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Mar 2022
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EP225: Finding My Mission: Life After th...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Bran Sanpietro spent a decade-plus in government service... but what happens when all that comes to an end? Brett and Team RWB have an answer. Dr. Adam Carrington of Hillsdale College tells the story of the Alien and Sedition Acts and how they were one of America's most controversial laws ever passed. 

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00:00 - Finding My Mission: Life After the Military

35:00 - Fighting Founders: The Alien and Sedition Acts

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