Hawk Podcasts

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• Democratic Socialists are Winning Because Establishment Democrats Ignored Their Base for 20 Years 03.07.2026 11min

  Three DSA-backed candidates swept Democratic primaries in New York City last week, including one who beat incumbent Dan Goldman. Days later, a 29-year-old named Milou Kiros beat 30-year incumbent Diana DeGette in Colorado's first congressional district in a Tuesday primary. The establishment response has been to call it a socialism problem.
• GOP in Trouble: Trump's Approval Is Down 20 Points in Every Key Senate State 02.07.2026 21min

  CNN's Harry Enten reports a 20-point negative swing in Trump's approval ratings across all six key Senate battleground states: Alaska, Maine, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas. Polling now shows James Talarico and Ken Paxton neck and neck in Texas, Sherrod Brown pulling ahead in Ohio, Graham Platner consistently ahead of Susan Collins in Maine, and the Alaska race tied.
• Study Confirms MAGA Voters Are Exactly Who We Thought They Were 01.07.2026 23min

  Hawk reads and responds to Jonathan V. Last's June 25th Bulwark newsletter, The Triad, titled "What Cletus Thinks About Democracy," subtitled "They Are Who We Thought They Were and We Let Them Off the Hook." The newsletter is built around a recent ethnographic study from the Johns Hopkins Agora Institute titled "Faith, Freedom, Family, Place," which embedded researchers in deeply conservative counties in Wyoming, Michigan, and South Carolina to understand how Trump voters relate to democracy.
• Reactions to Birthright Citizenship SCOTUS Decision 30.06.2026 17min

  Hawk covers the immediate reactions to the Supreme Court's June 30th birthright citizenship ruling, playing clips from Hugh Hewitt on Fox News, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and reading from Clarence Thomas's dissent.
• Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship - But Not Without Dissent 30.06.2026 10min

  The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on June 30th to uphold birthright citizenship, striking down Donald Trump's executive order signed on his first day in office that attempted to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who are here unlawfully or temporarily present. Hawk, who holds a law degree, reads through the court's holding and syllabus in detail.
• Ro Khanna Said Elon Musk Has Blood on His Hands - Musk Threatened to Put Him in Jail. 30.06.2026 26min

  Hawk's Sunday afternoon news roundup covers five stories. First, Paul Krugman and California Congressman Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and USAID. A Lancet study projects that the elimination of USAID will be responsible for nearly 15 million deaths by 2030, with roughly six million of those being children. Khanna publicly said Musk has blood on his hands. Musk responded by threatening to have Khanna jailed and refusing Khanna's challenge to a live televised debate.
• The TPS Ruling and the Roberts Supreme Court 29.06.2026 13min

  Hawk covers a June 27th article from The Atlantic by Adam Serwer titled "The Court That Will Believe Absolutely Anything Is Race Neutral," written in response to the Supreme Court's 6 to 3 TPS ruling that makes 350,000 Haitian and 6,100 Syrian legal immigrants immediately deportable.
• This Supreme Court is a Weapon of White Supremacy 26.06.2026 8min

  The Supreme Court issued a 6 to 3 ruling on Thursday in a case involving Temporary Protected Status for Syrian and Haitian refugees who were in the United States legally. The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, held that a president's decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status is not reviewable by any court. Once the decision is made, it is final, with the only narrow exception being a claim of a direct constitutional violation.
• Democratic Socialism Sweeps New York 24.06.2026 22min

  Three progressive Democratic Socialist candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the DSA won their Democratic primaries on June 23rd in New York City's 7th, 10th, and 13th congressional districts. Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Daria Lisa Avila Chevalier all defeated opponents backed by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Governor Kathy Hochul, and the AIPAC-aligned Democratic establishment. Lander defeated incumbent Congressman Dan Goldman by 22 points. Hawk plays a clip of Sean Hannity visibly shaken delivering the results.
• MAGA Mutiny Over Iran War Deal 24.06.2026 15min

  Tucker Carlson has publicly stated he will no longer support the Republican Party, citing the Iran war as evidence that the party has put the interests of Israel above those of the United States. He stated directly that the US went to war with Iran, a war he believes has already been lost, due to pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu. Marjorie Taylor Greene followed, posting that she too is finished with what she now calls the America last Republican Party, though both have made clear they are not moving toward the Democrats.
• Donald Trump Doesn't Understand The War He Just Lost to Iran 23.06.2026 16min

  Hawk references a June 16th Atlantic article by Tom Nichols, a 25-year professor at the US War College, titled "Trump Does Not Understand the War He Lost." The piece examines statements Trump made at the G7 summit in France, where he reversed his own stated positions, claimed he never cared about regime change despite having said the opposite repeatedly, and described Iran's new leadership as rational, non-radicalized people he enjoyed dealing with. That new leadership includes individuals who lost family members in US airstrikes.
• K-Hole Nepo Baby Elon Musk MUST Pay 22.06.2026 26min

  Hawk covers a news roundup of underreported stories from the week of June 21st, 2026, starting with a new Lancet study projecting that over 14 million people, including 4.5 million children under five, will die by 2030 due to the dismantling of USAID by Elon Musk and DOGE. The same week those projections were published, Musk became a trillionaire. Hawk plays a clip of California Congressman Ro Khanna calling for Democratic accountability for the Trump administration, and argues that accountability needs to be central to every Democratic campaign heading into the midterms.
• We Lost. Reading Every Term of Trump's Iran Deal and What It All Means. 18.06.2026 22min

  Hawk reads through all 14 terms of Trump's Iran memorandum of understanding as reported by CNN and Fox News, signed by Trump at the Palace of Versailles. The reaction from Republican commentators, military experts, and Fox News is uniform: it is a disaster. Hawk's read of the actual text leads to the same conclusion: a complete U.S. surrender.
• The 14 Point Iran MOU Point by Point: How the United States Gave Away Everything and Gained Nothing 17.06.2026 25min

  A Saudi state-owned television network published what it claims is the leaked 14-point Iran memorandum of understanding, and the Trump administration still has not released the document itself. Hawk goes through it point by point.
• Uncontroverted Facts: As an Attorney I Could Never Have Defended This Man 03.06.2026 10min

  A South Carolina jury delivered a not-guilty verdict for Mr. Chow, a store owner who shot and killed 14-year-old Cyrus in the back after chasing him 130 yards over a suspected shoplifted bottle of water. Hawk, a former trial attorney of 28 years, confronts why that verdict was deeply shocking and why he could not have defended that case.
• Pete Hegseth is a Racist Transphobic Cosplay Warrior who Hates Women 02.06.2026 13min

  Hawk covers three stories and connects them to Hegseth's broader record, including the alleged rape, the NDA, and the alcoholism claims that surrounded his confirmation.
• Trump's $1.776B Insurrectionist Slush Fund is DEAD 01.06.2026 40min

  Trump's $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, formally announced on May 18th, is dead as of June 1st after lasting just two weeks. Hawk, a former trial attorney of nearly 30 years, walks through the legal anatomy of why this fund was built on a fraudulent foundation from day one.
• The Intentional Destruction of 60 Minutes - To Please Donald Trump 01.06.2026 18min

  Independent media, Hawk argues, is the only real antidote, and he points to the Bulwark's model and his own work with Hawk Podcasts as proof that audience-aligned journalism can survive without corporate masters.
• Trump's Iran War is an Epic Failure on All Fronts 26.05.2026 33min

  Donald Trump secretly negotiated a deal with Iran over Memorial Day weekend and announced it on Truth Social before Iran publicly rejected it. The proposed terms included releasing six to seven billion dollars to Iran, allowing them to keep their enriched uranium, and leaving their nuclear program intact while Iran retains control of the Strait of Hormuz.
• Hawk & Reed Galen Discuss Midterms, White Reparations and What's Next 21.05.2026 1h 2min

  Lincoln Project's Reed Galen on Trump's "White Reparations", Midterms & Our Broken Political System Find Reed Galen Here Substack: https://reedgalen.substack.com/ Join the Union: https://www.jointheunion.us/ Civic Forum: https://www.civicforum.org/