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⚡️NEW⚡️House Finally Votes No on Iran. And Yes on Ukraine. Democrats Have a Graham Platner Problem. Pentagon Hires Jan 6 Insurrectionist. A Soldier Died in Iraq and Nobody Noticed. CBS Fires Scott Pelley. Trump’s UFC Event is Off The Rails. Knicks Win!! It’s a new Thursday Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/UKbl91o32_s  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hou…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4lTaMo…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/independen… The House finally did its job. By a 215-208 vote on the War Powers Act and a 218-204 vote authorizing $8 billion in military financing for Ukraine, Congress this week told Trump no on Iran and yes on Kyiv. It's shamefully overdue, it's mostly symbolic on Iran, and it took a handful of Republicans with actual integrity to make it happen. But on day 1559 of Russia's full-scale invasion, with more than 700 Ukrainian children dead and an American sergeant just killed in a training accident in Iraq that almost nobody noticed, this is the closest thing to good news Washington has produced in months. In this solo briefing, Paul walks through the votes, the cost, and the rot underneath them: a convicted January 6th rioter now assigned to the Pentagon's irregular warfare and counterterrorism section, the firing of Scott Pelley and the slow death of 60 Minutes, the disappearance of Tulsi Gabbard, the UFC turning into a political circus, and the Maine Senate race where Graham Platner's Totenkopf tattoo and a damning New York Times report have Democrats doing their best Biden 2.0 impression. He closes with Karen Lee Matthews' honorable independent run in California's 23rd, a reminder of where TAPs fits in, and why the Knicks winning Game One actually matters for a country that desperately needs something to root for together. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️🏀

Congress FINALLY Votes “No” on Iran. Bessent Told Pulte “I’m Going to Kick His Ass”. And the Danger of the Government and Pulte Having All Your Data. CNN OutFront with Erin Burnett tonight with Van Jones and Rina Shah. Now, go watch the Knicks!🏀🎙️🚨

I brought my boys to CNN tonight. And THIS was the lay out. They hit the cable TV snack lottery! Erin Burnett knows how to make the kids happy. Perfect fuel for the Knicks game. The city is buzzing—and now, so are my kids. Now, we’re ready! LGK.

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Trump caved on a $1.8B slush fund for insurrectionists.

⚡️Is Montana Ground Zero for Independents? From Baghdad to the Ballot: Army Doc Runs for Congress. Independent Veteran for US House in Montana’s 2nd - Michael Eisenhauer. 90 Days In - Is The Iran War Illegal? RFK & Hegseth Unfit for Office? Elk Camps & the Rural Health Care Crisis.  It’s a new Meet The Independent Candidate episode of Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/91mHdXtBefM  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/697PbG…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/independen… The day after Montana's 2026 primary, Paul sits down with Colonel Mike @EisenhauerMT2 — a 25-year Army veteran, Bronze Star recipient, and practicing interventional cardiologist who is now running as an independent for Congress (eisenhauerforcongress.com) in Montana's massive 2nd District. While the Republican incumbent ran unopposed and three Democrats fought over a primary their party hasn't won statewide in decades, Eisenhauer was outside the rigged two-party system entirely, gathering 13,000 verified signatures to earn his spot on the November ballot. This is what it actually takes to break through when the machine is designed to keep you out. The conversation covers the affordability crisis crushing Montana families, the gutting of rural healthcare under the so-called big beautiful bill, the illegal and unauthorized war in Iran, congressional abdication under the War Powers Act, and why Eisenhauer — alongside Green Beret Seth Bodnar's Senate run — may be proof that Montana is ground zero for the independent movement. Paul and Mike also get into RFK Jr., right-to-repair, Trump accountability, the day after a huge primary day, the NBA Finals and why a doctor's diagnostic framework might be exactly what a broken Congress needs.  Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️🩺🫎🐺

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⚡️NEW⚡️A Massive Primary Day. 2.5 Million Independents Shut Out. Trump Drops Plan to Payout Insurrectionists. Brutal Russian Attack Hits Kyiv. Tulsi Gabbard’s Replacement Has No Experience. Mamdani Cancels Bedtime.  It’s a fast and fierce Tuesday Primary Special Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/hee8khLry7s  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-m…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5Fl6ED…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/independen… It's primary day in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota — and depending on your zip code, you either get a real vote or you get told to sit down and shut up. Paul Rieckhoff cuts through the noise on the biggest primary day of the cycle so far, breaking down why California's open primary is what real democracy looks like, why closed primaries in places like New Jersey and New York are a rigged scam dressed up in public money, and why 17 million independents across 16 states are once again being locked out of the elections their taxes fund. He names names: Karen Matthews in CA-23, Seth Bodnar going independent in Montana, Rebecca Bennett taking on the missing-in-action Tom Kean Jr., Deb Haaland in New Mexico, and the partisan hacks — Brad Lander chief among them — who say they love democracy but fight open primaries every step of the way. Then the briefing goes wider. Trump just lost a Senate fight over an outrageous $1.8 billion slush fund to pay out Jan 6th insurrectionists and Oath Keepers — proof that pressure works when even moderate Republicans break ranks. But he's already nominated Bill Pulte, a home-building heir with zero intelligence experience, to replace Gabbard at DNI. Overnight, Russia killed a three-year-old boy in Dnipro after the U.S. delayed air defense missiles to Ukraine. Paul closes with the culture beat — Mamdani, the NBA Finals, a Cruz-Gillibrand bet — and a reminder that the independent movement isn't moving the needle, it is the needle. Country over party. People over politics. Light over heat. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️

Next on CNN with Erin Burnett to talk a HUGE primary day and much more. And here’s key info!

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NEW⚡️Gabbard is Out. Before Memorial Day: Trump Downplays KIAs in Iran. Cuba’s Castro Charged with Murder. Here Comes the Next Regime Change War. Panel Approves Trump’s Stupid Arch. GOP Revolt Over Slush Fund for Domestic Terrorists. Indy Bennett Makes Ballot in Maine. Until Next Time, Stephen Colbert.  It’s a new pre Memorial Day Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/vcVGd-cCQqk 🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gab…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2vBUuP…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/independen… It's Memorial Day weekend, and Paul Rieckhoff is in no mood to soft-pedal. Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as Director of National Intelligence — the second Trump appointee to defect over Iran in months — and the administration is already telegraphing its next war. The Justice Department just charged Raul Castro with murder. The USS Nimitz arrived in the Caribbean the same day. Stephen Miller is on Fox doing the warm-up act. Cuba is in the crosshairs. Meanwhile, the president is downplaying the 13 American service members killed in Iran, pausing a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan, ignoring Ukraine, and telling a Coast Guard Academy audience he won't be leaving in 2028. This is a solo briefing for the angry middle, delivered with the urgency the moment demands. Paul walks through the GOP mutiny finally pushing back on Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund for January 6th insurrectionists, the three-plan scheme to disrupt the 2026 midterms, and the independent veterans — from Rick Bennett in Maine to Karen Matthews in California — fighting brutal ballot-access barriers to give the 45% of Americans without a party a real choice. He closes with a Memorial Day reflection on TAPS, the Good Grief camps, and a tribute to Stephen Colbert as a true patriot and conscience for America. This is what no-BS analysis sounds like when the stakes are this high. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸

"A Generation of Chicken Hawks Sending Other People's Kids to Die" This Memorial Day weekend, Trump wants to use your tax dollars to pay out convicted criminal insurrectionists who attacked cops on January 6th. And he and lots of other politicians want more war. More KIAs. More wounded. And a new war with Cuba could kick off any minute now. Paul Rieckhoff on MSNow’s Deadline White House:  Sorry, folks. There will be no days off. Not as long as Trump is President.🚨🇺🇸

Joe Rogan says we're politically homeless. Wrong. We're free.

NEW & POSTED NOW!⚡️ Huge Primaries in Kentucky, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Idaho. 3.6 Million Independents Shut Out. Massie vs Trump. San Diego Mosque Attackers Murder 3. LIRR Strike Deal. Another Buffalo Heartbreaker. Wemby Dazzles.  It’s a new quick-fire Tuesday Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/MJusO0_NRHI  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hug…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6HrQuC…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/independen… It's Tuesday, May 19th — a huge primary day in Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Alabama — and 3,557,000 independent Americans are being locked out of the elections deciding their representation. Paul Rieckhoff runs a solo briefing on the closed-primary problem nobody in the rigged two-party system wants to talk about: taxpayer-funded elections, run in public schools by public poll workers, that exclude anyone who refuses to put on a jersey. With 93% of House races and 80% of Senate races already decided by primaries, this isn't a procedural quirk — it's a structural assault on representative democracy. Paul also unpacks the Trump-versus-Tom Massie proxy war in Kentucky, including the Secretary of Defense leaving his post to campaign against a sitting Republican congressman, the Georgia governor's race chaos between Burt Jones and Brad Raffensperger, and Trump's ever-expanding billion-dollar White House construction project that's quietly morphed from a ballroom into something that sounds a lot more like a bunker. He closes with the heroism of Amin Abdullah at the San Diego mosque shooting, a Long Island Railroad strike resolved in workers' favor, and the young helpers showing up across America when it counts. Righteous anger, patriotic hope, and a clear-eyed look at why the independent movement is the only path forward. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️

Massie Loses. Why Trump Sending in Hegseth is Dangerous. The Millions of Independents Who Didn’t Get a Vote Today. And Why Massie Isn’t Going Away. At All.   Paul Rieckhoff - CNN Erin Burnett Out Front. I have a very different perspective than most on TV. Per usual. Because most focus on what’s happening. I focus on what’s happening next. Watch this space, people. I’ll help you stay ahead of the curve. And stay vigilant.🗳️🇺🇸

⚡️Trump’s New $1.8B Fund for his Buddies. US Combat Ops in…Nigeria! Cuba’s “Drone Threat” A Pretext for War? Trump’s Approval Drops to 37%. Reporting Isn’t Treason. Ebola Outbreak Global Health Emergency. Ukraine Hits Moscow. LIRR Goes on Strike. Trump Wins Again: Takes Out Cassidy.  It’s a new Monday Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/R9O1eEJZNaA  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tru…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6WyyaX…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/independen… It's Manosphere Monday and Paul Rieckhoff is broadcasting from high above New York City with a solo briefing built for the angry middle. Navy SEALs escorted Crash Patel on what the Pentagon itself called a 'VIP snorkel event' next to the underwater tomb of the USS Arizona — we’re learning this one week before Memorial Day. Paul says if anything is impeachable, this is. Meanwhile the administration has quietly stood up a $1.8 billion fund to pay off allies of the president, Hegseth is openly campaigning for House Republicans in Kentucky, ICE is banging on doors without warrants, and Trump's approval has cratered to 37%. From there the briefing widens out: U.S. combat operations in Nigeria most Americans will never hear about, an Ebola outbreak the WHO is tracking while we sit outside the organization, classified intelligence about Cuban drones being shaped into a pretext for war, Ukraine hitting a Moscow oil refinery, and a Senate purge that just took out Bill Cassidy. Paul closes with a Memorial Day call to action, a tribute to Welles Crowther — the man in the red bandana — and a reminder that 45% of this country is now independent. We're not politically homeless. We're free. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸

We have now learned that Iran still has lots of missiles. Contrary to what Trump said. My reactions. My weekly MSNow segment with Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House. 🎙️Watch/hear the latest Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. And in my Meet the Independent Vet Candidate Series with South Dakota’s @BrianBengs. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/I2Ur6fLPz1s  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hur… 🎙️🚨🇺🇸

A 9-month-old baby just lost her leg to a Russian drone. youtu.be/Xgss2zW35aU

Independents aren't the spoilers. Both parties are. youtu.be/Xo5u2oeli0Q

"If You Lose Independents, You Lose Everything" — Paul Rieckhoff on Trump's Polling Collapse, Iran, China, and rapid the rise of independents. My weekly NewsNation segment with Connell McShane: youtu.be/xiQYvURlrb0  🎙️Watch/hear a more in a fast and inspiring new WTF Wednesday Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. The latest in my Meet the Independent Vet Candidate Series with South Dakota’s Brian Bengs. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/I2Ur6fLPz1s  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hur… 🎙️🚨🇺🇸

45% of Americans are independent. The spoilers aren't us — they are. youtu.be/Xuy1Krj_r5U