Air Date 9/11/2025

I've always learned the high-level understanding that the Nazis were partly able to come to power because the opposition at the time was too caught up with infighting to create a coherent resistance. With hindsight, it's easy to lament how badly they miscalculated the circumstances but living through the modern day and watching the Democratic Party struggle gives even more clarity to how that kind of inability to get organized in the face of existential threats to democracy can happen.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Where Is the Party?: Time for Democratic Leaders to ‘Fight with Both Hands’ or ‘Step Aside’ - Velshi - Air Date 8-30-25

KP 2: This Guy, This Line - The Rational National - Air Date 9-2-25

KP 3: How Elites Destroyed the Democratic Party in the US and Fuelled Populism | The Bottom Line - Al Jazeera English -Air Date 8-31-25

KP 4: Desperate Kyle Begs and Pleads With Democrats - The Kyle Kulinski Show - Air Date 8-28-25

KP 5: Ritchie Torres Talks Zionism, LGBT, The Bronx - The Adam Friedland Show - Air Date 8-27-25

KP 6: Journalist Exposes Dark Money on the Left - UNFTR Media - Air Date 8-30-25

(00:50:07) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the murder of Charlie Kirk

DEEPER DIVES

(01:04:12) SECTION A: DARK MONEY AND THE INFLUENCER WAR

(02:01:36) SECTION B: AIPAC, ISRAEL, AND COMPLICITY

(02:46:14) SECTION C: MOSTLY WEAK BUT SIGNS OF LIFE

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Description: A graphic illustration depicting a donkey colored in red and blue, with stars, looking in shock at its shadow on the ground.

Credit: “Democratic Donkey Vector and Icon” by Vectorportal.com | CC BY 4.0

 

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