Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

This is a very special holiday episode of The Check-In with my friend Danielle Moodie . We’ve been doing this livestream for months now and working through the emotional and psychological components of living in a fascist time, and in this edition we discuss the holidays, the feelings that a lot of us carry around regarding them and our own sense of self-worth. We get into the capitalist influence...

I was happy to go on THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali yesterday afternoon to discuss a few things, including the current crisis within Trumpism, how Neo Nazis are quickly taking over the Republican Party, the corporate Democrat refusal to do what needs to be done, and historical parallels when it comes to the rise of Fascism and the current crop of tech industrialists who have shown a complete disda...

It was good to get back into conversation with my friend Danielle Moodie and a new episode of The Check-In . Today we discussed this strange moment in which the Epstein Scandal makes a lot of things clear, especially the corruption of the elites, the rottenness of our system, and how fascist victory is far from inevitable. That discussion is extremely important right now because, as we’ve talked a...

Oh, I was so grateful for this conversation with Danielle Moodie . We started The Check-In show to process the grief and anger and fear of rising fascism, but also for moments like these. In today’s episode we reacted to last night’s victories, including the election of Zohran Mamdani, and focused on the need to savor each and every victory while realizing the battle is only beginning. The veneer...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com We’re a little over nine months into the Second Trump Administration and it’s a good time to take stock. Before the inauguration and immediately after I talked about what this was going to feel like and what it would require from us , and though we anticipated that, it is another thing entirely to live thro...

Thank you to my friend Wajahat Ali over at THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali for having me on to talk about the escalating embrace of Far Right Neo-Nazism by the GOP and how, unless we defeat the Right and address our deteriorating material conditions, MAGA might very well usher in a new and more extreme movement . We discussed the normalization of Nick Fuentes and crypto Nazi politics, as well as th...

On this episode of The Check-In , my friend Danielle Moodie and I talk about a different state of being: the Self in crisis. With the record-breaking hurricane hitting Jamaica and over 40 million Americans preparing for the cessation of necessary aid , we discuss the need to behave as if we’re in an emergency. Because we are. It’s a matter of recognizing immediate needs, coming together as communi...

Thank you as always to Danielle Moodie for the opportunity to continue this series. In today’s episode of The Check-In , Danielle and me get into the feeling that’s been developing for years now but came into full-force this weekend with Donald Trump and his MAGA cronies reacting to protests with disturbing AI slop depicting abuse on the people. We discuss Trump as a symbol of American capitalism...

In this episode of The Check-In , my friend Danielle Moodie and I get into so much. We talk about the absolute level of insanity that is radiating off of not only the Trump Administration but the people who are in complete denial regarding the danger and scope of everything. America is a deeply, deeply unwell country, and it’s time that we recognize how our culture of dissociation, addiction, and...

Whew. Another much needed episode of The Check-In with my friend Danielle Moodie . Here, we talk about the challenges of dealing with the day-to-day insanity of Fascists and the need to refuse them access to our feelings, our thoughts, and our reality. This is a wide-ranging conversation that gets extremely vulnerable and emotional, but I was so glad to have it and so glad to hear that these talks...

In this episode of The Check-In , Danielle Moodie and I dove right into the farce of a spectacle on Tuesday in which Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth both embarrassed themselves in front of top military brass and also declared war on the American people. This was…a big, weird, disturbing event with a lot to unpack. We discussed the anger, the resentment, and the grief, what it feels like to know what...

Another week and another conversation with my friend Danielle Moodie . In this episode of The Check-In , we discuss how the fascist regime has embraced a new and aggressive total-lie and manipulation structure in which we are never quite certain what is going on. We’ve lived through similar things, but it has ramped up considerably. We talk about the need to stay grounded but also how we can use o...

It’s been a few minutes, but I sat down with my friend Wajahat Ali of THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali and had a long discussion about what is happening with the Democratic Party’s failure to oppose fascism, what each and every one of us can do to both pressure them but also prepare on our own to fight, and a whole lot more. Corporate media does not support actual critiques of capitalism or power. B...

In this week’s The Check-In , Danielle Moodie and I discuss the emotional and psychological toll from the fall-out surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassination. We are being gaslit and abused as the authoritarians take advantage of the situation. We talk about how we have experienced this past week, but also how much focus on grounding ourselves in the midst of chaos in order to weather the onslaught....

Hey everyone. For those who have been there, I’ve been doing these Bourbon Talks since 2020, answering your questions while drinking some bourbon. It’s been an incredible honor and I’ve enjoyed every one of them. Tonight I felt compelled to revive the thing and it was an incredible experience. We got into the Charlie Kirk assassination, the different groups that make up MAGA, what it is that we ca...

In this episode of The Check-In, I talk with my friend Danielle Moodie about the worsening capitalist state, but also the point at which the social contract is broken and we need to consider other options. The fascist / capitalist program is out of control and looking outside the country, particularly at the recent uprising in Nepal, tells us something incredibly important: if we can let go of our...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com In this episode of Audio From A Collapsing State , I dive deep into this weird moment where “resistance” to the fascist regime takes the form of mocking social media posts that “experts” and “analysts” tell us is starting to change the minds of the MAGA faithful. This lie, peddled by people like Tom Nichols...

Every week I log onto to record The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and it ends up better and going places more profound than I ever expected. In this episode, we discuss the need for Americans learn to live life, not only in opposition to authoritarianism but for basic joy and healthiness. This includes the necessity of self-care and grounding, but also shifting to a life where it comes automatical...

Another good week of talk with my friend Danielle Moodie in which we discussed our opportunities to step outside of the day-to-day grind of living in modern America and the effect of disengaging (hint: it makes all of this seem even crazier). Over the course of the conversation we got into how this fascistic regime isn’t just abusive and destructive but how it cheapens everything from our institut...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com Hello, everyone. I’m back after a few days out in the wildness. I had a lot of time to think and write and consider and in this episode of Audio From A Collapsing State I’m discussing where I’m being called to do the work. After spending some time thinking about the problem of rising fascism and our cultura...

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Was really thrilled to talk with my friend THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali about a topic both of us have a keen interest in: the power of popular culture and its effect on reality. We trace the history of mass popular culture in the United States, how it has been used by the powerful to tamp down democratic energies, the way it has warped our understanding of the world, and the cycle between realit...

Thanks to everybody who came out to watch Danielle Moodie and I tape another episode of The Check-In . This was a conversation I’ll remember for a long time. Danielle and I talk about the need to counterbalance shame with grace ( for more on how fascism feeds off our shame check out my recent episode of Audio From A Collapsing State ) and how each of us is being called on to heal from our past tra...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com It’s been way, way too long since I recorded an episode of Audio From A Collapsing State . I’ve been out in the world, traveling, working, and organizing. I felt called to record this today because I’m seeing a continued battle that goes unaddressed: the need for each of us to heal, but the specter of shame...