The Dispatch

Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Dana DuBois hop on an impromptu live to talk through why the allegations against Senate candidate Graham Platner have been such a gut punch — not just because of what he's accused of, but because of who rushed to defend him. Recorded live Wednesday July 8, 2026 The conversation centers on Lindsey Fifield, a Republican former girlfriend of Platner's, who told th...

The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law in 1990 with support from both parties. Thirty-five years later, it's under direct attack. Julie talks with disabled veteran and advocate Nick Paro about a DOJ memo issued June 18, 2025 that threatens to unravel the 1999 Olmstead decision — the ruling that ended forced institutionalization and protects disabled Americans' right to live and re...

Graham Platner "dropped out" of the Maine Senate race exactly like he ran his campaign: dishonest, selfish, blaming everyone but himself. Julie and Michelle unpack his self-pitying withdrawal video — full of vague grievances about unnamed forces "doing this to him" — (who tf is "they"?!) and why he refused to center it on Susan Collins, the woman he was supposedly running to beat.  Recorded live W...

Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney respond to the new allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and the coordinated wave of Democrats withdrawing support only after new polling showed him losing to Susan Collins. Why did it take a fifth accusation to get people who claim to "believe women" to actually believe one? Julie and Michelle connect it to a bigger pattern: progressive kingm...

A controversial red card. A phone call from the Oval Office. And a FIFA president with an office in Trump Tower that's sat empty for a year. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney break down how Trump personally called FIFA president Gianni Infantino to reverse Team USA striker Folarin Balogun's suspension hours before a knockout match — and trace the Trump-Infantino relationship through the invented...

Two former FBI directors. One Russian money laundering case. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney trace Trump's Russia ties back to 1986 and ask why the FBI's own former directors — Louis Freeh and William Sessions — ended up representing the very Russian-linked figures the Bureau should have been investigating. Plus: Comey's timing on the Clinton emails, and why Julie warns progressives against mak...

The New York Times says Jeffrey Epstein took his own life — and (conveniently) clears Trump in a single sentence. Michelle Kinney and Julie Roginsky talk with independent journalist and researcher Ellie Leonard about the holes in that story, plus the real question they keep coming back to — why this story, why now, and why the Times' own history with Epstein and the Sulzbergers makes the timing wo...

Wired.com just blew the lid off Peter Thiel's secret society. Internal records from an invitation-only organization called Dialogue — co-founded by Thiel and running for twenty years — were exposed online, naming 222 registrants for this year's retreat: the NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Trump administration officials, Ted Cruz, Scott Bessent, Palantir's Joe Lonsdale, the head of the ADL, and Demo...

Someone brought a recording device into the Situation Room — and now Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have the verbatim quotes to prove it. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney dig into the explosive NYT reporting on two White House meetings: one about managing the Epstein fallout, one about invoking the Insurrection Act after the Pretti and Good murders. JD Vance gets outmaneuvered in both rooms,...

Michelle Kinney and Julie Roginsky react to the Knicks' first NBA championship in 53 years — Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, and Mikal Bridges, the Villanova trio that built something special, the $113 million pay cut that made it possible, and the city that came alive the night it finally happened.

[Recorded Live June 2, 2026] Trump just named Bill Pulte as acting DNI Director. This guy has been Trump's housing finance chief and the man behind a string of weaponized mortgage-fraud referrals against the president's political enemies like Letitia James, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Cook. Pulte 👏has 👏no 👏intelligence 👏background. NONE. Now he could oversee the CIA, the FBI, and the entire intellig...

[Recorded Live June 1, 2026] Join Olga Lautman and Julie Roginsky as they check in with Ken Harbaugh of the Meidas Touch Network from the war zone in Ukraine. The Mayday Network is women-founded, women-led independent media covering politics, culture, media, and journalism.

ICE guards tear-gassed and assaulted hunger-striking detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey today. Three ambulances. Congressional oversight blocked. The GEO Group is being paid a billion dollars for this. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney are not letting this get buried.

With National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard out of the Trump administration, JD Vance has lost his most senior ally — and possibly his political cover. Vance and Gabbard shared skepticism about the Iran war, and with her gone, Peter Thiel may already be looking for his next horse. The Talented Mr. Vance has spent years reinventing himself for every room he walks into. The question now: is he...

Unqualified Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told Congress that film and theater majors are a waste of money. Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici had some thoughts about that. So do we. Arts education isn't job training. It's training for life. Communication. Collaboration. Leadership. Empathy. The skills that actually run the world. Michelle has a BFA in Musical Theater from Syracuse University --...

Trump is demanding ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel. Again. The President of the United States — who has called for the genocide of entire civilizations and celebrated the death of Robert Mueller — is personally demanding a television network fire a late night host for making jokes about him. Julie and Michelle are sick of this shi*t. WE ALL ARE. This is what thin-skinned authoritarianism looks like. And we'...

[RECORDED LIVE APRIL 25, 2026]  At 8:30 PM ET, a gunman breached the security perimeter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Dana Dubois went live immediately, with friends on the ground at both scenes. Unfiltered, real-time reaction to the shooting, Trump's press conference, and the questions the White House press corps didn't ask.

[RECORDED LIVE] It's April 25th — not too hot, not too cold. The perfect day to sit down, breathe, and remember what sanity feels like. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney are joined by their friend Dana Dubois for a light hearted Saturday morning check-in — impeccable vibes only while we try and drown out the darkness of the world for awhile. Saturday morning cartoons for grownups trying to stay s...

Tucker Carlson went on camera to "take responsibility" for supporting Trump and enabling all the horrible things happening in America and around the world. We aren't buying it. Neither should you. Julie spent years working alongside Tucker at Fox News — at conventions, at debates, in late-night conversations on the road. She knows exactly who he is. And she's here to explain what this so-called me...

A new survivor has come forward against Congressman Eric Swalwell — and the account is harrowing. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney break down the press conference, the pattern of allegations, what it means that he's leaving Congress, and why the Me Too movement is very much not over. The Daily Dispatch with Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney is brought to you by The Mayday Network — a women-foun...

Eric Swalwell resigns. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney break it down in real time — the statement, the strategy, the survivors, and the question of who knew what and when. Julie, who has been directly in contact with the primary survivor, walks through why this story came out now, why the MAGA plant narrative doesn't hold, and what the Ethics Committee would have found if he'd stayed. The Daily...

Viktor Orbán is out — and it wasn't close. Hungary delivered a supermajority to the opposition, breaking a sixteen-year grip on power. Julie Roginsky connects the dots: Peter Thiel, JD Vance, the Rockbridge Network, Project 2025, and the line that runs from Silicon Valley through Budapest straight to Moscow. That line just snapped. The Daily Dispatch with Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney is brou...

Saturday morning cartoons for grownups trying to stay sane, stay human, and stay in the fight. Plus our theory about Donald Trump. This week: it's a lot.     

Four women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Congressman Eric Swalwell, now a candidate for governor of California. Julie Roginsky spoke directly with the primary accuser before the story ran in the San Francisco Chronicle and on CNN. She went on CNN later that night to stand up for her. Me Too isn't over. It never was. And it doesn't care which party you're in. The M...

Four astronauts. Ten days. A quarter-million miles. NASA's Artemis II crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Friday night — the first humans to return from the Moon since 1972. The Mayday Network covered it live with host Michelle Kinney.