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ETTD: Everything Trump Touches Dies, and Tuesday Proved it. Rick Wilson on the Blue Tsunami 🌊🗳️🔥

Rick Wilson calls it the biggest week in American politics in a century and says Tuesday proved his rule: EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES. Democrats flipped TEXAS, with Jam

ELECTION DAY SPECIAL: Stella Parton Risked Her Career to Speak Out Against Trump, Now She Wants You to Show Up and VOTE!!!

Rick Wilson sits down with country singer STELLA PARTON, who has been loudly speaking out against Trump since 2016. Despite years of online backlash and fears it could co

4 Days. Vote Early, Ignore the Noise, and Know Exactly What to Do if Someone Tries to Intimidate You.

With four days to Election Day, Rick Wilson reveals the "secret" of this midterm cycle: Trump never took it seriously, but the electorate cares intensely about him becaus

The Final Stretch: Two Candidates, Two Red States, One Message

It’s a doubleheader for the last episode of the Lincoln Project Podcast before the 2026 midterm election. Rick is joined by two Democrats running in deep-red territory: S

Rick’s Made Hard-Hitting Ads for Decades. Here’s Why The Ramaswamy Ad is Different.

This week’s EITR is an ad from Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign that features the estranged birth mother of Democratic nominee Amy Acton. Rick has made hard-hitting negative ad

Hope Florida, Alligator Alcatraz, and How Florida Democrats Climbed Out of the Hole

This week, it’s a Florida DOUBLE-HEADER on the Lincoln Project Podcast. First up: retired Army Brigadier General Leela Gray, the Democratic nominee running against Rep. A

18 DAYS TO GO AND MAGA IS PANICKING: Diesel Prices, Data Centers, and the end of a Ten Year Spell

With 18 DAYS to Election Day, reality is finally setting in. Republicans are watching the House slip away. Trump's supporters are staring at a visibly declining leader. A

Elon Musk Tried to Stop This Film. Alex Gibney Explains Why He’s so Scared.

Rick sits down with Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney about MUSK, his four-hour film that started as a business profile and turned into something much bigger once E

It’s Not the Democratic Brand, it’s Trump. Why the Blue Wave is Real, and How Not to Blow It.

Democrats are winning, and RICK WILSON says they have NO IDEA why. It isn't because the party's brand got better. It's because voters, including a LOT of Republicans, are

AI, TYRANNY, AND THE END OF DEMOCRACY: Timothy Snyder on the Crisis of Dignity Destroying America

Rick sits down with TIMOTHY SNYDER, the historian who literally wrote the book on tyranny, two of them, in fact: ON TYRANNY and ON FREEDOM. Snyder says that Trump isn't a

Donald and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Rick is calling this the WORST WEEK the GOP has had in years, and the proof is in the polling. The map is getting uglier for Republicans by the day. Texas and Ohio are ti

PROFILES IN COWARDICE: Jacob Weisberg on the Men Who Knew Better, But Folded Anyway.

Rick sits down with JACOB WEISBERG, author of PROFILES IN COWARDICE, the book that exposes the men whose lack of courage enabled Trump 2.0. Jacob and Rick go through the

The GOP's Anchor Has a Name (Cough, Trump)

The Elephant in the Room: Trump's Numbers Just Cratered The polls are in, and they're a bloodbath. Trump's approval just hit a historic low, and the GOP — the party that

The Richest Men Alive Are Boiling Your Water to Build a God That Can't Spell "Strawberry"

The Data Center Grift (with WIRED's Molly Taft) The richest companies in human history have a new hustle, and you're the mark. They're bulldozing warehouses the size of m

What Happens When the System Gets it Wrong? Rabia Chaudry on Justice in America.

Rick sits down with RABIA CHAUDRY, the attorney who helped make SERIAL a phenomenon and now runs UNDISCLOSED, the podcast that's helped get WRONGFULLY CONVICTED people OU

BILLIONAIRES BUILDING BUNKERS WHILE THEY DESTROY YOUR FUTURE: Gil Duran Goes Inside the Nerd Riech

Rick sits down with GIL DURAN, the #1 bestselling author of THE NERD REICH: SILICON VALLEY FASCISM AND THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY, and this one goes DEEP. Gil traces how the te

25 YEARS AFTER 9/11: What bin Laden Couldn't Destroy, and What Trump is Trying To.

On the 25th anniversary of September 11th, Rick shares his personal reflections on that day. Loved ones lost, survivors never the same again. This is a look at what Ameri

MAGGIE HABERMAN SPENT 1,000 INTERVIEWS FINDING OUT HOW BAD IT REALLY IS. NOW SHE'S TELLING RICK. 📕😳🔥

Rick sits down with MAGGIE HABERMAN, the #1 NYT bestselling co-author (with Jonathan Swan) behind REGIME CHANGE: INSIDE THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY OF DONALD TRUMP, built on

THE MOB ROLL-UP: RICK WILSON'S PLAN TO TAKE DOWN TRUMP'S INNER CIRCLE ONE STAFFER AT A TIME

Rick Wilson has a plan, and it's straight out of a mob prosecutor's playbook. While Mike Johnson is out there insisting Republicans will EXPAND their majority, the White

BENN JORDAN HACKED THE SURVEILLANCE STATE: INSIDE FLOCK'S CAMERA EMPIRE WATCHING EVERY CAR IN AMERICA 📸🚨🔍

Rick sits down with BENN JORDAN, the musician-turned-security-researcher who did what Flock Safety said was impossible: he found their "unhackable" license-plate camera n