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Politix is a weekly podcast about the 2024 election from Brian Beutler, Matthew Yglesias, and some occasional guests. We’ll have some good-faith disagreement, some points of consensus, and an overall effort to focus on what’s really at stake in November. Subscribe for new episodes each Wednesday and listen wherever you get your podcasts. www.politix.fm
Episodes
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Wave, Goodbye?!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Haha, made you look! The wave is still on, the only real question: will it be big enough to deliver Dems a John Fetterman-proof Senate majority. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * Whether any nagging doubt are...
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Nervous TikTok
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s really hard to upset the dynamics of an election this late in the game; but Donald Trump and the corrupt forces that fear accountability are desperate and very powerful. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: *…
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St. James Infirmary
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Polls still look good for Democrats. They’re on the offensive in debates, and their opponents have no good answers. Sucks to be them! In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * Is the picture for Democrats getting…
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Dennis, The Menace
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert died this week, and it’s almost like he never molested a bunch of children then got busted for buying their silence. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * The told and untold...
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Boba Black Sheep
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Can Republicans really run against Mary Peltola being interpersonally mean? Or Troy Jackson enjoying something effeminate like i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶i̶o̶r̶ ̶d̶e̶c̶o̶r̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ drinking bubble tea? In this episode, Matt and Brian...
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Golden Sour
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s getting so bad out there for Republicans that some of them are even pretending to oppose war and corruption! So naturally moderate Democrats are endorsing Republicans, and one of them might switch parties! In this...
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The Stunt For Red October
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Hours after last week’s politics was in the can, all hell broke loose in the world of A.I. development. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * What’s happened over the past week, and where does it leave us? * Are we...
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Right Makes Antisemite
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s Trumpapalooza; it’s the Charlie Kirkaversary; it’s been 25 years since 9/11. And that has everyone asking: Have Democrats sufficiently denounced antisemitism? In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * Donald…
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Make It Reign
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump says everyone should start learn to stop worrying and love data centers. Democrats say, “hey, thanks!” In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * Why is Donald Trump clinging so hard to the wrong side of a...
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Je Suis Carney
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump is accelerating America’s transformation into a banana republic, most recently by instigating a trade war against Canada and compromising the integrity of U.S. economic statistical agencies. In this episode,...
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PRINTER?! He Hardly Knew ‘Er!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Jon Ossoff says he has no interest in running for president in 2028. But between fundraising prowess and narrative shaping and attention driving, he’s doing a better job of it than just about anyone else in the…
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Woke Two: Cancellation Boogaloo?!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have conceded to the excesses of what we must all now call Woke One. But the concession, and that characterization of it, raise some obvious questions. In this episode, Matt…
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Nobody Wants To Fight Trump
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Democratic leaders have been delivered a thrashing from the left this primary season. So naturally, the lesson they took from it is that they should…fund Trump’s crooked government before the election he’s trying to…
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Just Ken
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm The Iran war’s back on, oil prices are back up, the Republican election outlook is back down. But…it’s not playing out as an existential political crisis for Donald Trump. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * Why...
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Medicare For Kumbay'all
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm What if the Democratic establishment could take the wind out of the sails of the left wing insurgency by…giving in to progressives on their most morally resonant and popular issue? In this episode, Matt and Brian…
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Lindsey Graham Platner (Hardly Knew... 'Em?)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm While Brian was away, Graham Platner’s campaign imploded, rumors circulated that Republicans were playing Weekend At Bernie’s with Mitch McConnell’s corpse. And then Lindsey Graham went and actually died. In this…
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Tarheels and fish fans
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Brian’s vacation continues for a second week, so Matt is joined by Caitlin Legacki, a Democratic strategist and Third Way fellow, to talk about some of the less-covered but more-successful 2026 senate recruits starting...
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Mainely Politics
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm With Brian out on vacation, Matt is joined by Alex Seitz-Wald of the Midcoast Village to discuss Graham Platner and the shifting political tides of Vacationland more broadly. In this episode, Matt and Alex discuss: *…
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LET A THOUSAND ALGAES BLOOM!!!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump, in his haste and corruption, has wrecked the historic reflecting pool that spans the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * How this lazy and corrupt endeavor...
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Yes Retreat, Baby, Yes Surrender
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump will either surrender to Iran on Friday in Switzerland, or scuttle the deal—sorry, “memorandum of understanding”—in the face of overwhelming opprobrium and humiliation. Who can say! In this episode, Matt and...
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Pride Before The Prattfall
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm The results from California are (mostly? almost completely?) in. They are mixed, and extremely consistent with pre-election polling. Naturally, Republicans are subjecting the country to a blizzard of lies. In this…
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Platner?! Hardly Knew 'Er! ... ('em)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s a been a busy seven days, so we race through a bunch of topics, with a special focus on Graham Platner, the state of the Maine Senate race, and then some stake driving on how Democrats should prepare for the...
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Aging Loser Donald Trump Is Old And Losing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump went back to the hospital Tuesday for his third “checkup” in just over a year, but faces fewer questions about his age and vitality than Joe Biden. He lost a war of choice, at serious cost to the U.S. and…
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Jared Polis, WTF?!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump is more unpopular than he’s ever been. But he’s still got a tight grip on the GOP, he keeps making progress on his plan to subvert elections. And Democrats…well it’s unclear what they intend to do about it.…
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Ballroom Busters
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Late in the game, Trump-loyal judges at the federal and state level joined his effort to rig the midterms. Democrats will thus enter this fall’s race for House control at a systemic disadvantage. But for Trump, that’s...
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F*ck Gerry
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Democrats were winning the gerrymandering arms race Donald Trump kicked off last year, and still seem poised for a good fight. But then things changed. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * What does the decision…
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Inside Job?!?!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump had to be evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, after a “gunman” “attempted” to breach the security perimeter around the dinner hall at the Washington Hilton. But unlike last…
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Matt And Brian Solve The Vibecession
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump has, in fact, damaged the economy. He’s juiced inflation and weakened the labor market and created deep uncertainty. But the public seems to think things are worse now than at any time since the Great...
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Norm, Or Fascin'
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Matt’s away this week. Or since he’s in London, maybe we should say he’s “on holiday” with a funny accent. In any case, Brian’s piloting solo this week, and since he’s always going on about “fighting,” we wanted to give...
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The Hasan Of All Fears
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm As we were all waiting on tenterhooks after Donald Trump threatened to wipe out Iranian civilization, Matt and Brian took a step back to examine why Democratic opposition to the Iran war hasn’t pierced public...
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Sui Generic?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump hasn’t been this unpopular since he incited an insurrection. But he’s still at least a bit more popular than an entity called The Democratic Party. In this episode Matt and Brian discuss: * Do Democrats...
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Tempest In A TSA Cup
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump seems to want out of the Iran war AND out of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. But only if he can get out by being an even bigger asshole. In this Matt and Brian discuss: * Trump’s latest,...
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Mr. Hollen's Opus
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Democrats are caught in a new and somewhat troubling fad, in which they promise working-class people extremely broad tax cuts, which, in practice, would make expanding the safety net all but impossible. In this Matt and...
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Falling Off The TACO Truck
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Depending on whether you believe Donald Trump, or Donald Trump, or Donald Trump, his war in Iran is “very complete” or “just beginning” or “both.” In this Matt and Brian discuss: * Has Trump finally set in motion a...
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All About The Benjamin
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm We’re at war with Iran all of a sudden, and nobody can say why, even the people who started the war. After closing the loop on the Texas Senate primary, Matt and Brian discuss: * What was Donald Trump thinking? * What...
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Sedate Of The Union
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm You can’t say Donald Trump used his State of the Union address to distract from the Epstein files! In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * How boring the speech was; * Whether boring is better for Trump, given his...
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Defining Shutdown Down
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm They’re calling it the liddlest, tiniest government shutdown of all time. Democrats are demanding changes to policy that helps Trump’s immigration police get away with abuses. So they’ve shut down the Department of...
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Chad Bunny And 'Berger Queen
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump has picked big fights on multiple fronts…and lost. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * The narrow question of how Trump and MAGA lost the culture war fight they picked with Bad Bunny and the NFL. *…
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Would John F. Kennedy Have Been In The Epstein Files?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump ate up several weeks and caused tons of damage as he sought to delay further production of the Epstein files. But now the files are right back in the news. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * What’s…
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The Martyrdom Of Alex Pretti
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm On Saturday, DHS agents killed Alex Pretti, a VA nurse who tried to help a woman they’d just pushed to the ground. By Sunday, the Trump administration had initiated an at least tactical retreat from Minneapolis. In this...
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Greenland, With Envy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Many people are asking: Has Donald Trump finally, completely lost his mind? In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * The importance of getting your flu shot. * Why this latest episode, complete with rambling missives…
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Powell Obstruction
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm We’ll give Donald Trump this month: Thanks to his efforts, political discourse has moved on (for now) from health care and the Epstein coverup. But … not to anything particularly helpful for him. In this episode, Matt…
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Venezuela, Vidi, Vici?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Gotta hand it to Donald Trump, he got the Epstein Files and the January 6 anniversary off the front page, and all it took was a wee little war, plus a threat to conquer the whole hemisphere In this episode, Matt and…
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Politix Christmas Mailbag
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s that time of year again. Self-indulgent mailbag time. Thanks to all who sent questions, and apologies to those who didn’t get answers. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * Whether Gavin Newsom is doomed to...
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Strike Wiles The Iron Is Hot
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump suddenly faces defections in Congress, from right-wing influencers, and even from his own White House chief of staff. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * Susie Wiles’s…intemperate comments to Vanity...
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All Tapped Out
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump is suddenly mired in a huge war-crimes scandal, complicating his desire to launch an actual war (also illegal) against Venezuela. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * All the things that make the...
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Who wins? Who loses? And why?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Brian is adventuring in South America, so Matt is joined by Lakshya Jain of The Argument and Split Ticket to talk about his Wins Above Replacement calculations, which politicians are good at winning, and what we know…
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Trump Can't Handle The Truth
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump has lost his grip, and it’s making him prone to a variety of political errors, some of which we enjoy with pure schadenfreude, others of which could cause tremendous collateral damage. In this episode, Matt...
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Wet Hot American Summers
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump’s Epstein coverup has faltered. Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has produced tens of thousands of emails implicating scads of U.S. elites, Trump foremost among them, but including famed economist Larry Summers and...
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Quick Cave By The Bad Seeds
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm After notching huge victories in last week’s off-year elections, Senate Democrats were overcome by a failure of nerve, and agreed to reopen the government without restoring anyone’s health insurance or securing any legal...
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Politix is a weekly podcast about the 2024 election from Brian Beutler, Matthew Yglesias, and some occasional guests. We’ll have some good-faith disagreement, some points of consensus, and an overall effort to focus on what’s really at stake in November. Subscribe for new episodes each Wednesday and listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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