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Week 83 - Trump Slows His Roll. We Discuss Why.

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Week 82 - A Week Full of Setbacks for Trump, at Home and Abroad

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Week 81 - Trump’s Really Bad Week!

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Week 80 - Historic Corruption, a Failed China Summit, and Trump’s Unending Iran War

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Week 79 - Trump’s Remarkable Statement on Americans' Financial Stress, and His Lies About the Iran War Exposed

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Week 78 - The World Rests on Trump’s Shoulders, While His Behavior is Becoming Increasingly Bizarre

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Week 77 - The Country Moves from Crisis to Crisis, While Trump Plows Through Norms

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Week 76 - Trump Backs Himself into a Corner with Iran War, While at Home His Regime is in Disarray

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Week 75 - Trump’s Mental Health in Question, While He and the Country Increasingly Stand Alone

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Week 74 - There is No Plan: A Shocking Week of Escalation and Capitulation

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Week 73 - An Increasingly Isolated Trump Can't Escape the Fallout of His War

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Week 72 - Trump Lies and Contradicts About His War, as the Country Sours on Him and His Chaos

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Week 71 - As Trump's War With Iran Nears the Three Week Mark, Trouble at Home and Abroad

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Week 70 - Trump's War of Choice Goes Off Track, and the Impact of HIs Regime's Incompetence Hits Americans

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Week 69 - Trump Enters War of Choice, as a Host of Others Issues Move Against Him

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Week 68 - After a Supreme Court Loss and Sagging Polls, Trump Struggles Through a Record Long State of the Union

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Week 67 - Beware of What We Have Normalized, and What is Holding Trump Back

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Week 66 - A Week of Incredible Racism, as the Epstein Files Start to Boil

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A Week of Remarkable, Extraordinary and Unprecedented Actions, as Trump Struggles to Maintain Control

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Week 64 - Time Stood Still for a Country Struggling to Make Sense of What We Have Become

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Week 63 - Trump Escalates at Home and Abroad, With No Rhyme or Reason

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Week 62 - Trump's Addiction to Power Takes Him in Dangerous Territory

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Week 61 - What Were the Real Stories that Deserved Our Attention, as Trump Deployed a ‘Wag the Dog’ Strategy to Distract

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Week 60 - As 2025 Comes to an End, Expect Better Times in 2026

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Week 59 - Why Trump is Frantically Trying to Shore Up His Legacy

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Week 58 - Trump, Johnson and Trump’s Regime Are Losing Their Grip on Power

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Week 57 - Trump is Flailing as the Tone Shifts, and Accountability Begins

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Week 56 - A Week of Signs that Trump is Already Hating the Job, Amid Bombshell Reporting

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Week 55 - Greene Resigns and the GOP Turns on Trump, as His Retribution Campaign Falters

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Week 54- Republicans Finally Stand Up to Trump, While the Corruption and Self Dealing Continues

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Week 53 - Trump Seeks to Rewrite the Past, While Being Completely Out of Touch with the Present

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Week 52 - Trump Seems to Have Lost Touch with the American People and Reality, as a Blue Wave Hits on Election Day

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Week 51 - Trump’s ‘Let Them Eat Cake!’ Moment

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Week 50 - A Week of Dangerous, Outrageous, Unprecedented Acts of Vengeance and Power Grabs

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Week 49 - Trump Goes to War on Free Speech, Invents Crises at Home, and Drains Federal Agencies in Dangerous Ways

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Week 48 - Trump Ramps Up Threats Amid Government Shutdown, but Democrats Refuse to Back Down

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Week 47 - Trump Goes on His Revenge Tour, Addresses the Military, Loses in Court, and Shuts Down the Government

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Week 46 - A Week Summarized by a Brazen Trump Extolling, “I Hate My Opponents” and “Your Countries Are Going to Hell"

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Week 45 - Trump Creates a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy in His Continued Attempt to Silence Dissent and Seize Power

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Week 44 - An Epstein Letter Comes Back to Haunt Trump, While Republicans and the Supreme Court Have His Back

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Week 43 - Three Major Court Loses Could Imperil Trump’s Agenda

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Week 42 - Trump Says He is a Dictator, and Acts Like One

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Week 41 - Trump’s Authoritraian Tools: Diversion, Seizing Equity, Rewriting History and Revising Data

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Week 40 - Two Truths, Two Sets of Data

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Week 39 - Is the Dwindling Media Losing Track of Some of the Most Important Stories?

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While the Epstein Files Story Dominates, Trump and His Regime Become Increasingly Irreverent

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Week 37 - Trump Loses Control as the Epstein Files Dominate, while Polling Shows the Country Souring on Him and His Policies

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Week 36 - Trump Moves to Consolidate Power, While the MAGA Coalition Continue to Fray

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Week 35 - Real Consequences of Trump’s Moves on Federal Agencies and His Tax Bill

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Week 34 - New Information on Iran, a Supreme Court Decision, and a Not So Beautiful Bill

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Week 33 - With Approval Falling, Trump Strikes Iran

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Week 32 - Political Acts of Violence, a Failed Military Parade, and Trump Stands Alone

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Week 31 - Trump Manufactures a Crisis to Change the Subject

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Week 30 - Trump’s Trade War and Big, Beautiful Bill Hit Speed Bumps

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Week 29 - The TACO Trade, Law Firm Karma, and Putin Calls Trump ‘Emotional'

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Week 28 - Desperate for a Win, Trump Finds None

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Week 27 - Grifts, Librarians and Trade Retreats

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Week 26 - Grifting in Plain Sight

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Week 25 - I Run the Country and the World

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Week 24 - Trump's Really Bad Week

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Week 23 - A Shocking Abuse of Power

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Week 22 - Trump Veers Toward Ending US Exceptionalism

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Week 21 - A Rebuke of Trump and Musk in Wisconsin

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Week 20 - Nobody Was Texting War Plans

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Week 19 - An Intrusion on the President’s Authority

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Week 18 - I’m Not Even Looking at the Market

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Week 17 - This Is Going to Be Great Television

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Week 16 - Musk Goes to War With Trump’s Cabinet

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Week 15 - He Who Saves His Country

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Week 14 - A Constitutional Crisis

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Week 13 - DOGE Goes Rogue

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Week 12 - Shock and Awe

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Week 11 - The New Gilded Age

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Week 10 - Is America to Become an Oligarchy?

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Week 9 - Genuflecting to Trump

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Week 8 - The Return

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Week 7 - The Return

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Week 6 - The Return

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Week 5 - The Return

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Week 4

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Week 3 - The Return

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Week 2 - The Return

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The Return - Week 1

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New Era of Donald Trump

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Democracy at Risk - Biden Drops Out

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Democracy at Risk - The Democrats' Horrible, Terrible, Really Bad Week

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Democracy at Risk - 34 Counts

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Democracy at Risk - Trump 2024

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Democracy at Risk - New Year 2024

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Democracy at Risk - Trump Reindicted

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Democracy at Risk - Trump's Indicment

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Democracy at Risk - We Did What We Had to Do

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Democracy at Risk - Are We Sleepwalking into Autocracy?

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Democracy at Risk - FBI at Mar-a-Lago

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Democracy at Risk - Roe v. Wade Overturned

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Democracy at Risk - Leaked Supreme Court Decision

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Democracy at Risk - The Price of Authoritarianism

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Democracy at Risk - Russia Invades Ukraine: How Did We Get Here?

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Democracy at Risk - Nine Months Until the Midterms

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Democracy at Risk - One Year After the United States Capitol Attack

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Democracy at Risk - Looking to 2022

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Democracy at Risk - Electoral Apathy

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Democracy at Risk - Handmaid's Tale

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Democracy at Risk - January 6th Commission

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Democracy at Risk - Six Months After the Insurrection

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Democracy at Risk - The Cult of the GOP

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Democracy at Risk - Two Sides, One Truth

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Returning to Normalcy - Republicans in the Post-Trump Era

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Returning to Normalcy - Nearing 100 Days

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Returning to Normalcy - Violence Against Asian Americans

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Returning to Normalcy - Insurrection Debrief

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Repairing Our Democracy - Impeachment

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Repairing Our Democracy - The First Days

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After - January

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After - December

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After - November

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Week 208 - Victory

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Week 207 - The Final Countdown

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Week 206 - Record-Setting Week

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Week 205 - Early Voting

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Week 204 - Altered State

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Week 203 - Super-Spreader

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Week 202 - Peaceful Transition of Power

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Week 201 - May Her Memory Be a Blessing

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Week 200 - West on Fire

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Week 199 - Vote Twice

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Week 198 - Republican Nepotism Convention

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Week 197 - Bannon Charged

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Week 196 - Post Office Under Attack

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Week 195 - Back to School

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Week 194 - Delay the Election?

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Week 193 - Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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Week 192 - Secret Police

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Week 191 - Daily Records

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Week 190 - Russian Bounties

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Week 189 - Out of Control

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Week 188 - Tulsa

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Week 187 - Questionable

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Week 186 - Coward-in-chief

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Week 185 - Kerosene on the Flames

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Week 184 - Transition to Greatness

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Week 183 - Obamagate

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Weeek 182 - Outbreak in the West Wing

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Week 181 - Vietnam War

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Week 180 - Global Epicenter

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Week 179 - Absolute Authority

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Week 178 - Most Deaths in the World

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Week 177 - National Stockpile

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Week 176 - Shelter in Place

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Week 175 - Where Are the Tests?

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Week 174 - Global Pandemic

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Week 173 - Coronavirus Spreading

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Week 172 - Markets Crashing

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Week 171 - Russian Election Interference: 2020 Edition

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Week 170 - Tuesday Massacre

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Week 169 - Trump's Vendetta

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Week 168 - No Witnesses

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Week 167 - The Trial Begins

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Week 166 - Articles of Impeachment

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Week 165 - Unintended Consequences

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War With Iran?

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Week 163 - Losing the Evangelicals?

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Week 162 - Third in History

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Week 161 - Articles of Impeachment

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Week 160 - Laughingstock of the World

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Week 159 - Donald Balboa

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Week 158 - Impeachment Hearings Continue

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Week 157 - Impeachment Hearings Begin

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Week 156 - Democratic Victories

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Week 155 - "Lock Him Up!"

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Week 154 - Republican Sit-In

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Week 153 - All Roads Lead to Putin

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Week 152 - Thirty-three Tweets

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Week 151 - Soliciting Foreign Help...Again

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Week 150 - The Beginning of the End?

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Week 148 - Taliban Invite

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Week 147 - Hurricane Dorian

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Week 146 - FEC Out of Commission

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Week 145 - Greenland is Not for Sale

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Week 144 - Bracing for a Downturn

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Week 143 - Mainstream White Supremacy

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Week 142 - Moscow Mitch

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Week 141 - Robert Mueller Testifies

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Week 140 - Trump Attacks the Squad

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Week 139 - Consolidation of Power

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Week 138 - 2020 Census Citizenship Question

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Week 137 - Detention Center Realities

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Week 136 - An Almost War with Iran

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Week 135 - No Protection for the 2020 Election

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Week 134 - Trump's Trip to London

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Week 133 - Robert Mueller's Resignation

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Week 132 - Support for Impeachment

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Week 131 - Attacks on Abortion Rights

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Week 130 - Constitutional Crisis

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Episode 47 - Leaked Mueller Letter to Attorney General William Barr

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Week 128 - The Redacted Mueller Report

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Week 127 - The Mueller Report

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Week 126 - Stephen Miller: Immigration Czar

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Week 125 - Waiting on the Mueller Report

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Week 124 - William Barr's Letter on the Mueller Report

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Week 123 - Trump's Conspiracy Theory Tweets

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Week 122 - Trump's National Emergency

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Week 121 - Fox News: State TV?

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Week 120 - Michael Cohen's Testimony

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Week 119 - The Continuing Rise of White Nationalism

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Week 118 - Paul Manafort's Mueller Probe Troubles

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Week 117 - State of the Union

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Week 116 - Trump Meets Putin

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Week 115 - The End of the Government Shutdown

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Week 114 - 29 Days (and Counting) Government Shutdown

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Week 113 - Trump's Prime Time Oval Office Address

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Week 112 - Nancy Pelosi's Return as Speaker of the House

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Week 111 - Trump's Isolation

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Week 110 - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' Resignation

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Week 109 - The Mueller Probe Continues

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Week 108 - The Effects of Trump's Trade Tariffs Begin

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Week 107 - Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone

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Week 106 - Ivanka's Personal Email Account

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Week 105 - Trump Reels From the Midterms

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Week 102 - Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

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Week 101 - The Midterms are Coming

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Week 100 - Stacking the Judiciary

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Week 99 - #MeToo Culture Wars

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Week 98 - The Sexual Assault Accusations Against Brett Kavanaugh

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Week 97 - Dr. Christine Blasey Ford

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Week 96 - Paul Manafort Fully Cooperates with Mueller Probe

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Week 95 - Brett Kavanaugh Hearings

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Week 94 - Farewell to John McCain

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Week 93 - Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty

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Week 92 - CIA Director John Brennan's Security Clearance Revoked

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Week 91 - Republican Fundraiser Leaked Audio

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Week 90 - Trump's Attacks on the News Media

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Week 89 - Trump's Alt-truths

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Week 88 - Trump in Helsinki

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Week 87 - NATO Summit

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Week 86 - The GOP's July 4th in Moscow

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Week 85 - Capital Gazette

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Week 84 - Atrocities at Our Southern Border

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Week 83 - The Border Crisis

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Week 82 - Trump's Pardon Talk

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Week 81 - Ally Trade Wars

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