Bring Our Troops Home Podcast

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.

Bring Our Troops Home Podcast is a news podcast hosted by Dan McKnight, BringOurTroopsHome.us, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Dan McKnight, BringOurTroopsHome.us hosts Bring Our Troops Home Podcast, a news show with 24 episodes published.

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  Episode #25

  Trump Threatens to Bomb the Shit Out of Arizona's Ally

  Aug 20, 20261h 32mS1

  On August 17, 2026, the President threatened to bomb Oman. Arizona has a signed military partnership with Oman — and a community college professor signed it.Dan McKnight walks through how a career judge advocate on military leave from Mesa Community College came to bind the Arizona National Guard to a Persian Gulf sultanate, why the governor flew eight thousand miles to watch someone else sign, and why 115 of these agreements exist with no Senate ratification and no state legislature ever casting a vote.IN THIS EPISODE- The unitary executive theory in operation — Operation Epic Fury, "the direct orders of the President," and three war powers resolutions that changed nothing- Muscat, March 13, 2023 — who signed, who watched, and what the document commits Arizona to- Why the agreement text isn't published anywhere, when the State Department publishes comparable agreements routinely- 10 U.S.C. § 341: two cabinet signatures, a fifteen-day notice, 115 partner nations- Brig. Gen. John Conley's testimony against Defend the Guard — and the moment he told the Arizona Senate that the power to raise an army is the power to use one- Article VI and "in Pursuance thereof"- Why the Arizona congressional delegation took two war powers votes three years apart and not one member voted the same way twice- The two-bill strategy: Defend the Guard and the Guard Sovereignty Act- Why 65% of the nation's tactical airlift is the reason this fight is winnableSOURCESArizona Guard–Oman signing, National Guard Bureauhttps://www.nationalguard.mil/News/State-Partnership-Program/Article/3327214/arizona-guard-oman-partner-in-state-partnership-program/Gov. Hobbs on the Muscat triphttps://azgovernor.gov10 U.S.C. § 341https://uscode.house.govGAO-22-104672, State Partnership Program oversighthttps://www.gao.govOperation Epic Fury, Department of Warhttps://www.war.govRogers v. Conley, SB1495 hearing, February 17, 2025https://defendtheguard.us/articles/rogers-bucks-military-over-az-defend-the-guard-bill/Conley confirmation hearing, May 11, 2026https://azmirror.com/2026/05/12/john-conley-senate-panel-hobbs-national-guard-nominee-after-combative-gop-hearing/Robert Pape, Escalation Traphttps://open.substack.com/pub/escalationtrapDefend the Guard: https://defendtheguard.usBring Our Troops Home: https://bringourtroopshome.usBring Our Troops Home is a veteran-led organization. We run on small-dollar donors.

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  Episode #24

  The Prince of Peace Owns Lockheed Martin

  Jun 22, 202651 minS1

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches its members to "renounce war and proclaim peace." Through its investment arm, Ensign Peak Advisors, it has held more than $250 million in the world's largest defense contractors — Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin — documented in its own SEC filings. Four hundred feet from the angel Moroni on the Salt Lake Temple sits the fund that owns them. In this episode, combat veteran Dan McKnight — born and raised in the faith — lays the contradiction out plainly: the prophet who called missiles "gods of stone and steel," the sermon the church later edited, the 1942 declaration that "war is of Satan," J. Reuben Clark's warning from inside the First Presidency, and the widow's tithe that funds it all.This is not an attack on the Latter-day Saints or the gospel. It's a search for it — and a question for the men who manage the money. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BRING OUR TROOPS HOME ▶️ BringOurTroopsHome.US ▶️ DefendTheGuard.US ▶️ X: https://x.com/TroopsHomeUS ▶️ Dan on X: https://x.com/Danmcknight30 ▶️ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TroopsHomeUS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES & FURTHER READING • Ensign Peak Advisors — SEC EDGAR filing history (13F holdings):https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001454984&type=13F • SEC enforcement action & 2023 settlement (Church + Ensign Peak, $5M penalty): https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-35 • Spencer W. Kimball, "The False Gods We Worship" (Ensign, June 1976): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1976/06/the-false-gods-we-worship • Doctrine and Covenants 98:16 ("renounce war and proclaim peace"):https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/98.16 • Gordon B. Hinckley, "War and Peace" (General Conference, April 2003): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2003/04/war-and-peace • J. Reuben Clark — General Conference address, October 1946 (Conference Report) • J. Reuben Clark — Church News, 2 April 1952• First Presidency statement on war, 1942 (Conference Report, April 1942) • Jerreld L. Newquist, comp., Prophets, Principles, and National Survival (1964), ch. 20, "War and Peace" — print source for the Clark, Madison, and First Presidency passages • Robert Pape, "Escalation Trap" — https://escalationtrap.substack.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #BringOurTroopsHome #DefendTheGuard #WarPowers #PrinceOfPeace #LDS #Constitution

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  Episode #23

  "My Plan" - Benjamin Netanyahu

  Jun 9, 20261h 19mS1

  <p>"My plan."</p><p>Those are Benjamin Netanyahu's own words — in a June 1, 2026 letter on official Israeli government letterhead, sent to U.S. Congressman Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) — describing Section 224 of the FY27 National Defense Authorization Act.</p><p>A foreign prime minister called a piece of American defense legislation his plan.</p><p>Three days later, on June 4, the House Armed Services Committee passed Section 224 on a voice vote with no individual member's position recorded.</p><p>This episode walks through the documents, the timeline, the committee debate (full clips), and what comes next. I'm not asking you to take...

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  Episode #22

  Mark Levin Compares Trump to FDR — And He's Right

  Jun 1, 202652 minS1

  <p>Mark Levin went on Fox and compared Donald Trump to Franklin Roosevelt — Trump going after Republicans like Thomas Massie in primaries is FDR purging the Democrats in 1938, and Levin says it's a good thing.</p><p>Here's the twist: he's right. It IS the FDR playbook. He's just wrong about what that means — because the FDR story isn't a story about a leader purifying his party. It's a story about a leader capturing it.</p><p>Levin spent thirty years calling FDR the villain of American big government. So when he holds FDR up as the model, he's not payi...

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  Episode #21

  ED GALLREIN WANTS YOUR CHILDREN | The Draft Is Slavery

  May 17, 202645 minS1

  <p>The most consequential 72 hours of the 2026 cycle.</p><p><br></p><p>Ed Gallrein wants the draft back. Pete Hegseth is flying to Kentucky to rescue him. The primary is Tuesday.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Bring Our Troops Home, Dan McKnight breaks down Ed Gallrein's own words from his Speak Video podcast appearance — where the retired Navy SEAL Captain and Trump-endorsed congressional candidate calls the all-volunteer force a "deeply flawed concept," says our adversaries are "the happiest people in the world" we don't draft American sons, and says he'd be "advocating" to war-game the dr...

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