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Politix
Politix is a weekly podcast about the 2024 election from Brian Beutler, Matthew Yglesias, and some occasional guests. We’ll have some good-faith disagreement, some points of consensus, and an overall effort to focus on what’s really at stake in November. Subscribe for new episodes each Wednesday and listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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Episodes
PolitixExtinction Level Event
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm WOW that was good. We need a cigarette. Democrats won a historic realignment…
PolitixWave, Goodbye?!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Haha, made you look! The wave is still on, the only real question: will it be big…
PolitixNervous TikTok
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s really hard to upset the dynamics of an election this late in the game; but…
PolitixSt. James Infirmary
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Polls still look good for Democrats. They’re on the offensive in debates, and…
PolitixDennis, The Menace
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert died this week, and it’s almost like he…
PolitixBoba Black Sheep
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Can Republicans really run against Mary Peltola being interpersonally mean? Or…
PolitixGolden Sour
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s getting so bad out there for Republicans that some of them are even…
PolitixThe Stunt For Red October
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Hours after last week’s politics was in the can, all hell broke loose in the world…
PolitixRight Makes Antisemite
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s Trumpapalooza; it’s the Charlie Kirkaversary; it’s been 25 years since 9/11…
PolitixMake It Reign
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump says everyone should start learn to stop worrying and love data…
PolitixJe Suis Carney
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump is accelerating America’s transformation into a banana republic, most…
PolitixPRINTER?! He Hardly Knew ‘Er!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Jon Ossoff says he has no interest in running for president in 2028. But between…
PolitixWoke Two: Cancellation Boogaloo?!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have conceded to the excesses of what…
PolitixNobody Wants To Fight Trump
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Democratic leaders have been delivered a thrashing from the left this primary…
PolitixMedicare For Kumbay'all
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm What if the Democratic establishment could take the wind out of the sails of the…
PolitixLindsey Graham Platner (Hardly Knew... 'Em?)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm While Brian was away, Graham Platner’s campaign imploded, rumors circulated that…
PolitixTarheels and fish fans
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Brian’s vacation continues for a second week, so Matt is joined by Caitlin…
PolitixMainely Politics
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm With Brian out on vacation, Matt is joined by Alex Seitz-Wald of the Midcoast…
PolitixLET A THOUSAND ALGAES BLOOM!!!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump, in his haste and corruption, has wrecked the historic reflecting…
PolitixYes Retreat, Baby, Yes Surrender
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump will either surrender to Iran on Friday in Switzerland, or scuttle…
PolitixPride Before The Prattfall
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm The results from California are (mostly? almost completely?) in. They are mixed…
PolitixPlatner?! Hardly Knew 'Er! ... ('em)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s a been a busy seven days, so we race through a bunch of topics, with a…
PolitixAging Loser Donald Trump Is Old And Losing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump went back to the hospital Tuesday for his third “checkup” in just…
PolitixJared Polis, WTF?!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump is more unpopular than he’s ever been. But he’s still got a tight…
PolitixBallroom Busters
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Late in the game, Trump-loyal judges at the federal and state level joined his…
PolitixF*ck Gerry
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Democrats were winning the gerrymandering arms race Donald Trump kicked off last…
PolitixInside Job?!?!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump had to be evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on…
PolitixMatt And Brian Solve The Vibecession
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump has, in fact, damaged the economy. He’s juiced inflation and weakened…
PolitixNorm, Or Fascin'
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Matt’s away this week. Or since he’s in London, maybe we should say he’s “on…
PolitixThe Hasan Of All Fears
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm As we were all waiting on tenterhooks after Donald Trump threatened to wipe out…
PolitixSui Generic?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump hasn’t been this unpopular since he incited an insurrection. But he’s…
PolitixTempest In A TSA Cup
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump seems to want out of the Iran war AND out of the Department of…
PolitixMr. Hollen's Opus
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Democrats are caught in a new and somewhat troubling fad, in which they promise…
PolitixFalling Off The TACO Truck
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Depending on whether you believe Donald Trump, or Donald Trump, or Donald Trump…
PolitixAll About The Benjamin
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm We’re at war with Iran all of a sudden, and nobody can say why, even the people…
PolitixSedate Of The Union
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm You can’t say Donald Trump used his State of the Union address to distract from…
PolitixDefining Shutdown Down
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm They’re calling it the liddlest, tiniest government shutdown of all time…
PolitixChad Bunny And 'Berger Queen
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump has picked big fights on multiple fronts…and lost. In this episode…
PolitixWould John F. Kennedy Have Been In The Epstein Files?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump ate up several weeks and caused tons of damage as he sought to delay…
PolitixThe Martyrdom Of Alex Pretti
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm On Saturday, DHS agents killed Alex Pretti, a VA nurse who tried to help a woman…
PolitixGreenland, With Envy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Many people are asking: Has Donald Trump finally, completely lost his mind? In…
PolitixPowell Obstruction
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm We’ll give Donald Trump this month: Thanks to his efforts, political discourse has…
PolitixVenezuela, Vidi, Vici?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Gotta hand it to Donald Trump, he got the Epstein Files and the January 6…
PolitixPolitix Christmas Mailbag
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s that time of year again. Self-indulgent mailbag time. Thanks to all who sent…
PolitixStrike Wiles The Iron Is Hot
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump suddenly faces defections in Congress, from right-wing influencers…
PolitixAll Tapped Out
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump is suddenly mired in a huge war-crimes scandal, complicating his…
PolitixWho wins? Who loses? And why?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Brian is adventuring in South America, so Matt is joined by Lakshya Jain of The…
PolitixTrump Can't Handle The Truth
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump has lost his grip, and it’s making him prone to a variety of…
PolitixWet Hot American Summers
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump’s Epstein coverup has faltered. Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has produced…
PolitixQuick Cave By The Bad Seeds
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm After notching huge victories in last week’s off-year elections, Senate Democrats…
PolitixThe Jay Jonestown Massacre
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It was a night of blowout victories in elections for Democrats and Democratic…
PolitixCame In Like A Reckoning Ballroom
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Even some of Donald Trump’s own voters were shocked to see he summarily demolished…
PolitixPalace Intrigue
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm More than seven million Americans marched peacefully in the streets. Republicans…
PolitixKing Of The Swill
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm The government shutdown just crossed the two-week mark. If you take Donald Trump…
PolitixForget It Jake, It's Shutdown Town
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm As anticipated in last week’s episode, the government did indeed shut down, and as…
PolitixComey Don't Play That
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump has crossed an important redline: He ordered his administration to…
PolitixJimmy Fuel, Jimmy Fire, Jimmy That Which I Desire
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm With the firing (and then unfiring) of Jimmy Kimmel, the right-wing crackdown in…
PolitixCharlie And The Conflict Factory
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump and several of his top officials have promised to unleash a partisan…
PolitixBetter Than Ezra
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Another government shutdown looms, and, thus, so do more angsty struggle sessions…