A former Trump donor's solo case for ballot audits, Article 5 conventions, and court reform.
Call to Action frames national politics as an emergency requiring direct pressure on courts, media companies, and public officials. Its episodes move quickly from constitutional text to accusations about elections, censorship, pandemic claims, immigration, and institutional failure.
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Call to Action is primarily a solo-monologue political commentary show, with host Dave Fashenpour — a retired U.S. Air Force captain and 20-year Boeing space station engineer — speaking directly to listeners in episodes that typically run under 25 minutes. The show's throughline is the claim that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent and that existing institutions, including the Supreme Court, failed to address it. Recurring subject matter includes the Texas v. Pennsylvania lawsuit filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Maricopa County, Arizona ballot audit effort involving activists David Jose, Josh Barnett, and Liz Harris, and the proposed use of Jovan Pulitzer's 'kinematic artifact auditing' method to examine ballots. The host also proposes broader constitutional remedies, including an Article 5 Convention of the States to pass amendments on election-fraud annulment, judicial accountability, press licensing, and congressional oversight of tech-platform content moderation. Some episodes turn a critical eye inward, including one where the host explains why he stopped actively supporting Donald Trump over what he describes as manipulative fundraising emails, and another that applies a shared 'half-truths' critique to QAnon and to mainstream outlets owned by AT&T, Disney, Comcast, Viacom, and the Murdoch family. Occasional interview episodes bring on activists directly involved in state-level audit efforts, but the format is dominated by first-person commentary rather than back-and-forth conversation. Listeners are assumed to already hold conservative, election-fraud-sympathetic political views rather than being persuaded from a neutral starting point. The show has no music, cold opens, or produced segments — episodes read as direct-to-mic address. It is best suited to listeners already following state-level 'audit' movements and Article 5 convention advocacy rather than general political news consumers.
Made for: Listeners sympathetic to 2020 election-fraud claims who want constitutional-mechanism proposals like ballot audits and an Article 5 convention.
What sets it apart: Unlike general political-commentary shows, it pairs first-person Trump-movement disillusionment with specific procedural remedies — citizen constitutional notices, kinematic ballot auditing, Article 5 amendments — rather than general punditry.
A call for people to step-up and take action to reclaim our wonderful nation and a call for a leader to be identified. Are you a leader? Come forward and we will follow.
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