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Live Streams with Fanone
by Michael Fanone
Raw conversations, real-time reactions, and unfiltered dialogue with journalists, activists, and insiders. No scripts. No spin. Just Mike and his guests digging into the news as it happens — with the kind of urgency cable can’t touch. michaelfanone.substack.com
Episodes
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BYOB Live with Michael Fanone and Jolly Good Ginger
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com This was Jolly’s first time back with us after a health scare that had all of us a little rattled. Great to see him back in the chair, running his mouth like nothing happened. Missed you, brother. We got into...
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BYOB with Michael Fanone
If you’ve been around here a while, you know the usual menu — corruption, cover-ups, the people in power betraying the folks they’re supposed to serve. I’m not apologizing for any of it. But you can’t run on rage alone, and neither can you. Sometimes you pour a drink, sit down with somebody worth...
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BYOB with Michael Fanone
Missed the live? Pour one and catch the replay. This week's BYOB sat me down with Jolly Good Ginger for the kind of loose, no-script conversation these nights are made for — politics, the stuff nobody else will say out loud, and plenty of tangents in between. If you weren't there in the chat, you...
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BYOB Wednesday with Michael Fanone
Good conversation today with Julian Andreone and Kurt Bardella — we got into the week’s chaos, what’s actually worth paying attention to, and why staying engaged matters when so many people are trying to wear us down. Thanks to everyone who showed up live, asked questions, and keeps this…
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BYOB with Michael Fanone and Peter Rothpletz
Thank you Jersey Jean, Courtneye, Ginny Gee, Kalynn Huffman Brower, Ginger, and many others for tuning into my live video! 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...
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BYOB Substack Q&A with the Fanone Bros
If you missed it live, the full Q&A with my brother Peter is up now. We talked through the week’s chaos, what matters, what doesn’t, and why so many people feel like they’re getting played by the same broken system over and over. We also hit your questions in the comments — no scripts, no panels,...
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REPLAY: Michael Fanone LIVE with Jordan Korgood and Ben Freedland
Sponsored by Ground News This live was two conversations back-to-back, but they’re connected by the same reality: we’re living through a moment where the people with the loudest megaphones are trying to normalize corruption, intimidation, and political violence—and then act shocked when the…
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Michael Fanone on Trump pardoning & paying Jan 6 terrorists (w/ Dean Obeidallah)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I joined Dean to talk about the latest insult to every cop who stood that line on January 6: pardons for the people who tried to kill us, and now a taxpayer-funded payout pipeline dressed up as “patriotism.”...
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Ask Mike Fanone Anything — We’re Doing This Every Thursday Now
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com A lot is happening fast — Iran, elections, the courts, federal law enforcement getting warped into political theater — and I’m tired of watching people get spun up by clips and hot takes while the actual…
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LIVE: Chuck Park Is the Kind of Candidate Queens Actually Needs
Sponsored by Ground News I went live with Chuck Park because I’m tired of watching local races get treated like they don’t matter until the damage is already done. NY-6 isn’t just another “safe seat.” It’s a test of whether Democrats are going to keep recycling the same political machine —...
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Michael Fanone Live Q&A: Iran, the Midterms, Virginia — and Who Pays the Price
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I just wrapped a subscriber Q&A, and I wanted to put a quick recap here because we hit three stories that are connected in a way most coverage refuses to say out loud. We talked about Iran, and why the…
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Michael Fanone Live: The Battle for Kansas Senate with Noah Taylor
Sponsored by Ground News I’m posting this conversation with Noah Taylor because Kansas is about to matter a lot more than the national media wants to admit — and because too many people still treat the Senate like it’s some abstract DC chess match. It’s not. The Senate is where accountability...
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Jan. 6 police officer Michael Fanone on ICE, midterms, Trump’s corruption
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I jumped on a live conversation with Raw America and we talked about what’s happening right now — the real-world consequences of Trump’s agenda: ICE tactics on the ground, what’s breaking inside the system…
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Live with Michael Fanone and Sheriff Chris Swanson
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com
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BYOB Substack Live Q & A with the Fanone Brothers
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Join us for an exclusive BYOB Substack Q & A with Mike and Peter Fanone. Become a paid subscriber to help support the show.
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LIVE: Injustice — How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I sat down with Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis about their new book, Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department. This isn’t a victory lap. It’s an autopsy. How the place that’s...
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What I Saw This Week Defies Everything I Was Trained To Do
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I spent almost twenty years wearing a badge. There were rules that weren’t optional: the Constitution first, human dignity always, and power only when you have to use it. What I watched this week wasn’t...
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Top Senator Talks Trump, Epstein & More — Live with Michael Fanone
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I went live not long ago to cut through the noise with Sen. Ruben Gallego. We talked about power, impunity, and what accountability looks like when the stakes are real. * Trump’s playbook right now — what’s...
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We Don’t Move On After January 6th, We Move Forward (5-Year Livestream)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Today the takes will drift away from that day. Their whitewashing will pivot to new stories. Five years to the day, we went live with people who’ve carried the facts and the scars: Jim Acosta, Heather Cox...
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Why You Should Still Be Angry About the January 6th Insurrection - Mike Fanone
Five years ago I was a cop on the line at the Capitol. I know what happened because I wore it on my skin and in my bones. What’s worse than the violence is the lie that followed — the revision, the excuses, the politicians who cashed in on amnesia. This live is about why the anger still matters....
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Why Musician Bryan Andrews Keeps Going Viral
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I went live with Bryan Andrews, the musician who’s been blowing up feeds by saying out loud what a lot of people are feeling: the country’s not fine, and the folks catching the pain aren’t the ones on TV. We...
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Rough Day for the Rule of Law, but the good news is we've got a special guest tonight . . .
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I went live with Glenn Kirschner to talk through something that should’ve shaken this entire country: two National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, D.C. These men weren’t in a war zone. They weren’t…
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Michael Fanone Show LIVE: Women Fighting for Our Future in 2026
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Last week we went live with the women behind The Moment podcast to talk about what 2026 is really going to take. Here’s what stuck with me. Women are already doing the work — organizing clinics and court...
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Countdown to DC FLARE Protests with Michael Fanone & Cliff Cash
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Cliff and I sat down and pulled the lens back on MAGA as a system—not just the loudest guy in the room, but the donor networks, media pipes, and hustle that keep it moving even when the headlines shift. We...
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Election Night in America with Jim Acosta
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I jumped on with Jim Acosta Tuesday as returns came in, and the story in my backyard wasn’t subtle. In the DMV—Northern Virginia, the close-in suburbs, the I-95/I-66 corridors—voters slammed the brakes on the...
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Halloween BYOB LIVE with the Fanone Brothers
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com On Halloween we set up in one of my favorite tattoo shops, machines buzzing, and talked about who is actually doing the work and where we are today. The first half we talked with Andy Zee (Refuse Fascism)…
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From January 6 to Now — LIVE with Don Lemon & Michael Fanone
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Don and I go back to the worst day of my life and trace how we ended up here — the aftermath, the threats, the moments that changed our careers, and the first conversation that turned into a friendship. No...
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Protect & Serve With Michael Fanone & Maya May | Cops, Communities, and Chaos: Rosa Brooks on Trump's Policing Playbook
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com What does “law and order” really mean when the cameras are off? Maya and I sit down with Rosa Brooks to pull apart the tactics behind the slogan — from protest crackdowns and loyalty tests to the quiet policy...
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I Exposed The Truth Behind the MAGA Shutdown & Chaos with David Hogg & Sen. Van Hollen
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com House hardliners aren’t “fighting waste.” They’re manufacturing a crisis and sending the bill to vets, workers, and families — then fundraising off the wreckage.David Hogg breaks down the playbook; Sen. Chris...
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Mayhem in Media with Don Lemon & Jim Acosta — Throwback Thursday
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Last month’s live, we called out the duck-and-cover routine in legacy news and why the public trust is migrating to people doing the work without a corporate leash. Don Lemon and Jim Acosta pulled the curtain...
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The Jim Acosta Show Live with Michael Fanone - The Center for Politics at UVA
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Last week we took it into a room full of students at UVA. No filters, no studio safety net — just hard questions about truth, power, and what it costs to tell the story straight. Jim and I went deep on…
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MAGA Shutdown Day 3 with Jim Acosta & Mike Fanone
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Three days into the government shutdown, the talking points were flying faster than the facts. Republicans call it “fiscal responsibility.” Democrats call it “hostage politics.” But what we called it tonight…
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The TRUTH Behind Trump's Shutdown Chaos & Military Power Grab
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com The TRUTH Behind Trump’s Shutdown Chaos & Military Power Grab I went live with two powerful voices — Jolly Good Ginger and USMC Angry Veteran — to cut through the noise and get real about what’s happening in...
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Don Lemon and Michael Cohen live from the Capitol with the Lemon Cohen report
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com This week on The Lemon-Cohen Report, Don Lemon and Michael Cohen were joined by Michael Fanone for a conversation that cut through the noise and went straight to the headlines shaping Washington. The…
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LAW AND DISORDER LIVE: Fanone, Kinzinger, Kirschner & Figliuzzi
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Adam Kinzinger. Glenn Kirschner. Frank Figliuzzi. Voices who’ve been inside the fight — in Congress, in the courts, in the FBI, and now on the ballot. Together, we pulled back the curtain on what’s really...
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I'm Part Time Soccer Mom
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com I joined while driving my daughters to soccer practice — real life colliding with the news cycle. And in between the politics, Jim and I took a beat to announce something new: Fanone merch. That moment said a...
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Breaking Through the Noise
This livestream brought together Jim Acosta, Mehdi Hasan, Lauren Windsor, Tommy Christopher, and me. It was one of those episodes where the headlines were moving fast — Trump in the spotlight, disinformation spreading, and politics bending under the weight of it all. Each of us came at it from a...
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The Parade, Protests, and Police
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com On this livestream, Don Lemon sat down with a series of voices — Tara Palmeri, Jolly Good Ginger, Mike Nellis, Glenn Kirschner, and me. Each conversation circled the same themes: foreign policy, Trump’s…
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When Science Became a Target
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com This livestream with Jim Acosta, Ezra, Gabe, and me covered a lot of ground — the politics of the moment, Trump’s chaos, and the state of democracy. On one level, it’s laughable. On another, it’s deadly...
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The State of Our Country with Don Lemon and Michael Fanone
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Don Lemon and I took a step back to talk about the state of the country — not just the politics, but the culture that keeps shaping it. Because when you look at Donald Trump, you don’t just see a politician....
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When Police Become a Political Weapon
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com This week, I sat down with Michael Cohen to talk about something that isn’t getting enough attention: how Trump is quietly reshaping American policing — not through local reform, but federal control. In D.C.,...
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Standing Up to Power
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com This livestream with Jim Acosta and Sarah Matthews came at a moment when Trump still dominated the headlines and the January 6th hearings were forcing America to confront the truth. But it was at the end of…
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The Threats Don’t Stop
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com On Jim Acosta’s live show, Michael Cohen went first, laying out his perspective on Trump’s chaos and DOGE. Then I joined Jim to talk about what that chaos looks like on the ground. And I shared something, a...
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Talking With Chris Matthews
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com That’s the difference between watching events unfold on TV and standing in the middle of them. For me, January 6th isn’t just history. It’s memory. It’s scars. And when I talk about it, I’m not speaking in...
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Trump, Netanyahu, and the Politics of Fear
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com When Don Lemon and I went live for this conversation, the headlines were dominated by Trump’s foreign policy stumbles and the chaos his inner circle was fueling at home. We talked about Netanyahu testing…
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The Fight’s Not Over: A Conversation with Glenn Kirschner
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Glenn spent decades as a federal prosecutor. I spent nearly 20 years as a cop. Both of us have seen this country at its best and at its worst. We talked about where we are right now — the Trump trials, the…
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🍻 BYOB with the Fanone Bros. — Porch Talk on Politics and Life
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Sometimes you’ve just gotta grab a couple of chairs, crack open a beer, and let the conversation wander. That’s exactly what Peter and I did in this episode of BYOB with the Fanone Bros. — no scripts, no...
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Join Me While I Get a Tattoo & Rant About Politics
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Beer in hand, needle buzzing — probably not the smartest setup for talking politics. But sometimes the best conversations happen in the least polished places. This one’s about passion, culture, and the kind…
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Fanone and Glenn Kirschner Talk National Guard & DC
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelfanone.substack.com/subscribe
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The Jim Acosta Show with Congressman Robert Garcia Michael Fanone and Julian Zelizer plus attorney Dan Toomey
The Jim Acosta Show with Congressman Robert Garcia, Michael Fanone, and Julian Zelizer Back in April, Jim Acosta and I sat down with Congressman Robert Garcia and Julian Zelizer for a wide-ranging conversation on Trump, power, and the future of our democracy. It’s Throwback Thursday now — but…
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Raw conversations, real-time reactions, and unfiltered dialogue with journalists, activists, and insiders. No scripts. No spin. Just Mike and his guests digging into the news as it happens — with the kind of urgency cable can’t touch.
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