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Michigan republicans elected former Ambassador Pete Hoekstra as the new state Chairman in a contentious bid to replace Kristina Karamo. As we see from that opening video she says all the right things but what was wrong with her? Former President Donald Trump said in an endorsement statement “I look forward to working with Ambassador Pete Hoekstra as Chairman of The Republican Party of Michigan. He is a winner who was a GREAT Congressman from Michigan and, likewise, did a fantastic job as Ambassador to the Netherlands. Pete will make The Republican Party of Michigan GREAT AGAIN.” Former Presidential candidate Perry Johnson said “This is incredible news for the MIGOP. Pete Hoekstra has the knowledge, wisdom, and political acumen to take us across the finish line both during the primary and general elections that will take place later this year.” My guest today is Perry Johnson. Mr. Johnson is a self-made businessman who has created more 80 companies worldwide after he developed the quality control methodology that helped save the American auto industry.

There is a truck convoy on the Southern border right now organized under the name of Take Our Border Back. On their website they say the “Southern border convoy is a 3-state Rally. Call for peaceful assembly and prayer, calling all active & retired law enforcement and military, Veterans, Mama Bears, elected officials, business owners, ranchers, truckers, bikers, media and law abiding, freedom-loving Americans. They say the time is now for we the people to peacefully assemble in honor of our u.s. constitution and bill of rights. to call on our government to act for we the people and secure our southern border.” I don’t disagree with them and pray the Mayorkas impeachment is successful, having passed out of committee last night. Our national security is at very high risk given 10s of thousands of military aged males from adversary countries have illegally crossed our southern border under sleepy joe biden. Today we get some reporting from the border because my guest today is Dr Randy Arrington, a former Deputy Director for the Department of Homeland Security Maritime operations and retired US Navy Commander.

We saw the Declaration for Military Accountability release on January 1st 2024 by military citizens demanding accountability in our government but before that, the Re-declaration of Independence effort started in the fall of 2023. From their website “The Re-Declaration of Independence is a national petition for Representative accountability. We are officially petitioning our government and it’s representatives for redress. Our Elected Representatives have failed “We the People” and The Washington, D.C. Establishment, have become “the Men of King George”. We citizens, of these United States are now pawns in the Washington, D.C. empire scheme, much as the American Colonies had become vassal states to the British Empire. Sadly, history DOES repeat itself, especially for those who ignore its teachings. It’s time to recommit to the vows of Liberty that our Founders took 250 years ago. Only through a collective effort backed by millions of Liberty Loving Americans, can we hope to peacefully guide America back to its Founding Values by forcing change in our representation.” My guest today is the primary drafter of the re-declaration Barry Hinckley. "Barry" Hinckley is a great grandson of Colonel James Barrett, Commander of the Minute Men who engaged the British in 1775 at the North Bridge in Concord, Ma. Coincidently he was born on April 18th, the day the riders left Boston to alert the Minute Men. He is also a software entrepreneur, having co-founded Bullhorn Software. Barry was a former US Senate Candidate from Rhode Island vs Sheldon Whitehouse. Barry has been active in pursuing limited government and constitutional values since the Tea Party Movement in Boston in 2008, which though much maligned by the mainstream media, in hindsight predicted much of the problems our nation is facing today.

General Minihan took a lot of heat, as did those of us who agreed with his approach, for having the audacity to actually order his forces to prepare for war with China over the Taiwan issue. Well it turns out he may have been wrong, but only about the year China would move. As dawn broke this morning in the United States, breaking news reporting revealed China has stationed four warships around the island nation. Taiwan’s recent election of a pro-independence president is a big potential trigger point for China’s President Xi to move forward quickly and take Taiwan by force. China’s alliance with Iran and Russia, strengthened in the last two years by our own decisions pushing them closer together over the Ukraine war, could be the reason why increasing pressure by Iranian forces in the middle east is ramping up on the US and her allies through the attacks on US forces since Oct 7 2023. I said at the time of Minihan’s memo that I thought China would move earlier than 2025 in order to avoid having a President Trump in office and it looks like 2024 might just be the year. Friend of the show retired Army Colonel John Mills has spent the last few weeks in Taiwan and joins us today to discuss what we will be seeing from China if they are going to invade Taiwan this year.

This from the Epoch Times: “Retired Army Officer Says He Was Barred From Publicly Recognizing ‘Woke’ Policies Are Harming Recruitment. The Pentagon is aware of how progressive policies are contributing to the U.S. Army’s falling short of its recruiting goals, but those on the inside are prohibited from publicly acknowledging this, according to a recently retired Army major. More than a year after replying on behalf of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command to an inquiry from The Epoch Times about the Army’s recruitment struggles, retired Maj. Charles “Chase” Spears reached out again. Mr. Spears wanted to share an unbridled explanation of the state of recruiting in the Army, which finished 2023 with 55,000 new recruits, significantly short of the 65,000 it had aimed for in the fiscal year. Barred from speaking about these issues, Mr. Spears said he was “disappointed” and “frustrated.” He often wondered whether there was “an ulterior motive” for denying him the ability to share the information. Mr. Spears and his family had planned for him to fulfill a 30-year career, but in October 2022, he chose to retire after two decades of service. Now a Doctoral Candidate at Kansas State University, Spears dissertation is studying the reality of the military as a political entity. Former US Army Recruiting Command Spokesman and Major Chase Spears is also a signatory of the Declaration of Military Accountability is my guest today.

Since January First of 2024 when we saw a new generation of Americans decide to take a stand and live up to the values and actions of our founding fathers when the American people were sent an open letter with the Declaration of Military Accountability more reasons why we need military accountability revealed themselves. The Secretary of Defense broke policy and the law by not advising the President he was in the hospital, military leadership is going after whistleblowers on the vaccine injury data again, and news articles openly advocating the military disobey lawful orders if Donald Trump is re-elected President are just a few examples. We must all be passionate about the DMA effort because this single institution, the US military, is the core of everything that is a free America. If it remains blindly following partisan political ideologies instead of serving and defending our constitution, the country is lost. Today my guest is a signer and co-author of the declaration too. Former US Army LTCOL and battalion commander Brad Miller who resigned from the service within months of reaching retirement eligibility.

January First of 2024 saw a new generation of Americans decide to stand up and live up to the values and actions of our founding fathers. The American people were sent an open letter with the Declaration of Military Accountability attached. The declaration is signed by 231 active, retired, and former members of the US Armed Forces who are calling for a return to accountability in the institution we serve, the Department of Defense and our services. Yes, I said we because I am a signatory of the declaration and proud of it. Our view is to reflect on the founders’ values and ask the American people to step up and demand military accountability because we have exhausted all internal attempts at remedies for holding the senior officers and enlisted members accountable for their actions in issuing and enforcing illegal orders, especially through the illegal COVID-19 vaccine mandate on the armed forces by President Joe Biden. We are passionate about our effort because this single institution, the US military is the core of everything that is a free America. If it remains blindly following partisan political ideologies instead of serving and defending our constitution, the country is lost. Today my guests are both signers of the declaration too. Former US Army 1Lt Mark Bashaw was court martialed for his efforts to keep leadership on the narrow path of honor and fidelity to the law, former US Army Drill Sergeant John Delarm, who was forced out of the service within two years of reaching retirement, as was Lt Bashaw.

Prior to October 7th 2023, claims of rising antisemitism in the United States in my opinion were generally blamed on what I called a mythical “white supremacy” because the publicly available data just didn’t seem to support the claim. I was right but only in one aspect because since Oct 7 we have seen ant-semitic acts increase dramatically, with students and families being accosted in public places, both verbally and physically. You see where I was wrong was with white supremacy, the issue isn’t “white supremacists” as we traditionally think about them, you know, neo-Nazi’s, the KKK etc, but with a very diverse coalition of people of color and white liberal extremists. The striking thing is that we knew about Islamic antisemitism and the others, but the underlying support by white liberals we now see fully supporting the atrocities of Hamas, has exposed a reality in America catching a lot of folks by surprise. They shouldn’t be surprised though because even groups like the Anti-defamation league and elite universities like Harvard, have actively spread the propaganda and indoctrinated their members/students for decades. So much so that publicly threatening, attacking, and shaming Jewish people is now seemingly the norm among our younger generation today. My guest today is Dr Andrew Bostom, author of The Legacy Of Islamic Antisemitism.

Lawfare is an aggressive use of the justice system to suppress information, intimidate citizens, and interfere with legitimate public processes such as an election. The United States government is practicing it on steroids as we see the Department of Justice continuously go after Donald Trump in the middle of his presidential campaign, It is so blatant that the Special Prosecutor is openly trying to align trial dates with major primary dates. Not surprising, many of these so-called attorneys don’t even know the constitution they say they are defending. Doj isn’t working alone though, the Department of Homeland Security is actually practicing a form of lawfare against every American citizen by its abuse of immigration laws on the books to bring in millions of illegal aliens, destroying America’s shared cultural values and burdening government assistance systems while not getting enough benefits to Americans in a timely manner, such as homeless veterans. We’re excited to have as our guest former US DOJ Double Assistant Attorney General and Center For Renewing America Senior Fellow Jeff Clark.

Congress extended the FISA plus Section 702 law attacking American's 4th Amendment rights and a new poll shows 73% of military veterans think the DoD is politicized in favor of leftist Marzist critical theory policies. We're in big trouble.

Truer words have never been said. We’ve seen big breaking news this week around the country that are continuations of the crazy long narratives pushed by those who hate America, especially in the case of the Democrat operative who was murdered during the 2016 presidential campaign. Hamas atrocity supporters right here in America rioted in New York City last night, days ago propagandized American atrocity supporters outed themselves at an Oakland city council meeting, and of course American media tried its latest to “Nick Sandmann” a little native American boy and we’re talking about it all with our friend Matt Couch, who is likely the most knowledgeable person about the Seth Rich case alive!

With these letters hitting former service members who were kicked out of the military hitting inboxes, they’re sounding off about them and it is not good. The US military is in big trouble because American military leadership has lost all of its moral courage and betrayed its oath to support and defend the US Constitution. While we’re on this path we face big national security challenges and much of them are our own doing. We’re hearing rumors of a long sought after US-lead peacekeeping force in Gaza and the confusion caused by US soldiers holding Communist Chinese Flags welcoming President Xi to San Francisco just to name a few. Trust in our military leadership is at an all-time low, a fact that only surprises those with their political blinders on it seems. Retired US Army veteran San Shoemate, who has made it his business to do investigative journalism and help blow the whistle on military leadership shenanigans joins me today.

We are hearing a lot about intelligence failures today because of the thinking about why the Hamas terrorists were able to pull off their war crimes on October 7th. It is important we all understand what these are all about because, right or wrong, they have and will continue to have an impact on whether US domestic and international policy is both correct and or effective. Leading examples are the focus of US and allied intelligence resources on areas of the world that can lead us all to take our eye off the ball in other, more important areas, and then there is the use of scarce domestic intelligence resources to focus on Americans like those that protested on January 6th 2021 to the exclusion of the influx of illegal alien groups such as the unusual numbers of Chinese military aged males that have made it through the US Southern border. Citizens of the western democracies are catching on and starting to elect leaders who will address illegal and legal immigration such as Geert Wilder’s recent success in the Netherlands.

The Israel Hamas war is paused to allow release of hostages from Gaza. Israel prepares for continued offensive operations and says they will resume after the pause to achieve their goal of eliminating the Hamas threat. Iranian militia forces continue attacking US bases and from Yemen trying to capture ships related to Israel plus have now fired medium range ballistic missiles at US warships operating to prevent them after they captured some Houthi terrorists who attempted the latest hijacking. Meanwhile Russian forces in Ukraine are conducting offensive operations along the lines of control and making gains. Finally, it doesn’t look like anything that happened at the recent APEC conference in San Francisco established any kind of deterrence of the Chinese Communist Party’s goal to re-unify Taiwan with the mainland, even by force if necessary.

Seems like every day I see more government propaganda media outlets try to say the Bidenomics economy is great but the facts just don’t lie. The reason Americans think Joe Biden sucks at handling things like inflation is because he does. He can’t hide high fuel prices and grocery prices from us when we see the impacts every day. If we spend $400 a month on groceries but only get half of what that bought a year ago, inflation is through the roof folks. Government propaganda is affecting every aspect of our society negatively from the economy to the military.

Autism now affects 1 in 36 children, according to the CDC. This is a staggering statistic, especially when reflecting on the adage that "our children are our future". This is undoubtedly an epidemic as the prevalence of this disorder continues to increase at an alarming rate. If the current trajectory continues 1 in 12 children will be diagnosed in 2030. The health of the next generation is an obstacle that our society has to face head on. Over 2 million parents have heard the words 'Your child has autism' this past year, and along with this diagnosis comes the unfortunate misconception that there is no hope for those on the spectrum. However, every year many remarkable parents, practitioners, and doctors reveal incredible breakthroughs in alternative treatments and therapies proving that this is not a hopeless diagnosis. One Mother in particular, Air Force veteran Tracy Slepcevic, is leading the charge in the autism community. She recently released her bestselling book "Warrior Mom" providing guidance to parents with newly diagnosed children. Tracy, as the Dad of an autistic teenager, welcome to the Rob Maness Show!

Speaker Mike Johnson just announced he will release over 40K hours of the January 6th videos, potentially blowing open the government and media narrative of “insurrection” but the political warfare against Trump supporters and the former president himself rages on. As with the J6 videos, there are some surprise victories in the courts recently such as the New York Fraud Case judge’s gag order being shut down, but the deck is stacked against the truth and justice. This war is a real existential threat to what is left of our democratic Republic

America First is a winning set of ideas in politics and government. The America First republican base had its greatest victory yet when we fired Kevin McCarthy and constitutional conservative Mike Johnson was elected speaker. In another big victory, veteran JR Majewski is back in the congressional race for the Ohio 9th district against leftist Marcy Kaptur after being derailed by her and establishment republicans in 2022 using lies about his military service. However, the Uni-Party fights back so we need adequate plans to defend our victories!

Fired speaker of the house Kevin McCarthy continues to stick to his Chinese Communist Party linked donor Sequoia Capital, influence members to vote against the American people such as the recent Mayorkas impeachment vote, and now is even physically assaulting a colleague who helped oust him as speaker! Many America First voters say its time for him to be primaried and removed from Congress in general because of his apparent focus on America last! Big news, he now has an America First opponent!

The United States and Iran relationship has a long term historical place in both governments and it hasn’t always been adversarial like it is today. Unfortunately chants of death to America and that America is the Great Satan can still be heard in the Iranian parliament, a body completely controlled, like the rest of the Iranian government, by Shia Muslim Mullahs led by the Ayatollah. The Iranian government is known to be behind Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Iranian militias across Syria, Iraq and the rest of the Middle East and with the more than 60 attacks on US forces by those militias on US forces in Iraq and Syria, is doing everything it can to widen the war beyond Gaza and to pull the US into it.

This weekend’s emergency Arab summit in Saudi Arabia (which included NATO Member Turkey, Iran and Syria) rejected Israel’s assertion that it’s acting in self-defense; demanded the UN Security Council adopt “a decisive and binding resolution” to halt Israel’s “aggression”; called for an end to weapons sales to Israel; and dismissed any future political solution to the conflict that would keep Gaza separate from the West Bank … the propaganda war continues with its lies because the truth is that Israel is defending itself from atrocity attacks like on October 7th. China continues its efforts to influence the Middle East and build its military strength while threatening Taiwan on the Pacific front, and the Eastern Europe front continues to fail for the west with the non-revelation of our involvement in the Nordstream bombing and continued signs of Russia strengthening its forces and positions in the combat zone.

Americans are languishing in prison on unwarranted decades long sentences in many cases because of the big lie calling January 6, 2021, an insurrection. These Americans are being treated worse than how we treat our prisoners of war in Guantanamo Bay (GITMO) from years long imprisonment before trial for offenses like trespassing to being thrown in solitary confinement for many months is in some cases. While their treatment is abhorrent, the fact the BIG LIE persists and is not being seriously challenged even by a Republican controlled House of Representatives, is truly a grave threat to the Republic.

That’s the tranifesto finally revealed, at least partially, by Steven Crowder. The Nashville trans terrorist, in her own words, tells us she was well trained, developed an operational plan, and coldly murdered Christian children and school workers in a professionally executed terrorist attack. Its important to note we don’t have it all yet, but we will eventually. Obviously she was motivated by a deep hatred of white people, Christians, and wealthy people. These are the same motivations of the Hamas supporters we’ve seen attack the White House and various other targets since October 7th. Just yesterday we saw news that a pro-Hamas protestor attacked and killed a 65 year old Jewish man attending a pro-Israel rally in Los Angeles California. Most Americans don’t even believe we have real elections anymore and are very concerned with the internal threat the 12 million illegal aliens who’ve come into our country since Biden came into office represents. We are witnessing the collapse of American civil society right before our eyes and almost every conversation these days seems to turn to the question: what are we to do about it?

We have achieved peace through strength before, but can we again? In an oped published on October 17th, President Donald J. Trump said “Every step of the way, Joe Biden has empowered and emboldened America's enemies the world over—and clearly none more so than the terrorist group Hamas, and their bloodthirsty sponsor, the villainous regime in Iran. When I left office, Iran was weak, broke, and desperate to make a deal. I told other nations, including China, that if you buy oil from Iran, you can't do business in the United States. Virtually all complied. Iran's terrorist regime was careening toward bankruptcy, hemorrhaging money, and could barely pay the salaries of their radical Islamic thugs. I hammered Iranian oil exports down to a record low. But then Biden came in, loosened my sanctions, and today Iran is producing more than three million barrels a day. Iran went from making little money under me to raking in at least $80 billion a year under Biden. Iran knew that Biden was soft, foolish, and able to be pushed around the very moment he assumed office.” Now we are truly on the precipice of facing two major regional conflicts (MRCs), Europe and the Middle East, and with China observing from the wings, a real possibility of World War 3. Our current armed forces are not resourced for more than one MRC and to fight against terrorism.

That’s right, our best Americans are more than willing to speak truth to power. We even have tools today such as X, the platform formerly known as twitter, to speak directly to the powerful. Those in positions of power are either unwilling or intentionally ignoring our warnings. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Milley displays the arrogance of a senior official with power that leads to government downfalls. He rants about being offended for being called on the carpet by our elected representatives because West Point is using Marxist indoctrination to infect the minds of our future Army officers, an existential threat to our Republic. He uses the false narrative of insurrection about January 6th to justify this Marxist indoctrination and proves he is just another useful idiot of the Marxist infiltrators. He ignores our warnings as he defends policies that he knows are hurting our armed forces and the nation.