The Cycle- On Substack

Oct 28 2024 53 ep. 42 mins 22

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On The Cycle, political strategist Rachel Bitecofer speaks with today's headline makers about politics.

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The Ministry of Truth:

Oct 28 2024 32 mins

Today’s pod is with Rachel Maddow producer and editor of Maddow Blog Steve Benen and his important new book Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republican’’ War on the Recent Reality. Benen’s important book documents how Republicans managed how to rewrite the history of recent events like January 6th and COVID to make millions of people believe in a false reality

Shadowboxing the Apocalypse

May 07 2024 23 mins

Its Holocaust Remembrance Day. Not only did Hitler and his Nazis murder 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, its HOW they murdered them you should know more about.After first being dispossessed of their businesses and homes, then being "ghettoized," the Jews began to be "deported East." Deported East meant being packed like sardines into a cattle car sometimes for a week or more with N

Republican Death Panels

Feb 26 2024 26 mins

https://arkansasadvocate.com/2022/10/05/study-more-republicans-than-democrats-likely-died-of-covid/Researcher Max Taves closes his analysis in David Cay Johnston’s DC Report by asking a very important question: “Republican politicians can talk all they want about how pro-life they are, but these data defy and belie their rhetoric. Facts are stubborn things.So what does it say

Democracy Awakening:

Jan 29 2024 40 mins

As soon as Heather Cox Richardson’s new book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America came across my algorithm I reached out and invited America’s favorite academic back onto the show. HRC’s newest book lays out how a small group of wealthy men financed and developed a right wing propaganda machine that 54+ years later, stands to topple America’s nearly 250 year o

Mr. International: How Joe Biden Saved the Entire International Order by Defeating Donald Trump

Jan 16 2024 30 mins

Like all good lefties, I cut my teeth in progressive politics learning all about the horrors of America’s massive military industrial complex. In one of my very first college classes ever at the local community college, a passionate instructor who spent his spare time organizing peace marches against the Iraq War made sure each of his students left his class well-versed in Americ

BuT i ThOuGhT tHe LeFt CaN't MeMe?!

Nov 28 2023 23 mins

Throughout 2024 I plan on highlighting core grassroots organizations working on the frontlines of the Democratic Party’s messaging revolution. Now, maybe you think the word “revolution” is too strong, but trust me, moving a party away from approaching voters with wonky policy appeals and achievements to focusing on making sure regular Americans know what the modern GOP has pl

The Tyranny of the Minority

Oct 23 2023 31 mins

The first time I posted about the harsh reality of America’s collapsing democracy, it seemed like many folks were genuinely surprised to see that America is not actually the Greatest Democracy on Earth. According to the democracy index compiled by the EIU and published annually by The Economist, America is actually a “flawed” democracy. The United States was downgraded from �

America doesn’t have a “both sides” problem, it has a Republican Party problem.

Sep 25 2023 29 mins

What if I was to tell you the Republican Party’s villain-in-chief, the main protagonist in the Republican Party’s “Democrats are socialists” Big Lie, Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is an ideological moderate serving in a likewise still moderate Democratic Party? Understandably, you wouldn’t believe me, so I would have to present some pretty compelling evidence to

Fear & Loathing in the 2022 Midterm Elections

Jul 11 2023 32 mins

I first learned about Way to Win when they published an analysis after the 2020 cycle empirically demonstrating the weakness of the Democratic Party’s messaging strategy against the GOP’s in the 2020 cycle. While Republican’s focused on branding Democrats as dangerous socialists intent on destroying America, Democrats were branding Republicans as good friends they just couldn

It's a Cult!

Apr 25 2023 36 mins

If you want to get someone out of a cult, Dr. Steven Hassan is your man. Inspired to a career focused on cults by his own personal experience being tricked into joining one, Dr. Hassan has spent decades researching, writing, and talking about cults and is skilled at getting folks out of them. In fact, he literally wrote the manual on understanding and breaking cult allegiance, Comb