Bring Our Troops Home Podcast

Dan McKnight, BringOurTroopsHome.us
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The Bring Our Troops Home podcast is a veteran-led effort that challenges the Washington war machine and fights to restore real constitutional limits on when, where, and why Americans are sent into combat. Hosted by Dan McKnight, who served 13 years in the U.S. military, the show digs into the history, politics, and human costs of our endless wars. Each episode looks at the people who pushed us into conflict, the heroes who served, and the growing state-level fight to pass Defend the Guard. If you’re tired of excuses, mission creep, and unchecked executive power, this podcast is for you.

  1. 6d ago

    "My Plan" - Benjamin Netanyahu

    "My plan." Those are Benjamin Netanyahu's own words — in a June 1, 2026 letter on official Israeli government letterhead, sent to U.S. Congressman Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) — describing Section 224 of the FY27 National Defense Authorization Act. A foreign prime minister called a piece of American defense legislation his plan. Three days later, on June 4, the House Armed Services Committee passed Section 224 on a voice vote with no individual member's position recorded. This episode walks through the documents, the timeline, the committee debate (full clips), and what comes next. I'm not asking you to take my word for any of it. Every source is below. Read them yourself.— Dan McKnight TAKE ACTION THIS WEEK: Defend the Guard: https://DefendTheGuard.US Bring Our Troops Home: https://BringOurTroopsHome.US Call your U.S. Representative. Ask them: will you vote to strike Section 224 from the NDAA on the House floor?Call both of your U.S. Senators. Ask them the same question. If your senator sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee — your call matters even more. They mark up the Senate version of the NDAA in the weeks ahead. THE SOURCES — EVERYTHING REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE THE 60 MINUTES INTERVIEW (May 10, 2026)Full transcript (CBS):https://www.cbsnews.com/news/read-the-full-transcript-of-major-garretts-interview-with-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-here/ Extended interview video (the full hour-and-a-half sit-down, not the aired 18-minute cut): https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu/ THE BILL — SECTION 224 OF THE FY27 NDAA (H.R. 8800)House Armed Services Committee draft and markup record:https://armedservices.house.gov/ THE ANCHOR REPORTING — BEN FREEMAN, QUINCY INSTITUTEBen Freeman, "Congress quietly moves to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries," Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute):https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-military/ AIPAC'S OWN DOCUMENTSAIPAC memo defending Section 224 (this is the source for every dollar figure quoted on-air — $500M missile defense, $100M counter-drone, $100M subterranean, $50M emerging tech, plus the War Reserves Stockpile extension):https://www.aipac.org/memos/america-israel-defense-ndaa-224 The New Republic, "House Quietly Moves to Hand U.S. Military to Israel" (June 5, 2026) — the piece quoted directly in this episode:https://newrepublic.com/post/211433/house-us-military-israel-section-224 THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE MARKUP (June 4, 2026)The full markup hearing: https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings THE FOUNDING DOCUMENTS George Washington's Farewell Address (1796) — the full text at the National Archives: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0440-0002 The passage on "passionate attachment" and "ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens" — read it yourself. THE MEGYN KELLY CLIP — "NOT EQUAL PARTNERS"The Megyn Kelly Show, Episode 1,314 (May 11, 2026) - full episode:Full episode (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvVpRK0qx7gIsolated Netanyahu segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfKhwqw7Lv8 Episode page on Megyn Kelly's website: https://www.megynkelly.com/2026/05/11/megyn-kelly-breaks-down-netanyahu-60-minutes-interview/ FOLLOW DAN:X: https://x.com/Danmcknight30 FOLLOW BRING OUR TROOPS HOME:X: https://x.com/TroopsHomeUS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TroopsHomeUS Website: https://BringOurTroopsHome.US Subscribe and turn on notifications. Share this episode with a veteran. Share it with a parent. Share it with anyone in your life who has a son or a daughter in the National Guard. The trap only works if the American people don't see it.For the Constitution. For the Republic.This is the Bring Our Troops Home Podcast.

    1h 19m

  2. Jun 1

    Mark Levin Compares Trump to FDR — And He's Right

    Mark Levin went on Fox and compared Donald Trump to Franklin Roosevelt — Trump going after Republicans like Thomas Massie in primaries is FDR purging the Democrats in 1938, and Levin says it's a good thing. Here's the twist: he's right. It IS the FDR playbook. He's just wrong about what that means — because the FDR story isn't a story about a leader purifying his party. It's a story about a leader capturing it. Levin spent thirty years calling FDR the villain of American big government. So when he holds FDR up as the model, he's not paying Trump a compliment. He's handing you an indictment — and betting you won't read the documents to see it. I did read them. And I was in the room for the 2024 version. I was elected by the Republicans of Idaho to the RNC Platform Committee. Our phones were sealed in Faraday bags. We were handed a finished platform nobody had been allowed to see, written in one man's voice, and told to bless it and stay quiet. In this episode I lay the whole thing out — with the actual party platforms, ninety years of history, and the artifacts I carried out of that room. Read them yourself. Don't take my word for any of it: 🔹 1932 Democratic Platform (the "covenant" FDR ran on — and broke)https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/1932-democratic-party-platform 🔹 1936 Democratic Platform (rewritten to ratify what he'd already done)https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/1936-democratic-party-platform 🔹 2016 Republican Platform (Washington's warning, Article I, no war without Congress)https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2016-republican-party-platform 🔹 2020 Resolution (the only time since 1856 the GOP adopted NO platform — dissent "ruled out of order")https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/resolution-regarding-the-republican-party-platform 🔹 2024 Republican Platform (handed to us, finished, in his voice)https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-party-platform CHAPTERS00:00 Cold open: what Mark Levin said03:09 Why I'm the one telling you this05:52 Kings who call it purity07:43 FDR: the 1932 covenant10:25 FDR: the 1936 capture14:39 Trump: the 2016 covenant15:42 Trump: 2020 — locking the doors21:21 2024: I was in the room24:20 The schedule, the room, the finished platform31:15 The subcommittee sham35:45 The minority report — and why I withdrew37:29 The reward for silence40:21 The parallel, side by side42:42 Back to Levin: the takedown46:59 Skin in the game48:53 Who moved? + how to actTAKE ACTION ▶ Join the fight: https://BringOurTroopsHome.US ▶ Defend the Guard — find your state's bill: https://DefendTheGuard.US ▶ Follow: @TroopsHomeUS Bring Our Troops Home is a veteran-led organization fighting to restore Article I war powers to Congress and keep the National Guard out of undeclared foreign wars. #BringOurTroopsHome #DefendTheGuard #WarPowers #ArticleI #AmericaFirst #Constitution #NonInterventionism

    52 min

  3. May 17

    ED GALLREIN WANTS YOUR CHILDREN | The Draft Is Slavery

    The most consequential 72 hours of the 2026 cycle. Ed Gallrein wants the draft back. Pete Hegseth is flying to Kentucky to rescue him. The primary is Tuesday. In this episode of Bring Our Troops Home, Dan McKnight breaks down Ed Gallrein's own words from his Speak Video podcast appearance — where the retired Navy SEAL Captain and Trump-endorsed congressional candidate calls the all-volunteer force a "deeply flawed concept," says our adversaries are "the happiest people in the world" we don't draft American sons, and says he'd be "advocating" to war-game the draft's return. Then Dan walks through: — The 13th Amendment and why conscription is involuntary servitude — Daniel Webster's 1814 speech against Madison's conscription bill — The Israeli billionaire donor class that has spent $10 million to defeat Thomas Massie — The 7-day timeline that proves capture: Chamber endorsement → Massie's FARA bill → Secretary of War's Kentucky trip → Tuesday primary — Why Pete Hegseth may be violating the Hatch Act — And the dereliction of duty of abandoning his post while 25,000+ American troops are under cruise missile fire in the Persian Gulf 72 hours. One website: MassieMoneybomb.com Defend the Guard: https://DefendTheGuard.US Bring Our Troops Home: https://BringOurTroopsHome.US #DefendTheGuard #VoteMassie #BringOurTroopsHome

    45 min

  4. May 15

    Thomas Massie: America's Last Congressman

    On Tuesday, May 19th, the Republican voters of Kentucky's 4th Congressional District will decide whether the most consistent antiwar vote in the United States Congress keeps his seat. His name is Thomas Massie. He is the natural successor to Ron Paul. He opposed the war in Syria, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Yemen, the war in Ukraine, military action in Venezuela, and the war in Iran. He votes against foreign aid — every time. He forced the release of the Epstein files when his own leadership tried to bury it. And in 2023, he publicly endorsed our signature legislation, the Defend the Guard Act. Three out-of-state billionaires — Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson — are spending whatever it takes to remove him from Congress. AIPAC has spent $2.6 million. The Republican Jewish Coalition has spent $4 million. Christians United for Israel is in the mix. According to Massie himself on Tucker Carlson, 95% of the money attacking him is coming from the Israel lobby. Meanwhile, Thomas Massie has raised $2.3 million in a single moneybomb — from hundreds of thousands of small-dollar donors across the country. The contrast is the entire story of this race. In this episode: Why the MAGA movement is scattering — and what Massie still stands forTrump's smear campaign: from "LOSER" to attacking Massie's late wife and new marriageThe parallel pattern: Joe Kent, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and now Massie — same playbook, three different smearsFollowing the money: the three billionaires, AIPAC, and the consultant orchestrating it allNeocon Idol returns: Chris LaCivita, the Marine who built his career attacking other veterans' service recordsThe polls vs. the crosstabs: why every voter under 65 backs Massie, and why the Fox News boomercon vote is propping up his opponentMassie's 2023 Defend the Guard endorsement — and why the Pentagon brass is doing exactly what he warned aboutTHREE ACTIONS BEFORE TUESDAY: If you live in Kentucky's 4th District (Boone, Kenton, Campbell, and surrounding counties), VOTE on Tuesday, May 19th.If you live anywhere else in America, contribute at MassieMoneybomb.comShare this episode. Send it to a veteran. Send it to a young Republican losing faith. Send it to anyone wondering where the America First movement went.JOIN BRING OUR TROOPS HOME:Main website: BringOurTroopsHome.USLegislative website: DefendTheGuard.US FOLLOW US:X (Organization): https://x.com/TroopsHomeUSX (Dan McKnight): https://x.com/Danmcknight30Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TroopsHomeUS CHAPTERS:00:00 Cold Open — The Scattering02:00 Who Thomas Massie Is04:30 The Smears: Loser, Question Mark, Stuck With Him08:30 Follow the Money: Three Billionaires and a Vendor13:00 Neocon Idol: Chris LaCivita14:30 The Moneybomb: 2.3 Million Americans Push Back17:00 The Polls vs. The Crosstabs19:30 Defend the Guard, 202321:30 What You Can Do Before Tuesday #ThomasMassie #MassieMoneybomb #DefendTheGuard #AmericaFirst #BringOurTroopsHome #KY4 #MAGA #EndlessWars #IranWar #ConstitutionalConservative

    33 min

  5. May 15

    Scott Horton Walked Out of Joe Rogan's Studio and We Got Him Next

    A few hours after Scott Horton walked out of his first appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Dan McKnight sat him down to debrief. What he covered, the one sentence he most wants Joe's audience to remember, the truth about Iran's nuclear program, the eleven-bombs-in-two-weeks story, Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal — and what Robert Kagan is suddenly admitting now that America's bluff in the Gulf has been called. Scott Horton is the editorial director of Antiwar.com, director of the Libertarian Institute, and author of Fool's Errand, Enough Already, Hotter Than the Sun, and Provoked. He has done more than 5,000 long-form interviews since 2003. —— FOLLOW SCOTT HORTON ——Scott Horton Academy: https://scotthortonacademy.com/X / Twitter: https://x.com/scotthortonshowLibertarian Institute: https://libertarianinstitute.org/Antiwar.com: https://antiwar.com/ —— RAGE AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE — GRAND RAPIDS ——Sunday, May 24, 2026 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PMDeVos Center, Grand Rapids, MI(Same venue as the Libertarian National Convention)Donate to support the rally: https://givebutter.com/rage-against-the-war-in-machine-grand-rapids-m89ltz —— FOLLOW BRING OUR TROOPS HOME ——Website: https://BringOurTroopsHome.USDefend the Guard: https://DefendTheGuard.USX / Twitter: https://x.com/TroopsHomeUSYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TroopsHomeUSFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TroopsHomeUSDan McKnight on X: https://x.com/Danmcknight30 #BringOurTroopsHome #DefendTheGuard #ScottHorton #JoeRogan #RageAgainstTheWarMachine #EndTheWars #Article1

    40 min

  6. May 4

    Did Mossad Convert America's Top General?

    On September 11th, 2001, Major Dan Caine was an Air National Guard F-16 pilot scrambled out of Andrews Air Force Base — with the authority to shoot down Flight 93 if it came for the Capital. He told his wingman: "Don't shoot anybody. I'll make the decision." Twenty-five years later, that same man — now Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — was reportedly walked over the line into supporting the Iran war by the Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff, the head of Mossad, and the head of IDF Intelligence in a sustained influence campaign that lasted about three weeks. In this episode, Dan McKnight tells the story of two warriors who started in the same place and ended in two very different ones. The first — General Dan Caine — was reported by Axios to be a "reluctant warrior" on Iran in early February 2026. By February 28th, when Operation Epic Fury launched, the Jerusalem Post had reported that Israeli officials had successfully "brought him on board." On April 16th, Caine told a Pentagon press briefing that American forces are "ready to resume major combat operations at literally a moment's notice." The second — Joe Kent, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center — refused to be converted. He resigned. He spoke. And last weekend at the Ron Paul Institute's spring conference in Lake Jackson, Texas, he sat down with Dan and endorsed Defend the Guard on camera, calling state-level legislation to prevent Guard units from being deployed to undeclared wars "huge." This episode also features:— Brian McGlinchey of Stark Realities on the Mossad briefing he calls one that will "live in infamy"— Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago on the escalation trap and the doctrine America has abandoned— Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on what it actually means when a President calls a member of his own coalition a traitor The lesson is not to find a better person.The lesson is to stop depending on individuals to override an institutional machine. That structural answer is Defend the Guard. ENLIST IN THE MOVEMENT: https://defendtheguard.usBECOME A TOP 1% ACTIVIST: https://defendtheguard.us/fightforsomethingLEARN MORE: https://bringourtroopshome.us SOURCES & CITATIONS: — CIA, "Senior CIA Officer Reflects on Defending Washington, D.C. on 9/11": https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/senior-cia-officer-reflects-on-defending-washington-d-c-on-9-11/— Axios, "Trump's top general warns of Iran strike risks," Feb 23, 2026— Jerusalem Post, "Critical roles of Eyal Zamir, Dan Caine, Brad Cooper in shaping the Iran war"— Jerusalem Post, "US ready to restart combat if no Iran deal reached, Hegseth says," April 16, 2026: https://www.jpost.com/international/article-893248— Tucker Carlson interview with John Kiriakou (referenced cold open)— Joe Kent speech at the Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference, "War Is Back on the Menu," April 25, 2026— Brian McGlinchey, Stark Realities — starkrealities.net— Robert Pape, Escalation Trap — escalationtrap.substack.com— Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference, "War Is Back on the Menu": https://ronpaulinstitute.org/rpi-spring-conference-war-is-back-on-the-menu/ CHAPTERS:00:00 — The Discovery: Tucker Tells the 9/11 Story Nobody Remembers03:00 — Who Is Dan Caine? Major. F-16 Pilot. Guardsman.07:00 — The Conversion: Three Weeks That Changed Everything13:00 — The Bridge: Two Warriors, One System17:00 — Lake Jackson, Texas: War Is Back on the Menu20:00 — Joe Kent Speaks: Shannon, Syria, and the Administrative State26:00 — The Defend the Guard Endorsement30:00 — Voices from the Conference: Pape and McGlinchey33:00 — When the President Calls You a Traitor38:00 — The Coalition Didn't Move. He Did.42:00 — Bring Them Home #BringOurTroopsHome #DefendTheGuard #AmericaFirst #IranWar #ConstitutionalWarPowers #JoeKent #DanCaine #ArticleI #NationalGuard

    48 min

  7. Apr 20

    The Tweets of Some Idiot

    At 8:10 AM Eastern, Sunday morning, President Trump postedthis on Truth Social: "The United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!" Forty-eight hours earlier, the same president had postedthat Israel was PROHIBITED from bombing Lebanon — the first time in a generation an American president publicly subordinated Israel to American policy. The pressure campaign worked faster than anyone expected. There is a third option the president is not hearing fromanyone on Fox News. Reagan took it in Beirut in February 1984, four months after the Marine barracks bombing. They called it weakness. History called it wisdom. This episode lays out the case for it. Full breakdown includes: — The IRGC audio that leaked Saturday — Iran's militarycalling its own foreign minister "some idiot" on a maritime radio channel — and the exact parallel between what the IRGC is doing to Tehran and what Israel has been doing to Washington. — The 24-hour Hormuz timeline. How we went from"completely open" to the Strait being closed by two differentgovernments in one day. — Israel's record of sabotaging every American peace effortfrom April 2025 onward — including the Israeli attack on Iran the day before Steve Witkoff's scheduled Oman trip, and the 303-casualty strike on Beirut 10 minutes after the U.S.-Iran ceasefire took effect on April 8. — The civilian cost of what Trump is now threatening.Grandmothers on dialysis. Premature babies in neonatal ICUs. Water treatment. 120-degree summers with no air conditioning in Hormozgan. What a veteran knows about infrastructure strikes. — The Reagan-Beirut '84 precedent. The "47 years" line and what it erases — 1953, Iran Air 655, the Iran-Iraq war we armed both sides of. — The direct address. Mr. President, you are in a losingposition. Leave. Put America First for real. — The closing question: when the IRGC called someone"some idiot" on that tape, which foreign-policy-making civilian government were they really mocking? 🔗 SIGN THE OPEN LETTER:"Veterans Have Earned the Right to Ask" https://campaigns.civiclick.com/06c1b6b7-19bf-4517-8def-df180e901430 🔗 DEFEND THE GUARD — state-level legislation to stop the pipeline: https://defendtheguard.us 🔗 SIGN THE PETITION — Tell Congress to reclaim their Constitutional War Powers: https://bringourtroopshome.us 🔗 NEGOTIATORS LAND IN ISLAMABAD MONDAY NIGHT. CEASEFIRE EXPIRES WEDNESDAY. CALL YOUR SENATOR NOW. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 FOLLOW: Bring Our Troops Home on X: @TroopsHomeUS Dan McKnight on X: @DanMcKnight30Websites: https://BringOurTroopsHome.UShttps://DefendTheGuard.US SUBSCRIBE AND SHARE. The more Americans who understand what Article I, Section 8 says — and what happens when a foreign government has a bigger vote in our foreign policy than our own Constitution — the harder it becomes to hide behind classified briefings and Truth Social posts. For the Constitution. For the troops. Bring Our Troops Home. #BringOurTroopsHome #DefendTheGuard #ArticleI #EndtheWars#IranWar #NoWarForIsrael #ThirdOption #AmericaFirst

    49 min

  8. Apr 9

    Greatest Victory Possible?

    Tuesday night, President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran. The nation exhaled. We exhaled. But before you call it a win, you need to understand what we agreed to. Iran's ten-point proposal — which the White House accepted as the basis for negotiation — includes: a toll on the Strait of Hormuz that will generate over $7.5 billion a year in new Iranian revenue. The current government stays in power. Sanctions lifted. A non-aggression guarantee. Halting of IAEA investigations. Regional ceasefire including Hezbollah. U.S. military withdrawal from the region. And the one that should stop you cold: recognition of Iran's right to nuclear enrichment. The same nuclear program we launched Operation Midnight Hammer to destroy. The same "imminent threat" that justified bypassing Congress. The same two-weeks-to-ten-nuclear-weapons claim that came from Netanyahu to Witkoff to Trump — with no intelligence analyst anywhere in the chain. Six weeks and thirteen dead Americans later, we just agreed to let them keep enriching. Either the threat was real and we surrendered. Or the threat was exaggerated and we sent Americans to die for a lie. Pick one. Meanwhile, National Guard units from eighteen states are still in theater — deployed without a declaration of war, with governors who don't know where their own troops are or when they're coming home. This episode covers: The full breakdown of Iran's ten-point ceasefire proposal — and what each term actually meansThe equipment losses: F-35s, F-15s, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and billions in damageThe thirteen Americans killed and the hundreds wounded in an unauthorized warThe eighteen states with National Guard deployed — unit by unit, state by stateWhat sitting governors said when asked about their own troops (they don't know)Why Defend the Guard legislation is the only structural fixThe one thing President Trump still has to do — and why restraining Israel is not optionalFor Defend the Guard resources in your state, visit www.DefendTheGuard.us and click your state on the map. Join the movementBring Our Troops Home is the only national organization actively working to restore constitutional war powers by passing Defend the Guard legislation in the states. If you believe Congress — not the president — should decide when America goes to war, join us. Sign the petition, support the movement, and help us pass Defend the Guard in every state. 🌐 WebsitesBring Our Troops Home - https://BringOurTroopsHome.usDefend the Guard - https://DefendTheGuard.us Follow Bring Our Troops Home𝕏 /Twitter: https://x.com/TroopsHomeUSFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TroopsHomeUS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/troopshomeus/

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The Bring Our Troops Home podcast is a veteran-led effort that challenges the Washington war machine and fights to restore real constitutional limits on when, where, and why Americans are sent into combat. Hosted by Dan McKnight, who served 13 years in the U.S. military, the show digs into the history, politics, and human costs of our endless wars. Each episode looks at the people who pushed us into conflict, the heroes who served, and the growing state-level fight to pass Defend the Guard. If you’re tired of excuses, mission creep, and unchecked executive power, this podcast is for you.

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    Dan McKnight, BringOurTroopsHome.us
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    23
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