the dangers of consolidation, or centralization of power. In support, he relies on ...
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Category: Patrick Henry’s Antifederalist Speeches
We the People or We the States: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speech No. 1
In his first speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry challenged the legitimacy of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, ...
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Liberty or Empire: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speech No. 2
Centralization of power, standing armies, an elected king - would lead to a mighty empire, rather than a land of ...
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Don’t Give in to Fear: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speech No. 3
Responding to Federalist claims that rejecting ratification would lead to danger, chaos and potential ruin, Patrick Henry took the other ...
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