Next Steps Show

When Justice Becomes a Revolving Door

Justice was never meant to be a revolving door. In New York, it has become one by design. Accountability has been stripped from the system and replaced with slogans that promise compassion while delivering danger. Peter Vazquez confronts that reality head-on alongside Ken W. Good, attorney and national bail-policy expert, whose work exposes what these policies do once theory meets the street.
 
This is a reckoning with bail reform, repeat-release justice, and a system that treats risk as irrelevant. Judges are forbidden from weighing dangerousness. Chronic offenders are recycled until communities learn their names by memory. Victims are erased from the narrative while officials insist the numbers say everything is fine.
 
The conversation cuts through the mythology of “simple release,” algorithmic justice, and activist pseudoscience. When consequences vanish, youth crime accelerates. Gangs recruit with confidence. Court backlogs swell, cases collapse, and lawlessness learns it will be tolerated. This is not reform. It is abandonment.
 
The warning is unmistakable. When government refuses to enforce order, disorder fills the vacuum. History does not argue this point. It records it.

The High Cost of Complacency: God, Country, Family Under Fire

Families gather, meals are shared, and yet the deeper question remains: What holds a nation together when gratitude fades and complacency takes root?
 
On this episode, the conversation turns from Thanksgiving warmth to the cold realities facing America. Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Bernie Flowers returns to confront the cultural, political, and spiritual fractures that have left communities vulnerable to manipulation, dependency, and division.
 
From Malcolm X’s warning about political exploitation to the collapse of the nuclear family, Flowers challenges listeners to see how victimhood has replaced responsibility, and how elites have profited from chaos while everyday Americans bear the cost.
 
Callers press the hard questions: where is black leadership, why are communities hollowed out by policy failures, and how did government incentives dismantle the very families once defined by strength and faith?
 
Flowers argues that national security begins in the home, that spiritual clarity demands courage, and that freedom requires energy independence, educational reform, and term limits that restore accountability.
 
At every turn, we call citizens back to the fundamentals: God, country, and family.
 
The crisis is real, but so is the path forward for those willing to shoulder the duty of rebuilding what complacency has eroded.
 
The message is simple: lead in your home, stand firm in truth, and refuse to become a victim of the Vanbōōlzalness Crisis.

Freedom Tested: Faith, Gratitude, and Resolve

In this Thanksgiving Eve edition of The Next Steps Show, Peter Vazquez begins with the brutal truth the world wants to ignore: Iran’s regime is executing its own people to cling to power.
 
Former political prisoner Shirin Nariman relives her teenage years inside Evin Prison torture, firing squads, and friends taken out to die while calling Americans to stand with the National Council of Resistance of Iran and the fight for a free, non-nuclear republic.
 
From there, the lens turns back home. Project 21 ambassador Marie Fisher, a black Jewish conservative, tears apart victimhood politics and reminds listeners that American freedom is God given, not government granted, and that gratitude for both blessings and hardship is the path out of rage and envy.
 
Youth for Christ Rochester’s Michael Hennessy adds that gratitude is the “vaccine for discontentment,” grounding it in Scripture and the hard reality of working with young people caught in today’s cultural storm.
 
Finally, Air Force Lt. Col. (Ret.) and Project 21 ambassador Berney Flowers confronts the growing Vanbōōlzalness Crisis head-on, explaining how open borders, imported lawlessness, and foreign influence are weakening America from within.
 
He calls for a national return to God, country, and family if we expect this nation to endure.
 
This is an hour about foundations, courage, and the next steps required of the righteous when the culture is collapsing around them.
 
Listen, share, and invite someone who needs clarity and conviction. Choose your next step, speak up, and stand with those rebuilding the foundations before someone else decides your future for you.

United by Purpose, Guided by Truth

America is in a spiritual and cultural crossfire, and Peter Vazquez refuses to sit quietly. Joined by Terris E. Todd, Director of Coalitions and Outreach for Project 21 and former White House appointee, the conversation traces a line from National Bible Week to a generation starved for truth.
 
They expose how Black and Brown communities are being hit by the Vanbōōlzalness Crisis through abortion, cultural manipulation, demasculinization, and a church that often chooses fog machines and entertainment over repentance and discipleship.
 
Peter and Terris walk through campus worship breakouts, Gen Z’s rising hunger for God, and data that show collapsing mental health, rising suicide, and a dangerous comfort with censoring and even attacking those who speak unpopular views.
 
They confront the Islamification of places like Dearborn, the failure of multiculturalism without unity, and the role of the Left in importing and empowering ideologies that openly reject America’s foundations.
 
From liquor stores and churches on every corner in failed cities, to China’s AI ambitions and the threat of godless technology in the hands of hostile regimes, this conversation refuses to look away from hard realities.
 
Instead, Peter and Terris call believers, especially in Black and Brown America, back to Scripture, back to courage, and back to the simple next steps of obedience: honor lawful authority, guard your mind, fight for your family, and stand as an unashamed voice for God, liberty, and this one nation under Him.
 
Listen, share, and weigh in with your own next steps so that your voice, your story, and your faith become part of the answer instead of part of the silence.

America’s Unraveling: Culture, Power, and Hybrid War

America stands at a crossroads where cultural confusion, ideological pressure, and accelerating technological force collide. Justine Brooke Murray, MRCTV Video Host/Blogger, Anderlik Fellow at the Media Research Center (MRC), journalist, and unapologetic defender of free expression, maps the domestic fracture.
 
She reveals what follows when powerful institutions abandon their duty to truth. From activist mobs to professors enforcing ideological obedience, she has watched young Americans conditioned to fear debate, distrust the Constitution, and accept censorship as virtue.
 
Her service in the Office of the Vice President under Mike Pence and her work in the Miss America Organization, where she advances the First Amendment as her platform, reflect her commitment to reversing that drift.
 
Through her weekly series Woke of the Weak, she tears back the curtain on the cultural destabilization shaping the next generation.
 
The external fault line is no less dangerous.
 
Colonel Robert L. “Bob” Maginnis, retired U.S. Army officer, Pentagon strategist, and author of thirteen books on national security, outlines a battlefield reshaped by artificial intelligence and hybrid warfare.
 
China now conducts war simulations by the thousands, weaponizes information at industrial scale, and merges drones, disinformation, cyber pressure, and psychological manipulation into a unified, relentless mode of conflict.
 
Decision cycles collapse to seconds, and adversaries stand ready to exploit a nation weakened by cultural and moral uncertainty.
 
Together, their insights form a stark portrait of an America tested from within and targeted from without. Institutions that once shaped citizens now encourage fragility. Media that once informed now engineers narratives.
 
Technology amplifies every vulnerability faster than society can react. Their warnings converge on a single path of recovery: faith, free expression, moral clarity, and the enduring principles that once forged a confident and unified nation.

America’s Longinus Moment

Darkness does not conquer a nation when it first appears, but when people stop recognizing it.
 
Peter Vázquez takes listeners to the foot of the Cross, to the unnamed soldier who pierced Christ’s side, and uses that “Longinus moment” to reveal how America now stands in front of truth and still chooses blindness.
 
From Dearborn’s Sharia-aligned politics to California’s cultural collapse, from Epstein’s web of influence to Trump’s release of the files, the hour tracks how spiritual warfare shows up as policy, propaganda, and cultural decay.
 
Claims that “crime is down” crumble as domestic violence rises, fear intensifies, and families fall apart. A loneliness epidemic grips the young, while hotel homelessness and welfare fraud expose a system that rewards dependence and punishes responsibility.
 
Callers press difficult questions about Christ’s ascension, righteous duty, corrupt elites, and the growing threat of digital ID systems that feel like a dress rehearsal for Revelation 13.
 
A retired officer testifies to God’s grace in moments of danger. A major gift from Tom Golisano shows the difference between wealth that corrupts and wealth that serves.
 
Threaded through every moment is a single challenge: Will we keep thrusting the spear into truth, or finally let the blood and water open our eyes?
 
This is not a conversation for spectators. It is a call to stand firm in faith, defend the foundations of family and country, and lead with conviction in a culture determined to forget both.

America at the Brink: Faith, Culture, and Conflict

National Absurdity Day set the tone, but the hour quickly exposed something far more serious: a nation being divided on purpose. What begins as cultural tension turns into open conflict, from Dearborn’s prayer calls echoing through neighborhoods to protests split between Christians and Muslims, all defended under the banner of “rights” while an ideology unwilling to assimilate advances unchecked.
 
It is the slow grinding down of American confidence, carried out under the protection of the very freedoms meant to unite us.
 
Callers drove the point home. Some described Rochester’s once-Christian churches transformed into mosques while the Christian presence fades. Others warned that families who demand moral clarity from schools have not upheld it in their own homes.
 
Youth for Christ’s Mike Hennessy laid bare how progressive Christianity hollowed out the church by trading righteousness for social fashion, leaving communities spiritually disarmed.
 
Each voice traced a different artery of the same crisis: a nation losing its fathers, its faith, and its cultural backbone.
 
By the end, the pattern was undeniable. Masculine virtues like duty, courage, and steadiness under pressure once defined American life. Today those values are mocked here while celebrated in cultures openly hostile to our own.
 
This episode confronts the reality of a country under internal siege and makes clear that reclaiming faith, fatherhood, and cultural strength is not a luxury. It is the last safeguard against national collapse.

Faith and Science: Rebuilding Truth, Order, and Education

Host Peter Vazquez and guest Brian Thomas Wetzel go straight at the crisis in America’s classrooms and the confusion in our culture, not to complain, but to point toward rebuilding.
 
Wetzel draws on years of creating K-12 curriculum and speaking with more than 160 teachers and administrators to expose a system that burns out good educators, shields bad behavior, and sidelines math, science, and reading under layers of ideology and red tape.
 
His conclusion is unapologetic: public education must be stripped back to first principles and rebuilt around truth, order, and excellence.
 
From there, the conversation turns to Wetzel’s book, A Path to Faith Through Science and Common Sense. Peter and Brian confront the claim that “science has made God unnecessary,” and instead highlight scientists and former atheists who followed the evidence in DNA, the fine tuning of the universe, and the mystery of consciousness and came to see the fingerprints of a Designer.
 
They explore near-death experiences, serious research at the University of Virginia, and why so many people quietly testify to realities that materialism cannot contain.
 
Woven through the discussion are International Men’s Day, the vital role of men and fathers, rising youth violence and depression, and data showing that people of faith report higher levels of happiness.
 
The result is a direct, hope-filled challenge to choose design over chaos, responsibility over victimhood, and a faith that welcomes honest questions instead of running from them.

Guarding Our Future in an Age of Power and Deception

America’s future can be secured when parents step forward with confidence and purpose.
 
Combat veteran and former CIA officer Adam Hardage reminds us that Generation Alpha is growing up in an AI-driven world, but this moment offers an opportunity.
 
With faith, discipline, and strong family leadership, children can learn to navigate technology with clarity instead of confusion. His book The Alpha Blueprint shows how families can raise young people who are grounded, resilient, and ready to thrive.
 
The conversation then turns to our national history with publisher Robert “Chris” Milligan, who approaches the JFK assassination not as a source of despair, but as a call to honest inquiry.
 
By challenging decades of conflicting narratives, Milligan and his work at TrineDay demonstrate that truth can still rise when citizens insist on transparency and refuse to accept shallow explanations. His efforts highlight the strength of independent voices determined to preserve genuine history.
 
Placed together, these discussions reveal a hopeful path forward. When families strengthen their values, when citizens pursue truth with integrity, and when we teach the next generation to discern rather than drift, America becomes stronger. This is a moment for courage, clarity, and optimism about the country we can preserve.

When the Church Bows to Culture: A Call to Return to Truth

The episode unfolds like a reckoning inside the American church. Peter Vazquez opens by challenging the spirit of the age with a simple line: “Being happy is a choice.” That truth sets the stage for a far heavier reality he refuses to ignore—many churches have replaced biblical authority with cultural approval and political loyalty.
 
Peter is joined by Dr. Eric Wallace, theologian, New Testament scholar, and founder of Freedom’s Journal Institute. Wallace lays out the crisis without hesitation: “If you put your racial identity ahead of your Christian identity, that is idolatry.” His own journey began when he realized that the values he saw in Scripture aligned with conservative principles, not the progressive ideology that now dominates much of the black church.
 
Together they confront the widening gap between what congregations profess and how they live and vote. Peter cites the numbers: 82 percent of black Protestants in predominantly black churches say religion is very important to their lives, yet in states like Virginia nearly 90 percent vote for candidates who champion abortion, gender ideology, and government dependency. Wallace calls it what it is—a failure of discipleship and a surrender to outside voices louder than Scripture.
 
The conversation cuts through the myths of systemic oppression, exposes the confusion of the gender debate, and challenges churches that have traded charity for government programs. Wallace makes the spiritual nature of the crisis unmistakable: “The enemy still controls much of what is happening in society because the church stopped discipling its people.”
 
This episode is not comfort food. It is a warning shot. It presses believers to face the truth that the Church is losing credibility because too many have shaped their convictions around race, politics, and culture instead of the Word of God. It demands a return to Scripture, a rejection of ideological captivity, and the courage to vote, live, and lead according to biblical truth. It is not a conversation to agree with politely. It is a mandate to stand up, repent, and fight for the soul of the Church before the culture finishes remaking it.

The Cost of Control

The conversation returns to its roots: one man at a microphone, facing a community wrestling with the cost of control. Peter walks listeners through a country where promises of “affordability” quietly harden into systems of dependency, where citizens are reminded that freedom fades fastest when government insists it can live life for you.
 
He exposes how expanding bureaucracy fails veterans, families, and taxpayers alike. The bitter reality confronts listeners: men and women who served return to red tape instead of gratitude, homelessness instead of honor, and a benefits system that moves slower than despair. Racial statistics surface, not as political weapons, but as evidence of operational collapse that demands accountability.
 
Callers push the conversation deeper, raising immigration pressures, youth disillusionment, collapsing urban promises, and a culture that teaches young adults to see themselves only as victims. One caller asks why God allows good people to die, and Peter answers from a place of faith, pointing toward a larger plan that human eyes cannot fully grasp.
 
What emerges is the portrait of a nation at a crossroads, spiritually strained and economically suffocated, yet still filled with citizens capable of reclaiming self-reliance, demanding election integrity, and restoring the dignity of personal responsibility. Peter closes with a charge anchored in discernment, courage, and an unyielding commitment to remain a voice for liberty.

Veterans First: God, Country, Family, and the Fight for Real Care

Veterans Day is not a slogan. It is a standard. On today’s Next Steps Show, U.S. Army Iraq veteran and Combat News founder Sgt. Mark “Sarge” Mitchell joins Peter Vazquez to cut through the parade music and talk reality: God, Country, Family—and the duty we owe those who raised a right hand.
 
Sarge traces a soldier’s path from Fort Jackson to Iraq and reminds us that every veteran—combat or not—earned the title. We confront the culture that makes service “uncool,” the red tape that forces veterans to “ask permission” for basic care, and the perverse housing rules that exclude 100% service-connected vets while other programs enjoy guaranteed subsidies. Numbers matter: ~1,180 homeless veterans statewide in New York, ~17 veteran suicides per day, and 15% of earned benefits left unclaimed because no one told them how.
 
Callers challenge and sharpen the hour: a push to organize veterans’ advocacy with discipline, a retired lieutenant colonel on a society that prizes “for me” over “service before self,” and a reminder that military spouses carry a silent, heroic burden. The answer is not more pageantry. It is policy that works, led by boots-on-ground veterans who know the mission.
 
Want next steps? Start with peer support, direct access to care, and telling the truth—publicly. Join the weekly open forum on X, Wednesdays at 7 p.m., with @SGTMitchell88 and CombatNews.org. Ceremony is easy. Responsibility is victory.

The Art of Confusion: Exposing Media Bias with MRCTV’s Eric Scheiner

The noise was deafening—half-truths dressed as compassion, headlines lit to flatter the left and bruise the right. On this episode, Peter Vazquez sits down with Eric Scheiner, Senior Director of MRCTV, to chart the maze and torch the fog. Scheiner walks through MRCTV’s receipts: lopsided shutdown coverage that framed Republicans as saboteurs while ignoring inconvenient Democratic votes; glamour shots for socialist darlings and vanishing acts for stories that cut the other way. The pattern is not subtle. It is systemic.
 
From New York City’s new hard-left mayor to Virginia races the press refused to scrutinize, the lesson repeats: when narrative rules, facts starve. Abroad, the persecution of Christians in Nigeria barely registers unless a disfavored figure mentions it—then the story becomes the messenger, not the murdered. At home, the same instinct targets faith, family, and anyone stubborn enough to ask for evidence.
 
Callers weigh in—from the Marine Corps’ costly victories to libraries captured by ideology—reminding us that institutions follow the money and the courage of those who show up. Scheiner’s closing counsel is simple and stern: search for truth, speak it, and audit your tools, including AI trained to echo the usual suspects.
 
This is a call to discernment and duty: God, country, family. Peace through strength. Citizenship over spectatorship. The fog lifts when men and women of conviction light the way.

Kick Down the Door: Maát Reed’s Rise and the War on Excuses

America says wait your turn. Take it. Peter Vazquez sits with Maát Reed, a woman who fought from foster care to the corner office and built On The Move Contracting Services the old way: service, discipline, and results. She turns MWBE certification into contracts, not talking points; uses APEX to cut through red tape; and proves that mentorship beats slogans because slogans do not build payrolls.
 
A caller throws heat: Do Black entrepreneurs truly network? Can women lead women without the drama? Maát answers with evidence—active directories, real partnerships, high standards, and a leader’s spine. She refuses the victim script and chooses motion over grievance. Where a door will not open, she finds another.
 
We go inside her Social & Economic Equity cannabis license, far from pop-culture haze: compliance, lending hurdles, medical relief for pain and sleep, and the hard math of running a lawful business. We confront the tired debate over “institutional” barriers with a sharper truth: jerks exist, but they do not get the last word. Tenacity, competence, and community do.
 
The verdict is blunt. Government can nudge. Freedom builds. Build anyway. Then reach back and lift the next builder.

Truth in the Streets: After the Earthquake in New York Politics

The dust has not settled in New York. It shifted. On this episode, Peter Vazquez walks listeners through a post-election landscape where Monroe County’s old firewall collapsed, Greece and Perinton flipped, and City Hall doubles down on “progress.”
 
Callers light up the lines: Keith demanding Trump turn fully domestic and fix the kitchen table economy; John warning of nickel and dime governance; Lorraine pressing the information war the Right keeps losing; Charles pointing to turnout math and hard lessons ahead; Gary tracing thirty years of classroom conditioning and broken voter rolls.
 
Peter connects the dots: culture beats campaigns, schools precede city halls, and parties that ignore their own “Growth and Opportunity” playbook keep reliving the same losses. He uses National Men Make Dinner Day as a parable: lead at home first, model dignity, and rebuild the foundations of God, country, and family.
 
He contrasts poetic promises of “free” solutions with the prose of reality, crime, costs, and a city told “this democracy is yours,” though not for those who still believe virtue, work, and faith matter.
 
This is not despair. It is a summons. Turnout is a duty. Culture is the battleground. Leadership begins at the dinner table and radiates outward to precincts, school boards, and budgets. Truth has fallen in the streets; pick it up. Join The Next Steps Show and take your place in the rebuilding.

Election Day 2025: Truth, Leadership, and the Fight for Freedom

Election Day, 11/4/25. I sit with Monroe County GOP Vice Chair James VanBrederode to cut through the noise: victims sidelined, bad policy fueling poverty and crime, and media narratives smearing conservatives. We weigh Cuomo versus Mandami, when endorsements are strategy, SNAP with work as dignity, and rebuilding local leadership with candidates who serve. City races and courts matter; jurists of character and Marcus C. Williams offer real choices. Turnout lags, independents surge. Faith, family, freedom, duty. Vote by 9 P.M.

Build a Better Henrietta: Leadership That Works for Everyone

Henrietta stands at a turning point. Corey Brown, engineer and father, joins Peter Vazquez to confront failing leadership, rising assessments, and cultural decay with solutions, not slogans. He built schools that deliver 100% grade-level literacy and wants that same results-first mindset in town hall: real transparency through interactive budgets, resident alerts, and fast, bias-free permitting. Brown backs small business districts, early tax relief for startups, and fair, evenhanded code enforcement that targets blight, not homeowners.
 
He rejects Albany’s energy overreach, defends faith, family, and country, and defines diversity by merit and contribution. To restore roots, he proposes Victory Gardens, orchards, and food forests after Henrietta lost 250 acres of farmland, linking neighbors to land and lowering costs. He calls for Monroe County town cooperation, citizen participation, and a return to responsibility—where informed voters shape a free, orderly, and hopeful community.

Crossroads of a Republic: Liberty, Truth, and the Fight for America’s Future

America stands at a crossroads: liberty versus control, truth versus narrative. As federal distrust rises—nearly 70% of Americans say media bias threatens our representative republic—Peter Vazquez speaks with Joshua Philipp of The Epoch Times to expose foreign influence operations, media compliance, and the legal contours of the Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255), invoked only 30 times in U.S. history to restore order when states fail to act. Project 21’s Phil Bell follows, championing faith, family, free markets, and civic grit over dependency, reflecting the truth that only one in three Americans believe government makes life better. No excuses, no fear—build, serve, and guard the Constitution.