In this Thanksgiving Eve edition of The Next Steps Show, Peter Vazquez begins with the brutal truth the world wants to ignore: Iran’s regime is executing its own people to cling to power.

Former political prisoner Shirin Nariman relives her teenage years inside Evin Prison torture, firing squads, and friends taken out to die while calling Americans to stand with the National Council of Resistance of Iran and the fight for a free, non-nuclear republic.

From there, the lens turns back home. Project 21 ambassador Marie Fisher, a black Jewish conservative, tears apart victimhood politics and reminds listeners that American freedom is God given, not government granted, and that gratitude for both blessings and hardship is the path out of rage and envy.

Youth for Christ Rochester’s Michael Hennessy adds that gratitude is the “vaccine for discontentment,” grounding it in Scripture and the hard reality of working with young people caught in today’s cultural storm.

Finally, Air Force Lt. Col. (Ret.) and Project 21 ambassador Berney Flowers confronts the growing Vanbōōlzalness Crisis head-on, explaining how open borders, imported lawlessness, and foreign influence are weakening America from within.

He calls for a national return to God, country, and family if we expect this nation to endure.

This is an hour about foundations, courage, and the next steps required of the righteous when the culture is collapsing around them.

Listen, share, and invite someone who needs clarity and conviction. Choose your next step, speak up, and stand with those rebuilding the foundations before someone else decides your future for you.

America is in a spiritual and cultural crossfire, and Peter Vazquez refuses to sit quietly. Joined by Terris E. Todd, Director of Coalitions and Outreach for Project 21 and former White House appointee, the conversation traces a line from National Bible Week to a generation starved for truth.

They expose how Black and Brown communities are being hit by the Vanbōōlzalness Crisis through abortion, cultural manipulation, demasculinization, and a church that often chooses fog machines and entertainment over repentance and discipleship.

Peter and Terris walk through campus worship breakouts, Gen Z’s rising hunger for God, and data that show collapsing mental health, rising suicide, and a dangerous comfort with censoring and even attacking those who speak unpopular views.

They confront the Islamification of places like Dearborn, the failure of multiculturalism without unity, and the role of the Left in importing and empowering ideologies that openly reject America’s foundations.

From liquor stores and churches on every corner in failed cities, to China’s AI ambitions and the threat of godless technology in the hands of hostile regimes, this conversation refuses to look away from hard realities.

Instead, Peter and Terris call believers, especially in Black and Brown America, back to Scripture, back to courage, and back to the simple next steps of obedience: honor lawful authority, guard your mind, fight for your family, and stand as an unashamed voice for God, liberty, and this one nation under Him.

Listen, share, and weigh in with your own next steps so that your voice, your story, and your faith become part of the answer instead of part of the silence.

America stands at a crossroads where cultural confusion, ideological pressure, and accelerating technological force collide. Justine Brooke Murray, MRCTV Video Host/Blogger, Anderlik Fellow at the Media Research Center (MRC), journalist, and unapologetic defender of free expression, maps the domestic fracture.

She reveals what follows when powerful institutions abandon their duty to truth. From activist mobs to professors enforcing ideological obedience, she has watched young Americans conditioned to fear debate, distrust the Constitution, and accept censorship as virtue.

Her service in the Office of the Vice President under Mike Pence and her work in the Miss America Organization, where she advances the First Amendment as her platform, reflect her commitment to reversing that drift.

Through her weekly series Woke of the Weak, she tears back the curtain on the cultural destabilization shaping the next generation.

The external fault line is no less dangerous.

Colonel Robert L. “Bob” Maginnis, retired U.S. Army officer, Pentagon strategist, and author of thirteen books on national security, outlines a battlefield reshaped by artificial intelligence and hybrid warfare.

China now conducts war simulations by the thousands, weaponizes information at industrial scale, and merges drones, disinformation, cyber pressure, and psychological manipulation into a unified, relentless mode of conflict.

Decision cycles collapse to seconds, and adversaries stand ready to exploit a nation weakened by cultural and moral uncertainty.

Together, their insights form a stark portrait of an America tested from within and targeted from without. Institutions that once shaped citizens now encourage fragility. Media that once informed now engineers narratives.

Technology amplifies every vulnerability faster than society can react. Their warnings converge on a single path of recovery: faith, free expression, moral clarity, and the enduring principles that once forged a confident and unified nation.

Darkness does not conquer a nation when it first appears, but when people stop recognizing it.

Peter Vázquez takes listeners to the foot of the Cross, to the unnamed soldier who pierced Christ’s side, and uses that “Longinus moment” to reveal how America now stands in front of truth and still chooses blindness.

From Dearborn’s Sharia-aligned politics to California’s cultural collapse, from Epstein’s web of influence to Trump’s release of the files, the hour tracks how spiritual warfare shows up as policy, propaganda, and cultural decay.

Claims that “crime is down” crumble as domestic violence rises, fear intensifies, and families fall apart. A loneliness epidemic grips the young, while hotel homelessness and welfare fraud expose a system that rewards dependence and punishes responsibility.

Callers press difficult questions about Christ’s ascension, righteous duty, corrupt elites, and the growing threat of digital ID systems that feel like a dress rehearsal for Revelation 13.

A retired officer testifies to God’s grace in moments of danger. A major gift from Tom Golisano shows the difference between wealth that corrupts and wealth that serves.

Threaded through every moment is a single challenge: Will we keep thrusting the spear into truth, or finally let the blood and water open our eyes?

This is not a conversation for spectators. It is a call to stand firm in faith, defend the foundations of family and country, and lead with conviction in a culture determined to forget both.

National Absurdity Day set the tone, but the hour quickly exposed something far more serious: a nation being divided on purpose. What begins as cultural tension turns into open conflict, from Dearborn’s prayer calls echoing through neighborhoods to protests split between Christians and Muslims, all defended under the banner of “rights” while an ideology unwilling to assimilate advances unchecked.

Callers drove the point home. Some described Rochester’s once-Christian churches transformed into mosques while the Christian presence fades. Others warned that families who demand moral clarity from schools have not upheld it in their own homes.

Youth for Christ’s Mike Hennessy laid bare how progressive Christianity hollowed out the church by trading righteousness for social fashion, leaving communities spiritually disarmed.

By the end, the pattern was undeniable. Masculine virtues like duty, courage, and steadiness under pressure once defined American life. Today those values are mocked here while celebrated in cultures openly hostile to our own.

This episode confronts the reality of a country under internal siege and makes clear that reclaiming faith, fatherhood, and cultural strength is not a luxury. It is the last safeguard against national collapse.

Host Peter Vazquez and guest Brian Thomas Wetzel go straight at the crisis in America’s classrooms and the confusion in our culture, not to complain, but to point toward rebuilding.

Wetzel draws on years of creating K-12 curriculum and speaking with more than 160 teachers and administrators to expose a system that burns out good educators, shields bad behavior, and sidelines math, science, and reading under layers of ideology and red tape.

His conclusion is unapologetic: public education must be stripped back to first principles and rebuilt around truth, order, and excellence.

From there, the conversation turns to Wetzel’s book, A Path to Faith Through Science and Common Sense. Peter and Brian confront the claim that “science has made God unnecessary,” and instead highlight scientists and former atheists who followed the evidence in DNA, the fine tuning of the universe, and the mystery of consciousness and came to see the fingerprints of a Designer.

They explore near-death experiences, serious research at the University of Virginia, and why so many people quietly testify to realities that materialism cannot contain.

Woven through the discussion are International Men’s Day, the vital role of men and fathers, rising youth violence and depression, and data showing that people of faith report higher levels of happiness.

The result is a direct, hope-filled challenge to choose design over chaos, responsibility over victimhood, and a faith that welcomes honest questions instead of running from them.

Combat veteran and former CIA officer Adam Hardage reminds us that Generation Alpha is growing up in an AI-driven world, but this moment offers an opportunity.

With faith, discipline, and strong family leadership, children can learn to navigate technology with clarity instead of confusion. His book The Alpha Blueprint shows how families can raise young people who are grounded, resilient, and ready to thrive.

The conversation then turns to our national history with publisher Robert “Chris” Milligan, who approaches the JFK assassination not as a source of despair, but as a call to honest inquiry.

By challenging decades of conflicting narratives, Milligan and his work at TrineDay demonstrate that truth can still rise when citizens insist on transparency and refuse to accept shallow explanations. His efforts highlight the strength of independent voices determined to preserve genuine history.

Placed together, these discussions reveal a hopeful path forward. When families strengthen their values, when citizens pursue truth with integrity, and when we teach the next generation to discern rather than drift, America becomes stronger. This is a moment for courage, clarity, and optimism about the country we can preserve.

The episode unfolds like a reckoning inside the American church. Peter Vazquez opens by challenging the spirit of the age with a simple line: “Being happy is a choice.” That truth sets the stage for a far heavier reality he refuses to ignore—many churches have replaced biblical authority with cultural approval and political loyalty.

Peter is joined by Dr. Eric Wallace, theologian, New Testament scholar, and founder of Freedom’s Journal Institute. Wallace lays out the crisis without hesitation: “If you put your racial identity ahead of your Christian identity, that is idolatry.” His own journey began when he realized that the values he saw in Scripture aligned with conservative principles, not the progressive ideology that now dominates much of the black church.

Together they confront the widening gap between what congregations profess and how they live and vote. Peter cites the numbers: 82 percent of black Protestants in predominantly black churches say religion is very important to their lives, yet in states like Virginia nearly 90 percent vote for candidates who champion abortion, gender ideology, and government dependency. Wallace calls it what it is—a failure of discipleship and a surrender to outside voices louder than Scripture.

The conversation cuts through the myths of systemic oppression, exposes the confusion of the gender debate, and challenges churches that have traded charity for government programs. Wallace makes the spiritual nature of the crisis unmistakable: “The enemy still controls much of what is happening in society because the church stopped discipling its people.”

This episode is not comfort food. It is a warning shot. It presses believers to face the truth that the Church is losing credibility because too many have shaped their convictions around race, politics, and culture instead of the Word of God. It demands a return to Scripture, a rejection of ideological captivity, and the courage to vote, live, and lead according to biblical truth. It is not a conversation to agree with politely. It is a mandate to stand up, repent, and fight for the soul of the Church before the culture finishes remaking it.