Independent Americans is a daily news show hosted by Paul Rieckhoff. He’s a fighter, a patriot, and an independent political and media force to be reckoned with. After serving as a soldier in Iraq in 2004, Rieckhoff emerged as one of the most dynamic political and social leaders in America. In every episode, he breaks down the most important issues facing our country. And he interviews the most influential and compelling people. He’s taking on Republicans, Democrats—and everyone in between. If you’re in the angry middle, Independent Americans reminds you that you’re not alone. We’re all in this together. Join the Independent Americans movement and subscribe now. Produced by Righteous Media.
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Hegseth’s Culture War Is Breaking The Military. Push-Ups, Purges, And A Navy Stranded At Sea. Why Was The Army Chief Fired Days After Questioning A Kid Rock Flyby? Media Blitz Pod
Aug 28, 2026
Paul Rieckhoff sounded the alarm on Pete Hegseth before he was confirmed, and everything he warned about is now playing out in real time. The acting secretary of culture war is purging leaders…
Independent Vets Surging In Idaho, Montana, Nebraska & South Dakota. Achilles Up 5 On Risch. Plus: Abbey Gate 5 Years Later: 13 Empty Seats. Zero Accountability. Media Blitz Pod
Aug 27, 2026
Five years after the bombing at Abbey Gate, 13 Gold Star families are still waiting for a real, bipartisan accounting of what happened during the withdrawal from Afghanistan — and of the two decades…
Trump vs Canada. RIP Dolly Parton. Plus: Joe Cirincione. (Replay) 6,000 Warheads, Seven Minutes to Launch. Trump's Finger on the Nuclear Button.
Aug 26, 2026
The Cold War is over. The weapons are not. The United States and Russia still hold roughly 6,000 nuclear warheads each — most on hair-trigger alert — and one person, the president, can launch them…
Rosie Perez. (Replay) The Queen of Boxing Talks Politics. Weinstein’s Reckoning. Beating Trump. Mental Health. Why Latino Voters Won’t Vote Socialist. Raise Better Boys.
Aug 25, 2026
Rosie Perez has spent her whole life getting back up. From a brutal childhood to an Oscar nomination, from Do the Right Thing to Birds of Prey, from AIDS activism in the Giuliani years to the front…
Is Trump Already Stealing the Midterms? Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania in the Crosshairs. Calling Colbert to Run in South Carolina. Media Blitz Pod
Aug 24, 2026
Trump is not hiding the ball. He is telegraphing, in plain sight, that his number one strategic priority is dismantling the next election — because free and fair voting is the one circuit breaker his…
Hegseth Campaigns in Iowa as the USS Lincoln Rots at Sea. Trump's Crypto Show While America Burns. Data Centers: The New Third Rail. Media Blitz Pod
Aug 23, 2026
A Secretary of Defense stumping at a congressional campaign event in Iowa. A carrier crew stretched past the breaking point with no embedded reporters to tell the story. A crypto press conference…
EXCLUSIVE: Jesse “The Body” Ventura is Back! And Unloading! Is He Running for President? The Trumps: “A Family Of Cowards.”
Aug 21, 2026
Jesse Ventura returns to Independent Americans and does what only Jesse can do — say the quiet part loud. He rips into an illegal war in Iran that Congress refuses to vote on, a $40 trillion debt…
3 Million Independents Locked Out of Voting in Florida’s Closed Primary.
Aug 20, 2026
Three million independent Floridians were barred from every contest on this week's ballot. More than 640,000 of them are veterans. That is not a glitch — it is the design of a rigged two-party system…
Beating The Machine. Wildfires And Why Spokane Is Looking More And More Independent. With Danny Tarkenton
Aug 19, 2026
Spokane County spent the primary season choking on wildfire smoke — 800 structures gone, 60,000 people displaced, plumes visible from the parade route — and voters still showed up to the ballot box…
Engine 65’s 9/11: Five Floors, a Bad Knee, and a May Day That Saved Their Lives. Firefighter Al Barry Tells All.
Aug 18, 2026
Twenty-five years on, the loudest lesson from 9/11 is still the quietest one: appreciate every damn day. In this replay from the Independent Americans archive, Paul Rieckhoff — combat veteran, 9/11…
9/11: 25 Years Later (Replay) - Ground Zero Firsthand. “From Blue Sky Into Armageddon.” FDNY (Ret) Rich Naviasky On 9/11, Deutsche Bank, And The Illness The Job Wouldn’t Cover.
Aug 17, 2026
Twenty-five years on, the stories from 9/11 are the ones we cannot let calcify into a slogan. In this replay conversation, Paul sits down with retired FDNY firefighter Rich Naviasky — a Squad 18…
Senator Joe Manchin & Heather Manchin. Their Plan To Break The Two-Party Machine. Why Montana Could Change Everything.
Aug 14, 2026
For the first time on Independent Americans, Senator Joe Manchin and Heather Manchin sit down with Paul Rieckhoff to lay out exactly how they plan to break the grip of the rigged two-party system…
The 9/11 Kids Washington Forgot with Lila Nordstrom. 50,000 Students in the Exposure Zone.
Aug 14, 2026
Twenty-five years on, Washington still frames 9/11 as a story of heroes and villains — and quietly counts on the rest of us to forget the civilians in between. Paul sits down with survivor advocate…
Rob Serra: 9/11 Hero On The Broken Promise. 257 FDNY Dead From 9/11 Illness.
Aug 13, 2026
Rob Serra is a legendary FDNY firefighter whose first day on the job was September 11, 2001. He's spent the twenty-plus years since burying brothers, fighting his own government for basic…
935,892 Independents Locked Out of Connecticut's Closed Primary Today. PLUS: Bankhead the Dem Montana Senate Spoiler Handing Trump Another Seat.
Aug 11, 2026
Most Americans checked out for August. Paul Rieckhoff didn't. From a beach house on Long Island, he cuts a fast, urgent episode to hit what the corporate media won't touch: today is primary day in…
Hegseth On Thin Ice. Trump Family Getting Rich Off Defense Contracts While Troops Die. The MAGA Civil War Is On. Media Blitz Pod
Aug 10, 2026
Pete Hegseth is on thin ice, and the reason should worry every American with a family member in uniform. U.S. commanders are reportedly picking and choosing which Iranian missiles to intercept and…
Extremes Take the Primaries, the Middle Gets Left Behind. El-Sayed Squeaks Through in Michigan.
Aug 09, 2026
The rigged two-party system delivered another round of primary results this week, and the pattern is impossible to miss: the extremes keep winning the nominations while roughly 44% of Americans who…
Mamdani BOE Quietly Crushes NYC Open Primaries. Tucker, MTG & Massie’s Third Party. Al-Sayed Doesn’t Understand Weapons.
Aug 07, 2026
The independent movement is surging — and the machine is fighting back. In episode 594, Paul Rieckhoff breaks down the biggest under-covered story of the week: Mayor Mamdani's Board of Elections…
Dems’ Far-Left Michigan Mandani Wins. Why El-Sayed Will Struggle With Independents.
Aug 06, 2026
Michigan is not Manhattan. That's the through-line of this one. The Democratic primary in Michigan handed the U.S. Senate nomination to Abdul El-Sayed, a far-left progressive in a state where roughly…
WTF WEDNESDAY: Spokane Is Burning. Ballots in the Fire Zone. Four Independent Vets on the Line.
Aug 05, 2026
Spokane is burning. Three wildfires have merged into the Spokane Complex, torching more than 8,000 acres, destroying over 700 structures with a final count that could top a thousand, and forcing…
A Huge Primary Day for Independents. Four Indy Vets on One Ballot in Washington State. Another Trump Head Fake Iran Deal.
Aug 04, 2026
Trump says he's close to an Iran deal. He's been saying he's a week away from a Putin deal for a year and a half. Paul Rieckhoff calls the head fake for what it is, warns the media not to fall for it…
Kasich Put On Blast: “Antiquated Views”. “All Gas, No Brain.” Trump's Iran War Tanks the Economy.
Aug 03, 2026
Governor John Kasich went on national TV and told Paul Rieckhoff, to his face, that independents aren't really independent — that come November they'll just go back to the bench and put the old…
Trump’s Slush Fund Standoff & Blanche's Epstein Problem. Cornyn Unleashed - GOP Breaks Over Iran.
Aug 02, 2026
Trump's approval with independents just hit 24%. Republicans are going home to their districts and getting an earful about an unauthorized, unconstitutional, and wildly unpopular war with Iran that…
Trump: “We’ll Beat The F—- Sh— Out of Iran”. The War Is a "Black Hole" — and Dragging Republicans Down With Him.
Jul 31, 2026
The Iran war is overflowing. Saudi Arabia is now actively engaged. Egypt is getting hit with drone strikes. Roughly 50,000 American sons and daughters are in harm's way — and Congress has authorized…
EXCLUSIVE: The Democrat Is Out In Idaho. It’s now an I vs an R for Senate. Independent Vet Candidate Todd Achilles On The Blockbuster News.
Jul 30, 2026
The Democrat is out in Idaho. That single sentence rewrites the 2026 Senate map. Independent veteran Todd Achilles is now in a one-on-one race against three-term incumbent Jim Risch — chair of the…
Senate Confirms Clayton as DNI. Charlamagne tha God: America “Moonwalking” into Trump Midterm Attack.
Jul 29, 2026
From the shadow of the Saturn V in Huntsville, Alabama, Paul Rieckhoff delivers a no-BS field report on a week when the stakes could not be higher. President Zelensky is in Washington, Senator…
Governor JB Pritzker. Can He/Dems Reach Independents? Trump’s Nasty WHCD Remarks, The Bears Leaving CHI, Mamdani, Open Primaries and 2028.
Jul 28, 2026
Trump is federalizing National Guard troops, threatening Chicago, New York, and LA with domestic deployments, and using the White House podium to launch personal attacks at anyone who pushes back…
No Embeds, No Briefings, No Truth. “A Head for an Eye” Rubio Won’t Rule Out Hitting Civilians. Media Blitz Pod
Jul 27, 2026
The Secretary of State went on television and refused to rule out striking civilian targets. "A head for an eye," Marco Rubio said — boasting about sending a country back to the Stone Age. At the…
Reality Check Time For Trump? $95 Billion, Four Coffins, and a Stupid Rally In Georgia.
Jul 24, 2026
A president who never served is once again diminishing the cost of war — calling traumatic brain injuries "just headaches," parading a fallen soldier's family at a political rally, and standing next…
Why Isn’t Barron Trump Going to Iran? The Stories of the KIA. Iran, Mali and the Saudi Nuke Deal.
Jul 23, 2026
Four young Americans are dead. The Secretary of Defense is asking Congress for more money after months of all gas, no brakes. The Saudis are quietly telling the world they don't trust Trump to…
