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At twelve years old, Hadley Ott weighed 53 pounds and was told he would be sick for the rest of his life. For the next fourteen years, he lived the way doctors told him to — steroids, feeding tubes, infusions every six weeks, and eventually surgery to remove part of his intestine.

Then one day in April 2024, he walked out of his doctor’s office and never went back.

Hadley is an American Moment alum who worked at the White House Council of Economic Advisers before leaving D.C. to write Drug-Free Crohn’s, the story of what happened when he walked away from the mainstream medical establishment and took his health into his own hands. He sits down with Nick to talk about the moment he decided to bet on himself, what he did instead, and why he believes a medical system built around managing symptoms has convinced millions of Americans they can never get better.

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When a child loses a parent, Social Security pays them a survivor benefit their mom or dad earned through years of work. But if that child ends up in foster care, many states have been quietly taking that money for themselves. Tim Walz once said those benefits gave him dignity growing up. Minnesota is still one of 13 hold-out states stealing these funds from orphans today.

Assistant Secretary Alex Adams is trying to put an end to it. The “Orphan Tax” is only one of the messes he inherited at the Administration for Children and Families, but since his arrival, the ACF has become one of the most talked-about departments in all of HHS, both for their ruthless red tape cutting and also for their focus on children’s wellbeing.

The Biden administration left behind childcare rules that paid providers before kids ever showed up, a foster care rule that sorted families by whether the government deemed them LGBTQ friendly, mask mandates at Head Start long after COVID, and regulations that drove the program’s budget up while enrollment dropped by a third. Adams walks Nick through everything he inherited, and what he’s doing to clean it up.

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"What happens when the actual evidence doesn't match up with the developing public narrative?"

That's what the chief medical examiner in the George Floyd case reportedly asked a prosecutor the day after the autopsy. When former federal prosecutor TJ Harker read that line in a 2023 deposition, every alarm bell in his head went off. He spent the next three years pulling the thread.

The result is American Scapegoat, and Harker's conclusion is one most of the country isn't ready to hear: that Derek Chauvin is innocent. Nick walks through the case with him minute by minute — what the autopsy actually found, the prosecution theory that collapsed in the middle of trial, the nine-minute delay nobody has explained, and the pills found in the squad car months later.

Agree or disagree, you'll never see that video the same way again.

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This week, the tables turn. Nick sits in the guest chair on The Long March, the new podcast from our friends at New Guard Press, to talk about the thing he's spent a decade obsessing over: who actually runs the government. Why a president gets 4,500 appointees to steer two million employees. Why most members of Congress never read the bills they vote on. And why a car mechanic who's read everything Michael Anton ever wrote might be a better hire than a Yale grad.

He also gives away one of his favorite interview questions — so if you're applying to American Moment, listen closely (but you won't be able to use his answer.)

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(00:00) A Special Cross-Post With The Long March

(03:07) 4,500 Appointees vs. 2 Million Civil Servants

(07:30) What Went Wrong in Trump 45

(08:40) Nobody Reads the Omnibus

(11:31) In Defense of Patronage

(13:52) What to Do About Career Civil Servants

(16:00) Merit Without the Ivy League

(19:16) How American Moment Finds Its People

(24:46) Gen Z is Ready to Fight

(33:39) What Nick Looks for in a Resume

(41:55) The Interview Question You Can't Fake

(45:49) Why You Have to Be Aligned Across the Board

(47:04) Stop Quoting Philosophers in Interviews

(50:07) What Nick Is Reading Right Now

(53:26) The Debate Over Using Government Power

(59:46) Trade, Immigration, and Foreign Policy

(1:03:08) What Winning Actually Looks Like

(1:06:22) Closing — Go Subscribe to The Long March

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The next time you pass a semi on the interstate, you might want to ask yourself who's behind the wheel. Congresswoman Harriet Hageman did, and she uncovered a quiet crisis among America’s truckers.

It started with a phone call from her nephew, a Wyoming rancher who kept seeing wrecked trucks on I-80 and drivers who couldn't speak a word of English. That call sent her down a rabbit hole of CDL mills, chameleon carriers, and blue states handing out commercial licenses with almost no questions asked. Now she's become the closest thing truckers have to a champion in Congress. But Hageman didn't spend 34 years as a trial attorney in Wyoming to stay in one lane. She also goes after the climate lawsuits targeting American energy, sets the record straight on beef prices, and explains how lax surrogacy laws have opened a back door for birth tourism.

Meet the congresswoman from Wyoming who is taking on the world.

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Andrew Kloster has been inside the conservative legal movement since long before President Trump came down the golden escalator and reoriented movement towards untouchable issues like immigration and tariffs. He’s been in the biggest right-wing think tanks, legal groups, and even the White House itself. And he’s not blackpilling, so why should you be?

Andrew sits down with Nick to take stock of where the movement actually stands. What's working, why nobody should care about Chevron as much as the donor class does, and why the recent losses on tariffs and birthright citizenship are really an indictment of a Congress that refuses to do its job. It also gets practical. If Democrats take the House, what happens to political appointees? Who gets targeted, who doesn't, and why the people who jump ship between now and November are telling you exactly who they are. Plus the case for fighting lawfare with lawfare — and why crying uncle only works after you've thrown a punch.

If you're a young lawyer or appointee, this one is required listening.

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Have you ever wondered how the United States Senate actually works — and why it so often doesn’t?

This compilation pulls the sharpest moments from conversations with Vice President JD Vance, Senator Ron Johnson, Senator Roger Marshall, Senator Eric Schmitt, CPI President Ed Corrigan, Rachel Bovard, and strategist Luke Thompson.

Luke Thompson explains how McCain-Feingold gutted the parties and turned every senator into a free agent. Vice President Vance shares about his first few months in the Senate. Sen. Ron Johnson describes asking his colleagues how much the federal government spends in a year and getting blank stares. Ed Corrigan and Rachel Bovard take you inside the Wednesday steering lunches where conference decisions actually get made. And Bovard lays out the ambush quorum — dragging senators to the floor at three in the morning, over and over, until the minority breaks.

If you work on the Hill, or want to, this is the crash course nobody gave you.

(00:00) Welcome to Moment of Truth

(01:11) Luke Thompson on What the NRSC Actually Does

(02:30) How McCain-Feingold Gutted the Parties

(07:00) Did Campaign Finance Create Celebrity Politics

(10:14) JD Vance on Using the Bully Pulpit

(12:55) Why Senators Are Too Busy to Think

(15:25) Ed Corrigan on the Origins of the Senate Steering Committee

(18:12) What is a Hold?

(21:11) Ron Johnson on How Unprofessional Washington Really Is

(23:59) The Board of Directors Doesn’t Know What It’s Spending

(25:14) McConnell's Governing Model and the Push to Change It

(27:28) DC Is So Unserious

(30:45) Rachel Bovard on Why Individual Senators Are So Powerful

(33:30) Inside the Wednesday Steering Lunches

(35:51) How Harry Reid Started the Slow Squeeze

(42:19) Roger Marshall on the Rise of the Populist Bloc

(45:28) Killing A Bad Senate Deal

(49:33) Rachel Bovard on What Senators Actually Extract in Exchange for Nominee Votes

(52:05) Can the Nuclear Option Be Undone

(57:20) Why Is the Senate on a Month-Long Recess

(1:03:35) The Live Quorum and Carrying Senators Onto the Floor

(1:09:16) Eric Schmitt on What Voters Actually Want

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Microsoft spent two decades building a reputation as the good big tech company. It worked. While conservatives fought Twitter and Facebook over censorship, nobody was watching the company that quietly captured 85% of government productivity software and a third of all federal software spending.

Evan Swarztrauber and Aiden Buzzetti came in to explain what that inattention has cost us. For nearly a decade, Microsoft used Chinese engineers on Department of War cloud systems, supervised by American "digital escorts" who lacked the technical background to know what they were even looking at. The company is now deepening its AI ties in China at the exact moment the Trump administration is trying to win the AI race. And when Microsoft laid off thousands of American workers last year, it turned around and filed for nearly 3,000 H-1B visas.

This one could (and should!) make you angry. Their paper, Clouded Judgment, is linked below.

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Jeff Clark returns to Moment of Truth for his second appearance, this time to tell the full story of what political persecution has actually looked like over the last five years, from Fani Willis personally arresting him in a case with zero jurisdiction, to a DC Bar disciplinary proceeding now in its sixth calendar year.

They also get into the president's mail-in ballot executive order, Judge Luttig's transformation from conservative judicial star to leftist media fixture, and what the Oversight Project is uncovering on Biden's ghostwriter tapes and Maryland redistricting.

Young lawyers in particular, please enjoy genuinely important conversation about courage and the price you may be asked to pay for it.

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Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau returns to Moment of Truth for round two, this time to dig into reforming the Foreign Service, the America First case for treating visas as a genuine tool of statecraft, and what a post-USAID State Department actually looks like. 

They also cover the “Donroe Doctrine” and the administration's renewed focus on the Western Hemisphere after decades of neglect, the fight against cartels and Chinese influence in Latin America, and why folding USAID into the State Department was long overdue. 

A genuinely fascinating look inside how America First foreign policy actually works day to day and the perfect primer for any enterprising young person considering joining the Foreign Service. 

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Jon Schweppe, Senior Advisor at the American Principles Project, fresh off an 18-month stint as senior policy advisor to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson. Jon explains what antitrust and consumer protection enforcement have actually accomplished under this administration and why the FTC's Section Five authority is one of the most underrated tools in government.

They dig deep into the sports betting industry — the VIP programs, the psychological targeting of losers, the banning of winners, and expose how these companies actually operate. The conversation turns from speculation to affordability, with a full-throated argument against "burrito gate" and the strain of conservatism that tells struggling Americans to just work harder. Jon and Nick both make the case that if the right cannot even diagnose the affordability crisis as real, it has no business calling itself a movement for working people.

Tune in for this rare dip from Moment of Truth into intra-right, very-online squabbles (and come out better for it!)

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(00:00) Welcome to Moment of Truth

(03:55) Senior Policy Advisor to FTC Chairman Ferguson

(05:00) Government Is Run by Our Friends

(06:33) Big Tech Wasn't Let Off the Hook

(08:39) The FTC's Consumer Protection Authority

(10:07) The $1.5 Billion Amazon Prime Settlement

(13:05) The Sports Betting Problem

(19:36) Sports Leagues in Bed With Sportsbooks and the Ohtani Problem

(24:19) Young Men Are the Primary Target of This Business Model

(33:06) Burrito Gate — The Argument That Is Going to Get the Right Wiped Out

(44:16) The DSA and the Right Both Get the Problem — Only One Side Has Good Solutions

(48:07) The Core of Populism

(50:30) Age Verification for Porn

(55:38) Where to Find Jon Schweppe and the American Principles Project

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This week on Moment of Truth, Professor Ilan Wurman of the University of Minnesota returns for round two on birthright citizenship, breaking down the Supreme Court's decision and what comes next.

Ilan explains why the 5-4 ruling is actually closer to a victory than it looks, walks through the flaws in the majority's reasoning on extraterritoriality and the entry fiction, and makes the case for the Thomas-Gorsuch dissent He also gives a sympathetic read on Justice Barrett, lays out what a future administration and a future Supreme Court appointment could actually do differently, and pushes back hard against the doom and gloom many young conservatives are feeling.

Plus: his new book, The Constitution of 1789, and why he thinks Americans should love the Constitution the way it actually was written — not in spite of it.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick is joined by the Honorable Anthony D'Esposito, Inspector General of the Department of Labor and former Congressman from New York, for a conversation about what it actually looks like to root out waste, fraud, and abuse at scale.

The Inspector General explains how the Department of Labor's IG office has one of the broadest investigative jurisdictions in the federal government and what that means for cross-department investigations, including what the Vice President’s Fraud Task Force. They also get into how unemployment insurance fraud is quietly destroying small businesses in states like California and New York to the tune of millions of dollars a day. And no conversation about labor would be complete without tearing into the topic of H-1Bs and how immigrations and corporate interests alike are manipulating the system at American citizens’ expense.

There’s lots of great stories in this one, including gangs running restaurants in Boston on stolen identities, fraud influencers posting step-by-step guides on TikTok, and why the $6.5 billion healthcare fraud takedown was the biggest in American history.

Thank you to the Inspector General and his office for the generous favor of his time to come and talk about this important work.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Omar Pimentel, Director of Frontier Strategy at Type One Ventures and former space portfolio lead at the Defense Innovation Unit, for the show's first ever episode about space.

Omar explains how DIU was created to repair the broken relationship between Silicon Valley and Washington, how the Other Transaction Authority allows the military to buy technology at commercial speed, and why Starlink is the single best example of what happens when you let industry solve the problem instead of specifying the solution. They cover Space Force, GPS as America's most underrated gift to the world, the threat landscape in orbit, what kinetic conflict in space would actually look like, Artemis II and the road to landing on the moon by 2028, why Administrator Jared Isaacman is doing more with the same budget, and what the plan to get to Mars actually is.

And stick around till the end to hear Nick and Omar debate the best space movies of all time.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Will Thibeau, Director of the American Military Project at Claremont's DC Center for the American Way of Life, for a wide-ranging conversation on the wars reshaping American foreign policy right now.

They cover the Iran deal vs. the JCPOA, why the nuclear threat has always been more complicated than neocons made it sound, and Will explains the helpful concepts of “battlefield geometry” and “battlefield algebra” that have fundamentally changed modern warfare.

They break down why Ukraine has been able to hold Russia at bay and evaluate how Iran's cheap drones mean that destroying 90% of their combat power still leaves dangerous residual capability. They also get into autonomous weapons, the Anthropic vs. Department of War dispute, and what D.C. staffers making policy in right now need to understand about all of it.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Ryan Girdusky — political consultant, author, and OG American Moment board member — for the most honest breakdown of the 2026 midterms you are going to hear anywhere.

Ryan rates Republicans chance of keeping the House, explains ‘midterm math,’ and walks through the Senate race by race — North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Maine, and more. He has strong opinions about the trouble in Texas, the mess in Maine, and the missteps in Michigan, and he explains what it’s going to take from Republicans to win in those hot seats.

And stick around till the end for a breakdown on the SAVE act and whether or not Republicans should force an early census to pick up some more redistricting wins.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick hosts a discussion with Mark Widmar, CEO of First Solar, for a live impromptu recording at the Reindustrialize conference.

First Solar is one of the most important American manufacturing success stories nobody is talking about, proving that, yes, you CAN build products in America. This semiconductor company has built six factories in the United States, employs 40,000 Americans across its supply chain, and generates $4 billion in annual payroll, all while going head to head with China on solar technology.

Mark explains how First Solar has integrated AI into manufacturing at full scale since 2022, why the average job at their facilities pays $80,000 a year, and what it actually looks like to build a factory in a community that lost everything to deindustrialization. We hope you enjoy this rare conversation with someone who is actually building things in America right now.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with George Beebe, Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute and former head of the CIA's Russia desk, for a rare insider's look at how the intelligence community actually works… and what needs to change.

George explains the real power structure of the IC and why ODNI was created to manage it all. They also get into domestic surveillance and where the legal lines actually are, how congressional oversight has become more kabuki theater than real accountability, what questions new members of the Intel committees should be asking, and how the IC can begin to rebuild trust with the American people.

If you work anywhere near these issues, or have a curiosity for how actual deep state mechanics work, this episode is required listening.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Gord Magill, author of End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers, for an illuminating conversation about American labor.

Gord is a third-generation trucker from Canada who has driven across four countries and spent years figuring out why the industry that moves everything in America has become, in his words, “a complete dumpster fire." He breaks down the driver shortage narrative that the American Trucking Associations have been running since 1987… and why it has always been a lie. He also exposes the flood of non-domiciled CDLs being issued to people who don't speak English, and breaks down the big legal battles of the day with the Delilah's Law stall in Congress and the Supreme Court's Montgomery v. Caribe Bay decision.

This episode is a good reminder that behind every policy debate are legions of workers and logistics where livelihoods (and lives) are at stake.

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(00:00) Welcome to Moment of Truth

(02:44) Third Generation Trucker From Canada

(12:29) Everything in Modern Life Moves on a Truck

(18:21) The American Trucking Associations Are Not Your Friend

(23:12) Why Is American Trucking So Much Worse Than Canada and Australia

(26:41) Who Is Actually Waging the War on Truckers?

(29:42) The Driver Shortage Narrative Has Been a Lie Since 1987

(33:37) Jeff Bezos and Amazon

(36:13) The Scams and Bad Companies Wrecking Trucking

(40:35) The Tucker vs. Shapiro Debate on Self-Driving Trucks

(52:26) Immigrants or Robots

(53:31) Who Actually Has Enforcement Authority and What They Should Do

(59:13) Montgomery v. Caribe Bay — What the Supreme Court Just Did for Truckers

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For Moment of Truth episode 250, Nick is joined by Kelly Loeffler, Administrator of the Small Business Administration, for a live Moment of Truth event, with a special introduction by Michael Stumo of the OMB’s Made in America office.

In anticipation for America’s 250th birthday, Administrator Loeffler takes us through one of the quintessential founding tenants of our nation: the dream of ownership, exploration, and creation.

She shares the story of what she found walking in on day one of the Trump administration, including 90% of staff working from home, loan programs used as cookie jars, and what turned out to be $200 billion in fraudulent COVID-era loans that Biden's team quietly gave de facto amnesty. They also explore the reindustrialization of America, the role small manufacturers play in the defense supply chain, the fight against the Green New Deal, and why the people saying Americans won't work manufacturing jobs are completely wrong.

Thank you to the Administrator for the gracious gift of her time on this very special episode. We hope you enjoy it and send it to any of the current (or aspiring!) small business owners you know.

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Éric Zemmour — French author, journalist, presidential candidate, and one of the most important voices in the Western nationalist movement — joins Nick this week to discuss his landmark book, The Suicide of France, now available in English for the first time.

Zemmour walks through what France looked like in the era of De Gaulle, how assimilation worked and then broke, and how immigration turned from a managed flow into what he calls an invasion and then a colonization. He draws sweeping parallels between France's civilizational crisis and what is now unfolding in America, makes the case that Samuel Huntington was right, explains the Molotov-Ribbentrop dynamic between woke ideology and political Islam.

Through all that, he insists that there is still yet hope for France and for America, but only if the people will mobilize to defend their way of life and their future.

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(00:57) Welcome to Moment of Truth

(02:07) Fighting Denial Then, Fighting Fatalism Now

(05:00) Immigration Turns Into Invasion, Then Into Colonization

(09:08) Trumpism as a Reaction to American Suicide

(11:14) Using Tocqueville to Destroy the World Tocqueville Made

(15:01) How France Went From the Largest Power to the Smallest

(22:02) Where Does France Stand Toward America Today

(25:23) The Camp of the Saints Was Prophetic

(29:46) Can Americans Understand How Bad It Actually Is in France

(35:06) The Party of the Foreigner and The French Who Betray Their Civilization

(39:01) Forces Rising in the US and France

(40:32) Remigration

(43:53) Where to Find Zemmour and His Other Books

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Dr. Mark Mitchell, Dean of Academic Affairs at Patrick Henry College and author of the forthcoming book Breaking Babel, for one of the most theologically and philosophically rich conversations the show has had yet.

The subject is AI, but not in the way you usually hear it discussed.

Dr. Mitchell proposes that the Tower of Babel is a lens for understanding what happens when human beings use language and technology to usurp the authority of God, and follows that thread all the way through large language models, artificial general intelligence, the epidemic of loneliness, the collapse of genuine human competency, and what it means that we are increasingly unable to tell the difference between communion with a person and the simulation of one.

He also makes a sharp distinction between tool AI and general AI, cleanly dividing using a tool from the worship of a tool made in one’s own image.

This episode is more philosophy than policy, but it offers a clear and constructive voice from the AI-skeptical camp.

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This week, Moment of Truth returns to the Masterclass format, compiling the sharpest clips from years of guests into one definitive episode on the immigration problem. Featuring Russ Vought, Oren Cass, Ron Hira, Rosemary Jenks, Jason Richwine, Jeremy Carl, Kevin Lynn, Max Rymer, and Joe Rigney, this episode covers every dimension of the crisis — economic, cultural, societal, political, and moral — in one place.

Oren Cass explains why the labor market argument for immigration is an admission the left never wanted to make. Ron Hira breaks down how the H-1B program works as a system of indentured servitude. Rosemary Jenks exposes the dishonest intentions of the pro-immigration elite. Jason Richwine makes the empirical case that immigration causes a culture transplant, not assimilation. Max Rymer and Joe Rigney use Minnesota as a poignant example of how unbridled immigration can change a place in a very short amount of time. Jeremy Carl disproves the myth that America is a 'nation of immigrants.' Kevin Lynn shares his concerns over the damage being done to America's young men by their systematic replacement. And Russ Vought closes with the biblical and constitutional case for a Christian immigration ethic rooted in national sovereignty.

This is the episode to send to everyone you know.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Professor Ilan Wurman of the University of Minnesota Law School for one of the most illuminating legal conversations the show has ever had.

Wurman makes the full originalist case that the conventional wisdom on birthright citizenship rests on two shaky pillars: a misreading of the common law and a misreading of the 14th Amendment. He explains why birth alone was never actually the rule at common law, what "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" really meant to the people who wrote it, and why the social compact theory changes everything. He also gives his honest read on Trump v. Barbara, what he thinks the Supreme Court will do, and what Congress could do right now if it decided to act. This one is for immigration hawks and legal eagles alike.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Will Fry, founder and CEO of American Operator, to dig into one of the most important and least discussed crises facing the American economy: the small business succession problem. Over half of America's 6 million small businesses with employees are owned by someone over 55, most of them have no exit plan.

If nothing changes, millions of them will either be swallowed by private equity or simply shut down.

Will explains how American Operator is building a model to keep these businesses in local hands, why the SBA is actually one of the most effective federal agencies in Washington, and what the ‘Deez Nuts’ grill brush story tells you about the state of American manufacturing. They also get into hiring philosophy, what makes a great operator, and where CAN Main Street go from here.

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This week Moment of Truth is LIVE! Nick Solheim sits down with Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri, with a special introduction by Theo Wold.

This one covers a lot of ground fast. Senator Schmitt gives his live reaction to a major Supreme Court gerrymandering ruling that came down right before the event, and then gets into the left-wing political violence problem, the Luigi left's assassination culture, and why no one on the Democratic side will call it out.

He makes the case for why MAGA is not going back, explains why the staffing question matters as much as the candidate, and goes deep on legal immigration — the H-1B scam, the OPT program, and why the "we don't have enough workers" argument is a lie that Republicans have been too timid to challenge. The senator also gave a live reaction to the president's announcement about reviewing troop deployments in Germany, prompting some foreign policy commentary. And stick around till the end to hear his predictions on the congressional baseball game.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist and author of the new biography Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution, for a deep dive into the most consequential yet least understood justice on the Supreme Court.

Mollie makes the case that Samuel Alito is not just the author of the biggest conservative legal victory in fifty years, but also the clearest model for how to balance principle and pragmatism in a movement that tends to choose only one. They cover originalism and how Alito's brand of it differs from Scalia and Thomas, the inside story of how Dobbs actually came together, the unprecedented leak that triggered assassination threats against the justices, the smear campaigns from Bork to Kavanaugh, and why the lower federal courts — not the Supreme Court — are the real crisis facing the rule of law right now.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick is out of the office, so the American Moment staff have taken over the studio. Chief of Staff Isaac Kirshner is joined by Director of Operations Havi Rubenfeld, Director of Personnel Mary Frances Devlin, and Personnel Manager Emma Verrigni for an episode that pulls back the curtain on everything American Moment does and gives a genuine, unfiltered look at what it actually takes to get started in DC.

They dive deep into all of American Moment’s main programs - Fellowship for American Statecraft, AM Fridays, and the Frontiers of American Statecraft program. They also talk honestly about what they look for in applicants, what they wish they had known before moving to DC, and how to survive on a Hill intern salary.

Whether you are thinking about applying to a fellowship, planning your first DC summer, or just curious what goes on behind the scenes at American Moment, this out of the box episode is sure to leave you better prepared and ready to join the fight.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Katy Talento, CEO of AllBetter Health and former White House Domestic Policy Council staffer, for one of the most illuminating conversations the show has ever had on healthcare. 

Katy traces a career that took her from the Senate HELP Committee to a convent to the Trump White House where she helped win the fight for hospital price transparency, one of the most important and least understood healthcare reforms of the last decade. She breaks down why the Republican approach to healthcare has been a political loser for twenty years, who the real villains in the system are, why your insurance card is probably costing you more than cash would, and why American medicine has no answers for the chronic illness epidemic slowly destroying the country. She also gives a frank assessment of where MAHA stands today and what HHS still needs to do. 

This one will change how you think about your own healthcare.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Matthew Haller, President and CEO of the International Franchise Association, for a deep dive into one of the most underappreciated pillars of the American economy. Three and a half percent of US GDP runs through the franchising model and most people have no idea.

Matthew explains how franchising actually works, why it is one of the most powerful wealth-building tools available to ordinary Americans, and why the left has spent twelve years trying to quietly destroy it through labor regulation. They also get into the history of franchising from Ben Franklin to Ray Kroc, the difference between a Starbucks and a Dunkin Donuts dollar, the incredible story of a Capitol Police officer turned Chick-fil-A franchisee in DC, and the inside scoop of how President Trump ended up behind the fry machine at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.

This one is a genuine education from start to finish.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Noah Wall, founder and president of the State Leadership Initiative, to learn why Republican-run states are, in most meaningful ways, just Democrat-run states with lower taxes.

Noah lays out the full architecture of what he calls "the shadow government" — a constellation of left-wing NGOs that quietly control every major function of state government, from Medicaid to transportation to state parks — and explains why the conservative movement has almost entirely ignored this problem. They dig into why the reddest states tend to produce the worst Republicans, how the Chamber of Commerce has captured the state GOP in ways most voters never see, and what a handful of states like Florida, Idaho, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Indiana are actually getting right.

If you care about winning, this is the episode to send to everyone you know.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Isaiah Taylor, founder of Valar Atomics, for a return visit and an update from their first conversation in August 2023, when Isaiah was a solo founder with a pitch deck and a dream.

In less than three years, Valar Atomics has grown to over 100 people, achieved the first-ever startup nuclear criticality in American history, airlifted an entire reactor on three C-17s, and is on track to bring a functional reactor online by July 4th in time for the 250th anniversary of the United States.

They talk about what made all of this possible — namely, four executive orders signed by President Trump — and why it was functionally impossible before that. They also get into the China nuclear gap, why cheap energy is the single most important variable in the geopolitical competition of the next century, and what synthetic hydrocarbons could mean for American energy independence.

Keep your eye on Isaiah and Valar Atomics. This is only the beginning of an incredible story.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Christopher Barnard, President of the American Conservation Coalition, who makes the case that conservation is not a left-wing issue... and in fact, it never was.

Chris traces the roots of American conservation back to Teddy Roosevelt, explains the critical difference between conservation and preservation, and lays out what a genuinely pro-human environmental agenda looks like in 2025. They dig into the Make America Beautiful Again executive order, the wildfire crisis caused by decades of terrible forest management, and why regenerative agriculture is one of the most exciting policy opportunities on the right right now.

They also get into energy dominance — what it means, why permitting reform is so urgent, and why America needs to stop choosing between oil and wind and embrace our ability to build everything. If you ever thought environmental issues belonged to the left, let this episode change your mind.

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Nick sits down with Max Bodach, Executive Vice President of the Foundation for American Innovation, for a wide-ranging conversation on what a pro-human approach to AI actually looks like, breaking down why conservatives need to be at the table when these decisions get made.

They cover the full spectrum of AI opinion — from the accelerationists who want to let it rip, to the Doomers who want to shut it all down — and make the case for a sober, conservative middle path. They also dig into the federalism fight over state AI regulation, the backlash against data center build-outs, what AI is actually going to do to your job, and why most people who are skeptical of AI are working off a mental model that is already two years out of date.

This is a great episode for everyone trying to get up to speed on the current interaction between AI and politics.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Nate Fischer, CEO of New Founding, to tackle one of the most consequential questions facing the American right — can tech elites and populist conservatives actually build a lasting coalition, or has all of this just been a marriage of convenience?

Nate lays out a sweeping framework for how technology, properly understood, is actually a friend to the populist right rather than not a threat. They dig into the H-1B blowup on Christmas Eve 2024, what AI will do to the managerial class, the Tucker vs. Shapiro debate over autonomous trucks, and whether working-class Americans are uniquely suited to master the coming wave of technology.

If you want to understand where the right goes from here on tech, this is a great place to start.

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Nick sits down with Scott Kupor, Director of the Office of Personnel Management, to pull back the curtain on what is really happening inside one of Washington's most overlooked agencies.

They dig into Tech Force, the administration's bold initiative to recruit a thousand young tech workers into government, and what it will take to fix a federal workforce where only 7% of employees are under 30. They also break down Schedule Policy Career (formerly Schedule F), why eliminating degree and tenure requirements could transform federal hiring, and why Scott believes the federal government should become the best two-year analyst program in the country.

This is a must-listen for anyone who wants to understand how the civil service is being reimagined and the perfect episode to inaugurate American Moment’s fifth year of changing the way D.C. does staffing.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Karen Bailey-Chapman, Senior Vice President of Government and Public Affairs at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), to dig into the world of American automotive manufacturing, aftermarket modification, and the policy battles shaping the industry.

Karen explains how California's ACC2 regulation nearly eliminated the internal combustion engine for 40% of Americans, how SEMA fought back state by state, and why the EV mandate was always bigger than just a California issue. They also cover President Trump's executive order on Kei trucks, the emerging right-to-modify fight, and what the legendary SEMA Show in Las Vegas is really all about.

If you love cars and American manufacturing, this one is for you.

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In this culture-heavy episode of Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Wade Stotts, host of "The Wade Show with Wade," at Canon Press in Moscow, Idaho. Wade breaks down the evolution of late night comedy, explaining how shows like Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert transformed from entertainment into political activism during the Trump era.

They explore comedy legends like Norm Macdonald, Conan O'Brien, and the fall of Saturday Night Live, discussing what makes truly great comedy versus ideologically-driven content. Wade offers his take on modern comedians from Shane Gillis to Bo Burnham, and analyzes why Trump is simultaneously hilarious and impossible to parody effectively. The conversation also tackles the controversial DHS meme strategy and whether government agencies should embrace humor.

Whether you're a comedy nerd or just curious about the intersection of entertainment and politics, this episode delivers laughs and insights in equal measure.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick takes a trip outside of the usual studio to visit Dr. Joe Rigney in Moscow, Idaho. Together, these two former Minnesotans dissect the Land of 10,000 Lakes’ dramatic transformation over the past two decades. From welcoming refugees in the mid-2000s to the current flashpoint of ICE operations, daycare fraud scandals, and violent resistance, they explore how a high-trust, citizen-oriented, Scandinavian-rooted state became ground zero for progressive power consolidation through mass immigration.

Rigney applies insights from his books The Sin of Empathy and Leadership and Emotional Sabotage to explain weaponized compassion, selective politicization in churches, and why many Christians and conservatives failed to resist.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick interviews Nathan Pinkoski about Jean Raspail's controversial 1973 novel, The Camp of the Saints, newly republished in English by Vauban Books with Pinkoski's introduction.

They explore the book's premise—a million immigrants sail to France, forcing Western institutions (government, military, media, and the church) to confront an influx of people—and make the case that it is a profound mirror to the West's spiritual malaise, cowardice, evasion of responsibility, and loss of love for one's own country.

They address what the author got right (such as spiritual sickness and authority crisis) and what he got wrong, and they examine the modern parallels to Europe and America today in elite conversions and institutional failures.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with tech policy expert Joel Thayer to dissect Big Tech's power, past abuses, and the path forward under the Trump administration.

They revisit landmark censorship moments—like the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, Parler's deplatforming, and Trump's ban from major platforms—and warn against forgetting these violations of free expression. Thayer highlights conservative antitrust efforts by figures like Senators Blackburn, Hawley, Lee, and Grassley, praises key Trump-era actions (FCC Section 230 review, DOJ Google probe), and credits carryover wins in the Biden years.

They critique Big Tech's China entanglements, mass layoffs of American workers, reliance on foreign labor, and profit-driven amorality. The conversation explores agency roles (FTC, DOJ, FCC, NTIA), the need for America First priorities, and skepticism toward Big Tech's recent "turn" toward conservatives.

Remember, Big Tech is not your friend.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Michael Green to unpack his viral Substack essay "My Life Is A Lie," which exposes the harsh economic realities facing American families today. 

Green dismantles the official poverty line (~$32k for a family of four), revealing how skyrocketing costs—especially childcare, housing, and healthcare—combined with a brutal, hidden benefits cliff creates a "valley of death" between $40k–$100k incomes where putting in the extra effort generates more penalties than gains. 

The conversation covers generational wealth erosion, policy failures, and surprising optimism for Gen Z's resilience and realism. 

This episode is for out-of-the-box thinkers and stat-lovers, and provides a rage-inducing yet hopeful look at what it really takes to build a life in modern America. 

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Russ Greene to unpack his viral American Mind article, "Total Boomer Luxury Communism." He reveals how massive wealth transfers via Social Security, Medicare, and property taxbreaks favor affluent seniors (the richest cohort globally) at the expense of younger workers. 

Topics include program generosity to high earners (e.g., golf and horseback riding covered by Medicare Advantage), impending insolvency, why "line go up" is actually masking our decline, and generational injustice through taxes/debt/crowding out. A must-listen for anyone under 50 feeling the squeeze. 

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick Solheim kicks off Season 6 with Kevin O'Reilly to unpack Right to Repair and its massive national security implications.

Kevin explains how manufacturers lock out owners from parts, tools, and software—hitting farmers, consumers, and crucially, the U.S. military. They discuss real battlefield risks, obscene contractor profits, the recent unsuccessful NDAA push, and why empowering military techs to fix their own gear is urgent. Though it's a little bit in the policy weeds, you won't want to miss this gripping case for ownership, competition, and putting national defense over corporate rent-seeking.

If you care about innovation, warfighting effectiveness, or just a cheaper trip to the mechanic, this one's for you.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick welcomes back Joshua Steinman, former Trump NSC cyber/telecom director and Galvanick CEO, for an optimistic deep dive into America's trajectory. Steinman shares his Navy origins, Iraq tours, and authoring the white paper that birthed the Defense Innovation Unit. If you’re in need of some Christmas cheer, Joshua delivers hopeful white pills on winning and riding out the waves that are a part of any victory.

Joshua also has plenty to say about the current state of technology, including Chinese tech infiltration in everyday devices and critical infrastructure, visa abuses fueling outsourcing, mass deportation momentum, reindustrialization potential, and unique American ingenuity.

This episode is packed with insights on tech policy, national security, and patriotic optimism—we are going to win!

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick sits down with Nate Morris, the avowed America First entrepreneur running for U.S. Senate in Kentucky to replace Mitch McConnell.

Nate tells the story of how he went from his blue-collar roots in a single-parent home to founding Rubicon Technologies, a $700M waste management powerhouse, even as he watched career politicians sell his people out to NAFTA. Nate discusses the friendship with JD Vance that blossomed from their similar life experiences, and shares about the endorsement he received from Charlie Kirk right before his murder.

Above all, Nate is emphatic that Kentucky, and the United States Senate, are in need of drastic change if the people are going to be served and restored.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick is joined again by Dan Caldwell, who has a big announcement for fans of American Moment.

Dan opens up about his tumultuous year marked by personal trials, including a cancer diagnosis, and shares how God has guided him through it. The duo then dives deep into President Trump's groundbreaking 2025 National Security Strategy and its decisive break from 30 years of failed primacy. Finally, American interests are being put first.

They discuss Steve Witkoff's diplomatic wins, the shifting foreign policy paradigm, Ukraine's endgame prospects, and why Europe must reverse its decline.

Stick around for the end where Dan shares how "Baby, It's Cold Outside" may have played a role in instigating the rise of Islamic extremism in the 21st century. Yes, really.

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This week on Moment of Truth, the "Maeven of the Senate" Rachel Bovard returns to explain the gritty details behind the effort to remove the filibuster restriction in the U.S. Senate.

Rachel shares the rich history of Senate procedure, how it has changed (and who changed it!), as well as lays out the pros and cons of changing it now at President Trump's request. She also offers some dramatic alternatives that Senate leadership could impose right away that would force Democrats to participate in the deliberative process.

Stick around to the end, as she and Nick share their perspectives on the recent Arctic Frost scandal and how CPI has weather the storm of Jack Smith's investigations.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick is joined by his old friend and mentor, Minnesota Republican State Rep. Max Rymer to explain why the once-proud North Star State has spiraled into crime, fraud, and cultural collapse. From turning an $18 billion surplus into a $6 billion deficit, to becoming the welfare magnet for mass Somali resettlement, to the George Floyd riots that hollowed out Minneapolis and left it a ghost town, Max pulls no punches.

They discuss Little Mogadishu, multi-billion-dollar feeding fraud scandals, a completely captured left-wing institutional infrastructure, and why Minnesota Republicans still can’t get their act together. A raw, insider look at how “Minnesota Nice” became Minnesota’s suicide pact — and whether anything can save it.

Essential listening for anyone wondering how a state can go from America’s model to America’s warning in a single decade.

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This week on Moment of Truth, Nick is joined by Ian Fletcher, Senior Economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America.

Ian demolish the sacrosanct state of free trade and explain why America must embrace tariffs, strategic industrial policy, and government-supported technology development if we want to reclaim good jobs and reassert our global competitiveness. Ian also explains why decades of neoliberal dogma have hollowed out America—and what a real pro-worker, pro-industry economic strategy looks like in practice. Plus, stick around for the end to hear him give the Hamiltonian vision for America's economic future and why the Jeffersonian vision has failed.

A must-watch for anyone serious about reindustrialization and putting American workers first!

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