2020 Election

The DSR Daily for October 22: Blinken Heads Back to Middle East

On the DSR Daily for Tuesday, we discuss Antony Blinken heading back to the Middle East, a leaked US assessment…

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The DSR Daily for October 17: Judge Strikes Down Georgia Election Rules

On the DSR Daily for Thursday, we discuss a judge striking down election rules in Georgia, Israel no longer processing…

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The DSR Daily for April 25: Arizona House Repeals Abortion Ban, Ukraine Uses Long-Range US Missiles

On the Thursday edition of the DSR daily, we cover the Arizona House repealing an 1864 abortion ban, Ukraine using…

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J.D. Vance’s Ugly Rant About Trump’s Coup Portends a Dark MAGA Future

This week, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio declared in an on-air rant that if he had been Trump’s vice president in the…

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Russia Meddled – Episode Transcript

Note: This transcript is machine generated and lightly edited for speaker names. Never in the history of shocking revelations about…

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Trump’s Endgame: How Bad Can it Get?

Despite his historic losing streak in the courts (not to mention his big election loss), Donald Trump continues to argue…

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Songs of Experience

Wait, what? A president who actually has foreign policy experience? A national security team that is not comprised of traitors, crackpots,…

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Are We Entering What Will Be the Least Festive Holiday Season in Our Lifetimes?

With COVID spiking we will pass over 450,000 dead of the pandemic within months.  Hospitals and morgues are being stretched…

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Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy…But We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet

Donald Trump’s defeat is a watershed in modern U.S. history and a relief for so many of us that it…

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Why the Victory of Biden and Harris is So Moving

I have spent some time now, wondering why I have had such a profound emotional reaction to Joe Biden and…

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After the Past Four Years, Do We Have Enough Energy to Celebrate Properly

As of the posting of this latest edition of Deep State Radio, no victor had been called in the presidential…

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There’s Got to be a Morning After

Someday soon Tuesday November 3 will end.  It may not be for a few weeks.  Our president seems to want…

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What to Do When Your Politics is as Broken as Ours?

With Election Day looming this year, Americans began to shutter their windows, put up plywood on the storefronts and they…

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Pray but Verify: Can We Trust Our Upcoming Elections?

We all remember Russia’s interference in the last election and we know they are back this time, joined, it seems,…

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Can We Get There From Here: The Precarious Path to “The Third Reconstruction”

A Democratic victory in the 2020 elections is not a sure thing.  As we have discussed on other episodes, the…

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The View from Inside the Trump White House: It Ain’t Pretty

Some of the most hard-hitting and shocking criticisms of Donald Trump have come from insiders in his administration.  From Rex Tillerson’s…

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The Most Successful Covert Operation Since the Trojan Horse…and It Wasn’t So Covert

Russia has been trying to weaken the United States since the first days of the Cold War. But in that…

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Will America Tear Itself Apart?

One of our regulars, Ed Luce of the Financial Times, had an article in the Weekend FT called “Will America…

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A Song of Fire and Ice…and Cyber and Terrorists and Lawyers

In Game of Thrones, leadership decisions were made with the help of dragons and Moon Doors and Valyrian steel daggers.…

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From the 25th Amendment to a Trip to the Hague: What to Do About Trump?

The increasingly erratic president was pretty erratic to begin with.  Which has made the past week all the more unnerving. …

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