Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden
Posting Through It
"Posting Through It" is a political news podcast exploring the intersection of modern politics and social media through independent reporting, analysis, and commentary. It is hosted by acclaimed investigative journalists Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden and regularly features in-depth interviews with guests. Support the show and listen to weekly bonus episodes: patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
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Jul 9, 2026
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097: MAGA Politicians Are Getting Weirder and Scarier [Preview] 16.04.2026 6:43
When the MAGA phenomenon first took off in 2016, the term evoked nationalism and racism, but it cast a wide enough tent for most Republicans to feel comfortable joining in. Ten years later, the term has mutated, and so have MAGA candidates. Look no further than the hot, sweaty, iguana-riddled, environmentally atrophying state of Florida, where James Fishback and Dan Bilzerian are seeking public o...
096: Strange People on the Hill (Live in DC, 4/11/26) 13.04.2026 1:09:40
Jared and Mike hosted a talk about Mike's new book " Strange People on the Hill " at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC, on April 11, 2026. Thank you to everyone who came out! This episode includes audio from the event for those who couldn't make it.
095: Strange People at The Center [Preview] 09.04.2026 7:56
Content warning: This episode includes discussion of suicidal ideation Jared and Mike start out this episode listening to another episode of The Katie Miller Pod , this one featuring Todd Blanche, who was effectively promoted to the top of the DOJ when Trump fired Pam Bondi. After that, the guys settled in for an extended chat about Mike's experience at the Southern Poverty Law Center and how...
094: Who the Hell is Stephen Miller? 06.04.2026 2:01:25
At just 40 years old, Stephen Miller has cemented himself as the most influential policy mind and speechwriter of the MAGA era. Aside from Steve Bannon — and Trump himself — few figures have done more to define what MAGA means in practice. But influence is only part of the story. Miller is also one of the most polarizing figures in American politics. He has spent much of his career focused on re...
093: Noem Family Dog Has Seen Some Things [Preview] 02.04.2026 7:47
Jared comes back from a nice rest to find Mike playing the role of Ian Miles Cheong, helping him “Catch Up” on all the news that matters. “No Kings” blew out CPAC in terms of social media engagement, but it’s hard to know why — with poor women expected to have babies, Michael Knowles positioned as a symbol of machismo, and Josh Hammer crying about Tucker Carlson. The hosts then learn about Lindsey...
092: The Dark, Horny World of The Daily Wire’s 'Lady Ballers' [UNLOCKED] 30.03.2026 1:43:29
This episode was originally released to Patreon subscribers on Mar. 12, 2026. Jared is on vacation, so everyone is getting it in the main feed this week! ~~ Mike and Jared took a break from Iran War coverage to look back on "Lady Ballers": a feature-length film The Daily Wire released in 2023, at the height of MAGA's efforts to stoke an anti-transgender moral panic over women's...
091: Whole World's Gone to Slop feat. Hannah Gais [Preview] 26.03.2026 5:29
Things are getting stupid out there, thanks to Web3 — the grift-crazy era of crypto and the A.I. slop. Our friend Hannah Gais joins the show to talk about her experience at a Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington, D.C., where people were encouraged to drain their wallets betting on the news and shrug off the possibility that our government is engaging in insider betting on the platform. We also d...
090: What Are the Odds? feat. Danny Funt 23.03.2026 1:00:17
If you’re alive in America today, you’ve seen the ads — on TV, at bus stops, and on your phone. We have a gambling problem in this country, and it’s getting worse by the minute. With a rapid, billion-dollar boom in sports betting already underway, we now have to reckon with the next phase of this trend: betting on news events. Journalist and author Danny Funt joins Posting Through It for a con...
089: Rest in Piss, Infowars and The Daily Stormer [Preview] 19.03.2026 4:36
Posting Through It says farewell to two of the worst websites to have ever existed: The Daily Stormer and Infowars. Andrew Anglin and Alex Jones have claimed their respective demises before, but something feels markedly different this time. Both are facing declining revenue and mounting debts from lawsuits and dwindling web traffic. Meanwhile, the MAGA movement that once supported them has largel...
088: Why the Right Struggles Against Antisemitism feat. Art Levine 16.03.2026 1:08:43
MAGA is at an existential crossroads right now. If that sounds strange to you, you haven’t paid much attention to the movement’s struggles with antisemitism, which exploded after the assassination of Charlie Kirk at a college speaking event last September. Our guest, investigative reporter and author Art Levine, recently covered the GOP’s crisis with antisemitism in the Washington Spectator. It’s...
087: The Dark, Horny World of The Daily Wire’s 'Lady Ballers' [Preview] 12.03.2026 16:20
Mike and Jared took a break from Iran War coverage to look back on "Lady Ballers": a feature-length film The Daily Wire released in 2023, at the height of MAGA's efforts to stoke an anti-transgender moral panic over women's sports. The guys reexamine the movie as an artifact that helped deliver the MAGA movement we see in 2026 and an example of conservatives' efforts at counter-programming against...
086: Is MAGA Really in Crisis? 09.03.2026 1:11:40
In this intimate, two-handed edition of Posting Through It , Jared and Mike try to figure out whether the MAGA movement is actually faltering, as some news coverage would suggest. The short answer is yes: poll numbers are sagging, the economy is slumping, influencers are turning on one another, and the rhetoric has grown so absurd that less-online working people can no longer follow it. The m...
085: A Nuclear Arsenal of Iran Takes [Preview] 05.03.2026 10:55
Well, we are at war. It doesn’t matter what MAGA calls it tomorrow — it’s war. Jared and Mike may not be foreign policy analysts , but they know enough to recognize who else isn’t, either. The hosts wade into a Caspian Sea of bad takes in this premium episode, running through the propaganda of Zionist extremists, antisemitic extremists, and, in some cases, people so stupid you'd consider it e...
084: Contrarian Freaks Are Lining Up to Downplay the Epstein Files feat. Ileana Justine 02.03.2026 1:13:33
Jared and Mike dive into the growing world of contrarian punditry that seeks to downplay Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex abuse and discourage audiences from drawing conclusions about his connections to some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people. They take a closer look at one online personality, Michael Tracey, to unpack this surreal and alarming trend. Later, they’re joined by Ileana Ju...
083: How MAGA Laid the Blueprint for Attacking Elections in 2018 [Preview] 26.02.2026 8:25
In this episode, Jared and Mike rewind to Florida’s razor-thin 2018 midterms to break down a often-overlooked test run of “Stop the Steal,” years before it became synonymous with the 2021 riot at the United States Capitol. As recounts unfolded in the high-stakes Senate and governor’s races, longtime GOP operative Roger Stone and a network of MAGA activists mobilized protests in Broward County, amp...
082: The Ugly Ideology Behind 'Looksmaxxing' Subcultures feat. Annie Kelly 23.02.2026 1:11:20
By now, you've probably seen it: someone you follow making a joke about "maxxing" or getting "mogged" on your timeline. These terms come from a terminally online subculture spun off of the so-called "manosphere" known as "looksmaxxing." It's hyper-focused on the shallowest dimension of masculinity: physical appearance. Clavicular, the subculture's breakout star, has been popping up everywhere late...
081: AI Scott Adams is My Kind of Guy [Preview] 19.02.2026 10:35
We hope you had a good Valentine's Day last week. If not, there's always the new Free Press matchmaker offshoot from Bari Weiss — and if that doesn't work out either, come join us while we try to make sense of what is happening with A.I. Specifically, we dig into the strange situation surrounding Scott Adams' post-death A.I. talk show, which has cropped up on social media somewhat...
PTI Bulletin: How to Use Signal During a Protest feat. Bill Budington 18.02.2026 28:16
Grassroots organizers have increasingly used the messaging app Signal to coordinate responses to MAGA authoritarianism. It remains the best messaging app available, but the “ICE Out” protests in Minneapolis demonstrated how regime propagandists and corrupt law enforcement can attack and exploit it. Influencers entered public-facing Signal chats and ferried the information there to Kash Patel’s FBI...
080: The MAGA Brain Rot Threatening to Undermine Midterm Elections feat. Hunter Walker 16.02.2026 1:03:41
Midterm elections are approaching and early polling shows it's poised to be a bloodbath for the MAGA movement. But Americans may be in for a wild November, thanks to a crew of brain-rotted election denialists now working inside the US government. (One of them happens to be the president.) Hunter Walker , an investigative reporter at Talking Points Memo, has been following the MAGA movement's effor...
079: A Super Bowl to Call Our Own [Preview] 12.02.2026 12:24
Bawitdabadabangdadangdiggydoogy, our name is Postiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin' THROUGH IT. Jared and Mike have covered the TPUSA halftime show from its inception and despite insistence from their individual psychotherapists they see no reason to stop now. Hear the hosts breakdown how the event happened, what TPUSA wanted to accomplish and what they actually accomplished—a very grim, objectively s...
078: Who the Hell is Steven Crowder? feat. Byron McKoy 09.02.2026 2:28:00
This edition of Posting Through It 's acclaimed "Who the Hell?" series profiles right-wing podcast host Steven Crowder . Jared and Mike are joined by Byron McKoy , co-host of the podcast Louder Than Crowder , to explore how Crowder emerged as one of the Trump-era's flagship media programs and how his career started to unravel in recent years. Together, they retrace the arc of...
077: Jeffrey Epstein Had a Lot of Friends [Preview] 05.02.2026 7:29
The Jeffrey Epstein story will never die. Jared and Mike report back on the many scandals embedded in the latest drop, while paying acute attention to Epstein’s relationship to MAGA and the radical right. (Unlike Nick Fuentes, our podcast is not selling Jeffrey Epstein branded quarter-zips.) The hosts move on to talk about TPUSA’s alternative Super Bowl halftime show, which features a few names yo...
076: Angry About ICE? Trump Might Have You on a Watchlist feat. Ken Klippenstein 02.02.2026 1:08:45
Jared and Mike speak with seasoned national security reporter Ken Klippenstein about the expansion of national surveillance programs targeting anti-ICE activists and community organizers, alongside others they consider threats to the MAGA political agenda. While DHS denies that the agency maintains databases of so-called "domestic terrorists," Ken's reporting revealed that to be plainly untrue....
075: People Are Really Starting to Hate this Shit [Preview] 29.01.2026 11:33
Minneapolis has changed America in ways we can’t even process yet, but in the short term it has sent the MAGA movement into a spiral of lying, propagandizing, and coping—the likes of which we haven’t quite seen before. Jared and Mike dip into some grim polling numbers for Trump and ICE before pivoting to the shit they’re currently selling: Antifa boogeymen, entirely nonexistent paid protesters, a...
074: Bari Weiss is 'Honestly' Flailing at CBS News feat. Justin Baragona 26.01.2026 1:19:41
Jared and Mike welcome media columnist and reporter Justin Baragona . They discuss the latest execution by ICE agents in Minneapolis and initial reactions from MAGA media before turning their focus to what's been going on at CBS News under the direction of its new ideologically driven leader: Bari Weiss. Since the network's owners hired Weiss to be its editor in chief in October 2025, she's been...
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