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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
Liberty and Freedom: A View from the Founders
To many people today, liberty is little more than choosing new people to rule over them every few years. And ...
Fear is the Foundation of Government Power
A culture of obedience and compliance guarantees that government will never stop growing - and defiance and nullification represent the ...
Nullify the Federal “Equitable Sharing” Asset Forfeiture Program
Even when states end civil asset forfeiture, a federal program called “equitable sharing” encourages them to participate in a federal ...
Armies and Debts and Taxes. Oh My!
The founders warned us - over and over and over again - about the dangers to liberty from war. As ...
Thomas Jefferson vs the Surveillance State
Applying Thomas Jefferson’s strategy for advancing liberty to the massive and ever-growing surveillance state we live under today. One state ...
Antifederalist: Top Warnings from the Federal Farmer
In his series of 18 letters, Federal Farmer repeatedly warned about the dangers of centralized power, predicting that the proposed ...
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Category: 10th Amendment
Why the 10th Amendment? Federalism as a Tool to Advance Liberty
Although some people believe the 10th Amendment is just about advancing "states rights," for the Founders, devolving power away from ...
The 10th Amendment in Ten: Top-10 Founders Quotes
More important every day, the "foundation of the Constitution" is how Thomas Jefferson described the 10th Amendment. A quick overview ...
Category: Nullification Essentials
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 ...
Anti-Commandeering: The Top-6 Questions
The most effective way to nullify federal programs is to use James Madison’s advice, “a refusal to cooperate with officers ...
Anti-Nullification Propaganda: Definitions Matter
For many people, nullification is a loaded word - primarily due to a government-run education system that’s never taught people ...
Category: Right to Keep and Bear Arms
2nd Amendment Under Attack: An Overview of Federal Gun Control on the Books
The Second Amendment is not just “in danger.” It has already been gravely wounded and violated repeatedly by unconstitutional federal ...
ATF Enforcement at or Near Records Levels Once Again
Bad news, even where it might feel like good news - federal gun control enforcement went down some in 2020, ...
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 ...
Category: In the Founders’ Words
Resistance Should be the First Response, Not the Last
To the founders and old revolutionaries, resistance to attacks on liberty was an essential part of the system, and essential ...
Top-5 Threats to Liberty: A View from the Founders
Madison, Jefferson, Wilson, Adams, Henry, Washington - and more - 5 categories of the greatest threats to liberty from some ...
What Makes a Free People?
The so-called “land of the free” is filled to the brim with government acts, laws, mandates orders, rules, and regulations ...
Category: Federal Courts
Supreme Court, Precedent and the Constitution
Stare decisis is the doctrine of precedent - that a court should rule the way a previous court did - ...
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 ...
How Things Have Changed: Supreme Court Edition
12 quotes from four Supreme Court Justices nominated by Pres. George Washington - on property rights, federal power, resistance and ...
Category: Police State
Top-5 Steps to Stop the Police State
What needs to be done - and none of them rely on the federal government, including its corrupt court system ...
It’s all Theater: Federal Funding of Local Police
One side claims the other is trying to “defund” or “abolish” police, while the other is actively trying to double ...
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 ...
Category: Nullification Strategy
What the Most Successful Nullification Efforts Have in Common
Looking at the top-3 most successful nullification efforts in history - is there something to learn that will help us ...
California vs Missouri: Top 5 Nullification Strategy Myths
When left and right take steps to nullify the feds - what strategies do they each use to get the ...
Human Action and Nullification
What will be the practical impact and effect of newly-passed nullification bills? That will truly be determined by human action, ...
Category: Essential History
Lessons for Liberty from John Dickinson and the Farmer Letters
Published in response to the hated Townshend Acts of 1767, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were more popular in ...
The American Crisis: “These are the times that try men’s souls”
Written as a patriotic rallying cry for a weary army, Thomas Paine published the first pamphlet of The American Crisis ...
Samuel Adams: The “Father of the American Revolution”
Born Sept. 27, 1722 - some “experts” would have you believe his political career “peaked” in 1776, and mostly ended ...
Category: Surveillance
Food Freedom FTW!
James Madison nailed it: "The class of citizens who provide ... their own food ... are the best basis of ...
Federal Courts Fail to Protect Liberty
If they can violate your rights and get away with it - because they said so - you never really ...
Nullify the Fed and a CBDC and ATF too
Nullification Movement News, Episode 6. Reports include: -Sound Money, anti-CBDC bill passes Missouri Senate -Taking on Geolocation tracking and Gun ...
Category: War Powers
The War on Terror Has Always Been a War on You
From day one, they’ve attacked your liberty in big ways - and they’re not even close to being done yet ...
5 Founders on the Horrors and Evils of War
Thomas Paine, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison - in their own words - on the evils ...
The Power to Declare War: An Introduction
Only Congress has the power to “declare war.” But how it’s used today has almost no resemblance to the original, ...
Category: Asset Forfeiture
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 ...
Airport Robbery: Feds Take Over $2 Billion from Travelers through Asset Forfeiture
For the first time ever, data from the Treasury Department’s forfeiture database has been put through a detailed study regarding ...
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 ...
Category: Nullification Movement
Nullification Movement News: Step-by-Step for Liberty
Facial recognition surveillance, direct primary care, police state, permitless carry, sound money, raw milk - the latest steps forward for ...
Six Fake 2nd Amendment “Sanctuary States”
A growing number of states are passing laws to create “2nd Amendment Sanctuaries” that are pretty much sanctuaries for nothing ...
Nullify Federal Gun Control: Four States Get the Ball Rolling
Using the 10th Amendment to defend the 2nd Amendment - four states with new laws on the books for 2021 ...
Category: Federal Reserve
Nullify the Fed and a CBDC and ATF too
Nullification Movement News, Episode 6. Reports include: -Sound Money, anti-CBDC bill passes Missouri Senate -Taking on Geolocation tracking and Gun ...
Asset Forfeiture is Theft
Nullification Movement News, Episode 3. This week's stories include: -5 States vs State and Fed Forfeiture -The Fiat Currency Regime ...
Sticking a Finger in the Eye of the Empire
Nullification Movement News - Episode 1. Now every Friday during “Nullification Season.” ...
Category: Brutus’ Antifederalist Papers
Unlimited Taxes and Militarism: Antifederalist Brutus No. 7
Brutus takes Alexander Hamilton to task over his support of power “without limitation” to raise and fund armies in Federalist ...
Armies, Debts and Taxes: Antifederalist Brutus No. 8
In his 8th essay, Brutus looks at the combined powers to borrow money, to lay and collect taxes, and to ...
Refuting Hamilton and Webster on Standing Armies: Antifederalist Brutus No. 9
In his 9th essay, Brutus continues his warning that standing armies are always “dangerous to the liberties of a people.” ...
