Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

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What is Really Behind the Fall of the West Aug 26, 2026

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Why does it feel like the West is embracing degeneracy in all of our institutions? Art, education, politics? And why do the targets of this degeneracy keep getting younger and younger? Seth Gruber explains in this discussion about his new film, Last Stand: Christ or Chaos The Last Stand - https://thelaststand.com/ The White Rose Resistance - https://thewhiterose.life/ 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 – Seth Gruber and The Last Stand 02:29 – Christians forgot who they used to be 12:47 – Why these aren't separate issues 14:16 – Caligula's child brothel, and the lust to dominate 21:16 – What their slogan is actually quoting 23:21 – Rewriting good and evil in your own image 32:33 – Why the left keeps rewriting Genesis 36:22 – Wilhelm Reich and the revolutionary structuring of the child 41:19 – The bill I wrote that the teachers union fought 47:53 – Objectification always leads to commodification 51:07 – So what do we actually do about it? 56:38 – Making the local church a threat to evil again 1:01:48 – Learning to love and hate correctly

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Trump Just Declared Economic War on Canada Aug 25, 2026

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Trade deal talks between the US and Canada just collapsed, and Mark Carney has confirmed that the two countries are in a trade war. Many Canadian politicians are now threatening to cut off energy flowing into the US, but there’s just one problem. Doing so would cripple more than half of Canada too. 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 – Trump declares a trade war on Canada 01:58 – What tariffs are actually good for 05:48 – Canada wants the benefits of being a US State, without being one 08:58 – Why this is really about China and Iran 11:07 – Luxury beliefs, and who pays for them 15:22 – Why tariffs don't make a country richer 20:40 – What's actually being tariffed 23:33 – How Chinese steel becomes a North American car 30:01 – Ontario threatens to cut off the energy 32:09 – The pipeline they cancelled, and the leverage they lost 41:19 – How long until somebody flinches? 44:01 – The demand that actually broke the talks 48:47 – The conversation Canada didn't want to have 57:23 – Why everyone is waiting on the midterms

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Anne Hathaway Wants to Destroy Western Civilization Aug 24, 2026

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Excerpts from a speech by Anne Hathaway are making the rounds in both leftist and conservative circles, and I was asked to do a response video. In this episode, I break down all of the problems with Hathaway's statements, the dangerous ideologies behind her nice-sounding words, and equip you with the information and arguments you need to combat this nice-sounding but deeply evil and destructive ideology. 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 – Answering the Hathaway speech that keeps resurfacing

01:29 – "It takes zero courage to love you"

06:46 – Why she keeps calling everything a myth

10:33 – Her central claim, and why it's backwards

14:37 – The seatbelt ad that explains the whole thing

16:54 – Reading the whiteness checklist out loud

19:59 – Where these ideas actually came from

25:26 – Would she give this speech in Tehran?

28:55 – The Marxist turn, and her $80 million

32:26 – She's asking for the Christian framework she rejects

35:45 – "Love is love" is not a definition

40:23 – Freud, Marx, and where this ideology comes from

48:24 – Not love, but a revolutionary agenda

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The Real Reason 1 in 3 Americans Are Cutting Off Their Family Aug 21, 2026

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People are more willing to cut off a family member for voting the wrong way than for committing a serious, violent crime. What is actually causing this? 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 – 38% of adults are estranged from family

04:24 – What used to be enough to cut off family

07:09 – Why siblings cut each other off the most

13:28 – Liberals, Gen Z, and the political violence overlap

16:19 – Why your family gets less grace than strangers

20:22 – Social media, clout, and the empowered victim

22:41 – Therapy culture, and what "trauma-informed" really means

28:56 – Reddit's advice went from "talk to them" to "end it"

33:18 – We were debating, they were diagnosing

36:30 – Why leaving each other alone was never going to work

43:24 – The words that end a conversation before it starts

52:09 – What parents can actually do about it

1:00:40 – The prodigal son, and why the father doesn't chase

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The Real Reason a Mother Who Killed Her Three Kids Became a Martyr Aug 20, 2026

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A woman strangles her three children — a five-year-old, a three-year-old, and an eight-month-old baby — with exercise bands in her basement. And right now, there is a national movement campaigning for her to walk free. Not “hoping she gets help.” Not “praying for the family.” Freeing her. Her name is Lindsay Clancy. The hashtags are #FreeLindsay and #FreeHer. And the question this case forces you to answer isn’t whether she’s guilty — she did it, and nobody disputes it — it’s why a society that would burn a father alive for the exact same crime is organizing to make a mother into a martyr. That answer has nothing to do with the law, and everything to do with how we’ve been trained to see women. Let me show you what’s actually happening in that courtroom. 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 “NICK40” to get $40 off!

00:00 – Trying to understand the outpouring for Lindsay Clancy 04:40 – Where sympathy is legitimate, and where it isn't 05:50 – Hormones, and thirteen psychiatric medications 10:01 – The journal entries millions of mothers recognize 15:22 – Why the "husband did it" theory has nothing behind it 21:12 – The problem with the insanity defense 25:23 – Why the defense keeps the jury away from the act 28:15 – A culture that teaches women men are the threat 30:26 – The women calling this out are conservative women 35:16 – Reading the thread, and where I don't agree with it 43:24 – Men and women aren't strong in the same ways 48:09 – What we should actually be investigating 53:53 – This isn't just a TikTok phenomenon 1:03:19 – Your standard for truth is the real dividing line

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The Left’s Golden Boy Just Lost to a Socialist — Here’s Why It Matters Aug 19, 2026

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The Florida Primaries are over, and there was a major upset. The well-financed and heavily favored Eugene Vindman LOST to DSA underdog Angie Nixon, who was out-fundraised 13 to 1! And in Florida of all places…what does this mean for the general election? 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 “NICK40” to get $40 off! SPONSOR: Good Ranchers Good Ranchers partners with local American farmers to deliver 100% American meat straight to your door: pasture-raised, no antibiotics, no added hormones. Most grass-fed beef in grocery stores is actually imported, but with Good Ranchers you know exactly where your food comes from and you are backing American ranchers. Right now new subscribers get $50 off plus double the free meat with every order. Use code NICK for $50 off plus double the free meat at https://www.GoodRanchers.com/discount/NICK ----- GET YOUR MERCH HERE: https://shop.nickjfreitas.com/ BECOME A MEMBER OF THE IC: https://NickJFreitas.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickjfreitas/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NickFreitasVA Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickJFreitas YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Nickjfreitas TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nickjfreitas3.0 00:00 – The DSA candidate who beat a $16 million machine 02:19 – Angie Nixon, the pink bullhorn, and the DSA platform 04:18 – The campaign math that says this shouldn't have happened 07:32 – DeSantis won by 0.4%, then governed like he won big 15:30 – When the left tells people not to move to your state 19:51 – From D+327,000 to R+1.5 million 23:47 – Your job isn't to make Democrats less angry at you 28:58 – The DSA are the logical end of everything Maher said 38:57 – Corey Mills and the military service integrity test 41:37 – Randy Fine, Bilzerian, and the edgelord problem 44:44 – Fishback won 10% and every college campus 55:00 – You're running for governor of Florida, not Rumble 1:02:25 – Model DeSantis, and primary the squishes

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The Real Reason You Can't Afford a House…or anything else Aug 18, 2026

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The data says young people were sold one deal and delivered another. "Do well in school, work hard, follow the rules, climb the ladder — and the American Dream is yours." Then the number that makes the lie undeniable: the suicide rate for Americans aged 10–24 rose 62% from 2007 to 2021. Not because they're soft. Because the deal was renegotiated behind their backs — in 1971. 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 “NICK40” to get $40 off!

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00:00 – The system is rigged, just not the way socialists say 03:43 – The same economy priced in dollars, then in gold 09:54 – This isn't because you go to Starbucks too much 16:22 – What happens to men with nothing left to build 20:12 – Every chart breaks in the same year 23:25 – Nixon, the French battleships, and the end of gold 28:40 – From 20 hours of work per share to 185 42:16 – Keynes on how to destroy a country quietly 51:28 – The dollar milkshake: it breaks by getting too strong 1:00:04 – Restoring sound money, and the pain it brings 1:05:47 – Rebuilding without central planners 1:14:26 – How my daughter bought her first house at 21 1:19:10 – You are not powerless

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JD Vance’s Dollar Bombshell: Is America’s Reserve Currency Actually a Curse? Aug 17, 2026

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There’s a political firestorm swirling about past comments from JD Vance about how the Dollar being the world’s reserve currency might actually be hurting America. This immediately caused a huge blowup. But is Vance actually right? 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 “NICK40” to get $40 off!

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00:00 – Why the right is tearing itself apart over the dollar 06:06 – The 33 seconds that started the whole fight 14:21 – The trap built into being the world's money 17:29 – France came for the gold, and Nixon had no choice 21:26 – Why fiat money is the problem nobody wants to name 22:41 – When the right straw-mans its own side 29:15 – Where Vance is wrong: the economy is not a tool 33:46 – Free markets need guardrails — but whose? 36:52 – What Friedman would actually tell Vance 42:38 – What being the world's reserve currency really costs 47:14 – Paying the mortgage by selling off the farm 53:01 – You'll get back to sound money one way or another 55:11 – If the right won't explain this, the left will 59:48 – The people will break before the system does

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This Man Defeated Hundreds of Bad Republicans Aug 14, 2026

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What if I told you your frustration with bad Republicans was something you could solve and it’s far easier than you think? Today’s guest has personally been involved in a mission that has already resulted in over 270 genuine liberty-loving Conservatives getting elected, with hundreds of them replacing weak Republican incumbents…so If you are demoralized and have been wondering what we can do to actually take our country back, not just form woke socialists but our own feckless Republicans…todays show is your answer… and we know it works.

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00:00:00 How Conservatives Can Take Back the Republican Party

00:03:58 The Elections Republicans Are Completely Ignoring

00:07:05 How Flipping One State House Changes Everything

00:15:19 Stop Wasting Money on Losing Republican Campaigns

00:19:44 The 2,200 Seats Nobody Is Fighting For

00:21:28 Why Door Knocking Beats TV Ads and Mailers

00:23:27 The Secret Power of Face-to-Face Campaigning

00:27:36 How Door Knockers Saved a Republican Campaign

00:29:16 Why Primary Elections Can Be Won at the Door

00:30:04 One Knock Can Turn a Voter Into a Supporter

00:31:01 Why Most Republican Door-Knocking Campaigns Fail

00:35:05 The Strategy That Helped Trump Win Pennsylvania

00:36:52 How to Find Candidates Who Will Actually Fight

00:43:17 Conservatives Need a Stick AND a Carrot

00:48:44 Don’t Let Political Demoralization Turn Into Apathy

00:52:50 How Conservatives Can Get Involved and Win

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Who is to Blame for the Dating Crisis? Aug 13, 2026

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Why does the dating market suck, and why are marriage and fertility rates down?… Well, by the time a boy in this country turns 18, he has already been suspended twice as often, diagnosed with a learning disability three times as often, and told none of it matters because he’s a boy. For 30 years we’ve been told the story that men are the problem - they’re immature, they’re not stepping up. The data says something almost nobody’s willing to say out loud: the men are reading the numbers correctly, and the story is the lie.

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00:00:00 The Dating Crisis Hitting Young Men Hardest