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Vol. V · No. 565Friday Edition
Righteous MediaSince 1776. Est. 2019

Episode 481

Green Beret vs. the Machine

Independent Senate candidate Seth Bodnar — Green Beret, Rhodes Scholar, university president — takes on Montana's MAGA machine and a rigged two-party system that tried to handpick his opponent.

The Brief

→ Four things from today’s episode
01

Ken Burns on why the founders would be shocked not by a stro. Ken Burns on why the founders would be shocked not by a strongman but by a Congress that abdicated Article I

02

The Wounded Knee medals reversal and what Burns calls "obvio. The Wounded Knee medals reversal and what Burns calls "obvious racist editing" of American history

03

Renaming forts back to Confederate generals. traitors, in Burns' words — and the cost of that message

04

Baseball as a barometer of America. immigration, Jackie Robinson, and why every player wears 42 on April 15



Independent Veteran vs MAGA Machine: Seth Bodnar’s Battle for Montana’s Senate. A Green Beret, Rhodes Scholar, university president and business leader, independent Senate candidate Seth Bodnar joins Paul Rieckhoff from Montana for a hard‑hitting, no‑BS conversation about taking on Trump’s MAGA machine, a rigged two‑party system, and the corrupt insider games that tried to handpick his opponent. From filing his campaign minutes before the party bosses pulled a fast one, to why he refuses to “put on a jersey” for either party, Bodnar lays out why Montana—and America—need an independent voice that answers to voters, not party leaders.