The Feds

What are the similar impacts of power lines, data centers and hair dryers? 🔥 David Carpenter went into this a skeptic. He was handed $5 million and thirteen studies in 1980 to find out whether power lines cause childhood leukemia — funded by the New York utilities — and his program replicated the finding against them.   Dr. Carpenter is a public health physician and director of the Institute for...

  Dr. Sara Brenner, Emily Kaplan, Kim Mack Rosenberg, Dr. Meryl Nass, and Shane Stevens  take the health panel at the Feds For Freedom National Security Summit. They discuss why America spends more per person on health care than any country on earth and gets the worst outcomes among its peers — and why that may be the system working as designed rather than failing.   Stephanie and the panel then d...

Kevin McAfee, president of Feds For Freedom, Army civilian and retired soldier, graces the podcast this week. He discusses his COVID story that led him to Feds For Freedom, his experience with the EEOC, and what he’s seen in the Army recently.  Stephanie and Kevin then discuss recent changes in government vaccine policy, the continued flu shot mandate battle in the military, eminent domain, REAL I...

Ex-CIA operations officer Jim Erdman  says intelligence oversight is theater. In this Own Your Freedom episode, host Stephanie Weidle and Erdman break down why government accountability keeps failing — and what the citizens can actually do about it. Jim Erdman is Co-Founder and Director of Development of Feds For Freedom.  Jim and Stephanie cover Trump's broken campaign promises, why Congress...

If you don’t own your freedom, someone else will. Own Your Freedom — formerly The Feds — is the podcast of Feds For Freedom, an organization of federal employees who put the Constitution before the institution. Owning your freedom isn’t waiting for it to be granted. It isn’t asking for your rights to be handed over. It isn’t even reclaiming them — those rights are already yours, and they always ha...

"Don't panic. For most cancers, you have time to think." Dr. Paul Marik on what he'd tell a patient who just heard they have cancer. Joining the podcast today is Dr. Paul Marik, discussing cancer care, drug approval standards, and the role patients play in their own treatment decisions. The conversation explores his critique of conventional oncology: that drug approvals increasin...

 They approved the religious exemption — then fired them anyway. Mike Heyser , retired Air Force veteran who ran Raytheon's Warfighter School, and Lisa Leake , a 14-year IT systems analyst on classified programs, both had religious exemptions approved under the COVID vaccine mandate. Both say the accommodations that came with it — masking, weekly testing, travel ban — made approval meaningless. Mi...

Most federal employees think they have fewer religious freedom rights at work than everyone else. It's the other way around — and almost nobody has been trained on it.   September Secrist , executive director of the Interagency Christian Fellowship and a federal leader of more than twenty years, discusses what the law actually permits inside a federal agency.   The First Amendment restrains go...

During COVID, millions of Americans said "but I have rights" — and watched that fail. What if the rights were fine, and the problem was the holes between them? Joining the podcast this week are  Danielle Lasher  and  Sofia Karstens , co-founders of the newly launched Spirit of 1776. Their plan is to rebuild the village — connecting the people, practitioners, schools, and farms that alrea...

Feds For Freedom Releases Adirim Deposition, Calls for Congressional Subpoena and Full DoW Records > > Read full press release here: https://www.fedsforfreedom.org/adirim Terry Adirim, MD, then acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs , signed a memo on Sept. 14, 2021, stating that the Pfizer BioNTech EUA shot was interchangeable with the FDA approved Comirnaty. But they were...

Four people who spent the COVID years being silenced sat down to talk about accountability. All four described the same tactics — still running, under a different administration. In this panel from the 2026 F4F National Security Beyond the Headlines Summit, co-founder Jim Erdman moderates journalist Steve Baker , constitutional attorney Ivan Raiklin , physician-scientist Dr. Robert Malone , and in...

 1 in 70 Americans will need a blood transfusion this year. Almost none of them know they most likely can't choose the donor. In this episode, Stephanie Weidle speaks with Liz James, a pharmacist of over thirty years and founder of Blessed by His Blood , a member-owned cooperative that matches direct blood donations to patients who want to choose whose blood they receive. The conversation expl...

  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 with Vicki 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 tr...

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...

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...

The Feds 👉 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 with Christopher Scott “Sonny” Duncan ,  Senior Advisor to the Secretary of War  and former Marine Corps officer and aviator, regarding the...

In this episode of The Feds , recorded at FreedomFest 2026, we are joined by Spike Cohen , founder and president of You 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...

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 commentator Topher 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...

Register NOW: National Security Beyond the Headlines July 1, Washington, D.C. https://luma.com/nationalsecurity2026 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 misunderstoo...

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 roughly 8.2 million federal employees , with a budget of over $44 billion , dozens of carriers, and hundreds of plan options. No...

Is the State Department serving the American people—or protecting a broken bureaucracy? In this episode of The Feds , Stephanie sits down with Foreign Service officer and Feds for Freedom co-founder Marcus 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 e...

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 com...

This week, investigative reporter Paul Thacker examines the lingering questions around gain-of-function research , the origins of COVID-19 , NIH funding , and the role major scientific institutions played in shaping the public narrative during the pandemic. The conversation centers on Ralph Baric , a prominent coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina, whose work on engineered vir...

What happens when a totalitarian regime no longer sees human beings as people — but as inventory? In this powerful and sobering episode, Stephanie Weidle speaks with Jan Jekielek , senior editor at The Epoch Times , host of American Thought Leaders , and author of the New York Times bestseller Killed to Order , a book documenting China’s forced organ harvesting program.  👉 Jan explains how forced...

The Pentagon just made a major move — and it changes everything. Secretary of War announced last that, for the first time since the 1950s, the flu shot is no longer mandatory for U.S. service members. In this episode, Feds For Freedom Executive Director Stephanie Weidle sits down with Air Force Lt. Col. Carolyn Rocco  to break down: Why the mandate was finally reversed  The role of COVID-era polic...