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**The David Pakman Show**

The David Pakman Show is one of the most-watched independent progressive programs in the country. Hosted by David Pakman, the show offers a fresh perspective on the stories shaping our world through thoughtful commentary and compelling interviews with our nation’s leaders.

With new episodes dropping every weekday, David delivers sharp, insightful, and fact-based analysis on politics, current events, and social issues. Whether you’re looking for deep dives into major political events, in-depth conversations with experts and newsmakers, or sharp-witted breakdowns of the latest headlines, The David Pakman Show has you covered

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12/28/23: Boebert switches districts, Vivek says he'll win Iowa Dec 28, 2023

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-- On the Show:

-- Jesse Dollemore, host of Dollemore Daily and co-host of the I Doubt It podcast, fills in for David

-- Lauren Boebert switches congressional districts to increase her chances of winning in 2024

-- Nikki Haley is asked about the cause of the Civil War, and worried about offending her base, is scared to mention slavery

-- Vivek Ramaswamy goes on Fox News and says he believes he will win the Iowa caucuses

-- Chris Christie says he's the only Republican candidate calling Trump out in a new campaign ad

-- Nick Fuentes goes on a vile racist rant after Kanye West apologizes to Jewish people in Hebrew

-- Lindsey Graham misinforms the Fox News audience about a New York bill, calls conservatives tolerant, and calls Chick-Fil-A "God's chicken"

-- Republicans put politics ahead of national security, advocating extreme actions in the Middle East

-- Kari Lake looks scared after a judge refuses to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against her

-- Julie Banderas says pro-Palestinian protesters should be silenced

-- On the Bonus Show: Nikki Haley does damage control, John Fetterman continues to distance himself from progressives, and much more...

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12/27/23: Biden orders airstrikes, Trump targets Obamacare again Dec 27, 2023

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-- On the Show:

-- Brittany Page, host of Page Perspective and co-host of the I Doubt It podcast, fills in for David

-- After US troops are wounded in an attack, Joe Biden directs airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups

-- Donald Trump promises to replace Obamacare with his own healthcare "alternative" but Republicans say it's not a priority

-- Ted Cruz goes on Fox News to rant about "biased media" like CNN and promote his podcast

-- Minimum-wage workers in 22 states will be getting raises on January 1st

-- Vivek Ramaswamy stops spending money on TV ads two weeks before the Iowa Caucuses, but denies he wants a Trump administration position

-- Donald Trump posts a toxic word cloud featuring his revenge and dictatorship hopes to Truth Social

-- Jessica Tarlov takes on the Fox News B-team with facts about the successes of the Biden economy

-- Donald Trump posts a late-night video on Truth Social with funny Iowa Caucus commentary

-- On the Bonus Show: Abortion rights activists planning for 2024, Georgia Medicaid work requirements failing people, and much more…

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12/26/23: Trump's crazy Christmas request, Joe Rogan self-owns Dec 26, 2023

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-- On the Show:

-- Brittany Page, host of Page Perspective and co-host of the I Doubt It podcast, fills in for David

-- Donald Trump's lawyers ask a court to toss his election interference case in a late-night filing before Christmas, citing "absolute" presidential immunity

-- CNN airs a lengthy segment with a New York Times op-ed author about Trump being a moderate, featuring a chyron reading, "Is Trump actually a moderate?"

-- Joe Rogan owns himself in a major error, mistaking Biden's comments for Trump's

-- Lindsey Graham appears on ABC News' This Week and rambles about Hillary Clinton when confronted about Trump's lies

-- Iowa and Nebraska are refusing to participate in a summer food assistance program for poor kids

-- North Dakota Republican State Representative Nico Rios gets exposed on body camera footage using homophobic and racist slurs during a DUI arrest this month

-- A judge says Ron DeSantis spread misinformation about trans health care in his attempts to ban care

-- A San Francisco homeless man is acquitted in an attack on a former Fire Commissioner that left him hospitalized

-- On the Bonus Show: Donald Trump's bizarre Christmas message, and much more...

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12/25/23: Nikki Haley surges, Wolf Blitzer stunned by IDF admission (CLASSIC EPISODE FROM 11/1/23) Dec 25, 2023

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CHRISTMAS DAY / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM NOVEMBER 1, 2023

-- On the Show:

-- JL Collins, known as The Godfather of Financial Independence and author of three books including The Simple Path to Wealth, joins David to discuss personal finance, and much more. Get his book: https://amzn.to/476pKRu

-- CNN's Wolf Blitzer is visibly shocked that an IDF spokesperson admits that Israel bombed a Palestinian refugee camp in order to potentially kill one Hamas commander

-- Antisemitism explodes, but many on the left aren't interested in hearing about it

-- Ty Cobb, Donald Trump's former lawyer, predicts that Donald Trump will soon be jailed for violating one of the multiple gag orders placed on him

-- A terrified failed former President Donald Trump says that is it now Republicans who will steal the Iowa caucuses from him in the 2024 Republican primary election

-- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley surges to 22% in her home state of South Carolina, still with less than half of the support that Donald Trump has

-- Donald Trump absolutely explodes in the middle of the night on Truth Social, unleashing endless unhinged insanity

-- The Eggman leaves a voicemail saying he is depressed by the news and requesting ten minutes of time be wasted talking about Daylight Saving Time in order to cheer him up

-- On the Bonus Show: Hawley wants to reverse Citizens United, Kansas blocks 24-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions, Biden targetting more junk fees, and much more...

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12/22/23: Giuliani ordered to pay up, Colorado ruling ruining Trump's defense Dec 22, 2023

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-- On the Show:

-- Farron Cousins, host of Ring of Fire and Farron Balanced, fills in for David

-- Rudy Giuliani is ordered to immediately start paying the victims he defamed, leading to his filing for bankruptcy

-- Special counsel Jack Smith asks the Supreme Court to immediately rule on whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution over January 6th

-- Colorado's Supreme Court ruling that Trump is ineligible to run for president could hurt his defenses in his criminal trials

-- Colorado's Supreme Court justices face death threats following their ruling kicking Trump off the ballot

-- Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall wants to prosecute the Colorado Supreme Court justices who removed Trump from the ballot

-- The 118th Congress has been more damaging than people realize

-- Republican Representative Scott Perry is ordered to disclose 1,600 texts and emails to Jack Smith's team

-- Ron DeSantis complains that Trump's four indictments are giving the former president an unfair advantage in the Republican primary

-- Marjorie Taylor Greene once again calls for "national divorce"

-- Kellyanne Conway claims Democrats all drive electric vehicles, get abortions, and think about January 6th too much

-- On the Bonus Show: Matt Gaetz says he's next to get expelled, Laura Ingraham claims Democrats want civil unrest, a quarter of Trump supporters won't vote for him if he's a convicted felon, and much more...

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12/21/23: TX companies furious at GOP, Trump PANICS to block witness Dec 21, 2023

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-- On the Show:

-- A group of Texas companies declare that Republicans are ruining their businesses

-- Failed former President Donald Trump is panicking to try to block a specific witness from testifying in his defamation case with E. Jean Carroll

-- MMA fighter Colby Covington declares that he lost his fight because he is a supporter of Donald Trump

-- Caller claims that Trump is better than Biden on foreign policy

-- Caller is moderate and doesn't know whether to vote for Biden

-- Caller asks who the presidential nominees will be if Trump and Biden die or drop out before Election Day

-- Caller wonders what happens to MAGA if Trump loses in 2024

-- Caller talks about the productivity side of the economy

-- Caller says she won't vote for Biden over Israel-Palestine

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: Biden responds to Trump getting kicked off Colorado ballot, Michelle Bachmann calls for genocide of Gazans, and much more...

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12/20/23: Trump banned from CO ballot, crime down but right wing won't tell you Dec 20, 2023

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-- Robert Sapolsky, scientist and New York Times bestselling author of "Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will," joins David to discuss the book, free will, science, and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3GQqBKP

-- Failed former President Donald Trump is banned and kicked off of the 2024 Colorado presidential ballot for his role inciting an insurrection in 2021

-- Donald Trump is wildly triggered over being kicked off of the Presidential ballot in Colorado

-- Dan Patrick, the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Texas, threatens to remove President Joe Biden from the ballot in Texas after Donald Trump is removed from Colorado

-- After Donald Trump is kicked off of the Presidential ballot in Colorado, right wingers lose their minds

-- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy pledges to withdraw from the Colorado Republican primary over their banning of Donald Trump from the ballot

-- Despite crime's continued decline, right wing media including Fox News continues to suggest and imply that crime is up

-- Failed former President Donald Trump struggles to speak and denies reading Mein Kampf at an absurd rally in Waterloo, Iowa

-- Republican Senator Ted Cruz delivers as bizarre and disgusting speech at Charlie Kirk's TP Action event, including providing sex advice to liberals

-- Voicemails pour in lauding the new David Pakman Show music

-- On the Bonus Show: Legal groups file lawsuit to stop Texas law that makes illegal entry a crime, New York will set up commission to consider reparations for slavery, dozens of documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's victims will be made public in 2024, much more...

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12/19/23: Republican not sure about women voting, Rudy Giuliani sued AGAIN Dec 19, 2023

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-- Anupam Jena, physician, economist, professor at Harvard, and host of the Freakonomics, MD podcast, joins David to discuss his new book "Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health"

-- Republican Congressman Guy Reschenthaler collapses under simple questioning about the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry from Democratic Congressman Joe Neguse

-- Rudy Giuliani is sued a second time by the same plaintiffs from the recent $148 million verdict because he continues to attack them publicly

-- Jason Whitlock, a right winger who happens to be black, says that it wasn't really necessary for women to vote

-- Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney tells the Fox News audience to ditch Donald Trump during a recent interview

-- Failed former President Donald Trump reaches a new high in 2024 Republican presidential primary polling

-- Donald Trump is confused and treasonous at his recent rally in Reno, Nevada

-- Voicemail caller wonders whether lead in water lines could be responsible for the high levels of mental illness in the United States

-- On the Bonus Show: 118th Congress has few laws to show in its first year, Clarence Thomas faces more backlash over SCOTUS salary complaints, the Senate hearing room sex tape scandal, much more...

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12/18/23: GOP Senators keep admitting no Biden evidence as Rudy hit with $148 million verdict Dec 18, 2023

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-- Rudy Giuliani gets hit with a devastating $148 million defamation verdict, potentially signaling the end of his public life

-- Despite what's happening in the House of Representatives, Republican Senators continue to admit there is no evidence against Joe Biden suggesting criminality or impeachment

-- A binder full of classified intelligence about Russia went "missing" during the final days of the Trump administration

-- A dangerously impaired Roseanne Barr stuns a Turning Point crowd into silence during a recent Charlie Kirk event

-- Failed former President Donald Trump mentally collapses during a rally in Durham, New Hampshire

-- The average rally-going Trump supporter is getting much worse, as evidenced by interviews from the recent rally in Durham, New Hampshire

-- Cultists pray for Donald Trump at his rally in Durham, New Hampshire, claiming Trump is God's chosen one

-- Alina Habba, Donald Trump's lawyer, promises to go "deep and hard" on Democrats next year

-- Confused voicemail caller wrongly thinks David "supports" Nikki Haley

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump made $160 million in foreign business deals as President, Tesla conducts largest-ever recall, how Mike Johnson became too right-wing for his own father, much more...

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12/15/23: Republicans total hypocrites on impeachment, Vivek melts down Dec 15, 2023

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-- On the Show:

-- Supposed IRS "whistleblower" Gary Shapley is asked whether there's any proof of the things he's claiming, and he has none

-- Hypocritical Republicans who now support Joe Biden's impeachment previously said about Donald Trump's that there should not be a single party impeachment

-- Vivek Ramaswamy loses control of a CNN town hall when he cites baseless conspiracy theories about the January 6 Trump riots

-- Caller asks if David will teach his daughter about Santa

-- Caller compares being a Trump supporter to an addiction

-- Caller argues Democrats are not set up well in 2024

-- Caller makes the case that the economy is not in great shape

-- Caller prefers Chris Christie over Joe Biden, but Joe Biden over Donald Trump

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: Bud Lite boycott possibly ending, Pelosi agrees Jan 6 was inside job, and much more...

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