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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What Is Your Problem With Voting, Mike?
Published October 22, 2026 · 8 minutes 25 seconds · Mike Shaner
You can vote if you want, but you shouldn’t substitute that for everyday human action…
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Episode Archive
What Is Your Problem With Voting, Mike? · October 22, 2026 · 8 min 25 sec · Play above · Read the companion article · Watch on YouTube
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 · 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
- Vance blamed the war.He blamed inflation.He mentioned Israel.He never mentioned Epstein.They’re already lining up the next “anti-neocon” candidates. This is how they do it.Don’t buy it. Get full access to The Black Market Report at antistatecontent.substack.com/subscribe
- Funded by systemic theft (taxation), governments in general, and specifically the United States government, have inflicted more suffering, torture, enslavement, and death on the world’s poorest people than every other entity in recorded history combined.If you understand this and still […]
- The argument in the video is straightforward:Choosing the lesser of two evils still legitimizes the system that produces those evils. The federal tax code is longer than the Bible. No one can tell you how many federal laws currently exist. […]
- Most people vote for something one time and then spend the rest of their lives chasing that dragon Get full access to The Black Market Report at antistatecontent.substack.com/subscribe
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- My new book, Somewhere Free: Songs of a Wilder River, is now available on Amazon.A collection of poetry exploring freedom, love, faith, fatherhood, and the human experience.These are songs without music, stories told through poetry, and reflections on the things […]
- The #cato institute just updated its list of most #free states with #arizona overtaking #newhampshire I don’t necessarily agree. Do you? Get full access to The Black Market Report at antistatecontent.substack.com/subscribe
- REPORT“If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain” is the clichéd response that touches the broader thinking regarding most of my articles about democracy.“Your vote is your power,” I’m assured. “This is the one thing resembling your voice […]
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.