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Overthrowing the Venezuelan Government Was Radical Even for Trump

The US Deposed Maduro. Now What? | Right Now With Perry Bacon by The New Republic In today’s episode, Perry speaks with Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Elizabeth Saunders. Read on Substack You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. […]

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America Is Still Living in the Backlash to Obama’s Presidency

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. President Trump’s political rise came because of a white backlash against Barack Obama, says Julia Azari, a political scientist at Marquette University. She argues Trump’s circumstances are similar to Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon, two […]

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America’s Three Media Crises and How to Fix Them

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. There are three crises afflicting America’s news media, according to Victor Pickard, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Local news outlets are disappearing […]

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Some Indiana Republicans Are Balking at Trump’s Gerrymandering Scheme

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. With President Trump’s deep unpopularity and the traditional backlash against the president’s party, Republicans seem destined to lose the House. So last summer, Trump started insisting that state-level Republicans further gerrymander their states’ congressional […]

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Anti-Blackness Isn’t Part of Trump’s Agenda—It’s the Very Heart of It

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read the transcript here. The Trump administration and the broader conservative movement is using anti-Black ideas and tropes to further their agenda, says Kimberlé Crenshaw, a renowned legal scholar perhaps best known […]

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Anti-Corruption Politics Are The Way For Democrats to Crush Trumpism

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. The Democrats need to become a party centered on fighting government corruption, oligarchy and other issues that don’t cut along traditional ideological lines, says Adam Bonica, a political […]

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The Young Voters and Minorities Who Backed Trump in 2024 Hate Him Now

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos were much more supportive of President Trump in 2024 than they were of past Republican presidential candidates. But exit polls […]

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Ro Khanna Says Schumer Must Resign In Wake of Budget Deal

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Representative Ro Khanna, a prominent progressive and potential 2028 candidate, explicitly called for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to resign in the latest edition of Right Now. Khanna says that Schumer is ultimately responsible […]

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Mamdani Thumped New York’s Billionaires and The New York Times

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election despite an onslaught of commercials attacking him that were funded by New York’s ultrawealthy, including Democratic-leaning figures such as Michael Bloomberg. He also overcame very negative coverage from […]

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Dems Dominated In Virginia and New Jersey Because of Trump Hatred

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Democrat Abigail Spanberger handily won the Virginia gubernatorial race, as was expected. In something of a surprise, New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill, another Democrat, also won comfortably. Those two races were perhaps the most important […]

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Mamdani Is Winning Because Democrats Hate Their Party’s Leaders

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Zohran Mamdani’s strong opposition to Israel’s military actions in Gaza is a critical element of his political success, according to Patrick Gaspard, a longtime Democratic operative who is advising the mayoral front-runner. In the […]

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Senator Tina Smith: Democrats Need to Propose Big Ideas Like Mamdani’s

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Democrats are even more furious about the government shutdown now that President Trump is using the impasse as a pretext to stop tens of millions of Americans from getting benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition […]

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Republicans May Lose Badly In Next Week’s Elections—Thanks to Trump

Right Now With Perry Bacon is a twice-weekly show about national politics with a focus on the radicalism of the Trump administration and tactics to combat it. The program, hosted by New Republic staff writer Perry Bacon on Substack, features in-depth discussions with experts and politicians. It goes beyond the daily headlines to explain why […]

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Elite Colleges Grow a Spine and Reject Trump’s Authoritarian “Compact”

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Several elite U.S. colleges, including Brown, Dartmouth, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have all rejected a “compact” with the Trump administration, in which the schools might have received additional federal funding as long as they implemented […]

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Transcript: No Kings–How Mass Protests Weaken Autocrats Like Trump

Our estimate, based on all of the crowd-counting data that we’ve got in that multiplier assessment, is around seven million. We’ve heard from the rapid-response crowd-counter people that it could have been as large as eight and a half. So we’re satisfied with that number. You know, if you look at the trajectory of the […]

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No Kings: How Mass Protests Weaken Unhinged Autocrats Like Trump

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. There were 2700 No Kings events across the country, with at least 7 million participating, according to Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the groups that helped coordinate the protests. It was […]

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How Chicago Is Standing Tough Against Trump’s Outrageous ICE Policies

Chicago is a city “under siege,” says Representative Delia Ramirez. In the latest episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon, she described a city where residents are terrified, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining anyone they want and using violence against those protesting their actions. She warned that the Trump administration is using the […]

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Transcript: Maine’s Mills-Platner Senate Race Is A Huge Dem Battle

Seitz-Wald: That’s right, ranked choice in both. Ranked choice in both the primary and the general election for federal offices; ranked choice in the primary but not the general for the governorship, yeah. But yes, for the Senate. So there’s a number of other candidates in this race we haven’t even talked about, and they’re […]

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Maine Senate: Platner-Mills Is a Huge Clash Over the Dems’ Vision

Marine veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner, another Democrat, launched his campaign in August and has drawn both huge crowds in the state and attention nationally. (Read TNR’s Ana-Marie Cox’s excellent profile of Platner.) He’s running on a populist, anti-billionaire platform and has become a favorite of the party’s progressive wing, receiving an endorsement from […]

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