Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein

A Libertarian and a Dirty Moderate have drinks After Dark KOA Colorado Talk Show Host and longtime friend of Dirty Moderate , Ross Kaminsky returns to the podcast for a special, boozy episode. Swiveling bourbon as they shoot the shit about the shitshow that is today’s politics, Ross joins Adam for a sprawling convo about Trump v Biden, Trump’s many legal challenges, and the state of our perilous w...

Joe is a true patriot and a helluva great guy. Glad to be in the fight against that giant, dangerous, orange wanna be king with him. Do not miss this one!  When you finish listening to Joe on Dirty Moderate, head over to his amazing podcast White Flag  and give him a Follow on X/Twitter @walshfreedom We are covering the election through to the end, folks, so subscribe, follow, chime in and for goo...

When it comes to profiles in courage, few people fit the description more aptly than former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who also happens to be a quintessential Dirty Moderate!   In opposing all things Trump, he put country over party and made a robust defense on behalf of democracy a cornerstone of his political identity. Bravo, sir. His new book, “ Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liber...

Intelligence officer, former Congressman, Jan 6 data analyst, whiskey distillery owner and genuine raconteur, Denver Riggleman, joins the podcast for an insightful, epically entertaining and scathing takedown of all things Trump, MAGA, authoritarian as well as all the other BS infecting our politics today. His book, The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th will literally...

When you are young , they assume you know nothing- Travis Kelce's girlfriend At only 16 years old, yes you read that correctly, William He has founded Dream4 America , a Gen Z-led non-profit founded in 2023 dedicated to mobilizing America’s students to promote the principles of freedom, democracy, & progressive government. Born as a progressive counterpoint to Turning Point USA ,  the con...

Desmond Meade's life story has been one of pain, perseverance, and finally, triumph.  From a drug addicted felon waiting for a train to jump in front of to heading up the groundbreaking Florida Rights Restoration Coalition which has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for: "their work in building democracies, supporting the human right to representation by government, and...

 Jewish Americans - much like the U.S. public overall – hold widely differing views on Israel and its political leadership. Israeli domestic policies and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict generate fiery attitudes toward Israel during peace time, and after the brutal Hamas attacks on Israel of October 7, feelings have intensified. And rightly so. We invited 2 brilliant individuals, with deeply learn...

Stuart Stevens , Senior Adviser to the Lincoln Project, and longtime GOP campaign advisor and guru joins the podcast to talk with Adam about his new book:  The Conspiracy to End America Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy Apart from their discourse on the dangers of democracy,  Stuart and Adam lament the collapse of the party of the once, great party of Lincoln into a Trum...

Dr. Richard Barton is a Democracy Fellow at Unite America and a professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He has a PhD in Government from Cornell University, and his research examines how electoral and legislative institutions shape lawmaking in Congress and the American Political Economy.   Partisan primaries are one of the main causes of government dysf...

Over the last three decades, Ethan Chorin has had an extraordinary view of developments in the Middle East and Africa as an American diplomat, oil and ports executive and advisor to senior government officials. We invited Ethan to return to the show to discuss his thoughts on the events unfolding after the Hamas attack on Israel. You may remember Ethan’s first appearance on the show last October (...

We have been clear since minute one of this most recent attack on Israel. Never Trump. Never Hamas. Always Democracy.  Over the latest seven decades, war and conflict between Israelis and Palestinian terror organizations-currently Hamas- has resulted in countless lives lost, electrified the wider Middle East, and drawn global powers into the scenario time and time again. Last week, vicious stormtr...

Adam on Israel.  For more on the atrocities in Israel both modern day and historical join us in unabashedly standing up for Israel and our fight to save democracy  by becoming a member of the Dirty Moderate Nation.  @dirtymoderate Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack !  Tell us what you think on Twitter !   Check out our YouTube cha...

Despite our deep partisan fault lines on the issue, America does has a border crisis and solving it must be of the utmost urgency. Our dysfunctional system allows an unlimited number of people to cross our borders, prohibits them from working, promises free housing, and then leaves them in seven years of legal purgatory before a judge rules on whether they can remain in the country legally.  Mayor...

Mitt has bid adieu to the Washington clown show and is seemingly officially out of whatever the Mormon version of fucks are.   Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack !  Tell us what you think on Twitter !   Check out our YouTube channel ! Are you registered to VOTE ? 

Sure, Hunter Biden is a little sketchy, but would the average drug addict who lied on a federal form be prosecuted with such verve? We think not.  Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time! Join the Dirty Moderate Nation on Substack !  Tell us what you think on Twitter !   Check out our YouTube channel ! Are you registered to VOTE ? 

This year marks the 20th anniversary of George W. Bush’s transformative program to combat H.I.V. and AIDS in Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere. The left’s villain of yesteryear, who was (somewhat) rehabilitated in the Trump era,  and rightly maligned for the disaster that was the invasion of Iraq, Bush also waged a noble war against an epidemic. This ongoing battle is now two decades old, and it...

Could the future of the GOP be black and female? Democrat turned Republican, Mesha Mainor, a Georgia state legislator serving the 56th District is  showing that it very well could be.  Her recent political revolt against her Democratic colleagues is an valiant attempt to deviate away from partisan orthodoxy while also retaining her core values. Her RICO filing against Democratic DA darling, Fani W...

Listen to Adam's take on last nights debate and Tucker's interview with you know who. Clif Notes version: Haley has no shot at the nomination, but if she did, she'd be viable with independents. Christie is anti-Trump in a MAGA party. DeSantis had the dazzle of an armoire. He's just so bad at politics. Pence is irrelevant. Vivek is a fraud. In the end, Trump looms large. #GOPdeb...

 “I should not be here,” Ruby Freeman told the January 6  committee in her May 2022 deposition. “I signed up as an election worker because I believe in our democracy. I signed up to support my daughter, Shaye, whose entire professional career has been devoted to making sure that Fulton County elections are fair and that every vote is counted.”   Like many of the GOP witnesses who testified before...

You don’t have to be a Republican to be continually aghast at the descent of the GOP into a haven for cranks, white nationalists, conspiracy theorists , performance artists  and liars. We have a two party system in this country, and the collapse of the Republican Party into a Trump led cult, spells more than just trouble for our representative democracy which is only strengthened by an opposition...

There’s an old saying in politics: As Ohio goes, so goes the nation.  Up until 2020, Ohio was a bellwether state in presidential elections voting for the winner every election cycle since 1960 except when John F. Kennedy won the general election, but Richard Nixon carried the state. Donald Trump won Ohio twice, but 2020 was the first year where Buckeyes voted Republican even as Democrat Joe Biden...

This is not America’s first manipulative fascist rodeo. Our grand experiment has been peppered with religious and MAGA type freaks throughout its 247 years. When a large group of independent thinkers, adventurers, natives, freedom seekers, religious zealots, and young, scrappy and hungry individuals come together in one pot and create a beautiful stew of a nation there are bound to be some interes...

The events leading up to Jan 6th have resulted in Trump's third indictment for, among other charges, conspiracy to defraud the United States. The only guardrails that we have against another assault on our democracy aren't the courts, but the ballot box. Trump must be soundly defeated in 2024 . It's the only way he will never get near the presidency again. It's America or Trump...

Say hello to Carlos De Oliveira,  Mar-a-Lago’s property manager, who allegedly assisted Trump aide Walt Nauta, in attempting to delete security footage that showed the men moving boxes of classified documents around the property to hide them from federal agents. Special Counsel Jack Smith filed three new criminal counts against Trump on Thursday bringing the total to 40. The superseding indictment...

An unusual group of justices — including Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, both conservative, and the court's three liberal justices — formed the slim 5-4 majority that upheld the Supreme Court's past rulings on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The court said that in Alabama, a state where there are seven congressional seats and one in four voters is black, the R...