Resistor Vic Podcast

Everyone has seen the Renee Good video.Almost no one has slowed it down.Sometimes the truth isn’t hidden.It’s just moving too fast to see.Depending upon your point of view. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resistorvic.substack.com/subscribe

This is a short clip from my podcast.I recorded this after realizing that what we’re seeing right now — from government violence to expansionist rhetoric — isn’t just noise or distraction. It’s intent.I didn’t post a video immediately because anger isn’t strategy.This clip explains why.The full podcast episode will be available Monday. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resistorvic.substack.com/subscribe

Lately, I’ve been attracting a new audience — including trolls repeating very familiar talking points.That’s usually a sign that reach is growing and lines are being drawn.This channel believes in democracy, sovereignty, and the basic idea that invasion is wrong. I don’t debate that here. I state it plainly.Thanks for being part of this community — and for standing on principle.Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resistorvic.substack.com/subscribe

Five years after January 6, the wound remains open. Not because we don’t know what happened — but because the truth is still being withheld. This piece examines the attack, the failures that followed, and why public pressure is the only path left to accountability. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resistorvic.substack.com/subscribe

Most people remember 1984 for Big Brother and surveillance.But there’s another lesson in Orwell’s book that feels disturbingly relevant right now — how power organizes itself around permanent conflict and shifting enemies when resistance fades.This piece isn’t about prediction or panic.It’s about recognizing patterns — and what happens when we ignore them.Once you see it, it’s hard to unsee it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resistorvic.substack.com/subscribe

This video looks backward to understand what’s happening now.Iran was once a center of learning, culture, and religious coexistence before its democracy was overthrown and its future redirected by outside powers. The consequences of that decision shaped decades of conflict and resentment.Venezuela is in the news today, but the pattern feels familiar.This isn’t an argument about personalities or parties.It’s about history, power, and whether we ever remember how we got here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...

A viral panic about a Post Office rule change turned out not to be much of a story at all.But the reaction to it says a lot about where we are right now. Journalism is failing. Social media is filling the gap. And fear spreads faster than facts.If we’re going to be the new Fourth Estate, we have to do better than outrage. We have to choose curiosity, verification, and accountability.Because the sky doesn’t have to be falling for democracy to be in danger. This is a...

After posting my video on ACA subsidies and Medicare for All, I heard from a lot of you. Some supportive. Some critical. One very angry.This follow up is a clarification. Medicare for All is not just an expansion of today’s Medicare, and taking health care off employer balance sheets is not a gift to corporations. It’s about freeing workers, strengthening small businesses, and making monopolies less powerful. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resistorvic.substack.com/subs...

A short New Year reflection on fear, democracy, community, and gratitude — and the quiet, deliberate choices that keep the Resistance alive. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resistorvic.substack.com/subscribe

Health insurance didn’t suddenly become unaffordable.The Affordable Care Act slowed premium growth when its guardrails were enforced. But those guardrails were weakened, consolidation ran unchecked, and subsidies only delayed the inevitable.This is why the current spike was always coming — and why Medicare for All is the only healthcare system that can survive partisan politics. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resistorvic.substack.com/subscribe

Every year, there’s a story people like to tell about soldiers laying down their weapons on Christmas Eve. The most famous version didn’t happen in World War II, but during World War I in 1914, when exhausted soldiers along the Western Front stopped fighting for a night. There was also a smaller, lesser-known moment during World War II in 1944, in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge. This is a reflective look at two real Christmas Eve stories, and why they’ve stayed with us. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discus...

This week on the Resistor Vic Podcast, I’m joined by Blythe Potter — an Army veteran, small business owner, and grassroots candidate running for Indiana Secretary of State.We talk about what that office actually does, why so many voters skip down-ballot races, and how election systems can quietly suppress participation without ever touching a voting machine. Blythe explains Indiana’s delegate system, straight-ticket voting, voter purges, and why voter education may be the most powerful reform tool we have.This isn’t a polished campaign ad. It’s a real conversation about what happens when regul...

Trump framed the $1,776 payment to service members as patriotic. Most analysis stopped at the funding source. This piece steps back and asks a different question: why 1776, and why now? Using inductive logic and historical context, this essay examines how symbols function, how meaning shifts, and why some choices deserve a closer look. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resistorvic.substack.com/subscribe

In December of 1944, the 101st Airborne Division was surrounded at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.Facing overwhelming odds, the German command delivered a formal demand for surrender. Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe’s response was a single word: Nuts.This piece isn’t about military heroics for their own sake. It’s about the quiet, human decision to refuse surrender when surrender is presented as inevitable — and why that kind of courage still matters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...

Fear is one of the oldest tools in politics — and one of the most effective.This video provides an example to support what I said in yesterday’s video.In this piece, I walk through a new Colorado ballot initiative targeting fentanyl and show how fear is being used to sell a policy with enormous incarceration costs, predictable racial disparities, and little evidence it will actually solve the problem.This isn’t about denying the harm fentanyl causes. It’s about refusing to let fear override facts, accountability, and democratic judgment.When fea...

Fear has always been one of the most powerful political tools.It freezes people. It convinces them to stop acting. And eventually, it convinces them to stop participating.Franklin Delano Roosevelt warned Americans about fear in 1933, not because danger wasn’t real, but because fear itself could finish the job. Nearly a century later, that warning still matters.In this video, I talk about how fear is used to make people give up their power, why authoritarians depend on it, and why democracy doesn’t end when someone powerful decides it should, but when...

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is serving a prison sentence after being convicted of four felony counts and three misdemeanors related to breaching election security in Colorado.Yet Donald Trump and his allies are now claiming she’s innocent, abused by the system, or even “pardoned” — something a president has no authority to do for state crimes.In this video, I explain who Tina Peters is, what she actually did, why a jury from a heavily Republican county convicted her, and why more than 30 Republican election officials in Colorado said she violated her oath and deserved prosecution.This isn’t re...

Legacy candidates do not break democracy. But they do weaken it.When familiar last names dominate our political system, voters start with an uneven playing field. Some candidates inherit name recognition, donor networks, and media attention before a single vote is cast. Others have to build everything from scratch.This video looks at legacy candidates, political dynasties, and inherited advantage, and asks a simple question. Does democracy work best when power is earned, or when it is inherited?This Thursday, December 18, I will be interviewing Blythe Potter on the Resistor Vic Podcast. Blythe...

I’ve seen a lot of outrage posts today about Trump’s social media post on Rob Reiner.I decided to take a different approach. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit resistorvic.substack.com/subscribe

Last week a Colorado State Senator entered the primary race against John Hickenlooper. All of the major media characterized her entrance as if she is the only person challenging Hickenlooper. Meanwhile, Karen Breslin has been working throughout 2025 on her campaign in this very race. The media won’t cover her because she’s not already well-known, doesn’t have a wealthy bankroll, and isn’t a part of the establishment. Does the press enjoy 1st Amendment protections so they can prop up the establishment? Or is it their duty to inform the public about all candidat...