Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Another Wednesday, another episode of The Check-In. Today my friend Danielle Moodie and I get into a whole mess of things, including what to do with the anger and rage we feel toward the fascists and the enablers and the need to grow up and view politics as an adult as opposed to a spectacle, which helped get us into this mess. Necessary stuff, and I’m so grateful for Danielle and for everyone tuning in.Dispatches From A Collapsing State only exists because of your support. This project has no corporate backing whatsoever, only your subscriptions. If this matters to you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today. It makes all the difference This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Thanks again for everyone who tunes in. I think Danielle Moodie and I both needed this episode today and I hope it helps with the feelings of anger and disillusionment we’re all feeling as this fetid, fascist environment continues. Hang in there. We’re going to win this fight if we choose to actually fight.Dispatches From A State depends entirely on your support. This project has no corporate backing whatsoever. If this matters to you, please, share with people who need this information and become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you Cat: Poli-Psych, Caro Henry, Anna Chen, Rarelightmare, Laura Skov, and many others for tuning into my live video with THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali! Join me for my next live video in the app.Dispatches From A Collapsing State depends on your support. This project has no corporate backing whatsoever. If this work matters to you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Hey! Another episode of The Check-In with my friend Danielle Moodie. Today we discuss white supremacy and a whole host of other poisonous worldviews that are serving to keep all of us imprisoned in a world of exploitation and suffering and how we must overcome all of that to realize something better. Appreciate Danielle and appreciate everyone who tunes in.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. This project enjoys no corporate backing whatsoever and continues because of paid subscribers. Please consider becoming one today. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Whew. This Check-In, like so many others, was so needed. Danielle Moodie and I talked about the vibes (spoiler: they’re bad) heading into the Fourth of July and the 250th anniversary this weekend. The realization that we have been scammed and are presently being scammed, as well as the ongoing gaslighting by political and economic elites, is a jarring thing, but we discuss the need to not only do that but to forgive ourselves as we begin to see the landscape and environment for what it actually is. I hope you find it cathartic but also motivating.Dispatches From A Collapsing State has no corporate funding whatsoever and depends on your support. If this work matters to you, if it has resonated with you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you Deuce Davis, Dan Kowalski, Caro Henry, LeftieProf, Laura A. Drury, and many others for tuning into my live video with THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali! Join me for my next live video in the app.Dispatches From A Collapsing State has no corporate funding whatsoever and depends on your support. If this work matters to you or resonates with you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Oh, man. As the Democratic Party and corporate centrists everywhere freak out over Tuesday’s primary results, Danielle Moodie and I talked about the wake-up call that the party is either going to have to heed or face a fairly uncertain future. Here, we discuss the trajectory of the Democratic Party over the past few decades, wrestle with the popular fictions and myths the leaders both revel in and perpetuate, and how a very, very large reality check is coming for Democrats if they don’t abandon their current allegiance to corporate and billionaire donors and come to represent a population desperate for change.Dispatches From A Collapsing State enjoys absolutely no corporate funding whatsoever. If this project means something to you or has helped you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

It’s been way too long since I sat down with my friend Sarah Kendzior and got a lay of the land. We start things in a different place in this iteration. After a decade of discussing the gathering dangers of authoritarian kleptocracy, we began by sharing the signs we’re seeing of popular discontent and hope, including the rejection of traditional political narratives that obscure the actual conditions in this country and around the world, as well as the growing democratic movement against authoritarians of all stripes. Then, we survey the state of things, the rejection of corporate media and faux-resistance, and the need for a politics that cherishes human life and actually works to make the world better for everyone.If you haven’t read them already, I cannot recommend Sarah’s books highly enough of her newsletter (link above) that is one of the most necessary reads in this moment.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. This project enjoys no corporate support or funding and runs entirely on your subscriptions. If this work has helped you or matters to you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Man, I needed today’s talk with Danielle Moodie. In this episode we talk about continued revelations regarding Democrats hanging out with Peter Theil and his secret society and the desperate need for many Americans to give up on comforting fictions, including a lot of what is being peddled by liberal corporate (and “independent”) media, in order to get into the fight before it’s too late. This conversation went in a lot of necessary directions. Thank you, as always, to the people who come out for the livestream and view it afterwards. Danielle and I are both absolutely independent without any kind of corporate backing, public or secret, so your support means everything to us. If this resonates with you, please consider sharing it with people who need to hear it and consider becoming a paid subscriber.Dispatches From A Collapsing State is a completely independent project. Corporate and wealth class bodies have no interest in supporting actual critiques of capitalism or power. If you support this project, please become a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

It was a joy to welcome David Roth of Defector back to Dispatches From A Collapsing State. David and I started the discussion with the abysmal and dismal UFC 250 event at the White House, the palpable lack of joy among Trump and his benefactors and how capitalism is just stripping the meaning from everything, the harvesting of organic happiness by corporations and the wealthy, and what we can learn from Zohran Mamdani’s tenure as mayor of New York City as we move away from a politics that is disastrously measured and, tragically, unsuccessful. And, finally, why we’re both feeling a sense of hope in the moment.If you haven’t already, check out David’s invaluable contributions to understanding the mindsets and motivations of MAGA and the wealth class, as well as some of the best sports and cultural analysis out there.Dispatches From A Collapsing State is a reader-supported project that enjoys no funding from corporate media or wealthy benefactors. If this work resonates with you, if it has helped you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber todayOh, and as promised, here’s James Dolan, the billionaire owner of the New York Knicks, absolutely killing it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you Caro Henry, Chris Resists, LeftieProf, PJ Schuster, Skutt Hope, and many others for tuning into my live video with THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali! Join me for my next live video in the app.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. This project enjoys no funding from corporation or wealthy interests, just paid subscribers. If this work has helped you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Thanks for everyone for coming out for this latest episode of The Check-In with myself and our beloved Danielle Moodie. Whole lot to get into this week.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. This project is not supported by any corporate patrons and refuses to go down that road. If this work means something to you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

So, a few days ago I received an email from a subscriber who didn’t know I also hosted The Muckrake Podcast, which, honestly, was a mistake on my part because I hadn’t really advertised it on here. Anyway, I wanted to rectify that, so here is a special crossover episode of The Muckrake in the hopes of introducing listeners over there and readers over here to one another. In this episode, my co-host Nick Hauselman is out of town, so I hold down the desk to discuss the changing paradigm following Iran’s strikes against Israel in retaliation for attacks against Lebanon, the straining U.S./Israel relationship, from there I get into the Trump Administration dismantling one of the crown jewels of American science and the relationship to declining U.S. power, and, finally, I address the developing situation in Maine as we head into primaries and the Democratic Party faces one test after another.Thank you, as always for your support. If you’d like to support The Muckrake and gain access to a bonus episode every Friday, as well as join the Discord where the community lives, head over to Patreon and become a patron. Thank you so much for the support here. I can’t tell you what a difference it makes.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. This project receives no corporate backing and depends completely on paid subscribers. If this work resonates with you or has helped you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Listen. Danielle Moodie and I came in hot today. We’ve both had it with not only the fascists but the enablers who made fascism possible in the first place. Today we talk about how many Americans are refusing to give up their comforting delusions and self-soothing lies and are, both consciously and unconsciously, ensuring that authoritarians will continue dismantling everything. I can’t tell you how badly I needed this conversation today.Dispatches From A Collapsing State seriously needs your help. I have no corporate backing and independent media only survives with the financial support of readers. Please, if this resonates with you or helps you, consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Danielle Moodie is back and so is The Check-In. In this episode we discuss the embarrassment and shame of the fascist regime and get into the fairytales and stories that have held up capitalism, white supremacy, and that got us into this mess. Finally, a discussion of the difference between being active politically and questioning the powerful and finding comfort and catharsis in participating in a consumer cult where you just accept whatever scraps you’re fed.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. This is an independent venture with no corporate backing, it continues due to the support of paid subscribers. If this has resonated with you, or helped you, please become a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

When I read Jon Greenaway’s piece on the horrors of Jimmy Fallon in Common Dreams last week, I knew I needed to get him in front of a microphone and talk. Then, I worked my way through Greenaway’s excellent book Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination and I couldn’t wait to record this conversation.Here Jon and I discuss, first, our thoughts on the disturbing experience of acts like Fallon, who are so thoroughly corporatized, and who play jester inside a studio as the world burns outside, as to radiate an energy that repels the soul. From there, we discuss the secret horrors of capitalism that have always been just below the surface and hidden from full view, but the feeling of how they are bursting from the seams now as class consciousness and precarity grow. We turn to popular pieces of horror that voice a lingering sense of dread and horror and how they are often reflections, intentionally or not, of the unconscious guilt and trauma we all carry as capitalism manipulates and exploits us. I can’t recommend this conversation enough.Jon is over at TheLitCritGuy and the podcast is Horror Vanguard. Give Jon and his work a look. You won’t regret it.Dispatches From A Collapsing State has no corporate sponsorship and it never will. This project is made possible with your support. If this work has meant something to you or resonated with you, please consider becoming a subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Danielle was traveling, so no Check-In this week (no worries, we’ll be back next week), so I held the time space and did another one of these Dispatches Mailbag Live episodes. I usually keep these mailbags for subscribers, but I want to open them up a bit. In this episode, I discuss the idea that there are no “good billionaires” and that they’re perpetuating systems of exploitation and hurting democracy, the lack of an actual Left in the United States, I answer questions about organizing the workplace, how to talk to people who don’t actually know what’s going on, the prison complex as a political gulag, and so much more. Thanks for everyone who shows up and supports this project. If this has helped, please considering becoming a paid subscriber.Dispatches From A Collapsing really, desperately needs your support. I have no corporate backing because corporations do not support actual critiques of capitalism and power. If this work matters to you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you Education is a lamp, Jai C. Porter🇨🇦, Laura A. Drury, Skutt Hope, CO, and many others for tuning into my live video with THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you to everyone coming out today for another episode of The Check-In with me and my friend Danielle Moodie. Today we got in-depth about the feelings of rage emanating from living in a time of fascism and unvarnished white supremacy. I really needed this talk and it went everywhere, which, how could it not? Come out every Wednesday at 12pm eastern to watch live and if this resonates with you and there are people you know who need to hear it, please share.Dispatches From A Collapsing State depends on your support and it needs that support now. If this work helps you, please become a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Thanks to everyone who came out live. I’m still experimenting with doing some of these Dispatches Mailbags live onstream when they’re usually for paid subscribers. Good questions today from you, the readers, spanning the gamut from the betrayals of the Neoliberals and members of the lanyard / political class, the real material motives and allegiances of the political parties and how the Democratic Party has found itself in an absolutely terrible and untenable position, the link between trauma suffered personally and through capitalism and the rise of fascism, and finally a brief conversation about guns and this dangerous environment. Appreciate the kindness and support. If you ever want one of your questions or topics to come up on one of these livestreams or mailbags, feel free to reply or send me an email. Once more, please send these things to people who might need them.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work resonates with you or has helped you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of The Check-In, Danielle Moodie and I go over the recent white supremacist actions of the wealth class and get in touch with the need to carry on the fight of our ancestors who fought and died for the rights that are being taken from us. We discuss the needed dismantling of the exploitative capitalist, fascist system, the lessons we can take from the past, the dangers of the white moderate mindset, and the growing sense of revolutionary energy that’s accompanying living in these times.Dispatches From A Collapsing State needs your support. This project has no corporate backing, only subscribers who chip in to help keep it afloat. If this work matters to you, if it’s helped you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Thanks for everyone who came out for this livestream version of the Dispatches Mailbag. I usually do this for subscribers, but wanted to try it out in this venue. In this livestream, I answer questions from you on the topics you want me to cover. I discuss the preparations I’m taking as the economic crisis starts to really hit, the end of Knowledge Fight and the toll of studying extremism and fascism, whether we’ll ever really learn the truth behind the lies the administration is telling us, including suspicions of conspiracies to stage assassination attempts, the Democratic Party’s disastrous platform heading into November and their corporate relationships, the state of my current book project, and more.Appreciate everyone who asked questions and who tuned in. Hang in there.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has resonated with you, if it has helped you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

I was so happy to welcome Rev. Angela Denker of I'm Listening to Dispatches From A Collapsing State. Here, Denker, author of Disciples of White Jesus, and I discuss the recent turn towards Christian Nationalism by the Far Right, as well as the general heresy being used to destroy democracy, oppress women and minorities, and fuel the ongoing rise of fascism. I always enjoy our conversations and I think this one of those must-listens in the face of what has both been happening and the future threat that is beginning to coalesce. As we discuss, you don’t have to be interested in religion for this stuff to matter to you. It’s best to understand what we’re up against.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has resonated with you or helped you, please become a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Today Danielle Moodie and I talked about something a lot of us are feeling: the pressure of living in a time of deep uncertainty and danger. We got into how this feeling, especially as things ramp up and many crises intertwine and worsen, we have to look in the mirror, decide who we are and what we believe and want, and start preparing our revolutionary selves for the fall of fascistic regimes and the possibility of a better future. I hope this hits home with people. I certainly needed it today.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has resonated with you or helped you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Today’s episode of The Check-In was exactly the kind of conversation I wanted to have when Danielle Moodie and I started this project. We got into leaving behind the feeling of inevitability that fascists want us to feel and rediscovering agency, or the ability to make change and create the world we actually want and actually deserve.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work resonates with you, if it has helped you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Checking in from the road for this week’s episode of The Check-In. Danielle Moodie and I discuss the growing tension within the United States, but also the feeling of revolutionary energy taking over. With all this madness and the self-destruction of fascism, it’s time to look ourselves in the mirror and decide to live better, all while rejecting the awful exploitation of the past that got us nowhere anyway.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has meant something to you or resonated with you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today. Every little bit helps and this project is completely independent with no corporate support. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.comMan alive, Tuesday was a mess. I wanted to record something going over the farce of a ceasefire - surprise, surprise, it was a disguised surrender for the U.S. - and what to expect now. For all the corporate coverage, we’re not hearing about the deeper politics of what is occurring with the U.S./Israel/Iran War and where all of this is heading. So, I pu…

Very grateful, as always, for this conversation with Danielle Moodie following the madness of the last couple of days. We discussed Trump holding the world hostage, the “ceasefire,” which was a surrender and disguise and likely won’t hold, and, perhaps more importantly, a conversation about what we can all do to get ready for the next stage of imperial collapse.Dispatches From A Collapsing State depends on your support. If this work has meant something to you or resonated with you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Things within the United States and outside, where a mindless, disastrous war continues, continue to spiral, so I’m very glad to have these Wednesday conversations with Danielle Moodie. In this episode of The Check-In, we talk about the moment where white supremacist and capitalist privilege finally meets reality. Trump is stuck in an awful position and there’s no easy way out. No bankruptcy to declare. No rich father to bail him out. Only a declining empire and a complete and utter failure that will doubtlessly change things going forward. It was a great talk and I hope it helps you.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your help. If this work has resonated with you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you Lev Parnas, Elaine Cimino, Morgan Guyton, LeftieProf, CO, and many others for tuning into my live video with THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Man alive. I needed this conversation with Danielle Moodie on the latest episode of The Check-In. Today we wrestled with the very real possibility that the war with Iran has brought us to a real fuck-around-and-find-out moment that could be the reckoning the American Empire was always going to reach. We discuss how white supremacy and American Exceptionalism have always been self-destructive ideologies that would bring us to ruin and how Trump and the fascists are the full realization of that fact which has haunted us since our founding.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has resonated with you and helped you, please become a paid subscriber to keep this project going This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Another episode of The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and I feel like we’re really getting down to the thing about living at the end of empire. This conversation got into the need for family (of choice) and community as we face the oncoming storm that is the collapse of the United States of America, including the political and economic consequences. We get into the colonization of our minds and our culture, the need to educate ourselves in decolonization philosophy and the actual history of our lives. I’m grateful for Danielle and for all the people tuning into these conversations.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has resonated with you or helped you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.comHappy Sunday, everyone. I had an itch to do a reader mailbag today and so I tried something new. Instead of writing out my answers I recorded this episode of Audio From A Collapsing State to see how it felt verbally processing. I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently and this batch gets into so much. We start by going over the difference between w…

Was happy, as always, to join THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali this afternoon to discuss the absolute debacle in the Middle East and here. We discussed how all this self-destruction is being pushed by some of the most privileged and competent men imaginable, which all but ensures failure and tragedy. Later, we get into the fact that Donald Trump’s base is leaving him but stress that Democrats can’t just count on their votes as the Far Right, which is just waiting for Trump to either die or go away, will be there to radicalize them to even more Neo-Nazi positions.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work resonates with you or has helped you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Well, I needed this talk. My friend Danielle Moodie and I got together for another episode of The Check-In to discuss our own navigation of the ongoing disaster of a war in the Middle-East, including the tragedy of watching people being murdered by this regime, the type of environmental damage being done, and, also, the need to start rooting against the empire as we must finally break out of this illusion that has held Americans captive for centuries now. It seems counterintuitive, but the absolute mess that Trump has created also lends itself to opportunities, including an opening to possibly defeat fascism and move beyond this utterly depraved capitalist exploitation.Thanks, as always, to the people who keep showing up every Wednesday to watch and for all the support. If you know someone, a friend, a family member, a coworker, who might benefit from this conversation, please forward this along.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work helps you or resonates with you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

As I said at the end of today’s episode of The Check-In, I’ve been looking forward to this conversation with Danielle Moodie since the war started on Saturday. We discussed the total insanity of this war, the cruelty and tragedy, as well as how it represents, we hope, the moment where the veneer of civility falls totally and people can start to see we have to change and move away from this madness. I hope it helps with you processing all of this bullshit.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your help. If this work has meant something to you, if it has helped, if it has resonated with you, please become a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

It’s been awhile since the last Bourbon Talk Q&A Livestream, but I figured circumstances required it. I went live last night with a bottle of bourbon and questions from my subscribers. We talked about the origins of the Iran War, why it is quickly becoming a regional war that is completely out of control, and how it is a symptom of the larger unraveling I’ve been talking about for years. It’s good to do things like this and share some space with one another, so thank you for the questions, for the kindness, and for the support.I’ll do another one of these sometime soon and I’m looking forward to it. I believe we will come out of this crisis better, but it’s going to take so much to get there. Relying on one another and building communities is the only way to do it.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your help. If my work has resonated with you or helped you make sense of this chaotic time, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Well. Here we are.I went live awhile ago to talk about the fascist war we now find ourselves in, the motivations behind it, the danger now that the elite don’t even feel a need to explain their violence anymore, and, perhaps more importantly, how a window is possibly opening in which we, the people, can take power back from the authoritarians.I’ll be going live tomorrow (Sunday March 1st) at 8pm eastern with a Bourbon Talk Q&A. If you have questions, please reply to this article and I’ll get to as many as I can. In the meantime, here is the article I published last week preparing for these strikes and this war.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If my work has helped you or resonated with you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

On this episode of The Check-In, I hang out with Danielle Moodie the morning after the State of Union and discuss why she didn’t watch and I wish I hadn’t. It’s a conversation that goes from the emotional abuse that Trump and fellow fascists dish out to the larger cultural situation, which is a moment in which we’re being invited to look around with clarity, see our wealthy and powerful overlords for what they are, wipe our hands clean, and tell them, you know what, we’ve had enough of your mess.As always, thank you to the people tuning in. This project has meant so much to me and Danielle and hearing that it has meant something to you as well is everything.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has helped you or resonated with you, please become a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Was very happy to go on THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali and discuss a good number of things, including the on-again-off-again rift between Donald Trump and the Supreme Court, which just reveals the relationship between fascism and the wealth classes gaining control, Waj’s incredible moment where he infuriated Hakeem Jeffries by gasp asking him a legitimate question, and the need for a direct confrontation with the fascists by turning to the left.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If you this work has meant something to you and you want to see it continue, please become a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Hung out with my friend Danielle Moodie and talked about light things: the failure of the American Empire, what it’s like to live in a time of possible revolutions, and what is at the core of fascism’s self-destructive impulses. It was a good hang considering there is a palpable feeling of change and potential change in the air, a feeling that we’re experiencing like so much electricity. We’re on the verge of war, fascistic completion, economic collapse, and, yet, there’s a sense that we might be approaching a desired moment of transformation.On an unrelated note, I want to ask for your help: Dispatches From A Collapsing State needs your help. I have no corporate backing and so your support makes all the difference. If you can, please consider becoming a paid subscriber to keep this project going This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

I was on the road today and am indisposed tomorrow, so Danielle Moodie and I decided to overturn convention and give you an episode of The Check-In a day early. Here, we discuss the absolutely crazy-making feeling of living in this world while knowing the elite are abusers and destroyers and liars and how, as Danielle puts it, that is breaking something inside of us. That’s some necessary growing pain, though, and we get into what it is to live in an environment where talking about elections is absolute insanity and the only actually sane thing is to discuss this rage we feel and the building revolutionary energy.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has meant something to you or has resonated with you, please become a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of The Check-In, Danielle Moodie and I wrestle with the rage that comes from living in a world dominated by murderous crooks and exposed pedophiles. We discuss what it means to recognize that politics is more than voting and election and what do you even do when you realize a sinister group of elites who see as less than human control everything. If you’ve been struggling with all these realizations lately, hopefully this episode helps.Dispatches From A Collapsing State is an independent media venture and it desperately needs your help. If my work has helped you or resonated with you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. I need your support more than ever This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

This one was a longtime coming, but in this episode of The Check-In, Danielle Moodie and I sort through the trauma, the pain, the grief, and the anger following Alex Pretty’s murder in Minneapolis. We talk about what it feels like to realize that the Democratic Party isn’t on our side, that this battle belongs to us and is going to require us to protect one another and put our lives on the line for complete stranger. I let out a lot of my anger about this intolerable bullshit in this episode, and I hope you’re finding ways to let out yours. This isn’t okay, this isn’t right, and it needs to stop.Dispatches From A Collapsing State is a subscriber-supported operation. I desperately need your support to keep this project going, so if this has meant something to you, if it has resonated with you, if it has helped you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Really enjoyed chatting with Wajahat Ali of THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali as always. We got into the worsening extremism of MAGA, which is trending toward overt and full-throated Nazism, and the failure of media and the Democratic Party to meet this threat. Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has resonated with you or helped you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

We welcome Danielle Moodie back stateside and spend some time reacting to the events of the past week, including the murder of Renee Nicole Good, the fact that we’re obviously living in the Second American Civil War, and where we’re all going from here. This is another episode that I sorely needed and I hope it helps with you as well. We’ll not be airing next week, but will be back the Wednesday after that.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has resonated with you or helped you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

This was a tough one. I’m going through it a and so Danielle Moodie and I talk about the feeling of watching the next step in fascist imperialism, carrying the weight of living in the moment, and the need for faith even when it’s hard to find.Dispatches From A Collapsing State is a reader-supported project and it desperately needs your help. If this has helped you or resonated with you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

All right. We made it to the end of 2025 somehow. I feel different. Broken in some ways, stronger in others. I hope you’re all right wherever you are. Today we have a new episode of The Check-In. Danielle Moodie and I discuss what a wretched year this has been and how it sets up to ask questions about who we actually are and what it is that we want. I’ve got an article coming out tomorrow that gives a preview of what 2026 will look like politically, and we get into that a little bit, especially the need to prepare for ourselves for what it might feel like as our grief turns to rage.Oh, and if 2025 wasn’t bad enough, there’s a technical glitch at the end. We finished up in a video that Danielle might post here soon?I hope it’s a good new year for all of you and thank you for all the kindness and support.Dispatches From A Collapsing State depends on your support and it desperately needs that support. If my work has resonated with you or helped you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.comHey everyone, I hope the holiday season has been kind to you. I’m dipping out of the torrent of news and current events for a few days and hoping to rejuvenate, but before I left I recorded this episode of Audio From A Collapsing State in which I answered four subscriber questions. In this episode, I’m asked what I expect from 2026, whether Donald Trump…

On this episode of The Check-In, I talk with Danielle Moodie about the unbearable pressure that’s been building this year and how It feels like it could blow. We discuss the month of December, the holidays, and the immense pressure of living in a declining society where some of the most incompetent and blatantly corrupt and awful human beings are in charge, and how it’s all building to something very large. Strategies for personal regulation and change are also shared and, well, I just needed this episode.Dispatches From A Collapsing State depends on your support. I seriously need your help as algorithms have turned away from actual critiques of capitalism and power. If my work has meant something to you, if it has resonated with you, if you’ve learned something, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe