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“For the first time in a very long time, the President of the United States has reasserted the Monroe Doctrine to keep foreign empires out of our hemisphere,” argues J. Michael Waller, a senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy. “What Trump has done is to expand the Monroe Doctrine to include the CCP as an imperial hostile power that has to be pushed out of the hemisphere.” By capturing Maduro, Waller explains, Trump sent a signal to all of America’s adversaries but first and foremost to communist China. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4qk7Zb9

Antifa is deeply embedded in the federally-funded homeless nonprofit space and also DEI implementation space, says TPUSA Frontlines and Discovery Institute senior journalism fellow Jonathan Choe. “I've been covering Seattle now for the past six years…What I've seen is Antifa in the homeless space, but also in these government nonprofit spaces as well: the areas that focus on DEI implementation, for example; LGBTQ transgender nonprofits…You have this ecosystem… the drug addiction space, all in cahoots with one another.” Choe says Antifa members are thus indirectly accessing large amounts of state and federal funding, as well as funding from big foundations. “That’s what the White House right now is looking at as well: The money trail, the funding from the Tides Foundation, from Open Society's foundation, from Soros… And until that funding network gets dismantled, we're going to see, again, more of the grift, more waste when it comes to federal dollars.” 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3KVOuXa

Much of the homelessness nonprofit industry is not in the business of actually ending homelessness, says TPUSA Frontlines and Discovery Institute investigative journalist Jonathan Choe. Instead, he says a large portion of the sector function as a state and federally-funded multi-billion dollar “cash cow,” he says. And the space has been infiltrated by Antifa members who actually want to perpetuate homelessness—to discredit capitalism, Choe says. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3KVOuXa

Investigative journalist Jonathan Choe: “The homeless are being used and Antifa, the far left activists, they want to keep the tent encampments on America's streets to show that capitalism isn't working.” He says there’s an intersection between Antifa and the homelessness nonprofit space. Antifa members, he says, have infiltrated the multi-billion dollar sector and many of them have day jobs at homelessness nonprofits that receive substantial state and federal money. For years, Choe has been investigating Antifa and the homelessness epidemic in America and has been reporting about Antifa from the front lines. He’s a reporter for Turning Point USA’s Frontlines and a senior journalism fellow at the Discovery Institute. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV:https://ept.ms/3KVOuXa

What shocked Alex Berenson most in his marijuana research was not the psychosis link, but these two things: emerging data on severe heart damage in young users and spikes in high‑speed crashes after legalization. “There's increasing evidence in the last ten years that cannabis and THC…can cause really severe heart damage. There is a link to myocardial infarction, heart attacks, and that link is pretty strong. Now you can find papers that show a 3x increase over a multi-year period, and these are young people,” he says. States that have legalized marijuana use have also seen a lot more high-speed car accidents, directly contradicting the popular belief that cannabis users drive more slowly or cautiously. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3YWXEWo

Journalist and marijuana expert Alex Berenson is convinced that Trump made a mistake with his executive order rescheduling the drug to Schedule III. Jan asked him why: “Cannabis and THC are really good at doing one thing, getting people high. That's what they're good at,” he told me. According to him, they are not useful as pain killers: “You don't find lasting effects of pain relief from cannabis. I think the reason for that is that what cannabis is really good at, what THC is really good at, is enhancing sensation… but if you're in pain, in the long run, enhancing sensation actually is not a good thing for you.” Nor does he think studies show that marijuana is beneficial against cancer and other health conditions. https://rumble.com/v73r1ie-marijuana-does-not-work-as-pain-killer-says-alex-berenson.html

“Definitely he made a mistake,” was Alex Berenson’s unequivocal response when I asked him about President Trump’s executive order regarding the rescheduling of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Berenson is convinced that the move sends the wrong signal: “Do we want to be a society that, in general, encourages drug use?” A former New York Times reporter and now independent journalist, Berenson is the author of “Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence.” According to him, the use of drugs should be stigmatized - including the use of marijuana: “Why wouldn't we want to stigmatize drug use? Why wouldn't we want to stigmatize THC use?” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3YWXEWo

“It’s not about revenge. It is about accountability.” Chloe Cole underwent a double mastectomy at 15 years old. Now, she’s suing Kaiser Permanente and her doctors—not just for herself, but to set a legal precedent that could protect countless children and families, she says. “It's something that has to be illegalized on both the state and federal level, so that no child ever is going to be hurt ever again…We have to go after the manufacturers of the drugs or the medical devices that they are giving to children.” 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/4qAxvZy

This is the harrowing reality of what detransitioners face, says Chloe Cole: “The moment that I detransitioned, I was human garbage to them. I was subhuman even. … They told me: ‘This is all your fault. Don't put this on us. You were the one who said yes, you were the one who wanted this. You were a complete idiot for not knowing that you weren't truly transgender. So don't come crying to us. And you should shut up about this because you might scare somebody out of getting the care that they really need.’ …There were people who were trying to compel me to retransition, people who were trying to tell me to kill myself, even just for the fact that I was going against the dogma.” https://rumble.com/v73nysk-i-was-human-garbage-to-them-chloe-cole-on-the-harrowing-realities-of-detran.html

“The moment that I detransitioned, I was human garbage to them,” says Chloe Cole. At just 12 years old, she began identifying as male and socially transitioning. Soon after came puberty blockers. Then testosterone injections. By 15, an irreversible double mastectomy. Then came the realization: it was all a terrible mistake. When she decided to detransition, the same movement that eagerly encouraged her to transition now treated her as “subhuman,” she says. RFK Jr. has now condemned and announced major new restrictions on these “sex-rejecting” medical procedures. For Chloe and others who have been sounding the alarm for years, it’s a long-overdue turning point—one she calls “incredibly vindicating.” But this is only the beginning, says Chloe, who is now 21. “This doesn't end with bans. We have to go all out and hold everybody who was involved accountable.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4qAxvZy

“If you look at all the various definitions of hate speech across European statute books, none of them agree. No one knows what it is really,” says comedian and writer Andrew Doyle, the author of “Free Speech and Why It Matters.” The concept of hate speech is being used to erode free speech across Europe, Doyle says. “No one can define hate speech. No one knows what it means. … You can't wish away a human emotion with the stroke of a pen. You may as well try and legislate against envy. It doesn't make sense,” he says. Free speech, he says, is never something that’s won, it’s something that needs to be fought for always. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3YNS6NW

The UK's grooming gang scandals is a clear example of the failures of multiculturalism, argues Andrew Doyle. The official Jay Report found an estimated 1,400 children were abused and sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013. Children as young as 11 were trafficked, beaten, and raped by multiple perpetrators, predominantly men of Pakistani heritage. "So great was the fear of being accused of racism, so great was this sense that we have to have community cohesion, that they were willing to allow the mass rape of children to preserve the myth that multiculturalism has been a success," Doyle says. https://rumble.com/v73jeju-andrew-doyle-the-grooming-gangs-scandal-and-the-failures-of-multiculturalis.html

Have we reached the end of wokeism? Comedian and author Andrew Doyle thinks yes—but he believes a new form of authoritarianism will replace it. “Woke is the latest manifestation of the authoritarian impulse that recurs throughout human history…Wokeness was just the latest version of it,” he says. His latest book is titled “The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution.” 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3YNS6NW

Alan Cassels, author of “Selling Sickness,” says his entire view of medicine changed 30 years ago because of one disease: osteoporosis. In the early 1990s, a major pharmaceutical company created a new drug to treat this condition at a time when it was not well understood and there was not a clearly agreed upon definition. Representatives from pharmaceutical companies and doctors convened at the WHO and decided which level of bone density ought to be considered “normal.” As a result, some 50 percent of the female population over 70 now would be considered to have osteoporosis. They effectively “medicalized normal aging of the basically entire female population. Overnight,” he says. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3YFlxBN

“American medicine is on steroids,” says drug policy researcher Alan Cassels, co-author of “Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients.” America is one of only two countries that allow direct-to-consumer drug advertising, which works in two ways: it exposes millions of Americans to constant disease mongering, and it makes mainstream media heavily reliant upon pharma ad dollars. This then affects editorial decisions in the newsroom, he says. And this explains why few Americans know the story of the pain reliever drug Vioxx, Cassels says. This is the story he told me: “I did this little experiment with friends of mine a few months ago. I went to a reunion of a bunch of old Navy buddies… We're in our 60s, successful businessmen. Some are doctors, some are lawyers. And I asked them: ‘You guys ever heard of the term Vioxx?’ And they said: ‘What's that? Vioxx?’’ I said: ‘Have you ever heard of the Vietnam War?’ ‘Oh, yeah, of course… everyone's heard of the Vietnam War.’’ ‘’Did you know that Vioxx, which was a major pharmaceutical in the early 2000s, was taken by hundreds of thousands of Americans and killed 60,000 Americans in three years from excess heart attacks and strokes? The Vietnam War took 12 years of American involvement to kill about 60,000 Americans. So Vioxx did in three years what took the Viet Cong 12 years in terms of killing Americans.” And what was so astonishing about this is that this is…the biggest drug disaster probably in our lifetime, and these guys hadn't ever heard of it.” https://rumble.com/v73e7ma-how-a-pain-reliever-killed-as-many-americans-in-3-years-as-the-vietnam-war-.html

“We get a lot of inappropriate over-prescribing for almost everything,” argues drug policy researcher Alan Cassels. He’s the co-author of “Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients.” For Cassels, it was one disease in particular that changed his entire view of medicine: osteoporosis. Based on arbitrarily changing definitions of the disease, large swaths of Americans could suddenly be declared sick and in urgent need of drug treatment. “What you ended up doing is you medicalized normal aging of the basically entire female population. Overnight.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3YFlxBN

For years, Rob Schneider has met and heard from parents of severely autistic children in America who say their children were injured by vaccines: “I met people—parents who knew that their kids were fine. And as young children, they were actually meeting the markers or exceeding them. And then they got a series of shots that was required to go to school, and then the kids were never the same again. …I saw 18-year-olds, 19-year-old kids who had lifelong problems and were still in diapers with horrible gut issues and [were] violent. …Their kids were fine, and then all of a sudden, they were not fine.” 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3KSt6C1

The "Reagan" biopic took nearly 20 years to make. The first director passed away before filming began. So Joseph brought on Sean McNamara in 2016. It was one of the few major motion pictures to film during the height of the pandemic. "My co-producer, John Sullivan, came to me and said…'Should we wait till it's over with or just shoot? And I thought about it for a second. I had friends dying on me. I thought: 'If I died almost making this movie after 18 years, I'd be pretty pathetic.' So I thought: let's just go." Then came more obstacles: CDC-mandated shutdowns; an actor's strike that stopped filming for months; special effects companies overseas disrupted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and investors backing out and threatening to cancel the film. Producer Mark Joseph tells the incredible tale in his memoir "Making Reagan." I sat down with him at @TPUSA's #amfest2025 conference. Stay tuned for the full episode!

"This treatment is not affirming anything but these children's misgivings about who they really are, their confusion, their normal adolescent discomfort that, frankly, everybody goes through." ChloeCole reacts to HHS Gov Secretary Bobby Kennedy's recent comments about "gender-affirming" care: "I just love how he lays out how destructive this is and how he says, this is not medicine, but malpractice. This is what the children who have been harmed and regret this…have been waiting to hear for years." And to finally hear this—our concerns being echoed by the federal government—is incredibly vindicating." I sat down with her @TPUSA's #amfest2025 conference. Stay tuned for the full episode!

Comedian Rob Schneider and Charlie Kirk had planned to go and speak at Berkeley together again, in the fall of 2025. After Charlie was assassinated, he went alone. “I asked him over the summer. I said, ‘Let's do another university. It was so fun, and it was fun because you had people challenging us. To be a vibrant society, we must be able to be challenged. We’ve got to challenge ourselves. And as the great Andrew Doyle says, we must challenge our certainties. …I went alone after his murder, and I went with his mentor, Frank Turek, and there was a group of people at Berkeley who rioted outside and set off tear gas and devices that sounded like gunfire, threw things, spit at people.” 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3KSt6C1