Hawk Podcasts

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  Midterm Nightmare Scenario - One Republican Says We're Not Devious Enough To Guess What's Coming 21.08.2026 20min

  Laura Barrón-López and Vaughn Hillyard reported that election officials around the country are actively war gaming what this administration might attempt in November, from federal agents seizing ballots and machines to immigration agents at polling places. Five top officials across five states described ongoing conversations with local law enforcement, state attorneys general, and counsel about what to do if agents show up on election night. Nevada's Cisco Aguilar has already given counties instructions and phone numbers. Maine's Shenna Bellows says monitors are welcome to observe and not welcome to exercise power they do not have.
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  Eric Swalwell Had a Bad Day Today - The FBI Searched His Home And Seized His Devices 21.08.2026 9min

  Reporting today says the FBI searched Eric Swalwell's residence and separately stopped him at San Francisco International, seizing electronic devices he had on him. Both actions are described as furthering investigations into sexual assault allegations made against him earlier this year, one in Los Angeles and one in New York. He has not been charged, and the allegations remain allegations.
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  Bad News for MAGA: A 38 Point Swing With White Working Class Voters 21.08.2026 20min

  Harry Enten and Erin Burnett went through the midterm numbers on CNN, starting with a Pennsylvania state legislative seat Democrats just flipped in a district Trump carried by eighteen points. Enten's other figure is the one that should worry Republicans: a 38 point swing against Trump among white working class voters in eighteen months, the group that anchored his last three campaigns.
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  Good News About The Midterms: This Looks Better Than The Data Looked In 2018 20.08.2026 16min

  Nothing but good news this time, and there is more of it than you might expect.
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  Jared Moskowitz Suggested Denying DSA Members of Congress Security Clearances 20.08.2026 11min

  Jared Moskowitz beat Oliver Larkin by about thirty points in Florida's 25th, then went to Politico's Playbook and questioned whether DSA members of Congress should receive security clearances, calling them anti-American at their core.
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  A Judge Just Ordered Ten Years Of Sealed Maxwell Documents Unsealed 20.08.2026 22min

  Judge Loretta Preska issued an order today in the Southern District of New York unsealing material from Virginia Giuffre's civil defamation case against Ghislaine Maxwell. Hawk reads the order itself, not the coverage of it.
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  The DOJ's Latest Plan to Steal the Midterm Elections? 19.08.2026 33min

  Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced the Justice Department will deploy 1,000 election monitors for the midterms. Marc Elias has thoughts, and Hawk sets up the math before playing them.
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  HEY MAGA: Who Were You Before June 2015? 19.08.2026 10min
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  Lowest Approval Rating Yet - Trump Is An Absolute Failure 18.08.2026 25min

  A new Reuters Ipsos poll puts Trump's approval at his lowest recorded level, which brings up Sarah Longwell's Bush line theory. George W. Bush left office around 32 percent and his party closed the door on him. Longwell's argument is that if Trump lands there, Republicans will be forced to choose something different, though different does not guarantee better.
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  Trump Has No Respect for Military Personnel Stationed in the Gulf Region 18.08.2026 26min
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  Joe Rogan Is Warning Republicans They Just Handed Texas To Democrats 18.08.2026 10min

  Joe Rogan spent a segment warning Republicans that Texas just made a political mistake, and Hawk thinks he is right about the politics even if the rest of the show is not his thing. A hemp derived THC ban took effect July 31st, following a Texas Supreme Court ruling in May. Delta 8, Delta 10, THCP, and THCA flower are out. Delta 9 stays legal below the 0.3 percent dry weight threshold, which leaves ordinary customers to work out which shelf is now a felony.
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  The Entire MAHA Movement is Eugenics in Disguise 16.08.2026 15min

  New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie posted a short video that turned up in Hawk's feed, and it is worth the time. Bouie's argument about RFK Jr. is that his approach to public health treats survival as a filter rather than a goal.
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  MAGA Chud Gets Owned On Live TV 16.08.2026 15min

  CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, took apart Joe Borelli's account of why the Letitia James indictment collapsed. Borelli called it a technicality. Honig's answer is that Pam Bondi's appointment of Lindsey Halligan was unlawful, which made the indictment she brought unlawful, and that two further attempts failed to produce anything from a grand jury.
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  Democrats Will Subpoena Melania Trump Regarding Epstein Files 15.08.2026 19min

  If Democrats take the House, Robert Garcia moves from ranking member to chairman of House Oversight, replacing James Comer. In a conversation with attorney and journalist Katie Phang, Garcia laid out what that would mean for the Epstein files, and specifically for Melania Trump.
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  2026 Internment Camps - Green Card Holders, No Criminal Record, Four Months In Detention 14.08.2026 15min

  The Nation published a letter written from inside an ICE facility in Texas by a psychology professor at Los Angeles Pierce College. She, her husband, and their high school aged son are green card holders with no criminal record of any kind.
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  If Trump Declares An Emergency Five Days Out, Who Actually Stops Him? 14.08.2026 8min

  Tim Miller and Adam Kinzinger spent part of yesterday's Bulwark podcast on the same question Hawk raised earlier this week, which is a short version of a longer video. Wayne Allyn Root put it to Donald Trump directly: declare an emergency around the midterms, take them over, impose ID and citizenship requirements, end mail in voting. Trump's answer was that stranger things have happened and he would never say never. Root is a longtime conspiracy theorist, but he asked the question in plain terms and got a plain non-rejection.
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  Donald Trump is Dying and the White House is Lying to Us About It 14.08.2026 10min

  Dr. Jonathan Reiner, the cardiologist who cared for Dick Cheney, wrote a New York Times op-ed about what is publicly observable regarding Donald Trump's health, then discussed it with Erin Burnett on CNN. Hawk plays the interview.
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  Good Laughs: A 40 Minute Blind Reaction To The Majority Report - Sam Seder on Hasan Piker 14.08.2026 40min

  Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland ran a segment on how much airtime American media has given to Hasan Piker, and Hawk watches it cold as a blind reaction.
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  Republican Crash Out - Just How Dumb Are Trump Supporters? 13.08.2026 15min

  Three stories in one. Ken Paxton held a telephonic town hall and a caller asked him directly why he cheated on his wife. Texas State Senator Angela Paxton filed for divorce last year on biblical grounds, with filings citing adultery, and the case came off the trial docket as the two worked out a settlement. Reporting since has covered photos of Paxton traveling in Europe with a Christian influencer.
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  Trump Left His Own Cabinet On The Plane That Was Under Threat 13.08.2026 14min

  Donald Trump has called the Iran war a total victory over and over. Reporting now says that after boarding Air Force One, he was moved onto a separate aircraft on intelligence that Iran intended to shoot the first plane down, leaving the flight crew, staff, cabinet members including Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, and Stephen Miller, and the entire White House press corps on board. Karoline Leavitt was on that plane and has since resigned.