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Oregon’s 17% Health Insurance Hike & Britain’s Collapse | Show 16-25

Oregon’s 17% Health Insurance Hike & Britain’s Collapse | Show 16-25

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When Governments Fail Their People — Oregon’s Health Care Crisis and Britain’s Collapse

Aired  June 20 & 21, 2026 Runtime  47:50 Host  Mark Anderson Guests  Lisa Lettenmaier · Simon Hankinson
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The cost to stay healthy in Oregon is about to climb again — and across the Atlantic, a country that gave us free speech and common law is unraveling in real time. This week, two conversations about what happens when government systems reach their breaking point.

First, Oregon regulators just confirmed that health insurers want a 17% average rate increase for 2027 — on top of last year’s 11% jump. Worse, two of the state’s biggest carriers, Providence and PacificSource, are leaving the individual market entirely, forcing more than 50,000 Oregonians to scramble for new coverage. Independent health insurance broker Lisa Lettenmaier of Health Source NW returns to break down what is actually driving the numbers: a shrinking pool of carriers, the expiration of pandemic-era subsidies, and a Medicare/Medicaid system now covering 41% of the population. She and Mark dig into the real engine of medical inflation — the enormous markup providers can charge once the government, not the consumer, is setting the price.

Then the show turns to the United Kingdom. Heritage Foundation senior fellow Simon Hankinson — who spent his formative years in Britain and earned two of his degrees there — joins Mark to make sense of a country in crisis: the attempted beheading in Belfast that touched off nights of rioting, the collapse of immigration enforcement, the two-tier justice system, and a stunning new privately funded report estimating that grooming gangs abused hundreds of thousands of British girls while authorities looked away. The segment closes on the question that should matter most to American listeners: is the U.S. experience different enough to avoid the same fate — or are we just a few years behind?

In this episode

00:00
01

The 17% Rate Shock — Why Oregon’s Market Is Shrinking

Mark’s free-market opener, then Lisa Lettenmaier on the provisional 2027 rate filings, the carriers leaving the individual market, and why fewer insurers means higher prices for everyone who stays.

10:05
02

Customer or Liability? Nationalized Medicine’s Endgame

From Canada’s euthanasia expansion to England’s canceled surgeries — what happens when government, not the patient, decides what your health is worth. Plus the demographic squeeze of an aging population.

16:51
03

The Government Markup — Where Your Premiums Really Go

The expired pandemic subsidies, the “welfare for the wealthy” problem, and a drug test that costs $20 cash but $250 billed to the Oregon Health Plan. Why government pricing fuels medical inflation.

23:50
04

Belfast and Britain’s Two-Tier Justice

Simon Hankinson on the Belfast knife attack that sparked days of rioting, the killing of Henry Nowak, and a justice system that critics say pulls its punches based on the race of the accused.

31:35
05

Replacement by the Numbers — and the Media Playbook

The demographic math behind Britain’s transformation, why Reform UK surged in the local elections, and how the press reframes inconvenient stories — the “Republicans pounce” pattern of media bias.

40:03
06

The Grooming Gang Report — and a Warning for America

The 219-page Rupert Lowe inquiry, the institutional failures it documents, the new push to restrict free speech and social media — and whether America is far enough behind Britain to change course.

Links & resources mentioned

Lisa Lettenmaier & Health Source NW

  • Health Source NW (independent insurance & Medicare brokerage — Oregon & SW Washington, no cost to clients)

Oregon’s 2027 Health Insurance Rates

Medicaid, Subsidies & Government Pricing

Simon Hankinson & The Heritage Foundation

The UK Immigration Crisis

About the guests

Lisa Lettenmaier
Owner, Health Source NW

Lisa Lettenmaier is an independent health insurance broker serving Oregon and Southwest Washington, and the owner of Health Source NW — an agency that helps individuals, families, and seniors navigate individual health insurance and Medicare plans at no additional cost to the client. She is a recurring I Spy Radio guest and the show’s go-to voice for common-sense answers on Oregon’s health care system.

healthsourcenw.com

Simon Hankinson
Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Simon Hankinson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He holds a master’s in modern history from St. Andrews, a law degree from the College of Law in London, and a master’s in international security affairs from the National Defense University — and spent his formative years in the United Kingdom, giving him a firsthand vantage on the country’s transformation.

heritage.org/staff/simon-hankinson

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16-17 Iron Curtain Deja Vu Part 2: Echoes of Communism

16-17 Iron Curtain Deja Vu Part 2: Echoes of Communism

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Iron Curtain Déjà vu, Part 2: Echoes of Communism

Release Date: April 25, 2026

Duration: 47:55

Host: Mark Anderson

Guests: Michael Astalis – Property developer, owner of KFIR radio station, Iron Curtain escapee


About This Episode

On Show 16-17, we continue our discussion with Michael Astalis, who escaped Romania’s oppressive communism and came to America, where he became a successful businessman and property developer in Southern California. (If you missed Part 1, you really missed a fascinating story. Head to Part 1, Show 16-15.) Communist Romania had no property rights and after losing all of his income properties in the Los Angeles fires, Michael learned firsthand how California now treats property rights in the same abusive way. But it’s far more than just that.

Show Notes

  • 00:45 – Brief refresher of  Michael’s escape from communism, zeroing in on that day he was publicly shamed by his university as a “traitor.”
  • 08:34 – Communism demands loyalty, no independent thinking, but what was the mechanism for conformity?
  • 17:03 – In California, what Michael is seeing more and more elements of that reminds him of what he grew up with under Romania’s communism.
  • 23:35 – The 2025 Los Angeles fire. Michael lost all his income properties — California’s communistic environment policies created the problem. What he personally saw and experienced that led to people being killed in the fires.
  • 30:36 – Did Romania’s communistic government handle natural disasters better? Or do they sound like California?
  • 41:00 – Democrats in California’s move to one-party rule, seizing more power. Voting in Romania vs California. Not much difference. Does he still have hope for America and what does defending that freedom mean for the rest of us? A surprising glimmer.

Transcript

(Opener) And welcome — very glad you’re joining us today here on the I Spy Radio Show, where every week we help you get a little more intelligence on big government. The peak of big government is communism. If you heard our show 2 weeks ago, you got a pretty good glimpse at what it was like for our guest to grow up under communism. It’s one thing to read about it in a book or see old movie reels it’s quite another to have lived it.

I would like to welcome back Michael Astalis, a successful business owner and property developer in Los Angeles CA he grew up in Romania back when it was still a communist country and we’re continuing our discussion from Part 1 of this show. If you missed that show you really ought to go hear that too. You can find that at ispyradio.com/16-15. Today’s show will be 16-17. In Part 1 we covered what his life was like, the loss of his family farm — confiscation actually. And how he and his family were able to get out frombehind the Iron Curtain, and come to America. But Michael is now seeing echoes of the communism he grew up under happening right now in modern-day America. And that will be the main focus of our show today.

Michael welcome back — I’m really looking forward to continuing our discussion.

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Michael Astalis grew up in Romania while it was still behind the Iron Curtain. He shares what it was like and how similar to it some areas of America are becoming.
16-15 Iron Curtain Deja Vu Part 1

16-15 Iron Curtain Deja Vu Part 1

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Iron Curtain Déjà vu, Part 1

Release Date: April 12, 2026

Duration: 47:55

Host: Mark Anderson

Guests: Michael Astalis – Property developer, owner of KFIR radio station, Iron Curtain escapee

About This Episode

On Show 16-15, imagine growing up in a world where the walls had ears and one in fifty people around you were a government informant. And saying the wrong thing, or being suspected of believing the wrong things, could mean serous trouble. Jail, accusations of being an insurrectionist, or much worse. This week, we sit down with a man who survived the brutal dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his regime in Communist Romania—a place where the state didn’t just control your career and your travel, they tried to control your mind. It’s a gripping look at the price of liberty and the ghost of communism. Don’t miss this powerful conversation. Be sure to catch 16-17 Iron Curtain Deja Vu Part 2.

Show Notes

  • 00:00 – Introduction. What daily life was like under Communism. And how long before it went from “political” government change to brutal and authoritarian? Shooting at hungry kids?
  • 08:52 – When Michael turned 16, Nicolae Ceaușescu took power. Brutal secret police watching everything. 1 in 50 Romanians were rumored to be working for them. School life when you’re branded a traitor.
  • 16:04 – Michael’s window to the outside world: radio. How they got one, and what would happen if they got caught listening. In a hard-line communist country like Romania, what realistic future prospects existed, if any? The thought propaganda. Travel restrictions. How Michael finally got out. The eerie similarities between Communist Romania and some modern-day American states.
  • 24:34 – New life in America. Chasing the American Dream, and the hard work to get there. Chasing it in the 1970s vs now. Getting used to free speech.
  • 32:19 – More echoes of communism in his adopted home state of California. Worst aspects of what he sees now — the policies that are used to shift the U.S.
  • 40:10 – Going from hiding an illegal radio to owning his own station. His perspective on American interventions in socialist/communist Venezuela and Iran. Teaser for Part 2.

Transcript

(Opener) Lately, it seems more times than not, you see posts online about how great communism is. New York City voters fell for it. That all these things you need will be free. They fell for the lie.

“Free” is communism’s biggest lie. And here’s the biggest tell of that biggest lie: no communist leader lives under a bridge like the people who live under communism do. No communist leader has given up their wealth, their mansion — and sometimes even just one of their mansions to people who don’t have homes. So much for equality and equal results.

If people are getting paid then nothing is free.

Capitalism is the freest economic system in the world. By definition, it needs to be. If people don’t have the freedom to open businesses, to pursue their dreams, To benefit from their own ideas and hard work — capitalism fails.

And despite having that freedom here in America to go out there and make our dreams, to chase that American dream of success, those freedoms are slipping away — Not through armed rebellion and revolution — its more subtle. Because the very system designed to create those freedoms also allows the freedom to make bad decisions but it has a lot to do with our so-called education system, Where teachers paid by capitalism have the freedom of speech to tell kid s how evil capitalism and America are. Lies and disinformation they would not be able to say about communism if they lived under communism.

And then kids who come up through that system and then go on to lead misguided lives based on misinformation and try to spread “the good news” about communism. Thankfully not everyone is fooled.

There’s a line that gets repeated a lot in political conversation these days. You’ve no doubt heard it — that America is sleepwalking toward socialism. Or that maybe we’ve already arrived. Most people who talk about Communism — for or against it — are speaking from theory — from a textbook or a news segment or something they saw on social media — who might intellectually realize what’s happening and they’re right. But today’s guest is speaking from something else entirely: from memory. From having lived it.

Michael Astalis is a successful business owner and property developer in Southern California — los angeles in particular. We got to know Michael bec he also owns a radio stations, KFIR, one of the stations on which I Spy Radio airs. He’s an American success story in the truest sense. But he wasn’t born here. He was born in Romania — when it was still behind the Iron Curtain — and grew up there, including living his last 5 years there under one of the most brutal communist dictators of the 20th century, Nicolae Chow shesh koo.

Here’s something that changed this conversation: when we first booked Michael, it was our understanding he had come here as a young boy — that communism was just a childhood memory for him. We were wrong. He didn’t leave Romania until age 21, after attending 3 years at a Romanian university. He saw communism, he lived it, as an adult, a young man trying to set out in life. That’s a very different lens than a child’s.

As a result, we’re splitting Michael’s story across two shows. Today — Romania. What that system actually looked like from the inside — the secret police, the ration lines, the forbidden radio broadcasts. And what it wasa like to escape that and come to America. Then, in two weeks, we’ll bring Michael back to talk about California — a state that, in his words and experience, is looking more familiar than it should.

Michael, welcome to I Spy Radio!

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A first time guest to I Spy Radio, Michael Astalis, a property developer and owner of KFIR 720AM, shares his incredible story of growing up in Romania. Like scavenging spare parts to build a secret, homemade radio just to catch a whisper of the truth from Radio Free Europe or the Voice of America. Think of that. A radio. Something considered so dangerous that the mere possession of it would have cost him his freedom. We’ll discuss the reality of Michael’s life behind the Iron Curtain. The government seizing their home and farm at gun point, the constant surveillance, and the escape to freedom that changed everything.

Now a successful American property developer, Michael also reveals a startling perspective on the “land of opportunity.” But things have changed tremendously since 1970 when he escaped communism. And he has been seeing the same echoes of corruption and pay-to-play that he fled decades ago. In California. Where he not fulfilled his American Dream — but also lost it all.

Be sure to join us for Part 2 in two weeks when Michael shares what happened in California and how its punitive policies threaten to resurrect Romania’s Iron Curtain.

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Show 16-07 Endanger! Endanger, Will Robinson! Climate Change Backbone Yanked Out

Show 16-07 Endanger! Endanger, Will Robinson! Climate Change Backbone Yanked Out

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Endanger! Endanger, Will Robinson! Climate Scam Backbone Yanked Out

Release Date: February 14th & 15th, 2026

Duration: 47:55

Host: Mark Anderson

Guests: Craig Rucker, president of CFACT, and John Charles, president & CEO of Cascade Policy


About This Episode

This week, you’ll hear the massive news that the fossil media is hoping you’ll ignore. Because the Democrats and further Left have been making trillions off fake news and faked science. And the days of taxpayer-funded, compulsory tithes to the Democrats is coming to an end. The Obama-era EPA rule, the endangerment finding, has been the regulatory backbone of of not just Global Warming regulations but the legal means to fund environmental movement’s cash cow to fund Democrats’ political ideology and their broader operations.

Show Notes

  • 00:00 – Intro – the Endangerment Finding’s tentacles, Left’s coming cognitive dissonance, media distractions to ignore what just happened.
  • 02:43 – Craig Rucker, president of CFACT, on judges ruling energy is somehow not a national security issue. Idiotic push for windmills exemplify Endangerment Finding. Trillions wasted. Clean Air Act original intention and why Endangerment Finding never should have happened.
  • 10:33 – The biggest dominoes that will fall as a result of ending the Endangerment Finding. Will other countries mirror our deregulation—and what happens if they don’t. Why this deregulation really is the end, why it’s different, and why it is so unlikely to be reborn via Democrat lawsuits, acts of Congress, or the Supreme Court.
  • 18:19 – The proof Obama used faked and falsified “science” to create the Endangerment Finding in the first place. The cascading damage caused by its bogus science. The biggest and most dangerous domino to fall with the end of the Endangerment Finding. Speculating on the Left’s next boogeyman to scare people.
  • 25:14 – John Charles, president and CEO of Cascade Policy Institute, on one of their biggest free market wins. The  free market system compared to the Left’s socialism. The net zero madness—thanks to that Endangerment Finding—that will cost New England states 100s of billions to do nothing.
  • 33:39 – The impact of deregulating the federal Endangerment Finding on Oregon’s state-level regulations. Lawsuits and challenges to Governor Kotek’s Climate Protection Plan, since it doesn’t have a federal regulation to stand on. Implosion we’re seeing in other countries from net zero. It was all about imposing their political will. Not climate. Economic impact: How Oregon’s policies will drive out businesses and prevent new ones from coming. Is change on the way?
  • 39:57 – What is up with Oregon elected Democrats’ insane push for more tax and spending at all costs in an election year? And yet another new scam: how SB 1526 emulates the current Energy Trust of Oregon scam to hide more money from public scrutiny. Fraud in Oregon.

Transcript

(Opener) What if so much of what you currently believe turned out to be based on a lie? I don’t mean just “sort of based on the line,” I mean the entire foundation of what you believe. Just a lie. Last week we touched on that, talking about cognitive dissonance.

Because your psyche doesn’t like to be wrong, your brain sort of short circuits when it is confronted with new information that directly contradicts previously held beliefs—and throws up all sorts of defense mechanisms to stop you from believing the new information.

I mention this because there’s some big information that is happening that could radically change so much of the Left’s belief system. The Endangerment Finding has been the legal and regulatory backbone that the Left has used to push green energy climate change, net zero mandates and regulations, carbon credits, and so much else.

And, along the way, to steal trillions of dollars from US taxpayers. Which they then use to hire people—or at least, convince them—in the media to promote and defend climate change. And to attack anyone who dares question them. “Science denier” and all the rest.

Those stupid windmills that aren’t moving up in the [Columbia] gorge? Thank the endangerment finding. The push to windmills offshore in Oregon. That was based on the endangerment finding. Higher gas taxes because “oil is the enemy”? That’s thanks to the endangerment finding. Not cutting down trees—you know, which regrow — and the whole nonsense of carbon sequestration? Endangerment finding. Solar panels taking over what used to be farmland. Endangerment finding.

So you can kind of see here how this might be a bit of a danger to the Left’s mental well-being. And while this is being undone, the media continues its distraction, hoping that people won’t pay attention, hoping that people can be distracted long enough so that they don’t realize that the green gospel they’ve been hearing preached nonstop and forced to live under was all based on a lie.

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  • Craig Rucker’s organization is CFACT (Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow). Visit them at CFACT.org.
    • The CFACT article mentioned was “Ending EPA’s ‘Endangerment Finding’ may be a fatal blow to regulatory climate overreach.”
      • “[The] 2009 Obama Administration climate rule has been the legal foundation for regulating the U.S. economy by placing restrictions on cars and electricity generation by bypassing Congress. The underlying basis for the Endangerment Finding is that CO2 and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and must be regulated under the Clean Air Act.”
  • John Charles is the president and CEO of Cascade Policy. Visit them at CascadePolicy.org. Get their newsletter!
    • The bill mentioned during the show is SB 1526. Read more about SB 1526 and the Democrats’ latest scheme to hide money in yet another slush fund.
  • Trump suffers major losses in his war on offshore wind (Politico, Jan 18, 2026)
    • “The administration’s arguments that offshore wind farms present a national security risk failed to convince judges in three separate courts.”
  • Trump Set to Repeal Obama-Era Climate Finding (Pro Trump News, Feb 10, 2026)
  • Will consumers pay for Oregon’s climate ambitions (OregonLive, Jan 18, 2025)
  • New England ratepayers may save up to $700 billion (Just the News, Jan 18, 2026)

Not mentioned but you might want to read…

 

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15-51 Podcast: If the Fraud Happened There, It is Happening Here

15-51 Podcast: If the Fraud Happened There, It is Happening Here

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Show 15-51 Summary: USAID? The Social Security gateway fraud? All that fraud, waste, and abuse DOGE uncovered? That was bad. But more extensive fraud will be uncovered at the state levels. This week we bring back Rep. Ed Diehl to discuss this success of the No Gas Tax referendum movement. And what that success means for ODOT, an agency that oozes overspending and waste. And what it means for the Democrats who pushed this bill on Oregonians. ODOT is a prime example of a government agency abusing the taxpayer. We are seeing fraud, waste, and abuse exposed at every level of government. We drill down into the Somali fraud in Minnesota because there are patterns now emerging in other states where additional fraud is being uncovered. And those are very similar patterns to fraud that Ed is exposing at Oregon’s Health Authority.

 

 

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15-50 Podcast: Medical Marxism | Lies that Made the Pandemic Happen

15-50 Podcast: Medical Marxism | Lies that Made the Pandemic Happen

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Show 15-50 Summary: The tyranny we witnessed during the covid pandemic happened because of the lies that created the pandemic. On this week’s show, we look at the covid lies, especially treatments, that led directly to the pandemic. We talk with Dr. Simone Gold, the President and Founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, who led the White Coat Summit on the steps of the Supreme Court. She and other doctors took a stand against the fear and lies. Covid revealed was the worst in people. But it also revealed what had been brewing in the medical system for decades and then boiled over. Medical Marxism. Doctor Gold reveals what she witnessed firsthand, being fired for standing up, and exposes the lies that made the pandemic. So what are the answers now?

 

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15-50 Medical Marxism | The Lies that Made the Pandemic Happen

15-50 Medical Marxism | The Lies that Made the Pandemic Happen

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Show 15-50 Overview:  This week we speak with Dr. Simone Gold, the President and Founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, who led the White Coat Summit on the steps of the Supreme Court. She and other doctors took a stand against the fear and lies. Covid revealed was the worst in people. But it also revealed what had been brewing in the medical system for decades and then boiled over. Medical Marxism. Doctor Gold reveals what she witnessed firsthand, being fired for standing up, and exposes the lies that made the pandemic. So what are the answers now?

Air Dates: December 13th & 14th, 2025 | Guest: Dr. Simone Gold

This Week – Medical Marxism

It’s been said the pandemic didn’t create problems. It revealed them. The pandemic didn’t create the worst in people. It revealed who they really were.

While we saw a lot of the worst of far too many people, we also so the best. And that was the case with the White Coat Summit. Doctors who refused to bow to fear and instead stood up to break the spell.

Fear is how tyrants rule. They need you to be afraid. Which is why the fear peddlers lashed out and tried to destroy them for daring to challenge them by offering hope.

Dr. Simone Gold

Doctor Simone Gold is an emergency doctor., lawyer, and fierce defender of what healthcare ought to be. And she saw the rise of Medical Marxism up close and extremely personal. She was threatened for prescribing hydroxychloroquine in the early days of the pandemic. And then fired for standing up to give people hope.

She shares with us the lies we saw that made the pandemic possible. And her fight now is to restore our rights to make our own decisions about the kind of health care we want and need. Because unless things change, we will lose our health freedom altogether.

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15-47 Dispatches from the Jungle | Shocking Election Fraud Revelations

15-47 Dispatches from the Jungle | Shocking Election Fraud Revelations

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Show 15-47 Summary:  Brace yourself. The Left will cling to its cults and election frauds the way conservatives cling to their guns and Bibles. We talk with Craig Rucker who journeyed into the jungle (literally) to expose the latest COP30—the annual Climate Change synod. Is the Green Religion on the way out? And shocking details from Peter Ticktin about the Tina Peters case and a lawyer Michigan is trying to jail who had permission from a judge to look at the Dominion voting machines. Why? Because what she found exposed the fraud. The Far Left’s religion and election fraud. A dangerous combination.

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Air Dates: November 22nd & 23rd, 2025 | Guests: Craig Rucker & Peter Ticktin

This Week – The Far Left’s Religion and Election Fraud

The Far Left’s Religion and Election Fraud are more dangerous and more intertwined than you might think. We know the Far Left wants socialism. We also know socialism doesn’t work. There’s that whole ignores-reality-and-human-nature thing, of course. But look no further than anytime the Left runs anything. Portland. Chicago. Venezuela. You know. Where socialism works so badly, they’re eating zoo animals.

We talk with Craig Rucker, co-founder and president of CFACT, who braved the 30th annual Climate Change enclave known as COP30 (Conference of the Parties). Think of it as the HOA for Global Warming. Where a bunch of Karens get together (on taxpayer-funded vacations) to complain about everyone else and whatever isn’t being done about Climate Change. Like that it’s not happening.

And if you think socialism doesn’t work, take a listen to how shoddy the whole COP30 confab was run. And some prime examples of “do as we say, not as we do” hypocrisy. Signs of what’s to come, if the Far Left wins more elections.

Shocking Election Fraud – The Case of Stefanie Lambert

You likely know about Tina Peters. The Gold Star Mom who exposed election fraud in Colorado. And because she exposed it, a far-left judge locked her up. But it’s worse. She filed a grievance with the warden — not about the warden. About the a “teacher” in the prison. This is an official reporting mechanism designed to protect prisoners from abuse.

So what did the warden do? He put Tina Peters in solitary confinement. Because that’s what authoritarians do.

But thanks to9 Peter Ticktin, her days in prison may be numbered. Tune in to hear how he thinks a presidential pardon may break her out. “But it’s a state crime not a federal crime” you say? Well, Ticktin may have the way around it.

And definitely do not miss the last segment and a half talking about Stefanie Lambert. She is an attorney who found phone chips on Dominion voting machines in Michigan. But you won’t believe how far Michigan is going to stop the Far Left’s election fraud from being exposed.

Republicans, you had better stop fighting each other. And find a way to unite. Because the Far Left has declared you, and America, the enemy. Which must be destroyed at all costs.

Listen in, listen up!

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15-46 Economics Intelligence | The Only Way Socialism Works (It Doesn’t)

15-46 Economics Intelligence | The Only Way Socialism Works (It Doesn’t)

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Show 15-46 Summary: People who fail to understand how economics works vote for socialism. Which says all you need to know about the New York City and Seattle elections last week. Socialism is unique in that it is the only form of slavery that people voluntarily vote themselves into. There is one way socialism works. But it doesn’t on its own. Find out more as we talk with Jonathan Williams, president and chief economist of ALEC. After weeks of success, Trump has floated some bad ideas lately. What is happening and why?

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Air Dates: November 15th & 16th, 2025 | Guest: Jonathan Williams

This Week – Economics, Socialism, and Elections

Plato, some 400 years before Christ, said of Greece’s democracy, “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” And that’s true. Similarly, One of the penalties for refusing to understand how economics work is you end up voting for socialism. Which says all you need to know about the New York City election last week.

Socialism is unique in that it is the only form of slavery that people voluntarily vote themselves into. And that happens because people who fail to understand how economics works vote for socialism. Nothing is free. To say otherwise is a lie.

Socialism promises free. But note they never promise freedom. Because by definition, you can’t have freedom if you’re dependent on the government.

But host, Mark Anderson predicts New York City’s socialism will succeed. For a little while. Why? For the simple reason the democrat socialists, cannot allow socialism to fail publicly on the world’s largest stage in what used to be the heart of capitalism.

What’s Happening with Trump?

Trump’s tariffs have been massively successful. They have brought in some $200 billion while getting more exports and better trade deals. Plus, the massive price increase that democrats hoped for never happened. But in the middle of that, the Supreme Court has taken up tariffs. Could they be about to upend all that good? And give the power to negotiate trade deals to Congress? Really? They couldn’t even keep the government open.

But those tariffs proved that Trump is usually right. Remember how many people were against them? Trump usually has really good ideas. Brilliant ones. But every so often, after weeks or even months of success, he floats some real stinkers. A 50-year mortgage? Tariff bonus checks — while we’re putting more than $2 trillion on the nation’s credit card every year, and $38 trillion in debt?

But he’s still putting out good ideas. Like the idea to move Obamacare payments away from insurance companies and send it directly to people, which will increase competition and reverse the free-market abuse Obamacare unleashed on healthcare.

Once again, with their shutdown ransom demands for $1 trillion of free money (there’s that “free” again) for Obamacare subsidies, Democrats may have backed themselves right into a trap. Because they agreed to end the shutdown in exchange for a debate about spending even more on the “Affordable” Care Act.  It was never affordable. Just like nothing socialism offers is ever free.

Get a little more intelligence on economics. So you don’t vote for socialism.

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  • Jonathan is the president and chief economist organization at American Legislative Exchange Council. Find out more at ALEC.org.
    • Encourage your representatives to join ALEC! There are state and city memberships. Help elected officials understand economic problems and the real solutions available to get out of them. Send them this link: https://alec.org/membership/.
    • And you too can join as a private-sector member!
    • Follow Jonathan on Twitter at @TaxEconomist.
  • Head to Rich States, Poor States to see how your state is doing.
  • Job cuts in October hit highest level for the month in 22 years, Challenger says (MSNBC, Nov 6, 2025)
    • Layoff announcements soared in October as companies recalibrated staffing levels during the artificial intelligence boom, a sign of potential trouble ahead for the labor market, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
  • Private payrolls rose 42,000 in October, more than expected and countering labor market fears, ADP says (MSNBC, Nov 5, 2025)
  • VIDEO: ‘I Don’t Understand’: Barrett Grills Lawyer Arguing Against Trump’s Tariffs About IEEPA Authority (Forbes Breaking News YouTube Channel, Nov 7, 2025)
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15-45 Discovery Begins | Oregon Lawsuit, James Comey Exposed

15-45 Discovery Begins | Oregon Lawsuit, James Comey Exposed

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Show 15-45 Summary: What does the Russia Collusion hoax and Tuesday’s election have in common? The lies came from those doing the finger pointing. This week we learn what’s happening with Judicial Watch’s lawsuit against Oregon, to force them to clean up their voter rolls, as the crucial phase of discovery begins. And what’s been discovered in the James Comey indictment has special meaning to our second guest, Jerome Corsi. He was nearly jailed by Mueller’s tribunal for trying to expose what Hillary was up to. It turns out, he was right.

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Air Dates: November 8th & 9th, 2025 | Eric Lee & Jerome Corsi

This Week – Getting to Truth 

It’s true. People lie. And they cheat. But it’s especially dangerous for America when those people who do the lying and cheating are in positions of power. Because they’re not just sacrificing their integrity. They’re sacrificing America.

Think that’s exaggeration? Just look at the long-term damage James Comey, John Brennan, Obama, and Joe Biden did when they lied and cheated to create the Russia collusion hoax. Think of the incredible damage that did to America, our government, and our rights. Our government invented crimes. And were willing to destroy and jail people for  a “crime” they knew was fake.

Discovery Phase in Oregon Elections Lawsuit

But this week we start with Oregon elections and democrats’ willingness to cheat in elections. Oregon lost its case to throw out Judicial Watch’s election integrity lawsuit to force Oregon to clean up its voter rolls. So now the fun begins. We talk with Eric Lee about the discovery phase and just some of what they’re asking for.

And you can help. Have you received a ballot at your house for someone who no longer lives there? Know friends or family who moved out of Oregon—but still get ballots? Have examples of election fraud in Oregon? If you have information Judicial Watch would love to hear from you. Send an email to either jwinfo@judicialwatch.org or elee@judicialwatch.org.

New Discoveries in James Comey Indictment

Then we talk with Dr. Jerome Corsi about Tuesday’s elections, which really should not have surprised anyone. Democrats electing Democrats in heavily Democrat-advantage blue states? Yeah. Big surprise. But it’s the type of Democrats that got elected. That’s the disturbing part.

But the main focus of our discussion with Corsi is the James Comey indictment. And the recent discovery. Comey arrogantly denied he’d authorized any Russia collusion leaks to the media and tried to get the case tossed. Claiming complete innocence and that he never leaked and never authorized any leaks.

What he didn’t know was Kash Patel had already found Comey’s handwritten notes saying the opposite. And a fake email address Comey used to discuss the leaks with his leaker. In legal terms, that’s known as, “whoops.”

Comey is in big trouble And no one is happier about it than Jerome Corsi.  Comey was gone when Robert Mueller tried to jail Corsi. But the only reason there was a Mueller investigation was because of Comey’s lies and invented crimes. We get Corsi’s reaction and insights as a firsthand victim of our government’s attempt to jail the innocent.

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