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My guest today is Eric Brake, the new executive director of the Free State Project,

a nonprofit that since 2001 has

been working to get small government diehards to move to New Hampshire and make the Granite

state a stronghold for libertarian ideas. Prior to becoming ahead of the Free State Project,

Braykeye was a Republican state senator in Maine, where he authored

successful legislation that expanded gun rights, legalized over the counter birth control,

and enacted right-to-try legislation. We talk about the state of the Libertarian movement,

how Ron Paul and Young Americans for Liberty shaped his worldview, and how he hopes

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