As state legislatures enter peak session, something rare happens in American politics.

Votes are cast in public.
Records are created.
And elected officials preparing for primary elections can no longer hide from their own actions.

In this episode of the Bring Our Troops Home podcast, we examine why legislative session combined with primary season is the moment when citizens have the most leverage — and why that leverage terrifies the people who have built careers around endless war.

We begin in Arizona, where Defend the Guard is moving through the state legislature and where a small amount of organized citizen pressure can have an outsized impact on U.S. foreign policy.

From there, we look at the re-emergence of Jeb Bush and his role at United Against Nuclear Iran, and how old neocon networks attempt to reassert influence when state-level resistance begins to form.

We close with Lindsey Graham’s very public fundraising panic, his long record of cheerleading undeclared wars, and the real human cost of treating the National Guard as an unlimited resource for conflicts Congress never voted on.

Arizona is the case study.
Federalism is the mechanism.
Consent is the missing ingredient.

If America is going to fight a war, the people deserve debate, a vote, and accountability before the first deployment — not panic after the system starts to crack.

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