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Light Against Empire - The Podcast

Light Against Empire

Welcome to Light Against Empire – the Podcast—part reckoning, part resistance. If you"ve ever felt the chill of rising power dressed as patriotism, you"re not imagining it. We confront the spectacle, expose the performance, and hold a torch to the machinery of modern empire—while listening closely to the echoes of those who once brought empires down.www.lightagainstempire.com

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6:48

For the Ones Who Wouldn't Bow

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/08

Why You Should Listen: For the Ones Who Wouldn’t Bow This isn't a sermon. It's not a slogan. It's a recognition. A secular litany for those who told the truth and paid for it. For the whistleblowers, the exiles, the last ones standing at meetings full of silence. For the ones who wouldn't laugh along, bow down, or bite their tongues. If you've ever been shamed for caring too much, mocked for seeing too clearly, or made to feel alone for doing the right thing— thi...

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6:37

This Far, No Further

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/03

Why You Should Read This Because there comes a time when silence becomes surrender, and goodness demands more than belief, it demands a stand. This essay names the moral line too many still refuse to see, and invites you to step across it with clarity, courage, and conscience. If you’ve felt the ground shift beneath your feet, if you’ve struggled to name what’s breaking, this is the reckoning you’ve sensed but haven’t yet put to words. Read it. Share it. Then ask yourself what side of the lin...

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6:48

Cicero Would Cry in the Senate Bathroom

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/03

Why You Should Read This Because the republic didn’t collapse in a day. It was chipped away—by cowards, clowns, and climbers. This essay isn’t just about Cicero weeping in a bathroom stall. It’s about the death of deliberation, the triumph of theater, and what it means to still care when everyone else has monetized their surrender. If you’ve ever looked around and thought, “Is this really what we’ve become?”—this one’s for you. Send us a text Support the show

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26:50

We the Unready: On the Soulcraft of Democracy

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/07/29

Why You Should Read This We often ask what’s wrong with the system. This essay asks what’s happened to us. Before we rewrite the Republic, we must examine the people holding the pen. We the Unready is not a policy critique—it’s a moral reckoning. It’s about soulcraft, memory, and the kind of character democracy requires to survive. If you believe the future must be built by hands steadier than the ones that broke it, read on. Send us a text Support the show

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21:49

The Fire Thief’s Curse: Why Truth-Tellers Are Punished

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/07/29

Why You Should Listen: Because Prometheus is still chained—and you might be holding the fire he gave. This essay isn’t just a myth retold. It’s a mirror held up to now. If you’ve ever warned the room and been ignored, ever paid the price for seeing clearly, or ever felt the weight of knowing too soon—this one is for you. Come for the Greek tragedy, stay for the truth we keep punishing. Send us a text Support the show

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10:49

The Sacred and the Rational: Toward a Unified Moral...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/07/19

Why You Should Read This Because we’re not just living in an age of collapse—we’re living in an age of disconnection. Not only from institutions or each other, but from meaning itself. Because too many are telling us to choose: soul or science, ritual or reason, belief or evidence—as if wholeness demands allegiance to only half the truth. Because the world is coming apart precisely where our moral architecture used to hold—and we need more than slogans, soundbites, or sterile debates to rebui...

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21:01

We thePeople, Again: A New Continental Congress for a...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/07/19

Why You Should Listen Because the country you were told to believe in may never have believed in you. Because the promise you were raised on might have been someone else’s inheritance. Because pretending everything’s fine is how we got here. Because democracy isn’t a souvenir—it’s a practice. And right now, it’s on life support. Because the story we’ve been told about America—the myth of unity, the holiness of the Constitution, the inevitability of progress—was never the whole story. It was e...

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19:21

The Liturgy of Refusal: Sacred Acts in a Profane Age

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/07/13

Why You Should Listen In a world that rewards noise, cruelty, and numbness, this essay is a quiet call to sacred defiance. The Liturgy of Refusal isn’t about grand gestures—it’s about daily acts that keep your soul intact when the culture asks you to sell it. If you're tired, heartbroken, or quietly outraged, this is your reminder: resistance can be small, holy, and deeply human. Send us a text Support the show

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8:04

The Sacred and the Rational: Toward a Unified Moral...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/07/13

Why You Should Listen Because we’re all looking for something solid to stand on—and maybe, just maybe, it isn’t one side of the divide but the bridge between them. This essay is a conversation between two ancient instincts: the longing for something sacred and the determination to face life with clear-eyed reason. It's for the spiritual and the secular alike—those who pray and those who ponder, who kneel before mystery or marvel at a nebula. You’ll meet Abraham Joshua Heschel and Carl Sagan—t...

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9:42

Trial by Oracle

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/07/13

Why You Should Listen Because our highest court is starting to sound less like a pillar of democracy and more like a mystic riddle machine. Because if you’ve ever squinted at a Supreme Court ruling and thought, “Wait… did they just legalize that or vaporize it?”—you’re not alone. This essay pulls back the velvet curtain (and the smoke machine) on how judicial ambiguity has become a tool of power. It compares today’s cryptic rulings to the ancient Oracle of Delphi—only instead of inhaling volc...

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19:36

We Are Not One People; We Have Never Been

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/07/13

Why You Should Listen If you've ever felt a quiet grief for the country you thought you knew—if you're struggling to reconcile the ideals you were taught with the reality you see—this essay is for you. It doesn’t offer platitudes or easy hope. Instead, it offers something more honest: a clear-eyed look at the myth of American unity, the cost of pretending, and the quiet, necessary work of becoming something truer. It’s not just a critique—it’s a moral invitation to mourn, to reckon, and to h...

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5:50

Special Edition: This is not a Bill. Its a...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/06/30

Why You Should Read This Because the GOP and their “Big Beautiful Bill" want you to feel powerless—and that’s precisely when you must remember your power. This essay is not a think piece. It’s a warning flare. It’s what happens when a lifetime of service collides with the brute spectacle of a government punching down. What you’ll find here isn’t decorum. It’s defiance. The GOP just shoved a flaming dagger of a bill through the heart of the Republic—and called it policy. But this is no bill. I...

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7:44

Christian National Lampoon: Vacationing in the...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/06/29

Why You Should Listen Because this isn’t just satire—it’s survival instinct with a microphone. Christian National Lampoon: Vacationing in the Theocracy You Never Asked For takes you on a blistering, bitingly funny tour through the rising movement that wants to turn your democracy into a sanctuary city for spiritual authoritarianism. We expose the Christian Nationalist playbook using laughter as a weapon, scripture as theater, and policy as prophecy. You’ll meet the people, trace the money, ma...

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6:47

“The Moral Autopsy of a Political Party”

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/06/24

A Forensic Report from the Scene of the Collapse...Today’s episode comes courtesy of the Office of Historical Forensics, Department of Political Pathology.That’s right—dust off your latex gloves and crank up the formaldehyde.We’re opening up a cold one.And by that, I mean a political party that’s been dead for decades.Send us a text Support the show

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