The Wake Up America show with Austin Petersen

250th America’s Manifest Destiny: Harrisburg to Havana

We mark the 250th anniversary by reading the parts of the Declaration nobody puts on the merch -- Jefferson's criminal charges against a king who blocked western settlement, strangled immigration, and held land promises over men who had bled for them. Then we turn to Cuba, where classified intel says the island has acquired 300+ military drones from Russia and Iran. We go back to the Bay of Pigs to establish the one rule that covers everything that comes next: half measures are always wrong. And we close with the hardest question in the room -- if the Castro regime falls, can the Cubans still on the island actually govern themselves, or does the best argument for a free Cuba walk around Miami? Plus the prediction market corruption story for what it actually is -- not a technology problem, but the oldest compensation trap in the republic.

🇺🇸 A1 -- Jefferson's grievance, the Proclamation of 1763, and the manifest destiny already baked into the founding documents ⚔️ A2 -- Bay of Pigs, the half-measure doctrine, Cuba's drone arsenal, and the statehood question Washington isn't ready to ask 🎙️ B1 -- Jon Miltimore on prediction markets, insider trading, and why Polymarket didn't invent the corruption 🇨🇺 B2 -- Mailyn Salabarria on growing up inside Castro's Cuba and whether a free Cuba can govern itself

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Why This Libertarian Changed His Mind on Immigration...

WHY A LIBERTARIAN CHANGED HIS MIND ON IMMIGRATION -- AND THE ELECTION PLAYBOOK THAT COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING ELSE.

On today's show, we break down the Japan mosque protests, how Cato's immigration data has been misleading the movement for decades, and lay out a fully updated standard for who belongs in this country. Camellia from AFP-Missouri covers the Supreme Court's unanimous redistricting win, the AI bill that died 11-0 the same morning a billion-dollar factory broke ground in Independence, and what both tell us about Jefferson City's real priorities. Then Cliff Maloney joins us with Run Right -- nine million doors, 418 wins, and the hard truth about why conservatives keep losing winnable races.

⛩️ Thousands of Japanese citizens protest a mosque in Fujisawa -- and what it reveals about civilizational confidence

📊 How the Cato Institute's immigration analytics have been misleading libertarians for thirty years

🍔 The Bacon Cheeseburger Standard -- what it means, why it matters, and why it's not a joke anymore

🗺️ Missouri Supreme Court upholds the gerrymandered congressional map -- the August primary is locked in

🤖 The AI liability bill Missouri Republicans killed 11-0 after stripping child safety provisions to satisfy the White House

🏗️ Nebius breaks ground on a gigawatt-scale AI factory in Independence -- 400 acres, $650M to local schools, and a Yandex connection worth asking about

📖 Cliff Maloney on Run Right, Disney Politics, ballot chasing, and why unless you are politically feared you will not be politically respected

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”Cow Money” & Cover-Ups: The Thomas Massie Allegations & The Kentucky Primary Bombshell

NSFW.

THOMAS MASSIE IS FACING EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS FROM A FORMER ROMANTIC PARTNER — AND THE TIMING, ONE WEEK BEFORE THE MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSE PRIMARY IN AMERICAN HISTORY, RAISES AS MANY QUESTIONS AS THE CLAIMS THEMSELVES.

We break down the Cynthia West allegations against Rep. Thomas Massie, the congressional slush fund that has paid out millions in taxpayer-funded silence, and the founding fathers who set the precedent for all of it. Will Chamberlain and Judge Andrew Napolitano join to walk through the legal architecture — what the allegations actually mean, what could be prosecuted, and what happens after May 19th.

🏛️ Sex scandals of the founding fathers, a pattern as old as the republic

⚖️ The congressional slush fund that paid $18M to silence misconduct victims

🔍 Cynthia West's allegations against Massie — what she claims and what's verified

📋 The dismissed October 2024 abuse affidavit and what it means for her credibility

⏰ Why the timing of this story is suspicious — and why that doesn't make it false

🤔 The hypocrisy question: can the king of transparency survive a transparency test

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THE NIMBYS HELPING CHINA WIN THE AI WAR (AND THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW IT)

America turns 250 and the left is still lying about what the founders believed about education. Then we go after the NIMBYs blocking data centers while China builds the future. Camellia from AFP-Missouri breaks down the new laws Governor Kehoe just signed — including the child grooming statute and the hemp ban that is about to start a fight. And Mike Ter Maat, the 2024 LP vice presidential nominee who walked out the door with forty-five people behind him, joins us to answer the question: Should the LP be abolished?

🎓 What Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton actually believed about education — and why the federal bureaucracy claiming their legacy has the worst results in thirty years

📉 45% of seniors below basic in math, 32% can't find details in a text — Isabel Paterson called it in 1943 and nobody listened

🏗️ 188 opposition groups in 40 states blocked $98 billion in data center projects in a single quarter — while China executes a national AI strategy with no planning commissions and no petition drives

💸 America outspent China 23-to-1 on AI and the performance gap is now 2.7 percent — the Sputnik moment is here and our response is a HOA meeting

⚖️ Missouri's new laws: child grooming defined in statute, the divorce pregnancy barrier gone, hemp-derived THC banned in November, predatory ADA lawsuits restricted

🗳️ Mike Ter Maat on leaving the LP, the Republican Liberty Caucus, and what "unprecedented in 250 years of American political history" actually means

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AOC Has Plans to Become a God-Queen

AOC WANTS TO BECOME A GOD-QUEEN

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says her agenda is bigger than any election — and she means it. Tom Pappert joins to break down the redistricting war reshaping the 2026 midterms after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Jon Miltimore on the EEOC suing the New York Times for racial discrimination — and why the paper's defense sounds exactly like what conservatives have been saying for a decade. And Navy SEAL sniper instructor Brandon Webb wrote a parenting book that is not what you expect.

🗽 AOC's "forever" agenda — and the last guy who talked like this turned Venezuela into a famine

⚖️ Tennessee wipes out its only Democratic seat — Tom Pappert on the redistricting sprint nobody saw coming

🗞️ The EEOC just sued the New York Times for DEI discrimination — Jon Miltimore on how the legal reckoning finally arrived

🪖 Brandon Webb trained SEAL snipers — now he's teaching parents how to raise kids who don't break

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Attack of the Rabid Swamp Beaver! A True American Horror Story

IT'S FREEDOM FAMILY FRIDAY -- Austin, Steffi, and Justin break down the week's biggest stories, from California's political circus to a rabid beaver terrorizing a fishing trip in New Jersey.

🦫 ATTACK OF THE RABID SWAMP BEAVER -- An 8-year-old was fishing with his family in New Jersey when a rabid beaver charged out of the lake and bit him in the leg. The animal has been dealt with. The Second Amendment conversation writes itself.

🎬 SPENCER PRATT FOR LA MAYOR -- The Hills villain debated incumbent Karen Bass and socialist Nithya Raman last night and walked away the winner. His house burned in the Palisades fires. Now he wants Bass's job -- and CNN says he passed the test.

📉 KATIE PORTER IS COLLAPSING -- Three viral meltdown videos, a billionaire donor she publicly attacked, and a campaign ad that jokes about her own worst moments. She was polling first. She's at 10% now. Trump-backed Steve Hilton is leading the race.

📺 FCC WANTS TO LABEL TRANS CONTENT IN KIDS' TV -- Chairman Brendan Carr opened a formal comment period asking whether the ratings system should flag transgender content in children's programming. The left calls it a culture war stunt. Parents call it a start.

😬 KIDS ON THE BEACH CAN'T NAME THE YEAR AMERICA WAS FOUNDED -- Viral video, real problem. Only 13% of 8th graders scored proficient on U.S. history -- an all-time low. America turns 250 next year and half the country can't explain why.

🕌 AN EGYPTIAN PASTOR WARNS AMERICA ABOUT ISLAM -- He watched it happen in his own country. The U.S. is 1% Muslim. England is at 6%. Pew projects Muslims surpass Jews as America's second-largest religious group by 2040. Is complacency the real threat?

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Abolish the Libertarian Party? ft @jeremykauffman & @MaggieModa

The Founders didn't build a libertarian utopia or a progressive origin myth — they built libertarian nationalism, and 250 years later Washington can't define it. Austin reads what Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay actually wrote and makes the argument both sides need you to never hear.

Then: Rubio quoted Cypress Hill and started a 2028 primary nobody announced. Vance was in Iowa explaining a war he privately opposed. We run both men through the libertarian nationalist scorecard.

Jeremy Kauffman — blockchain entrepreneur and LP of New Hampshire chairman — joins to answer whether a party with no senators, no governors, and a peak of three percent still deserves to exist. The national LP censured his state party. He endorsed Trump anyway.

And Maggie Anders, Young Voices Commentator, breaks down Spencer Pratt's run for Mayor of LA — second place in a fourteen-candidate field, Joe Rogan's backing, a viral Gotham ad, and five weeks to the June 2nd primary. Karen Bass called it a Trump impression. Los Angeles is a lot right now.

🏛️ Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay — what they actually wrote, why the Founders were libertarian nationalists before the term existed, and why both the left and the right need you to never make this argument

⚔️ The 2028 primary scorecard: Rubio vs. Vance on economics, foreign policy, and character — who passes the libertarian nationalist test and who is performing loyalty instead of governing by conviction

🗳️ The Libertarian Party at fifty-three years old — no presidents, no senators, one percent of the vote on a good night, and a state chairman who endorsed Trump over his own party's nominee

🎬 Spencer Pratt for Mayor of LA — the Palisades fire, the cover-up, the homeless industrial complex, the viral ads, and whether an outsider can actually crack the deep blue urban machine with five weeks to go

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Israel Grifters: The Ultimate Leftist Psyop Debunked

The American right has a Jewish problem -- and it's not the one the Groypers think it is. Today we tell the story they buried in your history class: Haym Salomon, the Polish-born Jewish immigrant who financed the Revolution, raised the $20,000 that funded Yorktown, personally lent money to Madison, Jefferson, and Monroe at no interest, and died broke at 44 while Congress stiffed his family. Then we make the libertarian nationalist case for why Israel and America share the same civilizational DNA -- and why the foreign-amplified antisemitism operation currently running inside the right is not America First. It never was. Plus Judge Andrew Napolitano on the Trump DOJ indicting James Comey over a photo of seashells, and writer Kevin Boyd on Austin's libertarian nationalist manifesto.

💰 Haym Salomon -- the forgotten founder who financed the Revolution

📜 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- the 1903 Russian forgery that became Hitler's blueprint and never went away

🔍 DataRepublican's forensic breakdown of Nick Fuentes's synthetic X amplification

⚖️ Judge Napolitano on Comey, the First Amendment, Brandenburg, Watts, and a prosecution that should not survive first contact with a federal judge

📖 Kevin Boyd (@TheKevinBoyd) on Austin's libertarian nationalist manifesto -- what it gets right, what it demands, and whether the liberty movement can actually govern

Guests: Judge Andrew Napolitano (@JudgeNap) · Kevin Boyd (@TheKevinBoyd)

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