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GENERATIONAL WEALTH INEQUALITY
Make America Grow Again | Episode 19 - The Inheritance Lottery: How Dynastic Wealth Rigs the Game Before You’re Born
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Severity Without Memory: Why Every Crisis Feels Existential Until We Forget It
2026 severity scorecard reveals how major global stories lose urgency within weeks. The real story isn’t the crisis. It’s our attention.
SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE PROTECTION
You’ve paid into Social Security your entire life. So why are politicians warning it’s “going broke” while Wall Street pushes privatization and Pharma…
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Corporate Capture | Puppet Show of Democracy
Big biz bought DC - $4.4B lobbying, poisoned waters, endless wars. It's killing growth. Read how to ban revolving doors and fight back. Uncomfortable…
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The Epstein Files: Masterclass in Bipartisan Gaslighting
Rxan Smith's Uncomfortable Truth About America's Latest Embarrassing Swing & Miss on an Opportunity to Unite.
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Make America Grow Again:
Issues Most Americans Want, All the Solutions the Nation Needs
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How Our Misplaced Outrage on the Left Elected Trump — Again
For a decade, the loudest liberal voices turned rage into content — and accidentally built the most effective Republican turnout machine in history…
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Police Reform: An Uncomfortable American Tradition
Every panic, every scandal, every reform… built a bigger, stronger machine. This deep dive traces the evolution of U.S. policing from slave patrols to…
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The Left’s Reality Crisis: Why Good Intentions Are Backfiring Everywhere
A liberal strategist explains how empathy without honesty is breaking the movement from the inside.
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Rural America Development
Make America Grow Again Series | Segment 15 Rural America Isn't Dying: It’s Being Stripped and Sold Parts in 2026, for the Second Straight Decade
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The Last Trick in the American Experimental Deck (Part 1 of 2)
How America Got Played, Why Nobody's Laughing, and Why the House Always Loses When the People Finally Show Up
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When Outrage Replaces Thought
Why Meme Politics Is Worse Than You Think - Using Trump's truth social message about the death of Rob Reiner
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Climate Change | Cheap Oil Sabotaging America's Green Future, Costing Trillions
Trump's deal dumps billions in cheap oil on America, smothering renewables and ignoring carbon taxes. Discover why this petro-addiction is climate…
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National Service: The One Thing America Refuses to Do That Might Actually Save It
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I don’t do hot takes—I do obvious systemic truths months before others. If you’re tired of echo chambers and late outrage, you’re in the right place.
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You Think SNAP Is Just for “Lazy People”? Think Again. The Shocking Truth About Who Really Relies on Food Stamps
Millions of Americans—black, white, brown, vulnerable—depend on SNAP to survive, yet narrative is full of lies that divide us. See real faces, stats…
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Why Billionaires & Corporations Pay Almost No Taxes & We Pay More (and How to Fix It) | Part 3 of 25 Government Fixes Tree: The US Tax Scam…
You bust your ass all year, pay full taxes on every dollar... meanwhile Amazon pays ZERO some years, Jeff Bezos & Elon Musk pay almost nothing on…
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Kamala Deserves Better — But the DNC Machine Uses Her as a Political Crash-Test Dummy
As Trump Lands in Japan and the Government Shutdown Hits Day 27, Kamala Harris Is Being Exploited, Not Empowered — Here’s Why the Democratic Machine Is…
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Addiction Nation
Portugal decriminalized drugs and overdoses dropped 93%. We chose prisons, profits, and blame. Here's how policy (not willpower) created the opioid…
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Make America Grow Again: 25 Uncomfortable Truths & Fixes: Criminal Justice Reform
America: Land of the Free… With More People in Cages Than Anywhere Else on Earth | Punishment Feels Good, But It Creates More Criminals
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Local Media on Life Support & My Independent Journalism Rebellion
In a world drowning in fake news, local media and independent journalism are on life support. Rxan Smith Uncomfortable reveals the uncomfortable reasons…
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Revolution Without Unity Is Just Noise | Part 2 of 2
Why real change doesn’t start with a target, and why history keeps punishing us for pretending otherwise: How America Got Tricked Into Wanting a Civil…
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