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New Joe Trippi live is up now, check it out right here: https://youtu.be/AD-qwdIxKBc

Public patience is collapsing under the weight of economic strain and authoritarian spectacle. Every price spike and poll number reflects a single truth: The cost of Trumpism is being paid in real time, at the grocery store and at the ballot box. Disillusionment has turned into defiance, not apathy, and the electorate is starting to understand that democracy’s defense isn’t theoretical — it’s economic, personal, and immediate.

The fight isn’t between left and right anymore, but between those who feel the pain and those profiting from it. Tune in for a sharp breakdown of the numbers behind America’s shifting center of gravity.

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What's the deal with this general economic boycott? How do we do it/what does it mean? Check out the full episode with Sam Osterhout & Andra Watkins, here: https://youtu.be/QMshoDgAAwg

Boycotts work. Mostly. One of the first things our children learn about regarding our founding is the Boston Tea Party — basically, a boycott. In retaliation against British-imposed taxes, colonists boycotted British tea — and famously dumped tea shipments into Boston Harbor. This direct action galvanized the American Revolution and became one of our history’s most famous economic protests.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest, and led by Martin Luther King Jr. and others, forced the Supreme Court to declare bus segregation laws unconstitutional, marking a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Of course, that one took nearly a year of struggle to bear fruit.

And that kind of collective struggle is a problem for modern Americans.

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HEY EVERYONE!! A brand new episode of Protect & Serve goes live at 3PM ET here, tune in & leave a like! : https://youtu.be/KQshPZVifIY

This isn’t just about immigration — it’s about power, spectacle, and moral collapse. When law enforcement becomes a stage for fear instead of a tool for safety, the line between democracy and authoritarianism starts to blur. ICE’s abuses and Trump’s policies aren’t isolated failures, but deliberate strategies to normalize cruelty and test obedience. Yet every protest, whistleblower, and documented act of resistance chips away at that machinery of control, reminding the country that accountability doesn’t wait for permission. The question now is whether courage can keep pace with corruption.

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NEW EPISODE OF THAT TRIPPI SHOW GOES UP AT 6PM ET: https://youtu.be/icC-noRM8xU

Why Trump destroying the East Wing is the enduring image of his presidency. How did Joe and Alex think No Kings went? What's next? And Alex digs into the numbers - why things keep getting worse for Trump on the economy. But what number did Joe see today that has him excited about 2026?

#thattrippishow #nokings #joetrippi

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NEW EPISODE OF PUNCHING UP GOES UP AT 3PM ET: https://youtu.be/Pm7hwilM1jk

When the courts become the last lever of democracy, comedy becomes the sharpest tool left. Punching Up takes on a question that feels less rhetorical by the day: Who can we actually sue? With lawyer-turned-comedian Paul Farahvar joining Maya May, the conversation turns practical, even tactical — tracing how the right to film, document, and challenge state violence might be the only rights still holding. Every case becomes a lesson, every laugh a release valve for a system cracking under its own impunity.

Paul lays out the bureaucratic maze designed to protect power from consequence, showing how federal immunity and qualified immunity have turned accountability into an obstacle course. What used to be simple questions — who’s harmed, who’s liable — now reveal a structure built to shield the enforcers, not the enforced. Behind the legal detail sits a quieter truth: Ordinary citizens are left to master the law just to survive it.

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CNN's Jake Tapper joins to talk about his new book, and the issues he sees facing our country @5PM ET: https://youtu.be/OMx1c0EKYLI

There’s a reason journalists like Jake Tapper still matter — because even now, under a president who weaponizes access and uses the press as his stage prop, truth is being treated like contraband. The Trump administration’s press rules criminalize curiosity. Pentagon briefings are sealed, and questions are mocked instead of answered — “your mom,” as the White House once replied to a Huffington Post reporter asking about a Putin meeting. Tapper called it “immature, unprofessional, and beneath the office,” but the real damage isn’t the insult — it’s the silence. A democracy that ridicules inquiry is one that’s already rehearsing tyranny.

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NEW EPISODE OF THE ENEMIES LIST WITH RICK WILSON GOES LIVE IN 10 MINUTES: https://youtu.be/PdRw4aCoBi4

This week, Rick Wilson dives into one of the ugliest political scandals in years — the Young Republican National Federation group chat that revealed a cesspool of hate, racism, and wannabe authoritarian cosplay. In thousands of leaked messages obtained by Politico, state-level GOP leaders joked about gas chambers, Hitler, slavery, and rape -- and revealed the moral rot at the core of a generation raised on grievance politics and Fox News. These aren’t fringe trolls — these are elected aides, campaign managers, and state chairs, the so-called “future” of the Republican Party. Rick unpacks how figures like Peter Giunta, Bobby Walker, Samuel Douglass, Brianna Douglass, Joe Maligno, Alex Dwyer, Annie Kaykaty, Luke Mosiman, William Hendrix, and others went from “rising stars” to radioactive cautionary tales faster than you can say “delete your chat.”

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NEW EPISODE OF PUNCHING UP IS BACK LIVE NOW, CHECK IT OUT HERE: https://youtu.be/O7iGc0IPhPg

ICE isn’t failing — it’s doing exactly what it was built to do. When Maya pointed out that agents are “fucking up everywhere,” she wasn’t exaggerating the chaos; she was defining the strategy. The agency’s defiance of a Chicago judge’s body-cam order says it all: Accountability is a threat to the theater. The uniform, the helicopter, the masked face — all of it is part of a show meant to remind communities who holds power and who doesn’t.

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Money keeps that theater running. Michael Fanone called the federal incentives for local cooperation “blood money,” but it’s more like a protection racket disguised as funding. Washington cuts traditional grants, then sells new ones tied to immigration enforcement. Cities either buy in or get left to fend for themselves. It’s not policy — it’s extortion wrapped in the language of law and order, trading safety for subservience.

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New Substack live with Stuart Stevens & Ken Harbaugh, coming at ya from the front-lines in Ukraine: https://youtu.be/-FqAQrwWFIY

The weight of former Navy pilot Ken Harbaugh’s reporting sits in its proximity to danger — and to humanity. He described men who defend their cities with nothing more than grit, a rusted cannon, and the knowledge that their families sleep somewhere behind them. “Putin’s targeting playgrounds and hospitals,” he said, “because he wants Ukrainians to suffer through the winter.” That cruelty is met with defiance, not despair. The image of a father on a gun, hearing his own neighborhood has just been hit, captures the moral geometry of this war: defense as an act of love.

Stuart Stevens drew the line most of the world refuses to: this isn’t abstract geopolitics, it’s 1939 all over again. When Ken called Zelenskyy “a Churchillian figure” and Putin “a man whose birthday tradition is mass murder,” it reframed the war as both history repeating and history resisting itself. These men — pilots, volunteers, judges-turned-soldiers — are not symbols; they are the last firewall between democracy and a fascism that metastasizes when left unchecked. Their fight is not distant. It’s the preview reel for every society that forgets how fast normal can disappear.

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We have a new live video with Stuart Stevens & Steven Beschloss premiering at 4PM ET: https://youtu.be/IsYmHUM3MG4

Steven Beschloss called this moment what it is: a reckoning. “You have to wake up in the morning convinced that I have to say something, I have to do something, while there’s still a chance to make a difference.” His urgency framed the No Kings protests not as an act of defiance, but as an act of preservation—of citizenship, of decency, of hope. The cynics may sneer and call it a hate-America rally, but Beschloss sees the opposite: millions asserting that democracy belongs to the people, not the demagogues.

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