Iran War Has Cost $25 Billion So Far. Pentagon Wants $1.5T More. Independent Vet Todd Achilles For Senate From Idaho.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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Politics, News, National Security, News Commentary, Daily News, Veteran

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Idaho is in play. That's not spin from a party operative — that's the read on a state where 60% of voters identify as independent or independent-leaning, where a sitting senator is the fourth oldest and seventh richest in the chamber, and where a farm kid turned tank commander turned tech executive is running neck and neck with him among informed voters. Todd Achilles is the first 2026 endorsement from Independent Veterans of America, and on this episode of Independent Americans he lays out the no-BS case for why the rigged two-party system is finally cracking in places nobody expected.

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0:00.0	The guy never served, right?
0:01.7	And he voted against the PACT Act on top of it.
0:03.7	We got 160,000 vets in our state, 6% or the six highest on a per capita in the country,
0:09.8	freaking voted against the PACT Act because they said it was too expensive.
0:13.3	But it had no problem voting to send, you know, you and your generation off to Iraq and Afghanistan.
0:18.1	I mean, this is the kind of stuff that Idaho and see it and they're fired up.
0:40.0	Welcome to Independent Americans.
0:42.9	Welcome to episode 5-0-7.
0:44.8	I am your host, Paul Reichoff.
0:47.6	It is Wednesday, April 29th. We are almost through April.
0:49.1	I can't believe it.
0:50.4	And since it's Wednesday, that means it's what the fuck Wednesday.
0:55.3	What the fuck Wednesday?
1:01.7	Whiskey Tango, Fox Trot Wednesday is here.
1:09.0	And I'm coming to you, of course, from New York City, USA. And the weather is
1:12.7	very nice, very nice to welcome the king and the queen here today. More on that in a minute.
1:18.8	And today's artist of the day, the artist I share with my little boys every morning to introduce them
1:23.6	to new music is the average white band. because I was in a coffee shop this morning,
1:29.3	my local coffee shop, and they were playing Pick Up the Pieces.
1:33.1	Just such a great, groovy, important kind of song.
1:36.9	And the title seemed appropriate for what we're dealing with right now because we're all
1:41.3	picking up the pieces.
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