Melissa Murray
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3,183 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Melissa Murray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She is the host of Runaway Country, one of my favorites.
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She's also a contributor.
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To Pod Save America, injecting some much needed estrogen into that show on a regular basis.
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And she is also a senior political analyst at MS Now and the author of How the Hell with Alex Wagner on Substack.
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In her latest book, The Steal, Alex does a deep dive all the way back to 1980 and the election of President Ronald Reagan to give us the Roberts Court's villain origin story.
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As she explains,
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The Reagan presidency was a time when, after decades on the fringes, the conservative right rose to power, and it used that power to reshape American foreign policy from tax cuts to trickle-down economics.
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But
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As Alex reveals, those outward-facing policy agenda items were just the tip of the iceberg.
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At the heart of this book is the Reagan presidency and those four right-wing hardliners and their quest to transform not just the American executive, not just the American Congress, but also the courts.
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And that's where we start today.
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No, they're great.
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why I had to give you that breathless intro because I read this this book was propulsive, Alex.
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I mean, I know how it ends and I was still like Can I stay up late to do this?
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Can I elevate my cortisol to read this book all night long?
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I don't know.
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God bless.
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God bless.
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I worked
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How did you decide to cover this?
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