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As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army’s Nazi war crimes trials in Germany have been infiltrated by a spy -- a mole for the other side. A gruesome foreign influence operation unfolds in Washington. A blackmail plot turns deadly in the U.S. Senate. A Hail Mary scheme to stop the counting of the Electoral College votes rattles democracy’s cage. With the line between the violent ultra-right and mainstream American politics fraying beyond recognition, with the FBI always one step behind their quarry, Americans of all stripes step up to confront a seemingly unstoppable, ascendant, anti-democratic force. Join Rachel Maddow for Episode One, launching June 10, 2024, and follow now. You can also subscribe to MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts for early access to every episode the Friday before it drops, and ad-free listening to all episodes in Ultra seasons one and two.

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26/11/2022

Hal in Mexico

This was very well researched and written. Obviously. it was very timely. I really appreciated all the supplemental material on the webpage. The one thing that sort of bothered me was all the background music. It made the reporting feel like cinematic fiction. That was annoying. Yes, of course, reporting is storytelling; however, there have to be noticeable rhetorical and discourse clues to make sure that as many in the audience as can be understand that the suspension of disbelief is NOT expected, NOT appropriate, NOT in any way desired by the author(s). Musical backgrounds added to dialog in both theatre (since the ancient Greeks, at least) and cinema are deliberate clues that say that the author(s) want their audiences to understand that the entire story is fiction. Musical backgrounds have no place in journalism. Please be careful with that in the next Rachel Maddow Presents, which I hope is on its way. Again, thanks for Ultra.

As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army’s Nazi war crimes trials in Germany have been infiltrated by a spy -- a mole for the other side. A gruesome foreign influence operation unfolds in Washington. A blackmail plot turns deadly in the U.S. Senate. A Hail Mary scheme to stop the counting of the Electoral College votes rattles democracy’s cage. With the line between the violent ultra-right and mainstream American politics fraying beyond recognition, with the FBI always one step behind their quarry, Americans of all stripes step up to confront a seemingly unstoppable, ascendant, anti-democratic force. Join Rachel Maddow for Episode One, launching June 10, 2024, and follow now. You can also subscribe to MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts for early access to every episode the Friday before it drops, and ad-free listening to all episodes in Ultra seasons one and two.