The Edge of Liberty – Year in Review: Power, Control, and Resistance – PART 2

The Edge of Liberty continues its Year in Review with Part 2 of Shaun’s in-depth conversation with author Lisa Ekman, examining power, control, resistance, and the political stories that shaped 2025.

December 16, 2025 2 minutes read

Tonight on The Edge of Liberty, we continue a powerful and wide ranging conversation with Lisa Ekman in Part 2 of our Year in Review: Power, Control, and Resistance special.

📅 Airing Tonight — Tuesday, December 16, 2025
🕕 6:00 PM PST (Special Time)

As 2025 comes to a close, this episode takes a hard look back at the forces that shaped the year — and the resistance that rose in response.

This is not a highlight reel. It is an accounting.

A Year Defined by Power and Control

From expanding government authority to coordinated cultural pressure campaigns, 2025 was marked by an aggressive push for centralized power. Institutions that once claimed neutrality increasingly revealed ideological alignment, while dissent was treated as a threat rather than a safeguard.

In this conversation, we examine how power was exercised, justified, and normalized — often under the banner of safety, stability, or progress.

Resistance Is Not Extremism

One of the defining narratives of the year was the attempt to redefine resistance as danger.

Lisa Ekman breaks down how peaceful opposition, constitutional arguments, and public skepticism were reframed as radical or destabilizing. We discuss the media’s role in shaping that narrative and the long term consequences of labeling citizens as problems for questioning authority.

Why This Conversation Matters Now

This is not just a retrospective. It is a warning.

Understanding how power was expanded and how resistance was delegitimized is critical going into the next year. What was normalized in 2025 will be used as precedent in 2026 unless it is challenged.

That is what this discussion is about — clarity, accountability, and the refusal to accept inevitability.