Liberty RoundTable Podcast

Sam Bushman and Lance Migliaccio of The Big Mig break down the Ilhan Omar FBI raid that was tipped off 30 minutes early so she could flee, the two-tiered justice system where Roger Stone gets a 3 AM CNN perp walk while Omar gets white-glove treatment, her family's deep connections to the $200 million Feeding Our Future fraud and USAID money through her sister's consulting firm, why this is politic...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson unpack Trump's Columbus Day defense and why judging historical figures by today's standards is dishonest. Then they dig into David Pyne's warning that the GOP faces a midterm wipeout thanks to Trump's war on Iran, broken promises to drain the swamp, and betrayal of his anti-war base. Ron Paul's column exposes how Trump's tariffs act as an $800-per-household tax Americ...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson break down a major new study showing homeschooled students score 25 to 29 percentile points above the national average, why parental involvement matters more than income or education level, and how home education shaped the Founding Fathers. Plus, Sam pushes back on Trump's rally comments claiming his supporters would applaud anything, compares the rhetoric to Christ'...

Sam Bushman delivers a solo reflection on the perilous state of America and the principles that can heal it. He covers the approaching hurricane and why God is the ultimate weatherman, how obeying divine commandments brings protection from both natural and man-made disasters, the God-ordained family as the safest place for children backed by indisputable research, Joseph Smith Jr.'s teaching that...

Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley discuss the premiere of a two-hour documentary about Ammon Bundy's persecution over the Baby Cyrus case, the $60 million judgment that drove him into hiding, the murder of LaVoy Finicum captured on drone footage, Ammon's attorney being tased in a courtroom, why government accountability hasn't improved under Trump, the self-inflicted Republican bloodbath coming in...

Sam Bushman and Curt Crosby of Local Honey Man break down Trump's Texas rally for Ken Paxton, where paid protesters disrupted the event and Trump's response raised questions about holding the moral high ground. They unpack the First Amendment distinction between peaceably assembling and disrupting, why Trump should follow the money and prosecute the funders behind rent-a-riot operations, how the A...

Sam Bushman, Curt Crosby of Local Honey Man, and Heath Perkins of Freewater Coin Company deliver the Honest Money Report with gold at $4,137 and silver at $59 as seven sellers overwhelm one buyer in a struggling economy. They break down the FCC opening the door to AI-voiced political robocalls, the case for abolishing the Federal Reserve and IRS given the 16th Amendment was never ratified, oil man...

Sam Bushman welcomes Brent Johnson of Freedom Bound International and The Voice of Freedom radio show for a deep dive into American sovereignty and what it really means to live free. Brent explains the critical difference between unalienable and inalienable rights, why government can only violate your rights but never take them, how he refused the COVID jab while stranded in the Kingdom of Tonga a...

Sam Bushman welcomes Brent Johnson of Freedom Bound International and The Voice of Freedom radio show for a wide-ranging discussion on American sovereignty and citizen responsibility. Brent breaks down his show's unique audience-participation segments, including Rants and Raves, Man on the Street interviews, Freedom Follies featuring liberty-focused artists and his original song "Land of the Free,...

Sam Bushman and James Edwards of The Political Cesspool break down the week's most explosive stories: Antifa vandalizing an LGBTQ-owned Portland restaurant because peaceful diners were falsely labeled white supremacists, a Mississippi murder staged as a lynching that the media jumped on before facts emerged showing three Black men killed a Black woman over drugs, Trump calling for journalists to b...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson of Campaign for Liberty reflect on a weekend of LDS General Conference where God and family took center stage, and Trump was never mentioned, unpacking talks on finding purpose in adversity, the $758 billion gambling industry corroding character, the lost blessing of stillness in a smartphone world, and Sam's own blindness as a gift from God. Then they pivot to hard p...

Sam Bushman breaks down the hardest-hitting news the networks refuse to cover: the US military killing 235 people in suspected drug boat strikes without any trial or due process, the withdrawal of bombers from a British base after a terror plot, soldiers questioning care after a Kuwait attack killed six Americans, the Supreme Court opening its term with a massive oil industry climate lawsuit from...

Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley tackle the spiritual and technological crisis facing America: a society losing its moral compass as AI becomes a new idol replacing human thought, Trump rebranding artificial intelligence as "super intelligence" to make it more godlike, AI writing dissertations with zero human input, the integration of AI into a surveillance state that would make the KGB envious,...

Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley unpack the dangerous talk of a US invasion to overthrow the Cuban regime, with Rubio declaring America is prepared if Trump gives the order and the Army Reserve quietly examining forces for Southern Command. They trace the historical failures from the Bay of Pigs to Iran, warn that intervening in Cuba could trigger China's move on Taiwan, expose the staggering mil...

Sam Bushman and Curt Crosby welcome Pulitzer Prize finalist Darlene McCormick Sanchez of The Epoch Times to break down two explosive investigations: a Texas police department that arrested a woman for posting about water quality on Facebook, jailed her for 23 hours on a felony charge, and was ultimately shut down after 20-plus corruption cases surfaced, and the alarming spread of alpha-gal syndrom...

Sam Bushman, Heath Perkins of Freewater Coin Company, and Curt Crosby of Local Honey Man deliver the Honest Money Report covering gold at $4,168 and silver at $61, why 2% inflation is just slow theft, Trump pulling troops out of Iraq as a rare presidential move worth praising, rural voters losing faith in the economy ahead of the midterms, a federal appeals court questioning Trump's authority to d...

Sam Bushman and Sheriff Richard Mack break down the week's most overlooked stories: consumer confidence hitting its lowest point since 2014, wedding costs exploding with New York City averaging $88,000, a Russian oligarch funding Donald Trump Jr.'s multi-million-dollar wedding, a Utah postal worker caught trashing over 300 ballots, CSPOA targeted by identity thieves rerouting donations, the Govern...

Sam Bushman and Sheriff Richard Mack tackle the week's biggest stories: consumer confidence crashing to its lowest level since 2014 with gas prices doubling yet mysteriously no gas lines, why America has a refining problem not an oil problem, new evidence that Biden-era special prosecutor Jack Smith spied on Republican members of Congress in violation of the Constitution, the GOP's pattern of expo...

Sam Bushman breaks down the week's overlooked stories: National Coffee Day revealing coffee as America's most consumed beverage (surpassing water), Starbucks shuttering 250 stores amid restructuring, Trump flatly contradicting his own ambassador to China over whether arms sales to China were discussed, the impossibility of getting the truth from any administration, and the murky $15 billion Iowa s...

Sam Bushman breaks down the week's hardest-hitting news the networks refuse to cover: California mandating abortion pills at community colleges while mail-order medication crosses state lines into states that banned it, Trump's fuel economy rollback to shave $1,300 off new car prices and why executive-order ping pong is no way to govern, the top 10 states pouring billions into EV infrastructure, r...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson from Campaign for Liberty unpack the systemic bribery of the welfare-warfare state, Ron Paul's case that both parties have been buying votes for decades, how "national security" became the government's all-purpose permission slip to silence dissent and expand surveillance, the creep toward a pre-crime society, Trump's diesel export ban proposal and why diesel drives t...

Sam Bushman breaks down the week's biggest stories the networks refuse to cover: the murky US-China $30 billion tariff deal, Trump rejecting Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while oil climbs past $108 a barrel, Congress collecting paychecks while on vacation instead of governing, taxpayer money funding Trump campaign ads disguised as public service announcements, Republicans scrambli...

A Liberty Roundtable discussion celebrating the 237th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, unpacking why rights come from God, not government, breaking down the California Supreme Court's order forcing Sheriff Chad Bianco to return 650,000 seized ballots and what it means for election fraud investigations, the constitutional case for ex post facto law violations, the national effort to defang sherif...

A wide-ranging Liberty Roundtable discussion covering Trump's press corps battle and the media blackout, the Walter Cronkite lesson on free press, the murky Greenland deal, 40,000 two-thousand-pound bombs sent to Israel on the taxpayer dime, Trump's "national security" loophole, RFK Jr.'s $4 million book deal controversy, and the path back to America's constitutional foundation. Linked Timestamps:...

Sam Bushman and Curt Crosby welcome Nathan Worcester, senior political reporter for The Epoch Times, for a look back at the unprecedented Republican midterm convention in Dallas. They discuss John Fetterman's surprise video appearance, the lack of foreign policy focus despite the Iran war looming over everything, the absence of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and how the House passed a historic...