The Jeff Dornik Show

Apparently “America First” now comes with a terms-of-service agreement. Ann Vandersteel joins me on The Jeff Dornik Show for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when political loyalty replaces actual principles, Republicans become afraid to criticize their own side and Americans are kept fighting over personalities while the donor class, intelligence apparatus and technocrats keep accumulating power. We get into Trump 2.0, the AI and data-center gold rush, Elon Musk and X Money, universal basic income, censorship, corporate-government partnerships, the Federal Reserve, the IRS, media access journalism and why surrendering constitutional rights to beat China still leaves you without constitutional rights. The bigger question is simple: are we actually putting Americans first, or just building a shinier digital prison with an American flag hanging out front?







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Chad Caton joins The Jeff Dornik Show to break down Darline Graham Nordone’s victory in the South Carolina Republican Senate primary after receiving Donald Trump’s endorsement. Yes, Lindsey Graham’s sister is now the GOP nominee, because apparently South Carolina politics decided we needed a sequel. But the bigger issue is what conservatives do when Trump throws his weight behind an establishment Republican they fundamentally disagree with and that candidate wins. Do we abandon the GOP, keep fighting from within, hold our noses in November, or start getting serious about why the wrong people keep making it through Republican primaries? Chad breaks down what Darline Graham Nordone’s victory says about Trump’s influence, the GOP establishment and the choices conservatives face when the primary doesn’t go their way.







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Apparently 200 Chinese bot accounts are enough to explain away Americans’ concerns about AI data centers, so naturally the next logical step is World War III. I joined The Alan Nathan Show to break down the hysteria over foreign bot farms, the bizarre double standard over when online propaganda suddenly becomes an “act of war,” and why legitimate concerns about AI data centers don’t magically disappear because China tried to amplify them. We also get into government-run influence operations, the strange political coalitions forming around AI, Big Tech’s rush to build massive data centers, rising pressure on the power grid, and why I built Pickax around verified human engagement instead of bot farms, algorithmic manipulation and artificial outrage. Because apparently wanting social media populated by actual human beings is now the radical position.

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I joined VapinGamers and This Is The Ray on Tools of the Trade for a wide-ranging conversation about why social media stopped being social, how algorithms train creators to make content for computers, why fake engagement and bot-inflated metrics have poisoned the creator economy, and what we’re building with Pickax to get back to real human connection. We got into censorship, my own history of getting banned and blacklisted, Rumble, X, YouTube, Twitch, creator monetization, our first RevShare payouts, Pickax’s 36.5% average engagement rate, and our growth from roughly 180,000 post views in July to more than 500,000 in August. Somewhere in the middle we also managed to talk LeBron James, pirate eye patches, gaming, political commentary and why becoming a copy of a copy is one of the fastest ways to disappear online. If you’re a creator who is tired of performing for algorithms and wants to build an actual audience of human beings, this conversation gets into exactly what needs to change.

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I joined Newsmax to talk about the fight over AI data centers, China’s influence campaigns and the very real concerns Americans have about what this massive infrastructure buildout means for their communities. China absolutely has an incentive to flood our information ecosystem with fear about American AI development while racing ahead with its own, but that does not magically make every criticism of data centers Chinese propaganda. Many of these facilities are still pulling enormous amounts of electricity from local grids, consuming natural resources and forcing communities to absorb costs they never agreed to. America needs to win the AI race, but Big Tech does not get a blank check to bulldoze local communities in the name of national security and call anyone who objects a communist asset.







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AI data centers are popping up across America, draining massive amounts of electricity and water while communities are being told it’s all necessary so we can beat China in the artificial intelligence arms race. I joined The Matt Gaetz Show to break down what’s actually true, what’s being exaggerated, and why two things can be true at the same time: China has every incentive to influence the debate over American AI development, and Americans have very legitimate reasons to question giant data centers showing up in their communities. We get into skyrocketing power bills, natural resources, centralized technological power, the national security argument for AI, whether “China!” is becoming an excuse to fast-track everything without scrutiny, and Elon Musk’s rather convenient solution of eventually putting data centers on the backside of the moon. Because apparently when Big Tech runs out of your electricity and water, space is the next logical victim.

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Big Brother used to need binoculars. Now apparently he has AI. I joined Corey and Alan Hunsberger on Talk Truth to break down the growing surveillance infrastructure behind Flock cameras, AI-powered tracking, Big Tech algorithms, data collection and the wonderfully reassuring promise that it’s all “for your safety.” We get into how technology built to catch criminals can become infrastructure for tracking ordinary Americans, why algorithmic control over information is its own form of manipulation, the dangers of giving centralized systems too much power, and why Christians should be especially skeptical when man starts trying to play God. Most importantly, we talk about what people can actually do at the local level to push back and defend privacy, constitutional rights and human freedom.







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I joined SGT Report to dig into the growing list of questions surrounding the official story of Charlie Kirk’s murder, the strange parallels with the assassination attempts on Donald Trump, and the media’s increasingly desperate version of “stop thinking and trust the experts.” We get into Candace Owens, Kash Patel, the FBI, Israel, censorship, X turning “free speech” into something with rather interesting fine print, and why centralized control over information and money should concern everyone. We also talk about Pickax and why rebuilding direct, human relationships online matters more than ever. Apparently, noticing inconsistencies is a dangerous hobby now.







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I joined The Whiskey Capitalist Podcast to talk about what happens when social media platforms forget the creators who actually built their audiences. Pickax had just started paying its first group of creators when X announced cuts to its revenue-share program, while creators were also complaining about weaker payouts elsewhere. We broke down why Pickax is built to help creators make money, why Rumble and Pickax should amplify each other instead of pretending every platform has to be mortal enemies, how algorithmic reach screws smaller creators, and why building an alternative to Big Tech requires more than slapping “free speech” on the homepage and calling it a day. Naturally, we also wandered into politics, AI, Bigfoot, government surveillance and enough other rabbit holes to make the original show rundown mostly decorative.

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I joined the guys from the Spin State Podcast for nearly three hours of social media heresy: why algorithms have turned “social” media into outrage machines, why creators keep getting jerked around by platforms they helped build, how bots and AI are making the internet progressively less human, and why I built Pickax to go in the opposite direction. We get into censorship, creator monetization, Rumble, Facebook, X, Apple’s App Store shenanigans, the economics of building a social platform, and quite a few rabbit trails that probably seemed like a good idea at the time. The bigger question is simple: What happens when technology stops serving human beings and starts training them? Pickax is my attempt to make social media social again.

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