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00:00:00 Should Trump Drone Strike the Cartels?

00:02:09 The Data Behind America’s Drug Crisis

00:07:00 The Drug Trade Has Grown to an Industrial Scale

00:09:57 Mexicans Want Trump to Attack the Cartels

00:12:39 How the Drug Trade Fuels Homicides in the US

00:14:38 Cartels Are Now Heavily Armed With Chinese Weapons

00:18:14 The Venezuelan Government is One Giant Drug Cartel

00:23:19 Is Mexico Turning into a Failed State?

00:29:12 China is Behind This

00:37:40 The Left Now Defines Itself By Opposing Anything Trump Does

00:42:23 The Libertarian Argument on Drugs

00:47:02 The Conservative Argument on Drugs

00:51:04 The Opium Wars

00:53:43 At What Point Does Social Cohesion Matter?

00:56:13 The Tension Between Liberty and Order

00:59:35 Liberty is the Product of Something Deeper

01:04:24 Oregon’s Experiment With Drug Liberalization

01:13:17 What Can be Done About the Drug Crisis?

Has the Left ideologically captured our military and national guard? Nick sits down with Dan Abbott of the Virginia National Guard, who was expelled from the service as part of a massive Left-wing purge.

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00:00:00 The Left-wing War on America’s Soldiers

00:02:13 The Case of Dan Abbott

00:03:52 Using Militias as a Pretense to Fire Soldiers

00:07:25 From Soldier of the Year to Forced Discharge

00:08:30 Lawfare Against the National Guard

00:12:15 Purging Conservatives from the Military

00:16:48 Support for Dan

00:22:05 Was Dan’s Case Rigged From the Start?

 00:27:38 Left-wing Ideological Infiltration of the Military

00:31:41 How Trump and the Pentagon Can Fix This Case

00:36:19 The Process is Broken 

For decades, we were told "immigrants built this country" and that “diversity is our strength”. But is this true?

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00:00:00 Intro

00:02:14 Billion Dollar Fraud in Minnesota

00:05:06 Trump Says He Wants No More Immigration From Somalia

00:09:49 Trump’s Immigration Ban on 19 Countries

00:14:22 How Has American Immigration Changed Over Time?

00:15:55 Colonial Era of 1606-1776 - Anglo Saxon Protestants

00:20:44 The Difference Between Immigrants and Settlers

00:24:01 Independence Era - Still Anglo-Saxon Protestant

00:26:19 Pre World War II - Overwhelmingly European and Christian

00:30:04 Post World War II - Mass Migration From the Entire World

00:41:50 Why Did We Start Importing the Rest of the World After 1965?

00:55:44 Somali Tax Contributions Are Tiny Compared to the Minnesota Fraud Scandal

01:02:20 America Couldn’t Survive if Everyone Acted Like This

01:05:45 How Mass Migration Fuels Political Corruption

01:07:55 Why Ethnic Enclaves Get Formed Under Mass Migration

01:13:22 What Changes Should We Make To America’s Immigration System?

Democrats are vowing retaliation against ICE members, the DHS, the Pentagon, and anyone else who works for the administration and engages in what they call "illegal orders".

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00:00:00 Intro

00:01:45 The Left Is Rapidly Becoming Violent

00:12:28 Democrats Are Threatening to Jail Trump Officials

00:16:38 Who Gets to Decide What an Illegal Order Is?

00:29:02 The Left Engaged In a Bureaucratic Insurrection

00:33:11 Why Democrat Appeals to the Constitution Now Fall Flat

00:37:36 The Left Has Already Decided What Should Happen

00:50:04 How The Right Should Respond

Nick & John fill in the audience at the 2025 Homesteaders of America Conference in Front Royal Virginia, on the essentials of being prepared for whatever comes your way.

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Is South Africa about to collapse? Nick interviews South African entrepreneur Rob Hersov to discuss the situation in South Africa and what can be done to turn things around.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:01:41 Why South Africa is So Important to the World

00:05:49 Is South Africa Now a Failed State?

00:13:20 The Current State of South African Democracy

00:16:14 How the ANC Captured Control of South Africa

00:21:24 When Did Things Begin to Fall Apart?

00:26:15 Corruption and Socialism

00:29:57 South Africa is Splintering by Region and Party

00:43:08 Why Continue to Live in South Africa?

00:49:00 The ANC’s Grip on Power is Declining

00:54:20 Is it Possible to Turn Things Around?

01:02:10 Where People Can Find More About Rob

How can you dismantle the Left's argument for gun control point by point?

Watch and see as Nick tackles this issue head-on at the University of Iowa.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:03:45 The Right Understands the Left but the Left Does Not Understand the Right

00:14:40 The Collapse of Institutional Trust

00:17:26 What Does it Mean to Live in a Free Society?

00:22:15 The Left’s Backdoor Gun Control Tactics

00:28:03 How Nick Formed His Political Philosophy

00:32:49 Doing Politics in Blue States

00:35:38 What Nick Would Do to Address Gun Violence

00:39:36 At What Point Does Political Debate Break Down?

00:45:12 Sharing the Gospel With Others

00:47:08 The Gen Z Marriage Crisis

00:50:50 Freedom vs Safety

00:56:04 Should Semi-Automatic Rifles be Legal?

01:00:03 Did we Cross a Point of No Return With Charlie Kirk’s Death?

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The Right is arguably more fractured than ever before. Why is that, how did we get to this point, and what should we do about it? I sat down with Auron MacIntyre and asked him: What Should the Right Want? 

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00:00:00 Intro

00:01:02 Why the Right is so Fractured

00:05:28 The Difference Between Conservatism and Right-wing

00:13:58 Liberal Universalism and the American Constitution

00:18:58 Objective Truth, Natural Law, and Cultural Differences

00:28:50 Wokeism and Christianity

00:36:38 The Return of Morality and Worldviews to Politics

00:43:54 The Friend-Enemy Distinction

00:50:34 Power Must Check Power

00:55:25 Constitutions are Written on Our Hearts

01:02:20 What Changes Would Auron Make to America?

There’s no denying that we are in the middle of a huge political transformation. But where exactly are we heading, what’s driving this, and what should we be fighting for? I sat down with Dr. Steve Turkey and asked him: What Should the Right Want? 

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00:00:00 The Current Divide on the Right

00:03:19 End of History vs Civilizational Politics

00:08:53 The Age of Ideologies Is Ending

00:11:49 Clash of Civilizations

00:21:42 Where Does Wokeism Come From?

00:30:59 Leftism’s Rebellion Against Reality

00:38:59 How Does the Right Fight Back?

00:43:54 The Internal Contradictions on the Left

00:50:42 What Does Winning Look Like?

01:02:04 Freedom Requires Virtue

Hollywood is dying, but what comes next? Gary “Nerdrotic” joins me to unpack the rot and his wild journey from battling addiction and prison to fatherhood and YouTube with 1M+ subs, and why pop culture is still worth fighting for.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:01:37 Nerdrotic’s New Book

00:05:38 How Gary Went From Prison to YouTube

00:19:49 Going to Prison For the First Time

00:24:22 Getting Out and Going Back to Prison

00:29:28 Prison vs Hollywood Myths

00:34:00 Starting Over

00:42:48 Relapse and the Addictive Mindset

00:43:22 Politics and Government

00:49:43 How Gary Recovered

00:53:05 Fathers, Masculinity, and Cultural Guardrails

00:58:09 Nerdrotic’s Critique of Pop Culture

01:05:53 Outro + Where to Find Gary