The Freedom Report

In a piece for the Washington Examiner Jim Antle writes about a flurry of legislative and campaign activity from liberty Republicans. Antle’s piece dives into Amash’s efforts on Civil Asset Forfeiture and covers Rand Paul’s move to force congress to restore constitutional war powers to the legislative branch. Austin Petersen, US Senate candidate (R) from Missouri breaks down the news and offers in...

US Senate candidate Austin Petersen discusses the sinister actions of bureaucrats whose powers exceed our public officials ability to control them. In the age of Donald Trump, have conservatives now realized the monster they’ve created will be used against them? 

Politico reported on their front page today on the growing threat of “domestic terrorist organization” Antifa, writing on how DHS and local law enforcement have been seeing increasing attacks on protestors and demonstrators. Austin Petersen breaks down the news. 

Freedom Report host Austin Petersen announced his candidacy for the US Senate in Missouri at his family farm in Peculiar. This is the audio from that event. 

Former Trump advisor Roger Stone has started a new lobbying institution to convince President Donald Trump to change his mind on federal cannabis laws. Austin Petersen breaks down the story. 

Senator Bernie Sanders applied a weird religious test when questioning a new appointee from the Trump administration. Austin Petersen breaks down the news. 

President Trump has proposed privatizing the air traffic contol system in the United States, following the examples of countries such as the UK, Canada, and New Zealand. But is the proposed bill everything it’s cracked up to be? Austin Petersen weighs the pros and cons

Liberals seem to be going out of their way to make Trump look as sympathetic as possible. It’s as if they’re working on his reelection campaign, generating negative publicity in an attempt to smear the POTUS, but only making him stronger. It’s like the 2016 Republican presidential primaries all over again, except this time the Democrats are playing the part of Trump’s wimpy, low energy opponents....

Buzzfeed posted an article in defense of sweatshops, quoting economists such as Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. When liberals are defending free market capitalism, you know something’s up. Austin Petersen breaks down the news. 

Former Fox News president Roger Ailes has died at age 77. Former Presidential candidate Austin Petersen recounts tales of his time at Fox Business Network, and relates a personal anecdote of how Roger Ailes’ career inspired a stronger modern libertarian movement. 

Free market economists Steve Horwitz writes at FEE about the dangers of central planning. Horwitz describes how intellectuals deny that real socialism has ever been tried in spite of the glaring examples of the failures of economies such as Venezuela, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. And what of the Scandinavian countries? Well, if you thought those were examples of real socialism, then you’re going to...

National Review columnist Kevin Williamson posted a brilliant piece examining progressive orthodoxy. In it, Williamson argues that progressives are more than happy to set scientific principles aside when it doesn’t confirm their biases. Bill Nye the “Science” Guy is a perfect example. Nye has proclaimed pseudoscientific theories on GMOs, but retracted them when his fan base elicited a stinging bac...

Daily Beast reporter Joel Kotkin wrote a terrific piece blasting Democrats for their arrogance, and breaks down in detail why Blue Staters have their heads up their… you know what. Democrat rage is all the rage these days, as Antifi riots against free speech and whiney liberal comedians sputter their impotent rage 5 nights a week on TV. The oikophobia has reached a fever pitch as Democrats are bla...

DailyWire.com editor Ben Shapiro took an axe to President Donald Trump’s “Buy American” plans, arguing that the consequences amounted to nothing more than “leftism” and protectionism. Shapiro didn’t mince words in an essay on the National Review, invoking FDR era reforms which destroyed American trade and exacerbated the Great Depression. Austin Petersen breaks down the news.