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Vibes Only

Vibes Only, Season 2: The news, the stakes, the fight for democracy — and yes, the vibes.Co-host Brian Derrick has earned a reputation for his ability to break down political news and define the stakes to his sizable and dedicated social media audience. Co-host Glennis Meagher is a digital media savant who has built platforms to encourage millennials and gen z to engage with politics, some for the first time.Even when the news of the week could easily kill the vibe, Brian and Glennis are like those

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35:55

Harris Leans Into Vibes with Tim Walz

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2024/08/07

Join the group chat! Send us a text!Vice President Kamala Harris has gone all vibes in selecting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate in her 2024 presidential bid. We discuss what went into that decision and everything we know about the straight-shooting, cable tv messaging mastermind veteran-turned-teacher-turned-public official. We also discuss Trump's train wreck appearance at the NABJ conference, some news out of his alliance with the richest man in the world, and some

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47:30

Democracy Moonshot (w/ Sami Sage)

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2024/07/31

Join the group chat! Send us a text!The stakes are unprecedented, and according to our guest, Democracy is in Retrograde. Here to help us check the vibes this week is Sami Sage, co-founder of Betches and co-author of the new book, Democracy in Retrograde. We discuss the high vibes surrounding VP and presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, the new (accurate) attack line calling Trump/Vance and Republicans "weird," Biden's proposed SCOTUS reforms, and more! NOTE: This is your last chance

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41:26

Kamala IS Brat

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2024/07/24

Join the group chat! Send us a text!The vibes have taken quite a turn. We discuss the seismic vibe shift since Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday and Kamala Harris became the presumptive nominee. The K-hive, congressional Dems, party leaders, donors and delegates have all rallied behind Vice President Harris in the hours since Biden's announcement creating a buzz of optimism not seen in... well, quite some time. We'll address the FAQs on what exactly happens next, get into the

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30:15

Trump & Vance Can't Hide from Project 2025 Ties

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2024/07/17

Join the group chat! Send us a text!The vibes this week... Days after former President Donald Trump was struck in a mass shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania, he named Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. Brian and Glennis discuss the political reactions to the Trump rally shooting and the VP pick representing, perhaps, the most radical ticket in U.S. history. To top it all off, on Monday Judge Aileen Cannon went out on a limb to throw out Trump's classified documents case - saying

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40:07

GOP Fully Embraces MAGA with Extremist Platform

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2024/07/10

Join the group chat! Send us a text!This week, Brian and Glennis check the vibes of American politics as Joe Biden emphatically insists "I'm not going anywhere," while folks in DC and across the country continue to murmur. Meanwhile, the GOP announced its extremist agenda with a full embrace of MAGA, and Trump is likely on the verge of a VP selection. They take on Project 2025's president who publicly fantasized about civil war in this week's IT'S GIVING segment, and

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31:01

With Fear For Our Democracy, We Dissent

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2024/07/03

Join the group chat! Send us a text!The vibes this week are... oof. SCOTUS has both granted Trump broad immunity and overturned the Chevron deference. Both decisions make the prospect of another Trump term (who now has a roadmap to dismantle the federal government with Project 2025) that much more dire. We catch up on last week's debate: from Biden's performance and the reactions of pundits, strategists, donors, and voters who will decide this election to the much less discussed topic of

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35:55

Debate Week Vibes

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2024/06/26

Join the group chat! Send us a text!Joining Vibes Only to preview the first presidential debate of 2024 and to do an audit of the the race for the White House, as it stands today, is Democratic strategist and friend of the pod, Keith Edwards. You'll hear a couple of friendly debates in THIS pod episode, a Trumpy round of It's Giving, some tea from the friends of the Vibes Only group chat, and a good vibe to say goodbye on. Subscribe to Vibes Only wherever you get your podcasts! If you

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38:57

Republicans Play Chess with People as Pawns

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2024/06/21

Join the group chat! Send us a text!The polls are still (hopefully?) broken. The stakes are more unprecedented than ever. Last week, the Supreme Court unanimously protected the abortion pill, mifepristone (for now), but didn’t close the door to hear new cases involving plaintiffs “with standing.” They also protected bump stocks, a tool that effectively turns a semi-automatic rifle into a machine gun. Now Senate Republicans are playing games and blocking Senate Democrats’ attempts to write the TRUMP

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30:10

It's SCOTUS Decision Season. Here's the Need-to-Know

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2024/06/12

Join the group chat! Send us a text!This week we are pleased to be joined by Lisa Graves. Lisa is a legal expert and researcher who has exposed dark money and corruption. She is also the host of COURIER's podcast, Grave Injustice. In this episode, we take a look at some of the issues at the heart of Supreme Court cases that we'll be getting decisions on this month. Those include cases involving abortion, guns, Trump's so-called immunity, and an existential threat experts to our

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31:08

Guilty x 34

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2024/06/05

Join the group chat! Send us a text!No more deliberations The verdict is in. The fallout from the first former president in American history to be a convicted felon continues. The Trump campaign and conservative media like Fox News are in lockstep, suggesting that "they" are coming after "you," and Donald Trump is just standing in the way... absurd. We also discuss an eyebrow raising new report from ProPublica about Trump's sweetheart treatment of 9 witnesses in his criminal

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32:00

Is It Too Early for a Full-Blown Freakout?

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2024/05/29

Join the group chat! Send us a text!No burying obviously newsworthy stories. NO full-blown freakouts. Just Vibes. And the vibes this week: We learned this weekend that The Washington Post knew about nod to Stop the Steal at Justice Samuel Alito's house in January of 2021 but decided it...wasn't worth mentioning to the public. A number of media outlets, pundits and Dem strategists have been recently sounding the alarms - POLITICO saying Dems are in "full-blown freakout" mode

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30:57

More Than Alito Problem

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2024/05/22

Join the group chat! Send us a text!The courts are broken. The stakes are unprecedented. And the vibes this week… Brian and Glennis discuss the public display of - not just partisanship, but MAGA allegiance - at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's household. ICYMI, it was JUST reported that an upside down flag, a symbol adopted by the "stop the steal" crowd, was raised at Alito's house mere days after the Jan 6 capitol riot. They also talk about Trump's unhinged NRA speech

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32:20

The Hottest Club in NY is… the Manhattan Courthouse

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2024/05/15

Join the group chat! Send us a text!No pollsters. No media pundits "running around with their hair on fire." Just vibes. And the vibes this week: A new Times/Siena poll dropped this week that, again, showed Trump leading in 5 of 6 key swing states. We talk about the media discourse since it dropped. Michael Cohen testified this week in the case involving Trump paying off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal off in exchange for their silence in order to protect his 2016 campaign. Glennis and

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42:29

Minority Rule

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2024/05/08

Join the group chat! Send us a text!This week, Brian and Glennis are joined by Ari Berman to talk about his new book, Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It. Ari lays out how our entire system of government, from its founding, was designed to benefit a select few (white, land-owning men). They also talk about how Donald Trump has exploited that system and the stakes of this year's election. Brian and Glennis kick off the episode with an update

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42:43

Will Gen Z Save Us (and Themselves)?

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2024/05/01

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42:25

Everything You Need to Know About Trump's Legal Hot...

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2024/04/26

Not a judge or a jury. Not fake electors. Nope. The ‘24 election and the fate of democracy hinges on… say it with us… Vibes. The vibes this week:Joe Biden signed a foreign aid bill into which also included a forced sale of TikTok. Donald Trump faced a litany of legal battles including the 2016 Election Interference (hush money) trial which is underway, a hearing on whether he is in contempt of the court for violating his gag order, and he (and his cronies - Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani) were

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36:15

Drowsy Don on Trial

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2024/04/17

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Bracing for an “Extremely Online” Election with...

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2024/04/10

This week, we are pleased to be joined by Taylor Lorenz. Taylor covers technology and social media for the Washington Post. She is the author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet, and she hosts a new podcast, Power User. Before our vibe check with Taylor on the TikTok legislation, how social media shapes the vibes of politics, and all things online - we dive into Trump’s “new” statement on his position on abortion, and the RFK Jr. staffer who said the

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43:57

Republicans are Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

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2024/04/03

SPECIAL GUEST to talk through the vibes of the week: Katie Grossbard. Katie is an attorney, founding member of I am a voter and This is About Humanity. She is a digital creator that aims to empower people to be more informed and less overwhelmed. We love that. Brian, Glennis and Katie talk about Trump’s Easter meltdown coupled with right-wing media’s freakout over the Trans Day of Visibility landing on Easter Sunday and their insistence that everything they don’t like — including the Baltimore

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41:44

The Back Door to a National Abortion Ban

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2024/03/27

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a case involving mifepristone or "the abortion pill" as it's come to be known. Brian and Glennis discuss why this case, as they suggest could be the most consequential abortion case since ROE. They then discuss the whirlwind week that saw NBC hire election-denying former RNC Chair, Ronna McDaniel, a public revolt from its on-air staff, and a reversal on the hire. Next, they give updates on two Trump

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