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Bring Our Troops Home Podcast

Bring Our Troops Home Podcast

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The Bring Our Troops Home podcast is a veteran-led effort that challenges the Washington war machine and fights to restore real constitutional limits on when, where, and why Americans are sent into combat. Hosted by Dan McKnight, who served 13 years in the U.S. military, the show digs into the history, politics, and human costs of our endless wars. Each episode looks at the people who pushed us into conflict, the heroes who served, and the growing state-level fight to pass Defend the Guard. If you’re tired of excuses, mission creep, and unchecked executive power, this podcast is for you.Dan McKnight, BringOurTroopsHome.us Political Science Politics & Government
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  • The Tweets of Some Idiot
    Apr 20 2026

    At 8:10 AM Eastern, Sunday morning, President Trump postedthis on Truth Social:

    "The United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!"

    Forty-eight hours earlier, the same president had postedthat Israel was PROHIBITED from bombing Lebanon — the first time in a generation an American president publicly subordinated Israel to American policy. The pressure campaign worked faster than anyone expected.

    There is a third option the president is not hearing fromanyone on Fox News. Reagan took it in Beirut in February 1984, four months after the Marine barracks bombing. They called it weakness.

    History called it wisdom.

    This episode lays out the case for it.

    Full breakdown includes:

    — The IRGC audio that leaked Saturday — Iran's militarycalling its own foreign minister "some idiot" on a maritime radio channel — and the exact parallel between what the IRGC is doing to Tehran and what Israel has been doing to Washington.

    — The 24-hour Hormuz timeline. How we went from"completely open" to the Strait being closed by two differentgovernments in one day.

    — Israel's record of sabotaging every American peace effortfrom April 2025 onward — including the Israeli attack on Iran the day before Steve Witkoff's scheduled Oman trip, and the 303-casualty strike on Beirut 10 minutes after the U.S.-Iran ceasefire took effect on April 8.

    — The civilian cost of what Trump is now threatening.Grandmothers on dialysis. Premature babies in neonatal ICUs. Water treatment. 120-degree summers with no air conditioning in Hormozgan. What a veteran knows about infrastructure strikes.

    — The Reagan-Beirut '84 precedent. The "47 years" line and what it erases — 1953, Iran Air 655, the Iran-Iraq war we armed both sides of.

    — The direct address. Mr. President, you are in a losingposition. Leave. Put America First for real.

    — The closing question: when the IRGC called someone"some idiot" on that tape, which foreign-policy-making civilian government were they really mocking?

    🔗 SIGN THE OPEN LETTER:"Veterans Have Earned the Right to Ask" https://campaigns.civiclick.com/06c1b6b7-19bf-4517-8def-df180e901430

    🔗 DEFEND THE GUARD — state-level legislation to stop the pipeline: https://defendtheguard.us

    🔗 SIGN THE PETITION — Tell Congress to reclaim their Constitutional War Powers: https://bringourtroopshome.us

    🔗 NEGOTIATORS LAND IN ISLAMABAD MONDAY NIGHT. CEASEFIRE EXPIRES WEDNESDAY. CALL YOUR SENATOR NOW. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121

    FOLLOW:
    Bring Our Troops Home on X: @TroopsHomeUS
    Dan McKnight on X: @DanMcKnight30
    Websites:
    https://BringOurTroopsHome.US
    https://DefendTheGuard.US

    SUBSCRIBE AND SHARE. The more Americans who understand what Article I, Section 8 says — and what happens when a foreign government has a bigger vote in our foreign policy than our own Constitution — the harder it becomes to hide behind classified briefings and Truth Social posts.

    For the Constitution. For the troops. Bring Our Troops Home.

    #BringOurTroopsHome #DefendTheGuard #ArticleI #EndtheWars#IranWar #NoWarForIsrael #ThirdOption #AmericaFirst

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    49 mins
  • Greatest Victory Possible?
    Apr 9 2026

    Tuesday night, President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran. The nation exhaled. We exhaled.

    But before you call it a win, you need to understand what we agreed to.

    Iran's ten-point proposal — which the White House accepted as the basis for negotiation — includes: a toll on the Strait of Hormuz that will generate over $7.5 billion a year in new Iranian revenue. The current government stays in power. Sanctions lifted. A non-aggression guarantee. Halting of IAEA investigations. Regional ceasefire including Hezbollah. U.S. military withdrawal from the region.

    And the one that should stop you cold: recognition of Iran's right to nuclear enrichment.

    The same nuclear program we launched Operation Midnight Hammer to destroy. The same "imminent threat" that justified bypassing Congress. The same two-weeks-to-ten-nuclear-weapons claim that came from Netanyahu to Witkoff to Trump — with no intelligence analyst anywhere in the chain.

    Six weeks and thirteen dead Americans later, we just agreed to let them keep enriching.

    Either the threat was real and we surrendered. Or the threat was exaggerated and we sent Americans to die for a lie. Pick one.

    Meanwhile, National Guard units from eighteen states are still in theater — deployed without a declaration of war, with governors who don't know where their own troops are or when they're coming home.

    This episode covers:

    • The full breakdown of Iran's ten-point ceasefire proposal — and what each term actually means
    • The equipment losses: F-35s, F-15s, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and billions in damage
    • The thirteen Americans killed and the hundreds wounded in an unauthorized war
    • The eighteen states with National Guard deployed — unit by unit, state by state
    • What sitting governors said when asked about their own troops (they don't know)
    • Why Defend the Guard legislation is the only structural fix
    • The one thing President Trump still has to do — and why restraining Israel is not optional

    For Defend the Guard resources in your state, visit www.DefendTheGuard.us and click your state on the map.

    Join the movementBring Our Troops Home is the only national organization actively working to restore constitutional war powers by passing Defend the Guard legislation in the states.

    If you believe Congress — not the president — should decide when America goes to war, join us.

    Sign the petition, support the movement, and help us pass Defend the Guard in every state.

    🌐 WebsitesBring Our Troops Home - https://BringOurTroopsHome.usDefend the Guard - https://DefendTheGuard.us

    Follow Bring Our Troops Home𝕏 /Twitter: https://x.com/TroopsHomeUSFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TroopsHomeUS

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/troopshomeus/

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    29 mins
  • Joe Kent vs The Blob
    Mar 23 2026

    Joe Kent served 11 combat deployments. He earned six Bronze Stars. He was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center — appointed by Trump, confirmed by the Senate. His job was to know whether Iran posed an imminent threat.

    He resigned rather than lie about it.

    In his resignation letter, Kent said Iran posed no imminent threat — and that the president was deceived by an echo chamber running the same playbook used to drag us into Iraq. Within hours, the system destroyed him. The president called him weak on security. The press ran FBI leak stories. His colleagues went quiet.

    Meanwhile, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — the one man with the subpoena power and the gavel to hold a public hearing — refused. And in a classified briefing, Jim Risch told his colleagues exactly why: "I do not believe the administration's decision makers should be subject to public questioning by senators."

    Dan McKnight has a long personal history with Jim Risch — from a satellite phone call on a mountain in Afghanistan in 2006 to a box of Afghanistan Papers delivered to his Boise office with no response. In this episode, Dan tells that story in full — and makes the case that Risch is not a bad man. He is a captured man. There is a difference.T

    his episode covers:• Why "imminent threat" is a legal standard — not a talking point — and what it actually requires

    • The two Tulsi Gabbard testimony moments that contradict the White House's justification for the war
    • How the "two weeks to ten nuclear weapons" claim traveled from Netanyahu to Witkoff to Trump — with no intelligence analyst anywhere in the chain
    • What Senator Tim Kaine revealed Risch said behind closed doors about public oversight• The Norman Brownstein video — and what it means when a lobbyist calls the SFRC "the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for the State of Israel"
    • A direct appeal to veterans: Joe Kent kept his promise. Jim Risch broke his. Which choice are you going to make?

    Read the open letter published in The American Conservative — signed by Dan McKnight, Col. Douglas Macgregor, Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, and Capt. Matthew Hoh: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/veterans-have-earned-the-right-to-ask-its-time-we-did/

    Add your name to the petition: https://BringOurTroopsHome.us then click "Stand With Joe Kent"

    For Defend the Guard resources in your state, visit www.DefendTheGuard.us and click your state on the map.

    Join the movement

    Bring Our Troops Home is the only national organization actively working to restore constitutional war powers by passing Defend the Guard legislation in the states.

    If you believe Congress — not the president — should decide when America goes to war, join us.

    Sign the petition, support the movement, and help us pass Defend the Guard in every state.

    🌐 Websites

    Bring Our Troops Home - https://BringOurTroopsHome.us

    Defend the Guard - https://DefendTheGuard.us

    Follow Bring Our Troops Home

    𝕏 /Twitter https://x.com/TroopsHomeUS

    Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TroopsHomeUS

    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/troopshomeus/

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