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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.
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The History behind the Three-Fifths Compromise
Of all the compromises which produced the Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, the Three-Fifths Compromise is probably considered ...
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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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Jury Nullification: 5 Founders and 4 States
To the Founding generation, Trial by Jury was considered an indispensable tool against the power of government. Although supporters of ...
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Ain’t Afraid of no Ghosts, Even if the ATF Wants us to Be
ATF officials met with manufacturers last week to discuss "issues of mutual concern." That is, new legislation or executive action ...
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Garbage in, Garbage out: Bad Foundations are Dangerous to Liberty
Many state legislators who claim to support the 2nd Amendment have a bad foundation on the right to keep and ...
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Predictive Policing Banned in 4 Cities. More Soon?
Little more than a dystopian pre-crime government credit score, predictive policing started out as a military intelligence application and is ...
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Category: 10th Amendment
The 10th Amendment Movement: A Revolution in Thought
A radical Change in the “Principles, Opinions, Sentiments and Affection of the People” was the real American Revolution of the ...
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10th Amendment: The Enumerated Powers of States
During the debates over ratifying the Constitution, its opponents said It’s not enough to list what the federal government can ...
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Constitution 101: Powers Reserved to the States or to the People
While the Constitution was being considered in state ratifying conventions, prominent supporters of ratification repeatedly gave the people lists of ...
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Category: Nullification Essentials
Thomas Jefferson’s Other Declaration: The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
Most people know that Jefferson was the primary drafter of the Declaration of Independence, but few have even heard of ...
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Nullification Wasn’t Invented by Thomas Jefferson
While some people may believe that Thomas Jefferson invented the doctrine of nullification - because he called it the “rightful ...
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and Nullification by Northern States
On September 18, 1850 - President Millard Fillmore signed the 2nd Fugitive Slave Act into law. In response to what ...
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Category: Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Worst in History: Smashing Federal Gun Control Records
As with last year, and the year before - the latest ATF data has been released, and the numbers are ...
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Bad Strategy: More Losses for the 2nd Amendment
In order to advance liberty in the face of the largest government in the history of the world, good strategy ...
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Nullify Attacks on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
How to stop federal restrictions on the 2nd Amendment? Follow the advice of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to undermine, ...
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Category: In the Founders’ Words
When Our Rights are Invaded: The Founders on Precedent and Resistance
As Thomas Jefferson warned us, to take a “single step” beyond the limits of the constitution is to take a ...
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History Ignored: James Wilson’s Speech on the Constitution
On Oct. 6, 1787, just over a week after the Confederation Congress voted to send the proposed Constitution to the ...
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Nullify! They Don’t Want us Doing This. We’re Doing it Anyway
Following the wisdom and advice of the Founders and Old Revolutionaries, we recognize that the federal government is one of ...
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Category: Federal Courts
The Marbury v Madison Myth
almost everything in modern "constitutional law" is based on a myth ...
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Supreme Court, Precedent and the Constitution
Stare decisis is the doctrine of precedent - that a court should rule the way a previous court did - ...
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John Marshall, the Commerce Clause and Gibbons v Ogden
While supporters - and opponents - of the monster state often point to 3 New Deal era cases as pivotal ...
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Category: Police State
Nullify the Police State: “No-Knock” Warrant Edition
3 Supreme Court opinions and the incorporation doctrine have taken this unconstitutional policy and forced it on all 50 states ...
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Lawless Law Enforcement: Asset Forfeiture Fuels Police Spending
Police treat civil asset forfeiture as a cash grab - like a highwayman doing roadside robberies - but funding their ...
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End Qualified Immunity from the Bottom Up
While states can't end a federally-imposed legal fiction on their own, a new state law to reform the practice can ...
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Category: Nullification Strategy
An “All or Nothing” Approach is Bad for Liberty
Have you ever been attacked as a "statist" because something you support to expand liberty - in a big or ...
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State of the Nullification Movement: Strategy, Theory and Action
Theory, strategy, advice - they're all important. But taking concrete steps to support the Constitution and advance liberty are essential ...
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What’s Next? How to Beat the Feds: Advice from Leading Founders
Whatever team is in charge in D.C., we’re still living under the largest government in the history of the world ...
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Category: Essential History
Otis, Adams, Dickinson: The Massachusetts Circular Letter
After John Dickinson urged them to take action in response to the Townshend Acts of 1767, James Otis, Jr. and ...
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Natural Rights: Liberty Doesn’t Need a Government Permission Slip
Even though many people credit Thomas Jefferson for the natural rights principles in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson himself pointed ...
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Prelude to Nullification and Freedom: The Pennsylvania Abolition Society
Personal Liberty Laws in response to the Federal Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850 were some of the most ...
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Category: Surveillance
Police Body Cams: A Bait and Switch?
Buyer beware. A tool exclusively in the hands of government probably isn't a good method to restrain that very same ...
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Stalker State: Patriot Act, Trace Act, and More Surveillance
Emergencies create the perfect excuse for government power to expand. Once established, these government powers never go away. On this ...
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Facial Recognition: Where it is, Where it’s Going and What Needs to be Done
In times of crisis and fear, government power always grows faster. And surveillance is one of the worst. In this ...
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Category: War Powers
Who Ends War under the Constitution? Iraq, Iran, AUMF Edition
On Thursday, the House passed an amendment to repeal the 2002 Iraq AUMF. The administration is vehemently opposed and will ...
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Thomas Jefferson vs the Barbary Pirates
Many people who support unconstitutional executive war powers like to claim that Thomas Jefferson took the same approach in the ...
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Refuting Lies: Iran, War and the Constitution
With the general public so wildly uninformed about the Constitution as ratified, coupled with a massive propaganda machine in support ...
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Category: Asset Forfeiture
The Constitution on the War on Drugs
Few programs have done such consistent and sweeping damage to the original, legal meaning of the Constitution as the so-called ...
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How Asset Forfeiture Drives the Police State
Civil asset forfeiture is legalized government stealing - it distorts law enforcement priorities and drives the national police state. Path ...
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Nullification News: 2A, Raw Milk, Forfeiture, Facial Recognition and more
It's nullification season! Michael Boldin reports on the latest efforts to reject, resist, undermine and nullify unconstitutional acts .Hear about ...
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Category: Nullification Movement
Fake 2nd Amendment Sanctuaries: Ignorance or Grandstanding?
Most local 2nd amendment “sanctuaries” have done nothing to end gun control on the books - and now a growing ...
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Status Report: Nullify the Surveillance State
Although NSA spying remains the most high-profile warrantless surveillance program, the federal government has created a national surveillance network that ...
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Status Report: End Asset Forfeiture in the States
Civil asset forfeiture is nothing more than legalized, institutionalized, government-sanctioned theft. But actions are being taken to stop it on ...
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Category: Federal Reserve
Status Report: End the Fed from the Bottom Up
The Federal Reserve is the engine that drives the most powerful government in history. But we can't count on the ...
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Big Spenders to the Right and the Left: Mind-Numbing Deficit Numbers Keep Growing
The federal reserve is the engine that drives the most powerful government in history. And big spenders on both sides ...
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Secrecy and No Reserves: Last Ditch Efforts from the Fed?
Two big changes from the federal reserve in recent weeks - the ability to operate in complete secrecy, and reducing ...
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