Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Things within the United States and outside, where a mindless, disastrous war continues, continue to spiral, so I’m very glad to have these Wednesday conversations with Danielle Moodie . In this episode of The Check-In , we talk about the moment where white supremacist and capitalist privilege finally meets reality. Trump is stuck in an awful position and there’s no easy way out. No bankruptcy to...

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Man alive. I needed this conversation with Danielle Moodie on the latest episode of The Check-In . Today we wrestled with the very real possibility that the war with Iran has brought us to a real fuck-around-and-find-out moment that could be the reckoning the American Empire was always going to reach. We discuss how white supremacy and American Exceptionalism have always been self-destructive ideo...

Another episode of The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and I feel like we’re really getting down to the thing about living at the end of empire. This conversation got into the need for family (of choice) and community as we face the oncoming storm that is the collapse of the United States of America, including the political and economic consequences. We get into the colonization of our minds and our...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com Happy Sunday, everyone. I had an itch to do a reader mailbag today and so I tried something new. Instead of writing out my answers I recorded this episode of Audio From A Collapsing State to see how it felt verbally processing. I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently and this batch gets into so much....

Was happy, as always, to join THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali this afternoon to discuss the absolute debacle in the Middle East and here. We discussed how all this self-destruction is being pushed by some of the most privileged and competent men imaginable, which all but ensures failure and tragedy. Later, we get into the fact that Donald Trump’s base is leaving him but stress that Democrats can’t...

Well, I needed this talk. My friend Danielle Moodie and I got together for another episode of The Check-In to discuss our own navigation of the ongoing disaster of a war in the Middle-East, including the tragedy of watching people being murdered by this regime, the type of environmental damage being done, and, also, the need to start rooting against the empire as we must finally break out of this...

As I said at the end of today’s episode of The Check-In , I’ve been looking forward to this conversation with Danielle Moodie since the war started on Saturday. We discussed the total insanity of this war, the cruelty and tragedy, as well as how it represents, we hope, the moment where the veneer of civility falls totally and people can start to see we have to change and move away from this madnes...

It’s been awhile since the last Bourbon Talk Q&A Livestream, but I figured circumstances required it. I went live last night with a bottle of bourbon and questions from my subscribers. We talked about the origins of the Iran War, why it is quickly becoming a regional war that is completely out of control, and how it is a symptom of the larger unraveling I’ve been talking about for years. It’s good...

Well. Here we are. I went live awhile ago to talk about the fascist war we now find ourselves in, the motivations behind it, the danger now that the elite don’t even feel a need to explain their violence anymore, and, perhaps more importantly, how a window is possibly opening in which we, the people, can take power back from the authoritarians. I’ll be going live tomorrow (Sunday March 1st) at 8pm...

On this episode of The Check-In , I hang out with Danielle Moodie the morning after the State of Union and discuss why she didn’t watch and I wish I hadn’t. It’s a conversation that goes from the emotional abuse that Trump and fellow fascists dish out to the larger cultural situation, which is a moment in which we’re being invited to look around with clarity, see our wealthy and powerful overlords...

Was very happy to go on THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali and discuss a good number of things, including the on-again-off-again rift between Donald Trump and the Supreme Court, which just reveals the relationship between fascism and the wealth classes gaining control, Waj’s incredible moment where he infuriated Hakeem Jeffries by gasp asking him a legitimate question, and the need for a direct confro...

Hung out with my friend Danielle Moodie and talked about light things: the failure of the American Empire, what it’s like to live in a time of possible revolutions, and what is at the core of fascism’s self-destructive impulses. It was a good hang considering there is a palpable feeling of change and potential change in the air, a feeling that we’re experiencing like so much electricity. We’re on...

I was on the road today and am indisposed tomorrow, so Danielle Moodie and I decided to overturn convention and give you an episode of The Check-In a day early. Here, we discuss the absolutely crazy-making feeling of living in this world while knowing the elite are abusers and destroyers and liars and how, as Danielle puts it, that is breaking something inside of us. That’s some necessary growing...

In this episode of The Check-In , Danielle Moodie and I wrestle with the rage that comes from living in a world dominated by murderous crooks and exposed pedophiles. We discuss what it means to recognize that politics is more than voting and election and what do you even do when you realize a sinister group of elites who see as less than human control everything. If you’ve been struggling with all...

This one was a longtime coming, but in this episode of The Check-In , Danielle Moodie and I sort through the trauma, the pain, the grief, and the anger following Alex Pretty’s murder in Minneapolis. We talk about what it feels like to realize that the Democratic Party isn’t on our side , that this battle belongs to us and is going to require us to protect one another and put our lives on the line...

Really enjoyed chatting with Wajahat Ali of THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali as always. We got into the worsening extremism of MAGA, which is trending toward overt and full-throated Nazism, and the failure of media and the Democratic Party to meet this threat. Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has resonated with you or helped you, please consider becomin...

We welcome Danielle Moodie back stateside and spend some time reacting to the events of the past week, including the murder of Renee Nicole Good, the fact that we’re obviously living in the Second American Civil War , and where we’re all going from here. This is another episode that I sorely needed and I hope it helps with you as well. We’ll not be airing next week, but will be back the Wednesday...

This was a tough one. I’m going through it a and so Danielle Moodie and I talk about the feeling of watching the next step in fascist imperialism, carrying the weight of living in the moment, and the need for faith even when it’s hard to find. Dispatches From A Collapsing State is a reader-supported project and it desperately needs your help. If this has helped you or resonated with you, please co...

All right. We made it to the end of 2025 somehow. I feel different. Broken in some ways, stronger in others. I hope you’re all right wherever you are. Today we have a new episode of The Check-In . Danielle Moodie and I discuss what a wretched year this has been and how it sets up to ask questions about who we actually are and what it is that we want. I’ve got an article coming out tomorrow that gi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com Hey everyone, I hope the holiday season has been kind to you. I’m dipping out of the torrent of news and current events for a few days and hoping to rejuvenate, but before I left I recorded this episode of Audio From A Collapsing State in which I answered four subscriber questions. In this episode, I’m aske...

On this episode of The Check-In, I talk with Danielle Moodie about the unbearable pressure that’s been building this year and how It feels like it could blow. We discuss the month of December, the holidays, and the immense pressure of living in a declining society where some of the most incompetent and blatantly corrupt and awful human beings are in charge, and how it’s all building to something v...

This episode of The Check-In was a tough one. Danielle Moodie and I are all the time talking about the effects of living in this environment and the toll it takes. I’m grateful for those conversations and the perspective it brings. This week, I’m in it, and needed to lean on my friend a little as we talked about what this moment feels like and how to navigate watching some of the worst people in t...

Whew. This episode of The Check-In with myself and Danielle Moodie is a raw one. Danielle and I discuss the hard moments of living in crisis, the times where fascistic abuse gets to you and activates feelings of worthlessness, fear, and trauma, bringing up old wounds and testing our will. What do we do as obviously incompetent and cruel people control the system and the financial incentives are ag...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com I’ve been receiving a lot of feedback from this week’s episode of The Check-In and also my article about the economy and our sprint toward oblivion . I wanted to elaborate on the ideas I got into, including the existential stress of the holidays and how we are compelled by capitalism to betray ourselves, so...