The Rachel Maddow Show
Episodes
Live community event: Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
30 Dec 2025
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Rachel Maddow hosts a special conversation with guests from her "Burn Order" podcast, live from the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles to discuss the figh...
'Don't feed the pig': For all of his unpopularity, corruption may bring Trump's downfall
23 Dec 2025
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Rachel Maddow shares a look at how outrage over government corruption in Bulgaria prompted massive protests and eventually the resignation of the prim...
Trump learns Politics 101: Do unpopular things, become unpopular, lose political power
16 Dec 2025
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Rachel Maddow reviews how poorly Donald Trump's policies are being received by the American public as Trump continues to appoint laughably unqualified...
We The People: A conversation with Rachel Maddow and Timothy Snyder
13 Dec 2025
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Rachel Maddow hosts a prime time special event with historian Timothy Snyder about the rise of authoritarianism and how we can meet the moment. (Recor...
Trump suffers frequent failures as Americans push back at every turn
09 Dec 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at a variety of legal tactics and pressure campaigns that are having success against the Trump administration's overreach in immig...
Possible war crime puts Trump's 'illegal orders' freakout in new context
02 Dec 2025
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Rachel Maddow relays the details of a new Washington Post report that Donald Trump's secretary of defense, former weekend cable news host Pete Hegseth...
Preview of “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order”
01 Dec 2025
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Rachel Maddow’s new series lays bare one of the most shocking decisions in American history. It’s story that reveals how an executive order author...
'It's absurd': Sen. Kelly bites back at Trump, Hegseth threats over 'illegal orders' video
25 Nov 2025
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Senator Mark Kelly, in an interview with Rachel Maddow, emphasized his view that "it's almost comical" that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are calling ...
Introducing "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order"
24 Nov 2025
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"Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order" is the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history: the executive order to target and round u...
Maddow: 'Trump weirdness and destruction' produces ceaseless string of bizarre headlines
18 Nov 2025
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Rachel Maddow relays a series of stories that in any normal administration would be a shattering cascade of scandals, but in the perpetually disgraced...
Maddow: Democrats snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (again)
11 Nov 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at the powerful political momentum Democrats had built, including massive nationwide protests and a wildly successful election, on...
Maddow shows Trump in polling free fall ahead of first election test of new term
04 Nov 2025
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Rachel Maddow shares the results of several new polls, all showing the deepening descent of Donald Trump's popularity with the American people. Not on...
'We need to watch out': Maddow sounds alarm on ICE surveillance as Trump wields new weapon
28 Oct 2025
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Rachel Maddow explains that while much of Donald Trump's abuse of power is typical of authoritarians, Trump has a new tool that no authoritarian befor...
MSLIVE ’25: The State of U.S. Democracy with Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell
23 Oct 2025
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We’re thrilled to share one of the most anticipated conversations from our recent MSNBCLIVE ‘25 event in New York City. Rachel Maddow and Lawrence...
Maddow: 'No Kings' protests send message to Trump from EVERY state in the nation
21 Oct 2025
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Not even a year into his new term and Donald Trump is already seeing people take to the streets by the millions to voice their objections how he is ap...
Doors slam on weak Trump as pushback hardens at every level
18 Oct 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's position of extreme weakness ahead of what are expected to be massive "No Kings" protests, with Trump's agenda r...
Rachel Maddow in Discussion with Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young
16 Oct 2025
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Ahead of the premiere of Rachel’s new documentary, “Andrew Young: The Dirty Work,” Rachel sits down with Andrew Young and John Hope Bryant in a ...
Preview of “The Blueprint” Season 2
15 Oct 2025
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Jen Psaki is on a mission to show us how the Democratic party can use this political moment to fight and win again. On Season 2 of her podcast, “The...
Rambling Trump accidentally reopens questions about an election payoff
14 Oct 2025
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Rachel Maddow points out the exceptional and unusually effusive praise and thanks that Donald Trump heaped on Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the president of E...
Introducing Season 2 of “The Blueprint”
08 Oct 2025
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Democrats are looking to regain power, and there is a whole lot of warranted debate about what a winning formula looks like. “The Blueprint with Je...
Pritzker digs in against Trump abuse of National Guard; warns of 2026 Trump scheme
07 Oct 2025
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Donald Trump continues to terrorize urban populations with militarized ICE raids while trying every loophole he can find to justify using the actual m...
Governor serves Trump a dose of reality over bizarre Portland military deployment
30 Sep 2025
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Rachel Maddow reviews how the Trump administration has made a practice of weaponizing access to personal data in order to attack people Donald Trump d...
Exclusive: Former Vice President Kamala Harris joins for an extended interview
23 Sep 2025
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Rachel Maddow hosts former Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic nominiee for president, on the eve of the publication of her new book, "1...
Maddow: For a would-be strongman, Trump is profoundly weak
16 Sep 2025
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Rachel Maddow points out that Donald Trump is following the "strongman" playbook so closely, and with such a lack of originality, that his behavior in...
Maddow: Trump busted by his own distinct signature, sinks to new depths of historic disgrace
09 Sep 2025
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The estate of Jeffrey Epstein released materials today to the House Oversight Committee, including the "birthday book" that Donald Trump disputed (and...
'Five alarm fire': Trump attempts to fire Fed board member, inviting economic calamity
26 Aug 2025
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Rachel Maddow highlights the difference between Donald Trump's rhetoric and his actions and notes that taking the big picture of Trump's actions can i...
Maddow: Three ways Trump is trying to rig the 2026 midterm elections
19 Aug 2025
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Donald Trump seems to move from one unpopular catastrophe to another. With people still in the streets protesting his military take-over of Washington...
'Not about crime': Maddow CRACKS OPEN Trump's real motives in deploying the National Guard to D.C.
12 Aug 2025
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Rachel Maddow cites example after example of Donald Trump going out of his way to help criminals, including some really terrible ones, so the idea tha...
Maddow: U.S. profoundly changed by authoritarian leader; 'We're beyond waiting and seeing now'
05 Aug 2025
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Rachel Maddow points out that the thing most Americans were dreading has come to pass, and the United States has changed profoundly in only six months...
BAD NEWS FOR TRUMP: Democrats get their wish as Roy Cooper enters North Carolina Senate race
29 Jul 2025
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In an election year of astronomically high stakes, in the absolutely crucial Senate race in North Carolina, Democrats got their wish with popular form...
MADDOW DEBUNKS: Weird fake news, A.I. slop stories about her and MSNBC infect social media
22 Jul 2025
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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the sudden flood of artificial intelligence-generated fake stories on social media, using false stories with her at the ...
Heckuva time to make an appearance: Trump's FEMA chief drops in on Texas flood zone
15 Jul 2025
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Rachel Maddow introduces viewers to the unfamiliar image of Donald Trump's pick to lead FEMA, David Richardson, who finally made an appearance in Texa...
Devastating Texas floods highlight stakes of vital weather services amid reckless Trump cuts
08 Jul 2025
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As the death toll continues to rise and search and rescue teams continue to look for victims, the devastating flood in Kerr County, Texas show not onl...
Trump's poor choices for national security staffing have new relevance after Iran bombing
24 Jun 2025
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Rachel Maddow reviews the cast of characters that staff important national security roles in the Trump administration, and whose lack of qualification...
Defying Trump, Americans refuse to be denied their right to protest
17 Jun 2025
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Rachel Maddow shows that despite Donald Trump's admonitions against protesting, and despite physical threats from local law enforcement, and despite g...
Maddow: Military last resort in L.A. shows a weak president with no ideas and no political skills
10 Jun 2025
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Rachel Maddow points out that the most important story of our era is not what Donald Trump is trying to do, but what the American people will allow hi...
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants
03 Jun 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at fresh examples of communities across the United States rallying in defense of local immigrants being hunted by ICE agents, and ...
Special Preview of “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace”
02 Jun 2025
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Who are The Best People? They’re the people who are the best at what they do and know how to bring out the best in others. On her new podcast, Nicol...
Introducing “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace”
29 May 2025
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On her new podcast, “The Best People,” Nicolle Wallace sits down with the smartest, funniest, wisest people she knows. These are the people who ar...
'Our superpower': Trump confronted by diverse, robust pushback on 'a million' different fronts
20 May 2025
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Rachel Maddow considers how the history of the Trump era will be written and how the defense of democracy and resistance to Trump authoritarianism wil...
Why Donald Trump's medical records say more than he realizes
13 May 2025
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Dr. David Kessler had previously described for Rachel Maddow how Donald Trump benefitted from the federal medical establishment in surviving a sever c...
Massive 'No Kings' protest expected to rain on Donald Trump's (military) parade
06 May 2025
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Donald Trump is eager to fill out his autocratic profile with a display of military might in the form of a military parade. Anti-Trump activists are p...
'Historic debacle': Trump sets new standard for poor presidential performance; Americans displeased
01 May 2025
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Rachel Maddow reviews the many ways in which Donald Trump has made history with the first 100 days of his second term, though none of these achievemen...
Victims of Trump's irresponsible anti-immigrant crusade include American citizens
30 Apr 2025
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Rachel Maddow reports on examples of American citizens caught up in Donald Trump's attacks on immigrants in the U.S., some by accident, some by malici...
Trump 100 day faceplant: more devastating polling for Trump show Americans reject his policies
29 Apr 2025
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Rachel Maddow shares another collection of polls of Americans about the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term, with results showing a shocking ...
Trump gets reckless as his agenda tanks with the American public
26 Apr 2025
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Rachel Maddow reports on the ongoing parade of terrible polling numbers for Donald Trump, and talks with Rep. Jamie Raskin about the Trump administrat...
Wheels falling off the Trump train before his first 100 days, polls show
25 Apr 2025
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Donald Trump's second term is not even 100 days old and already his standing with Americans has soured, with polls showing opposition on major themes ...
Oops!: Trump's first 100 days marked by incompetent screw-ups and frantic walk backs
24 Apr 2025
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Rachel Maddow reviews the main lesson of the first 100 Days of the second Trump administration and highlights how the administration's overall incompe...
Musk tries to blame paid protesters for his wild unpopularity, collapse of Tesla
23 Apr 2025
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After Tesla showed a steep drop in profits and a sliding stock price, Elon Musk was quick to blame fake protesters for manipulating public opinion aga...
Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
22 Apr 2025
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Rachel Maddow surveys some of the many "No Kings" protests that took place in cities large and small across the United States against Donald Trump's p...
Lost in the sauce: Stories Trump probably hoped you wouldn't notice while he 'flooded the zone'
19 Apr 2025
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Did you know Donald Trump plans to eliminate Head Start the preschool program? Did you know he gutted Americorps? Have you heard what he did to the ...
'This should be shocking': Judge torches Trump admin. for neglecting due process for deportees
18 Apr 2025
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Rachel Maddow reads from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the Trump administration as it tries to avoid accountability for mistakenly d...
'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
17 Apr 2025
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The judge hearing the case against Donald Trump's deportation flights is losing patience with the administration's excuses and stall tactics, and toda...
'They can't hide the ball': Judge cracks the whip on Trump lawyers in deportation case
16 Apr 2025
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Trump administration lawyers are running out of excuses to avoid being accountable for the rights and whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Marylan...
Making a mockery of Musk: Backlash against dismantling U.S. government focuses on hatchet man
15 Apr 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at creative new ways activists are mocking and protesting Donald Trump's top campaign donor, Elon Musk, for his central role in bu...
'How is it possible that you have this job?': RFK Jr.'s incompetence becomes too glaring to overlook
12 Apr 2025
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From his cluelessness about critical cuts made to his agency, to his celebration of dangerous quackery, Robert. F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's HHS sec...
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
11 Apr 2025
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's efforts to intimidate the legal system in the United States and bend...
Trump caves on tariffs: One economic indicator made even Trump realize he'd gone too far
10 Apr 2025
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Even with new polling showing significant disapproval among Americans of Donald Trump's handling of the economy, Trump's indifference to tanking the s...
Trump in search of waste need look no further than his own staff
09 Apr 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at the bizarre, frivolous demands of members of Donald Trump's staff even as vital public services are being cut in the name of wa...
Fierce backlash against Trump's agenda seen in sweeping, nation-wide protests
08 Apr 2025
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From small towns to the largest cities, Rachel Maddow reports on the wide diversity of issues being protested in demonstrations across the United Stat...
The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
05 Apr 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at ways to understand the scope of the damage Donald Trump has done to the entire world economy, and reminds viewers where the tar...
Needless economic pain from Trump not even worth it if his tariff gambit works: economist
04 Apr 2025
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Betsey Stevenson, former chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor, discusses the likely consequences for average American consumers of Donald ...
Donald Trump fired the man who likely saved his life; U.S. may never fully recover from Trump's cuts
03 Apr 2025
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Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner and chief science officer of the White House Covid-19 Task Force, talks with Rachel Maddow about the devast...
Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
02 Apr 2025
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Senator Cory Booker talks with Rachel Maddow about holding the Senate floor for a record-breaking 25 hours and 4 minutes to raise attention to the per...
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
01 Apr 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at a string of bizarre headlines about Donald Trump's secretary of defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, whose insistence on...
'This is shameful': Trump sows animosity and mistrust abroad, degrading Americans in the process
29 Mar 2025
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Rufus Gifford, former U.S. ambassador to Denmark, talks with Rachel Maddow about the animosity and mistrust Donald Trump is sowing among even allied n...
Allies wary of Trump admin's incompetence after scandal over military plan group chat
28 Mar 2025
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Not only has the scandal over Trump officials discussing military plans in a group chat on an insecure commercial platform made the Trump administrati...
'Two perfect months?!': Trump's rationalization of insecure group chat scandal backfires
27 Mar 2025
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Donald Trump says the scandal over his top officials discussing secret military plans in an unsecured group chat is just a "glitch" in an otherwise pe...
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
26 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's ridiculously poor track record of mishandling sensitive information, with the scandal of several of his top offi...
'Holy crap on steroids!': Top Trump officials exposed in shocking, sloppy military security blunder
25 Mar 2025
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Top officials in the Trump administration discussed a military operation in a group chat on a commercially available messaging platform with a random ...
Media reports prompt Trump to end plan to brief Musk on secret potential war plans for China
22 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow follows up on last night's breaking news that the Pentagon planned to brief Donald Trump's top campaign donor, Elon Musk, on top-secret ...
Maddow: Trump admin shows folly of blind obedience to someone who doesn't know what they're doing
21 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow reports on the ridiculous, bungled spectacle of the Trump administration's release of unredacted documents related to the JFK assassinat...
U.S. under Trump backs off countering Russian sabotage campaign in Europe
20 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at recent acts of sabotage by Russia in countries that support Ukraine, including what is believed to be the planning stages of de...
Trump is a repeat loser as his slash-and-burn rampage collides with U.S. law
19 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow reports on yet another bad day in the courts for Donald Trump as he was made to restore jobs his top campaign donor, Elon Musk, had slas...
Independent Agency CEO: 'DOGE has broken into our building.'
18 Mar 2025
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The U.S. Institute for Peace announced Monday that despite being independent of the executive branch and controlling its own building and the land it ...
Trump reportedly keen on law at root of disgraceful chapter in American history
15 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow shares the amazing, historic story of how former Senator Alan Simpson and former Representative Norm Mineta partnered on hearings into t...
'A sham': Federal judge blasts Trump admin on improper firings of federal workers; orders rehiring
14 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow reads from the court transcript in which a federal judge blasts the Trump administration's defense of its firing of thousands of federal...
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
13 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow shares video of Rep. John Larson channeling the outrage of his constituents at the anticipation that Donald Trump's top donor, Elon Musk...
Trump fires 1,300 at Department of Education; programs expected to suffer with staff gutted
12 Mar 2025
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Plus, House Republicans literally alter time to avoid responsibility for Trump wrecking the economy
Trump puts U.S. at risk with increasing reliance on Musk
11 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow shows how the United States under Donald Trump is growing increasingly reliant on Elon Musk, and his Starlink program in particular. But...
American scientists take to the streets to protest Trump's cuts
08 Mar 2025
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As Donald Trump guts the programs and agencies behind some of America's greatest scientific achievements and fires the people responsible for those ac...
How one man took on Trump's improper firings and saved the jobs of thousands of people
07 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow talks with Hampton Dellinger, former chief of the Office of Special Counsel, about the importance of political independence for his watc...
Trump power grab tripped up by distinctly American resistance
06 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow reports on the number of Trump cuts, firings and other initiatives that have been reversed, blocked, walked back or reconsidered, and th...
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
05 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow and a panel of her MSNBC colleagues react to Donald Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress of his second term.
Trump accidentally builds broad coalition of opponents energized by his unpopular agenda
04 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow surveys the varied and widespread protests in opposition to Donald Trump's wanton destruction of the federal government. From weather sc...
'Who's that good for?': Maddow connects the dots on Donald Trump's behavior toward Russia
01 Mar 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at a string of peculiar behavior by Donald Trump and Trump administration policies that don't seem to have the welfare of the Unit...
Even Republicans object as Trump DOJ nominees are disturbingly noncommittal on obeying courts
28 Feb 2025
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A bright red line before a country loses democracy entirely is when its government loses respect for the rule of law and feels free to ignore rulings ...
As measles outbreak turns deadly, RFK Jr. gets the facts wrong
27 Feb 2025
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The measles outbreak in Texas continues to grow and has now claimed the life of an unvaccinated child. In Washington, D.C., at a Cabinet meeting appar...
Busted: DOGE humiliated by brutal fact-checking, walks back bogus savings claims
26 Feb 2025
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Elon Musk's DOGE team removed key items from its "wall of receipts" after journalists fact-checked their boasts of billions in savings from cuts to fe...
Democrats not immune from voter wrath as pressure to impede Trump mounts
25 Feb 2025
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Rachel Maddow reports on Republican legislators being confronted at town hall meetings by angry constituents who want them to resist Donald Trump's di...
Sidelined Trump mostly 'decorative' as Musk remains busy wrecking the government, reaping rewards
22 Feb 2025
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Rachel Maddow notes that while Donald Trump golfs and performs stunts for TV cameras, Elon Musk is hard at work on the project of dismantling the U.S....
From policy to personnel, Trump scores historically low poll numbers
21 Feb 2025
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Rachel Maddow checks in on new polling data about how Americans are feeling about the first few weeks of the second Donald Trump administration and th...
Maddow: To block Trump's agenda, help Republican politicians find their spines
20 Feb 2025
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Rachel Maddow emphasizes the importance of resistance by Republican legislators to Donald Trump's agenda, and points out that the unpopularity of Trum...
Trump agenda stymied by principled federal workers as protest resignations mount
19 Feb 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at how principled resignations are not only slowing down Donald Trump's agenda to destroy the U.S. federal government, but are dra...
'Have you considered resigning?': Maddow calls out Trump staffers who fired nuclear safety personnel
18 Feb 2025
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Rachel Maddow follows the reporting on Donald Trump's reckless firing of federal employees who work in the nuclear industry, cleaning up nuclear waste...
'Tech genius' image wears thin after series of errors calls DOGE competence into question
15 Feb 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at a series of unforced errors by Elon Musk and the DOGE team that calls into question the accuracy of their "tech genius" image a...
'A six resignation kind of day' at DOJ following Trump's sketchy deal with NYC mayor Eric Adams
14 Feb 2025
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Donald Trump was caught by surprise when Department of Justice prosecutors were too dedicated to the rule of law to go along with a deal to drop feder...
Trump opposition finds its footing, from streets to courts to Congress
12 Feb 2025
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Rachel Maddow looks at the many ways Americans are obstructing Donald Trump's goal of dismantling the Department of Education, from street protests to...
Trump fills administration with 'big team of losers' that voters have already rejected
11 Feb 2025
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Rachel Maddow runs through a surprisingly lengthy list of people Donald Trump has chosen to work in his administration who had previously lost electio...
Listen to “The Blueprint with Jen Psaki”
10 Feb 2025
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On a new podcast series, “The Blueprint with Jen Psaki,” host Jen Psaki dives into two crucial questions: where do Democrats stand in this moment...