Citizenship, Collectivism, and the Duty to Disobey

On June 25, 2026, Kim Monson welcomes author and Liberty Toastmasters co-founder Brad Beck into the studio for a wide conversation on citizenship, communism, and the American founding. Former Army Lieutenant Colonel Brad Miller and Children’s Health Defense military director Pam Long preview the documentary Duty to Disobey, and House District 44 candidate Bob Davis makes his case to Colorado voters.

Citizenship, Communism, and the American Idea

Start listening at 12:25 – Hour 1

Brad Beck, co-founder of Liberty Toastmasters, opens the morning with a blunt question: what kind of people must Americans be to keep a free republic. He warns that communism and Sharia each push the individual aside in favor of the collective, and he insists the answer starts with self-government. Citizens who police themselves, he says, need fewer laws and far less government in their lives.

Beck makes the case for classical education and old books, pointing to academies such as Excalibur Classical Academy and Liberty Common as alternatives to schools that stopped teaching cursive and watched math proficiency slip below 40 percent. He ties the founders’ Northwest Ordinance to the principle that communities, rather than the state, should run their schools, and he notes that many Silicon Valley parents keep their own children off devices for the same reason. Reading, penmanship, and rhetoric, he argues, build the cognitive habits that resist manipulation.

On the economy, Beck defends capitalism as the only system that lets someone who began with nothing build real wealth, and he praises the lemonade stands he stopped at over a hot weekend as small acts of enterprise worth rewarding. He calls a graduated income tax and family wealth taxes attempts to punish the productive, and he reminds listeners that Colorado collected far more revenue than neighboring Arizona while its roads, bridges, and water projects went wanting. The remedy, he says, is vigilant citizens who know their representatives and ask hard questions.

“If we don’t, as citizens, become the kind of people that are of character and that have virtue, we’ll lose it all.”

Brad Beck, Co-Founder of Liberty Toastmasters

The Unlawful Military Vaccine Mandate

Start listening at 68:41 – Hour 2

Brad Miller, a former Army lieutenant colonel who resigned his commission rather than order the soldiers he commanded to take the COVID shot, is back on the show to preview the documentary Duty to Disobey, premiering nationwide on June 30. He says roughly 100,000 service members lost their careers under the Pentagon’s 2021 mandate, many suffered injuries, and only about 150 have chosen to return to service even as back pay and credit for lost time slowly become available.

Miller’s central message reaches past the military. Signing an enlistment contract and putting on the uniform, he argues, does not strip a service member of constitutionally protected rights, and the same holds for every citizen. He cautions that reinstatement and accountability have moved far more slowly than President Trump’s inauguration promises suggested, and he warns against pinning the entire COVID story on Anthony Fauci when the planning, he says, reached higher and wider than one official.

“Even if you are a service member by signing on the dotted line and entering military service and putting on the uniform, you do not lose your constitutionally protected rights.”

Brad Miller, Former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel

Accountability and the Psychology of COVID

Start listening at 69:16 – Hour 2

Pam Long, a West Point graduate, former Army Medical Service Corps captain, and military director for Children’s Health Defense, serves as executive producer of Duty to Disobey. She argues that no employer and no branch of government can compel anyone to take an experimental medical product, and she wants the public to demand accountability and restoration for the service members forced out under the mandate.

Long raises sharp questions about a reported influenza outbreak among new recruits at Lackland Air Force Base, noting that the branches won exceptions to the voluntary flu vaccine policy in its aftermath even though most of the affected recruits had already been vaccinated. She describes the COVID era as a psychological operation that turned neighbors into enforcers, and she says trust will not return until those responsible face indictment for the moral injury done to the public.

“No one can mandate, not even the Department of War, an experimental drug on people.”

Pam Long, Executive Producer of Duty to Disobey

A Candidate for House District 44

Start listening at 98:32 – Hour 2

Bob Davis, a retired Los Angeles police lieutenant now running in House District 44 around Parker, tells Kim Monson he left California after watching policies he believes are now taking root in Colorado. His priority is affordability, starting with a cap on property taxes modeled on California’s Proposition 13. He is candid that with Democrats one seat from a supermajority in each chamber, advancing major legislation will be difficult.

The conversation widens into how legislation actually moves at the Capitol. Davis warns that outside groups often write the bills lawmakers carry, and Monson adds that the safety clause and the gifts, grants, and donations device let the legislature sidestep voters and invite outside influence. Davis points listeners to the November ballot initiatives from Protect Kids Colorado, which he calls more important than his own race, and he urges voters to drop ballots in person before the June 30 deadline.

“Every dollar spent by the government anywhere in the United States, in the state, local, that is a tax on you.”

Bob Davis, Candidate for Colorado House District 44