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Joe and David return to Flock cameras and license plate readers, and this time there’s a paper trail. New reporting from 404 Media shows local police plate data is being funneled into federal surveillance centers. It goes through the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program, a little-known drug war grant program run out of the White House.
The guys break down how it works:
In Georgia, cities are required to sign data-sharing agreements with HIDTA.
Houston’s HIDTA office built a database combining data from Flock, Axon and other camera vendors, with links to the DEA.
Every agency points to another when you ask who holds your data.
They also connect it to Project Hemisphere, the same Houston office’s warrantless program covering more than a trillion AT&T call records. That leads to the bigger question: can you have a drug war without a surveillance state?
Plus a white pill: in United States v. Kyle, a federal judge ruled that a warrantless Flock search violated the Fourth Amendment. The ruling threw out evidence of 91 pounds of meth, and the guys go through the bodycam footage.
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10 Oct 2026
Communism in America?
Fresh off a Students for Liberty campus tour in Alaska, where nearly every student who came up to talk was a committed Marxist, we look at where young people are getting these ideas. Several students named two influencers: Jackson Hinkle and Hasan Piker. So we watch them and respond.
We cover Hinkle’s “MAGA communism” pitch to Chris Cuomo, his claim that America is already a planned economy, and his account of what happened to Venezuela. Then we put Venezuela’s GDP next to the price of oil to show what the sanctions story leaves out. We compare Hasan Piker’s definition of socialism with Zohran Mamdani’s “dignity” version, trace China’s growth from Mao’s collapse to Deng’s market reforms, and end with the question every communist needs to answer: what caused the world GDP hockey stick, and how would central planning keep it going?
Socialist, capitalist, or somewhere in between, tell us in the comments where we got it wrong. And if you’ve seen a socialist commentator who actually lays out their ideas in depth, send us the link. We want more.
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2 Oct 2026
Does America Need a Dictator?
In this episode, we take on the growing argument that America’s political system is so broken that only a dictator or “strongman” can fix it. We unpack why that idea is gaining traction, particularly among young men who feel shut out of the economic and political system, and why frustration with corruption, housing, jobs, and the future can make radical solutions increasingly appealing.
We look at lessons from the Spanish Civil War, the dangers of concentrating power in a single person, and the fundamental problem with assuming the “right” dictator will remain benevolent or willingly give up power. We also discuss the Nirvana fallacy of comparing the messy reality of constitutional government with an imaginary perfect dictatorship.
Finally, we make the case that the alternative to the status quo doesn’t have to be authoritarianism. Instead, we explore rebuilding political engagement from the bottom up through stronger communities, local involvement, constitutional limits, and a popular movement focused on leaving a better country for the next generation.
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