Episodios

  • Trump reportedly keen on law at root of disgraceful chapter in American history
    Mar 15 2025

    Rachel Maddow shares the amazing, historic story of how former Senator Alan Simpson and former Representative Norm Mineta partnered on hearings into the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and why Donald Trump's reported plan to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which was used to justify Japanese internment, is raising alarm.

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    43 m
  • 'A sham': Federal judge blasts Trump admin on improper firings of federal workers; orders rehiring
    Mar 14 2025

    Rachel Maddow reads from the court transcript in which a federal judge blasts the Trump administration's defense of its firing of thousands of federal workers and orders that the jobs be restored, with some harsh words for Trump's lawyers to boot.

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    42 m
  • Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
    Mar 13 2025

    Rachel Maddow shares video of Rep. John Larson channeling the outrage of his constituents at the anticipation that Donald Trump's top donor, Elon Musk, is intending to destroy Social Security in order to privatize it. The Washington Post reported early Wednesday that Musk was planning cuts to Social Security's telephone customer service, but by the end of the day those plans had been cancelled. Between the public outcry and the exposure in the media, the pushback on Social Security cuts appears to have worked.

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    44 m
  • Trump fires 1,300 at Department of Education; programs expected to suffer with staff gutted
    Mar 12 2025

    Plus, House Republicans literally alter time to avoid responsibility for Trump wrecking the economy

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    42 m
  • Trump puts U.S. at risk with increasing reliance on Musk
    Mar 11 2025

    Rachel Maddow shows how the United States under Donald Trump is growing increasingly reliant on Elon Musk, and his Starlink program in particular. But Musk's words and deeds suggest he is not acting for the good of the United States.

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    43 m
  • American scientists take to the streets to protest Trump's cuts
    Mar 8 2025

    As Donald Trump guts the programs and agencies behind some of America's greatest scientific achievements and fires the people responsible for those achievements and working on new ones, scientists across the country from every discipline took to the streets in protest to "stand up for science."

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    44 m
  • How one man took on Trump's improper firings and saved the jobs of thousands of people
    Mar 7 2025

    Rachel Maddow talks with Hampton Dellinger, former chief of the Office of Special Counsel, about the importance of political independence for his watchdog agency, and his fight against Trump to restore the jobs of improperly fired federal workers.

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    43 m
  • Trump power grab tripped up by distinctly American resistance
    Mar 6 2025

    Rachel Maddow reports on the number of Trump cuts, firings and other initiatives that have been reversed, blocked, walked back or reconsidered, and the variety of American institutions, from the courts to the streets, that have contributed to restraining Trump from asserting the full force of his will.

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    43 m