The Wake Up America show with Austin Petersen

BOOMERS VS ZOOMERS This morning we dig into the economy nobody in the comfortable seats wants to name. We follow the money from a Gen Z generation that watched the foreclosure crisis from the back seat and decided the deal was a lie, all the way to the vanishing American family vacation now sorted by class, and we ask who actually rigged the table. Then we bring in two voices who live it, Young Vo...

America just turned 250 — and a card-carrying socialist is running its biggest city. On today's Wake Up America, Austin and Steffi Petersen break down the rise of the "Commie Caucus" after President Trump's 250th-anniversary war on communism — then bring you two rare pieces of GOOD news: America's nuclear reactors roaring back to life for the first time in 40 years, and EV batteries shattering eve...

This week on Freedom Family Friday, America turns 250 and somehow the stories are already insane. We get into the daredevil couple who climbed the Empire State Building antenna for a sky-high proposal and caught felony charges, Tim Walz’s pardon board wiping the record of a convicted child rapist right before deportation, Gen Z rest clubs where young people need permission to lie down in the park,...

THE COMMUNIST TAKEOVER BEGINS A democratic socialist just torched a thirty-year incumbent in Denver, and she's only the latest. Today we trace the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party one quiet primary at a time, from Mamdani's New York to Melat Kiros in Colorado, and we show you the 1954 law the Democrats themselves passed to stop exactly this — the one we're asking them to enforce. Then we...

SCOTUS FUMBLED BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP This morning we start with the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization founded because women were once shut out by the Sons of the American Revolution, now refusing to define the word woman inside its own rulebook. We break down the 1,481 to 984 vote, the leadership warnings about D.C. law, the Biden-era legal memo behind the fear campaign, and t...

Walter Block was ejected from the Mises Institute after he wrote a Classical liberal defense of Israel after the October 7th terror attacks by Hamas. Austin Petersen interviews block about the incident, the controversy surrounding Hans Hermann Hoppe, and the moral views of Argentina's president Javier Milei in a wide ranging interview. More interviews like these can be found on the Wake Up America...

This week we open at the Nixon Library, where JD Vance told a cheering room that the deep state took down Richard Nixon and that the same machine later came for Donald Trump. We trace who actually leaked Nixon to the press, why a younger right has turned him into a folk hero, and the part nobody in that building wanted to admit. Then we head to Kansas City, where Dutch World Cup fans fell in love...

🎬 The banned movie Elon Musk just dropped on X for free, and the censorship story underneath it 🥗 RFK Jr. says food can undo a diagnosis. We checked what Stanford and Harvard actually found. 👊 A dad backs his 5-year-old against a bully, and the zero-tolerance rule that punishes kids for defending themselves 🏫 California buried abortion funding inside a teacher pregnancy-leave bill. We read the...

🗽 The New York intervention, the socialist sweep almost nobody voted in, and the 1954 law nobody's had the nerve to pick up 🦅 250 years of assimilation, the pause the open-borders crowd always leaves out, and the biggest immigration wave in American history 📱 Camellia Peterson on the invented stat that beat the truth, and why the lie travels faster 🔥 Maggie Anders on why young voters keep brea...

ARMED STONERS ARE NOW LEGALIZED THANKS TO THE SUPREME COURT This morning we break down the 9-0 Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Hemani, which says the government cannot automatically strip gun rights from Americans who use marijuana, with Donald Trump's own Justice Department ending up on the losing side. We get into Major League Baseball warning three Giants pitchers for writing Bible verses on...

BRITAIN TRIED COVERING UP ITS PAKISTANI RAPE GANG PROBLEM Today we walk through the Rupert Lowe Rape Gang Inquiry report and the decades of institutional cowardice it documents, then we head to the ballpark where Major League Baseball warned three San Francisco Giants pitchers for writing a single Bible verse on their Pride Night caps while Missouri's attorney general fired back. We bring on Misso...

A FEDERAL GRAND JURY JUST INDICTED THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER FOR ALLEGEDLY PAYING NEO-NAZIS TO STAY NAZIS. Today we walk through the New York Post bombshell on the SPLC indictment, the alleged $3 million pipeline through shell companies to violent extremists, and the wider pattern of manufactured hate stories that have shaped American media for forty years. Then we head to California, where...

JUSTIN GAETHJE TOOK THE UNDISPUTED LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE ON THE SOUTH LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE, AND HALF OF WASHINGTON CALLED IT THE END OF CIVILIZATION. We start on the South Lawn, where a fighter nobody believed in won a world title on the Army's birthday, and we get into why the managerial class fears an open gate. Then we cross to Starmer's Britain, where speech is policed and a teenager dies in ha...

THE LEFT JUST TOLD A MILLIONAIRE WELDER NOT TO CELEBRATE -- AND THE SUPREME COURT PUT THE FOUNDING FATHERS ON TRIAL FOR DRINKING This Friday SpaceX pulled off the biggest IPO in Wall Street history, made Elon Musk the first trillionaire on record, and turned roughly 4,400 blue collar workers into millionaires in a single morning. We dig into the welder who got handed stock he didn't understand a d...

THE LIBERTARIAN MOVEMENT HAS A CHOICE -- FOLLOW MILEI BACK TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION OR KEEP MAKING EXCUSES FOR PEOPLE WHO FILM THEIR OWN WAR CRIMES. We make the libertarian case for Israel, trace how the liberty movement went from auditing the Fed to flying Russian flags at antiwar rallies, and ask what it means that the Mises Institute purged Walter Block for defending massacre victims. Plus -- Se...

THEY CALLED REAGAN A RACIST FOR CALLING FOR WELFARE REFORM. THE USDA JUST FOUND 244,000 DEAD PEOPLE STILL ON THE ROLLS. Reagan described the fraud in 1976 and the press called it fantasy for fifty years — today we trace the line from Linda Taylor's Cadillac to the Roman grain dole to 4.3 million off the SNAP rolls and explain why what Brooke Rollins just did is something no Roman emperor ever mana...

THE REPUBLIC HAS ALWAYS HAD CHARLATANS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE NOW IS THEY HAVE PODCASTS, CABLE NEWS CONTRACTS, AND MILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS. Today on Wake Up America, we trace the charlatan problem from the founding era to the modern media machine. Dr. Benjamin Church spied for the British. Benedict Arnold was grifting before West Point. The Conway Cabal tried to remove George Washington through anonym...

MISSOURI OR MISERY? A MIDWESTERNERS GUIDE TO THE BEAUTIFUL SHOW-ME STATE Five acts dropped from the Freedom 250 Mall concert in 24 hours. The same artists had no problem performing for Obama. Vanilla Ice is performing anyway and doesn't understand what the problem is. Plus: the case for Missouri as America's most underrated summer vacation, the Everything Tax on Missouri's August ballot, and a wel...

IT'S FREEDOM FAMILY FRIDAY This week's Freedom Family Friday covers six stories that the mainstream media either buried, botched, or refused to ask the second question on. From a professor who wants to infect you with ticks to make you vegan, to Shawn Ryan's three-hour blackpill session with Megyn Kelly, to the ballot counting in Los Angeles that just keeps going — we break down what's actually ha...

BRITISH POLICE HANDCUFFED A DYING TEENAGER ON THE WORD OF HIS KILLER. Full coverage of the Henry Nowak murder, verdict, and courtroom confrontation — plus America's 250th anniversary restoration push, Rubio's Munich speech, Judge Napolitano on the Gitmo case that's been running for 15 years with no trial date, and Jade Warwick on the policing culture that made Southampton possible. ⚰️ Henry Nowak...

LOS ANGELES IS VOTING TODAY, PRIDE MONTH IS HERE, AND A WOMAN FACEPLANTED RUNNING FROM A BISON. Los Angeles is voting, Pride Month just started, a woman faceplanted running from a bison, and Devon Eriksen is here to talk Heinlein. Full show today. 🦬 A woman walked up to a 2,000-pound bison at Yellowstone and faceplanted running away from it. We make the case for replacing the warning signs with "...

56% OF LIBERAL WOMEN ARE MENTALLY ILL. Paris burned again last night for the second year running, the libertarian movement has collapsed into an Israel obsession, and the data on liberal women's mental health is the most damning indictment of feminist ideology ever put to paper. We break it all down. 🔥 Paris riots two years straight -- 780 arrested, rioters storming police stations, and the same...

THE LIBERTARIAN CASE AGAINST OPEN BORDERS, THE LP'S WORST CONVENTION IN MEMORY, AND TWO 300-FOOT STATUES THAT NEED TO GET BUILT. We break down the GLP-1 craze and why the shortcut costs more than the drug, then make the full libertarian nationalist argument on immigration — Friedman, Hoppe, Putnam, and the bacon cheeseburger. Spike Cohen joins to respond to the LPNH disaffiliation, Andrew Allgood'...

THE KGB INVENTED ANTI-ZIONISM AND YOUR KID'S HISTORY TEACHER ASSIGNED THE TEXTBOOK. Thomas Massie lost the most expensive House primary in history and opened his concession speech with a Tel Aviv joke while Hasan Piker mourned. We trace the sixty-year pipeline from KGB propaganda to mandatory high school reading to the libertarian movement celebrated by its own enemies. Jennifer Welch says masculi...

HASAN PIKER WENT TO CUBA, LIVESTREAMED FROM A GENERATOR-POWERED FIVE-STAR HOTEL, AND NOW THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT IS ASKING QUESTIONS. THIS IS WHERE THE COMMUNIST LARP GETS PAPERWORK. The Communist Control Act passed the Senate 85-0 in 1954, survived in Title 50, and was built around one basic distinction: Americans can hold ugly political opinions, but organizations taking direction or support fro...