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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
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick1379 Jared Yates Sexton + News & ClipsStand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more 50 minutes Jared Yates Sexton is the author of American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People, is the co-host of The Muckrake Political Podcast and subscribe to his substack Dispatches From A Collapsing State Get his new book The Midnight K...2025-06-181h 33
Start Me Up with Kimberley A. JohnsonStart Me Up: Jared Yates SextonJared Yates Sexton: Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Board: The Change Campaign.Topics: the psychological and emotional toll of combating authoritarianism, the importance of self-care and maintaining a grounded perspective; our mixed feelings about Gavin Newsom, we acknowledgehis political skills while expressing skepticism about his trustworthiness due to past actions; Jared criticized politicians who switch sides without admitting to their past actions, particularly those responsible for creating Trumpism, and the importance of discomfort as a catalyst for change, both...2025-06-121h 04
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
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 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
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick1313 Jared Yates Sexton + News and ClipsStand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more 24 minutes Jared Yates Sexton is the author of American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People, is the co-host of The Muckrake Political Podcast and subscribe to his substack Dispatches From A Collapsing State Get his new book The Midnight Kin...2025-03-111h 06
Full Show Archives — Sea Change RadioThe Orange Elephant In The Room: Jared Yates Sexton, Pt. 2As election season kicks into high gear, it can be a challenge to talk about anything else but the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. This week on Sea Change Radio, we succumb to that temptation as we turn to the second half of our discussion with political analyst Jared Yates Sexton. Then, we dig into the archives to hear from Lauren Kim, a born-again Christian environmentalist who volunteers for an organization called Young Evangelicals for Climate Action.
Narrator | 00:02 – This is Sea Change Radio, covering the shift to sustainability. I’m Alex Wise.
Jared Yates...2024-09-1029 minFull Show Archives — Sea Change RadioThe State Of The Race: Jared Yates Sexton, Pt. 1So far this election season has been pretty dramatic, with candidate switch-ups, surges in fundraising and volunteerism, and a growing list of criminal charges laid against one of the candidates for president. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to political analyst Jared Yates Sexton about the state of the hotly contested race for the White House. We get his takeaways from the recent Democratic National Convention, look at the turnout disparity between older adults and youth voters, and discuss how to get all voters in this country more engaged in down-ballot races.
Narrator| 00:02 – This is Sea...2024-09-0429 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonDespair, Angst, and Deliverance: The State of 2024 and the Personal TollThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.comDispatches From A Collapsing State is an independent venture. It requires your support. If you haven’t already, subscribe in order to access exclusive content and keep the project growing. If you know someone who might benefit from a deeper and more honest analysis of politics, make sure and share.2024-07-1201 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonThe Need for a Popular Front: A Conversation With Wajahat AliI am so grateful for Wajahat Ali. When I began this journey back in 2015 and 2016, I was quick to understand how dangerous the gathering authoritarian movement was and what the implications were for Americans. What I didn’t understand, but would learn quickly, was how a culture of denial and complicity enabled and worsened that crisis. Wajahat understood too, and along with a handful of others, their kindness, solidarity, and clarity steadied and inspired me. We are incredibly, incredibly lucky to have Wajahat in the world fighting the good fight.Wajahat and I sat down to talk on...2024-07-0540 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonAudio From A Collapsing State: A Conversation With Sarah KendziorDispatches From A Collapsing State is an independent media venture and it depends on paid subscriptions to continue operating and growing. Subscribers gain access to exclusive content, such as the recent Q&A and the follow-up mailbag answering questions from the recent series, The Stakes (Links for Parts I, II, III, and IV). If you haven’t please subscribe to keep this project rolling.This conversation was long overdue. The last time Sarah Kendzior and I chatted was at the beginning of the year and a whole, whole lot has changed since then. Here, we di...2024-05-1538 min
What Am I Making PodcastWAIM #063 Jared Yates SextonJared Yates Sexton was one of the very first guests here at the WAIM pod. He appeared way back on episode #004 back in March of 2023. When I saw him again, a full year later, at Pod Jam in Las Vegas this March, he remembered me right away and was eager to talk again on the record. I was excited to chat with Jared as well. In addition to all of the political changes in the world that we might be able to cover, I was really hoping we could spend some more time on Jared’s turbulent chi...2024-05-131h 35
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonAs The Earth Shifts: A Conversation with Karl FolkBefore we get to the conversation, a reminder that my limited series The Stakes has completed its initial run with Part IV, which details the strategies by which democratic power might reassert itself. Part I discussed the authoritarian plans for our future, Part II tried to reframe the 2024 Election and what lies beyond it, and Part III dissected why our political and media class get it all so wrong. Considering what’s happened since their publication, and the topics in this conversation today, they might be worth checking out.I’ll be answering subscriber questions regarding The Stak...2024-05-0600 min
THE WEEKEND SHOWJared Yates Sexton on the state of America after Trump’s continued annihilation of political norms.Author Jared Yates Sexton joins Anthony Davis to discuss the state of America after Trump’s continued annihilation of legal and societal norms. How the judiciary deals with a white privileged criminal and how the November election might play out in the face of rising political extremism, only on The Weekend Show.DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS!Smileactives: Visit https://SmileActives.com/weekend to get this exclusive offer!Lomi: Head to https://Lomi.com/WEEKEND and use the promo code WEEKEND to get $50 off your Lomi!SU...2024-03-111h 18
Burn the BoatsJared Yates Sexton: The Mythology of AmericaJared Yates Sexton is a political analyst and author. His book The Midnight Kingdom examines how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies, and poisonous conspiracy theories built the modern world and threaten to plunge us into an authoritarian nightmare.In this interview, Jared discusses his book, and examines how the right has created a mythologized version of our country which allows them to push an extremist agenda. Watch the video that Ken & Jared discuss here.Head to https://Rhone.com/BOATS and use code BOATS t...2024-01-0248 min
Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates SextonAudio From A Collapsing State: The Burden of the MomentThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.comIn this episode of Audio From A Collapsing State, I talk about the organizing work I’m doing in states where authoritarian regimes have run roughshod, the enduring trauma of our politics and culture, but also how events like the war in Israel and Gaza affect us on the individual level.2023-10-1307 minTHE WEEKEND SHOWJared Yates Sexton on Trump’s plans for authoritarian rule, and the media’s failure to cover it.Jared Yates Sexton joins Anthony to discuss Trump’s plans for authoritarian rule, and the media’s failure to cover what’s really happening in America, only on The Weekend Show.DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS!MOINK: Sign up at https://MoinkBox.com/WEEKEND and get FREE ground beef for a YEARRHONE: Upgrade your closet with Rhone and use ANTHONY to save 20% at https://www.rhone.com/ANTHONYHENSON SHAVING: Thanks to Henson Shaving! Visit https://HensonShaving.com/WEEKEND to pick the razor for you and use code WEEKEND for 2 years worth...2023-09-041h 18
Parent Archives - Paul Samuel DolmanJared Yates Sexton #1143
The inspiring Jared Yates Sexton (also find him on Twitter!) returns to talk about his brilliant new book, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. Jared is one of my go to sources for high quality perspectives both on the present moment and also history.
Jared is a writer, academic, and political correspondent whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, and literary journals around the world. He’s a regular guest on television, radio, and podcasts, and the author of three collections of short fiction and th...2023-04-2956 minWhat Matters MostJared Yates Sexton #1143
The inspiring Jared Yates Sexton (also find him on Twitter!) returns to talk about his brilliant new book, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. Jared is one of my go to sources for high quality perspectives both on the present moment and also history.
Jared is a writer, academic, and political correspondent whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, and literary journals around the world. He’s a regular guest on television, radio, and podcasts, and the author of three collections of short fiction and th...2023-04-2956 minPodcasts Archives - Paul Samuel DolmanJared Yates Sexton #1143
The inspiring Jared Yates Sexton (also find him on Twitter!) returns to talk about his brilliant new book, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. Jared is one of my go to sources for high quality perspectives both on the present moment and also history.
Jared is a writer, academic, and political correspondent whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, and literary journals around the world. He’s a regular guest on television, radio, and podcasts, and the author of three collections of short fiction and th...2023-04-2956 minPaul Samuel DolmanJared Yates Sexton #1143
The inspiring Jared Yates Sexton (also find him on Twitter!) returns to talk about his brilliant new book, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. Jared is one of my go to sources for high quality perspectives both on the present moment and also history.
Jared is a writer, academic, and political correspondent whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, and literary journals around the world. He’s a regular guest on television, radio, and podcasts, and the author of three collections of short fiction and th...2023-04-2956 min
What Matters MostJared Yates Sexton #1143
The inspiring Jared Yates Sexton (also find him on Twitter!) returns to talk about his brilliant new book, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. Jared is one of my go to sources for high quality perspectives both on the present moment and also history.
Jared is a writer, academic, and political correspondent whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, and literary journals around the world. He’s a regular guest on television, radio, and podcasts, and the author of three collections of short fiction and th...2023-04-2956 min
Global Connections Television PodcastJared Yates Sexton: "THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis.”Jared Yates Sexton is an author whose recent book is: "THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis.” Mr. Sexton is also the host of The Muckrake podcast. The “Midnight Kingdom” starts very early in Western history and delineates how anti-democratic forces blossom and perpetuate lies, myths and rhetoric that protect entrenched power in the West. One major concern is the growing extremism of America’s right-wing and anti-liberal democracy movements, as recently exemplified by the violent January 6, 2021 insurrection that allegedly was invited, incited and partially coordinated by Donald Trump. The cycle of “protecting Western civilizati...2023-04-2625 min
The Climate PodJared Yates Sexton On How Our History Of Power And Paranoia Drives CrisesIn his latest book, The Midnight Kingdom: A History Of Power, Paranoia, and The Coming Crisis, Jared Yates Sexton traces back a long history of conspiracies that have fueled authoritarianism, right-wing extremism, and led to several crises. It's in examining this history, Sexton argues, that we can best understand the current moment we're living in and how to avoid greater damages from the major issues we face to today - from the climate crisis to gun violence to wealth inequality and more. Jared Yates Sexton is the co-host of The Muckrake Podcast, author of several books including T...2023-03-2959 min
The World in Time / Lapham’s QuarterlyEpisode 100: Jared Yates Sexton“When you start looking at deeper, more accurate history,” writer Jared Yates Sexton says in this episode of The World in Time, “you start to realize that a lot of what we have learned through conventional history—and this is in public education, best sellers, documentaries, and television shows—a lot of the history that we have gotten is actually mythology. Take a look at the American Revolution. One of the things that you have been taught for all this time is that it was some sort of spontaneous passion of liberty and freedom in which all Americans turned against Great Brit...2023-03-2427 minTHE WEEKEND SHOWJared Yates Sexton asks, is America still the greatest country in the world?Author of American Rule Jared Yates Sexton asks, with all its troubles, is America still the greatest country in the world? 🇺🇸 Subscribe to Five Minute News on Patreon for exclusive members only videos, live Q&A and more: http://www.patreon.com/fiveminutenewsTHE WEEKEND SHOW - Episode 56Visit Five Minute News online and subscribe at http://www.fiveminute.newsFollow Five Minute News on Twitter http://twitter.com/fiveminnewsFollow Five Minute News on Instagram http://instagram.com/fiveminnewsFive Minute News with Anthony Davis is an Ever...2023-03-201h 08
What Am I Making PodcastWhat Am I Making Podcast #004 - Jared Yates SextonI would guess that Jared Yates Sexton and I would have either been the best of friends, or hated each other if we had gone to high school together. We would simply have had too much cultural overlap to be apathetic about each other. The enlightened, mature side of me is sure we would have been fast friends had our ages and geography coalesced in a different cosmic plane. The more reasoned and logical side of my brain thinks we might have perceived each other as a threat, and thus would have been sworn enemies....2023-03-131h 20
In Conversation… with Frank SchaefferJared Yates SextonFrank Schaeffer In Conversation with Jared Yates Sexton, author of The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis and the co-host of the Muckrake Podcast._____LINKSThe Muckrake PodcastBOOKThe Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis_____Jared Yates Sexton is the author of The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis and the co-host of the Muckrake Podcast.I have had the pleasure of talking to some of the leading authors, artists, activists...2023-02-2858 min