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Has Trump’s Power Peaked? Publisher's Roundup 45
22.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Escalating Rhetoric and Abuses of Justice Put Us All At Risk Listen now | Sen. Chris Coons and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse discuss Trump's threats, a weak Supreme Court, and how to restore justice
22.11.2025 00:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Evening Update, November 21 Jennifer Rubin, Anderson Clayton, Andrew Weissman, Brian O'Neill, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Ciera Stone, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Meredith Blake, Jamie Schler, and our Pet of the Week!
21.11.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Contrarian Pet of the Week Meet Gary!
21.11.2025 22:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Two simple traditional French cakes for the Thanksgiving season Pear-Almond Cake and French Apple Cake
21.11.2025 21:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How 'The American Revolution' was made Co-director Sarah Botstein talks about the painstaking process of making the 12-hour documentary
21.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Much is Wrong With the Comey Case? Andrew Weissmann Details the Laundry List "I think the technical legal term for what's going on is a shit show."
21.11.2025 20:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ohtani and Judge maintain their duopoly on baseball’s MVP award In an era of specialization, both are unique double-threats.
21.11.2025 19:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Authoritarian Propaganda & Toxic Masculinity: Cynthia Miller-Idriss explains the Connection "We don’t tell people what to think, we teach them how to think."
21.11.2025 19:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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North Carolina: The Latest “Border State” Battleground Local, grassroots leaders rise to the occasion as federal agents terrorize neighborhoods
21.11.2025 18:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Operation Charlotte's Web: Anderson Clayton on Border Patrol's NC Invasion "I don't think the South has ever taken too kindly to federal agents coming in."
21.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When Trump Chooses the Killer Over the Truth “Things happen” when the president doesn’t want to know.
21.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Contempt of Court: Sen. Whitehouse on DOJ Fumbles & Sedition Accusations "If you slip and fall in a Walmart, you don't have to sue the guy with the mop!"
21.11.2025 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tom the Dancing Bug The Five Stages of MAGA Scandal Grief
21.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another Undaunted City Charlotte defends democracy and decency
21.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Evening Roundup, Nov 20 Featuring Colin Allred with Jen Rubin, Senator Chris Coons, Jeff Nesbit, Tianna Mays, Azza Cohen, Lorraine Forte, and "The Tea" with April Ryan
20.11.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Tea w/ April Ryan ft. Anthony Coley & Tony Allen A recording from The Tea w/ April Ryan 11/20
20.11.2025 23:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Traitor is TRUMP! Sen. Coons on Trump’s Calls for Execution and Friendships with Autocrats “This is putting at risk the trust between the American people and the military that we rely on to secure and defend us.”
20.11.2025 23:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From “fake news” to “quiet, piggy”: The dark evolution of a decade-long war on truth Make the messenger so repulsive or small in the eyes of the base, and the message itself evaporates.
20.11.2025 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Things happen’ A cartoon by Nick Anderson
20.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Split Screen: ‘MySafeSpace’ and the Collapse of whitehouse.gov Visual language is never neutral. It shapes our subconscious understanding of power, legitimacy, and identity.
20.11.2025 19:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We Need BETTER Leadership: Colin Allred on Gerrymandering, Corruption, and Persecution "We recognize that corruption is undermining the entire faith in this system, and we're going to go after all of it."
20.11.2025 17:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The GOP Isn’t Being Subtle About Rigging the 2026 Midterms Its California suit is the latest proof.
20.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Coffee with Contrarians and Dan Pfeiffer 11/20 A recording from Coffee with The Contrarians LIVE 11/20
20.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dispatch from Chicago: Border Patrol has left town, but what’s next if they return? The Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign is now focused on North Carolina, where agents don’t have to endure the cold of the coming Chicago winter.
20.11.2025 15:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Swalwell Could be a Worthy Successor to Newsom The existing contenders never caught on
20.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Evening Roundup, November 19 Featuring: Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Norm Ornstein, Josh Levs, Jaime Lodge, Alphonso David, Carron J. Phillips, Ben Sheehan, Angela Alsobrooks with April Ryan, and The Contrarian Podcast
19.11.2025 23:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Two People Have Figured Out How to Win Pivotal Elections Listen now | We are just about one year away from the 2026 midterms, a pivotal election for re-installing authoritarian guardrails and protecting our democracy.
19.11.2025 23:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Haven't We Seen Enough? Senator Alsobrooks on the Epstein Files & RFK. Jr's Incompetence "These women deserve justice—that's all they've ever been asking for."
19.11.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Please Don’t Fall for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Convenient Rebrand Doing the bare minimum isn’t proof of rehabilitation
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