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Bulwark Takes
Bulwark Takes brings you bite-sized takes on the news of the day from the entire Bulwark team. This is the home to ad-free video shorts, Bulwark+ member-only livestreams, and live event archives. The news cycle doesn’t slow down, and neither do we.
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Episodes
Bulwark TakesKash Patel’s Mile-High Meltdown
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller, Sam Stein, and Will Sommer take on Kash Patel’s use of his FBI…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s World Tour of Insecurity
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Jack Cocchiarella takes on the aftermath of Donald Trump’s international trip…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s ‘Gatsby’ Party Proves He’s Lost Touch With Reality
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein takes on the jarring contrast between Trump’s over-the-top…
Bulwark TakesTrump Rejects All Oversight on Venezuela War. What's Next? (w/ Ryan Goodman)
Bill Kristol talks with legal scholar Ryan Goodman about how the Trump administration has rejected all congressional oversight over planned military strikes in…
Bulwark TakesFox News Got Duped by AI—and Lied About It
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on how Fox News ran with a totally fake story—racist AI…
Bulwark TakesWill SNAP's Collapse Force a Shutdown Resolution? (w/ Arthur Delaney)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Arthur Delaney joins Sam Stein to break down what changed, why it matters, and…
Bulwark TakesTim Miller: Trump’s Hunger Crisis Hits His Own Voters
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller joins MSNBC’s Deadline: White House to break down the Trump…
Bulwark TakesStephen Miller’s Wife Threatens Cenk Uygur on the Air
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Andrew Egger discuss Katie Miller, wife of Stephen Miller and “MAGA…
Bulwark TakesHeritage Chooses Tucker Over Its Own Principles
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tucker Carlson’s gone full mask-off, giving airtime to white nationalist Nick…
Bulwark TakesWhy is the Trump Administration Purging Our Military’s Best?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Bill Kristol and General Mark Hertling discuss the wave of senior military…
Bulwark TakesMeet America’s Worst Governor
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com This one’s for Tim Miller, and he’s on fire. Jeff Landry getting involved with…
Bulwark TakesRaja to Trump: Stop Building Ballrooms and Reopen the Government!
Note: Due to technical issues during recording, this Bulwark Take is only available in audio form. Sam Stein talks with Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi about…
Bulwark TakesA Breakdown of Nancy Mace’s Years-Long Crash Out
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Nancy Mace used to wave the pride flag and support gay marriage, and now she’s…
Bulwark TakesHow Democrats Plan to Fight Trump’s New Maps (w/ Suzan DelBene)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com House Democrats are fighting back in what’s shaping up to be a national…
Bulwark TakesTim & Bill on the Creepiest Trump Propaganda Yet
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller and Bill Kristol take on the Trump administration’s bizarre new…
Bulwark TakesRounders Bombed—Then Became a Absolute Classic!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah, JVL and Sonny take on Rounders—the ’90s cult poker movie that turned…
Bulwark TakesMark Kelly: 23 Million Americans Are About to Get Punched in the Face
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sen. Mark Kelly joins Sam Stein to warn that millions of Americans are about…
Bulwark TakesTrump Has No Idea Where He Is
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Andrew Egger take on Trump’s unusual Japan visit—the wandering, the…
Bulwark TakesTrump Turns the NBA Scandal Into a Delusional Rant
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller and JVL take on Donald Trump’s unhinged reaction to the NBA…
Bulwark TakesTim Miller Reviews Mamdani's Fox News Ad
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on the contrast of Bernie, AOC, and Zoran Mamdani’s upbeat…
Bulwark TakesDoes Rob Sand Have What It Takes to Flip Iowa?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Andrew Egger is joined by Rob Sand to discuss his run for governor of Iowa…
Bulwark TakesGOP Senators Call Out Trump on the Shutdown
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Saletan take on the Republicans break amid Trump’s shutdown…
Bulwark TakesBulwark on Sunday: The End of The Republic?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Bill Kristol and Michael Wood take on the fears we could be at the end of the…
Bulwark TakesWe’re Being Governed by 12-Year-Olds
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on our “everyone is twelve now” government mentality as the…
Bulwark TakesCanada Dunked on Trump. Politely
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump’s latest tantrum isn’t about policy, it’s about power, ego, and a…
Bulwark TakesWhen MAGA Invents Its Own Enemies
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Sommer break down how MAGA media keeps inventing stories of…
Bulwark TakesTrump Didn’t Drain the Swamp—He Joined It
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller dives into the corporate corruption funding Donald Trump’s East…
Bulwark TakesWhy Did the GOP Stop Caring About Nazis?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and John Avlon discuss the alarming rise of Nazi rhetoric inside…
Bulwark TakesPeople Sound Off on Trump’s Gilded White House Demolition
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Bulwark hit the streets of D.C. to ask what people think about Trump…
Bulwark TakesFox News Versus The Chair
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on Fox’s Will Cain after a tweet from his flight sets off an…
Bulwark TakesAre Trump’s Dumb Economics Causing a MAGA Rift?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Andrew Egger take on Donald Trump’s betrayal of American cattle…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s Heartbreaking White House Makeover
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com With Donald Trump unceremoniously demolishing the East Wing of the White House…
Bulwark TakesTrump Wants $230 Million of Your Money
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell and Sam Stein take on Trump’s latest outrage—a $230 million…
Bulwark TakesA Story So Bizarre That No Title Can Possibly Do It Justice
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim, Sam and Will take on the wild world of major MAGA pseudoscience…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s Pick Admits He Has a ‘Nazi Streak’
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on yet another Republican texting racist and antisemitic…
Bulwark TakesI Never Liked Curtis Sliwa—Until Now
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Andrew Egger take on Curtis Sliwa’s incredibly theatrical…
Bulwark TakesGOP Operative Explains Why He Finally Quit the Party (w/ Miles Bruner)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Miles Bruner spent years working inside Republican politics until he could no…
Bulwark TakesTim Miller chats with Karine Jean-Pierre
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joins Tim Miller to talk about walking away from party politics, the failures that opened the door to…
Bulwark TakesEzra Levin: Mike Johnson Was Our Best Organizer!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Lauren Egan talk with Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin about…
Bulwark TakesTrumpworld Spins Wildly After the No Kings March
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Andrew Egger take on Trumpworld’s spin after the massive “No Kings”…
Bulwark TakesTrump Insults Rand Paul—And He Begs for More
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Jack Cocchiarella takes on Rand Paul’s pathetic display of loyalty to Donald…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s AI Poop Video Is Real…and Pathetic
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Jack Cocchiarella takes on Donald Trump’s latest disgrace—an AI poop attack on…
Bulwark Takes“No Kings” Was a Success. What Comes Next? (w/ Sarah Longwell)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell joins Bill Kristol to discuss the success and aftermath of the…
Bulwark TakesMarc Benioff, Chief HR Officer for Stephen Miller
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s full MAGA pivot — from…
Bulwark TakesSarah Longwell: Trump’s DOJ Goes After Bolton—For Doing What Trump Did
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell joins Nicolle Wallace on ‘Deadline: Whitehouse’ to take on John…
Bulwark TakesWhy So Many Military Leaders Are Leaving Early (w/ Mark Hertling)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Bill Kristol and General Mark Hertling discuss the sudden early retirement of…
Bulwark TakesTrump: "I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Will Saletan take on Donald Trump’s strange, childlike theology — a…
Bulwark TakesMeet The Man Who Trolled ICE
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller is joined by Robby Roadsteamer to discuss his recent arrest at the…
Bulwark TakesBreaking: Trump’s Former National Security Adviser John Bolton Indicted
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Tim Miller take on the indictment of former National Security…
Bulwark TakesHegseth Demanded They Sign a Pledge or Get Out. She Left. (w/ Mallory Shelbourne)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Joe Perticone talks with Pentagon reporter Mallory Shelbourne about the…
Bulwark TakesScott Bessent Is Losing It!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on Charlie Kirk’s show and said the…
Bulwark TakesTim Miller: Here's the Real Reason for This Shutdown
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller joins MSNBC’s Katy Tur Reports to talk about Trump’s lawless power…
Bulwark TakesLeaked Texts Show GOP Operatives Using Slurs and Praising Hitler
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim, Sam and Will reunite to take on the disturbing reporting from Politico…
Bulwark TakesSnowflake Pete's War on Dad Bods
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Andrew Egger take on Pete Hegseth’s strange, insecure reign over the…
Bulwark TakesTim Miller: Cracks May Be Appearing in Trumpworld
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller joins MSNBC to talk about the immigration fallout, the absurd smear…
Bulwark TakesThere’s a Ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza War. But Is This Really the End? (w/ Dan Shapiro)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein talks with former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro about how…
Bulwark TakesThree FBI Agents Walk Into Glenn Beck’s Living Room...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comTim Miller, Sam Stein, and Will Sommer take on Glenn Beck’s bizarre claim that…
Bulwark TakesThey Stopped Fighting. Now Trump Thinks He's Untouchable.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comSam Stein and Sarah Longwell take on how Trump has broken every source of…
Bulwark TakesJD Vance Can’t Handle Reality—So He Rewrites It
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comWill Saletan and Mona Charen take on JD Vance’s reality-bending…
Bulwark TakesStephanopoulos Kicks JD Vance Off the Air
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comJack Cocchiarella takes on JD Vance’s excruciating Sunday-show performance—from…