Own Your Freedom

In this episode ofThe Feds, recorded at FreedomFest 2026, we are joined by Spike Cohen, founder and president ofYou Are the Power, to discuss how citizens can fight government overreach at the state and local level.

🔥 Spike explains that while Feds For Freedom focuses on protecting Americans from federal overreach from inside the system, You Are the Power works from the outside — taking on local and state abuses involving Child Protective Services, eminent domain, free speech violations, wrongful charges, and property rights. 

The conversation explores howgovernment incentives can distort justice, including concerns around CPS cases where families are wrongfully accused, children are removed from homes, and parents are forced into civil administrative systems instead of criminal courts. Spike also discusseseminent domain and how a power originally intended for limited public use has expanded into the taking of homes, farms, and businesses for projects like highways, tech parks, and data centers. 

🎯This episode is a powerful reminder that freedom is not passive. Whether the threat comes from Washington D.C., a state agency, or your local city council, citizens have the power to organize, speak up, and win.

Check out You are the Power:https://www.youarethepower.net

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How far should obedience go when the government crosses the line?

🔥Recorded at FreedomFest 2026, Stephanie Weidle sits down with Australian filmmaker, author, and political commentatorTopher Field for a gripping conversation about Melbourne’s COVID-era lockdowns—and the moment he decided that his conscience required civil disobedience.

Topher recounts curfews, military checkpoints, protest bans, arrests, police confrontations, and the personal cost of becoming one of Australia’s most visible lockdown opponents. He explains why he believes limited government can surviveonly when ordinary people are willing to place limits on their own obedience.

👉The conversation explores the psychology behind mass compliance and why standing up can cost you friendships and professional security. Topher details hownurses and teachers changed the course of Australia’s resistance movement and what Americans can learn from Melbourne’s experience.

00:00 — Welcome
01:15 — Meet Topher Field
06:12 — When Topher began questioning the COVID response
14:09 — Life under Melbourne’s curfews and lockdown rules
16:24 — Military checkpoints and the “Ring of Steel”
17:53 — The beginning of Australia’s resistance movement
25:51 — The psychology behind mass compliance
29:26 — Why limited government requires limited obedience
34:12 — “Too much 1984 and not enough 1776”
39:19 — The day Topher decided to break the law
44:51 — Police escalation and rubber bullets
48:07 — The protest that changed everything
51:18 — Creating Battleground Melbourne
52:47 — Why citizens must “limit their obedience”
54:12 — A police officer who sacrificed her career
56:40 — The one action every American can take

Topher Field is the director ofBattleground Melbourne and the author ofGood People Break Bad Laws andGood Christians Break Bad Laws.

Check out his website:www.topherfield.com

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What really happened on January 6th — and why do so many questions remain unanswered and, in fact, avoided by the current administration?

In this episode,Stephanie Weidle sits down with investigative journalist Steve Baker to examine one of the most controversial and misunderstood events in modern American history: January 6th.

👉Baker has spent years reviewing Capitol CCTV, police radio traffic, video footage, trial testimony, and official narratives surrounding that day. In this conversation, he challenges both left and right-wing misconceptions about what happened at the Capitol — including claims about police conduct, breached doors, crowd behavior, and the events surrounding the RNC and DNC pipe bombs. 

The conversation dives into…

• The possible use of energy weapons directed towards the crowd on Jan. 6

• How Baker identified Shauni Kerkhoffas a Capitol Police officer & likely pipe bomb planter

• The controversy around Shauni Kerkhoff and Baker’s reporting

• Brian Cole Jr.’s innocence 
• The lengths the current FBI went to bury Steve Baker and his journalism

Baker pushes back on false narratives from both sides and argues that the public deserves the full truth — not edited clips, political spin, or selective storytelling. 

Read Baker’s articles and watch footage:Veritas Regnat

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Note: At the time of this recording, Shane Stevens was the Associate Director of Healthcare and Insurance. He resigned shortly after filming was completed.

🔥 The federal government runs one of the largest employer-sponsored health benefit systems in the world — covering roughly8.2 million federal employees, with a budget of over $44 billion, dozens of carriers, and hundreds of plan options. Now, that system is being challenged to move away fromreactive sick care towards well care. 

In this episode,Stephanie Weidle sits down with Shane Stevens, now former Associate Director of Healthcare and Insurance in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), to break down the newFederal Employee Health Benefits call letter and what it could mean for federal employees, retirees, families, and taxpayers.

🎯 This conversation exposes the central problem with American health care:
We reward sickness, prescriptions, and repeat visits — but not prevention, personal responsibility, and true wellness.

Shane explains how the new direction pushes insurance carriers to focus on:

• Preventing chronic disease before it starts 
• Treating the whole person — body, mind, and spirit 
• Supporting informed medical decision-making 
• Encouraging personal responsibility and health ownership 
• Improving outcomes while lowering long-term costs 
• Looking at non-pharmaceutical interventions 
• Rethinking obesity, GLP-1 drugs, maternal care, fraud, waste, abuse, and trust in the medical system 

This is not just a benefits policy discussion. It is a major signal that the health freedom movement is reaching the federal insurance system.

Read the 2027 Federal Employee Health Benefits Call Letter:https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USOPM/2026/03/31/file_attachments/3601982/CL2026-07%20-%202026%20FEHB%20Call%20Letter.pdf

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Is the State Department serving the American people—or protecting a broken bureaucracy?

In this episode ofThe Feds, Stephanie sits down with Foreign Service officer and Feds for Freedom co-founderMarcus Thornton to tackle one of the biggest questions in government reform today:What is happening inside the Department of State that needs radical transparency—and radical reform?

Together, they examine the systemic problems inside the State Department and Foreign Service, from accountability failures and ideological insularity to family policy, recruitment, overseas assignments, and religious discrimination. 

🔥 Marcus suggests a bold proposal: Should the Foreign Service be reorganized as a uniformed service?

The episode also dives into the question: is the education system of concern to the national security of the United States?

✅ Read the DOJ’s recent report to the President: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1438506/dl?inline

✅ Follow Marcus on X: @marcuswthornton  

In this powerful episode of The Feds, host Stephanie Weidle breaks down CIA operations officer and Feds for Freedom co-founder Jim Erdman’s explosive testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered under subpoena by Senator Rand Paul. 

Jim exposes the CIA’s deliberate suppression of the COVID-19 lab leak origin, the weaponization of the intelligence community against the American public, the senior managers arbitrarily altering reports to mislead Congress, the spying on innocent citizens including whistleblowers, and the agency’s brazen undermining of Congress and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. 

👉 Packed with raw hearing audio, incisive commentary on bureaucratic bloat, and a fiery response to Dan Bongino’s criticism,this episode reveals a broken system of checks and balances that protects the deep state at the expense of truth and accountability. 

🚨 Mark your calendars for our July 1 roundtable at the Willard in DC titled “National Security Beyond the Headlines.” 

✅ Watch the full hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMz4whuKFNE

✅ Read Jim’s written statement: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/letter-and-testimomy.pdf

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This week, investigative reporter Paul Thacker examines the lingering questions around gain-of-function research, the origins of COVID-19, NIH funding, and the role major scientific institutions played in shaping the public narrative during the pandemic.

The conversation centers on Ralph Baric, a prominent coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina, whose work on engineered viruses connects to a larger network involving the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance, Anthony Fauci, and U.S. government funding streams.

Thacker explains why the definition of “gain-of-function” research became so fiercely contested, how terms like “biodefense” can mask the risks of dangerous pathogen experiments, and how early scientific papers and media coverage helped shut down discussion of the lab-leak hypothesis. The discussion also highlights the breakdown in congressional oversight and the perverse incentive structures driving biodefense research.

👉 Ultimately, this episode goes far beyond COVID. It’s a story of power, money, censorship, and institutions that demand public trust while concealing uncomfortable truths. Has this flawed system been fixed—or is it poised to fuel the next national crisis? 👈

✅ Check out Thacker’s Substack: https://substack.com/@disinformationchronicle

✅ Read Thacker’s article on Vincent Munster: https://substack.com/home/post/p-196444138

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What happens when a totalitarian regime no longer sees human beings as people — but as inventory?

In this powerful and sobering episode, Stephanie Weidle speaks withJan Jekielek, senior editor at The Epoch Times, host of American Thought Leaders, and author of the New York Times bestsellerKilled to Order, a book documenting China’s forced organ harvestingprogram. 

👉 Jan explains how forced organ harvesting differs from organ transplants, why China’s “transplant” system has raised international alarm, and how political prisoners and prisoners of conscience — especiallyFalun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs— have been targeted inside the Chinese Communist Party’s detention system.

The conversation explores the role ofdehumanizing propaganda, mass incarceration, medical testing, and state power in creating what Jan describes as a “kill-to-order” transplant system. He also discusses the broader implications for the West, including transplant tourism, medical partnerships, research funding, and the ethical responsibility of governments, hospitals, and citizens.

✅ Read the book: KilledtoOrder.com

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The Pentagon just made a major move — and it changes everything.

Secretary of War announced last that, for the first time since the 1950s, theflu shot is no longer mandatory for U.S. service members.

In this episode, Feds For Freedom Executive Director Stephanie Weidle sits down withAir Force Lt. Col. Carolyn Rocco to break down:

• Why the mandate was finally reversed 

• The role ofCOVID-era policies and backlash

• Stories of service members punished or being forced out over the flu shot

• What this means formedical freedom in the military

• The pushback already happening inside the system 

• Whether this opens the door to re-examiningall vaccine mandates

Correction: Chris Babscak is an Arkansas Air National Guardsman, not a reservist.

Dr. Paul Thomas’ vaccinated v. unvaccinated study data:

https://www.doctorsandscience.com/presentations

Secretary of War Hegseth’s Updated Guidance on Influenza Vaccination 

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Before COVID mandates… There were Anthrax mandates. 

🔥In this explosive episode ofThe Feds, retired Air Force Colonel Tom “Buzz” Rempfer reveals the truth behind the anthrax vaccine mandate—a military program later proven illegal in federal court.

But this isn’t just history.

👉This conversation details a pattern—one that repeated itself during COVID—and raises serious questions about government power, accountability, and individual rights.

🎙️ In this episode, we cover:

• The anthrax vaccine mandate and why it was ruled unlawful

• How service members were punished for refusing an unapproved medical product

• How law was circumvented by merely using a different term – “Investigational New Drug” (IND) became Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) 

• Allegations surrounding the anthrax letters and their broader implications

• Why accountability still hasn’t happened decades later

👉 “Unapproved medical products cannot be mandated—yet it happened anyway.”

Tom lays out clear government action items to ensure the pattern is broken: 

✅Complete an Anthrax After Action Review (AAR)

✅Correct 100% of records of military servicemen who refused the Anthrax shot

✅Release an HHS statement, acknowledging that there was never an FDA approved Anthrax

✅Acknowledge, through statements of Karl Rove, Tom Daschel, and current Sen. Blumenthal, the illegality off and subsequent cover up following the Anthrax vaccine mandate.

Visit Tom’s Website:https://hoping4justice.org/unyielding 

Check out Tom’s book:Unyielding: Marathons Against Illegal Mandates

Follow Tom on X:@rempfer_thomas

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