Hawk Podcasts

Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz. They have access to 30 of their 33 missile launching sites along the Persian Gulf coastline. They have tens of thousands of drones, mobile missile launchers moved inland, and have already struck a Qatari natural gas facility that will take years to repair. The American military umbrella that once protected Gulf State energy infrastructure has been exposed as...

Hawk breaks down the long history of Trump merchandise grifts targeting loyal MAGA supporters, from Trump Bibles and fake Gibson Les Pauls to NFTs now worth nothing, digital trading cards, gold high-top sneakers, and Trump watches with missing letters on the face. The $60 million phone scam sits alongside the $300 million election defense fund raised after 2020, money that was kept rather than spe...

Next, Hawk calls for expanding the Supreme Court by four seats, drawing nominees from federal judges who held the line against the Trump administration, including Judge Boasberg. Ketanji Brown Jackson gets the nod for Chief Justice. Puerto Rico and Washington DC become states, adding four new senators and giving millions of Americans real representation for the first time. Roe v. Wade gets codifie...

The generic ballot still shows a six-point Democratic advantage. Since early last year, Democrats have outperformed Kamala Harris's 2024 numbers by 13 to 15 points across 32 special elections. Republican enthusiasm is low, the party is divided, and Donald Trump is not on the ballot this fall. Trump's approval on the economy, inflation, and immigration is worse than Joe Biden's numbers were at thei...

From Pete Hegseth's erasure of Black Americans and women from military history, to Donald Trump's dismantling of DEI programs across the federal government, to Stephen Miller's openly stated goal of ethnic cleansing, Hawk connects the dots between policy and intent. The firing of hundreds of thousands of Black federal workers, the targeting of universities and corporations with DEI policies, and t...

Rather than letting it go, Patel has responded in ways that are raising serious red flags. He filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against Fitzpatrick and The Atlantic. He then directed the FBI to open a criminal investigation into the journalist who wrote the story. And now he has ordered polygraph testing of more than two dozen current and former members of his own security detail and IT staf...

The note's contents are brief and striking, referencing 16-year-old charges, a choice to say goodbye, and the phrase "no fun" underlined. Hawk compares the alleged suicide note to a second handwritten note also found in Epstein's cell, noting consistent handwriting, similar phrasing, and that same underlined phrase appearing in both. Also examined is a letter allegedly sent from Epstein to convict...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the law that made the United States a representative democracy for the first time. Seventeen years after it passed, a young John Roberts joined the Department of Justice and reportedly began what Hawk describes as a 42-year project to undermine Black voting rights and eliminate proportional Black representation in the House of Representatives. Roberts climbed from...

Hawk covers the full arc of the Epstein files fight, from Pam Bondi's heavily redacted document release to the DOJ and FBI memo closing all investigations with no client list and no further prosecutions. Massie and California Democrat Ro Khanna co-authored the Epstein Files Transparency Act, eventually passing it into law in December 2025, leading to the release of over 3 million pages of document...

Along the way, Hawk covers meeting Kash Patel in person at a Stockton, California event, receiving a signed bottle of Kash Patel Bourbon numbered "9," and making an Epstein Island joke that got him immediately escorted out. Patel's autographed Etsy merch store gets a full review, including a memorable piece featuring Patel and Pete Hegseth standing in front of a burning Capitol each saying "Hold m...

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Sam Alito's majority opinion rewrites the Voting Rights Act to impose a race-neutral standard on a law that was explicitly and intentionally race-conscious — designed to protect Black voters from racial vote dilution and racially discriminatory gerrymandering. Legal scholar Rick Hasen of UCLA Law calls it possibly the worst Supreme Court decision in 100 years. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has al...

Historical context provides a sobering look at this moment, drawing parallels between the struggles in Selma and Birmingham and the current judicial landscape. The bravery of civil rights icons like John Lewis and the tragic sacrifices of activists in Mississippi highlight the high cost of the rights now being systematically undid with a word processor. Political figures are already moving to capi...

The indictment centers on a year old social media post featuring seashells which was already investigated and set aside by the Secret Service. The timing of this renewed interest appears linked to recent events at the White House Correspondents Dinner and a desire to prove loyalty to Donald Trump. Critics suggest that the focus has shifted from obtaining actual guilty verdicts to simply filing ind...

Hawk examines the legal filing signed by Matthew Petraca and the surrounding circumstances of the case. The timing of the charges follows an incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner and comes nearly a year after the social media post was originally shared and deleted. This prosecution follows a previous case against Comey that was dismissed due to the illegal appointment of Lindsay Hallig...

Don Lemon's rebuttal to the press briefing gets a full look here, including a pointed critique of CNN's Dana Bash and the network's habit of false equivalence when covering Democratic opposition to the Trump administration. The Jimmy Kimmel controversy takes center stage after Kimmel's mock White House Correspondents' Dinner joke about Melania Trump drew condemnation from both Melania and Donald T...

Hawk walks through Jonathan V. Last's newsletter from The Bulwark, titled "Political Violence Breaks Containment," which traces Trump's pattern from encouraging rally-goers to punch protesters in 2016, to excusing Charlottesville, to the January 6th Capitol insurrection, to pardoning convicted violent offenders and even placing one inside the DOJ. The same administration that published what JVL ca...

The aftermath of the White House correspondents dinner shooting reveals a nation where facts no longer exist and truth is a casualty of years of systematic disinformation. While mainstream media outlets like CNN engage in whataboutism, the public response across the political spectrum suggests a deep rooted skepticism of official narratives. This distrust stems from a long history of misinformatio...

Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence after being convicted in December 2021 on five charges including sex trafficking of a minor. Jeffrey Epstein visited the Clinton White House 17 times, and Trump's name appears over one million times across the three million pages of Epstein files released by the DOJ this year. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi sat feet away from Epstei...

While many on the left suspect the incident was staged, the broader issue lies in the willingness of the White House Correspondents Association to honor a man who labeled the media the enemy of the people for over a decade. The presence of Brendan Carr, chair of the FCC, highlights the ongoing threats of punitive actions against the press for unfavorable coverage. The discussion centers on the com...

This event marked the first time Donald Trump attended the dinner as president, a notable shift after he skipped the event throughout his first term and last year. While the media socialized with members of the administration and cabinet, security at the Washington Hilton was reportedly insufficient. Journalist Joe DePaolo noted that entering the perimeter was dangerously easy, requiring only a di...

Donald Trump scrapped negotiations with Iran involving Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff while also skipping the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington DC. Meanwhile, a massive party sponsored by Grindr during the dinner weekend sparked a firestorm among MAGA supporters and influencers like Laura Loomer. The administration is moving to indict the Southern Poverty Law Center, a move Larry Ku...

The Atlantic published an article citing more than two dozen anonymous sources alleging that Kash Patel, the current FBI director, is frequently drunk at work, misses meetings, and has engaged in conduct that raises serious national security concerns. Within days, Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Hawk walks through the legal sta...

The United States is burning through $3 million guided missiles to shoot down $50,000 drones, munitions are running low, and Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. The closing of that waterway is pushing the global economy toward recession, and the time pressure in this conflict rests entirely on Trump, not on Iran. Virginia passed a redistricting plan Tuesday that could hand Democrats three to...

Rather than answer directly, Patel deflected, attacked reporters, and at one point told a journalist that the answer to their question was that they were lying. Todd Blanche stepped in asking for "a little respect" after Patel's outburst toward the press. Hawk reacts live to the full press conference, noting Patel's visible anxiety, evasive non-answers, and the body language of a man who clearly b...