The Wake Up America show with Austin Petersen

The Lindsay Clancy murder case raises a difficult divide: how should the law weigh psychiatric warnings, postpartum psychosis, treatment failures, and personal responsibility? Austin Petersen walks through the case and the competing arguments.

Camellia Peterson then examines the McKenna West surrogacy dispute after West refused an abortion request and traveled to Texas. Finally, Reason contributing editor J.D. Tuccille explains a Texas court ruling that could upend federal suppressor registration—and the important limits on what the decision changes today.

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Alberta voters are headed toward an October 19 ballot that could begin the legal path to a binding independence referendum. Austin Petersen breaks down the verified petition signatures, Alberta's economic leverage, and the argument for becoming a new country—or even joining the United States.

Economist Phil Magness then challenges JD Vance's case against the dollar's reserve-currency status and explains why federal spending, not King Dollar, is the deeper problem. Finally, Sam Brown explains how assassination conspiracy claims pushed him to reexamine his anti-Israel views, visit Israel, and publicly call himself a Zionist.

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Austin Petersen and Steffi Petersen open with a blunt debate over parenting, public shame, and modesty before turning to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's decision to freeze her eggs and what it says about relationships, ambition, and family planning.

Then they unpack fast-food workers' confessions about the menu items they would never order themselves—from kitchen shortcuts and nightmare customers to the McRib, buffets, and Golden Corral.

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Austin Petersen breaks down the WNBA fight that followed DiJonai Carrington's flagrant foul on Sophie Cunningham—including the ‘white privilege’ accusation, Caitlin Clark's impact, player safety, and a league struggling to turn attention into growth.

Camellia Peterson then joins Austin for a pointed debate over Massachusetts' new abortion law after Dobbs. New York Post columnist Kirsten Fleming closes the edition with her analysis of Cunningham, Carrington, Caitlin Clark, and the WNBA's activist culture.

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Austin Petersen confronts his own 2016 presidential-debate positions on Donald Trump, immigration, government, education, and foreign policy—and explains what changed.

Judge Andrew Napolitano then breaks down how Flock license-plate cameras enable warrantless mass surveillance and why the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent it. Erika Donalds closes the edition with a practical argument for rebuilding patriotism, civic education, parental rights, and school choice.

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Canada now records roughly one in twenty deaths through medical assistance in dying, and Austin argues that a program sold for the terminally ill has expanded toward disability, poverty, loneliness, and mental illness.

Camellia Peterson of Americans for Prosperity-Missouri joins the show on America's reading decline, whole books disappearing from classrooms, literature for boys, and why reading and handwriting still matter. Then Tim Golding of Michigan AFP explains Abdul El-Sayed's socialist agenda, why Republicans lost their edge on the economy, and the case for education, energy, and regulatory reform.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filmed herself taking an egg-freezing injection and called it resistance. Austin examines what the spectacle says about delayed family formation and demographic politics.

Tom Pappert of The Tennessee Star joins the conversation on AOC, Abdul El-Sayed, socialism, and the Democratic Party's hard-left turn. Then Jeremy Kauffman debates the twenty-dollar burrito, food affordability, inflation, welfare, and whether the right still believes in free markets.

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Austin opens with the story of a woman detained by ICE while trying to renew her immigration status, then turns to the day's most combustible question: when does fear of a dog breed become an unfair stereotype?

Joe Trotter joins the discussion on immigration, citizenship, household surveillance, robot vacuums, and AI. The audio edition also gets into pregnancy energy gels, supply chains, and why seemingly ordinary products become part of larger political arguments.

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A growing number of young workers are bringing parents into job interviews, salary talks, workplace conflicts, and even calls to the boss. Austin Petersen digs into helicopter parenting, Gen Z's struggle with independence, and what employers say is happening in the workplace.

He also examines a major campus free-speech survey and the widening tolerance gap between students. Camilia Peterson joins the show to explain why Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected an income-tax phaseout, how unions and ballot language shaped the result, and whether reformers will try again.

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Judge Andrew Napolitano joins Austin Petersen for a sharp disagreement over President Trump's war in Iran, constitutional war powers, Israel, and how both parties change their principles when control of the White House changes.

Austin also examines proposed restrictions on high-caffeine energy drinks and the Democratic Party's effort to win back religious voters. Megan Novak of Americans for Prosperity Wisconsin closes the edition with a look at Francesca Hong, the governor's race, taxes, energy policy, and the stakes for Wisconsin families.

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ARE YOU RACIST FOR NOT LIKING PIT BULLS?

Actor Jon Bernthal says being afraid of pit bulls is “dog racism”—the same as judging someone by race or sexual orientation. Austin breaks down why that comparison collapses, what the attack data shows and why parents should not be shamed for recognizing breed-specific risk. Then we examine a quieter national crisis: Americans are speaking thousands fewer words than they did two decades ago as smartphones, self-checkout lanes, remote work and app-based life replace ordinary human contact. Camellia Peterson joins us ahead of Missouri’s August 4 vote on Amendmen...

THE PROBLEM WITH MISS RACHEL

There is a difference between a free people and a managed people, and this week handed us four proof points. We start with the children's entertainer who spent her nursery trust on a democratic socialist slate three days before a Missouri primary. We get into the retirement promise being canceled in slow motion while the next generation walks into a job market the machines are already hollowing out. We walk you through the New York tax that turned into a searchable list of nearly a million homes, and the progressive professor...

PSYCHO-THERAPISTS WANT YOUR KIDS TO CUT YOU OFF

This week we walk through a culture that keeps handing the most intimate parts of life to somebody else. We start with the "CEO parents" spending a quarter million a year on nannies, chefs, and potty-training consultants so they never have to clip a toenail, then jump to the Big Law partner whose ten-second park-bench kiss with a younger associate cost him tens of millions after a stranger's phone did the rest. We dig into the therapists coaching grown adults to go no-contact with their...

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold Open: Fauci Pleads the Fifth

0:30 Good Morning, Rise & Freedom — Today's Rundown

5:29 X Money: Elon Musk's FDIC-Insured Card Arrives

8:55 The Airline Card Racket: Delta's $9 Billion Amex Deal

11:41 Chase Sapphire's 100,000-Point Bonus & the $5,000 Leash

13:27 $895 Annual Fees: When a Premium Card Actually Pays

15:34 Shrinking Sky Club Access & the Pay-In-Full Rule

16:31 Who Really Pays for the Points? $1.25 Trillion in Card Debt

18:01 Swipe Fees & Harvard's $9 Billion Rewards Transfer

22:05 Break — Made in America 3D-Printe...

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold Open: "No Justice, No Peace"

0:28 Welcome to Wake Up America — Five Years After "Trust the Science"

2:25 Today's Rundown: Ed Sheeran, the Fauci Files & Flock Cameras

4:55 Ed Sheeran Tells America to Relax About Six Pints

9:19 What the WHO Numbers Actually Say About Drinking

11:55 Industry Pamphlet vs. Government Chart — Who Do You Trust?

15:55 Whiskey, Cruise Ships & a Bottle Through Customs

17:55 Top Shelf vs. Bottom Shelf: Who's Still Buying Booze

21:55 Break — Coming Up: The Trial...

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold Open: Trump on Jobs + RFK Jr.'s "Real Food"

0:54 Good Morning — Today's Rundown

6:00 Tour of the New 4LibertyNetwork.com

8:20 The Central Park Kissing Video & the Internet Manhunt

9:38 What the Comment Section Got Wrong About Two Strangers

12:38 Is Filming Strangers Legal? Reasonable Expectation of Privacy

13:34 Why This Isn't the Coldplay Concert Story

16:09 Making Out in Central Park: A New York Tradition

17:58 The Record-Low 1.6 Fertility Rate Connection

19:09 Bars, Nightclubs & the De...

FLOCK CAMERAS: SAFETY MEASURE OR SURVEILLANCE STATE?

This morning we walk into the two rooms nobody voted to build, one a bathroom designed to kill your grandmother and one a hundred thousand camera network watching every road in America, and we ask how both of them got assembled while everybody was looking somewhere else. We break down why forty-three thousand seniors died from falls last year in houses the code book says are perfectly safe, then we follow Flock Safety from a solar panel on a pole in your subdivision to a server in Atlanta that...

The dictator Hasan Piker wore to a Democrat convention — and the tip screen America is finally revolting against | Wake Up America

Hasan Piker put on Mao Zedong's uniform this weekend and a room full of College Democrats cheered. So today we tell you what that costume actually means: the largest famine in human history, the war on sparrows, the trap called "let a hundred flowers bloom," and the Red Guards who beat Xi Jinping's own father in a stadium. Plus — America is in open revolt against the guilt-trip tip screen, and the real hist...

WHOSE AI SHOULD FRIGHTEN YOU MORE?

A Beijing startup gave away an AI for free last week and knocked the American chip market into a bear market before lunch, and the two biggest names in American tech ran to Washington calling a free download a threat to your safety. We're also on the flag an HOA won't let a family fly, and the war power Congress hasn't used since 1942.

🗽 THE FLAG YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO FLY — An HOA told Amy Cooke to pull the flag she's flown 20 years or pay a hundred bucks. 78 milli...

SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE CLICKED DISLIKE AND THE TICKETS SOLD OUT ANYWAY

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens tonight, and we're asking what it actually proves when the audience objects for eighteen months and Hollywood gets paid regardless. Then we walk through the Supreme Court quote everybody shared this week that Amy Coney Barrett never said, and what it costs us when we're the ones who stopped checking. We get into a Gen X psychiatrist's list of six things people miss about the eighties that reads like an inventory of liberties somebody took, the Wall Street Journal's...

SOCIALISM IS BLACK AND WHITE

A poll came out of Michigan this week showing the socialist winning white Democrats and getting destroyed by Black Democrats in the same primary, and the explanation the internet landed on within the hour was that Black voters secretly agree but have been beaten into silence by a wicked country. We take that apart with a street in Detroit that no longer exists. Then we head to Europe, where a committee of publicly funded broadcasters just published twenty-three pages of cartoon diagrams instructing camera operators how to point a lens at...

MARCO RUBIO VS. THE HAGUE: AMERICA IS THE WORLD'S POLICE

This morning we walk into the two rooms trying to run your life without a single vote from you, one in a Dutch office park and one in a Hollywood suite, and we ask why an unelected court and an unelected casting department both got told no in the same week. We break down Marco Rubio's whole-of-government campaign to take the International Criminal Court apart brick by brick, then we roll through Hollywood's casting war from Andy Serkis to Christopher Nolan and let the box office...

RO KHANNA OR RO COMMIE? THIS IS WHO'S RUNNING IN 2028

This morning we follow the money and the lies straight from Beijing to the West Bank to Jefferson City, and we ask why a communist's family, a congressman's campaign trip, and a tax overhaul all landed on the same weekend. We break down the new reporting on China, Russia, and Iran weaponizing America's data center backlash, then we roll the tape on Ro Khanna's West Bank stunt and let Tom Pappert help us separate what happened from what Khanna wants you to believe. Then Camellia sits...

RIP TO THE MAN LIBERTARIANS FEARED THE MOST

This morning we dig into the death of the senator the left tried to bury with insults before his body was even cold, and we ask why an operator they call a swamp creature scared them more than any purist we've ever run. We follow that story straight into the parallel trial happening online around Charlie Kirk's murder, where a preliminary hearing calls the evidence overwhelming and a conspiracy machine keeps running anyway. Then we bring in two voices who were on the ground for it all, Joseph...

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...

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 clai...

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...

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 as...

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 fu...

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

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...

🎬 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 t...

🗽 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 breaking left and what the Right is getting wrong

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 their Pride Night caps, and the letters Senator Josh Hawley and Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway fired right back at the league. We cover the crude line UFC fighter Josh...

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 Missouri liberty advocate Camellia Peterson to break down the religious liberty fight running through her home state, and comedian Lou Perez joins us on the first trillionaire in human history, FreedomFest, and the comedy line...

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 Arnold Schwarzenegger just blew the whistle on Sacramento's gas price racket, and Adam Smith's 250-year-old playbook explains exactly why Californians are paying nearly six bucks a gallon. Judge Andrew Napolitano joins us with...

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 handcuffs while police chase a slur instead of a killer. We close with two guests on the fights closer to home.

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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 decade ago and woke up a millionaire, the parade of politicians who looked at that and demanded their cut, and why the Ayn Rand split between producers and...

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 -- Seattle spent $465,000 on four talking toilets ahead of the World Cup, got the window smashed in fourteen days, and called it a promising start. Judge Napolitano on Section 702 expiring...