Secure Freedom Minute
One minute of national security with Frank Gaffney
Podcast Description
One minute of national security with Frank Gaffney
Listen on:
Episodes

Sep 25, 2025
Don't Prop Up the CCP
Sep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025
55 sec
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The Chinese Communist Party is in trouble. The question is: Will the United States once again intervene to prop it up – or help liberate the Chinese people from the regime that has killed over a hundred million of them and threatens to do even worse to us?
The CCP is under acute stress from the cumulative effects of several intractable problems. These include serious economic difficulties, a population doomed to contract dramatically and attendant political turmoil suggesting Xi Jinping’s hold on power may be nearing an end.
President Trump is evidently being told the result could be chaos – possibly leading to the toppling of the Chinese Communist Party – and that this country must not pile on.
While there can be no absolute certainty about how and when the Communist go odious regime will fall, the risks of a government that is determined to destroy us remaining in power and doing basically whatever it can to that end via “unrestricted warfare” are unacceptably high.
We need to revert to President Reagan’s strategy for liberating enslaved peoples like those of the Soviet Union by cutting off our enemies’ hard currency cash flow and practicing “peace through strength.”
This is Frank Gaffney.

Sep 24, 2025
Heads-up - We are at War
Sep 24, 2025
Sep 24, 2025
56 sec
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Without explicitly saying so, two recent official disclosures suggest we are at war.
The first, issued by the National Counter-Terrorism Center, warned that al Qaeda cells have embedded themselves across major urban centers in this country. Consistent with the group’s 9/11 attacks, their targets appear aimed at maximizing casualties and chaos by targeting transportation systems and crowded public spaces.
The second, just revealed by the Secret Service, indicates that a devastating attack on telecommunications networks in the New York City region was narrowly averted this week. It’s being described as the work of an unnamed foreign government and individuals here.
We need an informed national debate about the war we are in, the fact that it could go fully – and potentially devastatingly – kinetic at any moment and how Americans can be read-in and crowdsourced to help authorities identify and counter enemies within.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Sep 23, 2025
Sep 23, 2025
56 sec
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
President Trump will address the United Nations today amidst an outbreak there of mass psychosis. Fully one-hundred-fifty countries believe there is a Palestinian state and recognize its existence.
Presumably, Mr. Trump will point out the obvious: There actually is no state of Palestine. Indeed, the closest thing to one was the former Hamas-controlled Gaza. It was a terrorist safe-haven, endlessly attacking Israel.
Pretending that there is such a state will not conduce to peace. Rather, Hamas dead-enders who refuse to surrender will fight on, convinced they’ll be rescued from the complete defeat Israel is determined to achieve.
Mr. Trump is expected to reject the sort of mob-rule with Chinese characteristics inherent in the UN’s global governance agenda in favor of national sovereignty and constitutional rule. The Palestinian state delusional gambit is a prime example of why we must put America First.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Sep 22, 2025
Charlie Kirk, Spiritual Warrior
Sep 22, 2025
Sep 22, 2025
56 sec
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
One of the most important take-aways from the extraordinary funeral service for Charlie Kirk on Sunday was the insight that he committed his life, and ultimately gave it, to the conduct of spiritual warfare. Few of any age, let alone his tender one, have done it better, or more impactfully.
Among the forces of evil Charlie fought tirelessly were atheistic Communism, demonic Sharia-supremacism and godless globalism – a “totalitarian trifecta” currently pursuing the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization. He valiantly taught students, and the rest of us, that the United States is essential to the defeat of such enemies, foreign and domestic.
The power of that message – and the imperative need to make a redoubled effort to carry it forward – was showcased brilliantly by Charlie’s formidable widow, Erika, and numerous friends, many of them in high office, including President Trump.
Let’s make it so.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Sep 18, 2025
Slandering Charlie, Undermining America
Sep 18, 2025
Sep 18, 2025
56 sec
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Yesterday, Jimmy Kimmel lost his late-night gig for describing Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer as MAGA.
Other outrageous comments about Charlie himself deserve condemnation, too – including claims on social media to the effect that Israel was somehow involved in his assassination and that he was an asset of Israeli intelligence.
The evident contradiction between such lies notwithstanding, they exemplify intensifying efforts to divide Americans and foster in particular enmity towards the Jewish State and Jews.
Who’s behind this agenda? Obviously, anti-Semites come to mind. Sharia-supremacists bankrolled by Qatar are doubtless in the mix, as well.
And Chinese and Russian bots are reportedly promoting narratives about Charlie Kirk that inflame hostilities between Americans and otherwise advance China’s long-running, “unrestricted warfare” aimed at taking down our country.
Irrespective of the source, such lies about Charlie Kirk must be denounced and their perpetrators held accountable.
This is Frank Gaffney.

Sep 17, 2025
Sep 17, 2025
56 sec
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
A typically anti-Israel UN commission claims her leaders areengaged in “genocide” in Gaza. The real genocide, however, is that Hamas is conducting against its own people.
Widespread destruction, the loss of life and whatever hunger is actually being experienced there are, first and foremost, afunction of the jihadists’ refusal to surrender.
Worse yet, they have deliberately maximized civilian casualties by using non-combatants as human shields, weaponizing their schools, hospitals and mosques to mount attacks on Israel and her forces. Hamas also deprives them of food made abundantly available to its terrorist regime and, in some cases, shooting those desperately seeking sustenance.
War is hell. But the overwhelmingly discriminant way theIsraelis are waging it in the most intense urban battle spaceimaginable is not genocide, despite the abominable efforts of its enemy – and ours – to make it so.
This is Frank Gaffney.
Secure Freedom Minute
The Secure Freedom Minutes are my weekdaily commentaries heard weekdays on over 350 radio stations across America. They provide in a highly accessible form vital information about the day’s most important developments that bear on our nation’s security – and yours.

