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Hasan Piker’s $1,383 Glasses & Code Pink’s 5-Star Cuba Vacation EXPOSED

Hasan Piker's $1,383 Glasses & Code Pink's 5-Star Cuba Vacation EXPOSED | Wake Up America with Austin Petersen | March 23, 2026

650 left-wing activists just flew to Cuba on a "humanitarian mission" and checked into a five-star hotel — the only building on the island with electricity — while 11 million Cubans sat in 20-hour blackouts outside. Code Pink flew first class. Hasan Piker wore $1,383 Cartier sunglasses to a country where people earn $17 a month. Greta Thunberg — who called fossil fuels a "death sentence" in 2023 — is now demanding oil tankers be sent to Cuba. And a Chinese Communist Party-linked network funded the whole operation.

Austin Petersen delivers the most comprehensive takedown of left-wing hypocrisy in recent memory — plus the secret JFK deal that kept the Cuban regime breathing for 64 years, the NBC poll showing the Democratic Party now polls worse than ICE and AI, and why the libertarian wave sweeping Latin America is the biggest story nobody in mainstream media is covering.

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📌 WHAT WE COVER TODAY:

🔴 SEGMENT 1 — LOWER THAN ICE: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S COMPLETE COLLAPSE

A brand new NBC News poll shows the Democratic Party at its lowest favorability rating since 1990 — polling worse than ICE, worse than artificial intelligence, and only narrowly beating Iran. Kamala Harris at -17. Gavin Newsom at -18. The DNC chair admitted on Fox News his party has a "brand problem." Austin explains what the real problem is — and why it is not messaging.

🔴 SEGMENT 2 — FIRST CLASS TO COMMUNISM: THE NUESTRA AMERICA CONVOY EXPOSED

The full story of the 650-person left-wing convoy that descended on Havana, Cuba this weekend. Who organized it (and their ties to the Cuban government). Who funded it (and their ties to Chinese Communist Party-aligned money). Code Pink flying first class. Hasan Piker's $1,383 Cartier glasses versus the $17/month Cuban wage. Greta Thunberg's stunning fossil fuel flip. The five-star hotel as the only lit building in a blacked-out country. The armed security guarding the hotel from the Cuban people. The Morón riots. The JFK secret deal that gave Castro a survival guarantee in 1962. And why this convoy was not a humanitarian mission — it was a geopolitical operation.

🔴 INTERVIEW 1 — JON MILTIMORE / AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH

The government is handing $500,000 interest-free loans to people earning $200,000+ a year to buy homes — and it is making housing MORE expensive for everyone else. Jon Miltimore breaks down Ludwig von Mises' "spiral of interventionism" in plain English and explains why the only path to affordable housing is getting government out of the mortgage business entirely.

🔴 INTERVIEW 2 — MIKKEL THORUP / EXPATMONEY.COM

While the left was partying in Havana, Argentina passed libertarian labor reform, Chile swore in its most conservative president since Pinochet, and Bolivia ended 20 years of socialist rule. Mikkel Thorup — who has lived in 9 countries, visited 120, and has real businesses and real clients in Latin America — breaks down what the libertarian wave means for your money, your freedom, and what a post-communist Cuba could look like for investors.

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▶ Jon Miltimore — Writer & Editor, American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)

▶ Mikkel Thorup — Founder & CEO, ExpatMoney.com | Host, The Expat Money Show | Author, Expat Secrets

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🔍 TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:

Hasan Piker Cuba | Code Pink Cuba 2026 | Nuestra America Convoy | Greta Thunberg oil hypocrisy | Cuba blackout 2026 | Cuba hotel activists | Cuba protests 2026 | Moron Cuba riot | Cuba communist regime | JFK Cuba missile crisis secret deal | Cuba Bay of Pigs | Democratic Party poll 2026 | Democrats less popular than ICE | NBC poll Democrats 2026 | Democratic Party brand problem | Kamala Harris favorability 2026 | Gavin Newsom poll 2026 | ICE popularity poll | DHS shutdown airports | TSA shutdown spring break 2026 | Argentina Milei 2026 | Javier Milei labor reform | Chile Jose Antonio Kast | Latin America libertarian wave | Bolivia socialist rule ends | El Salvador Bukele | Milei chainsaw government | expat living Latin America | offshore investing

HOCHUL’S HUMILIATION: BILLIONAIRE EXODUS FROM BLUE STATES TO RED

On today's Wake Up America, we open with the story that perfectly captures everything wrong with the American Left: New York Governor Kathy Hochul stood at a podium and begged millionaires to come home after her state spent years taxing them out of it. New York has lost $111 billion in net income to migration over the last decade. 1,700 millionaires changed their address in 2024 alone. The city faces a $12 billion budget hole. And Hochul's solution is to ask Trump to go to Palm Beach and "bring them back." Then Austin turns to the biggest broken promise in recent political memory -- DOGE. The chainsaw. The $2 trillion. The 28-year-old who used ChatGPT to cancel DEI And the one man in Argentina who actually did what DOGE promised -- and proved you can't cut government by firing people. You have to change what the government is authorized to do.

🔥 TOPICS COVERED

🏙️ Kathy Hochul begging millionaires to return after New York lost $111 billion in taxable income to migration

💸 The $12 billion NYC budget hole, 1,700 millionaires gone in 2024, and how the top 1% pay 40% of all city income taxes

🦅 The Elon Musk origin story -- from "fascist" Tesla earnings call to Twitter sink to CPAC chainsaw -- and what it all promised

🪚 What DOGE actually delivered: 271,000 jobs cut, $248 billion MORE in federal spending, and a deposition that broke the internet

🤖 The ChatGPT Administration: how a 28-year-old DOGE staffer used an AI chatbot to cancel lefty grants

🇦🇷 What Javier Milei actually did in Argentina -- and why cutting structural mandates beats firing people every single time

🧠 Vivek Ramaswamy was right: the deregulation-first theory DOGE rejected and why it would have worked

💬 Camellia Peterson joins Austin on the University of Arkansas TPUSA chapter walking out on Erika Kirk -- days after she toured the state with Sarah Huckabee Sanders

⚰️ Candace Owens, Egyptian planes, and the conspiracy theory implosion destroying the movement Charlie Kirk built

📉 J.D. Tuccille of Reason Magazine on the $100 trillion debt bomb and why the next economic shock will be unlike anything America has ever faced

🔫 Two terrorist attacks stopped by armed citizens last week -- and why the Norfolk prosecutor still wants tighter gun laws

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Forced Sterilization, Peak Food, Peak Oil: Why Doomsayers Were Wrong @Rarecamellia @Mailynspeaks

This morning, we’re taking on elite incompetence from every angle. First, the Jones Act fight takes center stage as Trump weighs a waiver while the Iran war pushes gas prices higher and exposes just how weak America’s protected shipping system really is.

And later, the failed fear politics of Paul Ehrlich get the reckoning they deserve. The Population Bomb mindset taught the West to fear children, fear growth, and fear the future itself. The predictions failed. The panic did not.

Then it’s the TSA mess, where unpaid security workers, airport disruptions, and Kristi Noem’s DHS spin machine are colliding in real time. Is this just another congressional food fight, or proof that Noem can do TV better than she can run a department?

In the second half, Cuba is back in the dark. Mailyn Salabarria joins the show to break down the blackouts, the regime’s talks with Washington, and why the socialist fantasy keeps crashing into reality.

⛽ TRUMP’S JONES ACT GAMBLE: Why the Iran oil shock is exposing one of America’s dumbest and most overrated shipping laws.

🛂 KRISTI NOEM’S TSA MESS: Unpaid airport security workers, long lines, and a DHS that always seems to have talking points ready before solutions.

🎙️ CAMELLIA JOINS THE SHOW: Breaking down the TSA disruption, Noem’s leadership, and why frontline workers keep getting treated like political collateral.

🌴 MAILYN SALABARRIA: On Cuba’s collapse, the regime’s negotiations with Washington, and why the people always pay for socialist lies.

💣 THE POPULATION BOMB FRAUD: Why Paul Ehrlich’s fearmongering was dumb, wrong, and far more damaging than the elites want to admit.

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THE BIGFOOT ECONOMY: HOW AMERICA LEARNED TO BUY LIES

This morning, we're pulling back the curtain on the industry that has been selling America monsters since 1967 -- and making billions doing it.

First, the conspiracy racket gets the full autopsy. From the man who faked Bigfoot in a California riverbed to the goat gland doctor who killed 42 patients on a hundred-dollar diploma, to Alex Jones moving $165 million in supplements by preaching apocalypse -- we follow the money, name the names, and explain exactly how fear becomes a product.

Then it gets darker. Henry Ford built the most dangerous conspiracy machine in American history, put his name on it, distributed it through every Ford dealership in the country, and watched it get quoted in Mein Kampf. We trace the direct line from the Dearborn Independent to the grifters running the same playbook today -- and we explain why the water slide got reopened, who benefits from where it exits now, and why the people selling you conspiracy content are not your friends.

And then the biggest breaking story of the day. Joe Kent -- eleven combat deployments, Trump's own Senate-confirmed counterterrorism director -- resigned this morning and went on record. His letter says Iran posed no imminent threat and that this war was driven by Israeli pressure. The White House says he was a known leaker who was about to be fired anyway. Judge Andrew Napolitano joins the show to break down the law, the war powers, and who is telling the truth.

🦶 THE BIGFOOT ECONOMY: How a sixty-second film shot in 1967 launched a billion-dollar industry -- and wrote the playbook every conspiracy grifter still uses today.

🐐 THE GOAT GLAND DOCTOR: John Brinkley killed 42 patients, nearly became Governor of Kansas, and only admitted his fraud under oath in a courtroom. Sound familiar?

📰 HENRY FORD'S POISON PEN: The most admired man in America ran a 900,000-reader antisemitic newspaper, got quoted in Mein Kampf, accepted a Nazi medal eleven years after his "apology," and never changed his mind. We connect the dots to 2026.

🎢 THE WATER SLIDE: John Doyle's sharpest argument yet -- the conspiracy pipeline used to exit at supporting Trump. Now it exits at disengagement, self-destruction, and eating your own. Who opened it back up and why?

⚖️ JUDGE NAP ON JOE KENT: The first senior Trump official to resign over the Iran war goes on record. War powers, whistleblower law, classified obligations, and the battle between unnamed sources and a letter that speaks for itself.

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TRUMP TRAP: Is Tucker Carlson is Facing a CIA Criminal Referral? @willchamberlain @autumnlikesguns

TRUMP’S TRAP: Why Tucker Carlson is Facing a CIA Criminal Referral

The Jester has been unmasked. 🇺🇸 Monday morning, we are diving deep into the high-stakes intelligence feint that turned the biggest media star in the world into an unwitting asset for the American war machine. Did Donald Trump use Tucker Carlson’s ego to decapitate the Iranian regime? The receipts are coming out, the texts are being unmasked, and the media civil war is officially at a boiling point.

In the second half, we take on the Ben Shapiro and Megyn Kelly meltdown. We’re breaking down why moral clarity beats audience idolatry every time and why the "New Right" is currently undergoing a much-needed purge of the charlatans and the grifters.

TODAY’S LINEUP:

🧩 THE OVAL OFFICE FEINT: How Trump utilized Tucker’s backchannel to ensure Operation Epic Fury’s success.

⚖️ WILL CHAMBERLAIN: Senior Counsel for the Article 3 Project breaks down the legal reality of the CIA referral and FARA violations.

⚔️ SHAPIRO VS. KELLY: Why Ben Shapiro is the civilization builder and Megyn Kelly is a symbol of audience-captive excess.

🛡️ AUTUMN (Gunpowder & Prayer): The Libertarian perspective on the "Grifter Purge" and the search for moral clarity.

⛪️ THE RICHARDSON STANDARD: Why the law applies to everyone—even the media elite with pedigrees.

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Palantir’s Alex Karp: Lefty Dem Women Will Lose Jobs To AI While Empowering Male Voters

What happens when a tech CEO says the quiet part out loud, the culture forgets how to write, and celebrity obsession keeps swallowing public attention? On today’s Wake Up America, Austin Petersen breaks down what these stories reveal about the country at this moment: Alex Karp’s blunt comments about power, politics, and the future of AI, the strange collapse of grammar and basic written communication, and the bizarre grip pop culture still has on a distracted public.

At the center of it all is a bigger question: what kind of society are we building when the machines get smarter, the elites get blunter, and the culture gets less capable of clear thought? From Palantir and Alex Karp to the decline of written language and the Timothée Chalamet fixation, tomorrow’s show ties together technology, competence, class, and cultural decay in one sharp look at where America is heading.

🔥 TOPICS COVERED

🤖 Alex Karp, Palantir, AI disruption, and the politics of white-collar power

✍️ The collapse of grammar, written language, and what it says about cultural decline

🎬 Timothée Chalamet, celebrity fixation, and the culture of distraction

🎙️ A random viewer joins the show for a live, chaotic, and revealing exchange

🧠 How AI gets stronger while public communication gets weaker

🇺🇸 The deeper fight over competence, culture, elites, and the future of American society

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MAGA’s Breaking Point: Trump Targets Massie, Vance vs. Rubio in 2028

Trump’s clash with Thomas Massie is more than a feud. On today’s Wake Up America, Austin Petersen breaks down whether the MAGA movement still believes in constitutional restraint when war powers, foreign policy, and internal power struggles collide. Then the show widens out into the next big question on the Right: JD Vance vs. Marco Rubio in 2028, the surveillance fight over Section 702, and the ideological battle over Alexander Dugin, anti-globalism, and the future of the American Right.

🔥 TOPICS COVERED

🇺🇸 Trump vs. Thomas Massie and the fight over war powers, Iran, and constitutional limits

🗳️ JD Vance vs. Marco Rubio as the early 2028 succession battle starts to take shape

⚖️ Judge Andrew Napolitano on Section 702, FISA, government surveillance, and the Fourth Amendment

🕵️ Commercial spyware, zero-click surveillance, and how far the national security state can go

🌍 Courtenay Turner on Alexander Dugin, anti-globalism, multipolarity, and ideological drift on the Right

🧠 The deeper split inside conservatism over liberty, empire, populism, and power

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Wake Up America with Austin Petersen covers Trump, Thomas Massie, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Section 702, surveillance, and the battle for the future of the Right.

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TRUMP, IRAN, THE MIDTERMS, AND THE EMOJI INSANITY

Austin Petersen breaks down a strange but revealing day in politics and culture, from the international fight over Iran’s women’s soccer team to the GOP’s real midterm warning signs to the very American drama over emojis and what they say about modern political softness. This episode of Wake Up America connects the global story, the electoral story, and the cultural story without losing the facts. If you want a sharper read on Iran, the 2026 midterms, emoji controversy, and what Republicans may be missing, this is the show.

⚡ TOPICS COVERED

🔹 Austin Petersen on the Iran women’s soccer team asylum story and why it turned into a bigger fight over human rights, internet activism, and presidential politics

🔹 The 2026 midterms, including House danger signs for Republicans, key Senate races, and what the map really means long term

🔹 A full midterm conversation with Camellia Peterson, Legislative Director for Americans for Prosperity-Missouri, on what voters actually care about on the ground

🔹 The new emoji controversy, the history of emojis, and why cultural softness keeps turning tiny symbols into national arguments

🔹 Why cost of living, education, taxes, family issues, and candidate discipline may matter more than party wish-casting in the months ahead

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Wake Up America with Austin Petersen covers the stories that shape politics, culture, elections, and freedom, from Iran to the midterms to the latest cultural flashpoints.

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