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Every weekday at 5 PM ET, host Miles Taylor dives into today's biggest political headlines and an in depth check into resisting Trump's power grab. Welcome to the DEFIANCE!

  1. 1d ago

    Republicans Are Scrubbing Trump From Their Campaigns

    Something is shifting inside the Republican Party, and you don’t have to read the polls to see it (although those aren’t looking too great either). Just visit their websites, and you’ll see it there! Republicans have spent this week finding increasingly awkward ways to put some distance between themselves and Donald Trump. And in Kentucky, one Trump-endorsed congressional candidate appears to be scrubbing the president from his campaign website altogether. Glenn Kirschner joins us for MAGA Losses of the Week, where Ron and Casey DeSantis also have a $10 million problem and the Department of Education compared itself to Hitler. Was it by accident? You tell us. But first, we get Glenn’s take on a major development out of Minnesota. And because it’s Friday, we’re handing out another DJT Solemate Award.

  2. 1d ago

    MORNING DISPATCH: Victims of Donald Trump’s retribution campaign each found his self-destruct button. And they pushed it.

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    MORNING DISPATCH: Victims of Donald Trump’s retribution campaign each found his self-destruct button. And they pushed it.

  3. 2d ago

    Trump’s Own Military Is Starting to Rebel

    Lisa Cook was supposed to be gone by now. Instead, the Federal Reserve governor Trump has spent months trying to fire just turned his case against her right back on his own administration. Her attorney Abbe Lowell went through the mortgage allegations Trump says make Cook unfit to serve and pointed out an inconvenient fact: some of the people standing alongside Trump have some awfully familiar paperwork. And Cook isn’t the only person refusing to fall in line. Inside the military, service members are speaking out about what Trump is asking them to do, while conscientious-objector applications have surged sixfold since the Iran war began. Then there’s the mail-voting scheme Trump wants up and running before November. USPS says the new requirements are already in effect. Postal officials are warning the rushed rollout could be riddled with errors. So Voter Protection Corps President Quentin Palfrey joins us to answer the question a whole lot of voters have right now: What the hell is happening with my ballot? And for Who’s Joining the DEFIANCE, fans of The Pitt, we have some good news. You can keep watching.

  4. 4d ago

    Trump’s Midterm Convention Is Already a Sh*t Show

    Republicans are banking on Trump’s first-ever midterm convention to give them some momentum before November.It might help if people wanted to go.The two-night Dallas event is already being described by one Republican strategist as a “shit show,” with lawmakers being asked to cough up as much as $100,000 for the privilege of attending. And whoever picked the dates might want to check the NFL schedule.The anxiety is making its way inside the White House, too. Senior officials are heading for the exits while lawyers prepare Trump’s remaining staff for what a Democratic House could mean for them.But Trump still has something Republicans need heading into November: a $400 million war chest that he has finally started spending.End Citizens United President Tiffany Muller joins us to talk about what all that money buys Trump, and why some candidates are suddenly learning that voters care a whole lot about who funds them.And we end today by honoring a woman who spent 80 years refusing to become what other people expected of her.Dolly Parton, the DEFIANCE will always love you.

  5. 5d ago

    SCOTUS Drops Bombshell Mail-Voting Order | DEFIANCE Daily

    Two minutes before we went live, the Supreme Court handed Trump an interim victory in his push to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterms. So naturally, our plans for the show changed pretty quickly. Attorney and constitutional-law educator Bryan Randolph (@brynodc) joined us on the fly to explain what this ruling means for November, including an important catch: Trump still has another court order standing in his way. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, meanwhile, is warning that SCOTUS has injected “chaos and uncertainty” into the midterms. No argument from us. Then we switched gears to talk about Trump’s latest plan to lower beef prices, which American cattle ranchers seem to think is a bunch of bull. And turns out, it wasn’t such a big switch after all, because Trump’s attempt to take over everything is all part and parcel of the same dictatorial (and kind of commie) BS. Georgia cattle rancher and Democratic candidate for Congress Shawn Harris (@shawnforgeorgia) joined us to explain why bringing in 300,000 metric tons of discounted foreign beef might hurt American ranchers a whole lot more than it helps Americans at the grocery store. And for “Who’s Joining the DEFIANCE”: not all heroes wear capes. Some just lay hands.

  6. Aug 21

    MAGA Takes Another Beating | Losses of the Week

    It’s Friday, and MAGA has once again given us plenty to celebrate. This week, Trump’s relationship with Natalie Harp gets even stranger, including one detail from her own brother that Trump is not going to enjoy hearing. And down in Florida, voters in a solidly red county break over the constant culture-war in the classroom. Frederic Poag joins us to revel in the losses. But first, we have some midterm business to get into. Two legally required intelligence reports on our elections are missing, including one Congress was supposed to receive more than three months ago. Now the DNC is going to court to find out what Trump’s DOJ may be planning with ballots this November. And it’s that time of the week again where we crown Trump’s biggest bootlicker with the DJT Solemate Award.So let your hair down and put on your DEFIANCE hat, America made it to the end of the week.

  7. Aug 20

    Barron Banks $150M as Trump Admin Greenlights Family Crypto | DEFIANCE Daily

    When I was 20 years old, I lived off of ramen and a dream. Barron Trump lives off an estimated $150 million fortune. Much of that wealth comes from World Liberty Financial, the Trump family crypto venture that just received conditional approval from Trump’s own government to operate a national trust bank. A bank, mind you, that pays no interest to its depositors. So what’s in it for them? Meanwhile, more than half of Americans say their finances are getting worse. Makes you wonder: If MAGA is all about “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” what must they think of Barron’s government-approved head start? Hmmm... Then we’re back to Iran, where Donald Trump started a war supposedly to “save its people.” But newly released emails show his administration was working with the Iranian government in 2025 to send people right back there, including asylum seekers. And Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty joins us as Minnesota takes Texas to court over Greg Abbott’s refusal to extradite ICE agent Christian Castro. Something tells me Mary isn’t going to let Abbott off easy. Plus, for “Who’s Joining the DEFIANCE,” one Army veteran waited 14 years for the freedom to say exactly what he thinks about Donald Trump. If you’d like, be sure to welcome him in the comments here.

  8. Aug 18

    Trump’s Targets Defy Him at Every Turn ft. Mike Nellis | DEFIANCE Daily

    The first rule of Fight Trump’s Revenge Club: NEVER BACK DOWN. The second rule of Fight Trump’s Revenge Club: Seriously…NEVER. BACK. DOWN. Mike Nellis knows this firsthand. After news broke over the weekend revealing just how far Trump’s DOJ went in its investigation of his company, Authentic Campaigns, Mike joins us to talk about what happened when he refused to roll over. And it looks like Disney is finally learning the same lesson. After bending the knee and writing Trump a $16 million check, he only came back for more. Now, with his FCC on their backs, they’re taking him to court. We’re also heading to Big Bend, where resistance to Trump’s $1.7 billion border project has managed to do something neither Congress nor the courts have done yet: stop the bulldozers. For now. Ramón Rodríguez Aranda and Laiken Jordahl join us from Texas on how they got the bulldozers to stop and what it will take to keep them that way. Want to get involved? Visit NOBIGBENDWALL.ORG. And we close today by honoring one of our own.❤️

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Every weekday at 5 PM ET, host Miles Taylor dives into today's biggest political headlines and an in depth check into resisting Trump's power grab. Welcome to the DEFIANCE!

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