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🐎 America 250 Series: Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride and the Night That Launched the Revolution
Episode 2620
Tuesday, 7 July, 2026

🎙️ Political Trade Secrets’ America 250 Series | Midnight Ride: How Paul Revere Saved the American RevolutionAs America marks 250 years, do we truly understand the dangerous night that launched a revolution and helped make independence possible?In this special America 250 episode of Political Trade Secrets, host Dustin Olson sits down with best-selling author Kostya Kennedy, author of The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America, to explore the real story behind one of the most famous events in American history.This conversation goes beyond the Longfellow myth to pull back the curtain on Revere’s world, the Patriot intelligence network, the taverns and messengers that carried information, the other heroes who spread the alarm, and the chain of events that led to Lexington and Concord.Kennedy explains why Revere was more than a folk hero. He was a silversmith, express rider, trusted messenger, and operator inside an early American communications network that helped turn a British march into the opening chapter of the American Revolution.This episode explores:• The real Paul Revere beyond Longfellow’s legend: silversmith, express rider, and trusted Patriot messenger• The Patriot intelligence network behind the ride, from Joseph Warren and the Green Dragon Tavern to the committees of correspondence• The wider warning system, including Dawes, Prescott, the lantern signal, borrowed horses, and riders spreading the alarm town to town• Why John Hancock and Samuel Adams were in danger, and how the ride helped set the stage for Lexington and Concord• The mystery of Margaret Kemble Gage and whether a warning from inside British command reached the Patriots• Why April 18–19, 1775 changed the trajectory of the Revolution before independence was even declared• What Revere’s ride teaches us today about courage, vigilance, communication, and ordinary Americans meeting the moment• BONUS: Stay to the end for Kennedy on his book Pete Rose: An American Dilemma, recent developments in Rose’s Hall of Fame eligibility, and how Rose could get another look in the next few yearsYou can buy Kostya Kennedy’s new book The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America wherever books are sold.🔹 Join Polling Club for exclusive insights on public opinion: PollingClub.com👉 LIKE, FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE for your front-row seat to how politics really works.