They told her a 185-foot tower was going in her backyard — after the school next door refused to host it.

In this episode, Stephanie Weidle speaks withVicki Hu, a Loudoun County homeowner fighting to keep her property, and Teresa Ghiorzi, a software engineer and community advocate, about the eminent domain fight behind Northern Virginia's data center boom.

The conversation explores how transmission lines built to power private data centers get classified as "public use," why Loudoun approved hundreds of data centers with no plan to power them, and what happens to a homeowner who says no.

We also discuss: 

03:29 — Kelo and the "Public Use" Loophole

07:07 — How Loudoun Became Data Center Alley

12:20 — The 185-Foot Pole

15:02 — Vicky's Phone Call: June 13, 2025

20:23 — Eminent Domain 

27:03 — 14.2 Gigawatts: More Power Than New York City

32:37 — The Line That Would Have Been Enough

37:52 — Undergrounding Is Possible: Follow the Money

42:38 — Everything You Can No Longer Build

46:04 — The Multi-State Pushback

Learn more and get involved:https://stopmarlvirginia.com

Ground Water Study:https://loudouncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Assessment-of-Groundwater-Supply-in-Loudoun-County_09_15_2025.pdf

Support Vicki’s case:https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-vicky-save-her-backyard-from-185foot-power-towers

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👉 The Kelo decision and Virginia's limits on eminent domain 👉 Why the school board said no  👉 The 185-foot power line and everything you can no longer build on your own land 👉 Why undergrounding is possible, and why it isn't happening 👉 What citizens across four states are doing to fight back🚨 If they can take her backyard for a data center, what stops them from taking yours?

Can a culture that has forgotten freedom learn to choose it again?

In this episode recorded at FreedomFest 2026,Stephanie Weidle speaks with Shane Krauser, attorney, author, educator, and full-time freedom advocate, about why America's crisis runs deeper than politics — it's cultural.

The conversation explores how people have to want freedom, why law schools often teach case law instead of the Constitution's original meaning, and why citizens need to learn how to talk to people who disagree with them.

We also discuss:

• Politics as downstream from culture
• What freedom actually means, and why it must be chosen
•  Why debate should build allies, not enemies
• How education shapes whether a people stay free

Can America rebuild a culture that chooses freedom again?

Visit Shane’s website:https://shanekrauser.com

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Read:What is Freedom? Is It For You? on Amazon

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The Fauci Diaries have been released—and beyond raising the question of why an 80-year-old man would keep a “diary,” let alone write it on a government device, they prompt further questions about what was really happening during COVID.

In this episode,Stephanie Weidle speaks with author and Brownstone Institute president Jeffrey Tucker about the newly released Fauci Diaries, the ongoing COVID accountability battle, and the deeper institutional failures that shaped America’s response to the pandemic.

👀 The conversation explores what the diaries may reveal about Anthony Fauci’s role in the COVID response, the unresolved questions surroundinggain-of-function research, and the broader network of public health, intelligence, and government officials involved in shaping the official narrative.

Stephanie and Jeffrey discuss why so many Americans now believe “everything is a scam,” how trust in leadership collapsed during the COVID years and even till now, and why the country has still not seen the level of transparency or accountability that was promised.

Topics include:

👉 The Fauci Diaries and Senator Rand Paul’s investigation 👉 Gain-of-function research and lack of oversight 

👉 Questions involving HHS, DOD, and intelligence officials

👉 What key figures still have not been questioned  

👉 Vaccine mandates and the trauma of government overreach 

👉 Public distrust in institutions and leadership 

👉 The missing COVID reckoning 

👉 MAGA, MAHA, and the demand for transparency

This episode asks a difficult but necessary question:

What happens to a society when the people no longer trust their leaders?

Follow Jeffrey: https://x.com/jeffreytucker  

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👉The COVID mandate era broke trust inside the military — and now the question is whether that trust can ever be restored and whether culture change can be implemented so this Doesn’t. Happen. Again. 

🇺🇸In this week’s episode, Stephanie Weidle speaks withChristopher Scott “Sonny” Duncan, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of War and former Marine Corps officer and aviator, regarding the ongoing effort to address the military fallout from the COVID mandate era.

The conversation includes:

• Reinstatement efforts under the current administration

• Religious accommodation denials

• The Pentagon’s COVID After-Action Review (AAR) and special taskforce 

• Education, accountability, and leadership reform

• The flu shot mandate cancellation & what happens now

• The broader military vaccine policy question

• Whether accountability is actually coming

• Restoring trust, readiness, and warrior ethos

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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

Follow Spike Cohen: https://x.com/RealSpikeCohen

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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

Follow Topher:https://x.com/TopherField

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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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