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Vol. VII · No. 490Sunday Edition
Righteous MediaEst. 2019

Episode 475

MacFarlane Moves to the Frontlines

The 82nd Airborne deploys to Iran, Trump flashes a classified map en route to golf, and CBS's best investigative reporter jumps to independent media — signaling where democracy's last line of defense really lives.

The Brief

→ Four things from today’s episode
01

Why Trump has become the establishment he ran against. and Indiana voters can feel it

02

The first battle in the war for the soul of the GOP. Trumpists vs. moderates in a Pence stronghold

03

The 40% nobody's talking to. independents locked out of Indiana's closed primary

04

Door-to-door reporting. libertarian-leaning Hoosiers don't want Washington's thumb on the scale



Scott MacFarlane. 82nd Airborne Heads to Iran. Trump Shows Classified Map En Route To Golf. Bannon Calls Ice-Airport Ops Election Test. CBS to Meidas – A Massive Message to the Media. Mullin In at DHS. Meta Fined $375m Over Kids’ Safety. MLB Opening Day.

On opening day of baseball, Independent Americans host Paul Rieckhoff breaks down Trump’s expanding forever war in Iran, new deployments of the 82nd Airborne, and the rising human cost most politicians and media are ignoring. From troops headed into combat zones to ICE crackdowns at airports, Russia’s latest massive drone and missile barrage against Ukraine, tech companies exploiting kids, and a shameless candidate joking about veteran suicide, Paul connects the dots on how Trump’s culture war at home and forever war abroad are making America less safe—and why this is a time to stay vigilant.​

Then, one of the best investigative reporters in America, Scott MacFarlane, returns with breaking insight on January 6th cases, new revelations about Trump allegedly showing a classified map en route to Mar-a-Lago, and what his headline-making move from CBS News to Meidas Touch Network really says about the future of media and democracy. Scott and Paul dig into why independent, enterprising journalism is the last line of defense against disinformation, how legacy TV is collapsing while independent media explodes, and what it means for all of us heading into an election year, a growing war, and a season of political violence risk.