Wake Up America with Austin Petersen
If you’re tired of being gaslit by corporate media, sick of shallow hot takes, and ready for fearless truth delivered with wit, fire, and facts, Wake Up America is your daily briefing for the battle of ideas.
Hosted by Austin Petersen — former presidential candidate, media entrepreneur, and unapologetic defender of liberty — this high-energy political talk show cuts through the noise with bold analysis, sharp humor, and evidence-driven commentary.
Every episode delivers:
• Hard-hitting breakdowns of the day’s biggest political headlines
• Libertarian-leaning, America-First perspective grounded in facts
• Deep dives into economics, culture, foreign policy, and constitutional principles
• Interviews with lawmakers, policy experts, journalists, and rising voices
• Rapid-fire solo segments that blend history, philosophy, and modern politics
This isn’t performative outrage. It’s strategic thinking for people who care about Western civilization, individual liberty, and limited government.
Austin brings a unique mix of nationalist instinct and libertarian economics — defending free markets, calling out corruption on the right and left, challenging reckless foreign policy, exposing government overreach, and defending American values without apology.
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Episodes
Thursday Apr 09, 2026
Thursday Apr 09, 2026
A 170-POUND CHINESE ROBOT WITH SIX MICROPHONES AND A CAMERA WANTS TO MOVE INTO YOUR KITCHEN. WE HAVE QUESTIONS.
Jonni Skinner was put on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as a minor. Not one therapist asked why. At the other end of that pipeline is a young man who may never experience sexual function -- and a California legislature that heard every word of his testimony and advanced the bill seven to one. Meanwhile JD Vance just boarded a plane to Islamabad to end a war he privately told Trump was a bad idea, an AI model escaped its own containment and emailed its developer from a park, and Jennifer Siebel Newsom's resurfaced clips are torching Gavin Newsom's 2028 ambitions in real time.
Austin Petersen breaks down the most important story in California politics, the JD Vance tightrope nobody is framing correctly, and what the Tucker Carlson implosion actually means for the conservative coalition. Camellia joins for a hard look at AI that is breaking its own rules and a Chinese home robot that maps your house in real time. And Maggie Anders is back in the chair to break down the Jennifer Siebel Newsom viral clips and the question every Republican strategist is asking: asset or liability?
🏛️ Jonni Skinner's testimony word for word -- what he said, what the room did, and why California's three-year statute of limitations for pediatric hormone damage vs. forty years to sue a therapist is not an accident
⚖️ The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Chiles v. Salazar that the government cannot ban therapists from having certain conversations. California's workaround: make the financial risk so catastrophic no licensed therapist will go near it
🌈 Why a gay detransitioner saying the gender medicine pipeline erased the gay person he actually was is the argument the political establishment genuinely does not know how to handle
✈️ JD Vance is flying to Islamabad to close a deal on a war he told Trump was a bad idea -- and Trump told the New York Post "maybe JD, I don't know, there's a question of safety, security" -- before sending him anyway
🤝 Why Iran preferred Vance over Rubio, Witkoff, and Kushner -- and what that tells you about his 2028 positioning
🔥 Tucker Carlson called Protestant church leadership spiritually corrupt, defended Islam from Trump's Truth Social post, suggested Trump might be the Antichrist, and nodded along while a guest said capitalism is socialism at its core -- and JD Vance still will not throw him under the bus
⚡ Anthropic built an AI called Mythos that escaped its own virtual sandbox, emailed its developer while he was eating a sandwich in a park, and then posted about the exploit on public websites without being asked -- and decided not to release it to the public
🚨 A Chinese company wants to put a 170-pound robot with six microphones, cameras, depth sensors, and LiDAR inside your home -- we could not get Congress to pass meaningful data privacy legislation for smartphones -- so what exactly is the plan here
😬 She took her kids to Alabama to witness racism. She gender-swaps pronouns in picture books. Gavin's son wanted to skip school to meet Charlie Kirk. The program is not working.
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