The Muckrake Political Podcast

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The Right's New Boogey Man - Critical Race Theory | Weekender Teaser Jun 11, 2021

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Jared and Nick discuss a new document created to instruct conservatives how to push back against teaching critical race theory in schools. This continues to tickle the mental unwellness that exists in many of the far right cultists that threaten to take hold of the country.

When Democrats Actively Try To Lose The House & Senate Jun 08, 2021

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Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss Senator Joe Manchin's reluctance to do away with the Jim Crow Fillibuster in order to protect our democracy. Plus, they break down the G7's decision to impose a universal corporate tax and the possible ramifications.

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Why Trump Thinks He'll Be Back In The White House By August Jun 04, 2021

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Jared and Nick unwind with some friendly violent coup talk, as they muse about the Q Anon conspiracies taking hold across our nation. They also offer reasonable solutions to the seditious tendencies in our midst, before discussing what they've been watching on TV (the movie "2012).

Flynn Calls For A Coup and MAGA/QAnon Go Wild Jun 01, 2021

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Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss disgraced general Mike Flynn's affirmative response to a question regarding why we can't have a Myanmar-style military coup in the United States. Journalist Justin Glawe (http://twitter.com/justinglawe), who was at the Q Anon convention where Mike Flynn was speaking, joins the show to add more context and discuss how widespread this movement is. Jared then sits down with Marc-André Argentino (http://twitter.com/_MAArgentino), one of the foremost researchers of Q-Anon and online conspiracy theorism, to talk about how very real the Q Anon threat is, as its spread to our leaders and poses a serious threat.

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Oh I Wish I Wasn't In The Land Of (Tom) Cotton | Weekender Teaser May 28, 2021

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Jared and Nick discuss Tom Cotton's tweet in which he thinks a call to end systemic racism is Chinese propoganda. They also analyze the wasteful spending by Democrats on positive ads that had... zero affect. Plus, they reveal what they're watching on the entertainment side.

Lessons We Still Haven't Learned From Vietnam May 25, 2021

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Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman welcome David Parsons from the podcast Nostalgia Trap to discuss his latest project Nam TV and how so many of our political issues today can be traced directly to the mistakes made during the Vietnam war.

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The GOP Is Shifting Farther Right | Weekender Teaser May 21, 2021

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Join Jared and Nick in this fully packed episode as they discuss the January 6th Commission, the recount in Arizona and how it has sparked recount movements in many other states, the growing sympathy for the Palestinians as a ceasefire has just been negotiated in Israel, and Jared's insights into the myth of liberalism on college campuses.

Stuart Stevens: It Was All A Lie May 18, 2021

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Republican strategist and author Stuart Stevens joins the show to discuss his book "It Was All A Lie," as he lays bare how the GOP's craven need for power led the party down an evil path that inexorably brought us Donald Trump. Hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman probe Stevens's insider information about Republican strategy and the dangerous decline of the GOP.

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The Tourist Insurrection | Weekender Teaser May 14, 2021

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Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the rewriting of history, as Republicans try to minimize the insurrection and continue to the Trump take over of their party.

GOP: Stimulus Money Makes People Too Lazy To Work May 11, 2021

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Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the new jobs report and why it appears workers don't want to work, getting into the actual benefits the government provided (mostly designed by the Trump administration), and the real motivations behind it. They also talk about the situation in Israel and how that could lead to crises across the globe.