The Wake Up America show with Austin Petersen

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Wake Up America with Austin Petersen If you’re tired of being gaslit by corporate media, sick of shallow hot takes, and ready for fearless truth delivered with wit, fire, and facts, Wake Up America is your daily briefing for the battle of ideas. Hosted by Austin Petersen — former presidential candidate, media entrepreneur, and unapologetic defender of liberty — this high-energy political talk show cuts through the noise with bold analysis, sharp humor, and evidence-driven commentary. Every episode delivers: • Hard-hitting breakdowns of the day’s biggest political headlines • Libertarian-leaning, America-First perspective grounded in facts • Deep dives into economics, culture, foreign policy, and constitutional principles • Interviews with lawmakers, policy experts, journalists, and rising voices • Rapid-fire solo segments that blend history, philosophy, and modern politics This isn’t performative outrage. It’s strategic thinking for people who care about Western civilization, individual liberty, and limited government. Austin brings a unique mix of nationalist instinct and libertarian economics — defending free markets, calling out corruption on the right and left, challenging reckless foreign policy, exposing government overreach, and defending American values without apology. Expect: 🔥 Breaking news analysis 📊 Real data and receipts 🎙 Smart, pointed interviews ⚔ Culture war clarity 📚 Historical context that actually matters Whether the topic is Congress, the Supreme Court, Big Tech censorship, immigration, economic chaos, global conflicts, or the internal battles within the conservative movement — Wake Up America gives you the tools to understand what’s happening and why it matters. If you value: Freedom Free speech Free markets Strong borders Limited government Personal responsibility You’re in the right place. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe now and join thousands of Americans who refuse to sleepwalk through history. It’s time to wake up.

  1. Jul 6

    Boomers Vs. Zoomers: Who’s Really Suffering More?

    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 Voices Commentator Maggie Anders on the Gen Z sneer, and Camellia Peterson of Americans for Prosperity on the Missouri abortion ruling that just rewrote the map. 🎓 We take the Gen Z stare seriously and trace the anger back to its real source, the Federal Reserve policy that inflated houses out of reach on purpose while cable calls a broke generation entitled. 🏖️ We follow the great American vacation as it gets priced clean out for the bottom and metered for the top, and we find the cheaper road waiting at the trailhead. 🎤 We hand the mic to Young Voices Commentator Maggie Anders to tell us whether we got the sneer right or whether the boomers are still missing the point. ⚖️ We head to Jefferson City with Camellia Peterson to break down the single judge who struck forty Missouri abortion laws in one ruling and what it means for the rest of the country. 🇺🇸 GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🇺🇸 🎙️ Maggie Anders, Young Voices Commentator @maggiemoda 🎙️ Camellia Peterson, Americans for Prosperity Missouri @RareCamellia 🛒 Gear up at 4LibertyShop.com 🌎 Protect your future with expat strategies at expatmoney.com/austin 🤝 Join the community at 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ Support the show at wakeupamericashow.com/support

    2h 3m

  2. Jul 6

    Trump vs. the Commie Caucus: Mamdani, Socialism & America’s 250th ft @Miltimore79 @danieljmitchell

    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 every expectation. Plus, economist Jon Miltimore (@Miltimore79) joins to discuss why nearly half of young Americans are living with their parents, and economist Dan Mitchell (@danieljmitchell) joins to discuss JD Vance's claim that the GOP is now "more Alexander Hamilton than Milton Friedman." ▶ SUPPORT THE SHOW Join Petersens Patriots — $17.76/mo — 20% off the shop + exclusive in-person events: wakeupamericashow.com/support ▶ SHOP Merch, Founding Flavors Coffee, and the Richard Nixon Ringer Tee: 4LibertyShop.com ▶ JOIN THE COMMUNITY Discord: 4LibertyNetwork.com ▶ WATCH LIVE rumble.com/ap4liberty — Monday through Friday, 7–9 AM Central ▶ UNLOCK BONUS CONTENT $100 in Rants/gift subs/merch unlocks a 5-minute mini-doc on an American Revolution hero. $150 unlocks the Great Grift Off Liberty Loot game show, played live on your phone for real prizes. #WakeUpAmerica #AustinPetersen #Mamdani #JDVance #America250

    2h 1m

  3. Jul 4

    4th of July Lands on 250 Years of Greatness: Freedom Family Friday

    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, Alex Karp and Palantir selling “own your data” sovereignty for the AI age, Sony pushing PlayStation toward a future where you buy games but don’t really own them, and the classic American movies that built the country’s self-image before the fireworks start. Pull up a chair, this one’s for the whole family. 🗽 The Empire State Building proposal that ended with “she said yes” and “you’re under arrest” ⚖️ Tim Walz’s pardon board gives a clean slate to a convicted child rapist facing deportation 😴 Gen Z rest clubs and the generation that forgot how to stop 🖥️ Palantir, NVIDIA, and the new fight over who owns your data in the AI age 💿 Sony’s digital-only PlayStation future and the slow death of actually owning games 🎬 The Fourth of July movie list every family should argue over before the fireworks 👨‍👩‍👧 Joining this morning: @SteffiP4Liberty and @JustinJPetersen 🛒 4LibertyShop.com ✈️ expatmoney.com/worldwar3 🌐 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support

    59 min

  4. Jul 3

    Commies Keep Winning Elections: Is It Too Late To Stop Them? ft @RareCamellia @RealTomPappert

    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 step into the oldest economic fight in America as JD Vance crowns Alexander Hamilton over Milton Friedman, and we put both men in the ring to ask which one the right should actually be following. Camellia joins us to make the case for Missouri's Amendment 4, and investigative reporter Tom Pappert breaks down how a fringe ideology captured a major party in plain sight. 🚩 THE DSA COMMIE TAKEOVER — Kiros beats DeGette, the wave that started in New York, and the survivors and scholars who lived through this and are begging us not to repeat it. 🥊 HAMILTON VS. FRIEDMAN — Vance picks Hamilton over Friedman, so we run the tale of the tape: the central bank versus the pencil, the tariff versus the consumer, the empire versus the free country. 🏛️ AMENDMENT 4 — Camellia on who really gets to rewrite Missouri's constitution, the out-of-state cash, and the August 4th vote. 🎙️ TOM PAPPERT — how the socialist wave got built, who's funding it, and why the press keeps scrubbing the word out of the headline. ✍️ SIGN THE PETITION — the Democrats wrote the Communist Control Act. Tell them to enforce it: CommunistControlAct.com 🌹 GUESTS THIS EPISODE 🌹 📰 Tom Pappert (@realTomPappert) — award-winning lead reporter, The Tennessee Star 🌷 Camellia Peterson (@RareCamellia) — Americans for Prosperity, Missouri 🔗 LINKS 🛒 4LibertyShop.com 🌎 expatmoney.com/austin 🦅 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support

    2h 2m

  5. Jul 2

    China Wins Again After SCOTUS Decision on Birthright Citizenship

    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 the women inside the DAR who say this fight is not over. Then we go straight to the Supreme Court, where a 6-3 ruling against Trump’s birthright citizenship order left conservatives furious, Thomas and Gorsuch dissenting, and Congress holding the next real move. We explain the “subject to the jurisdiction” fight, the birth tourism loophole, and the bills already sitting in Washington that could force the clean test case the Court refused to give Trump. In hour two, Nick Cooper joins to talk about the future of libertarians, MAGA, and the right: one movement has the engine, the other has the rudder, and the next decade may come down to whether libertarians want to steer or keep yelling from the sidelines. 🗽 The DAR fight — the transgender membership vote, the undefined word “woman,” the Biden-era legal memo, and the restoration push from inside the organization ⚖️ Birthright citizenship — the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling, Thomas and Gorsuch’s dissent, birth tourism, and the congressional path after Trump’s executive order failed 🔥 Nick Cooper on MAGA and libertarians — why MAGA has the political engine, why libertarians have the intellectual rudder, and what it would take to actually win GUESTS THIS EPISODE Rick Brattin @RickBrattin Nick Cooper @realNickCooper 4LibertyShop.com expatmoney.com/austin 4libertynetwork.com wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #Liberty #SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship #Trump #DAR #SupremeCourt #JudgeNapolitano #MAGA #Libertarian #NickCooper #AustinPetersen

    2h 11m

  6. Jun 29

    Walter Block Ejected From Mises Institute Over Defense Of Israel After October 7th

    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 show streaming live on rumble at Rumble.com/ap4liberty

    57 min

  7. Jun 29

    Nixonmaxxing: Rejecting Boomer Politics by Embracing War on the Deep State

    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 with American abundance the same week Democrats confessed they had been hoping the tournament would fail. We close with a man the movement tried to erase. Walter Block joins us on getting purged by the Mises Institute over Israel, his defense of Javier Milei, and where the liberty movement actually lives now. 📼 NIXONMAXXING: REJECTING BOOMER POLITICS — Vance stands in the Nixon Library and says the deep state took down Nixon. We follow the thread to the FBI's number-two man settling a grudge in a parking garage, the Kennedy lawyers who ran the prosecution, and the truth nobody wanted to say out loud, that Nixon helped build the machine that ate him. ⚽ DEMOCRATS CAN'T CHEER FOR USA — Foreign fans crossed an ocean to marvel at how vast and rich America is, the same week one party grappled with the World Cup going too well. We look at why the modern left can credit the Qataris for a peace deal but never the country it wants to run. 🎓 WALTER BLOCK UNFILTERED — The Mises Institute stripped him of a fellowship he held for decades, and his only crime was supporting Israel after October 7th. We ask the self-described Mozart of Libertarianism about the purge, about Milei halving poverty in a real country, and about the civil war splitting the freedom movement down the middle. 🎙️ GUESTS THIS EPISODE Walter Block (@WalterEBlock) — Austrian economist, Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in Economics at Loyola University New Orleans, author of Defending the Undefendable, and former senior fellow of the Mises Institute.

    2h 3m

  8. Jun 27

    Elon Musk: ”Anyone Who Hates America Must Be Removed”

    🎬 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 fine print. 🍼 Supernanny's warning that we are "slowly disabling" our own children 🪒 Baldmaxxing: the men walking away from the hair-loss industry and reaching for the clippers ⛽ The gas-station food glow-up turning the American road trip into a destination 👨‍👩‍👧 Joining this morning: @SteffiP4Liberty and @JustinJPetersen 🛒 4LibertyShop.com ✈️ expatmoney.com/worldwar3 🌐 4libertynetwork.com ❤️ wakeupamericashow.com/support #WakeUpAmerica #FreedomFamilyFriday #CitizenVigilante #ElonMusk #RFKJr #FoodIsMedicine #ParentsRights #ZeroTolerance #AB65 #Baldmaxxing #RoadTrip #Libertarian #Conservative #Rumble

    1h 4m
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Wake Up America with Austin Petersen If you’re tired of being gaslit by corporate media, sick of shallow hot takes, and ready for fearless truth delivered with wit, fire, and facts, Wake Up America is your daily briefing for the battle of ideas. Hosted by Austin Petersen — former presidential candidate, media entrepreneur, and unapologetic defender of liberty — this high-energy political talk show cuts through the noise with bold analysis, sharp humor, and evidence-driven commentary. Every episode delivers: • Hard-hitting breakdowns of the day’s biggest political headlines • Libertarian-leaning, America-First perspective grounded in facts • Deep dives into economics, culture, foreign policy, and constitutional principles • Interviews with lawmakers, policy experts, journalists, and rising voices • Rapid-fire solo segments that blend history, philosophy, and modern politics This isn’t performative outrage. It’s strategic thinking for people who care about Western civilization, individual liberty, and limited government. Austin brings a unique mix of nationalist instinct and libertarian economics — defending free markets, calling out corruption on the right and left, challenging reckless foreign policy, exposing government overreach, and defending American values without apology. Expect: 🔥 Breaking news analysis 📊 Real data and receipts 🎙 Smart, pointed interviews ⚔ Culture war clarity 📚 Historical context that actually matters Whether the topic is Congress, the Supreme Court, Big Tech censorship, immigration, economic chaos, global conflicts, or the internal battles within the conservative movement — Wake Up America gives you the tools to understand what’s happening and why it matters. If you value: Freedom Free speech Free markets Strong borders Limited government Personal responsibility You’re in the right place. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe now and join thousands of Americans who refuse to sleepwalk through history. It’s time to wake up.

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