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Hawk Podcasts
by Hawk
He's raw, unfiltered, unedited, authentic, vulnerable and sometimes annoying. His laugh is infectious, and he often engages in long periods of awkward silence. He will tell it like it is, and whether you’re on the left or the right he’s bound to make you uncomfortable at some point. But he will definitely make you think. A licensed, practicing trial attorney for the last 25 years, he brings his legal experience and knowledge to the news of the day and current events here at home to offer different perspectives and additional things to consider.
Episodes
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Declaring Martial Law Would Be Illegal. So Who Is Going to Stop Him?
The Brennan Center's Derek Tisler says emergency powers aren't a blank check and that martial law wouldn't let Trump seize election materials. Hawk respects the Brennan Center but keeps asking the question nobody answers: who is going to stop him? Donald Trump won't rule out a national emergency…
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The Second Amendment is Dead According to Markwayne Mullin
The footage Jacob Soboroff aired shows plainclothes agents in masks and construction vests, no visible badges, rifles drawn, banging on a driver's window. Firearms safety starts with knowing what is behind your target. A car has a license plate. Arrest him later. Hawk, a gun owner, asks the...
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That Kid Could Have Been Killed - The Accountability Coming for ICE
The pattern is familiar: ICE agents firing into cars, from Renee Good in Minneapolis to recent shootings in Houston and Austin, where a food delivery driver was shot. Most major police departments bar officers from shooting into moving vehicles except in narrow circumstances. With firearms the...
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Zohran Mamdani Mourned October 7th and Named Gaza - The Backlash Was Instant
Hawk condemns Hamas and the October 7 attack without reservation, and argues that more than one thing can be true at the same time. In his view, every fact in Mamdani's statement holds up. Democrat Jared Moskowitz called it atrocious. Joe Walsh, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Nikki Haley, Ben Shapiro, and...
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The Jack Smith Hearing Backfired Spectacularly
The problem, as Smith calmly explained and Senator Amy Klobuchar later confirmed, is that Smith was not at a Hawks game in Atlanta at all. He was at a University of Maryland game against the Iowa Hawkeyes to watch Caitlin Clark. Schmitt had confused the Hawks with the Hawkeyes, and his staff's...
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Jack Smith Testifies Tuesday - The Worst Possible Timing for Republicans
His point is about timing and substance. Roughly six weeks before the midterms, with Trump's approval mired in the low 30s and Republicans distancing themselves from him, a public hearing invites Smith to walk through, on national television, the classified-documents case at Mar-a-Lago and the...
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Words Have Meaning
The heart of the video walks through how a specific contested term is actually defined, including its origin after World War II and the criteria laid out in the 1948 United Nations Convention. Hawk contrasts that formal legal definition with the statistical argument Galloway made, and lays out at...
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ICYMI Lauren Boebert is Not a Lesbian
He then turns to a new, sworn ethics complaint filed against Rep. Lauren Boebert by David Wheeler of the American Muckrakers PAC, alleging she had relationships with staffers in violation of House rules and arranged a payment to keep one of them quiet. Hawk is careful to note the full picture:...
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The Rule of Law No Longer Exists - ICE Agents Are Domestic Terrorists
The heart of the video is Hawk's legal argument about how the courts made this possible. He points to the Supreme Court's shadow-docket order and Brett Kavanaugh's lengthy concurrence, now referred to as authorizing Kavanaugh stops, which he says effectively carved out an exception to Fourth...
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Trump Says Biden Ordered the Hit on Him in Butler, PA - The Media is Silent
Reacting alongside commentary from The Bulwark, Hawk's point is less about the claim itself than the silence around it: a sitting president publicly alleged that his predecessor used the federal government to try to have him killed, and Hawk says he could find only a single news article covering...
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The End Of American Democracy - The January 3rd Scenario
The scenario centers on January 3, 2027. Even if Democrats win House and Senate majorities in November, Luttig argues, Speaker Mike Johnson could move before noon that day to replace House Clerk Kevin McCumber with a loyalist who leaves duly elected Democrats off the roll of the incoming 120th...
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And Another Thing with Shaana and Hawk: AI Doom, Stolen Midterms, and the 2028 Field
From there the conversation turns to the 2026 midterm elections. Hawk lays out his fear about the stretch between election night and the January swearing in, the prospect of ballots being seized before they are counted, and a militarized presence at the polls, while Shaana argues for voting in...
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Trump - a - Palooza: Night One
Hawk runs through the rest of the lineup and a bizarre moment when an image of Hasan Piker appeared on the arena Jumbotron during an anti socialism segment, along with Piker's reaction. He also fact checks Trump's tarmac claims that the Iran war and high gas prices will both end right after the...
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It’s Just Like Covid - Everyone is an Expert
His larger point is that the Dunning Kruger effect is not a partisan trait. Hawk argues it shows up just as often on the left as on the right, and he pushes back on the idea that acknowledging hard truths and respecting expertise are somehow in conflict. On the Clancy case itself, Hawk holds two...
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Nobody Is Stopping Trump's Plan to Throw Away Your Ballot
Drawing a line back to 2020 and the stretch between election night and January 6th, Hawk argues the difference now is planning. He points to reporting that ICE is building a multimillion dollar national voter database, to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin saying agents could appear at polling…
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Should Democrats IMPEACH TRUMP a Third Time?
From there Hawk lays out the political reality. Even with 52 or 53 Senate seats, Democrats would be far short of the Republican votes needed for conviction, and a Republican-controlled Senate might decline to hold a trial at all. He notes how Mitch McConnell pointed to the courts after January…
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Some Good News - Senate Polling Shows Democrats Leading in 8 Races
From there he runs the board on eight Senate races where Democrats are polling ahead: Mary Peltola in Alaska, Jon Ossoff defending Georgia against Mike Collins, Josh Turek in Iowa, Troy Jackson taking on Susan Collins in Maine after Graham Platner exited the race, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan…
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We ALL Know What Is Coming and No One Is STOPPING HIM
The conversation turns to a hard truth: nobody is doing anything to stop him. Hawk points to Donald Trump's second term, the harm being done to others on purpose, and the fear that Trump and Republicans will interfere with the midterm elections. He calls out the Supreme Court for gutting the…
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AIPAC Democrats Can't Stop Attacking Hasan Piker
Hawk examines AIPAC influence, Democratic Party divisions over Israel, Gaza, military aid, Zionism, antisemitism, and whether criticism of the Israeli government is being unfairly conflated with hatred of Jewish people. Names raised include Hakeem Jeffries, Cory Booker, Alyssa Slotkin, Josh...
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This is Sad and Embarrassing
Two genuinely ridiculous things crossed Hawk's desk today, and they rhyme. First, The Atlantic reports that with his approval parked in the low thirties, the president sat his advisors down to figure out how to spend a roughly $400 million super PAC war chest, and the master plan they landed on…
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The Lindsay Clancy Trial: How Expert Witnesses Actually Work
The center of it is expert testimony. When a defendant's mental state is the whole question, both sides bring in psychologists, and everything those witnesses say is opinion, not fact. Hawk walks through what it takes to qualify an expert, why the phrase to a reasonable degree of psychological...
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Abolish and Prosecute ICE
His argument is simple and hard to answer. If ICE and Border Patrol were detaining dozens of violent criminals, carjackers, traffickers, members of Tren de Aragua, this administration would put them in front of cameras every single day. It has not done that once. What the cameras show instead are...
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The Flock CEO Says Privacy Can't Be The Main Concern
The reasoning is the interesting part. Rogers's team reportedly believes AIPAC spending would backfire and help El-Sayed, which is roughly what happened in the primary, where heavy spending on Haley Stevens preceded her loss. At a Myrtle Beach rally for Darlene Graham, Trump said out loud what...
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Remembering Dolly Parton, Everything That Was Good In The World
Hawk set aside everything else he had planned to make this one instead, and to let Dolly speak for herself through her own words. The numbers are staggering, but they were never the point. Born the fourth of twelve children in a one room cabin in East Tennessee, to a father who could not read or...
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Elbows Up! Canada Hits Back at Trump
Trump has since announced that on January 1st, 2027, tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts, and steel go to 50 percent. Carney says Canada will match them dollar for dollar. CNN's Daniel Dale ran the fact check. Canadian unemployment is 6.4 percent and has been falling for three months…
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This Supreme Court Will Stop At Nothing to Save Donald Trump
Hawk reads the order rather than the coverage, and the distinction matters. The Court did not decide whether any of this is lawful. It held that the states lack standing because the order has not been implemented, that a president may direct agencies within his own branch, and that setting...
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A Malignant Narcissist Backed Into A Corner - This Will Get Worse
Follow Dr. G here: https://www.tiktok.com/@drg.bodylanguage The part Hawk keeps coming back to is why the temperature is rising now. The Save Act has not moved through the Senate. The Supreme Court has not ruled on the executive order aimed at mail voting. The effort to obtain state voter rolls…
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No Hakeem, Absolutely Not
Hawk's objection is structural. Kushner holds no government position, which is what keeps him outside security clearance and financial disclosure requirements, and he is simultaneously serving as envoy on Gaza, Iran, and Ukraine while raising money for his own fund from the governments he is...
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It is Simply Racial Profiling - Period
Hawk walks through Adam Serwer's Atlantic piece, The See No Evil Supreme Court, and the framework Serwer names the neo Korematsu doctrine: if any non racial explanation for a policy can be constructed, however hypothetical, the racial animus behind it stops mattering legally. Serwer traces it…
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They Want To Repeal The 19th Amendment
The testimony in that case has covered her marriage, her care, and what she was experiencing before the killings, including perinatal and postpartum mental illness. A lot of women recognized pieces of their own experience in it and said so publicly. Hawk's point is the distinction being...
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Oh, Hey Melania - LOL
The letters themselves are extraordinary. Pride and Prejudice references, apologies for losing focus, a line about him being her guardian and protector. Alongside them is the earlier reporting that Harp spent her first year in the White House without a security clearance while sitting beside the...
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Midterm Nightmare Scenario - One Republican Says We're Not Devious Enough To Guess What's Coming
The quotes from Republican officials are the ones that land. One said they are not devious enough to anticipate what is coming. Another warned about what replaces the ballot when confidence in it collapses. Hawk walks through 2020 footage from Phoenix, Detroit, and Philadelphia, plus the Fulton...
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Eric Swalwell Had a Bad Day Today - The FBI Searched His Home And Seized His Devices
Hawk's interest is procedural. Two actions like that mean two warrants, which means agents went to a federal judge with an affidavit and established probable cause, both that crimes likely occurred and that evidence of them would likely be found in those specific places. That is a meaningful...
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Bad News for MAGA: A 38 Point Swing With White Working Class Voters
The main event is Kash Patel's defamation suit against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick. Joyce Vance laid out on her Substack why it goes badly for him regardless of outcome. Dismissal ends it. Survival opens discovery, and Patel filed, which means he answers document requests,...
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Good News About The Midterms: This Looks Better Than The Data Looked In 2018
The Downballot ran the numbers on 110 special elections since January 2025. Democrats are outrunning Kamala Harris's 2024 margins by 12.5 points on average and Joe Biden's 2020 numbers by 8.4. That implies a roughly 12 point environment in House and Senate races, slightly better than what the…
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Jared Moskowitz Suggested Denying DSA Members of Congress Security Clearances
These are candidates who won Democratic primaries. Eight or ten of them now, several against sitting incumbents. Angie Nixon is running the same play everywhere it works: populism and affordability, gas and groceries and rent and utility bills. Hawk's read is that elected Democrats spent fifteen…
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A Judge Just Ordered Ten Years Of Sealed Maxwell Documents Unsealed
The background matters. Judge Sweet's 2016 protective order let the attorneys themselves designate documents confidential, with no judicial review unless the other side objected. Dozens of filings went under seal on that basis and stayed there after the 2017 settlement. Maxwell was deposed twice…
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The DOJ's Latest Plan to Steal the Midterm Elections?
The Senate sits at 53 to 47. Democrats need four seats for a majority. Realistic targets include Alaska, Texas, Ohio, Maine, Iowa, North Carolina, and possibly Kansas and Nebraska, while holding open seats in Michigan and Minnesota. The House is tighter than it looks: Southern redistricting after...
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HEY MAGA: Who Were You Before June 2015?
One question, asked directly, for eleven minutes. Who were you before June 2015? Hawk's premise is that something changed when Donald Trump rode down that escalator, and that for a lot of people it changed permanently. An identity built around one man. A grievance framework that assigns every...
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Lowest Approval Rating Yet - Trump Is An Absolute Failure
Four stories. Former State Department official Matt Bartlett joined Jonathan Lemire on Morning Joe and was candid about Republican midterm prospects and the absence of a message beyond one bill. Charlamagne tha God gave Hakeem Jeffries a Donkey of the Day over his answer on Medicare for All, a…
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Trump Has No Respect for Military Personnel Stationed in the Gulf Region
A new CBS poll showing Democrats favor socialism over capitalism by a wide margin, and the definitions people keep collapsing into each other. Todd Blanche spoke at a political rally on Long Island Friday and appeared to endorse Bruce Blakeman. Attorneys general do not do this. The reaction was...
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Joe Rogan Is Warning Republicans They Just Handed Texas To Democrats
The penalties are the part that stands out. A single gram can carry jail time and a state felony, which means losing firearm rights permanently in Texas. Larger quantities scale up fast. Products bought legally weeks ago are now contraband. Seven years of legal sales built a multibillion dollar...
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The Entire MAHA Movement is Eugenics in Disguise
The natural immunity framing from the COVID years carried the same premise underneath: strong enough to get through it and you live, and if not, that is simply how it goes. Applied to a country where most people accumulate two or three chronic conditions with age, that is a policy with a serious...
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MAGA Chud Gets Owned On Live TV
Hawk adds the comparison Honig gestured at. The civil case against Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization turned on proven intent to defraud lenders over a decade. The half billion dollar judgment was later thrown out, but the fraud finding stands. Signing what a mortgage broker puts in…
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Democrats Will Subpoena Melania Trump Regarding Epstein Files
His argument on precedent is the interesting part. Republicans subpoenaed Hunter Biden, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton, which he reads as settling the question of whether presidential family members and former first ladies can be called. He says there is no question they want to talk to her…
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2026 Internment Camps - Green Card Holders, No Criminal Record, Four Months In Detention
Her husband, who mentors PhD students at the Chicago School, was picked up on April 9th when he failed to collect their son from school. The next morning her car was surrounded and she watched her son, a California resident since pre-K who speaks only English, be handcuffed. They were moved to...
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If Trump Declares An Emergency Five Days Out, Who Actually Stops Him?
Kinzinger's concern matches Hawk's. Not whether it would be legal, since the Constitution gives the president no role in elections and states and counties run them, but whether courts could move fast enough if it happened days before voting, and what enforcement would look like after an order...
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Donald Trump is Dying and the White House is Lying to Us About It
The question Reiner raises is disclosure rather than diagnosis. What the White House releases about an 80 year old president does not match what is visible in daily footage, and the public has no reliable way to check. Hawk's comparison is to the last two years of Joe Biden's term, when people...
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Good Laughs: A 40 Minute Blind Reaction To The Majority Report - Sam Seder on Hasan Piker
The list Seder reads out is the point. A war with Iran, an economy squeezing people at the register, an Attorney General installed to serve one man, and reporters asking Dr. Abdul El-Sayed about a streamer instead. Kristen Welker asking candidates whether Israel has a right to exist, when the...
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Republican Crash Out - Just How Dumb Are Trump Supporters?
Meanwhile his campaign against James Talarico runs almost entirely on ads about medical transition and children, while he trails in the polling. Second, Michigan Republican Lisa McClain went on Fox and attributed a claim about COVID vaccines and first trimester miscarriage rates to the New…
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He's raw, unfiltered, unedited, authentic, vulnerable and sometimes annoying. His laugh is infectious, and he often engages in long periods of awkward silence. He will tell it like it is, and whether you’re on the left or the right he’s bound to make you uncomfortable at some point. But he will definitely make you think. A licensed, practicing trial attorney for the last 25 years, he brings his legal experience and knowledge to the news of the day and current events here at home to offer different perspectives and additional things to consider.
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