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Autocracy in America
Politics Podcast · Weekly Series · Reporting on the sweeping changes unfolding in the United States, and preparing you to think about what might happen next.
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January 23, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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What does ICE have to do w/ the midterms?
Trump wants to treat dissenters like terrorists. They did it to Renee Good. This is the environment shaping the midterms.
If we don't keep our free speech now, we won't have free elections later.
From me. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/free-speec...
Trump wants to treat dissenters like terrorists. They did it to Renee Good. This is the environment shaping the midterms.
If we don't keep our free speech now, we won't have free elections later.
From me. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/free-speec...
Free speech, ICE, and free elections in 2026
More than immigration enforcement and protest suppression
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
January 23, 2026 at 1:47 PM
What does ICE have to do w/ the midterms?
Trump wants to treat dissenters like terrorists. They did it to Renee Good. This is the environment shaping the midterms.
If we don't keep our free speech now, we won't have free elections later.
From me. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/free-speec...
Trump wants to treat dissenters like terrorists. They did it to Renee Good. This is the environment shaping the midterms.
If we don't keep our free speech now, we won't have free elections later.
From me. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/free-speec...
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"Oh, mate, goodness gracious me. Which one of us woke up last night and thought to ourselves: Crikey, my life is incomplete without a Greenland. You know, there's a sheet of ice on the other side of the world. It's got nothing to do with me. Boy, I wish we had it."
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 PM
"Oh, mate, goodness gracious me. Which one of us woke up last night and thought to ourselves: Crikey, my life is incomplete without a Greenland. You know, there's a sheet of ice on the other side of the world. It's got nothing to do with me. Boy, I wish we had it."
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BREAKING: Jack Smith Live - read his remarkable opening statement open.substack.com/pub/weissman...
Jack Smith Live
Jack testifies today before the House
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January 22, 2026 at 12:19 PM
BREAKING: Jack Smith Live - read his remarkable opening statement open.substack.com/pub/weissman...
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I’m announcing that I have the outline of the configuration of the architecture of the framework of a possible, very possible, extremely possible future deal that if consummated, if concluded, if ratified, will perhaps be the greatest deal of all the deals ever made in history.
January 22, 2026 at 12:24 PM
I’m announcing that I have the outline of the configuration of the architecture of the framework of a possible, very possible, extremely possible future deal that if consummated, if concluded, if ratified, will perhaps be the greatest deal of all the deals ever made in history.
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TODAY on #MSNOW: 10am-2pm/EST 7am-11am/PST-Jack Smith Finally Testifies to Congress about when our Presidementia incited an insurrection at the Capitol to steal a free & fair election & when he stole Top-Secret Gov't Documents & stored them in his bathroom. Y'know... many, many, MANY crimes ago.
January 22, 2026 at 8:05 AM
TODAY on #MSNOW: 10am-2pm/EST 7am-11am/PST-Jack Smith Finally Testifies to Congress about when our Presidementia incited an insurrection at the Capitol to steal a free & fair election & when he stole Top-Secret Gov't Documents & stored them in his bathroom. Y'know... many, many, MANY crimes ago.
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Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way.
Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
January 22, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way.
Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
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Join me LIVE at 12p ET on Substack. Link: substack.com/@thefrankfig...
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Join me LIVE at 12p ET!
Davos delirium, ICE v.
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January 21, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Join me LIVE at 12p ET on Substack. Link: substack.com/@thefrankfig...
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Bruce Springsteen: "[I]f you stand against heavily armed mass federal troops invading an American city using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens, if you believe you don't deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest, then send a message to this president."
Springsteen Denounces ICE Deployments and Renee Good’s Killing
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January 21, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Bruce Springsteen: "[I]f you stand against heavily armed mass federal troops invading an American city using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens, if you believe you don't deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest, then send a message to this president."
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1/We are one year into the second Trump administration. Three to go.
To mark the occasion, I took a look back at what I was thinking and writing about a year ago. The most surprising takeaway is how predictable this last year we have lived through was from the outset.
To mark the occasion, I took a look back at what I was thinking and writing about a year ago. The most surprising takeaway is how predictable this last year we have lived through was from the outset.
January 21, 2026 at 12:57 PM
1/We are one year into the second Trump administration. Three to go.
To mark the occasion, I took a look back at what I was thinking and writing about a year ago. The most surprising takeaway is how predictable this last year we have lived through was from the outset.
To mark the occasion, I took a look back at what I was thinking and writing about a year ago. The most surprising takeaway is how predictable this last year we have lived through was from the outset.
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SADLY, AFTER A YEAR OF TRUMP 2.0, THIS AGED WELL:
The Wolf Is At The Door open.substack.com/pub/weissman...
The Wolf Is At The Door open.substack.com/pub/weissman...
The Wolf Is At The Door
Watch now | Behind The Headlines With Andrew Weissmann, Vol 2.6.a
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January 21, 2026 at 10:33 AM
SADLY, AFTER A YEAR OF TRUMP 2.0, THIS AGED WELL:
The Wolf Is At The Door open.substack.com/pub/weissman...
The Wolf Is At The Door open.substack.com/pub/weissman...
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Can you remember January 2025? I took a look back at what I was writing about then, and it's eye-opening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
One Very Long Year
We are one year into the second Trump administration.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Can you remember January 2025? I took a look back at what I was writing about then, and it's eye-opening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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I haven’t been paid a dime. My opposition to Trump and his disgusting followers is due to his rioters killing my brother at the Capitol. Fuck Trump and the whore he rode in on!
January 21, 2026 at 2:19 AM
I haven’t been paid a dime. My opposition to Trump and his disgusting followers is due to his rioters killing my brother at the Capitol. Fuck Trump and the whore he rode in on!
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So basically today was the day the United States jumped the shark
January 21, 2026 at 5:01 AM
So basically today was the day the United States jumped the shark
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must-read column today by @edwardluce.bsky.social who accurately analysed the dangers posed by Trump long before many commentators
www.ft.com/content/dede...
www.ft.com/content/dede...
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM
must-read column today by @edwardluce.bsky.social who accurately analysed the dangers posed by Trump long before many commentators
www.ft.com/content/dede...
www.ft.com/content/dede...
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Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
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"The US has squandered its most valuable financial asset: trust. It risks paying a heavy price for this for decades to come." Important piece by my colleague @katie0martin.ft.com on the hit to the dollar and US borrowing costs of Trump's derangement. www.ft.com/content/9f73...
Trump’s Arctic ambitions torch the most important US asset
The market reaction to the threat of tariffs on supposed allies over Greenland has been extremely telling
www.ft.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:10 AM
"The US has squandered its most valuable financial asset: trust. It risks paying a heavy price for this for decades to come." Important piece by my colleague @katie0martin.ft.com on the hit to the dollar and US borrowing costs of Trump's derangement. www.ft.com/content/9f73...
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The time for sane-washing is surely over.
If you can’t admit Trump is a dangerous, lunatic moron, you’re part of the problem. My latest.
www.thedailybeast.com/now-is-the-t...
www.thedailybeast.com/now-is-the-t...
Now Is the Time to Admit It, America: Trump Is a Dangerous, Lunatic Moron
If you can’t see it now, you’re the problem.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:13 AM
The time for sane-washing is surely over.
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Not just the view from Denmark. The view from anywhere in the universe where logic works.
An existing treaty offers full U.S. military access to the island, so why go to war against NATO member Denmark?
The view from Greenland: Trump’s yen to take over makes no economic or security sense | Trudy Rubin
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January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Not just the view from Denmark. The view from anywhere in the universe where logic works.
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Here you go—an ALL NEW @talkingfeds.bsky.social w/ @normeisen.bsky.social, @katiephang.bsky.social & @jenrubin.bsky.social.
We dive into ICE’s outrages in Minnesota, the pushback from local leaders calling it a “federal invasion,” and what it will take to restrain federal agents. bit.ly/TraumaTF
We dive into ICE’s outrages in Minnesota, the pushback from local leaders calling it a “federal invasion,” and what it will take to restrain federal agents. bit.ly/TraumaTF
January 19, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Here you go—an ALL NEW @talkingfeds.bsky.social w/ @normeisen.bsky.social, @katiephang.bsky.social & @jenrubin.bsky.social.
We dive into ICE’s outrages in Minnesota, the pushback from local leaders calling it a “federal invasion,” and what it will take to restrain federal agents. bit.ly/TraumaTF
We dive into ICE’s outrages in Minnesota, the pushback from local leaders calling it a “federal invasion,” and what it will take to restrain federal agents. bit.ly/TraumaTF
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It’s really too bad that Trump’s cabinet are all spineless worms or equally crazy because “the President has gone insane and is going to destroy the transatlantic alliance because they didn’t give him a Nobel Peace Prize” is kind of exactly the thing we have a 25th Amendment for
January 19, 2026 at 2:14 PM
It’s really too bad that Trump’s cabinet are all spineless worms or equally crazy because “the President has gone insane and is going to destroy the transatlantic alliance because they didn’t give him a Nobel Peace Prize” is kind of exactly the thing we have a 25th Amendment for
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"Yeah, you'll notice there that Bessent was just trying to defend the President, but he didn't actually mention what the President did. The President threatened the Fed chair, Jay Powell, with jail. He threatened Jay Powell with jail for doing what Congress told Jay Powell to do."
January 18, 2026 at 4:14 PM
"Yeah, you'll notice there that Bessent was just trying to defend the President, but he didn't actually mention what the President did. The President threatened the Fed chair, Jay Powell, with jail. He threatened Jay Powell with jail for doing what Congress told Jay Powell to do."
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A simple point: Trump’s tariff threats (against Greenland's allies!) rest on a power before SCOTUS and likely to be ruled unconstitutional. That’s not leverage; it’s probabilistic impotence. (Stormy Daniels agrees.)
January 17, 2026 at 7:05 PM
A simple point: Trump’s tariff threats (against Greenland's allies!) rest on a power before SCOTUS and likely to be ruled unconstitutional. That’s not leverage; it’s probabilistic impotence. (Stormy Daniels agrees.)
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Trump’s chaos can obscure the bigger picture
But the data is clear
Pro democracy litigators are winning two thirds of the time
And 76% when including immigration cases
@democracydefendersfund.org is part of that coalition
Your support makes it possible to push back and win against autocracy -TN
But the data is clear
Pro democracy litigators are winning two thirds of the time
And 76% when including immigration cases
@democracydefendersfund.org is part of that coalition
Your support makes it possible to push back and win against autocracy -TN
Why I Am Hopeful Despite It All
My 50th Publisher’s Note
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January 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Trump’s chaos can obscure the bigger picture
But the data is clear
Pro democracy litigators are winning two thirds of the time
And 76% when including immigration cases
@democracydefendersfund.org is part of that coalition
Your support makes it possible to push back and win against autocracy -TN
But the data is clear
Pro democracy litigators are winning two thirds of the time
And 76% when including immigration cases
@democracydefendersfund.org is part of that coalition
Your support makes it possible to push back and win against autocracy -TN
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Still don't understand what "papers" US citizens are supposed to be carrying to prevent masked bandits from hurling them into the back of an SUV with fake tags on it.
And also, we don't have to show "papers" in the interior of this country. See Amendment, Fourth
And also, we don't have to show "papers" in the interior of this country. See Amendment, Fourth
January 13, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Still don't understand what "papers" US citizens are supposed to be carrying to prevent masked bandits from hurling them into the back of an SUV with fake tags on it.
And also, we don't have to show "papers" in the interior of this country. See Amendment, Fourth
And also, we don't have to show "papers" in the interior of this country. See Amendment, Fourth