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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. www.politix.fm

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39:58

All About The Benjamin

Politix ·

2026/03/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmWe’re at war with Iran all of a sudden, and nobody can say why, even the people who started the war. After closing the loop on the Texas Senate primary, Matt and Brian discuss:* What was Donald Trump thinking? * What consequences (regional, domestic, and global) should we be prepared for?* What do we make of the Democratic response so far?Then, because the war has no support and was not justified, the public is

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26:11

Sedate Of The Union

Politix ·

2026/02/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmYou can’t say Donald Trump used his State of the Union address to distract from the Epstein files!In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* How boring the speech was;* Whether boring is better for Trump, given his political predicament, than stuntiness;* Should the Democrats who chose to attend be ashamed of themselves?* All of the lies.Then, are we finally going to have it out over whether Trump sexually assaulted any of

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40:04

Defining Shutdown Down

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2026/02/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThey’re calling it the liddlest, tiniest government shutdown of all time. Democrats are demanding changes to policy that helps Trump’s immigration police get away with abuses. So they’ve shut down the Department of Homeland Security and only the Department of Homeland Security. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* How we ended up with such a narrow shutdown, instead of one that spanned multiple cabinet departments;*

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35:21

Chad Bunny And 'Berger Queen

Politix ·

2026/02/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmDonald Trump has picked big fights on multiple fronts…and lost.In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* The narrow question of how Trump and MAGA lost the culture war fight they picked with Bad Bunny and the NFL. * How we ended up in a situation a year ago, when it seemed that MAGA had, on balance, won the fight over the direction and influence of American culture.* How the worm turned back, or whether it was all an

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38:38

Would John F. Kennedy Have Been In The Epstein Files?

Politix ·

2026/02/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmDonald Trump ate up several weeks and caused tons of damage as he sought to delay further production of the Epstein files. But now the files are right back in the news.In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* What’s in this new tranche?* What does it tell us about both the global elite, and Republican elite, leaders of which are overrepresented in the files relative to Democrats?* What can we or others do to pry loose the

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37:13

The Martyrdom Of Alex Pretti

Politix ·

2026/01/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmOn Saturday, DHS agents killed Alex Pretti, a VA nurse who tried to help a woman they’d just pushed to the ground. By Sunday, the Trump administration had initiated an at least tactical retreat from Minneapolis.In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* The silver lining of Pretti’s death, in providing proof of concept that civil disobedience requires risk and sacrifice—but it does work;* Whether the political blowback will

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34:32

Greenland, With Envy

Politix ·

2026/01/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmMany people are asking: Has Donald Trump finally, completely lost his mind?In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* The importance of getting your flu shot.* Why this latest episode, complete with rambling missives to allied heads of state, feels more like madness than Trump’s other bad ideas, driven by graft, vengeance, or whatever else. * How his assault on Minneapolis is crystalizing the madness (or at least the bad

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41:57

Powell Obstruction

Politix ·

2026/01/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmWe’ll give Donald Trump this month: Thanks to his efforts, political discourse has moved on (for now) from health care and the Epstein coverup. But … not to anything particularly helpful for him.In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* What on Earth did Donald Trump think he was doing by ordering a campaign of legal harassment against Fed Chairman Jay Powell* Is there a pattern that explains why Trump’s rich sycophants

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40:06

Venezuela, Vidi, Vici?

Politix ·

2026/01/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmGotta hand it to Donald Trump, he got the Epstein Files and the January 6 anniversary off the front page, and all it took was a wee little war, plus a threat to conquer the whole hemisphereIn this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* WTF?* How has this destabilized the globe?* Can the damage be undone?* What’s the right political response, and who in the Democratic Party has risen to the moment?Then, a review of Tim Walz’s late

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44:08

Politix Christmas Mailbag

Politix ·

2025/12/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmIt’s that time of year again. Self-indulgent mailbag time. Thanks to all who sent questions, and apologies to those who didn’t get answers.In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* Whether Gavin Newsom is doomed to become yesterday’s news;* Why there’s never been a better time to tax rich people;* How (and if) liberals can coexist politically with authoritarians in a two-party democracy.* What, if anything, the Biden people

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38:27

Strike Wiles The Iron Is Hot

Politix ·

2025/12/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmDonald Trump suddenly faces defections in Congress, from right-wing influencers, and even from his own White House chief of staff.In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* Susie Wiles’s…intemperate comments to Vanity Fair about all the incompetents and cynics in the Trump administration; * The challenge of passing the cult following from Trump to JD Vance (or anyone else for that matter).* Why Republican disarray has spread

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42:09

All Tapped Out

Politix ·

2025/12/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmDonald Trump is suddenly mired in a huge war-crimes scandal, complicating his desire to launch an actual war (also illegal) against Venezuela. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* All the things that make the circumstances surrounding the order to murder shipwreck survivors so strange and suspicious; * How it all gels with Trump’s broader, corrupt foreign policy;* Whether the so-called Seditious Six Democrats, who

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39:11

Who wins? Who loses? And why?

Politix ·

2025/12/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmBrian is adventuring in South America, so Matt is joined by Lakshya Jain of The Argument and Split Ticket to talk about his Wins Above Replacement calculations, which politicians are good at winning, and what we know about them. In the episode, Matt and Lakshya discuss:* The importance of “downballot lag” in assessing candidate quality.* Why AOC and Ritchie Torres are both overrated by their fans. * While highly viral

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31:42

Trump Can't Handle The Truth

Politix ·

2025/11/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmDonald Trump has lost his grip, and it’s making him prone to a variety of political errors, some of which we enjoy with pure schadenfreude, others of which could cause tremendous collateral damage. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* What if anything makes Marjorie Taylor Greene’s early exit from the House of Representatives different from past Trump purges?* Why did he blow up his party’s big plan to make Zohran

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34:21

Wet Hot American Summers

Politix ·

2025/11/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmDonald Trump’s Epstein coverup has faltered. Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has produced tens of thousands of emails implicating scads of U.S. elites, Trump foremost among them, but including famed economist Larry Summers and other prominent Democrats. Meanwhile, Congress has now voted overwhelmingly to compel the Justice Department to release its Epstein case files.In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* What do the recent

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35:56

Quick Cave By The Bad Seeds

Politix ·

2025/11/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmAfter notching huge victories in last week’s off-year elections, Senate Democrats were overcome by a failure of nerve, and agreed to reopen the government without restoring anyone’s health insurance or securing any legal mechanism to rein in Donald Trump’s lawlessnessIn this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* What the fuck?* Why did the standoff end the way it did?* How could the eight capitulators plus Chuck Schumer have

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28:14

The Jay Jonestown Massacre

Politix ·

2025/11/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmIt was a night of blowout victories in elections for Democrats and Democratic causes across the country, significantly surpassing the party’s most optimistic expectations. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* What, if anything, do the margins, and the nature of the sweep, tell us about the politics today;* How compatible are these results with a Democratic Senate victory in 2026?* Why “Democrats should moderate” and

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40:29

Came In Like A Reckoning Ballroom

Politix ·

2025/10/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmEven some of Donald Trump’s own voters were shocked to see he summarily demolished part of the White House, surprising many Democrats who had convinced themselves Trump is teflon and people don’t care about his corruption or vulgarity. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:* The long history of politicians not doing stuff like this, fearing political backlash;* Whether this episode suggests swing voters can be moved by

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27:28

Palace Intrigue

Politix ·

2025/10/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmMore than seven million Americans marched peacefully in the streets. Republicans are palpably spooked about it. And courage is proving contagious: In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * How Trump’s king-like abuses are, for the first time in a decade, becoming hard to distinguish from kitchen-table issues;* Whether, given the galvanizing power of No Kings, Democrats should pivot to the theme (away from health care) and

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37:05

King Of The Swill

Politix ·

2025/10/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThe government shutdown just crossed the two-week mark. If you take Donald Trump and his people at their word, it doesn’t seem like it’s about to reopen. But they are also huge bluffers. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * Has Trump hit upon a (legally dubious) way to keep the government “shut down” indefinitely?* Which signs suggest he’s digging in and which suggest he’s bluffing?* Are we about to test, once and for

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