In part one of a series on the rise and power of the tech oligarchs, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak up with Gil Duran, author of "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy," on the origins of techno-authoritarianism, its hallucinatory fascist theorists, the central role of Peter Thiel and his PayPal Mafia, and how they merge with Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.

In part two of a series on the rise and power of the tech oligarchs, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Gil Duran, author of “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy,” on how Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the tech oligarchs came to power under Donald Trump, how they control key parts of his administration, and how they created JD Vance, made him vice president and plan to make him president.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Trump’s attacks on Democrats as “communist” and “jihadist” as the “paranoid style in American politics” and a version of McCarthyism--and trace its roots and precedents back to the attacks on Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Obama--and dissect Trump’s paranoid method.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Frank Foer, staff writer for The Atlantic and author of “How Soccer Explains the World,” on the kleptocracy of FIFA encompassing its president Gianni Infantino and his intersection with the corruption of Donald Trump, the sudden financial involvement of the Kushner family, and the emerging scandal surrounding the flash sale of the LA Lakers by Mark Walters, under federal investigation, to new co-owner Joshua Kushner after a meeting with Donald Trump.

Sidney Blumenthal speaks with Jonathan Winer, former State Department expert on international crime, on the mystery of Freedom Fuel gas stations popping up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania with low prices promoted by Trump, the flow and control of Venezuelan oil, and Trump officials appearing in Caracas and giving thumbs up to Freedom Fuel. Follow the oil, follow the money.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Representative Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), on the Tate Brothers criminal scandal, their network created by Barron and Don Jr., and how as a member of the House Oversight Committee, if and when the Democrats gain a majority, she will have the committee subpoena both Trump brothers as well as unravel the whole manosphere network organized around the Tates--and on the ongoing battle to release all the Epstein Files and unredact Donald Trump’s name on them.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Donald Trump’s denial of his historic unpopularity, his views of past unpopular presidents, and how he really stacks up against them.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Lisa Graves, author of “Without Precedent” on the Roberts Court, former Senate Judiciary Committee staff member, and DOJ official, on the Republican senators, John Cornyn and Tom Tillis, caving on the nomination of Todd Blanche in the Judiciary Committee to become attorney general.

Sidney Blumenthal speaks with investigative reporter and author Nina Burleigh, who writes the American Freakshow substack, on the Trump underworld of the Tate brothers, their enabler Barron Trump, Don, Jr., the manosphere influencers and hustlers, linked to the inner circle of the Trump White House and the Trump family.American Freakshow:https://www.americanfreakshow.news/

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Donald Trump ordering the FBI to question Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, the Mafia stoolpigeon to attempt to incriminate former FBI director James Comey, how Trump and the Republicans set a perjury trap for Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the same of the Washington press corps at the Washington Correspondents Dinner wher Trump was given the platform to insult them as part of his general assault on the First Amendment.