The lessons of the Iranian revolution have been learned in blood and death these past five decades. Every inch of Western society is touched by the Islamic government there as it tries to achieve supremacy throughout the Middle East using its proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis and even attempt to become a nuclear weapon state in order to threatened Europe and the United States. The scourge has been imported into our countries now and is becoming more powerful every day as they win elected office in places like New York City and Minneapolis. We cannot stand by and be passive as we watch another attempt to overthrow the Mullahs by the Iranian people once again. With the internet blackout continuing it is difficult to tell what is happening in Iran on the ground. The limited reports we are getting is that the protests are continuing but tens of thousands of unarmed protesters are being killed every night. My guest today is Juliana Taimoorazy, the founder the Iraqi Christian Relief Council organized to shine a light on the plight of Christians in her ancestral homeland and raise funds to deliver food, shelter and medicine to Iraq. Her own unique story as a refugee has made her a strong leader and an unshakable voice for Christians and other minorities in the Middle East today. Born and raised in Iran, she has direct contact with the Iranians in exile as well as connections with people inside the country, so we’re discussing the current political and humanitarian conditions in Iran. Taimoorazy has advised many U.S. based organizations and institutions, has consulted on developing policy and as a leading international advocate, is a two time Nobel Peace Prize nominee for advancing awareness of persecution of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East.

They’re all linked. Arctic sea routes are open and Greenland is highly vulnerable to exploitation from China and Russia. The strategic necessity for America to control all of Greenland and its surrounding seas is vital to our national interests more than ever before. This effort for America to acquire Greenland is nothing new so President Trump is not just dreaming up a weird idea, he’s acting on an existing idea to meet our defense needs in the modern world. But we won’t be successful if we can’t defend ourselves and our allies in the maritime domain. The maritime strategy underpinning the new National Security Strategy is chokepoint-focused and the effort to increase our domestic shipbuilding must be successful in order for us to achieve peace through strength and deter our main adversary, communist China. The new Trump class battleship will give America a renewed capability to control chokepoints that we really don’t have today but the key to long-term success is increasing our sealift capabilities. We cannot successfully defend the Pacific without it. No jets fly without fuel delivered by sealift and no sexy missiles like the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile fly without those jets. Time is short as China has declared it will be ready for war in 2027. Pentagon press corps member Captain John Konrad is my guest today. He is the founder and CEO of gCaptain Maritime News and author of the book Fire On The Horizon. He is licensed to captain the world's largest ships and has sailed from ports around the world. John has built some of the world's most advanced ships and managed billion-dollar offshore construction projects in some of the world's harshest marine environments.

From weaponizationwatch.com: Dr. Ron Elfenbein is a Maryland emergency room physician who became a national voice during the COVID-19 pandemic, running multiple testing and monoclonal antibody treatment centers in partnership with the Maryland Department of Health and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was recognized for his service with citations from the Maryland Governor, Maryland General Assembly, and the Maryland State Medical Society. Despite this record, he was indicted in April 2022 on healthcare fraud charges—an action that occurred before prosecutors had reviewed any patient charts. Dr. Elfenbein endured a three-week trial in 2023 and was initially convicted. Months later, Chief Judge James Bredar issued a 93-page opinion completely acquitting him, finding that “no reasonable jury” could have found guilt because the coding decisions at issue were legally permissible and supported by expert testimony. The judge also granted a new trial in the alternative, criticizing the government’s evidence as “atmospheric,” lacking factual and regulatory foundation. In 2025, the Fourth Circuit reversed the acquittal, placing Dr. Elfenbein back in jeopardy and facing a second trial. His counsel argues that the original prosecution was politically motivated—launched shortly after Dr. Elfenbein publicly criticized the Biden Administration’s decision to halt monoclonal antibody treatments. Letters from former Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich describe Dr. Elfenbein as a man of integrity, a community pillar, and someone who was blindsided by an indictment that devastated his family, career, and finances. Dr. Elfenbein is now seeking intervention to end what he and his supporters call a clear case of lawfare—an unnecessary, unjust, and harmful continuation of a prosecution that the trial judge already found was legally unsupported.

And it seems North Carolina is at the center of that storm of activity in our country these days. The special operations forces that so professionally completed the Venezuela operation to capture its illegitimate and narco- terror cartel leader make their home there. The state continues to a focus on how disaster recovery operations need to improve after the lackluster performance in the Hurricane Helene response and recovery in the western part of the state. A pro-ISIS terrorist attack was prevented just before the New Year and now we find that the state has issued illegal commercial driver’s licenses at a very high rate. Coupled with recent anti-ICE protests and the discovery of potentially vast fraud operations and nationally highlighted violent crimes in the state, things aren’t slowing down. My guest today is Adam Smith, the founder and CEO of Savage Freedoms, a family man, a US Army Green Beret veteran, and he is running for Congress in North Carolina’s 11th District to address the issues the establishment politicians don’t have the stomach for.

That’s right, Our original Presidents didn’t go around looking for democracies to create using military force in endless, but they didn’t hesitate to use those forces to protect our interests abroad and especially in the western hemisphere. President Jefferson used the Navy and Marines to protect American shipping against the Barbary pirates in North Africa and the Monroe Doctrine was developed to challenge foreign actors in our own hemisphere. President Trump appears to be following a similar path and I voted for that! The recent attack on Venezuela and capture of its Cartel leader Maduro, enforcing sanctions by capturing Ghost Fleet oil tankers on the high seas, and putting tyrants like the Iran Ayatollah on notice we will act if necessary, have all changed the geo-political environment. We are setting aside the broken globalist approach and re-engaging with the world as America, the strongest power in the world, and most importantly, acting on our national interests. The latest approach to acquire Greenland is a great example of the new approach as it is making all sides re-think how they interact with us. My guest today is a leading member of the New Pentagon Press corps that was rolled out last year. CDM Press President and CEO L. Todd Wood is wit us and he has been reporting on Secretary Hegseths US tour and all of the action we’ve been seeing lately. A former Special Operations pilot, As CEO of CDM Press, he’s on a mission to report the truth, as America’s free press should be to protect our way of life.

Friends you’ve heard me say it many times, the critical fight for our country is at the state level as much as it is at the federal. We need governors who will put their states first and support America Forst policy. That is the only pathway to resolving the divide in our country today, fight for our citizens, and not the corporations, leftist and globalists organizations, or our allies. Our governments are about serving us by defending us, protecting individual rights, and ensuring our prosperity. That is the bottom line and the first step is to defend America’s culture, the culture created by our ancestors that first created the country and making sure that all who are allowed to immigrate here are required to know, understand, and assimilate into that culture. It is time for our voices to be heard again in government at every level, and that we get the priority, not some group from overseas. The people that sent men to the moon first, that has lifted more people out of poverty than any in history, don’t need to be pushed out of job markets and opportunities in favor of people from other countries. My guest today is Casey Putsch. Casey is an automotive entrepreneur, designer, and philanthropist who is a Republican candidate in the 2026 Ohio gubernatorial election. Known to his over 350,000 YouTube subscribers as "Casey the Car Guy," he officially entered the primary race in December 2025 as an "America First" challenger to Vivek Ramaswamy.

Down here in Mississippi, where the Gulf breeze carries the scent of freedom and the piney woods remind a man every day that self-reliance is what keeps you standing when the storms hit, I sat in my study in Gulfport on January 2, 2026, watching the replay of New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, getting sworn in the day before. As a retired Air Force colonel with 32 years under my belt—dodging IEDs as an EOD tech, commanding B-1 bombers dropping justice on tyrants, and surviving the hell of the Pentagon on 9/11—I couldn’t let this slide without calling it out straight.

Mamdani, this self-proclaimed democratic socialist born in Uganda and now running the Big Apple, stood there on January 1 and declared war on America’s core: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Idiotic. Pure, unadulterated idiocy. Rugged individualism isn’t frigid—it’s the roaring fire that forged this nation. It’s what carried us through Valley Forge, crushed Hitler, and landed us on the moon. It’s the veteran enlisting broke and rising through merit, the entrepreneur betting everything on a dream, the family farmer grinding from dawn to dusk without begging the government for scraps.

To show you how dangerous this collectivist nonsense is, let me tell you about Jack Harlan—a stand-in for every hardworking American I’ve fought alongside. Jack was a third-generation New Yorker, a plumber who built his business from nothing in the gritty ‘90s when the city was a war zone of crime. Toolbox in hand, truck on credit, he fixed pipes in dangerous high-rises, earning every dollar through sweat and skill. No handouts, no unions forcing his hand. He embodied that rugged spirit: up before sunrise, black coffee, hustling jobs till dark. After 9/11—the day I ran back into the burning Pentagon searching for brothers-in-arms—Jack’s crew helped rebuild, welding and piping without waiting for federal permission.

Now, under Mamdani’s “warmth,” imagine what hits Jack. This mayor rolls out his socialist playbook: equity mandates shaking down successful businesses to fund the collective. Jack’s shop gets labeled “privileged” for hiring skilled tradesmen—mostly vets and tough guys who’d earned their spots. Quotas force him to hire based on identity, not ability. Incompetents flood in, costs explode with training and lawsuits. Profits vanish, but the collective gets its “warm” hug.

Then the big one: universal handouts tied to compliance. Everyone gets a check—if you attend indoctrination on “oppression,” push green rules banning real tools, and surrender your firearms for “safety.” Jack, a staunch Second Amendment man who’d served in the reserves, says no. “I built this myself,” he tells the bureaucrats. They fine him, seize his truck under some forfeiture scam for defying “collective goals.” His crew scatters—some groveling for government crumbs, others fleeing to freer states.

One cold night, Jack stares across the harbor at Lady Liberty, the symbol we fought for overseas, now dimmed by homegrown tyranny. “This ain’t the America I defended,” he’d say, words I’d echo on my show. Collectivism’s warmth? It’s the smothering blanket of coercion, promising equality but delivering shared poverty. History’s littered with its corpses: Stalin’s forced famines, Mao’s millions starved, Castro’s chains. All began with sweet talk of sharing and community.

I’ve seen supporters of this garbage—latte-sipping activists cheering Mamdani’s lines. They’d fold in a foxhole, yet they’re dismantling the individualism that shields them. Rugged isn’t cold; it’s the forge of heroes like Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough-Riders storming San Juan Hill, not some mayor erasing his legacy to appease the fragile.

Jack packs up and heads south—to Texas, where merit reigns. New York’s bleeding talent, but Mamdani’s folly is our alarm bell. We patriots, we veterans—we bled for liberty, not Marxist drivel. As a 9/11 survivor, I say enough. Reclaim individualism before the “warmth” turns to ashes. Stand firm, America. Fight this creep, or watch the city of dreams freeze into a collectivist nightmare.

#Collectivism #Individualism #NYCMayor #Mamdani

I didn’t really want to have to do another show about this because of what you saw from Secretary Hegseth right there. Obviously, President Trump and he have issued an order to reinstate those forced out by the unlawful COVID vaccine order, but we still have major issues. Very few members have been reinstated because of the bureaucratic processes being used and the hidden resisters that are still in the government. That leads me to why we are doing a show today. The fight for justice for all those military members and families continues to meet resistance and undermining from inside the Pentagon. My guest today is a victim of such actions even though he got a favorable outcome from the Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records, but that wasn’t enough to get past the resisters and he faces forced retirement in two days. Brig. Gen. Chris Sage serves as Special Assistant to the Commander for Joint Air Power, Space and Multi-Domain Operations, NATO Air Command and is originally from Newport News, Virginia, and was commissioned in 1994 as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He commanded the 389th Fighter Squadron, the 389th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, the 366th Operations Group, the 4th Fighter Wing, and the 332d Air Expeditionary Wing. The general’s assignments are a mix of joint, operational, and training tours, culminating in more than 4,600 flight hours. As an operational F-15E fighter pilot, he has over 1,200 combat hours and participated in operations Northern Watch, Deliberate Forge, Allied Force, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom and Inherent Resolve. He joins us with his attorney Davis Younts who is a veteran and highly experienced in getting successful outcomes in these cases.

There you are folks, the biggest conservative event of the year is here, and we have supporters on the ground in Arizona bringing coverage of America Fest 2025 today. This will be the first major Turning Point USA event since the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, and emotions are running high. I was honored to speak at AMFEST 2024 as we celebrated President Trump’s massive victory and looked toward getting his administration underway. I can’t be there this year due to family commitments for Christmas but I’m just as excited about the strategy that all of us will be part of to win in 2026 and beyond. Charlie Kirk’s movement has more momentum now than ever before, the young men and women of America are leading the charge, have stepped up to take the standard to our next victory, and we want to bring you a bit of that excitement from Phoenix. My guest today is Margaret Ackiss from North Carolina and she is our woman on the ground there! She is a former state GOP District Secretary and Host of the AssmbleX North Carolina Podcast. Known simply as “Margo”— if you hear “Margo said” in political circles and everyone knows who’s dropping truth bombs—she’s a fearless grassroots powerhouse from Western North Carolina. When a county superintendent tried turning an active school into housing for illegals, Margo rallied her posse, shut it down cold, and got him fired. She also stepped up big during Hurricane Helene, coordinating delivery of over 200 Starlinks for relief efforts. With sharp takes on X (@Margoinwnc), viral TikTok (MargoinNC), and co-hosting the twice-weekly NC Political Tea podcast, Margo fearlessly roasts Republicans and Democrats alike while driving real change: local tax clawbacks, unified background checks, and championing the pending Cyber Protection Act—which beefs up cyberstalking laws by explicitly targeting doxxing and swatting because current rules fall short against modern online threats.