The state is not broken. It is working exactly as designed. Every Sunday, Mike Shaner takes one idea the state needs you to leave alone — voluntaryism, property, war, money, faith, food freedom — and argues it out loud in plain English. No hedging. No both-sides theater. Listen right here, or follow the show on Apple Podcasts and every new episode lands on its own.
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Season 1, Episode 3 — The Abortion Debate, Both Sides: Is a Fetus a Person?
Published August 10, 2026 · 18 min
People ask this more than any other question — sometimes as a challenge, sometimes as a real wound. Mike’s answer is not clever: he never came to Christ to avoid hell, he came because grace pulled him out of a prison he built himself. On fear as the worst possible reason to believe, on separation from God as a choice rather than a sentence, and on refusing to rank anyone’s sins above your own.
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WEAR THIS ONE. I didn’t come to Christ to dodge a fire, and I don’t need a magistrate standing between me and my King. That is the entire Faith & Christ Is King collection — the same argument this episode makes, worn where strangers have to read it.
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Episode Archive
Season 1
Season 1 is a twelve-episode arc, released every Sunday at 8:30am Central. Episodes appear here the moment they publish.
S1E1 — How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell? · Aug 10, 2026 · Play above · Read the Revolution · Wear it: Faith & Christ Is King
S1E2 — You Don’t Need Conspiracy Theories: The Admitted Record Is Worse · Aug 17, 2026 · Watch this episode · Read the Revolution · Wear it: Conspiracy Theories
S1E3 — The Abortion Debate, Both Sides: Is a Fetus a Person? · Aug 23, 2026 · Watch this episode · Read the full transcript
WEAR THIS ONE. MKULTRA. COINTELPRO. Operation Northwoods. Tuskegee. Operation Mockingbird. Midnight Climax. Six shirts, six operations the government eventually admitted to in writing — no theories required. Each one opens the same conversation this episode does, on a stranger’s terms: ask me about it.
From the Archive — Short Audio Editions
Before the show had a season, the essays had a voice. These are the short audio editions of past Black Market Report pieces — two to three minutes each, same argument, read aloud.
Every Episode, As It Drops
- Most abortion “debates” are two people shouting past each other for clips. This one is built differently.There is no real Tomi Lahren in this episode — she did not participate, and that’s the first thing you see on screen. Her […]
- Tonight’s Black Market Report opens with President George Washington himself — who has some objections to being called a wood-toothed tyrant. I take him on over the myth and the legacy. Then an original song. Then the show.00:00 Cold open […]
- People ask me this more than any other question. Usually it comes as a challenge, sometimes as a real wound, and I finally sat down and answered it as honestly as I know how.My answer is not clever. I don’t […]
- For years, there has been an outcry for the inclusion of more political parties on the national stage, but the fire has never been hotter than it is right now, due to Tucker Carlson hinting that he may start a […]
- Do you want to know what my biggest conspiracy theory is?It’s that most conspiracy theories were created by government to paint the AntiState movement as crazy.If we stayed out of the high weeds and focused on what government admits, defending […]
- The Collectivist ArgumentCollectivism is the problem with the restrictionist side of the immigration debate.My argument is not with Republicans or neocons. Their philosophy opposes mine. I would love for them to hear my argument and change their minds, but that’s […]
- In 2022, I wrote that the efforts to defund the police were a Trojan horse that would ultimately benefit authoritarianism. Time would indicate that I was correct.I laid out that argument in Defund the Police Movement Is an Authoritarian Trojan […]
- One of the most misunderstood and deliberately misused passages of the Bible is Matthew 22:15–22.“Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” — Matthew 22:21Manipulative statists will misrepresent that as Christ […]
Read It. Watch It. Wear It.
The podcast is one door into the same argument. The essays are the canonical version, the videos are the short version, and the shirts are the version strangers have to read in line at the grocery store.