Hawk Podcasts

Hawk sees the current order coming to an end. Trump becomes a lame duck on election night, and no other Republican, not JD Vance and not Vivek Ramaswamy, can hold the MAGA coalition together. Ramaswamy's ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother has backfired in the Ohio governor race. The big beautiful bill cut Medicaid and SNAP, Affordable Care Act premiums keep climbing, and Project 2025 is res...

According to the lawsuit, the original 2024 stream shows Piker sarcastically mocking a conservative commentator during a debate, and Jennings added a caption presenting words Piker never said as a direct quote. The complaint alleges Jennings was notified the video was false and refused to retract it. The suit brings counts for defamation per se, defamation by implication, and false light, seeking...

Former defense minister Avigdor Lieberman has asked Israel's attorney general to open a treason investigation, accusing Netanyahu of trying to drag Israel into war with Iran to avoid losing the election. Drop Site News reporter Ryan Grim lays out the stakes on Breaking Points. The pattern looks familiar from Washington, where reporting suggests Donald Trump weighed a major strike on Iran before th...

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The threats come as Musk pours more than $445 million into Republican midterm races, including over $150 million backing Ken Paxton in Texas, while Starlink restrictions hampered Ukraine's defense against Russia. A Lancet study estimates the USAID cuts made during DOGE could cost 14 million lives by 2030. Musk's feed keeps pushing white replacement talking points, calling migrants in Ceuta and the...

According to Cole, Mohammed bin Zayed and Mohammed bin Salman placed roughly $2 billion in accounts tied to Kushner, including $750 million in an account owned by an Emirati charity and about $1 billion parked at Israel's central bank at Benjamin Netanyahu's urging. Cole reports none of it was disclosed, raising bribery and foreign agent questions. The contrast with two years of House investigatio...

In California, it's already happening. On the Main Justice podcast, Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord walk through the DOJ's demand that California purge 20,000 voters, delivered on a thumb drive with no supporting evidence, after mail ballots were already out. Harmeet Dhillon's Civil Rights Division has warned election officials they could face prosecution. The charges against 28 people may fall a...

It started with the pro-Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother, who sided with her husband, Acton's abuser, in court when Acton was 12. Acton had already spoken publicly about her childhood. She became a physician, led the Ohio Department of Health, and is now running for governor. And the first time she has seen her mother in 48 years is in an attack ad. It took Hawk most of the day...

The last eleven years have felt like an abusive relationship, built on chaos designed to keep everyone dysregulated and exhausted. There has to be a reckoning, not only for Trump and his administration, but for the billionaires, media companies, law firms, and universities that capitulated. Costco, which kept its DEI program, is the rare exception. Trump's bargain with his voters is broken. The Ir...

That's the real threat. A handful of DSA-backed members could decide whether Hakeem Jeffries becomes speaker, and Chuck Schumer's path to majority leader looks shakier by the day. The establishment kept its distance from Mamdani, Kirsten Gillibrand had to apologize for falsely tying him to global jihad, and the DSCC has been slow to back Nixon, who is running even with Ashley Moody. You can disagr...

The Brennan Center's Derek Tisler says emergency powers aren't a blank check and that martial law wouldn't let Trump seize election materials. Hawk respects the Brennan Center but keeps asking the question nobody answers: who is going to stop him? Donald Trump won't rule out a national emergency or the Insurrection Act around the midterms. The Supreme Court gave him broad immunity for official act...

The footage Jacob Soboroff aired shows plainclothes agents in masks and construction vests, no visible badges, rifles drawn, banging on a driver's window. Firearms safety starts with knowing what is behind your target. A car has a license plate. Arrest him later. Hawk, a gun owner, asks the question the Second Amendment crowd won't: what does the right to self-defense mean when armed, masked men w...

The pattern is familiar: ICE agents firing into cars, from Renee Good in Minneapolis to recent shootings in Houston and Austin, where a food delivery driver was shot. Most major police departments bar officers from shooting into moving vehicles except in narrow circumstances. With firearms the leading cause of death for American children, what if that boy had been hit? To Hawk, the surges in New Y...

Hawk condemns Hamas and the October 7 attack without reservation, and argues that more than one thing can be true at the same time. In his view, every fact in Mamdani's statement holds up. Democrat Jared Moskowitz called it atrocious. Joe Walsh, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Nikki Haley, Ben Shapiro, and ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt piled on, demanding one day of mourning without mention of Gaza. Alex Vind...

The problem, as Smith calmly explained and Senator Amy Klobuchar later confirmed, is that Smith was not at a Hawks game in Atlanta at all. He was at a University of Maryland game against the Iowa Hawkeyes to watch Caitlin Clark. Schmitt had confused the Hawks with the Hawkeyes, and his staff's supposed smoking-gun texts did not even mention Atlanta or come from Smith. Hawk walks through the exchan...

His point is about timing and substance. Roughly six weeks before the midterms, with Trump's approval mired in the low 30s and Republicans distancing themselves from him, a public hearing invites Smith to walk through, on national television, the classified-documents case at Mar-a-Lago and the four-count indictment over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Hawk notes Smith has said he stands by...

The heart of the video walks through how a specific contested term is actually defined, including its origin after World War II and the criteria laid out in the 1948 United Nations Convention. Hawk contrasts that formal legal definition with the statistical argument Galloway made, and lays out at length why he finds the definition, not the framing around it, to be what matters. This is a long, poi...

He then turns to a new, sworn ethics complaint filed against Rep. Lauren Boebert by David Wheeler of the American Muckrakers PAC, alleging she had relationships with staffers in violation of House rules and arranged a payment to keep one of them quiet. Hawk is careful to note the full picture: Boebert has flatly denied the allegations as a politically motivated stunt, a named staffer has called th...

The heart of the video is Hawk's legal argument about how the courts made this possible. He points to the Supreme Court's shadow-docket order and Brett Kavanaugh's lengthy concurrence, now referred to as authorizing Kavanaugh stops, which he says effectively carved out an exception to Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure and 14th Amendment equal-protection guarantees for tens of millions of Hispani...

Reacting alongside commentary from The Bulwark, Hawk's point is less about the claim itself than the silence around it: a sitting president publicly alleged that his predecessor used the federal government to try to have him killed, and Hawk says he could find only a single news article covering it. He connects the claim to the Supreme Court's immunity ruling, noting that Trump's own attorney argu...

The scenario centers on January 3, 2027. Even if Democrats win House and Senate majorities in November, Luttig argues, Speaker Mike Johnson could move before noon that day to replace House Clerk Kevin McCumber with a loyalist who leaves duly elected Democrats off the roll of the incoming 120th Congress, forcing a court fight that could drag on for weeks and ultimately reach the Supreme Court. Hawk...

From there the conversation turns to the 2026 midterm elections. Hawk lays out his fear about the stretch between election night and the January swearing in, the prospect of ballots being seized before they are counted, and a militarized presence at the polls, while Shaana argues for voting in person and reads the whole cycle as a referendum on cost of living and corporate greed, drawing on what s...

Hawk runs through the rest of the lineup and a bizarre moment when an image of Hasan Piker appeared on the arena Jumbotron during an anti socialism segment, along with Piker's reaction. He also fact checks Trump's tarmac claims that the Iran war and high gas prices will both end right after the midterms, pointing out that Iran has in fact been escalating, launching one of its largest attacks of th...

His larger point is that the Dunning Kruger effect is not a partisan trait. Hawk argues it shows up just as often on the left as on the right, and he pushes back on the idea that acknowledging hard truths and respecting expertise are somehow in conflict. On the Clancy case itself, Hawk holds two things at once. He says the expanded public conversation about postpartum depression and postpartum psy...

Drawing a line back to 2020 and the stretch between election night and January 6th, Hawk argues the difference now is planning. He points to reporting that ICE is building a multimillion dollar national voter database, to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin saying agents could appear at polling places, and to a New York Times account of federal agents combing state voter rolls without warrants. The war...