Activists Episodes

In this groundbreaking episode, recorded during Amp America's first-ever Twitter/X Spaces, Brian Nichols and "The eXtremist Files" producer Matt Edwards explore the power of satire in challenging extreme political narratives, revealing how humor can be a potent tool for exposing truth, shaping culture, and healing a divided nation.

@PorcupineMark shares his inspiring journey to the Free State Project in New Hampshire, revealing how this growing community of liberty-minded individuals is building a culture of freedom and demonstrating the power of grassroots activism to effect real change.

@JohnBLiveFree shares how by bypassing restrictive systems and forging tight-knit communities centered on voluntary exchange, entrepreneurial activists are quietly building parallel economies to render obsolete the mechanisms of centralized control.

Amid rising school shootings, @lauracarno & @FASTERColorado trains willing teachers and school staff in firearms and lifesaving tactics, empowering everyday education heroes to serve as armed first responders should the unthinkable occur on their watch.

Through candid insights on overcoming adversity, embracing empathy, unlocking one's purpose, and consciously parenting, transformational coach Carol Szuky outlines her journey of profound self-discovery to guide others in manifesting the abundant, fulfilling lives they deserve.

When a peaceful activist defending medical freedom protesters from assault faced inflated charges while the actual attacker went free, it exposed the politicized, unjust reality of a broken system targeting dissent.

The Libertarian Party faces an internal debate between pragmatic electoral strategy versus rigid ideological purity, but both education and viable competition are essential to advance liberty.

Amid despairing predictions, Brian makes an impassioned case that ordinary citizens reclaiming active empowerment through local community renewal centered on timeless truths, not partisan politics, can rescue the fraying American fabric.

A retiree fights an extortionate $23,000 California home-building fee all the way to the Supreme Court to defend property rights and rein in a dystopian system allowing unchecked legislative power grabs that drive up housing prices.

This investigative journalist reveals how natural metabolic therapies may effectively treat cancer's root causes yet remain suppressed by profit-driven forces blocking real progress.

Biden's reckless spending fuels historic inflation that crushes families, while Bill Maher's fake libertarian virtue signaling is exposed by Patrick Bet-David's principled consistency.

A principled ex-officer blows the whistle on the blue wall of silence, calling citizens to reclaim their power locally against the spreading corruption rotting police accountability from the inside out.

With neoconservatives defecting and the establishment losing its grip after years of failed policies, host Brian Nichols passionately argues now is the pivotal moment for confident libertarian leadership to step up, unify factions around shared interests, and usher in a new era for the GOP grounded in individual liberty and constitutionally limited government.

A Vermont man fights an intense backlash from local officials and an alleged Ku Klux Klan group after building a legal firearms training facility on his rural property, serving as a startling case study in abuse of power hiding below the surface of a supposedly progressive state.

With waste generation set to rise steeply in the coming decades, pioneering data expert Electra Coutsoftides unveils how emerging technologies can empower cities worldwide to get ahead of the crisis and accelerate the transition to responsible, zero waste communities.

After overcoming her own health crisis, Sonia Gomez is on a mission to transform our broken food system by empowering families to take control of their health and build self-reliance through homesteading.

Newly elected 28-year old Libertarian city councilman @ClaytonSoultz explains how he took on the establishment and achieved victory in a small Indiana town.

@wirtzbill challenges the self-appointed "fun police" who aim to restrict personal freedoms and ban vices through morality-based prohibition movements.

Olivia Rondeau shares how Gen Z is becoming increasingly progressive and shaped by social media algorithms and influences, analyzing the ideological risks if solutions aren't implemented to counter manipulative narratives and reach young minds more effectively.

@mattfrendewey from @yes_everykid_f joins to discuss a landmark poll showing 2/3 of parents now support school choice, a monumental shift resulting from COVID-19 exposing problems that's driving more families to alternative schooling options and states to pass new school choice laws, with bipartisan agreement on increased flexibility and empowering parents signaling a culture change poised to transform K-12 education.

Brian Nichols & @Jtodd601 expose the conversational pitfalls sabotaging holiday political talks and detail tactics to foster genuine dialogue on charged issues.

Bail reform expert Ken Good shares how misguided bail reform policies have led to increased crime and chaos in America's major cities.

@CarlSzabo shares how changes to antitrust laws that could allow government to control prices and stifle innovation, offering solutions citizens can support like the One Agency Act.

@Project_Dynamo1's Bryan Stern on his organization's daring missions to rescue stranded Americans abroad when no one else can help them.