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The Joes both know that the Dems have to win, but they disagree (somewhat) and just how that's supposed to happen. Should the wave of socialist candidate victories make us feel hope...or not so much?

Watch Two Joes and let us know what you think.

Malcolm Nance tells Steven Beschloss that Trump’s threat to America is not just about Putin, loyalty, or another coup attempt. Nance argues that all of those dangers connect through one force: Trump’s ego.

In this sharp breakdown, Nance explains why Trump’s worldview revolves around money, power, and his own self-image — and why that psychology makes him uniquely dangerous on the global stage.

Pope Leo's message of being a neighbor to the immigrant while masked Patriot Front neo-fascista march in Washington DC...

Susan J. Demas and Edwin Eisendrath discuss what Americans should actually celebrate on July 4th: not Trump’s vanity, but the long, difficult fight to make the country live up to its promise of equality. Edwin argues that America’s greatest story is the generations of people who fought for labor rights, civil rights, women’s rights, voting rights, and LGBTQ freedom.

Let's be honest about the moment we're in: it's dark. The institutions are strained, the norms are cracking, and it's easy to look around and wonder if the whole American experiment is finally running out of road. But here's the thing the doomscrollers keep forgetting — we have been here before. We've faced worse, stared down bigger, and clawed our way out of holes that made this one look shallow. A civil war. A depression. World wars. Movements that had to bleed for the rights the Constitution only promised on paper. Every single time, the smart money bet against us. Every single time, they were wrong.

This week's Elephant in the Room is Rick Wilson's case for exactly that: Americans don't fold in the dark — we do our best work there. Across 250 years of tragedies and triumphs, failures and moonshots, this country has been at its most inventive, most stubborn, and most extraordinary when the odds looked impossible. That's not a fairy tale; it's the pattern. The fear is real, the opposition is real, the darkness is real — and so is the thing Americans have always done when the lights get low. This isn't the end of the story. It's the part where we decide how it goes. This is our moment. Let's go earn it.

America is 250 years old, and the fix is in — the DOJ bent to serve whoever's holding the whip, the rule of law treated like a suggestion, the guardrails quietly sawed through while everyone's distracted by the fireworks. This week Rick Wilson sits down with two people who've seen the rot up close and refuse to shut up about it: Congressman Jamie Raskin, the constitutional scholar who's spent his career defending democracy on the House floor, and Liz Oyer, the DOJ pardon attorney who got fired for one unforgivable sin — saying no. What she saw inside the building should scare the hell out of you, and what Raskin knows about how this ends should light a fire under you.
Here's what they won't tell you at the birthday party: the republic doesn't save itself, and nobody's riding in to do it for us. Rick, Jamie, and Liz get into what's already broken, what we can do right now before the next crisis lands, and the longer fight to reclaim, rebuild, and reinforce a country worth keeping. At 250, the tools are still in our hands and the door's still open — but not for long. They stole it in broad daylight. This is the conversation about taking it back.

Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), constitutional scholar and author, is at @RepRaskin.
Liz Oyer, former U.S. Pardon Attorney at the Department of Justice, is at @lawyeroyer.

Michael Fanone and Maya May break down why Trump’s America 250 celebration already feels like a symbol of national decline — from empty crowds in Washington, D.C. to a presidency that has made life harder, crueler, and more expensive for ordinary Americans.

They also hit Trump’s callous response to struggling Americans, the administration’s failure on housing and health care, the GOP’s obsession with culture-war “wins,” and why Democrats need a clear message heading into the midterms. Plus: JD Vance’s extremist double act, civic engagement, Love Island politics, and World Cup weekend chaos

00:00 America’s Birthday Starts on a Tiny Thread
00:31 Empty Crowds at Trump’s America 250
02:57 Trump’s Washington, D.C. Problem
04:17 Fanone Gives Trump’s Presidency a New Failing Grade
05:22 Democrats, Socialism Panic, and the Midterms
08:25 Americans Just Want to Afford Life
09:36 Trump’s Callous Answer on Struggling Americans
10:48 The 50-Year Mortgage Scam
12:02 Trump Does Not Care About Working People
13:34 Health Care Costs Are Crushing Families
15:00 What Other Countries Get Right About Health Care
16:43 Trump Delivered Culture War, Not Cheaper Groceries
18:25 Bad Faith Arguments About Trans Athletes
20:33 JD Vance and the “Outbreed the Left” Crowd
22:03 JD Vance’s Two-Faced Media Strategy
24:23 Fanone Goes Off on Vance’s Hypocrisy
25:32 Love Island Enters the Chat
27:24 America Needs a Political Reality Show
29:14 Civic Engagement, But Make It Reality TV
31:21 The Empire State Building Protest Sign
33:57 Fourth of July Plans and Surviving Trump
35:13 No Beer for the Civically Disengaged
36:54 Drinking Away the Trump Years
37:58 World Cup Weekend Talk
40:29 Rooting for Paraguay Over France
41:41 Hydrate and Survive the Heat Dome