Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein

The people who did not certify the 2020 election  are now in the levers of power, and make no mistake, that power will be weaponized. We are only 2 years out from the presidential election. Stay awake, folks.  Democracy requires your tirelessness. Autocrats count on your apathy.  And don’t forget: Vote.org , Vote.org , Vote.org ! Get registered to vote if you’re not already and register everyone y...

"Nothing Can Be Changed if it Is Not Faced." - James Baldwin America has done some very unsavory shit. We built this country and much of its industry in part on the backs of human beings that were kidnaped and forced to endure unforgivable and horrifying lives. Sorry folks, just the facts. If we can’t acknowledge that, we can never grow or change. Putting our hands over our eyes and pret...

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The once great party of Lincoln is now a cesspool of buffoonery, lies, and incompetence, and on the eve of the anniversary of the insurrection, with our government in shambles, America weeps. Every one of these ass clowns who are holding the people’s House hostage to their rabid extremism should have their salaries docked until they promise to do what they were elected to do: serve the people. No...

Politics is always downwind of culture. And for 2022's final installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam weaves the parallels between Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady" and the HBO critically-acclaimed series "The White Lotus" with the delusion of American culture. We'll be back after the holidays but until then, don’t forget: Vote.org , Vote.org , Vote.or...

“Anti-” attacks are part of a rhetorical loop in American society. In this week’s “Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate,” Adam examines how horrendous attacks all over the nation are escalating by the day in the name of Anti-Semitism, anti-abortion, homophobia, racism, and more. The following are the names of the 5 victims of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs: Raymond Green Vance (he/him), Kelly Loving...

The American people have exclaimed loud and clear that we will not suffer election denying, insurrectionist fools! While the Republicans will hold the slimmest of margins in the House, Democrats picked up 1 seat in the Senate. But these midterms were not a win for the Democrats or the Republicans. They were a win for Democracy. And everyone's favorite Dirty Moderate supplies us with his analy...

2 party system? That’s so last election… Welcome The Forward Party to the game folks. The mission statement is certainly promising:  “Fighting for the American people with practical, common-sense solutions. While other political parties look to divide America into different camps, the Forward Party aims to bring them together.” Cool! Building the foundation for a representative and stable democrac...

Looks like the “Red Wave” is actually just a ketchup smear at Mar a Lago. We’re still waiting on the results of the Arizona and Nevada Senate races. No surprise that the Georgia Senate race is going to a run off on Dec 6. And while the Republicans are on track to control the House, their margin will be very slim. Adam goes through all that and so much more. With that in mind, don’t forget: Vote.or...

Co-Founder of The Lincoln Project. GOP political consultant; Latino voting trends/political data/analysis, and as close as political royalty as it gets here in America, Mike Madrid was, is, and we imagine, will continue to be, ahead of the curve. Earning his GOP pedigree over thirty years, by changing the outcomes of political campaigns throughout the country. His involvement in local, state, and...

This episode is Dirty Moderate’s official response to election deniers. We understand a certain group of Americans cannot accept truth, reality, science, etc…but here is some anyway. You know, for the hell of it. Call us dirty moderates. America’s 2022 midterm elections are likely to bring a wave of election deniers into Congress and top state-level jobs overseeing elections in all corners of the...

Most of the 2022 GOP candidates running for senator, congressperson, governor, and the like are some or all of the following: election denier, huckster, crank, imbecile, clown, weirdo, seditionist, fascist, white nationalist, conspiracy theorist, QAnon loon, inveterate liar and/or crypto Nazi. In this week's installment of "Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate", Adam explores why many voters a...

Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman squared off last night in their only debate in the Pennsylvania Senate debate of the campaign. While Oz smirked and sleazed, Fetterman stumbled and sputtered raising serious questions about his health and capacity to serve as the next senator from the Keystone debate. Though the debate generated more heat than light, this pivotal contest, which will likely determine wh...

Ethan Chorin is a former US diplomat, political analyst, environmental entrepreneur, and author of the stunning Benghazi! A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink . From 2004 to 2006, he was one of a handful of US diplomats posted to Libya in the wake of rapprochement with Colonel Gaddafi. Six years later, as co-director of an NGO, he became a witness to the Bengh...

Fascist, Trumplican candidates like Mehmet Oz, Kari Lake, J.D. Vance, and Herschel Walker are simultaneously being discredited and continuing to ascend because of inflation. Inflation remains high at 8.2%. We've all heard this number. And despite knowing democracy is in peril, voters can't afford basic necessities - meats, poultry, fish and eggs are up 9% ; fruits and vegetables are up 1...

Polls show Senator lil Marco Rubio of Florida with a lead in his race against Representative (and former real Orlando Chief of Police) Val Demings, who has raised more money than the incumbent. But all the money in the world won't help Val Demings unseat Marco Rubio unless we go to: Vote.org , Vote.org , Vote.org ! Get registered to vote if you’re not already and register everyone you know. Y...

Herschel Walker is a brain dead puppet ( Check out our Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate "Fuck Herschel Walker" for the deep dive ). And Warnock needed to come out loud and proud to have any chance of moving the needle held firmly in place by the full weight of the GOP’s gaslighting. Despite all the allegations of the two-faced, abortion denier, Republican Herschel Walker has galvanized the GOP...

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol held one of the last public hearings (implied by Chairman Bennie Thompson) as the committee continues its investigation into former President Donald Trump and his influence as he refused to acknowledge the results of the 2020 election. This hearing took a broader look at Trump's mindset as he refused to accept the...

Can anything be earned anymore or is entitlement the name of the game? In the wake of NYU firing Professor Maitland Jones, who literally wrote the book on organic chemistry, for being too tough on students, Adam talks about how we are creating a generation of people "who don't know how to study" (Maitland Jones, 2014) and the way this impacts our ability to make informed decisions a...

Saving democracy one episode at a time sounds cute, but it’s existential and we mean it. In the 24th installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam explores how the GOP closes ranks, not matter what. In the wake of the horrid allegations about Herschel Walker, it’s important to understand how vital the Georgia Senate Race is to the fate of democracy in this country. But the Democrats need to fight...

The Southern, Moderate Democrat might feel like a long lost fable of American history, but they do actually exist! Joel Lourie is a former Democratic State Senator of South Carolina from 2004 until 2017. He and Adam discuss the national allure of South Carolina‘s performance into the midterms and the future of the elusive Southern Democrat. Joel also attempts to save democracy one episode at a tim...

Listen to every second of the 2022 Texas Governor Race Debate between MAGA Fascist  incumbent, Gov. Greg Abbott, and Democratic hopeful, and our endorsement for the Governor of Texas, Beto O'Rourke. Of course, don’t forget: Vote.org , Vote.org , Vote.org ! Get registered to vote if you’re not already and register everyone you know. You can even help them figure out where they're nearest...

Fascism is on the rise. Not just in the United States. In the 23rd installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam dissects the "specter haunting Europe" and the salvo effect of Donald Trump's Presidency around the world. The news of last weekend, the return of Fascism in Italy with the election of Giorgia Meloni (the first female Prime Minister of Italy), should send a chill down ev...

There is no master of deflection and master of distraction but Donald J. Trump. In this 22nd installment of Stay Dirty, Stay Moderate, Adam navigates us through the very messy situation Trump has put the United States over his magic act of declassifying documents with some history and a touch of civics 101. Lest we forget, Trump has no respect for the rule of law, wants to be a king, and his base...

Who says you can't talk about politics and religion at the dinner table? This week, former stockbroker, theatre producer, reformed Jew turned Christian, and Host of Talkin‘ Politics & Religion Without Killin‘ Each Other Podcast , Corey Nathan, joins Adam to discuss the mishegas of religion and politics in this country. These two fellow Dirty Moderates might agree on some things, but oy we...