American state legislators and Tea Party organizers make the case in this film that Washington has drifted far from the limits the Founders set on federal power. Interviews and narration walk through the mechanics of that argument: the commerce clause and how courts have used it to expand federal authority over the states, the theory of state sovereignty as a check on that expansion, and the idea of a constitutional militia as a safeguard the founding generation built into the system. The film treats the modern Tea Party movement and a wave of state-level legislation as evidence that a broader push for what it calls a Patriot Uprising is already underway, aiming to restore what it frames as the original balance between citizens, states, and Washington. It moves between historical explanation of the founding documents and present-day political organizing, presenting both as parts of the same argument. The tone throughout is advocacy rather than investigation, built to persuade viewers that federal overreach is real and that state and citizen action is the remedy.