Own Your Freedom

 Dr. Sara Brenner, Emily Kaplan, Kim Mack Rosenberg, Dr. Meryl Nass, and Shane

Stevens take the health panel at the Feds For Freedom National Security Summit. They

discuss why America spends more per person on health care than any country on earth

and gets the worst outcomes among its peers — and why that may be the system working

as designed rather than failing.

Stephanie and the panel then discuss autism prevalence and military accession,

nanotechnology and carbon nanotubes, billing codes and peer review, the childhood

vaccine schedule litigation, the anthrax vaccine program, metabolic disease, the

July 1 COVID emergency-use wind-down, and fraud in the $79 billion health program

covering 8.2 million federal workers.

Chapters:

00:53 — Dr. Sara Brenner: FDA, HHS & the NSC

01:50 — Running the $79 Billion FEHB Program

04:29 — Autism at 1 in 31

06:11 — 38 Years on the Anthrax Vaccine

13:18 — Broken Science: Billing Codes & Peer Review

23:19 — Highest Spending, Worst Outcomes

30:03 — 1 in 10 Kids Has Fatty Liver

37:24 — Health, Resilience & National Security

45:48 — Nanotechnology & Carbon Nanotubes

54:09 — Why the COVID EUA Ran Until July 1

56:16 — FEHB Fraud and Where the Money Went

1:02:43 — Military Families and the CHD Study

Broken Science Initiative:https://brokenscience.org

Children's Health Defense:https://childrenshealthdefense.org

Door to Freedom: https://doortofreedom.org

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Kevin McAfee, president of Feds For Freedom, Army civilian and retired soldier, graces the podcast this week. He discusses his COVID story that led him to Feds For Freedom, his experience with the EEOC, and what he’s seen in the Army recently. 

Stephanie and Kevin then discuss recent changes in government vaccine policy, the continued flu shot mandate battle in the military, eminent domain, REAL ID, and needed government constitutional training. 

Chapters:

02:15 — Stationed in Italy

07:54 — 200 Meters From Home: Italy's Lockdown Papers

09:58 — An EEO Complaint Dismissed 

12:33 — Cutting the Department of War Until It Breaks?

15:14 — The TDA Problem: Why Positions Don't Come Back

17:27 — The Flu Shot Memo and a Guardsman Still Waiting

20:36 — Trump's Vaccine Executive Order

22:27 — The Fabrizio & McLaughlin & Assoc. Polls

24:52 — Why Feds for Freedom Took the Raytheon Case

28:39 — The CIA's Counter-Espionage List

30:22 — Feds Get ONE Class on the Constitution (If That!)

JOIN US OCTOBER 30 — Alexandria Courthouse, Virginia. Press conference at 9:00 a.m., summary judgment hearing at 10:00 a.m. in the Adirim defamation case. 

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Ex-CIA operations officer Jim Erdman says intelligence oversight is theater. In this Own Your Freedom episode, host Stephanie Weidle and Erdman break down why government accountability keeps failing — and what the citizens can actually do about it.

Jim Erdman is Co-Founder and Director of Development of Feds For Freedom. 

Jim and Stephanie cover Trump's broken campaign promises, why Congress gets blocked from classified info, Inspectors General independence, rulemaking vs. legislation, whistleblower retaliation and conscientious dissent, anomalous health incidents (AHIs) concern, the Navy’s flu shot mandate, and how a citizen petitions OPM.

Chapters:

04:50 — The News Blackout After the Hearing

11:06 — The List of Broken Campaign Promises

19:10 — Manipulated, or Responsible?

21:57 — Why Nonpartisan Is the Point

26:23 — CIA Lawsuit: Motion to Dismiss

35:40 — How a Citizen Petitions OPM

39:50 — AHIs, the DIG, and What Got Blocked

44:11 — Oversight is Cosplay

48:12 — Holding the System Accountable

53:18 — Separating the Inspectors General

56:25 — The Importance of Putting Your Name On It

1:06:12 — The Navy Flu Shot Exemptions Debacle

JOIN US OCTOBER 30 — Alexandria Courthouse, Virginia. Press conference at 9 a.m., summary judgment hearing at 10 a.m. in the Dr. Terry Adirim defamation case, with Ivan Raiklin taking questions afterward. If you're in the DC area, this one to show up for.

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If you don’t own your freedom, someone else will.

Own Your Freedom — formerly The Feds — is the podcast of Feds For Freedom, an organization of federal employees who put the Constitution before the institution.

Owning your freedom isn’t waiting for it to be granted. It isn’t asking for your rights to be handed over. It isn’t even reclaiming them — those rights are already yours, and they always have been. The job is never letting them go.

Every week, host Stephanie Weidle talks with people who did exactly that. A homeowner told a 185-foot transmission tower was going in her backyard. Employees fired after the religious exemptions their employer had already approved. A former CIA operations officer who took his case to the Senate when every internal channel failed. Federal workers who found out they had more rights than anyone had ever trained them on.

Conversations about government overreach, medical freedom, religious liberty, informed consent, whistleblower retaliation, and what accountability actually requires — from the people living it, not the people reporting on it.

New episodes weekly.

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"Don't panic. For most cancers, you have time to think." Dr. Paul Marik on what he'd tell a patient who just heard they have cancer.

Joining the podcast today is Dr. Paul Marik, discussing cancer care, drug approval standards, and the role patients play in their own treatment decisions.

The conversation explores his critique of conventional oncology: that drug approvals increasingly rest on surrogate endpoints such as tumor size and biomarkers rather than on whether patients live longer, that the survival gains of the past two decades have been modest relative to their cost, and that patients are given little room to participate in their own treatment planning. 

Dr. Marik walks us through what the FDA actually requires before approving a cancer drug, what two decades of those approvals have delivered, what some of them cost a patient per month, and why he thinks the one question patients ask most — what should I eat? — gets waved away.

He discusses diet, sleep, exercise and stress as factors patients can influence, cautions that certain vitamins and antioxidants may be harmful in cancer patients, and identifies the cancers for which he considers chemotherapy clearly appropriate.

Dr. Marik stresses the importance of finding a guide who will walk with the patient through all of these different healing paths.

Chapters:

00:00 — What Happened to His Career

03:53 — From COVID to Cancer

06:14 — Two Theories of the Disease

10:50 — 4% 

15:01 — Who Writes the Protocols

17:31 — If You've Just Been Diagnosed

21:12 — Where Chemotherapy Genuinely Works

26:22 — Sleep, Stress, and the Vitamin Warning

29:28 — What's Driving the Increase

32:58 — Vaccines and Turbo Cancers

43:09 — The Dosing Question

47:38 — 10 Minutes With a Patient

Follow Dr. Paul Marik:https://paulmarik.substack.com

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 They approved the religious exemption — then fired them anyway.

Mike Heyser, retired Air Force veteran who ran Raytheon's Warfighter School, andLisa Leake, a 14-year IT systems analyst on classified programs, both had religious exemptions approved under the COVID vaccine mandate. Both say the accommodations that came with it — masking, weekly testing, travel ban — made approval meaningless. Mike's job required travel. Lisa's exemption explicitly covered testing. There was no appeal and the terms were final.

They've been in litigation since 2022. Right-to-sue letters arrived from three different EEOC offices with conflicting deadlines, and the case has been stuck on that timeline fight ever since. Four years in, no court has ruled on whether any of it was lawful.

Host Stephanie Weidle talks with Mike and Lisa about religious accommodation under Title VII, defense contractor policy during the federal mandate, EEOC process and right-to-sue delays, litigation costs for individual plaintiffs, workplace privacy, and what reform should look like.

Chapters:

05:21 — What the Raytheon Merger Changed

11:18 — When the COVID Policies Arrived

15:27 — Isolated by Design

19:46 — Approved, Then Ignored

24:00 — The EEOC and the Right-to-Sue Letters

36:21 — Dismissed, Then Sanctioned

Four years of litigation, and not one ruling on the facts. How is that an accident?

Mike and Lisa came to Feds For Freedom through the F4F Religious Discrimination Survey. Feds For Freedom is supporting their lawsuit against Raytheon.

If you support federal employees and contractors standing up for constitutional rights, subscribe to Feds For Freedom and share this episode of Own Your Freedom.

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Most federal employees think they have fewer religious freedom rights at work than everyone else. It's the other way around — and almost nobody has been trained on it.

September Secrist, executive director of the Interagency Christian Fellowship and a federal leader of more than twenty years, discusses what the law actually permits inside a federal agency.

The First Amendment restrains government — and for two million career civil servants, government is the employer. The standard is equal access: if your agency lets people run a book club, hold a potluck, or talk about baseball, it cannot shut out employees of faith. Those rights aren't new.They were spelled out decades ago, and then nobody taught anyone what they meant.

Chapters:

02:25 — Why Federal Employees Have More Protection, Not Less

05:51 — The Training Gap Nobody Has Filled

12:48 — Win People Over, Don't Hit Them With the Law

14:11 — Bureaucratic Guerrilla Warfare

15:57 — Where Our Rights Come From

18:23 — What Interagency Christian Fellowship Does

21:39 — Government Quick Wins, Slow Machine

27:00 — The October 3 Convocation  

The Interagency Christian Fellowship Convocation is October 3 at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC — 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., $45 including museum admission, breakfast, and lunch, with speakers from the EEOC and the Department of Justice. Register here:https://www.interagencychristianfellowship.org/events/fy27-convocation

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During COVID, millions of Americans said "but I have rights" — and watched that fail. What if the rights were fine, and the problem was the holes between them?

Joining the podcast this week are Danielle Lasher and Sofia Karstens, co-founders of the newly launched Spirit of 1776. Their plan is to rebuild the village — connecting the people, practitioners, schools, and farms that already exist outside failing institutions into something that holds together.

They explain why nobody has to move to the woods, how overlapping the rights we already have can cover each other's gaps, and why they believe the next fight over bodily autonomy will be about technology.

Chapters:

04:24 — What Is Spirit of 1776?

08:43 — A Crisis of Institutional Failure

11:41 — An Alternative Society, Not a Commune

14:20 — Homeschooling Kids With Special Needs

18:42 —Rights You Already Have, Fortified

22:38 — Surveillance, Biometrics, and Kill Switches

29:25 — What It Looks Like Where You Live

34:26 — Transhumanism and the Right to Stay Human 

Spirit of 1776 will hold a press conference on October 5. Learn more: https://thespiritof1776.net

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Feds For Freedom Releases Adirim Deposition, Calls for Congressional Subpoena and Full DoW Records > > Read full press release here: https://www.fedsforfreedom.org/adirim

Terry Adirim, MD, then acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, signed a memo on Sept. 14, 2021, stating that the Pfizer BioNTech EUA shot was interchangeable with the FDA approved Comirnaty. But they were legally distinct- one carries a right of refusal, the other doesn't.

After her time at the DOD and Veterans Affairs, Adirim worked at the CIA and was promptly fired in Spring 2025, once President Trump took office. She turned around and sued Ivan Raiklin for defamation (and CIA Dir. Ratcliffe for firing her, claim now dropped), claiming he was the reason she was fired.

Feds For Freedom is supporting the defense in the lawsuit Terry Adirim v CIA et al.

Ivan Raiklin, constitutional attorney, and Kevin McAfee, president of Feds For Freedom join us to discuss Adirim’s memo and what she revealed in her August 2026 deposition as to how she determined these shots were safe for 2 million servicemembers.

Chapters:

• 01:45 — Who Signed the Memo?
• 05:28 — Adirim: Pediatrics to Defense Health Affairs
• 09:04 — Comirnaty, the EUA Product, and "Legally Distinct"
• 15:18 — Kevin McAfee: What the Memo Meant Inside the Force
• 25:01 — The Adirim v. CIA et al Lawsuit and Its Claims
• 32:58 — Discovery and the Adirim’s Deposition
• 44:54 — Liability, Manufacturers, and Why the Distinction Mattered
• 1:04:42 — Participate in Accountability

Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/dr-terry-adirims-legacy-five-years-unraveling-military

Rep. Harris calls for Adirim subpoena: https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-harris-five-years-after-adirim-mandatory-vaccine-memo-put-her-under-oath

What does it mean to Own Your Freedom? It’s not waiting for freedom to be granted to you. It’s not asking for rights to be given, it’s not even reclaiming your rights- as they’re yours and they’ve been yours along- you just need to never let go of your God-given rights. Owning freedom is taking responsibility for your rights and living them out in all facets of life. On this podcast, we interview people who have taken ownership of their freedoms and as a result have made incredible change, whether it be at the federal, state, local levels, or in the home. It’s a way of living. Own Your Freedom. It’s that simple.

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Four people who spent the COVID years being silenced sat down to talk about accountability. All four described the same tactics — still running, under a different administration.

In this panel from the 2026 F4F National Security Beyond the Headlines Summit, co-founderJim Erdman moderates journalist Steve Baker, constitutional attorneyIvan Raiklin, physician-scientist Dr. Robert Malone, and investigative reporterEmily Kopp.

Dr. Malone, who served as vice chair of the ACIP, describes what he saw inside HHS and why he concluded the problem is structural rather than partisan. Emily Kopp explains why the corporate press and the permanent bureaucracy protect each other. Steve Baker describes what happens to a reporter who won't drop a story. Ivan Raiklin lays out which levers are still available.

We discuss: 

👉 Why political appointees don't actually run their agencies 

👉 What happened at the ACIP, from someone who was in the room 

👉 The COVID origins documents and the whistleblower who surfaced them 

👉 Why administrations turn over but bureaucrats never do 

👉 Whether the reform movement has started censoring itself 

👉 The congressional powers nobody is using

Chapters: 

00:00 — Introduction 

01:45 — Framing: Accountability as a Multivariable Problem

03:55 — Steve Baker: The Calls to Get Him Fired

09:27 — Ivan Raiklin: Transparency Before Accountability

14:44 — Robert Malone: ACIP, HHS, and Why It's Systemic

26:59 — Emily Kopp: COVID Origins and the Managerial State

33:58 — What Stops Populist Movements From Delivering

43:25 — The Press as Enforcement Mechanism

1:04:47 — Congressional Levers and Inherent Contempt

1:10:48 — Why the Visionaries Get Pushed Out

1:15:24 — Who's Actually Running This?

>> If the same thing happens no matter who wins, what exactly are we voting for? <<

View the entire 2026 National Security Beyond the Headlines Summit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQDQcTWeI1Y&t=617s

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