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Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonThe Check In with Jared and DanielleDanielle Moodie and I weren’t planning on doing an episode of The Check-In this week because I’m traveling and working, but I think the prospect of it made both of us sad. So, this was an impromptu episode and discussion about what I’m seeing out and about, namely a culture of addiction that is fueling the fascist movement. Seeing scores of “Trump Stores” and people moving from one cheap and empty thrill to another, I was disturbed. Here, we talk about the United States of America as an addicted nation consuming and indulging in order to keep one s...2025-07-1637 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonLiving With Fascistic Paradox: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates SextonIt was, as always a joy getting to hang out and talk with my friend Danielle Moodie. On this episode of The Check-In, we discussed the paradoxical state of living under a fascist regime that is attempting to dominate our minds, our spirit, and our time. It requires finding and holding onto joy while also understanding the threats we face, all while not allowing the fascists to steal our joy and ourselves. If we’re not careful, they will twist us into a mirror of them: joyless and angry and inescapably miserable. This is advanced-level stuff that many of us...2025-07-0958 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonDon't Let Them Kill Your Spirit - The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates SextonOn this week’s episode of The Check-In, Danielle Moodie and I talked about the unnerving experience of watching concentration camps being built around the country and world and wrestle with the assault on our morals, ethics, and, ultimately, our spirits. We discussed the need to hold within us a clear vision of right and wrong that will fortify us even when things get harder and harder. This isn’t easy by any stretch of the imagination. Fascism makes us feel like we will break and can leave us worried that we are alone and powerless, but we have to f...2025-07-0358 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonWe Can Have Better: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates SextonIt was another great week of checking in with my friend Danielle Moodie. In this episode we discuss the upset victory by Zohran Mamdani, including the repulsive attempt by the status quo to smear him and maintain power. That conversation revolves around the complicit factions within the Democratic Party that are beholden to the wealth class, the fact that their smears and fear tactics are falling short, and the work each of us needs to do in order to realize the better future we all deserve.Corporate media does not support actual critiques of power or...2025-06-2559 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonWe Need a General Strike: The Check-In With Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates SextonIn this episode of The Check-In, my friend Danielle Moodie and I discussed the ramp up to an illegal and unnecessary war with Iran, as well as the worsening authoritarian conditions we all face, and got into the need for mass action and a general strike. This is difficult, obviously, for a variety of reasons, but also because we do not have the apparatus yet. We need to get busy organizing. And in a hurry.Corporate media does not support actual critiques of capitalism or power. Dispatches From A Collapsing State depends on your support. Become...2025-06-1855 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonThe Fight is Here: The Check-In With Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates SextonI cannot tell you how grateful I am for my friend Danielle Moodie. In this week’s episode of The Check-In, we discuss the building anxiety and dread as the situation in Los Angeles and in cities around the country builds. Anxiety is a hell of an adaptation meant to prepare us for threats. And, right now, we are in incredible danger.The conversation gets into that, as well as the need to nurture ourselves and gain strength from our connections and our principles. As we head into the weekend and mass protests, we must prepare for wh...2025-06-1155 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonWhat Do We Actually Want?: The Check-In With Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates SextonMan alive, I love doing these livestreams with Danielle Moodie. In this episode of The Check-In, Danielle and I talk about listening to the Self and recognizing what things bring us joy and what things deserve our time, our attention, and our labor. The vast majority of Americans spend their time running from themselves and avoiding any kind of discomfort, thereby putting off the necessary self-reflection that can defeat authoritarianism and lead to a better world.The conversation from there trends toward how one of the most pressing threats is the unwillingness to wrestle with our mythologies...2025-06-0456 min
shea in the catskillsJune 2025: protecting what's preciousIn this episode:blog post for this offering (with kitty pic 🐈⬛)Trust in Care + what participants had to say about it my online workshops The RebisIn-Person Tarot Circle My books are open + it’s easy to purchase gift readings Elena's GoFundMe here + artwork + other goodies + Elena’s artwork for sale The Whole Archive of Martha Crawford’s Community Discussionswatch-purchasing-consultation—for yourself or for someone you love—via this super-fun form“Galactic Mountains” original watercolor painting by Elena Solano; check out her artwork for salehere’s what you need to knowMay Day demonstrationsBen Cohen doing what needs to be donethis Gallatin School gra...2025-06-0128 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonResisting When We're Not 100%: The Check-In with Jared and DanielleAnother week, another conversation with my friend Danielle Moodie. Just to start: I’m sick. Like, beat-up sick. We talked about that. About how even though an authoritarian takeover is happening, we are still living and going through all of our stuff. That takes a toll and adds to the overwhelming nature of things because living, even under the best circumstances, is hard work, and these are most certainly not the best circumstances.I hope this finds you well and possibly helps in your life and in your organizing and resistance. These conversations have meant everything to me...2025-05-2854 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonThe Check In with Jared and DanielleI’m on the road but that didn’t stop me from getting on with my friend Danielle Moodie for our weekly Check-In. Today we talked the difference between living and the unnatural and unhealthy state that capitalism requires, which brought us to the problems with MAGA and even some people (and parties) that loudly proclaim themselves an anti-MAGA. Oh, and how men and their bullshit always form the base of authoritarianism. After my phone overheated, I jumped back on and we briefly discussed how the disturbing truth is that much of our politics is dominated by people who want...2025-05-2157 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonThe Antidote to Fascism is Mindfulness: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates SextonIn this episode of The Check-In, Danielle Moodie and I discuss the kind of self-work and self-introspection that this moment requires of us. There’s a need to find the things that nurture and replenish us as we withstand the onslaught of authoritarianism, but we also have to learn to sit in discomfort so that we can decide what we want our lives and the world to be. MAGA’s rise to power has been predicated on the very distinctively American promise that a person never has to be uncomfortable or consider themselves and their lives and privilege.Ag...2025-05-1458 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonThe Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle MoodieIn this week’s edition of The Check-In, Danielle Moodie and I talk about how this authoritarian push wears on you as a person and can leave you tired, demoralized, and, quite frankly, feeling crazy. We discuss looking around at an increasingly brutal and violent world and staying firm in saying it’s not okay and we deserve better. And that something better has to move beyond compromising with oppression and exploitation, and rejecting the idea that we must choose between abusers with power and the people and institutions that enable them.I think I speak for Dani...2025-05-0752 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonThe Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates SextonIn this week’s episode of The Check-In, Danielle Moodie and I get into the experience of meeting with people who have affected so far by the Trump Administration’s cruelty and corruption, discuss the media and political classes’ failures to identify the threat and do their jobs, the costs of privilege, and then a deep dive into how a fostering of intimacy and solidarity is the solution to not just defeating the authoritarian threat, but in creating a better future.I cannot thank enough the people who have been reaching out in kindness regarding this new projec...2025-04-301h 01
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonThe Check-In w/ Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle MoodieThis is the second episode of my new series with The DAM Digest writer Danielle Moodie that we’re calling The Check-In. This is two friends getting together on their lunch hour on Wednesdays at 12pm ET and discussing the emotional toll of living under an authoritarian regime. If you haven’t already, check out the first episode.In this episode, Danielle and I discuss how a culture of delusion and denial in the United States of America not only fuels the MAGA Movement and authoritarianism writ large, but also how it affects all of us and make...2025-04-2339 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonResistance and Criminality: Audio From A Collapsing StateThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.comThis past week lasted a month. I cannot believe how long and trying it was. When Danielle Moodie and I recorded The Check-In on Wednesday, we discussed the emotional toll of it all, how it felt like grieving mixed with anger, and then, within a couple of days, that grief morphed to just outright rage. The administration’s continued cruelty regarding the…2025-04-2008 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonThe Check-In w/ Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle MoodieSo, my friend Danielle Moodie and I have a launched a new weekly show (Wednesdays at 12pm eastern) we’re calling the Check-In. We’ll go live and discuss the experience of living through rising authoritarianism, get into the emotional and psychological toll, where we are, and what we can learn from the moment to get past this crisis and make something better.In this first episode, we touch base and, guess what, we’re not feeling great. The impact of watching the President of the United States laugh it up with an autocratic buddy in the White...2025-04-1631 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonWe Are In The Crisis: A Conversation with Danielle MoodieI was privileged to sit down today with my friend Danielle Moodie, the author of The DAM Digest newsletter, host of The Danielle Moodie Show, co-host of The Daily Beast’s The New Abnormal and Democracyish. Danielle is one of the few analysts and pundits I have trusted over the years and this episode should give you some idea as to why that is. We talk about the rapid escalation in the authoritarian war against democracy, including the galling raids against Venezuelans who, against court orders, were shipped to El Salvador, the disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, and th...2025-03-1855 min
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump’s Latest Move Officially Brings Autocracy to the U.S.The New Abnormal hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie are alarmed by the arrest of Columbia student and pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil by ICE agents over the weekend. Then, Madiba Dennie, deputy editor and senior contributor at Balls and Strikes, joins the show to talk about Trump’s recent weaponization of the Justice Department. Plus, author and podcast host Jared Yates Sexton stops by to discuss the alarming authoritarian power grab unfolding before us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-111h 05
The Muckrake Political PodcastThe Car is Out of Gas and the Car is on FireNick Hauselman is on vacation, so Jared Yates Sexton welcomes on perennial favorite Danielle Moodie (WokeAF, Democracy-Ish, The New Abnormal) to co-host. Jared and Danielle discuss the ongoing debacle that is the discourse around Joe Biden's candidacy, how almost everyone is either focusing on the wrong thing or else profiting off the mess, and what could happen to get things moving in the right direction again.To support the show and gain access to the exclusive Weekender episodes on Friday, head over to Patreon and become a subscriber today. Learn more about your...2024-07-0949 minThe Muckrake Political PodcastThe Whole Thing is Rotten w/ Danielle MoodieNick Hauselman is out and about, leaving Jared Yates Sexton to talk with Danielle Moodie, host of Woke AF and co-host of Democracy-ish and The New Abnormal. They discuss how our court and political systems continue to aid wealthy, white men like Donald Trump and the many things holding America back.To gain access to a bonus episode every Friday, as well as exclusive live episodes and electoral analysis, head over to Patreon and become a patron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-03-2659 minThe Muckrake Political PodcastThe GOP Is Destroying Itself From The Inside: With Danielle MoodieCo-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman welcome Friend of the Muckrake Danielle Moodie of the daily pod Woke AF, co-host of The New Abnormal and co-host of Democracyish podcasts. They talk about what's happening with the GOP in Michigan as they're fighting amongst themselves and DeSantis versus Trump on a National stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-07-1155 min
The Daily Beast PodcastWhat Ron DeSantis Is Counting On to Beat TrumpWill Ron DeSantis be as popular among the rest of the country as he is in Florida? Charlie Sykes, editor at large at The Bulwark, thinks not. But that isn’t stopping the governor for going for it anyway, it being the 2024 presidency. He tells New Abnormal co-host Andy Levy why in this episode, including a few things that he believes DeSantis is banking on to win. (And why this won’t work). Also in this episode: Jared Yates Sexton, host of The Muckrake Podcast and author of The Midnight Kingdom, has proof that Trump’s religious pandering will lead to viol...2023-03-281h 05The Muckrake Political PodcastWhy Trump Must Be Punished For Criminal Behavior With Danielle MoodieCo-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman welcome friend of the podcast Danielle Moody on the show. Danielle is the host of #WokeAF Daily and co-host of #TheNewAbnormal and Democracyish podcasts and weighs in about the impending Trump indictment. They then pivot to the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq before finishing with the NY Times bombshell that John Connally led the October Surprise to torpedo Jimmy Carter's campaign by delaying the release of the hostages in Iran in 1980. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-03-2158 min
The Muckrake Political PodcastMidterm Blues With Danielle MoodieCo-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman welcome to the show Danielle Moodie, host of #WokeAF Daily and co-host of #democracyish podcasts, to discuss how it looks for Democrats and whether polling should be trusted. They then talk about a rising bout of anti-semitism amongst the GOP and why it's taking root in the party. Support The Muckrake Podcast at http://www.patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-10-1850 min
Woke AF DailyLabor PainsDanielle Moodie is proud to present this extra-length conversation with Jared Yates Sexton, co-host of the Muckrake podcast and the author of the upcoming book The Midnight Kingdom, all about the perilous future of our country.Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and hundreds more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2022-09-2243 minWoke AF DailyLabor PainsDanielle Moodie is proud to present this extra-length conversation with Jared Yates Sexton, co-host of the Muckrake podcast and the author of the upcoming book The Midnight Kingdom, all about the perilous future of our country.Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and hundreds more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2022-09-2243 min
democracy-ishHow Republicans Will establish their Kingdom!Republicans are organizing their fascist takeover in plain sight. The writing is on the wall: defund public education, turn vulnerable communities into villains, continue to feed the monster of capitalism while denying citizens the ability to meet their basic needs. History is our greatest teacher and yet no one is paying attention to lessons. Jared Yates Sexton, host of Muckrake, and author of the upcoming book The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia l, and The Coming Crisis joins Danielle and Waj on the latest episode of DemocracyishHosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali...2022-08-1130 min