# Jared Yates Sexton

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On The Record (10-20-26).

This week we went deep on the structural argument that should underpin everything else—disaster privilege, capitalism as the constant, and why the real battle isn’t between the two parties but between the status quo and something that hasn’t been named loudly enough yet. DSA isn’t the radical fring…

Omnibus (10-24-26).

Max and 99 are back for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on the French banlieues erupting and what the protests reveal about the global assault on social spending, and Elon Musk promising every American kid a SpaceX share while barely denting his holdings. Then they tackle listener emai…

Phone A Friend: Jared Yates Sexton.

Jared Yates Sexton joins Max to analyze the current state of progressive activism and how to effectively challenge the status quo. After years of audience requests, this conversation brings together two critical voices to discuss the mechanics of movement building. We examine how shaping political …

Kushner Goes Double Dutch

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman open on the Vanity Fair excerpt from Matthew Cole's new book, which claims Dutch intelligence spent months watching Jared Kushner's hacked iPhone. What they allegedly saw was Kushner logging into a Gulf-funded account holding hundreds of millions of do…

Jared Yates Sexton: The Mythology of America

Jared Yates Sexton is a political analyst and author. His book The Midnight Kingdom examines how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies, and poisonous conspiracy theories built the modern world and threaten to plunge us into an authoritarian nightmare. In this interview, Jared discusses his…

Midterm Preview: Polls Apart

Jared and Nick go live with Muckrake's election night coverage Tuesday, November 3 at 10pm Eastern. Join them for results, reaction, and analysis you won't get on cable news by becoming a patron at http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast, which also gets you the full Weekender episode each Friday and ac…

REACTIONS TO MIDTERM RESULTS, Democrats Send "Lawyer Up" Warning, David Cay Johnston Joins (11/4/26)

Democrats just swept the House and Senate, flipping seats in places Republicans once called safe. Trump blamed Iran, gas prices—and everyone but himself. We'll look at the election results in what many pollsters correctly predicted would likely be a blue tsunami and we'll look at the possibility th…

Schumer Has It

This is a preview of The Weekender. Sign up for our Patreon and get access to the full episode each Friday as well as special Live Shows and access to our community discord: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman take stock of the Democratic landslide a…

Trump Can't Even Get The Dana White House

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman open on Trump's first big move after the midterm wipeout: Susie Wiles is out and Stephen Miller is White House chief of staff. Nick notes the country just voted against everything Miller represents, and Jared explains why Miller will ride Trump as far …

Party Foul

This is a preview of The Weekender. Sign up for our Patreon and get access to the full episode each Friday as well as special Live Shows and access to our community discord: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman open on the Hegseth impeachment vote tha…