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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
PolitixBaby Die, Die, Die (Die! Die!)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, we indulge all the speculation and look ahead to politics if and after…
PolitixPurple Man Bad
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, a close look at two troubling authoritarian provocations from the Trump…
PolitixCoup Among Us?!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump’s federal occupation of the capital continues, but the context has…
PolitixHome Invasion
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump has commandeered Washington DC’s police force and deployed federal…
PolitixFalling Down On The Jobs
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, we’re reassessing both the resiliency of the economy, and the health of…
PolitixFatal Distractions
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump is trying desperately to bury the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. In this…
PolitixDuck Superman
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm The new Superman is a critical hit and box-office smash—despite conspicuous…
PolitixFiles And Tribulations
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm The race is on between Donald Trump, who’s desperately trying to put down the…
PolitixComplements to the Jeff
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm The Trump administration suddenly wants you to stop asking questions about Jeffrey…
PolitixTil The Murkows Come Home
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Minutes after recording this episode, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) provided the…
PolitixAll Iran The Botchtower
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Welcome to hell, because we’ve reached the hot war phase of the second Trump…
PolitixHot Stove Summer!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump may not always chicken out, but his on again/off again…
PolitixLights, Camera… Distraction?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Since last week’s episode, Donald Trump and Elon Musk had a bitter falling out…
PolitixTrump's low-energy vision
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Brian’s European Vacation continues as Matt is joined by special guest Jane Flegal…
PolitixDiscipline and Punish
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Brian is on vacation, so special guest McKenzie Wilson joins Matt to talk about…
PolitixProstate of the Union
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm By the time you listen to this episode, the Republican bill to give rich people…
PolitixBullshit In A China Shop
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump blinked, as many people suspected he would. This week, he reduced the…
PolitixMedicaid And Discomfort
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm They won’t come right out and say it this time, the way they did in 2017. But…
Politix100 Days Of Squalitude
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm On Donald Trump’s hundredth day in office—the day we taped this podcast—he was…
PolitixStock ‘n Trade War
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Two weeks into his trade war, Donald Trump has made at least a few tactical…
PolitixLiberation Ruining The Nation
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Last week, in one fell swoop, Donald Trump wiped out trillions of dollars in…
PolitixAre We Cooked?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm There are signs of life in the Democratic Party, and if Republicans continue to…
PolitixTake It To The Limit
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats continue to catch hell from their own voters…
PolitixSchümerdämmerung
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump is becoming unpopular, but Democrats are more unpopular than they’ve…
PolitixMove Fast And Break Wind(shields)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm By the time this episode runs, we’ll be two days from the deadline to fund the…
PolitixBad Speech
Just six weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has dragged the country to the brink of recession. He’s become unpopular, lost the public’s trust to handle…
PolitixSmoking Polls
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Even in the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, most Americans thought Donald…
PolitixEarly Byrd Special
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Explaining the GOP’s rapid slide into authoritarianism is complicated, but you…
PolitixContretemps of Court
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump and Elon Musk are now on the receiving end of multiple court orders…
PolitixDepartment of Podcast Efficiency
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Prior to the election, Elon Musk warned non-billionaire Americans to brace for…
PolitixWelcome to Impound Town
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm In just the past week, Donald Trump has illegally fired over a dozen federal…
PolitixAll Birthrights Reserved
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s the first Politix podcast of Donald Trump’s second presidency, and it began…
PolitixBye Bye Biden
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm It’s the final Politix podcast of Joe Biden’s presidency! Soon Donald Trump will…
PolitixDon, Til Musk
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Multiple developments over the holiday break raise real questions about who will…
PolitixPolitix Christmas Mailbag
The mailbag episode is here! Thanks to all who sent questions, and apologies to those who didn’t get answers. We hoped to get through more, but brevity isn’t…
PolitixSpecial Politix Interview With Ben Wikler
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm The mailbag episode will have to wait, but for good reason! An opportunity arose…
PolitixA BlueCross To Die On
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Last week, a big public uproar forced the health-insurance carrier Anthem to…
PolitixKash Rules Everything Around Me
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump and Joe Biden marked the weekend after thanksgiving with two big news…
PolitixGo Schedule-F Yourself
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm A blustery Donald Trump statement threatening large tariffs on Canadian and…
PolitixA Fate Worse Than Hegseth
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian take stock of Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Robert F…
PolitixWham, Bam, Thank You Zam
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian review the incoming Trump administration as it takes…
PolitixMadison Square Garbage
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian discuss the unexpected final (?) twist of the 2024…
PolitixWE Are The Ones Who Knock
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian discuss the merits and drawbacks of field organizing…
PolitixOur Brand Is Abortion
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian examine the quadrennial liberal October panic, and think…
PolitixSee Ya Later, Validator
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian take a big-picture view of Republicans for Kamala…
PolitixEmergency Debate Pod: Tear Down This Walz
JD Vance is the more polished debater. And whether it was because he was jittery or prepped not to take a wrecking ball to anyone except Donald Trump, Tim Walz…
PolitixBros And Cons
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian take stock of Donald Trump’s late pitch to young male…
PolitixCampaigning Cats and Dogs
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian take stock of the many ways Republicans have flailed…
PolitixEmergency Debate Pod: Concepts Of A Plan?
That was way better than the first one! In what may be their only debate Kamala Harris reduced Donald Trump to a smoldering mass of anger, deranged lies, and…
PolitixCan Kamala cure the housing crisis?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Brian takes a much needed vacation and Matt is joined by The Atlantic’s…
PolitixKama Chameleon—But In A Good Way!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian look back at what went right at last week’s Democratic…
PolitixUp Late With Sleepy Joe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Semafor’s Dave Weigel joins Matt and Brian from Chicago to assess the…
PolitixIran, If You're Listening...
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian survey the news periphery for various black swans and…
PolitixJewish Latinxes for Kamala Harris
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian delve into the new discourse, ignited by…
PolitixGoing Home To Mommala
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian discuss the Democrats brand new presumptive presidential…
PolitixJoe Biden Put America First
After weeks of internal recriminations over the Democratic Party’s crisis of confidence in Joe Biden’s ability to mount a winning campaign against Donald Trump…
PolitixGuns, Dems, And Heels
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian assess a shocking week in politics. * Are we really…
PolitixDemocrats Aren't Doomed — Yet
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm This week, Matt and Brian assess the downward spiral of the Biden campaign and…