The Free Thought Project Podcast

Matt and Jason sat down with Chris Rufer, founder and chairman of the Foundation for Harmony and Prosperity and founder of The Morning Star Company. Rufer started Morning Star in 1970 as a one-truck operation hauling tomatoes to canneries. He built it into one of the world’s largest tomato processors, run through what he calls Mission Focused Self-Management, with no titles or appointed hierarchy...

Matt, Jason, and Don sat down with Scott Horton, director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, and host of The Scott Horton Show, which has logged more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. The author of Fool’s Errand, Enough Already, and Provoked, and co-host of the Provoked podcast with Darryl Cooper, Scott has spent decades making the case against American empire, and hi...

This week, The Free Thought Project revisits our conversation with investigative journalist Whitney Webb of Unlimited Hangout, recorded just one day after she finished writing One Nation Under Blackmail. With Ghislaine Maxwell’s 20-year prison sentence central to the original discussion, we explored a question that extends far beyond either individual: Who enabled this operation—and who escaped ac...

On October 11, 2018, The Free Thought Project was swept up in the mass purge of independent media from social media. Years of work and an audience of millions disappeared. Matt Taibbi was one of the few mainstream journalists who recognized the stakes, interviewed us for Rolling Stone, and treated our removal as a serious threat to free speech. Eight years later, we’re revisiting our March 2025 co...

Matt and Jason sat down with Ford Fischer, the independent journalist and filmmaker behind News2Share, in his first return to the show in nearly six years. Ford is editor-in-chief of the News2Share streaming platform, which specializes in raw video journalism on political activism. His footage from Charlottesville appeared in the PBS documentary Documenting Hate: Charlottesville, which earned an E...

In this episode of The Free Thought Project podcast, Matt Agorist and Jason Bassler sit down with Mark Maresca, a prominent advocate for voluntaryism and the creator and host of The White PillBox podcast and Substack. Maresca has established himself as a vital voice in the liberty movement, dedicated to dismantling the illusion of political authority and equipping individuals with positive, soluti...

In this episode of The Free Thought Project Podcast, hosts Matt Agorist and Jason Bassler sit down with returning guest Charlie Robinson. Charlie is a researcher, author, host of the Macroaggressions podcast, and owner of Activist Post. He is also the author of The Octopus of Global Control and his latest work, The Octopus of Population Control. Known for bringing a massive paper trail of direct r...

Matt and Jason sat down with Mark Passio, a distinguished researcher of occult and esoteric knowledge. Known for educating the masses on the fundamentals of morality, natural law, and the human condition, Passio's work has profoundly impacted the liberty movement by unapologetically dismantling the illusions of the state and challenging everyday people to recognize the realities of systemic overre...

Matt and Jason sat down with independent broadcaster and liberty activist Shannon Joy for a powerful conversation about ideological consistency and the cost of telling the truth. Utilizing her background in advertising and media, Shannon built a highly successful syndicated radio show, only to face severe backlash and deplatforming when she refused to capitulate to the MAGA movement. Recognizing D...

In this episode, Matt, Jason, and Don sat down with fierce advocacy journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin. Known for her unapologetic anti-imperialist stance and her long-standing consistency in the independent media space, Abby has spent her career exposing state overreach and the atrocities of the military-industrial complex. In this deeply moving interview, she discusses her newest groundbreakin...

Matt, Jason, and Don sat down with author, speaker, and longtime voice of principled anarchism Larken Rose . Renowned for his groundbreaking works like The Most Dangerous Superstition and The Jones Plantation, Larken has spent decades dismantling the psychological illusion of political authority through plain logic, accessible analogies, and non-confrontational communication. In this episode, the...

Matt and Jason sat down with free speech activist, satirist, and legal warrior Michael Picard, widely known as the creator behind the popular YouTube channel Professional Douche. Emerging from a conservative background before embracing libertarian philosophy through Ron Paul, Picard transformed his worldview into a relentless crusade against state overreach and constitutional violations. Over the...

In this episode, Matt and Jason sit down with Roxi, a fierce advocate for bodily autonomy and the founder of Common Lawgic. Roxi's journey was forged in the fire of extreme state overreach when a simple act of existing naturally on a public beach—taking her shirt off in the sweltering Florida heat—led to a brutal collision with the justice system. Her story is a testament to the absurd lengths the...

In this episode of The Free Thought Project podcast, Matt and Jason sit down with Joe Kent. A former Army Special Forces warrant officer and CIA paramilitary officer, Kent spent 20 years in the military with 11 combat deployments. Most recently, he served as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center under the Trump administration until his historic resignation in March of this year. Ken...

Hosts Jason Bassler and Matt Agorist welcomed back grassroots activist, author, and cultural builder Maj Toure for his sixth appearance on the Free Thought Project podcast. Maj is the founder of Black Guns Matter, the Solutionary Center in Philadelphia, and the online education platform Solutionary University. For over a decade, he has been an uncompromising defender of self-ownership, urban firea...

Matt Agorist and Don Via, Jr. sat down with the relentless Catherine Austin Fitts for an incredibly vital status report on the global fight for financial freedom. A former Wall Street powerhouse and former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Bush Senior administration, Catherine is the publisher of The Solari Report and one of the liberty movement’s most brilliant...

The state of New York doesn't lock people in cages to keep the public safe; they do it to violently enforce their monopoly on power. If you are an actual violent criminal, the judicial system will actively look for ways to put you back on the street. But if you are a peaceful software engineer who decides to exercise your inherent right to self-defense by building a piece of metal in your own home...

In this episode of The Free Thought Project podcast, Matt Agorist and Jason Bassler sit down with legendary journalist, essayist, and transparency activist Barrett Brown. Renowned for his early investigations into the cyber-industrial complex and his work with the crowdsourced investigative wiki Project PM, Barrett became a prime target of the national security state following the 2012 Stratfor em...

In this episode of the Free Thought Project podcast, Matt and Jason sit down with early Bitcoin pioneer, entrepreneur, and dedicated liberty advocate, Joby Weeks. Joby has spent his life leveraging disruptive technologies to empower individuals and has been a massive behind-the-scenes force in the freedom movement—even serving as the man behind the legendary Ron Paul blimp. Unfortunately, his mass...

In this episode of The Free Thought Project podcast, Jason and Matt sit down with Marc and Craig Wasserman, better known to the world as the Pot Brothers at Law. Quick note before diving in: you may notice some brief audio issues in the opening minutes. We cleaned up everything we could, and while a little roughness remains, the conversation is absolutely worth sticking through.  Practicing law in...

In this episode of the TFTP Podcast, Jason Bassler and Matt Agorist sit down with Allan Paul Roberts. Allan is an author and researcher dedicated to exposing the globalist agenda to deconstruct society. In his latest work, The Globalist Plan to Collapse Everything to Usher in a New World Order—In Their Own Words, he utilizes an innovative multimedia approach—including over 170 QR codes—to provide...

In this episode, Matt Agorist, Jason Bassler, and Don Via, Jr. sit down with Dr. Andrew Kaufman, a forensic psychiatrist and natural healing consultant who gained international recognition for his bold departure from the mainstream medical establishment to advocate for health sovereignty and the root-cause resolution of illness. We start off the podcast with Dr. Kaufman explaining how the things h...

In this episode of the TFTP Podcast, Jason, Matt, and Don sit down with James Corbett to talk about the "warp speed" escalation toward war with Iran and the controlled demolition of the anti-establishment movement. James is the founder of The Corbett Report, a leading independent investigative journalist based in Japan who has spent nearly twenty years providing critical, open-source analysis of h...

In this episode of the TFTP Podcast, Jason and Matt sit down with Sarah Fitzgerald to talk about Operation Gideon's Army. Gideon's Army serves as a high-level, private tactical task force responsible for the safe recovery of trafficked women and children in the United States, and Sarah leads these missions by utilizing her extensive military background and academic expertise in victim advocacy. As...

In today's episode of the Free Thought Project podcast, hosts Matt Agorist and Jason Bassler sit down with Sam Knight, the founder of MindlessHQ and creator of the Mindless app. Sam brings a wealth of experience from his years in the mental health field, where he realized a profound truth: fixing mental health requires the same disciplined practice—like meditation and intentionality—as fixing phys...