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Episode 56: Our Rights Come From God, Not Government — Clarence Thomas Reminds America Why

23 min · 3. Juni 2026
Episode Episode 56: Our Rights Come From God, Not Government — Clarence Thomas Reminds America Why Cover

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Your rights do not come from Washington. They do not come from Congress, the courts, or the White House. Justice Clarence Thomas made that clear in a powerful lecture at the University of Texas, and it cuts straight to the heart of the question behind Restoring America: what are we actually restoring America to? In this episode, I react to Thomas’s speech on the Declaration of Independence, God-given rights, the purpose of government, progressivism, courage, and the founding principles America must recover as we approach our 250th year. This is not just a history lesson. It is a challenge to every American, and especially to leaders who claim to defend liberty while compromising the principles that made this country worth preserving.

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Episode Episode 68: Your Taxes Today are WAY WORSE Than What The Founders Protested Cover

Episode 68: Your Taxes Today are WAY WORSE Than What The Founders Protested

The founders went to war over taxes far lighter than what leaves your paycheck today. So how did a country built on "no taxation without representation" end up with a tax system this BIG? How did spending become so high and widespread? In this episode, I dive into the establishment of the federal income tax from 1913, when the top rate was just 7% and the whole thing was sold as temporary, up to the 73% and 94% rates that came later under Woodrow Wilson and FDR. I get into what Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan understood about property and freedom, why a heavy progressive income tax is actually the second plank of the Communist Manifesto, and why Reagan called endless government growth "creeping socialism." 250 years in, this is a conversation we can't afford to stop having.

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Episode Episode 67: The American Dream Isn't Dead. Cover

Episode 67: The American Dream Isn't Dead.

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Episode Episode 65: The Patriotic Children's Book America Needs Right Now Cover

Episode 65: The Patriotic Children's Book America Needs Right Now

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