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Is JD Vance a Socialist? Sep 10, 2026

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What England Doesn’t Want You to See About Its Own Border Sep 08, 2026

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British police formed a shield wall — not on a beach in France, but on Fort Cumberland Road in Portsmouth, to protect coaches carrying 140 people who just crossed the English Channel. There are big things happening at Blaze, and we'd love for you to join us. You can join now at https://Get.BlazeTV.com/Nick and use promo code “NICK” to get $20 off!

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00:00 – Is England on the Brink of Civil War?

05:08 – More immigration since 1997 than in the previous thousand years

08:05 – The council question nobody wanted to answer

10:48 – Winston Marshall says this is the start of civil unrest

14:09 – What it actually takes to get the UK police moving

17:36 – I'm not advocating for a mudslide, I'm saying one is coming

19:15 – Germany's AfD swept an election, and everyone pretended not to know why

27:56 – I was debating, and they were diagnosing

33:30 – Most populist movements start with a legitimate grievance

40:11 – They asked their government for help and got hate speech laws

46:18 – Asking your government to enforce its own borders is not an illegitimate demand

52:26 – Millions of Brits can vote and don't, because nobody gave them a reason

1:00:02 – Ashamed to associate with the very people you need voting for you

1:07:48 – The American Constitution was written by Englishmen

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What Men Really Want Sep 07, 2026

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The family in the West is in shambles. Here is what will fix it, and it's what men actually want…

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How do you defend Tyler Robinson? Put Charlie Kirk on trial Sep 04, 2026

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The defense just told a courtroom the murdered man was the hateful one - while his widow sat 20 feet away. There are big things happening at Blaze, and we'd love for you to join us. You can join now at https://Get.BlazeTV.com/Nick and use promo code “NICK” to get $20 off!

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America Has 3 Identities & We Forgot One Sep 03, 2026

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Who are the “real” Americans…what does it even mean to be an American? Today we discuss 3 notions of what it means to be an “American”. The legal, historical, and cultural traditions that define a country and people MATTER. But to what degree does each matter, and are there exceptions to certain rules?

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00:00 – Legal, historical, or creedal: what actually makes an American?

02:49 – The JD Vance speech that set the whole thing off

09:25 – Rome was extremely good at assimilation, right up until it wasn't

17:00 – Why the innovation happened here and not somewhere with a head start

23:36 – The actual ten steps to becoming a US citizen

34:32 – The American's Creed that Congress passed in 1918

41:27 – Equality is the word that opened the gates

47:58 – Rugged individualism, with a strong sense of community

52:54 – A founding father already answered this, and he wasn't subtle

58:12 – The 1965 law that changed who comes here

1:04:57 – They came here to build it, not to receive it

1:10:24 – Who I actually count as my countrymen

1:18:49 – Where the English way of living actually came from, 2,000 years back

1:25:32 – If I became French tomorrow, would I understand France?

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A Woman Explains the Lindsay Clancy Psychosis Sep 02, 2026

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Lindsay Clancy strangled her 3 children to death…no one in the trial disputes this, and yet there is an army of women that are supporting HER, not her kids, not her husband…her. What is going on in the “womansphere?”

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00:00 – Where is the sympathy for the three children she strangled?

03:36 – What actually watching the trial did to the SSRI theory

06:07 – She was never diagnosed with postpartum psychosis

09:15 – One burglar you can handle. A hundred is something else.

13:15 – Try holding the modern woman accountable

17:01 – Men have been lied about, women have been lied to

19:26 – Why Satan hates marriage, and why he goes after the children

24:23 – The most important thing isn't that God thinks you're beautiful

33:37 – 70% of young men are conservative. Young women aren't.

35:36 – Men don't realize how much they can change a woman's mind

39:39 – The godly man you're waiting for gets made, and you help make him

43:32 – "I've been watching the trial" means she's been watching TikTok

44:53 – Nothing about this culture takes God by surprise

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Who is Really Behind the Right Wing Civil War? Sep 01, 2026

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The right wing can't stop fighting itself…and now the major question is who gets to decide who is right-wing or conservative…who is woke right? Who is a neocon? Who is a traitor? Well, today we are going to discuss one of the most controversial figures in this entire debate and ask why he is at the center of the right-wing civil war.

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00:00 – One dead German philosopher is tearing the right apart

02:40 – Yes, he was a Nazi. Here's the part people leave out.

09:36 – What infighting in the Weimar parliament actually looked like

14:24 – Germany helped create the Soviet Union, then had to live beside it

18:50 – Why this is different from the Civil War

23:25 – The plan to save the republic by abolishing parliament

30:53 – What Schmitt actually wrote about friends and enemies

35:08 – The Reformation, and what finally stopped the killing

41:41 – Whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat, and where I disagree

50:55 – What "love your enemies" does and doesn't mean

58:47 – Lincoln, habeas corpus, and the sovereign who decides

1:06:30 – The liberal state doesn't abolish sovereignty, it hides it

1:15:50 – Endless discussion is the luxury of those who refuse to decide

1:27:41 – Does Athens stay Athens if the Persians get the vote?

1:32:03 – After Charlie was murdered, I stopped calling it a debate

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Democrats Declared War on Socialism — Only 25 Showed Up Aug 31, 2026

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Inside the Democrat civil war, there are two admissions — the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) say they are redefining the party, and the centrists just proved only 25 Democrats will publicly disagree.

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00:00 – Democratic socialists are quietly capturing city councils across America

04:22 – The moderates finally push back, and nobody shows up to help

09:07 – Carville: don't run on it, don't talk about it, just do it

11:53 – You spent 30 years building this

17:26 – It's never "don't do it," it's "don't talk about it"

20:01 – Where packing the Supreme Court actually ends

26:35 – Yuri Bezmenov's warning, and he gave it in the 1980s

31:00 – The DSA is the left's Tea Party?

33:26 – Sam Francis and the beautiful losers

41:03 – Politics is their God, their family, their country, and their work

47:46 – All you have to do is sign a pledge, and they still won't do it

58:34 – You don't fundamentally change what you love

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How to Save you Kids from the War on Reality Aug 28, 2026

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It seems like every time you turn around, there is another assault on basic common sense. People are looking for answers and, more importantly, looking for guidance on how to help their loved ones and kids navigate a world that is increasingly hostile to reality. In The War on Reality, Frank Turek and his co-author Phoenix Hayes equip you with what you need to know to do just that! The War On Reality - https://thewaronreality.com/ There are big things happening at Blaze, and we'd love for you to join us. You can join now at https://Get.BlazeTV.com/Nick and use promo code “NICK” to get $20 off!

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00:00 – Frank Turek and The War on Reality

07:53 – You're not trying to convince the debater

12:32 – Why the church retreated from the culture

14:19 – There's no First Baptist Church of Tehran

17:48 – Reality does not have pronouns

20:21 – How you know it versus why it's true

26:57 – The oppressor chart, and why Charlie checked every box

29:57 – When "bigot" became "Nazi," violence became self-defense

32:59 – The three things Charlie wanted to talk about

36:56 – Why Marx had to destroy the family

44:05 – What this does to men, and to women

46:10 – Religion isn't enough — it has to be Christianity

59:27 – What Scripture says about false accusation

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My Response to The Right Wing Civil War Aug 27, 2026

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The infighting on the right has reached a point where, if we don’t solve this problem fast, we will destroy ourselves while the left skips to power…so can this division be solved? Christian and I debate. There are big things happening at Blaze, and we'd love for you to join us. You can join now at https://Get.BlazeTV.com/Nick and use promo code “NICK” to get $20 off!

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TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nickjfreitas3.0 00:00 – What The Right's Civil War Is Really About 07:27 – Christian shouldn't have to defend his credentials 14:07 – The internet destroys nuance that survives in person 16:47 – What were pastors doing while Charlie Kirk did their job? 21:58 – The problem with calling everyone "woke right" 32:18 – Karl Popper and the war on truth itself 39:34 – What post-liberals are actually arguing 41:12 – Which constitution are we even talking about? 49:09 – Tribes, patriarchs, and the myth of the social contract 56:28 – What exactly are conservatives conserving? 59:11 – What the founders actually believed about voting 1:03:09 – Freedom isn't freedom from consequences 1:11:37 – No mechanism for an internal enemy 1:16:43 – Cincinnatus, Sulla, and the Roman answer 1:21:29 – My enemy isn't the guy who's 20% different

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