⚡️Governor Wes Moore on July 4th/America 250. His Counter-Narrative To Trump On Patriotism, Open Primaries In Md, The Lessons Of The Knicks, And an NBA Team In B’more. Independents Day Special It’s a big, new July 4th Special Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. And @GovWesMoore! 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/G_S9Ui1_BhQ  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6yX…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/indepe… It’s Independence Day weekend. Or INDEPENDENTS Day weekend. And there are few leaders better suited for this moment of celebration and patriotism than Maryland Governor Wes Moore. I sit down with my longtime friend, regular guest, fellow veteran, and man many think could be our next president, for a special, new July 4th conversation about leadership, patriotism, independent voters, Maryland’s closed primaries, Baltimore’s comeback, the power of joy, and why the future belongs to people willing to disrupt the status quo. Moore talks about his Leave No One Behind slate, the fastest-growing political force in America, and why the two-party system needs to make room for independents before November, not after the race is already over. We dig into if he’ll support open primaries in MD, what he thought of the Knicks run, and if Baltimore can get an NBA team. And as America celebrates its 250th birthday, Moore joins us for a special preview of a big speech he’ll deliver tomorrow on July 4th as a counter to Trump. A message that hits hard: patriotism is not about a person. It’s about an idea. It’s about sacrifice, service, hope, and the future we all have to build together. The flag belongs to all of us. America’s birthday belongs to all of us. And the work of patriotism belongs to all of us. It’s an inspiring way to kick off America 250. Independence is an attitude. Stay vigilant. And Happy Birthday, America! Subscribe, rate and share @indy_americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️🎂🎆

Trump now thinks he’s a UFC fighter. Perfect for my WTF Wednesday episode. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/nM6b3xHtD2I  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Paul Rieckhoff: Trump Is "Stepping on His Own Win" to Chase the SAVE Act. Mamdani’s Big Night That I Predicted. And How It All Impacts the Democrats Brand. My weekly WTF Wednesday segment on NewsNation:  I’m the independent—opposite Democrat Chris Hahn and Republican Lauren Wright. I’ll was back on CNN with Erin Burnett OutFront at 7ET tonight with more. Posting soon. And, hear/see much more in Independent Americans: IndependentAmericans.us—including a deep dive on yesterday’s primaries, how Mamdani ran the table in NYC, the very popular General that the latest casualty in Hegseth’s Pentagon purge. I’ve got the stories you need to track on to stay ahead of what’s next.🎙️🗳️🚨🇺🇸

⚡️Henry Rollins is back! On Trump, Iran, America 250, The Cramps. 13 Dead For What? What About an Arc de Healthcare? Trump’s Destruction of Our Shared Symbols is an Attack on All of Us. World Cup Joy, Living in the New South, Friendly, Helpful Neighbors and Driving Across America.  It’s a new Manosphere Monday episode of Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. On: 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/gPAO1ksn1ro  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0WL…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/indepe… @HenryRollins doesn't do small talk. The punk icon, author, USO road dog, and longtime friend of the show returns from Nashville to deliver one of the most blistering hours we've recorded this year. He keeps dragging the conversation back to the number no cable network wants to sit with: 13 dead American service members, and countless wounded, from a war in Iran the president picked and can't justify. Rollins walks through what a USO trip actually sounds like — young troops telling him the mission is simply "get to D-FAC" — and asks the only question that matters from the resolute desk: how do I get every one of them home? From there it's a wide-open briefing on the state of the republic. Rollins on Tennessee's generational shift and the independents rising inside a red state. Rollins on Operation Ajax, the JCPOA, and why no previous president pulled this trigger. Rollins on a White House that paved over Jackie Kennedy's rose garden, demolished the East Wing, and put MMA behind a paywall on the people's lawn. And Rollins on what's still good — neighbors who shovel each other out, strangers who change your tire in the rain, and a country whose arc, even now, still bends toward better. If you're in the angry middle, this one will hit a nerve and put some fight back in you. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸👊🏼🪨

It’s Primary Day in NY, Maryland and Utah! And millions of independent veterans like me can’t vote! It’s unAmerican, it’s unfair, it’s rigged, and it’s wrong. And it’s also how the hyper-partisans, billionaires and corrupt party bosses want it. It’ll be another day when a small number of motivated partisans determine our collective fate. With only 5% of eligible voters voting early in NYC so far. But it doesn’t have to be this way. See the full breakdown on today from @IndyVetsAmerica and join the fight for change: independentveteransofamerica… Tune into @indy_americans. And let us vote.🗽🗳️🇺🇸

Back to work. Trump's Iran Deal Is "A Loser's Agreement" Paul Rieckhoff - Deadline: White House My weekly segment on MSNow Deadline White House with Nicolle Wallace (and David Rohde).   More always on Independent Americas. (Except today—when I’m covering the joy of the Knicks parade from NYC!): youtube.com/@independentamer… 🎙️🚨🇺🇸

More from NYC and the Knicks parade on a huge, unifying and joyous day. LGK! 🗽🏀🇺🇸

Trump Has "Lost Control" of Iran and the Economy. His New Deal is Getting Slammed by Everyone. Inflation. Why Georgia and DC Yesterday Again Revealed America’s Primary Problem. And Why Independents Don’t Want to Pick The Lesser of Two Evils. We Want Better. My weekly WTF Wednesday segment with Connell McShane—and Lauren Wright. The last exchange after minute 9:00 is critical. We independents (45% of voters—and rising) refuse to accept the unacceptable. We want better. And are fighting and working for it. #LetUsVote 🎙️🚨🇺🇸

⚡️The Independent Plan to Flip Tennessee with Lauren Pinkston - Independent for Governor of Tennessee. With 2 Million Independent TN Voters 775k Votes is the Magic Number. Where Do Trump Voters Go Next? Reason Over Extremism. Independence Never Goes Out Of Style. It’s a new WTF Wednesday and Meet the Independent Candidate episode of Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/vbNAArbyR3w  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3Ie…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/indepe… Tennessee looks like a red wall on the map. Look closer. Roughly 48% of eligible voters there are unaffiliated — the highest share in the state (34%-R/18%-D/48%-I) — and only a third of them bothered to show up last midterm. That's not apathy. That's the angry middle waiting for someone worth voting for. Lauren Pinkston, independent candidate for governor, joins Paul to make the case that 2026 is the year Tennessee breaks the one-party stranglehold, and she's got the math, the ground game, and the biography to back it up. Pinkston is a seventh-generation Tennessean, a PhD in international development who lived five years inside a communist country watching elections up close, a mother advocating for a child with special needs, and a founder who built a business with survivors of human trafficking. In this conversation, she breaks down the 775,000-vote path to victory, why 60-70% of her incoming support is Republicans looking for an off-ramp from the MAGA machine, the $83 billion road backlog Nashville won't touch, the housing crisis pricing working families out of their own state, and why open primaries are non-negotiable for anyone who actually believes in the Constitution. It's a briefing on what independent infrastructure looks like when it's built right — couch by couch, county by county. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️

⚡️New Poll: Political Independents Hit Their Highest Level In A Decade. Iran, Deal Or No Deal? B-52 Bomber Crashes In California. Trump At NYC Parade? Knicks At White House? Primaries Tues In Alabama, Dc, Georgia And Oklahoma. NYPD Rise To The Moment.  It’s a new Primary Tuesday Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/VoHVXB3FWAs  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1YW…  📖Substack: independentamericans.substac… Independents have hit 47% of the country. Republicans are at 26%. Democrats at 27%. That's not a trend line — that's a tectonic shift, and the new @CNN poll out today confirms what this show has been saying for years: the angry middle isn't homeless, it isn't tribeless, it's free. Paul Rieckhoff breaks down the numbers, what they mean for the 2026 midterms, and why younger voters, male voters, and white voters without college degrees are walking away from the GOP — and not running to the Democrats. From there, it's a full no-BS briefing. Iran has de facto control over the Strait of Hormuz and Trump is negotiating what looks like a surrender. Eight crew members are dead after a B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base — a story buried under the noise. Closed primaries on Tuesday continue to disenfranchise nearly half the electorate. The NYPD is rising to meet a wild week of Knicks, World Cup, and parade security. And the big question hangs over Thursday: will Trump show up and shit on New York's joy, or stay in his tower? It's a sanctuary in a chaotic week — and a reminder that you're not alone in the angry middle. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️

Trump’s love for inflation, JD Vance defending it on book tour, and another partisan primary night in Georgia, Oklahama, Alabama and DC dominated by extremes that excludes independents—and the new polling that shows how fast we’re growing. From CNN’s OutFront with guest host @KateBolduan—and @JamalSimmons and @SECupp. More in the new Independent Americans: IndependentAmericans.us. And, the new shaky Iran deal, the B-52 crash that killed 8 troops, and will the Knicks go to the White House? 🎙️🚨🇺🇸

⚡️The Knicks Are The Champs! Trump’s Obscene UFC Dream Comes True. The Greatest MAGA Military Recruiting Ad Ever. Iran and US Say They Have a Deal. Hegseth: Ecuador and Guatemala Are Next. Fox Gobbles Up Roku. USA Soccer Wins Big! Even Though Trump Called Them.  It’s a new Manosphere Monday Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/RdeVsu2S6F8  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4mU…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/indepe… Sports is our mirror. On Saturday night, that mirror reflected the best of America — a 53-years-in-the-making Knicks championship built on a diverse, humble, durable team led by Jalen Brunson, a man who shook every hand on the losing side because integrity is doing the right thing even when nobody's watching. On Sunday night, the mirror reflected something uglier: a UFC card on the White House lawn, locked behind a Paramount Plus paywall, with no women on the card, fight bonuses paid in Trump-family crypto, and sponsors ranging from Elon's Starlink to Turning Point USA. The White House, Paul argues, was openly for sale — and most fight fans loved it. In this solo Monday briefing, Paul connects the dots between a triumphant Knicks parade week, a wildly effective piece of military-recruiting propaganda dressed up as an octagon, a U.S. World Cup team that just dropped three in its opener, a fragile Iran ceasefire with none of the original objectives met, Hegseth telegraphing Ecuador and Guatemala as next on the hit list, and Fox swallowing Roku. He closes where the show always closes — with Brooklyn bikers carrying Narcan, an Angry Middle that isn't homeless but free, and a reminder that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🏀🥊⚽️

UFC at the White House Sunday, Trump’s Name Coming Off The Kennedy Center, and Team USA as a Unifier Tonight at the World Cup. I joined Erin Burnett on CNN for my weekly segment (along with Rina Shah). It’s finally Friday! Go watch Team USA at 9ET! Especially in times like this, we need a reason to unite and cheer! GO #USA!!🇺🇸⚽️