Dave Walden
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Denver, Colorado
Dave Walden is an Air Force veteran and retired IBM professional who is a longtime member of Liberty Toastmasters North. A student of Objectivism who once met Ayn Rand, he brings philosophical depth to discussions of individual rights and liberty.
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Dave Walden is an Air Force veteran and retired IBM professional who has become a passionate advocate for individual liberty and free market principles. A longtime member of Liberty Toastmasters, he served as President of Liberty Toastmasters North and regularly participates in the Kim Monson Show's monthly Table Topics segments.
Walden's philosophical journey began when he encountered the works of Ayn Rand, and he had the opportunity to meet her in person. A student of Objectivism, he brings philosophical rigor to discussions of individual rights, property rights, and the moral foundations of capitalism. He frequently challenges audiences to make the moral case for capitalism rather than just utilitarian arguments.
On the show, Walden is known for his analytical approach to foundational concepts. He developed the "slavery test" for understanding rights: if something requires another person to provide it, it cannot be a right because that would constitute slavery. He has traced each Bill of Rights amendment to specific tyrannical practices the Founders experienced and argued that the Declaration of Independence serves as the essential "source document" for understanding the Constitution.
At IBM, Walden encountered issues of affirmative action firsthand, leading him to analyze how discrimination cannot be remedied through discrimination. He later discovered logical fallacies and now emphasizes the importance of reason and logic as tools against propaganda.
One of the most frequent guests on the Kim Monson Show, Walden has appeared over 35 times since 2021, discussing topics including the philosophical foundations of liberty, the gold standard, property rights, constitutional history, and the moral case for capitalism.
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Episodes
40 appearancesJune 18, 2026
How Engaged Citizens Uphold Individual Rights and Limited Government
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Liberty Toastmasters on engaged citizenship, Karen Gordey on Lakewood's zoning fight, Priscilla Rahn on Excalibur Classical Academy, Pat Miller's run for State Senate, and a Communist Manifesto book review. June 18, 2026.
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an example is worth ten thousand.”
May 21, 2026
Self-Governance Requires a Virtuous Citizenry
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Karen Gordey on Lakewood civic engagement, Liberty Toastmasters on civic virtue, Stephen Varela on Colorado GOP, Paula Sarlls on Memorial Day. May 21, 2026.
“A group of people trying to live together must have an element of trust, and the greater the trust, the greater the success or productivity, standard of living, the greater life that the individuals will lead.”
April 2, 2026
No Right to Violate Rights and the Energy Policies Fueling American Decline
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Dave Walden on why group rights contradict individual rights, and Daniel Turner on state policies driving $9 gas in California. April 2, 2026.
“No one's rights can be secured by the violation of someone else's rights.”
“The results not only speak for themselves, Kim, they scream for themselves. America is the place that everyone wants to come, everyone emulates.”
March 20, 2026
Natural Rights, Cherry Creek Turmoil, and Lakewood’s Upzoning Battle
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Liberty Toastmasters debates natural rights. Cherry Creek SD faces $20M scandal. Lakewood citizens fight upzoning. March 20, 2026.
“The subject of individual rights, there is nothing more important politically than understanding what they are and what they are not.”
December 18, 2025
Healthcare Premium Crisis and the Perils of AI in Medicine
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
“Gratitude is the appreciation of the results of your prudence, your temperance and the fortitude you maintain in your adherence to your values.”
November 13, 2025
Liberty Toastmasters Reflect on Election Outcomes and Civic Engagement
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
“Unless or until Republicans, independents and even Democrats that understand what has happened to them can get together and become united on a focus of turning school choice into the civil rights issue of the 21st century, we're going to continue to graduate a mass of these people that will continue.”
August 28, 2025
The Future of American Energy Policy and the AI Revolution
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
“And if you cannot come to an agreement on that, there's really no point in discussing it.”
July 24, 2025
Property Rights, AI Surveillance, and the Legacy We Leave Behind
Colorado Politics & Policy
Liberty Toastmasters explores property rights while Kurt Gerwitz examines AI cults on July 24, 2025.
“The bottom line is that individual rights are the fundamental rights of each of us, And their only implementation is through property rights.”
March 21, 2025
Gender Industry Whistleblower Exposes Medical Scandal as Toastmasters Defend Constitutional Republic
Colorado Politics & Policy
“Well, if you think about it, one of the most important things it guards against is compulsory altruism.”
January 30, 2025
Trump’s Executive Orders End DEI and Restore Military Readiness
Colorado Politics & Policy
General Joe Arbuckle details Trump executive orders eliminating DEI from the military and restoring readiness. January 30, 2025.
“Reason and logic are the only methods that man has thus far discovered that reveal to him facts and opinions, or opinions backed up by facts rather than beliefs.”
December 19, 2024
Border Security Realities and the Courage to Influence
Chris Harris, retired Border Patrol agent, discusses deportation policy, criminal aliens, and national security threats while Liberty Toastmasters explores civic courage. December 19, 2024.
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, as it is often said, an example is worth ten thousand.”
November 21, 2024
Capitalism as a Moral System and the Fight for Vaccine Choice
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Liberty Toastmasters explores capitalism as a moral system. Pam Long warns of 2025 charter school vaccine exemption legislation.
“Capitalism is simply what you get when you leave people alone. It's the economy that arises just automatically. On the other hand, it's not just an economic system. because absent government coercion, it represents a moral system as well.”
September 27, 2024
Why Educational Choice Is Important To Provide the Best for Our Children
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Kim Gilmartin and Pam Benigno expose Colorado social studies standards introducing LGBTQ content to first graders. September 27, 2024.
“Here in America, we have come to take for granted what few civilizations in history have ever been able to take for granted.”
July 26, 2024
The Kim Monson Show – July 26, 2024
Kim Monson explores consent of the governed with Liberty Toastmasters, USMC Memorial vandalism, and real estate with Karen Levine. July 26, 2024.
“The difference between visitation and trespass is consent, consent of the owner of the subject property to be either visited or trespassed upon. The difference between commerce and theft is consent.”
June 27, 2024
Liberty Toastmasters Day: The Declaration of Indepenence
Liberty Toastmasters on the Kim Monson Show discussing the Declaration of Independence and Jay Davidson on tax equity.
“It is not an accident that the word rights does not appear in the Constitution anywhere, except in the Bill of Rights, which were added as an afterthought. But the whole idea of rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and your individual right to do so is profoundly and proudly stated in the Declaration of Independence.”
May 23, 2024
Constitutional Grievances Then and Now
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Liberty Toastmasters examine the Declaration's 27 grievances against tyranny, finding striking parallels to modern America. Jeffrey Paul warns of progressivism's authoritarian threat. May 23, 2024.
“So my suggestion to the listeners is if you want to understand the important usurpations, as Jefferson called them, that the colonies and the revolution were fighting against, go to the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is the attempt by Madison in particular, but the founders in general, to list what a new citizen of this new country called the United States of America would be protected against.”
April 25, 2024
Wealth for Everyone: The Greatness of Capitalism Explained
Colorado Politics & Policy
Liberty Toastmasters explore capitalism's moral case with Kim Monson. Karen Levine and Lorne Levy discuss housing and mortgages. April 25, 2024.
“The fight for capitalism is not because of its productive efficiency and efficacy, which it demonstrates over and over again. The fight is a moral one, because capitalism is somehow thought to be evil and bad and no good. And that is the battle that must be fought.”
March 21, 2024
Colorado’s Three-Pronged Attack on First Amendment Transparency
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Pam Long exposes Colorado bills targeting open records. Joe Andujo on border security. Liberty Toastmasters analyze Bill of Rights. March 21, 2024.
“What way do you think we would be if those 10 amendments had not been formally, explicitly inserted into the Constitution? Where would we be? They didn't just pull these things out of the air. The First Amendment with speech and the freedom of assembly and freedom from and of religion. I mean, tyrants practiced these things.”
March 15, 2024
Academic Plagiarism and the Collapse of Meritocracy in Higher Education
Colorado Politics & Policy
Dr. Carol Swain exposes Harvard's Claudine Gay plagiarism scandal and how DEI policies erode academic standards. March 15, 2024.
“And so I always say that the second most important thing besides in believing what you're selling is to know the audience you're selling it to.”
“Anytime someone takes a choice away from you, they are robbing you of the essence of freedom. So you must gravitate toward choice because choice is freedom.”
February 12, 2024
Why So Many Taxes? Liberty Toastmasters Table Topics and Election Integrity Concerns
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Liberty Toastmasters debates taxation while attorney John Case defends Tina Peters. Kurt Gerwitz analyzes Bidenomics. February 12, 2024.
“When you're paying your income taxes on the money that you earn, that money represents the time of your life. And when you earn it, it will purchase the time of other people's lives. So that's how I look at taxes. It's a burden that I have to overcome, and it's a burden paid for by a portion of the time of my life.”
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