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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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Category: Nullification Essentials

Thomas Jefferson’s Strategy for Nullification

Thomas Jefferson is widely seen as the founder who first formalized the principles of nullification - on paper. But he ...
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Anti-Commandeering, The Legal Basis for Refusing to Cooperate

Learn about James Madison's advice for individuals and states - and how the Supreme Court has actually backed him up ...
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How to Deal with Unconstitutional Acts: Advice from the Founders

Most people think the way to deal with the feds is - march on the capitol, vote the bums out, ...
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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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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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Category: In the Founders’ Words

The First American: Benjamin Franklin’s Top Quotes and Warnings

Probably the best-known American in his day, his Memoirs were required reading long after his passing. Benjamin Franklin's work and ...
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The Real Revolution: James Otis vs the Writs of Assistance

The revolution started years before the war commenced - a change in the views and sentiments of the people. And ...
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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 ...
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Category: Federal Courts

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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Qualified Immunity Won’t be Ended by the Federal Courts

Two more cases in the federal court system - and both times the judges agreed that rights were violated, but ...
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The Supreme Court Issues Opinions, not Law

"Legislating from the bench" has become a common phrase, a common complaint - and a common practice. But it was ...
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Category: Police State

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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The Origins of Militarized Police: From Peace Officer to Command and Control

To say that the militarization of the police is nothing new is to ignore America’s recent history as well as ...
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Category: Nullification Strategy

Jury Nullification Can Keep the Government in Check

Thomas Jefferson considered trial by jury as the anchor by which “government can be held to the principles of its ...
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Lessons from Nullifornia: Part 1, Plants

When it comes to nullification of federal power, California has decades of experience on multiple fronts. And no matter what ...
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Fortitude‌ ‌and‌ ‌Perseverance:‌ ‌A‌ ‌Lesson‌ ‌on‌ ‌Liberty‌ ‌from‌ ‌Montana‌ ‌

Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, John Dickinson and other prominent founders recognized that the ground of liberty is gained by inches ...
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Category: Essential History

The Peoples’ Nullification of the Stamp Act

A combination of protests, declarations, disobedience, local resolutions, support from merchants, and non-enforcement by sheriffs and other local officials created ...
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Free Speech Under Attack: The Sedition Act of 1798

On July 14, 1798 - John Adams signed the Sedition Act into law. This is one of the most egregious ...
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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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Category: Surveillance

Like a Cancer: Warrantless Surveillance under Section 702

When it’s “just for the terrorists,” you can be sure it’ll eventually be used against you. As leading founders like ...
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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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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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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

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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