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October 05 Jan Jekielek - Unimaginable Crimes: China's Organ Harvesting Industry
Jan Jekielek, senior editor of The Epoch Times and host of American Thought Leaders, joined us in Los Angeles to talk about the Chinese Communist Party’s forced organ harvesting industry and what it reveals about the regime behind it.
His New York Times bestselling book, Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary, examines a practice many still find almost impossible to contemplate: prisoners of conscience blood-typed, tissue-typed, and killed to order so that organs can be delivered on a schedule.
Jan explains how that system differs from ethical transplantation, how it was built first on Falun Gong practitioners and later extended to Uyghurs, and why the official story of death-row donors cannot account for the scale of the industry.
The conversation goes well beyond the crimes themselves.
Jan and AFA President, Dr Karen Siegemund discuss why forced organ harvesting is a feature of the system rather than an abuse at its margins; the difference between Hippocratic medicine and a utilitarian ethic in which the Party’s survival is the greatest good; how “black class” propaganda and no-win coercion pull ordinary doctors, officials, and citizens into atrocity; and why freedom of conscience, what James Madison called the most sacred property, is the freedom totalitarian systems most need to extinguish.
They also take up regionally administered totalitarianism, the pathocracy that elevates people without moral limits, decades of American capital and technology that helped build the regime, and the human rights record as leverage the United States has largely left unused.
The evening includes the account of survivor Cheng Peiming, the case for treating these crimes as integral to how the CCP rules, and what legislation and ordinary citizens can still do.
A recording of a live discussion on one of the defining human rights challenges of our time, and on why understanding the true nature of America’s biggest adversary still matters.
Recorded live in Los Angeles 27th September 2026
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1 hr 24 min
October 01 Dr Bradley Thayer - Communism's 100 Years War Against America
Dr. Bradley Thayer, American Freedom Alliance Fellow, joined us in Washington, DC, for a celebration of his new book, America’s 100 Years’ War: How to Win Against Communism.
In his address, introduced by AFA President Dr. Karen Siegemund, Dr Thayer argues that the United States has been locked for a century in a contest between the spirit of 1776—Madison and the Founders—and the spirit of 1917—Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution.
He traces how Lenin invented totalitarianism, supplied the instruction manual in Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, and launched the United Front strategy of boring from within: using liberal institutions against themselves.
That playbook, carried forward by the Comintern and later by private networks, shaped the American Communist Party, the Chinese Communist Party, and successive efforts to penetrate unions, education, media, museums, and the Democratic Party (as Earl Browder urged by 1929).
Front organizations such as the DSA continue the same leftward pull.
Dr Thayer also tallies the blood price Americans paid long before and during the Cold War—linked, he contends, to Lenin’s 1918 separate peace, Stalin’s wartime choices, Korea, and Indochina—and contrasts that record with what he calls the American trinity: an American spirit, political liberalism grounded in the individual and God-given rights, and Western civilization.
The talk closes with a call to name the ideology as Leninism, reclaim the ideas industry, and end the hundred years’ war in an American victory.
Dr. Bradley Thayer is a Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance, a prominent political scientist, and national security expert specializing in grand strategy, the rise of China, communist ideology, and threats to Western civilization. Holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he has taught at institutions including the University of Minnesota Duluth and Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, served as a Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, and worked as a consultant to RAND and in advisory roles for U.S. government security initiatives. A founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, Dr. Thayer is a prolific author and commentator on U.S.-China relations, the historical evolution of communism from Lenin to the present, and the need to defend American liberalism and identity. He conceived the Spirit of America Institute to restore pride in our unique heritage and counter the domestic and international forces seeking to undermine it.
Recorded live in Washington, DC. 17th September 2026
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33 min
September 17 Spirit of America #003
In Spirit of America Episode 3, American Freedom Alliance President Dr. Karen Siegemund and AFA Fellow Dr. Bradley Thayer continue their conversation on Bradley’s book America’s Hundred Years’ War: How to Win Against Communism, turning to a second totalitarian threat: the red-green axis of communism and Islamism.
They argue that both seek to take down America as the standard-bearer of Western civilization, but that the red is worse because it made the green possible. By attacking American identity, institutions, and immigration law, communists opened the corridor for Sharia-supremacist networks, political mosques, and parallel societies—the pattern already visible in Europe. The two allies are oil and water, yet they cooperate for now because the constitutional republic stands in the way of both.
The discussion turns to response: expose the alliance’s incoherence on women, rights, faith, and constitutional government; defend free speech against “Islamophobia” laws; work locally against Sharia parallel structures; and treat midterms as urgent, with turnout too large to rig. They close by toasting the unsung giants of American labor—farmers, miners, and mill workers whose sacrifice, civil society, and meritocratic dream built the country and remain the antidote to tyranny.
Dr. Karen Siegemund, PhD, is President of the American Freedom Alliance, a Los Angeles-based organization dedicated to defending Western civilization, American values, and freedom. A scientist with extensive experience in underwater acoustics and sonar system development during the Cold War (including sea trials hunting Soviet submarines), she is also an educator and longtime advocate who famously lost a teaching position after publicly praising Western civilization’s contributions to humanity. As the daughter of a man who grew up in Hitler’s Berlin, Dr. Siegemund brings a deeply personal commitment to recognizing the fragility of liberty and the slow erosion of rights. She organizes major conferences, spoken widely on culture and politics, and leads AFA’s mission to awaken and mobilize citizens against tyranny in all its forms.
Dr. Bradley Thayer is a Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance, a prominent political scientist, and national security expert specializing in grand strategy, the rise of China, communist ideology, and threats to Western civilization. Holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he has taught at institutions including the University of Minnesota Duluth and Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, served as a Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, and worked as a consultant to RAND and in advisory roles for U.S. government security initiatives. A founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, Dr. Thayer is a prolific author and commentator on U.S.-China relations, the historical evolution of communism from Lenin to the present, and the need to defend American liberalism and identity. He conceived the Spirit of America Institute to restore pride in our unique heritage and counter the domestic and international forces seeking to undermine it.
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49 min
September 15 Spirit of America #002
In Spirit of America Episode 2, American Freedom Alliance President, Dr. Karen Siegemund and AFA Fellow Dr. Bradley Thayer continue their conversation on Bradley’s new book 'America’s Hundred Years’ War: How to Win Against Communism'.
They contrast the American spirit—independence, God-given individual rights, liberty, pioneering grit, meritocracy, and love of the land—with communism’s totalitarian logic of group identity, party-granted privileges, terror, and the erasure of the past.
Bradley and Karen argue that “salami tactics” and a long march through schools, universities, museums, media, and civic groups have already weakened American identity, political liberalism, and civilizational confidence. The discussion turns to practical response: recover gratitude for the country’s founding principles, demand that politicians and institutions defend them, use funding leverage and local engagement (PTAs, scouting, elections), and treat midterms and 2028 as urgent because the stakes include borders, courts, and the constitutional republic itself. They close on reasons for optimism: the Constitution still stands, most of the country retains an independent and church-going character, parents and ordinary Americans have begun to push back, and the American tradition of sacrifice and “sheer cussedness” was built precisely as an antidote to tyranny.
The episode is a call to remember who Americans are—and to act before the hour grows later.
Dr. Karen Siegemund, PhD, is President of the American Freedom Alliance, a Los Angeles-based organization dedicated to defending Western civilization, American values, and freedom. A scientist with extensive experience in underwater acoustics and sonar system development during the Cold War (including sea trials hunting Soviet submarines), she is also an educator and longtime advocate who famously lost a teaching position after publicly praising Western civilization’s contributions to humanity. As the daughter of a man who grew up in Hitler’s Berlin, Dr. Siegemund brings a deeply personal commitment to recognizing the fragility of liberty and the slow erosion of rights. She organizes major conferences, spoken widely on culture and politics, and leads AFA’s mission to awaken and mobilize citizens against tyranny in all its forms.
Dr. Bradley Thayer is a Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance, a prominent political scientist, and national security expert specializing in grand strategy, the rise of China, communist ideology, and threats to Western civilization. Holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he has taught at institutions including the University of Minnesota Duluth and Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, served as a Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, and worked as a consultant to RAND and in advisory roles for U.S. government security initiatives. A founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, Dr. Thayer is a prolific author and commentator on U.S.-China relations, the historical evolution of communism from Lenin to the present, and the need to defend American liberalism and identity. He conceived the Spirit of America Institute to restore pride in our unique heritage and counter the domestic and international forces seeking to undermine it.
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49 min
August 09 Bob Donovan - The Flag
At our 'America’s 250th Birthday' celebration, longtime friend of the Reagan Library, numerous veterans’ organizations, and AFA, Bob Donovan, honored our military by delivering Jimmy Weldon’s stirring monologue “I Am the Flag.”
The piece traces Old Glory’s journey through American history—from Lexington and Concord and Molly Pitcher to Iwo Jima and the Four Chaplains—before Bob led the audience in a heartfelt Pledge of Allegiance.
Among those present were more than a dozen military veterans, including two who had served in World War II, two in Iraq and Afghanistan, and veterans of Vietnam and Korea.
The Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps were all represented, their presence in dress and mess uniforms lending a special gravitas to the evening.
The program also featured keynote speaker Eric Metaxas along with remarks by Trevor Loudon, Dr. Bradley Thayer, Frank Gaffney, and Susanne Reyto.
Recorded live in Los Angeles July 22nd 2026
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5 min
August 06 Frank Gaffney - America: Still the Last Best Hope
In this talk, Frank Gaffney speaks on American greatness from the perspective of an American.
He shares a personal encounter earlier that day with Debra Burlingame (sister of the pilot of the plane that struck the Pentagon on 9/11 and a leading 9/11 families advocate), reflecting on the approaching 25th anniversary and past battles such as the proposed Ground Zero mosque.
He recounts her story of an Egyptian immigrant limousine driver in New York who, when asked what he most loved about America, emphatically answered “Freedom, Freedom, Freedom.”
Frank salutes “foreign-born American patriots” (including speaker Susanne Reyto) who understand both the value and the fragility of liberty, praises the audience and the AFA for their commitment, notes the Founders’ year of open rebellion before the Declaration of Independence, and urges everyone to recognize that “we’re making history,” rise to the occasion, take pride and leadership, and ensure the freedoms inherited are bequeathed to the next generation.
Frank Gaffney is President of the Institute for the American Future, a longtime national security analyst, former Reagan administration Deputy (and Acting) Assistant Secretary of Defense, founder of the Center for Security Policy, Vice Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, host of Securing America, and a member of the American Freedom Alliance Board of Directors/Advisors. He has spent decades warning about threats to the United States, including what he terms the “totalitarian trifecta.”
The event’s keynote speaker was Eric Metaxas; other speakers included Trevor Loudon, Dr. Bradley Thayer, Bob Donavan, and Susanne Reyto.
Recorded Live in Los Angeles July 22nd 2026
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14 min
August 05 Dr Bradley Thayer - In Praise of Western Civilization
Dr. Bradley Thayer, an esteemed Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance, delivered remarks at AFA’s America’s 250th Birthday celebration in Los Angeles.
Speaking in the context of the event’s keynote by Eric Metaxas (author of Revolution) and contributions from Trevor Loudon, Frank Gaffney, Bob Donavan, and Susanne Reyto, Dr Thayer argued for civilizational confidence in the West. He framed the American founding and Metaxas’s account of the Revolution within the broader achievements of Western civilization—from Athens and Rome through the Enlightenment—emphasizing its unique contributions of individual liberty, democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and cultural freedom. He warned of assaults from without (notably the CCP and Islamist supremacists) and from within (communist allies and ideas operating in the United States), stressing an inverse relationship between strong American/Western identity and the influence of those threats. Drawing on examples such as the rebuilding of Notre-Dame and the global response to Queen Elizabeth II’s death, he concluded that the West made, sustains, and defends the modern world and has nothing for which to apologize. The short address underscores AFA’s mission of defending Western values while celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.
Dr Thayer is a scholar of national security and the threats posed by Marxism-Leninism and the Chinese Communist Party. He is a founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, previously served as a Special Governmental Employee at the Department of Homeland Security (contributing to its 2021 strategic plan on the PRC threat), and has held fellowships at Harvard’s Belfer Center and Magdalen College, Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is the author or co-author of works including Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure (with James Fanell); a forthcoming book examines America’s long struggle against communism.
Recorded Live in Los Angeles July 22nd 2026
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9 min
August 04 Susanne Reyto - In Praise of America
Susanne Reyto (Holocaust survivor, author, and longtime American Freedom Alliance supporter) delivered a moving personal reflection on freedom and gratitude at AFA’s America’s 250th Birthday celebration in Los Angeles.
A child survivor of the Holocaust—born in Budapest just six days before the Nazi occupation of Hungary in March 1944—Reyto spent her earliest months with her mother in “protected houses” under Swiss and Swedish protective papers (Schutzpass), enduring cold, damp basement conditions, illness, and scarcity. After liberation and reunion with her father, she grew up under Communist tyranny in Hungary before her family’s difficult escape in the late 1950s, first to Australia and later to the United States. An award-winning author (Pursuit of Freedom and Destination Freedom: Escape from Tyranny), frequent speaker at the Holocaust Museum LA and Museum of Tolerance, and past recipient (with her husband Robert) of AFA’s 2013 Hand of Freedom Award, she is a naturalized American citizen and outspoken advocate for liberty, Israel, and Western values.
In her remarks, Reyto contrasted the fear, scarcity, forced patriotism, and suppressed independent thought of life under Nazism and Communism with the daily miracle of American freedom—the abundance of choice, open criticism of government without looking over one’s shoulder, and the right to build a life of one’s own. She stressed that true patriotism begins with gratitude, that rights are inherent rather than granted by dictators or committees, and that freedom is fragile and never more than one generation from extinction (quoting President Reagan). She pledged to continue fighting for this exceptional country, urged listeners not to take ordinary liberties for granted, and closed by blessing America, its troops, and its ally Israel while toasting another 250 years of freedom over tyranny.
The event’s keynote address was given by bestselling author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer; Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World). Other speakers included Trevor Loudon, Frank Gaffney, and Dr. Bradley Thayer.
Recorded live in Los Angeles July 22nd 2026
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9 min
August 03 Trevor Loudon - America's Goodness and Greatness
New Zealand-based author, speaker and American Freedom Alliance Fellow Trevor Loudon delivered remarks at our 'America's 250th Birthday' event in Los Angeles.
Speaking as a grateful outsider, he thanked the veterans present for the sacrifices of World War II (and later conflicts) that preserved freedom for Allied nations, including his own.
Drawing on a providential view of history, Trevor linked Joan of Arc’s defense of France to the French naval support that made American victory at Yorktown possible.
He stressed that faith and courage are inseparable, citing biblical examples and arguing that divine help has historically favored the brave rather than the faithless or faint-hearted.

(The 'America's 250th Birthday' event keynote address was given by Eric Metaxas; other speakers included Susanne Reyto, Frank Gaffney, and Dr. Bradley Thayer)
Recorded live in Los Angeles July 22nd 2026
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11 min
July 30 Eric Metaxas - America's 250th Birthday
As we celebrate America's 250th Birthday, few voices are better suited to reflect on the meaning of our nation's founding, the blessings of liberty, and the responsibilities that accompany freedom.
The American Freedom Alliance is honored to welcome Eric Metaxas as our featured guest and keynote speaker.
With introduction by AFA President Dr Karen Siegemund (Eric Metaxas speech from 6 minutes)
Recorded Live in Los Angeles July 22nd 2026
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