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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 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, ...
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Top-5 Tools for Total Tyranny
The structure and power for a totalitarian nightmare is all around us - overcriminalization, overregulation, surveillance, and so much more, ...
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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, ...
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Madison and Jefferson on Infrastructure and Debt
Supporters of the monster state want you to believe that it’s never enough. Spending, taxing, debt - and the like ...
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Jefferson’s Favorite Book on Government?
The Declaration of Independence was not an effort to “find out new principles,” according to Thomas Jefferson. Instead, it was ...
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Destroying the States: Antifederalist Brutus No. 6
Continuing his theme of warning against consolidation, or centralization of power, Brutus looks at the taxing power and general welfare, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Category: Right to Keep and Bear Arms
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 ...
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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
Remembering Boston Massacre Day: John Hancock Edition
Little known to most people today, for many years after the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770 - residents of ...
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Liberty is the Foundation: Timeless Wisdom from the “Penman of the Revolution”
Author of the most widely-read papers on American liberty up until publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense in 1776, John ...
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Resist and Nullify: Top-10 Founders’ Quotes
When the feds exceed the powers delegated to them in the Constitution - which they do almost constantly - what ...
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Category: Federal Courts
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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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 ...
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Four Cases that Expanded the Commerce Clause
Three New Deal-era court cases set the foundation for an expansion of the Commerce Clause far beyond its original, legal ...
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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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Using the 10th Amendment to Defend the 2nd, a Brief History
The 10th Amendment strategy to defend the 2nd Amendment has been gaining steam, but it hasn’t come out of nowhere ...
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Category: Essential History
Unlimited, Centralized Power: “In All Cases Whatsoever”
Of all the Acts of Parliament that angered the American colonists and led to the Revolutionary War, the Declaratory Act ...
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Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
We've all heard the story about Thomas Jefferson going forward with the Louisiana Purchase even though he thought it was ...
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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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Category: Surveillance
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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Operation Legend: Feds Funding More Unconstitutional Local Surveillance
Pushing for “law and order” but ignoring the supreme law of the land, the DOJ has been throwing cash at ...
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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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Category: War Powers
Loving the Founders, but Hating their Foreign Policy?
A lot of self-described constitution supporters - and people who claim to respect and love the founders - get pretty ...
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Defund the Pentagon
While left and right bicker over calls - real or pretended - to defund the police, there's a much bigger ...
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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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Category: Asset Forfeiture
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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Liars: Police Make False Claims About Asset Forfeiture
Law enforcement lobbyists always oppose asset forfeiture reform, generally relying on the claim that seizing people’s stuff serves as a ...
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Asset Forfeiture is Theft: An Overview of the State and Federal Programs
Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken only after a criminal conviction, civil forfeiture allows law enforcement to take property ...
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Category: Nullification Movement
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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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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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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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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