On this episode of the Free Thought Project podcast, Matt and Jason are joined by returning champion Aaron Day for his fourth appearance on the show. Day is a liberty activist, entrepreneur, and author. He is the Chairman of the Stark360 PAC and has been a prominent voice in the Free State Project. His latest ventures include his 2026 U.S. Senate run to promote liberty from the inside and Oasara, a counter-economy solution to medical tyranny.

We kick off the conversation with Aaron’s controversial new bid for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. Aaron explains why he is entering the belly of the beast and how he plans to use the platform not to govern, but to promote voluntaryist values and expose the two-party paradigm as a criminal enterprise.

The discussion then turns to the state of political prisoners in the West. We break down the "ransom" of Roger Ver—who was effectively extorted for millions to avoid a cage—and discuss the ongoing persecution of privacy pioneers like Ian Freeman and Roman Storm. This bleeds into a critical look at the state of crypto, how Bitcoin has been "hijacked" by institutional interests, and why the EU is terrified of true privacy coins.

Later, we pivot to the solutions: Medical Freedom. Aaron unveils his new project, Oasara, a medical tourism marketplace designed to help people escape the U.S. healthcare price-gouging (where markups can hit 10,000%). He debunks the myths that "cheaper means worse," explains how AI and privacy are being integrated into patient care, and shares his vision for a parallel health system.

We also touch on Aaron’s creative side, discussing his eye-opening AI-generated music, before wrapping up with a unique "White Pill" on finding the leverage to dismantle tyranny. 

Daylight Freedom (Hub for all Aaron's work): https://daylightfreedom.org/

Aaron Day for Senate: https://day2026.com/

Follow Aaron on X: @AaronRDay

In this explosive episode, hosts Matt Agorist, Jason Bassler, and Don Via, Jr. sit down with forensic historian and Grand Theft World host, Richard Grove, to meticulously dissect the war machine's play-by-play. We start by exposing the Trump administration's aggressive seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker and the geopolitical calculations behind the current push for conflict. 

Richard traces the deep state's involvement in the multinational drug trade, tying the current Venezuela narrative directly to the decades-old CIA drug trafficking history. We analyze the sheer hypocrisy of the establishment—including the Trump administration's pardon of a convicted Honduran drug-trafficking president—and reveal how international banking families leverage manufactured conflict to build a global machine for world domination. The conversation even takes a detour down JFK memory hole lane, followed by a look at the psychological tricks the establishment uses to keep the voting base blind, compliant, and consistently backing the very systems that enslave them.

The episode pivots to a powerful account of individual agency, detailing the successful, personal campaign Richard and his wife led to free Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old American citizen who was abandoned by the State Department and held in a torturous IDF prison. Finally, we break down the current status of the political "liberty movement" and end on a solutions-based "White Pill" note, with Richard explaining how true freedom is achieved by claiming self-ownership and mastering practical skills instead of waiting for a political savior. (Length: 1:16:42) 

This week, hosts Jason Bassler, Matt Agorist, and Don Via Jr. are joined by author and researcher Gavin Nascimento, known for his deep historical analysis of elitism, world government, and control structures.

We discussed the political theater surrounding DOGE and USAID, exposing how the "woke" cuts were a distraction while core functions, including ties to a global depopulation agenda, remained fully intact within the swamp. We then dug into the psychological warfare used by the elite—exploring Pavlovian techniques and historical social engineering—to keep the populace compliant, even when their leaders completely sell them out. Gavin took us on a historical trip from the Roman Empire to today, drawing direct parallels on how shadow governments operate outside the democratic process, sliding their tentacles into education and social engineering.

Despite the heavy subject matter, we closed on two strong notes of agency: Gavin provided a roadmap for hacking the digital propaganda campaign to create our own narrative, and he laid out the plan for his new project, the Truth Warrior Academy, designed to teach listeners to fight back against psychological control. (Length: 1:20:07)

Get Gavin's book here: https://www.amazon.com/History-Elitism-Government-Population-Control-ebook/dp/B0BSS9W4M5/

The truncated Version on TFTP: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/be-the-change/a-history-of-world-government-population-control-the-great-reset-vs-the-great-revolution 

This week, Jason, Don and Matt sit down with Gareth Icke, host of 'Gareth Icke Tonight' on the Ickonic Network and an outspoken voice for sovereignty and free speech. We start off and go deep into the mechanics of the new digital control grid.

The conversation quickly connects the policing of speech to the economic endgame: the Digital ID rollout. Gareth dissects the terrifying implications of the Digital ID, explaining how it is the ultimate tool for centralized control, tying our speech to a social credit score that can result in financial execution—with even simple consumer actions like automated checkout lines becoming permissioned and human assistance disappearing. We then tie this in to the staggering UK statistic: over 12,000 arrests annually for "offensive" online speech, a chilling phenomenon used to scare people into speech compliance. 

Despite this relentless pressure, we discuss how activists in the UK are pushing back and managing to break through the two-party political illusion, showing that resistance is possible. We explore the critical role of certain popular propagandists who rise to fame pretending to be the true resistance, only to fall in line and sell out their bases when actual noncompliance is required.

The conversation gets personal as Gareth opens up about growing up in the unique environment of his family, discussing how the public scrutiny he faced made him and his family stronger and instilled a profound bravery. We end on a powerful white pill, as Gareth explains that the entire digital control system is defeated not by fighting politicians, but by tapping into a simple yet profound truth: personal sovereignty is the solution, and you are the answer. (Length: 1:29:39) 

This week, Jason, Don and Matt sit down with a giant of the liberty movement, the founder of the Brownstone Institute, Jeffrey Tucker.

Jeffrey kicks things off by discussing his relationship with our previous guest, Stefan Molyneux, which leads into a candid conversation about his own intellectual shift over the last decade. He explains how he moved from the black-and-white world of pure anarchism to a more nuanced perspective on complex issues like immigration. This candor sets the stage for a raw discussion on the profound cognitive dissonance in modern politics. We explore how the Trump administration is openly selling out its base with tariffs and new stimulus checks, creating a massive divide within the MAGA movement. Jeffrey offers his take on the psychology of what causes people to continue supporting a system that is so openly exploiting them, and we examine Trump's cozy relationship with the very technocrats he claims to fight, like Peter Thiel.

This theme of co-option pivots the conversation to the financial endgame: the hijacking of Bitcoin. We break down the news of the first-ever central bank—the Czech National Bank—purchasing Bitcoin alongside US dollar-backed stablecoins. This isn't adoption; it's the establishment hijacking the "Bitcoin" brand to legitimize their real goal: a world of regulated stablecoins and total financial surveillance. We connect this directly to BlackRock's plan for the "tokenization of everything" and their mission to buy the world. We also touch on the internal crypto civil wars, discussing Roger Ver and why he's a target of the Bitcoin maximalists.

It's a wide-ranging conversation on the nature of statist co-option, but we end on a powerful white pill, as Jeffrey reminds us that the solution to this high-tech tyranny is a classic one. (Length: 1:12:02)

This week, Jason and Matt sit down with Stefan Molyneux, a philosopher, author, and host of one of the longest-running philosophy shows in the world, Freedomain. For decades, he has been a prominent voice in the liberty movement and a foundational thinker on the principles of peaceful parenting.

This week, Jason and Matt sit down with Mark Goodwin, the former Editor-in-Chief of *Bitcoin Magazine* and one of the sharpest minds in the crypto space. Mark is the author of "The Bitcoin-Dollar" thesis and a leading voice on the intersection of state power, financial control, and the future of money.

We dive deep into one of the most dangerous psyops in modern finance: the stablecoin trap. Mark explains why "compliant," centralized stablecoins like USDC are not the free-market alternative to a CBDC, but are, in fact, *more dangerous*. They are the Trojan horse for the exact same surveillance grid—a CBDC in sheep's clothing, built by corporate partners and designed to be fully permissioned, frozen, and censored at the state's command.

Mark breaks down the macro-picture, revealing how stablecoins backed by U.S. Treasuries are the empire's new, high-tech scheme to kick the can down the road. As the national debt hits escape velocity, the state is now "tokenizing its debt," creating a new digital wrapper to prop up the dollar ponzi. We explore the perfect bipartisan consensus that's building this digital prison: the MAGA right rails against CBDCs while embracing "federally approved" stablecoins, while the left demands the very regulations that make them instruments of surveillance. Both roads lead to the technocratic end-goal voiced by BlackRock's Larry Fink: the tokenization of *all* assets.

We also explore the dark theory of whether Bitcoin itself was an intelligence agency "limited hangout" designed to herd us into a traceable system. Finally, we end on a powerful white pill. If centralized stablecoins are the trap, the only way out is through *permissionless* technology. We discuss the critical need for true privacy tools—like Monero, Zcash, and Zano's fUSD—that are *technologically incapable* of being co-opted, and how the market is finally waking up to the demand for real financial freedom. (Length: 1:18:47)

This week, Jason and Matt go deep into the nature of reality itself with researcher Mark Gober. A former Silicon Valley partner and author of the An End to... "Upside Down" book series, Gober brings a data-driven case for the single most revolutionary—and dangerous—idea in the world: the brain does not create consciousness; it's a receiver for it.

We explore how the entire establishment control system—from technocracy to the medical priesthood—is built on the opposite, "materialist" assumption: that you are a fragile meat-computer, a random accident living in a dead universe, and under constant attack from invisible threats. This is the foundation of the state's fear narrative, a narrative that makes a population powerless, obedient, and easy to control.

This conversation shatters that old paradigm. If we are an interface for consciousness, who—or what—is transmitting the signal? Where does our "inner monologue" actually come from? We discuss the flawed "humanism" of tech billionaires like Peter Thiel, asking if "uploading" a mind to a computer is even possible, or if it's a technocratic pipe dream. The discussion goes further, exploring the undeniable intelligence of plants and the mycelial network, the mind-bending evidence from water crystallization experiments suggesting water responds to emotion, and the deep relationship between language and reality itself.

This was a beautiful and profoundly optimistic conversation—a complete white pill from start to finish. We discuss where the latest, most cutting-edge science on Near-Death Experiences is now converging with the oldest spiritual teachings on the planet. This isn't just a philosophical conversation; it's a blueprint for the liberation of humanity. If we can unplug from the technocrat's fear frequency and tap into this shared reality, the entire "us vs. them" control system becomes obsolete. (Length: 1:04:08)

This week, Jason and Matt go down the rabbit hole with researcher and commentator Jacob Johnson, also known as @RiseToLiberty. Jacob is a fearless voice who specializes in dissecting the darkest tools in the state's arsenal: mind control, propaganda, and the sophisticated psychological operations used to keep the public divided and compliant. He brings a unique and unflinching perspective to subjects many are too afraid to touch.

The conversation is a deep look at the war for your mind. We start by exploring the legacy of the CIA's MKUltra program, detailing its horrific experiments and making the case that these programs never stopped—they just got more sophisticated. Jacob explains how modern mind control is on full display in our political landscape, programming people to be blind to the crimes of their own "team" while being conditioned to never step in and solve problems themselves. 

We then tackle one of the most censored topics in the mainstream media: the staggering link between mass shooters and psychiatric drugs like SSRIs, exposing the mountain of evidence that gets ignored in favor of the state's gun control narrative. Finally, after diagnosing the problem of weaponized fear, we explore the ultimate white pill: the power of building real-world, decentralized communities as the most effective antidote to top-down psychological warfare, effectively summed up in the phrase, "Stop Asking for Permission." (Length: 1:11:15) 

This week, Jason and Matt are honored to welcome a titan of the liberty movement, Dr. Mary Ruwart. A research scientist, acclaimed author of Healing Our World, and a tireless advocate for freedom for decades, Dr. Ruwart brings a lifetime of intellectual rigor and compassionate activism to the podcast. She is a factory for the ideas that can set us free.

The conversation is a masterclass in voluntaryist solutions. We kick things off by dissecting the government-created nightmare of modern healthcare, using the recent Pfizer deal as a case study for the corrupt revolving door between the state and Big Pharma. From there, Dr. Ruwart makes the powerful case for a society entirely free from government coercion, explaining how peace and prosperity thrive where voluntary cooperation replaces the state's monopoly on violence. 

We then dive into the crucial challenge of messaging: how do we make the principles of liberty and non-aggression appealing to a generation raised on state dependency? The discussion turns to the root of state indoctrination—government schooling—and how the philosophy of peaceful parenting is a radical act of defiance. Dr. Ruwart lays out a vision for a future of decentralized, private learning networks that could make the state's factory-schooling model obsolete. 

The entire episode is a white pill, focusing on constructive, positive solutions, and we close by exploring the practical, agorist strategies that empower individuals to stop asking for permission and start building a freer world today. (Length: 1:04:00)

Find Dr. Ruwart's Work:

Website: ruwart.com

X (Twitter): https://x.com/MaryRuwart

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maryjruwart/

Liberty International: liberty-intl.org