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Aedanus Burke: The Patriot Who Warned of An American Aristocracy

November 14, 2026 by Nicholas Giordano

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Aedanus Burke warned of an American aristocracy in 1783 and George Washington agreed. Have political dynasties and Congress become the ruling class he feared?

In 1783, Revolutionary War patriot Aedanus Burke challenged George Washington’s Society of the Cincinnati over hereditary privilege and the threat of a new American nobility. On this episode of America’s Founding Series on The P.A.S. Report Podcast, Professor Nick Giordano connects Burke’s forgotten warning to Washington’s entrenched political class, the decline of statesmanship, and $635.6 million in reported congressional stock trades in 2025. From Nancy and Paul Pelosi’s investment disclosures and the STOCK Act to the 2026 South Carolina Senate defeat of Darline Graham by Annie Andrews, the episode confronts the dangers of political entitlement and conflicts of interest. Did Americans overthrow a monarchy only to tolerate a political elite that treats public office as a personal privilege?

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

Aedanus Burke’s Forgotten Warning: Why a Revolutionary War patriot and former British prisoner challenged the Society of the Cincinnati over hereditary privilege and the threat of American aristocracy.
Politicians vs. Statesmen: Why career politicians pursue reelection and political power while true statesmen confront uncomfortable truths, temper expectations, and place the country above personal ambition.
Congressional Stock Trades and Wealth: Why $635.6 million in reported 2025 stock trades, the STOCK Act, and Nancy and Paul Pelosi’s financial disclosures raise serious questions about conflicts of interest and public trust.
Political Dynasties and the 2026 Midterms: What Darline Graham’s defeat in South Carolina reveals about voter concerns over political inheritance, experience, qualifications, and merit.
America’s New Aristocracy: Why the American Revolution’s rejection of hereditary power remains relevant to political elites, constitutional accountability, and the responsibility of ordinary citizens.

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NGO Funding: Are You Bankrolling America’s Decline?

November 14, 2026 by Nicholas Giordano

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NGOs receive your tax dollars. Who holds them accountable when their agenda clashes with your vote?

On The P.A.S. Report Podcast, Professor Nick Giordano welcomes Jennica Pounds, known as @DataRepublican and coauthor of Unelected: The Non-Governmental Organizations Destroying America, to examine taxpayer dollars, federal grants, and the administrative state. Pounds argues that nonprofit networks exert power over immigration, public education, and foreign aid beyond the ballot box. From USAID and religious charities to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they explore who benefits, who exercises oversight, and why Republican victories fail to break the cycle.

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

Federal Grants and NGO Power: Explore the financial ties among government agencies, nonprofits, and private foundations that deserve closer public scrutiny.
Immigration and Your Tax Dollars: Hear Pounds explain federal support for unaccompanied minors and the role of Catholic Charities and other religious nonprofits.
The Chamber of Commerce Connection: Examine how CIPE connects the Chamber to the National Endowment for Democracy and the debate over taxpayer support.
Common Core and Education Policy: Hear her argument about the Gates Foundation’s influence over schools and the limits of parental control.
Accountability Beyond Elections: Explore her case for citizen oversight and why a change in party control alone cannot resolve entrenched institutional power.

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The Mindset of the American Voter: Why Nothing Gets Solved

November 8, 2026 by Nicholas Giordano

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Republicans got smoked, but did the voters who replaced them actually examine the alternative?

Professor Nick Giordano confronts the mindset of the American voter: civic ignorance, selective outrage, and an appetite for government dependency that crosses party lines. He examines voter turnout, older voters’ shift toward Democrats, the independent vote, and conservative ballot measures that outperformed Republican candidates. Through economic double standards, government censorship, immigration enforcement, and promises of $5,000 checks, he challenges citizens who demand accountability from politicians yet excuse their own contradictions.

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

Voter Turnout Beyond the Youth Narrative: Examine the 2022 versus 2026 age-group shifts and why older voters and independents deserve closer scrutiny.
Conservative Policies vs. Republican Candidates: Explore why voters approved voter ID, tax restraints, and other conservative measures yet elected Democrats.
Selective Outrage Under Biden and Trump: Test the partisan double standards on inflation, constitutional rights, Big Tech censorship, and government surveillance.
The $5,000-Check Test: See how the federal dividend proposal exposed fiscal conservatives whose principles collapsed at the prospect of personal benefit.
Dependency and Permanent Crises: Examine how failed civic education, emotional choices, and demands for government comfort create incentives to preserve problems rather than solve them.

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Midterm Election Results: Why Republicans Got Thrashed

November 8, 2026 by Nicholas Giordano

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The 2026 midterm election results delivered a crushing defeat to Republicans, handing Democrats control of both the House and Senate. The GOP had two years in power—so what did they actually deliver?

In this hard-hitting election autopsy, Professor Nick Giordano breaks down why Republicans lost Congress. GOP leadership campaigned on fiscal discipline while rubber-stamping trillions in debt, feigned outrage over government weaponization without repealing a single federal authority, and surrendered public education while parents demanded accountability for failing schools.

Now, Republicans face an urgent eight-week test: Will they force recorded votes on voter ID, statutory border security, and real spending cuts before January 3rd, or spend the lame-duck session licking their wounds? After January 3rd, Democratic committee chairs will hold subpoena power to launch investigations into Donald Trump, his cabinet, and Elon Musk, while the Senate prepares to block judicial nominees.

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

The Turnout Delusion: Why pundits mistook early Republican turnout reports for actual votes and ignored independent voters.
The Broken Map: How unexpected Senate losses in states like Texas and Kansas exposed a broken national GOP strategy.
The Autopsy: Why screaming “socialism” failed to persuade suburban parents and working-class families crushed by energy costs and failing schools.
The Lame-Duck Mandate: Four structural actions Congress must vote on before Democrats take the gavels on January 3rd.
The Battle for 2028: How Democratic overreach, partisan impeachments, and potential House civil wars will define the next two years.

Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett): Freedom on Trial

November 4, 2026 by Nicholas Giordano

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Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett) put slavery on trial and won. Discover the constitutional fight that broke one man’s claim to own her.

In 1781, Elizabeth Freeman and Brom challenged slavery through the Massachusetts Constitution’s declaration that all men are born free and equal. Professor Nick Giordano traces the brutality of the Ashley household, the constitutional battle in Brom and Bett v. Ashley, and the verdict that secured their freedom. This American Revolution story exposes the contradiction between a Patriot’s demand for liberty and his claim to own human beings. Freeman’s life after the verdict reveals what freedom made possible: paid work, property ownership, and personal independence.

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

Elizabeth Freeman’s Courage: Discover how Mum Bett resisted abuse within the Ashley household and challenged a powerful man’s authority over her life.
The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780: See why its promise of natural rights gave Freeman and Brom a legal weapon against slavery.
Brom and Bett v. Ashley: Follow the 1781 freedom suit that attorneys Theodore Sedgwick and Tapping Reeve brought before a Berkshire County jury.
Life After the Verdict: Explore Freeman’s choices as a free woman, her work as a nurse and midwife, and her path to a home and land of her own.
Liberty’s Test: Examine why constitutional promises require citizens with the courage to assert their rights and institutions that uphold them.

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The Socialist Takeover vs. Trump’s Counterrevolution

November 2, 2026 by Nicholas Giordano

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Victor Davis Hanson warns America before the 2026 midterm elections: Can Trump’s counterrevolution survive a socialist takeover?

Hanson traces Donald Trump’s political comeback, the rise of the MAGA movement, and the central argument of his #1 New York Times bestseller, The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement. He also analyzes gas prices, voter anger, Democratic Socialists, and the battle for control of Congress. Professor Nick Giordano challenges Hanson on Republican failures to codify Trump’s agenda and dismantle the federal machinery behind government weaponization. Could Democratic control of the House or Senate erase Trump’s gains and put the future of MAGA at risk?

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

Trump’s Counterrevolution: Why Hanson believes Trump created MAGA and built a political movement that may survive him.
The 2026 Midterm Stakes: How gas prices, voter anger, economic data, and socialist candidates could decide control of Congress.
Lawfare’s Blowback: Why indictments, censorship, and Democratic overreach revived Trump’s political power.
The GOP’s Failure: Why Republicans left Trump’s agenda vulnerable and failed to dismantle weaponized federal power.
The Socialist Takeover: How Democratic Socialists could transform Congress, constitutional limits, and the future of MAGA.

Francis Salvador: Jewish Patriot Who Died for American Independence

October 29, 2026 by Nicholas Giordano

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Francis Salvador spent less than three years in America before he died for independence. Why did this Jewish patriot risk everything?

In this episode of America’s Founding Series on The P.A.S. Report Podcast, Professor Nick Giordano tells the extraordinary story of Francis Salvador, the “Southern Paul Revere,” who rose from Jewish immigrant to revolutionary leader in South Carolina. Discover how Salvador broke religious barriers, helped advance the American Revolution, and became the first known Jewish Patriot to die for American independence at the Battle of Esseneca in 1776. As America marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, his sacrifice raises a question too few Americans can answer: What makes someone an American? His story connects the American Revolution, natural rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. Constitution to a timeless principle: liberty requires personal responsibility, not government compulsion.

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

Francis Salvador’s Forgotten Sacrifice: Why a Jewish immigrant with no American ancestry risked his fortune and life for independence after less than three years in the colonies.
The First Jewish Patriot in Colonial Politics: How Salvador overcame religious barriers to become the first openly Jewish member of an American representative assembly.
The Southern Paul Revere and Battle of Esseneca: Why Salvador rode nearly 30 miles to alert Patriot militia forces and what eyewitness accounts reveal about his final moments.
The Declaration of Independence and American Liberty: Why the Founders pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the principles of liberty and to one another.
American Identity vs. Identity Politics: Why the American creed rests on natural rights, constitutional principles, individual liberty, and personal responsibility rather than ancestry or allegiance to government.

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When Republicans Surrender, Socialists Win

October 28, 2026 by Nicholas Giordano

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2026 Midterms: When Republicans surrender ground, socialists win. Can the GOP defend your freedom, lower your costs, and earn your vote?

With the midterm elections days away, Carl Jackson, host of The Carl Jackson Show, joins Professor Nick Giordano to confront the Republican Party’s failure to explain how limited government and economic liberty improve your life. Jackson shares his transformation from jail and a custody battle as a young liberal father to faith, conservatism, and a rejection of welfare dependence.

Together, they examine the influence of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the role of energy regulations and the Iran conflict in household costs, and why the GOP concedes working-class and minority communities instead of earning their trust.

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

The GOP’s Message Crisis: Why attacks on socialism fall flat without a clear explanation of how free enterprise improves everyday life.
Affordability & Your Wallet: How energy policy, tariffs, and foreign conflicts shape the debate over gas, groceries, and household costs.
The Welfare Trap: What Jackson’s experience in the court system and on public assistance reveals about fatherhood, faith, and personal autonomy.
The DSA & Democrat Power: Why Jackson warns that Democrats could mistake voter frustration for a socialist mandate if they retake Congress.
The Voters Republicans Abandon: What outreach efforts in Michigan illustrate about respect, trust, and the communities Republicans too often concede.

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France Riots: Europe’s Breaking Point, Is America Next?

October 25, 2026 by Nicholas Giordano

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France riots and European unrest expose failed assimilation and a war on Western civilization. America faces the exact same crisis of order.

Professor Nick Giordano draws on his homeland security and political science background to examine mass migration, failed government responses, and the red-green alliance between radical leftists and Islamist movements. Why do France’s extensive welfare benefits fail to satisfy factions that seek to dismantle Western institutions? From Emmanuel Macron’s appeasement to Giorgia Meloni’s crackdown in Italy, this episode examines how leaders respond to violent unrest and exposes a dangerous trap for Americans: citizens surrender liberty for order, only to discover those extraordinary powers serve a government they no longer trust.

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

France’s Welfare Contradiction: Why cradle-to-grave benefits fail to appease revolutionary movements that seek to destroy the existing order.
Mass Migration and Failed Assimilation: How anti-Western ideology and the rejection of civic obligations fracture national identity.
The Red-Green Alliance: Why radical leftists and Islamist factions unite against Western institutions despite incompatible goals.
Macron vs. Meloni: What their responses reveal about appeasement, criminal penalties, parental accountability, and public safety.
America’s Freedom Trap: How emergency powers can outlast a crisis and give the next administration tools to target ordinary citizens.

Peter Muhlenberg: From the Pulpit to the Revolution

October 23, 2026 by Nicholas Giordano

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Why did Peter Muhlenberg, an ordained Lutheran pastor, leave his pulpit to lead American soldiers into the Revolutionary War?

In this episode of America’s Founding Series on The P.A.S. Report Podcast, Professor Nick Giordano uncovers the extraordinary story of Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, the “Fighting Parson” of the American Revolution. Discover how a man of faith traded the safety of his church for a Continental Army command under George Washington and endured the brutal trials of Valley Forge before the American victory at Yorktown. As America marks its 250th anniversary, explore the clash between Peter and his brother Frederick, the first Speaker of the House, and uncover what the Founders intended for religious liberty, the First Amendment, and the separation of church and state.

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

The Pulpit Rebellion: Why Peter Muhlenberg left his ministry to command Patriot soldiers and how the famous uniform reveal became a Revolutionary War legend.
Two Brothers, Two Paths: How Peter took up arms while Frederick chose public service and became the first Speaker of the House.
The First Amendment’s True Meaning: Why the Founders rejected federal control over religion without excluding people of faith from civic life.
From Valley Forge to Yorktown: How Muhlenberg endured the hardships of the Revolutionary War and helped secure American independence.
The Cost of Civic Silence: Why personal conscience demands active participation and why freedom never defends itself.

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