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Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code LEEJA at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/leeja | The concept of constitutional originalism was invented in the 1970s by Robert Bork and popularized by Antonin Scalia as a backlash to progressive policies of the New Deal and the Warren court. Supreme Court reform now! 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/10/9/originalism-is-a-psyop  🎙️Listen to the podcast version of every episode here: https://www.leejamiller.com/why-america 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/ 📃Sign up for Why, America? The Newsletter for news insights every Friday: https://leejamiller.substack.com

Get your free, 30-second personalized assessment TODAY at https://PDSDebt.com/miller | Christa Pike was awake and talking less than one week after the botched attempt by the state of Tennessee to execute her for the murder of Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Fully 66% of Americans support the death penalty. But what does it mean when a society gleefully entrusts a corrupt state with carrying out murder? 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/10/7/americans-love-the-death-penalty  🎙️Listen to the podcast version of every episode here: https://www.leejamiller.com/why-america 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/ 📃Sign up for Why, America? The Newsletter for news insights every Friday: https://leejamiller.substack.com

Upgrade your closet with Quince. Go to https://www.Quince.com/leeja for free shipping on your next order and 365-day returns. | Trump has spent the last week disseminating propaganda paid for by the US Government and claiming they're all "public service announcements." Is the public service in the room with us? How does this compare to past presidential PSAs and propaganda used by authoritarian governments around the world? 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/9/29/your-tax-dollars-just-paid-for-trumps-propaganda  👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/

💙 Your house. Your family. Your peace of mind. Protect it with my sponsor SimpliSafe. Get 50% off your system at https://simplisafe.com/leeja. There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Thank you SimpliSafe for sponsoring. | On Friday, Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press pool. On Monday, there was no one there to provide audio for his helipad unveiling. CNN, MS NOW, and Politico have sued. What does this all mean for the bigger picture of press freedom under an increasingly authoritarian, TV-obsessed wannabe dictator? 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/9/23/trump-ban-press-boycott 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/

Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code LEEJA at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/leeja | Just a few weeks after the revelation of the OpenAI Hugging Face Incident, an Anthropic researcher has said that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. Anthropic founder Dario Amodei and other leaders have called for a slow down of AI development. Trump and the GOP have no plans to do anything about it. So who IS supposed to save us from the AI apocalypse? 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/9/16/who  🎙️Listen to the podcast version of every episode here: https://www.leejamiller.com/why-america 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/

FREE TOYS OR GIFT CARDS FOR TOYS! Everyone who signs up wins something from Bellesa! https://www.shopbboutique.co/vibe/leejamiller-yt13 #bbpartner | Last week, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the US Constitution does not give the people of Jackson, Mississippi any protection from being lied to about contaminated drinking water, even though some of their children got lead poisoning, which can cause life-long complications. This is just part of the system-wide failure that is impacting not only the people of Jackson but people across the US. 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/9/10/you-dont-have-a-right-to-clean-water  🎙️Listen to the podcast version of every episode here: https://www.leejamiller.com/why-america 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/ 📃Sign up for Why, America? The Newsletter for news insights every Friday: https://leejamiller.substack.com

Get your free, 30-second personalized assessment TODAY at https://PDSDebt.com/miller. | The Trump administration issued new rules last month that would gut Head Start programs across the country. The move is not to empower parents or states, like the regime claims, but instead to eviscerate the only federal program that provides holistic services to impoverished children and their families. Leave your comment before October 6, 2026: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/07/2026-16134/reducing-federal-burden-for-head-start-programs  🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/9/9/maga-hates-children  🎙️Listen to the podcast version of every episode here: https://www.leejamiller.com/why-america 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/ 📃Sign up for Why, America? The Newsletter for news insights every Friday: https://leejamiller.substack.com

Thank you Wildgrain for sponsoring. Visit https://wildgrain.com/leeja30 and use code LEEJA30 at checkout to receive $30 off your first box PLUS free Croissants for life! | Fake polls about the primary elections impacted prediction markets on Kalshi and Polymarket and influenced candidate behavior. Turns out, waging bets on the outcomes of elections is as old as the Republic, but the current digital and disinformation context has some very sinister implications for democracy. 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/9/3/the-coming-kalshi-elections  👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/

Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code LEEJA at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/leeja  | Meta just settled with a group of state Attorneys General for $18 billion dollars and agreed to change some of the features of Instagram and Facebook to try to protect kids and teens. This was seen by many as Meta's Big Tobacco moment, but in reality doesn't do anything to actually hold big tech accountable or help teens in a meaningful way. 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/8/28/the-meta-settlement-isnt-the-victory-you-think-it-is  👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/

Get your free, 30-second personalized assessment TODAY at https://PDSDebt.com/miller. | The US just slapped new 50% tariffs on imports from Canada, and Canada has promised to do the same. This comes on the heels of over a year of Trump threatening to annex Canada as the 51st state in the union. Turns out, Trump is just using a playbook that's older than the republic. 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/8/25/manifest-destiny-includes-canada-too 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/

Go to https://ground.news/Leeja to stay fully informed on US Politics and see all sides of every story. Subscribe through my link for 40% off for unlimited access on the Vantage plan. | A very brief history of US-Cuba relations so you have the context to understand the Trump regime and Marco Rubio and their current Cuba strategy. 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/8/20/why-is-the-us-obsessed-with-cuba  👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/ 📃Sign up for Why, America? The Newsletter for news insights every Friday: https://leejamiller.substack.com 0:00 Intro 13:32 Cuba & The Colonies 15:15 Industrialization 18:02 Cuban “Independence” 24:50 The Rise Of A Dictator 28:15 The Rise Of A Revolution 30:19 Cozying Up To The USSR 33:32 A Crisis Unfolds 38:50 The Fall of the Soviets 42:28 Cuba In The 21st Century

BUT FIRST: Primary results in Minnesota and Wisconsin, Karoline Leavitt steps down, Todd Blanche is officially AG, Trump cuts vaccines for kids, droughts and wildfires across the world, ICE wants shock gloves, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo evidence, and a third death at Delany Hall. This is your Friday roundup. Upgrade your closet with Quince. Go to https://www.Quince.com/leeja for free shipping on your next order and 365-day returns. 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/8/14/dhs-spies-on-leftists-gamblers-bet-on-natural-disasters-friday-roundup 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/

Get your free, 30-second personalized assessment TODAY at https://PDSDebt.com/miller. | Marco Rubio just called communists "Enemies of Civilization" and the US State Department and DOJ are on a mission to root out the evil of far-left "terrorist" cells, foreign and domestic. Make no mistake, this is absolutely a new Red Scare. Only time will tell how bad it gets. 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/8/10/the-new-red-scare 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/ 0:00 Intro 10:28 Pre-WWII Context 17:25 Post-WWII Unrest 20:06 The Red Scare Begins 24:50 The Hollywood 10 26:22 The Hiss-Chambers Affair 31:05 Dennis v. US 43:08 Aftermath 48:36 What Do We Do?

But that's okay because we're going to read it together. This document was revolutionary when it was written, and yet it purposely and willfully left out most of the population and declared "liberty" to be an "inalienable right" while the writers owned humans. That stain on our history has, so far, been impossible to completely remove. Get your free, 30-second personalized assessment TODAY at https://PDSDebt.com/miller. 🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/6/30/is-the-us-a-christian-nation 👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller 👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/

A lot of decisions dropped for the final week of the Supreme Court term, some of them better for Trump than others, none of them give me warm fuzzy feelings. We'll discuss birthright citizenship, trans athletes, campaign finance, and more. TLDR: we DESPARATELY need Supreme Court reform! Go to https://ground.news/Leeja to stay fully informed on US Politics and see all sides of every story. Subscribe through my link for 40% off for unlimited access on the Vantage plan. Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/7/2/wtf-just-happened-at-the-supreme-court-this-week-explainer