NEW EPISODE · MAY 28, 2026 · EP 534
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Vol. V · No. 534Friday Edition
Righteous MediaSince 1776. Est. 2019

KBLA: Tavis Smiley – Paul Rieckhoff sounds off on Hegseth’s rhetoric

The Brief

→ Four things from today’s episode
01

What it felt like to receive the Lifetime Achievement Emmy w. What it felt like to receive the Lifetime Achievement Emmy with journalism under attack

02

Martha's advice to her younger self. and to the local reporter she shouted out from the stage

03

Why the 2012 VP debate she moderated put foreign policy back. Why the 2012 VP debate she moderated put foreign policy back on the map

04

The propaganda Pentagon press corps. no embeds, no access, 50,000 troops in the dark

Paul Rieckhoff, host of the “Independent Americans” podcast and founder of Independent Veterans of America and Righteous Media, Inc., gives his assessment about the implications of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s dangerous rhetoric for the historic military leadership only meeting.