What Resistance Looks Like

Trump announced yesterday he’s firing a member of the Fed’s board of governors. Only one problem: He doesn’t have the AUTHORITY to fire her, and she came out last night and said she ain’t going anywhere. That’s resistance. Also…the messaging of my new political party still sucks too damn much.
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Gov. Pritzker responds to Trump's National Guard threat to Chicago: 'Do not come'

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker spoke on Monday in response President Donald Trump's threats to send the National Guard to Chicago, saying there is "no emergency" that requires him to deploy military to the city.
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Is PUTIN RUNNING the Show? : A conversation with international expert Jon Finer

While international relationships are essential in a changing, increasingly dangerous world, under the Trump Administration America is doing major damage to both our safety and security by eroding trust with our allies being mercurial and untrustworthy to them while being generous and cozy with our “enemies". Our president clearly sees the world as a zero sum game of how things serve him, and while that particular kind of selfishness might work in the business world, when the only goal is financial success, it doesn’t work in geopolitics if you are creating partners to make the world safer and more secure. We are joined today by Jon Finer, Biden’s former Deputy National Security advisor, to let us know where the international experts feel America sits right now on the international stage.
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First They Came For …

In this solo podcast, I try to unpack a week of extraordinary events—from the FBI raid on John Bolton’s home to Trump’s humiliating summit with Vladimir Putin and the alarming expansion of visa surveillance. A reminder and a warning: These actions aren’t isolated but part of a broader campaign of intimidation and lurch toward authoritarianism.

Seriously. What makes you think they won't come for you, too?
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Inside the Bolton Raid: Trump’s War on His Critics

As the FBI raids John Bolton’s home, Trump’s abuse of power comes into focus. Steve Schmidt breaks down the weaponization of national security and explains why reform and accountability are urgent.
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TRUMP'S DISASTROUS DC "TOUR" AND JUDGES CALL B.S. ON TRUMP'S EPSTEIN GAMES! PLUS TEXAS REDISTRICT

TONIGHT: BREAKING NEWS Steve Schmidt on Occupied DC and Trump's tour of the national mall to visit the National Guard, plus Glenn Kirschner on Judges Calling BS on Trump's Epstein Games.
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Trump Administration Hit With VINDICTIVE PROSECUTION Motion To Dismiss Abrego Garcia Case!

After unlawfully deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, Abrego and his lawyers fought back against the Trump administration and won! Accordingly, Pam Bondi's DOJ indicted Abrego on some trumped-up charges based on a 2022 traffic stop of Abrego in Tennessee.

Abrego's lawyers just filed a compelling Motion To Dismiss For Vindictive And Selective Prosecution.

This video does a deep dive into this new court filing, which exposes the horrific conduct of the Trump administration, as well as the torture a Abrego suffered at CECOT, the prison in El Salvador.
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Trump trying to make America Confederate again

As Donald Trump continues to amass as much power as possible, he's now setting his sights on rewriting American history. Steve Schmidt reacts to Trump's threats towards the Smithsonian and why MAGA wants to whitewash our past.
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Monday's Ukraine Meeting May Turn Out Worse Than Zelenskyy's Last Visit

Well Volodymyr Zelensky may have worn a suit to the White House this time around, but he still didn’t quite get the results he wanted. The US President had little to offer beyond empty promises, even with the presence of numerous European leaders. Professor Angela Stent and General Mark Hertling join David Rothkopf to share why, despite appearances, this meeting might have been even worse than the last for Ukraine.
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Please Understand What Happened Yesterday

I get that most Americans don’t pay real attention to the news every day, but what happened yesterday at the White House was utterly frightening. And most Americans don’t understand this. The most important European leaders changed their plans at the last minute to come to DC to hold the toddler’s hand so he wouldn’t make a big mess.
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Trump's Maniacal Drive To Build An Oppressive Police State - A New Conversation With Greg Sargent

Friends, in recent months my good friend Greg Sargent has been doing great work reporting on Trump’s escalating efforts to build a national partisan police force and with it, an oppressive police state. Greg is a staff writer at The New Republic, and hosts a daily podcast there, the Daily Blast. Here is His most recent exclusive report on the Trump regime's efforts to bring the Pentagon more directly into police state fantasies is called “Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows.” It is harrowing stuff.

I asked Greg to come talk to us for this month it’s become clear that our unhinged, unpopular and increasingly desperate felon-in-chief is going for it - he’s going to try to build an oppressive police state here in America.
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Press Conference with Mayor Michelle Wu

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins community members and elected officials to respond to the recent letter from the Department of Justice and highlight the community policing, partnerships, and investments that make Boston the safest major city in America.
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Mayor Wu's Response To Pam Bondi

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

See Mayor Wu's Letter to Pam Bondi

WTF is HAPPENING America?!

Things are not right. I’m doing my pod from the road today because something wasn’t right. In my particular case it was my son’s appendix, but the wrongness of what’s going on isn’t limited to my immediate family. It’s all around us. We’re drowning in it. So, this pod is about what’s going on this week. What we should be paying attention to. How we know when things aren’t right, and just like we just did with my son, how we take the information we’re given and act if things need to change. Let me know what you think about this episode. If people like this kind of news breakdown, I’ll do more of these episodes…just from home this time.
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Mapf*cked: The Lone Star Screw Job

This week, Rick's Elephant in the Room is the redistricting gunfight in Texas. Ahead of the 2026 midterms and to mitigate Trump's terrible polling numbers, Governor Abbott and the Texas GOP just “remixed” democracy — and not in the fun, dancefloor kind of way. They’re locking in their power with lines so crooked they make Watergate look like a paperwork error. Meanwhile, Democrats in California and New York are quietly plotting their revenge, armed with their own gerrymandering strategies and a deep desire to watch the GOP eat crow. Rick breaks down how this cartographic coup could reshape the House, kneecap voter power, and make every election for the next decade feel rigged before the first ballot drops. If you’re not mad yet, you’re not paying attention.
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Lock Him Up

The news media keeps referring to Trump’s law & order agenda, which sets off my irony antenna. How about also mentioning in this coverage that Trump is a convicted felon and seditious ex-president who violated his sacred oath of office?
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A Conversation With California Governor Gavin Newsom

A conversation with California governor Gavin Newsom following his press conference earlier today. YouTube

Gavin Newsom speaks on California’s plan to redraw congressional maps

California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a press conference on the state’s plan to redraw congressional maps in response to similar Republican efforts in Texas.
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The Tide Looks to Be Turning Against Trump as His Decline Becomes More Obvious | Explainer

From Politics Chat, August 12, 2025
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Trump wants you Dumb & Mean: A Conversation with Ben Sheehan

Don’t feel bad if you don’t know how the government works. It’s by design. Today we talk to the Host of PBS’s Civics Made Easy about the importance of offering Americans the kind of knowledge we should have but don’t, on a network that the government should fund, but won’t. Ben wants us to, “Get caught up together” and Trump wants us as stupid as possible.
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The FULL STORY Behind Terry Moran's Firing at ABC News

While Trump is overtaking American cities across the country, he's making sure the news media covers it all the way he wants them to cover it. Steve Schmidt sits down with former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran to get the real story of why he was fired from ABC News.
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Bernie Sanders drops HUGE announcement ahead of midterms

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Trump and his NFP hold a news conference

The autocrat in chief announces his takeover of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department
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The Texas Special Session Is A National Power Grab; Meet The Democrats Who Can't Return Home

Facing arrest warrants and Republican calls for their removal, Texas Legislative Democrats arrive in California to discuss attempts to gerrymander their state and what California can do to stop it. Joining the conversation are Gina Hinojosa (HD 49), Vince Perez (HD 77), Rhetta A. Bowers (HD 113), Ray Lopez (HD 125), Ann Johnson (HD 134), Mary Ann Perez (HD 144). YouTube

Immigration Enforcement: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the Trump administration’s promise to deport one million immigrants, what the follow through on that promise looks like in practice, what the actual rules are about masked police arresting civilians across the country, and some stuff about filmmaker Dean Cain. It’s ok, you can Google him, we don’t expect you to recognize the name.
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Mercy Otis Warren | Episode 1, The Declaration in Action

The revolutionary idea that everyone is created equal inspired Americans who were excluded from voting, economic opportunity, civil rights, or citizenship, to demand that the United States of America turn the principles of the Declaration of Independence into reality.
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Rick + Allison Gill: Gill's FOIA For The Epstein Files

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Allison Gill is a host on The Daily Beans, a women-owned and operated progressive news podcast for your morning commute brought to you by the webby award-winning hosts of Mueller, She Wrote. Get your social justice and political news with just the right amount of snark.

The Texas GOP Loves Their "Commander-in-Cheat" | Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer

Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer left Texas to deny Republicans a quorum and block their gerrymandered map. He sat down with Marc to discuss the threats to him and his colleagues, Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Paxton's internal battle, and what’s next in the redistricting fight.
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"How Do You Reconcile Yourself To Facing Evil?"

Vicky, an outstanding investigative reporter, and James Patterson have just published “The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy,” about the murders that took place in a small university town. We talked at length about what she uncovered about the murders and the murderer, Brian Kohberger, who received four life sentences without the possibility of parole.

We also talked about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell because, like Tara Palmeri, Vicky has covered this story extensively—in fact, for more than two decades.
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"That's Not How This Story Was Supposed to End"

@TaraPalmeri‬ on the Epstein/Maxell story.
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I Feel That Way Too!: A Conversation with Michelle MiJung Kim

Things are getting so bad in America that many people are checking out, but we can’t keep pretending things are normal when we know they aren’t. We must collectively wake up to what’s happening, to how we got here, to the ugly and the scary that we’ve allowed to flourish to find the courage to stand against it. That while hope is important, we must also acknowledge change is not coming if we don’t stand up and work for it. People are not being rewarded for standing on the right side of history right now. There’s a real reason to be afraid of speaking out, but we have to do it anyway, and we have to do it even if we’re afraid. In fact, as our guest Michelle MiJung Kim says, “We can only truly practice courage when we are afraid”.
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Rick + Vicky Ward on the Monstrous Maxwell

A recording from Rick Wilson's live video
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A NASA Hero’s Plan to Bring Ethics Back to Washington | A Conversation with Terry Virts

As the Trump regime has corrupted American politics, there are individuals out there willing to stand up and make a difference. Steve Schmidt sits down with Terry Virts to discuss his experience as an astronaut and the need for new leadership in the Democratic Party.
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