All Episodes
CONTROL — 100 episodes
How Democrats Are Thinking About the Midterms Feat. Mike Smith
How Republicans Are Thinking About the Midterms Feat. Brendan Jaspers
A Packed House Agenda Meets Political Reality Feat. Ramsey Touchberry
Trump Faces the Senate Republican Conference
The FISA Clock Is Ticking (Again) Feat. Leigh Ann Caldwell
A Summer Sprint or Slog? Feat. Natalie Andrews
Inside Reconciliation 2.0 Feat. Scott Wong
How Congress Broke the Appropriations Process Feat. Matt Glassman
Welcome to Hell Week Feat. Meredith Lee Hill
How Redistricting Is Rewriting the Midterms Feat. Ally Mutnick
Back From Recess — and Buried in Business Feat. Reese Gorman
What Can Break the DHS Deadlock? Feat. Burgess Everett
The Senate Showdown Over the SAVE America Act Feat. Sarah Ferris
America Strikes Iran – How Will Congress Respond? Feat. Sabrina Singh
State of the Union: What’s on the Line? Feat. Sahil Kapur
Can the Senate Break the DHS Funding Stalemate? Feat. Andrew Desiderio
Inside the White House as the Government Shuts Down (Again) Feat. Shelby Talcott
Shutdown Spiral: Minneapolis Rocks Capitol Hill Feat. Al Weaver
Can the Appropriations Momentum Continue? Feat. Brendan’s Goodbye
The 2026 Forecast
2025: The Year Congress Lost Control Feat. Paul Kane
The Speaker’s Detractors Feat. Olivia Beavers
A House in Turmoil Feat. Former Rep. Patrick McHenry
The Shutdown is Over – What Did We Learn?
The Deal, the Drama, and the Future of the Filibuster Feat. Adam Jentleson
When Washington Stops Working Feat. Carl Hulse
Nowhere on Shutdown, Nowhere on Appropriations Feat. Samantha Handler
A House GOPer’s Perspective on the Shutdown Feat. Rep. Kevin Kiley
How Does the Shutdown End? Feat. Mychael Schnell
Russ Vought’s Power Play Feat. Phil Mattingly
Shutdown Day: Lessons from the 2013 Showdown
Deadlines, Deadlocks, and Disarray Feat. Igor Bobic
What is the Democrats' Shutdown Plan? Feat. Joel Payne, MoveOn
Back from Recess, Staring at a Shutdown Feat. Ali Vitali
Six Months of GOP Control of Washington Feat. Jonathan Martin
Is a Shutdown Back on the Table? Feat. Katherine Tully-McManus
Where Does the Freedom Caucus Go from Here? Feat. Matt Fuller
The Megabill’s Moment of Truth Feat. Eleanor Mueller
Can the Senate Deliver Before the Fourth of July? Feat. John Bresnahan
What the Trump-Elon Breakup Means for Congress Feat. Dasha Burns
All Eyes on the Senate Feat. Burgess Everett
Mike Johnson’s Make-or-Break Moment
Game Day in House Committees Feat. Zach Cohen
The Biggest Hurdle: Medicaid 101 Feat. Jonathan Burks
The Reconciliation Rubber Meets the Road
Budget Battles & Backlash
Another Make or Break Week for the GOP Feat. Laura Weiss
Reconciliation Heats up and Democrats Melt Down, Feat. Liam Donovan
Will Republicans Avoid a Shutdown? Feat. Nicholas Wu
Congress Welcomes the Trump Show Feat. Chad Pergram of Fox News
The House’s Big Week is Here
Reconciliation Collision Course Feat. Garrett Haake
After a Wild January, What Does February Have in Store? Feat. Rachael Bade
Welcome to Trump’s Washington
Confirmation Kick-Off Feat. Annie Karni
Speaker Johnson Triumphs on the First Ballot – What’s Next for the MAGA Agenda?
Steering Into the Holidays
Reconciling the House and Senate Strategies, Feat. Manu Raju
Parliamentary Inquiries feat. Tom Wickham
Mike Johnson Walks Into the Ring feat. Hans Nichols
The Johns vs Rick – Who Will Lead the GOP?
The GOP takes CONTROL: What Just Happened and What Happens Next?
Downballot 2024: Prediction Time
Downballot 2024: The Republican Perspective feat. Jessica Anderson
Downballot 2024: The Democratic Perspective feat. Doug Thornell
It May Be A Long December Feat. Jonathan Tamari
Shutdown Threat Looms, Does the Senate Care Yet? Feat. Burgess Everett
Congress Is Back, but How Long Will This Funding Plan Survive? Feat. Jake Sherman
Where Did Appropriations Go Wrong? Feat. Former Speaker John Boehner
Biden’s Out, Kamala’s In and Trump Picks Vance – What Now for Both Parties?
Can Biden Hold the Hill?
Prongs, Primaries and ‘Propriations
Oversight Kicks Into Overdrive
The Spending Wars Have Begun
The Immigration Bill is Back – But Why?
Johnson Survives the MTV – What’s MTG’s Next Move?
Let the Chips Fall Where They May Feat. Andrew Solender of Axios
What Is Left For Congress The Rest Of The Year?
Bonus Episode: Johnson Gets Foreign Aid Done
Is Now, Finally, the Moment for Foreign Aid?
Total Eclipse of the Chair
The MTG MTV Emergency Pod
Is Speaker Johnson Losing the Locker Room?
Taking a Break from Shutdown Watch
Life After Mitch, Feat. the Washington Post’s Paul Kane
Shutdown Watch Kicks Into Overdrive
Speaker Johnson Sets Up a Showdown with the Senate
Assume Deal Dead? And Checking in on the House Election Landscape
The Border Deal Hangs By A Thread
The Laddered CR is Back! How Does the Government Get Funded? Feat. POLITICO’s Jen Sholtes
CONTROL Returns for Season 2, Shutdown Watch is Back Again
Assessing the Start of the Johnson Speakership
And Then There Were Nine
Can Anyone Get 217 Votes?
Back Where It All Began: No One in Control
Debt Ceiling is Done, but is a Shutdown Next? Feat. Will Dunham
How to Whip the Debt Ceiling Vote Feat. Matt Bravo
Flying Close to the X Date Sun Feat. Former Treasury Official Ben Harris
Dreaming About the Debt Ceiling Feat. Ali Vitali
Can Congress Break The Debt Ceiling Deadlock? Feat. Phil Mattingly