Brandi Kruse: How I Exposed Antifa, Cured My TDS, and Met President Trump

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode Brandi Kruse opens up about what finally broke her out of the mainstream-media echo chamber, how living and working in Seattle shaped her perspective, and the pivotal moments that revealed just how deeply dishonest the media ecosystem had become. She shares what red-pilled her, the fallout with friends and family, and why she ultimately pulled the lever for Trump in 2024.

If you’ve ever wondered:

What really goes on inside Antifa-run “autonomous zones”
Why left-wing extremism gets a free pass
How citizen journalists are being targeted
What it actually takes to shake off TDS

…this episode is for you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of The Chicks on the Right podcast.
0:03.9	Today we have a very special guest.
0:05.9	It's Brandy Cruz.
0:07.0	She's host of the Undivided Podcast.
0:09.7	She is a recovered TDS sufferer.
0:12.7	Recently, she participated in the roundtable at the White House about Antifa violence.
0:17.2	And we'll get to that roundtable in just a second.
0:20.0	But first, we want to hear what cured
0:22.3	you of your self-described TDS. Gosh, time, a lot of time, apparently. It took maybe almost 10 years.
0:30.5	I didn't come around to President Trump until about two weeks before the assassination attempt in
0:36.7	Butler, Pennsylvania. And I'd been
0:39.4	slowly being red-pilled, but not quite to the extent that I could let go of my TDS. I mean,
0:44.1	I live in Seattle, and I've been a, I had been a mainstream journalist in Seattle for 10 years,
0:48.7	almost 10, 12 years. And so I think getting out of that environment, I decided to quit that job
0:53.6	in TV news in November of 2021 to launch my independent show. And so I think getting out of that environment, I decided to quit that job in TV news in
0:55.1	November of 2021 to launch my independent show. And I think you don't realize the extent to which
0:59.8	you're in this really toxic echo chamber until you're out of it. And you can start to sort of
1:04.1	think for yourself a little bit. So I think that helped quite a bit. But there were also some really
1:08.9	pivotal moments for me where I realized
1:10.8	how deeply dishonest the media ecosystem was. You know, the coverage of the 2020 riots.
1:16.4	And what we saw in Seattle was pretty bad to see it downplayed was mind boggling to me.
1:21.0	Also the coverage of the pandemic. The real inability or lack of desire to question anything
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