Hawk Podcasts

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  The End Of American Democracy - The January 3rd Scenario 14.09.2026 21min

  Hawk walks carefully through a warning from conservative former federal judge J. Michael Luttig, laid out in his New Republic piece The Final Battle for America's Democracy and amplified in Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American. He plays part of Luttig's Legal AF interview and reads through the newsletter step by step.
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  And Another Thing with Shaana and Hawk: AI Doom, Stolen Midterms, and the 2028 Field 13.09.2026 53min

  Hawk sits down with his friend Shaana, a future attorney, for an episode of And Another Thing, ranging from the genuinely alarming to the genuinely mundane. They open on the AI safety warnings making the rounds, the eye-popping odds some industry insiders reportedly put on catastrophic risk, and why almost no one seems to be talking about it.
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  Trump - a - Palooza: Night One 10.09.2026 16min

  Hawk recaps the opening night of the first ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas, where Donald Trump headlined and made a promise unlike anything in modern American politics: a $5,000 Trump dividend to every adult citizen, but only if Republicans keep the House and the Senate. Critics quickly called it what it looked like, an offer to pay people for their votes, with reporters noting the payout could cost well over a trillion dollars and no explanation of where the money would come from.
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  It’s Just Like Covid - Everyone is an Expert 04.09.2026 10min

  Hawk takes on one of the strangest features of social media: people with no relevant training confidently telling actual experts they have no idea what they are talking about. He compares the wave of Covid era commenters who lectured immunologists, doctors, and researchers to the reaction he now gets on his videos about the Lindsay Clancy trial, where commenters with no legal background insist they understand jury trials and courtroom procedure better than someone who practiced law for decades.
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  Nobody Is Stopping Trump's Plan to Throw Away Your Ballot 02.09.2026 21min

  Hawk makes the case that the 2026 midterm elections are the ball game, the vote that decides whether voting itself still matters, and walks through the mounting evidence that Donald Trump intends to interfere. A new whistleblower report published by Senator Richard Blumenthal alleges the Postal Service is defying court orders and rushing a secretive, error prone system to screen and verify mail-in ballots ahead of November.
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  Should Democrats IMPEACH TRUMP a Third Time? 31.08.2026 10min

  Hawk takes on a question circulating among frustrated voters: if Democrats retake the House or the Senate in the 2026 midterms, should they impeach Donald Trump a third time? He starts with the procedure many people still misunderstand, walking through how impeachment is a two part process, articles passed in the House that function like an indictment, followed by a trial in the Senate that requires 67 votes to convict and remove.
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  Some Good News - Senate Polling Shows Democrats Leading in 8 Races 31.08.2026 8min

  Hawk delivers a good news roundup on the road to the 2026 midterm elections, walking through the Senate math and why Democrats need a net gain of several seats to flip control from the current 53 to 47 Republican majority. He lays out the calculation for reaching a working majority while holding Democratic seats in Michigan, Georgia, and New Hampshire.
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  We ALL Know What Is Coming and No One Is STOPPING HIM 28.08.2026 8min

  Hawk opens with an honest look at how heavy the last couple of weeks have felt, both emotionally and physically, while coexisting with PTSD and ADHD and leaning on the tools that keep him grounded. It is a candid window into mental health, grief, and the daily work of monitoring your own emotional state during exhausting political times.
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  AIPAC Democrats Can't Stop Attacking Hasan Piker 28.08.2026 31min

  A coordinated Democratic campaign against Hassan Piker are at the center of Hawk’s criticism of CNN, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, and pro-Israel Democrats. Hawk argues that Piker’s criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Gaza, and the Israeli military is being misrepresented as antisemitism or calls for violence.
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  This is Sad and Embarrassing 27.08.2026 15min

  Trump Thinks You Need to See MORE TRUMP for the GOP to Win The Midterms
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  The Lindsay Clancy Trial: How Expert Witnesses Actually Work 27.08.2026 24min

  Both sides rested today in the Lindsay Clancy trial in Massachusetts, and Hawk uses a few moments from it to explain some courtroom mechanics that come up in almost every case like this one.
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  Abolish and Prosecute ICE 27.08.2026 25min

  Footage discussed on Morning Joe shows a mother and daughter handcuffed in a hospital room, where they had gone for treatment after a car accident. Hawk leads with it today because it is the clearest picture yet of who this enforcement is actually reaching.
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  The Flock CEO Says Privacy Can't Be The Main Concern 26.08.2026 25min

  Axios reports that Mike Rogers, the Republican running against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, met with AIPAC chair Michael Tuchin and asked the group to stay out of the general election. A finished ad targeting El-Sayed was scrapped, and AIPAC officials are described as furious.
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  Remembering Dolly Parton, Everything That Was Good In The World 25.08.2026 12min

  Dolly Parton died today at her home in Nashville, at the age of 80. Her family announced it in a video from her nephew, and said she passed peacefully.
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  Elbows Up! Canada Hits Back at Trump 25.08.2026 13min

  Trade negotiations with Canada fell apart over the weekend. There was a deal, and then two additional demands arrived late, one of which would bar Canada from making trade agreements with anyone else. That is a condition on another country's sovereignty, not a trade term, and Mark Carney declined.
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  This Supreme Court Will Stop At Nothing to Save Donald Trump 25.08.2026 29min

  The Supreme Court issued a shadow docket order today lifting a lower court injunction against the president's executive order on mail voting. Ten pages, unsigned, with a lengthy dissent.
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  A Malignant Narcissist Backed Into A Corner - This Will Get Worse 24.08.2026 21min

  Hawk found a creator worth following, Dr. G Explains, whose recent video looks at what is publicly observable about the president's condition. He plays sections of it and adds his own read.
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  No Hakeem, Absolutely Not 24.08.2026 26min

  Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni report that Hakeem Jeffries met privately with Jared Kushner in a New York space arranged by a mutual friend, to discuss potential common ground. Five people described the meeting. It happened a week after Jeffries would not reaffirm his support for Medicare for All.
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  It is Simply Racial Profiling - Period 23.08.2026 39min

  In Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to stop people based on apparent ethnicity, language spoken, type of work, and location. It came as a one paragraph shadow docket order. No argument, no briefing, no written opinion. Brett Kavanaugh then attached a ten page concurrence to it, which is why these are now called Kavanaugh stops.
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  They Want To Repeal The 19th Amendment 23.08.2026 9min

  There is a recurring argument on parts of the right that the 19th Amendment should be repealed, and it has picked up steam again this week. The stated reason is that women online have expressed empathy for Lindsay Clancy, who is on trial in Massachusetts.