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Trump and Mark Wayne Mullin are telegraphing their punches. NYC is at the top of their list — World Cup, Puerto Rican Day Parade, a Knicks title run all on the same Saturday. Don't give them the excuse they're hunting for. Full episode out now: youtu.be/kVgVqBEFEx4

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!!🇺🇸⚽️

⚡️NEW⚡️Holy Sh*T, Knicks! Trump: “I Love Inflation.” Markwayne Mullins and Ice Vs Mamdani. Iran Hits Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan. Trump vs Gov Wes Moore in Golf. World Cup Begins and Team USA Plays Tomorrow!  It’s a new (a bit late) Thursday Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/kVgVqBEFEx4  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0cI…   📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/indepe… What a time to be alive. Trump told a room full of Americans he "loves inflation" — while working families are getting strangled at the grocery store and the gas pump. Meanwhile, Markwayne Mullin is openly fantasizing about siccing ICE on NYC Mayor Mamdani, treating federal immigration enforcement like a political weapon. Paul Rieckhoff cuts through it with a no-BS solo briefing built for the 90 million independent voters who are sick of being lied to by both sides. This episode moves fast — from the economic gaslighting coming out of the White House, to Iran, to the constitutional alarm bells ringing over ICE being deployed as a political cudgel, to a genuine moment of American unity courtesy of the New York Knicks. Paul connects the dots between cultural touchstones and political rot, lays out what the angry middle should actually be watching, and points to where righteous anger can be translated into real-world impact. If you want intelligence-grade analysis instead of cable-news theater, this is your briefing. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️🗽🏀⚽️

Something important and urgent I needed to speak on: Pops of violence by young men in NYC after Knicks games could be a harbinger of what’s to come. We could be entering a summer of violence in America. And Trump has always had a plan for it. For NYC, Chicago, and more this summer. He’s looking for a reason. So is Markwayne Mullin. And The Insurrection Act is always on the table. I have a warning for America. And a message specifically for young men in this country: don’t give Trump what he wants this summer.🚨🇺🇸

NEW⚡️Is NYC’s Knicks Violence a Harbinger of What’s to Come This Summer? Hegseth Visits GitMo Because Cuba is Next. Trump Launches More Strikes on Iran. Far Left & Right Dominate Another Rigged Primary Day. Knicks/Spurs Back at MSG. Hilton Beats Steyer in CA. Jimi Hendrix Gets His Way. It’s a new WTF Wednesday, pre-NBA Finals Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/4jyzKnGwmCY  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5wj…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/indepe… It's a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Wednesday and Paul is sounding the alarm. Game four of the NBA Finals tips off tonight at MSG, but the real story is bigger than basketball. A Spurs fan got jumped in New York. Young men across America are jobless, hopeless, and furious. Trump has already named New York and Chicago as cities he wants to send troops into. Steve Bannon is calling ICE airport operations a dress rehearsal for the fall elections. And Pete Hegseth just flew to Gitmo with conspiracy-pusher Laura Loomer in tow — not the Washington Post, not even Fox — because Cuba is next and they aren't even hiding it. Paul connects the dots between a potentially violent summer at home, CENTCOM's ongoing strikes inside Iran, the rigged primary system that just disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of independents in California and Maine, and the open primaries fight quietly unfolding in Lower Manhattan under Mamdani's new charter commission. This is a no-BS warning to the angry middle: stay out of the fistfights, stay out of the extremist groups, look out for the young men in your life, and refuse to give Trump the excuse he's desperate for. Righteous anger, channeled into real impact. Stay vigilant. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️🏀

Hegseth in workout gear just told you Cuba is next.

Where else would we be for this other than in the gym/lab/church/second home with our @SteadyBuckets family?!? Thank you, Coach Mackey, Sean, Dylan, Bobby, Dasha, Sheik. And to all the amazing coaches all across this city and country. You are pillars of our cities, our communities and our nation. Especially in trying times like these. And NYC basketball is a lifestyle and community like nothing else. And we’re honored to be a part of it in this special time especially. It’s a hell of a time to be a kid in NYC. GO NY GO NY GO! LGK!!🏀🗽🇺🇸

The last sport Trump hadn't touched? Gone.

Trump’s Iran War Keeps Going. Platner and the Far Left Keep Winning Partisan Primaries—But Can They Move Independents? Bill Gates’ STDs and Epstein. And—The Knicks and the Crappy Refs!!! My weekly politics and national security segment on NewsNation TV with @ConnellMcShane and Chris Hahn and Lauren Wright: Watch us every Wednesday at 3ET. And more now and soon on a big new WTF Wednesday pre-NBA Finals game episode of Independent Americans: IndependentAmericans.us 🚨🇺🇸

I’m up next on NewsNation TV at 3ET for my weekly WTF Wednesday national security and politics segment with fellow Knicks fan Connell McShane. We’re talking Iran, Cuba, Platner, Epstein..and I hope, Knicks! LGK. @indy_americans

Trump is a jinx.

900,000 independents. Locked out. By design.

⚡️NEW⚡️House Finally Votes No on Iran. And Yes on Ukraine. Democrats Have a Graham Platner Problem. Pentagon Hires Jan 6 Insurrectionist. A Soldier Died in Iraq and Nobody Noticed. CBS Fires Scott Pelley. Trump’s UFC Event is Off The Rails. Knicks Win!! It’s a new Thursday Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/UKbl91o32_s  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4lT…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/indepe… The House finally did its job. By a 215-208 vote on the War Powers Act and a 218-204 vote authorizing $8 billion in military financing for Ukraine, Congress this week told Trump no on Iran and yes on Kyiv. It's shamefully overdue, it's mostly symbolic on Iran, and it took a handful of Republicans with actual integrity to make it happen. But on day 1559 of Russia's full-scale invasion, with more than 700 Ukrainian children dead and an American sergeant just killed in a training accident in Iraq that almost nobody noticed, this is the closest thing to good news Washington has produced in months. In this solo briefing, Paul walks through the votes, the cost, and the rot underneath them: a convicted January 6th rioter now assigned to the Pentagon's irregular warfare and counterterrorism section, the firing of Scott Pelley and the slow death of 60 Minutes, the disappearance of Tulsi Gabbard, the UFC turning into a political circus, and the Maine Senate race where Graham Platner's Totenkopf tattoo and a damning New York Times report have Democrats doing their best Biden 2.0 impression. He closes with Karen Lee Matthews' honorable independent run in California's 23rd, a reminder of where TAPs fits in, and why the Knicks winning Game One actually matters for a country that desperately needs something to root for together. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️🏀

Congress FINALLY Votes “No” on Iran. Bessent Told Pulte “I’m Going to Kick His Ass”. And the Danger of the Government and Pulte Having All Your Data. CNN OutFront with Erin Burnett tonight with Van Jones and Rina Shah. Now, go watch the Knicks!🏀🎙️🚨

I brought my boys to CNN tonight. And THIS was the lay out. They hit the cable TV snack lottery! Erin Burnett knows how to make the kids happy. Perfect fuel for the Knicks game. The city is buzzing—and now, so are my kids. Now, we’re ready! LGK.

Trump caved on a $1.8B slush fund for insurrectionists.

⚡️Is Montana Ground Zero for Independents? From Baghdad to the Ballot: Army Doc Runs for Congress. Independent Veteran for US House in Montana’s 2nd - Michael Eisenhauer. 90 Days In - Is The Iran War Illegal? RFK & Hegseth Unfit for Office? Elk Camps & the Rural Health Care Crisis.  It’s a new Meet The Independent Candidate episode of Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/91mHdXtBefM  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/697…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/indepe… The day after Montana's 2026 primary, Paul sits down with Colonel Mike @EisenhauerMT2 — a 25-year Army veteran, Bronze Star recipient, and practicing interventional cardiologist who is now running as an independent for Congress (eisenhauerforcongress.com/) in Montana's massive 2nd District. While the Republican incumbent ran unopposed and three Democrats fought over a primary their party hasn't won statewide in decades, Eisenhauer was outside the rigged two-party system entirely, gathering 13,000 verified signatures to earn his spot on the November ballot. This is what it actually takes to break through when the machine is designed to keep you out. The conversation covers the affordability crisis crushing Montana families, the gutting of rural healthcare under the so-called big beautiful bill, the illegal and unauthorized war in Iran, congressional abdication under the War Powers Act, and why Eisenhauer — alongside Green Beret Seth Bodnar's Senate run — may be proof that Montana is ground zero for the independent movement. Paul and Mike also get into RFK Jr., right-to-repair, Trump accountability, the day after a huge primary day, the NBA Finals and why a doctor's diagnostic framework might be exactly what a broken Congress needs.  Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️🩺🫎🐺

Ask yourself: when's the last time you saw Kaepernick on a field?

More thoughts on the Jaxson Dart latest.

⚡️NEW⚡️A Massive Primary Day. 2.5 Million Independents Shut Out. Trump Drops Plan to Payout Insurrectionists. Brutal Russian Attack Hits Kyiv. Tulsi Gabbard’s Replacement Has No Experience. Mamdani Cancels Bedtime.  It’s a fast and fierce Tuesday Primary Special Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff. 📱💻YouTube: youtu.be/hee8khLry7s  🍎Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…  🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5Fl…  📖Substack: open.substack.com/pub/indepe… It's primary day in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota — and depending on your zip code, you either get a real vote or you get told to sit down and shut up. Paul Rieckhoff cuts through the noise on the biggest primary day of the cycle so far, breaking down why California's open primary is what real democracy looks like, why closed primaries in places like New Jersey and New York are a rigged scam dressed up in public money, and why 17 million independents across 16 states are once again being locked out of the elections their taxes fund. He names names: Karen Matthews in CA-23, Seth Bodnar going independent in Montana, Rebecca Bennett taking on the missing-in-action Tom Kean Jr., Deb Haaland in New Mexico, and the partisan hacks — Brad Lander chief among them — who say they love democracy but fight open primaries every step of the way. Then the briefing goes wider. Trump just lost a Senate fight over an outrageous $1.8 billion slush fund to pay out Jan 6th insurrectionists and Oath Keepers — proof that pressure works when even moderate Republicans break ranks. But he's already nominated Bill Pulte, a home-building heir with zero intelligence experience, to replace Gabbard at DNI. Overnight, Russia killed a three-year-old boy in Dnipro after the U.S. delayed air defense missiles to Ukraine. Paul closes with the culture beat — Mamdani, the NBA Finals, a Cruz-Gillibrand bet — and a reminder that the independent movement isn't moving the needle, it is the needle. Country over party. People over politics. Light over heat. Subscribe, rate and share Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff on YouTube, ApplePods, BLEAV, Spotify, all platforms and IndependentAmericans.us.🎙️🚨🇺🇸🗳️