Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
Episodes
Check Out a Preview for “Clock It”
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“MS NOW Presents: Clock It” is an invitation to the liveliest and most informed groupchat in your feed. Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels...
MS NOW Presents: Clock It with Symone and Eugene
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels were once at odds as White House staffer and White House reporter. Now they’re friends and colleagues—e...
Episode 8: Mystery Man
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the backing of an eccentric billionaire and powerful voices on the American far-right, a high-stakes effort to make Sen. Joseph McCarthy presiden...
Episode 7: Mobilized
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy facing the most serious challenge of his political life -- a looming censure vote in the U.S. Senate -- McCarthy'...
Episode 6: Under Pressure
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Sen. Joseph McCarthy's activities -- and his troubling connections to those on the ultra right -- are exposed in the press, Democratic Sen. Lester ...
Episode 5: Coming Home
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. government’s search for American fascist Francis Yockey picks up steam as Yockey secretly returns home to America and joins forces with the...
Episode 4: Spectacle
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elements of the American ultra right -- including the trailing ends of the America First movement -- begin taking up a strange new cause after the war...
Bonus Episode: Rachel Maddow in Conversation with Tony Kushner
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a live conversation recorded at the Provincetown, MA Town Hall on May 26, Rachel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushne...
Episode 3: Malmedy
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most shocking incidents of World War II for Americans -- a cold-blooded Nazi massacre of surrendering American troops -- gets weaponized ag...
Episode 2: The Mole
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The American government launches an all-out manhunt for a young American ultra-right fascist who harbors sympathy for the Nazis and who is actively pe...
Episode 1: Dr. Hunt
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The sudden and shocking suicide of a popular Democratic Senator, inside his Senate office, stuns the country and the nation’s capital. And soon, a s...
Introducing Season Two of Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out internati...
Episode 8: Ultra Vires
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the sedition trial's collapse, Justice Department prosecutor John Rogge travels overseas and uncovers a bombshell. He finds evidence of...
Episode 7: Rinse, Repeat
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The largest mass sedition trial in American history churns on. And continues descending into chaos. But the dozens of sedition defendants attempting t...
Episode 6: Bedlam
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The most high-profile sedition trial in American history kicks off inside a Washington, DC federal courtroom. The members of Congress who attempted to...
Episode 5: Shut It Down
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The walls begin to close in on members of Congress, and members of the America First movement, who are actively involved in a Nazi plot to spread misi...
Episode 4: A Bad Angle
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A paid agent of Hitler's government ramps up a targeted propaganda effort aimed at weakening democracy and supporting the fascist cause in America. Hi...
Episode 3: The Day
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A devastating explosion rips through a munitions plant in a small New Jersey town. And the American public is left with the chilling fact that the fed...
Episode 2: The Brooklyn Boys
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The most prominent media figure in America calls for the creation of a militia, armed Americans willing to use violence to get their way. What they wa...
Episode 1: Trip 19
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It started with a plane crash. The tragic, mysterious crash of a commercial airliner in the summer of 1940 left a scene of devastation in rural Virgin...
Introducing Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American ...