The Walt Blackman Show

Walt Blackman

 "Welcome to The Walt Blackman Show — where Arizona politics grows a spine, finds its voice, and delivers a punch right to the gut of the status quo! He's not your typical politician. He's Walt Blackman — combat veteran, state representative, and the man bringing truth with teeth. No sugarcoating. No spin. Just raw, unfiltered reality. Safe spaces? Not here. This is where policy meets principle — and BS meets its reckoning. Walt is taking on the hard stuff — corruption, culture wars, broken systems — with a patriot's fire and a warrior's precision. This show isn't for the faint-hearted. It's for Americans fed up with the lies and fired up for change. So strap in. Step up. And get ready to face the facts. This isn't politics as usual. This… is The Walt Blackman Show."

Episodes

  1. JAN 26

    More Perfect, Not Loud

    Send us a text Start with one clause. Not a meme, not a slogan—one sentence of the Constitution read slowly, with a pen in your hand. That’s the spirit of this conversation with Walt Blackman, a combat veteran and former legislator who pairs blunt truth with practical civic steps, and who uses ADA‑recognized AI to steady his message while living with a service‑connected TBI. We move from the blast that reshaped his brain to the blueprint that shapes our republic, and we confront how “We the People” morphed from covenant into cudgel in a culture that rewards volume over virtue. Together, we unpack the Preamble—justice beyond mere law, tranquility without enforced silence, common defense against foreign threats and internal decay, general welfare as a shared good, and liberty as an inheritance tied to responsibility. Walt traces how those ideals get warped when the Constitution becomes a Rorschach test: rights untethered from duties, domestic peace recast as opponent suppression, and liberty confused with the sanctification of self-interest. He maps the real hazards of constitutional drift—executive overreach during crises, judicial abdication masked as restraint, and legislative delegation that hands unelected agencies the power to write, enforce, and judge their own rules. Drawing on Washington, Madison, Hamilton, and Jefferson, Walt calls out betrayal dressed up as purity and skewers the performance patriotism that mistakes merch for mastery. Then he gets practical: read one clause; annotate one statute; ask one official which limits they’ll defend; file one records request; share this episode with one person who disagrees. Small moves, repeated, rebuild civic muscle and restore the boundaries that keep power in check and debate possible. If you’re tired of all‑caps politics and ready for law over noise, join us. Subscribe, leave a review, and share this with a friend who will challenge you back—then tell us which constitutional limit you’ll defend this week. Support the show

    24 min
  2. JAN 20

    Founders’ Warnings, Today’s Reality

    Send us a text Power doesn’t fail by accident; it fails when meaning gets soft and speed outruns scrutiny. We take a hard look at how the founders engineered a system to restrain ambition and why modern politics treats those restraints as defects to be bypassed. From Madison’s cold-eyed diagnosis of factions in Federalist 10 to the deliberate friction of Federalist 47–51, we trace how separation of powers protects liberty by slowing our worst impulses and forcing real accountability. We also set the record straight on Hamilton’s Federalist 70. “Energy in the executive” wasn’t a love letter to ego; it was a demand for clarity so citizens know exactly who is responsible when things go wrong. When responsibility diffuses across councils, task forces, and alphabet agencies, accountability evaporates. That’s not constitutional strength—it’s bureaucratic cover. Along the way, we bring the often-ignored Anti‑Federalists back into focus. Patrick Henry and George Mason weren’t anti‑America; they were anti‑amnesia, and their pressure gave us the Bill of Rights, the written limits that make emergency shortcuts harder. This is a conversation about original public meaning, not nostalgia. Meaning fixes the law so power can’t reinterpret restraint out of existence. It’s also a reminder that rights come with duties: speech with tolerance, due process with acceptance, liberty with discipline. We connect the founders’ intellectual roots—Locke, Montesquieu, Blackstone—to today’s temptations toward consolidation, permanent emergencies, and policy written for applause over outcomes. If you’re tired of outrage theater and hungry for first principles, you’ll find a steady, clear path back to civic competence and constitutional self‑government. Subscribe, share with a friend who quotes the founders, and leave a review with the one restraint you think Congress should restore first. Your voice helps keep real accountability—and real conversation—alive. Support the show

    32 min

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 "Welcome to The Walt Blackman Show — where Arizona politics grows a spine, finds its voice, and delivers a punch right to the gut of the status quo! He's not your typical politician. He's Walt Blackman — combat veteran, state representative, and the man bringing truth with teeth. No sugarcoating. No spin. Just raw, unfiltered reality. Safe spaces? Not here. This is where policy meets principle — and BS meets its reckoning. Walt is taking on the hard stuff — corruption, culture wars, broken systems — with a patriot's fire and a warrior's precision. This show isn't for the faint-hearted. It's for Americans fed up with the lies and fired up for change. So strap in. Step up. And get ready to face the facts. This isn't politics as usual. This… is The Walt Blackman Show."