Bulwark+ Takes

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Sarah Longwell take on how Trump has broken every source of resistance that once held him back — from corporate America to Congress — and why cowardice, fear, and fatigue have left him acting untouchable. They discuss the Wall Street Journal story about Trump’s growing power, the CEOs too scared to cross...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Will Saletan and Mona Charen take on JD Vance’s reality-bending interviews—where every inconvenient fact becomes “left-wing” and every lie gets a new excuse. From calling governors criminals to dismissing real corruption as “media reports,” Will and Mona expose how MAGA’s gaslighting has replaced truth with loyalty. A...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Jack Cocchiarella takes on JD Vance’s excruciating Sunday-show performance—from dodging questions about the $50,000 bribe to getting booted off the air by George Stephanopoulos. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwar...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump wants you to think he’s inevitable. He’s not. Jack Cocchiarella takes on how Trump and Kristi Noem are turning ICE into a private army — recruiting extremists, spreading propaganda, and selling power through fear. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Bill Kristol and Tom Joscelyn take on the Trump administration’s plan to crush dissent.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Jack Cocchiarella and Tim Miller take on Jesse Watters, Fox’s extremely suspicious “guests,” and the right-wing propaganda turning cruelty into entertainment. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t c...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller and Sarah Longwell go off on House Speaker Mike Johnson — the “Eddie Haskell of MAGA.” They call out his fake piety, his loyalty to Trump over the country, and his awful attempt to brand peaceful protesters as “anti-American.” As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short vi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller is joined by George Retes, a U.S. Army veteran and American citizen who was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work. George shares his harrowing story of being surrounded by agents, pepper-sprayed, dragged from his car, locked in a detention center, and even placed on su...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein is joined by Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii to discuss the ongoing government shutdown amid Russ Vought’s government control, and the situation in Chicago with the Texas National Guard and Trump calling for the mayor and governor’s arrest. Plus, Schatz’s surprising recent retweets of Marjorie Taylor Greene....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on Joe Rogan’s moment of moral clarity on immigration, where Rogan slams the idea of deporting longtime residents and families. Tim explains why this clip could shift the conversation, and why even some conservatives don’t want to be the “bad guys” in America’s immigration fight. As always: Watch, lis...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Sommer break down one of RFK Jr.’s strangest moments yet: suggesting during a Trump cabinet meeting that circumcision might cause autism. The pair unpack the pseudoscience behind RFK’s claim, the misuse of disputed Danish studies, and the way his comments echo the administration’s earlier Tylenol pa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Andrew Egger and Will Sommer take on of the most surreal events of the Trump era: a White House “roundtable” where Trump met with right-wing influencers to discuss Antifa as if it were an organized terror group. Egger and Sommer expose the theater behind the event, the made-up claims of an “Antifa hierarchy,” and the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Lauren Egan sits down with Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas to look beyond D.C. and see what the government shutdown really means for Americans far from Capitol Hill. Mayor Lucas explains how tens of thousands of federal workers in the Midwest are going unpaid while still expected to work, and how that strain ripples t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Candace Owens and Dinesh D’Souza are in the weirdest feud on the internet, and somehow it involves farm animals. Then Candace brings up a dream she had where she was visited by a ghost. JVL, Sarah, and Will try to make sense of MAGA’s new reality show. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is h...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Andrew Egger take on Donald Trump’s latest threats to jail his political opponents—including governors and protesters—as he sends National Guard troops into Chicago. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ m...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Sommer take on Candace Owens leaking Charlie Kirk’s texts, the “New Charlie Kirk” Brilyn Hollyhand’s failed debut, and MAGA turning on Trump’s own lawyer. Read Will Sommer’s newsletter — False Flag As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, an...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller joins Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House to discuss the alarming National Guard escalation in Chicago, DHS using Zach Bryan’s music as propaganda, and his interview with Kevin Clancy from Barstool Sports. Watch Deadline: White House on MSNBC As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Andrew Egger are live, reacting to the extremely contentious Pam Bondi Senate hearing. Attorney General Pam Bondi is under fire before the Senate Judiciary Committee after the shocking indictment of former FBI Director James Comey—part of Donald Trump’s widening campaign to punish his political enemies.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump’s old friend Ghislaine Maxwell is back in the headlines and once again, he’s pretending he barely knows her. From his creepy sympathy for Epstein’s circle to his casual cruelty toward migrants and veterans, the hypocrisy couldn’t be clearer. Tickets to Bulwark Live in DC (10/8) with Sarah, Tim and JVL are on sal...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller and Sam Stein discuss the explosive online feud between Sam and Stephen Miller over the weekend, with Sam calling out Miller for saying a Trump-appointed judge is “terrorist,” and Miller’s response claiming Sam is “repugnant.” Check out Sam’s Twitter interaction with Stephen Miller: https://x.com/samstein/s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on AOC and Ruben Gallego’s takedowns of MAGA’s macho posturing, explaining why ridicule can hit harder than outrage. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t care for video? Use the co...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah, JVL and Sonny Bunch take on A Few Good Men — Aaron Sorkin’s courtroom classic about loyalty, law, and the dangerous allure of obedience. They discuss whether Colonel Jessup was ever right, how “Code Red” culture echoes in today’s politics, and why Demi Moore’s character still divides audiences decades later. Cl...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Saletan take on Mike Johnson’s Meet the Press appearance where he repeatedly lied about the shutdown being over undocumented immigrants receiving free healthcare, struggled to answer Trump’s call to use the military against citizens, and said the unprecedented federal firings during the shutdown are...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Bill Kristol is joined by law professor Ryan Goodman to discuss the Trump Administration’s expanding use of “national security” at home and abroad, NSPM-7, National Guard deployments, Chicago raids, and lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean. Plus the legal pushback, Posse Comitatus, district court rulings, and the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller invades Barstool HQ for a real talk with KFC about Trump, politics, and “free speech.” As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t care for video? Use the controls on the left side of the playe...