John W. Whitehead

Founder and President of the Rutherford Institute

Austin, TX

About John

John W. Whitehead is the founder and president of the Rutherford Institute, a non-profit organization that advocates for individual rights and liberties. Whitehead has written extensively on issues related to government power, civil liberties, and the Constitution. He has been a frequent commentator on national television and has appeared on shows such as Fox News and CNN. Whitehead is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and has a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. He is a native Texan and has lived in Austin for over 20 years.

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Recent Appearances

Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute•Aug 28, 2025•9:30•host

Conspiracy theorists said ‘cloud seeding’ caused the Texas floods. It did not.

Texas Standard•Jul 16, 2025•50:12•guest

John W. Whitehead

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On the Media

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute

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Recent Appearances

Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom

Conspiracy theorists said ‘cloud seeding’ caused the Texas floods. It did not.

Texas Standard

Key Topics

COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Four Years Later, We’re Still Failing

We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do

The White House's Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws

Watchlisted: You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List

Digital Kill Switches: How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent

Criminality in the White House: The Rise of the Political Psychopath

Apocalypse Now: The Government’s Use of Controlled Chaos to Maintain Power

We the Exploited: The U.S. Government Buys and Sells Its Citizens for Profit and Power

21Jul23 Insurrection, 14th Amendment, & Fake Electors; Gold, BRICS, RFK Jr; Corporate Technocracy Comes for Education

Circle the Wagons: The Government Is On the Warpath

First, They Spied on Protesters. Then Churches. You’re Next

A Nanny State Idiocracy: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best

Don’t Bow Down to a Dictatorial Government. America Is a Prison Disguised as Paradise

Raging Bulls in Blue: The Deadly Toll of Warrior Policing on Steroids

Dictators Bent on Building Military Empires: The Cost of the Nation’s Endless Wars

Distract, Divide and Conquer: The Painful Truth About the State of Our Union