The MeidasTouch Podcast

On today's episode of The Mighty, we sit down with friend of the show Ravi Gupta to discuss the state of the midterm elections as we rapidly approach Election Day 2022. Gupta is the co-founder of Arena, an organization dedicated to convening, training, and supporting the next generation of candidates and campaign staff and previously worked on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. He is also...

On today’s episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we cover the most hot-button issues facing the United States and the world, and speak with the Democratic Candidate for U.S. Congress taking on Lauren Boebert, Adam Frisch. In Trump news, Federal Judge David Carter ordered the release of emails between Trump and insurrectionist attorney John Eastman due to the crime fraud exception to attorney-client...

On this edition of The Mighty, MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas interviews world-renowned basketball player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who first caught the nation’s attention in 1988 as a Louisiana State University freshman sensation. Abdul-Rauf was drafted 3rd overall by the Denver Nuggets and quickly became one of the NBA’s top scorers. Despite topping the leaderboards, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s NBA care...

What if California seceded from the United States? If it did, what would happen? Would it usher in a new era of peace and prosperity? Or plunge the US into a new civil war? This is The Last Resort, a new documentary podcast following the rise, fall, and rebirth of CAL EXIT: the campaign for Californian Independence.  It’s a story about a dream for a new progressive utopia on the West Coast. It’s a...

On today’s show, Chelsea Handler joins us for a very special episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast! During our interview with Chelsea, we discuss the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe and why Chelsea is a fierce advocate for a woman’s right to choose. Additionally, we discuss her stance on cannabis injustice in this country and why President Biden’s recent decision surrounding marijuana is an ab...

On this edition of The Mighty, we speak with Founder and Executive Director of Voters of Tomorrow, Santiago Mayer. Santiago, an immigrant from Mexico, noticed a lack of political engagement at his high school and decided to tackle that by creating a new organization for young people, by young people, when he was just 17-years-old. Since then, Voters of Tomorrow has become one of the preeminent org...

Thursday was a very bad day for Donald Trump, which means it was a very good day for justice and the rule of law. On today’s episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, we deliver a comprehensive recap of Thursday’s bombshell January 6 committee hearing, which culminated in a vote to subpoena Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection. Next, we discuss the Supreme Court ruling to deny Donald...

NextGen America is the nation’s largest youth voting organization that’s using innovative digital and field strategies to turn out young voters in key states. On today's episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, we speak with NextGen America President Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez about the power of young voters in the 2022 midterm elections, and the strategies NextGen is implementing to get these voters to...

Today, we are excited to introduce you to Will Rollins, the Democratic Candidate running for US Congress in California’s 41st congressional district - possibly the single most flippable district in the United States. MAGA Republican Extremist Ken Calvert, who voted against certifying the 2020 election, has had a cushy gig as a member of Congress in a safe red seat for decades. But due to recent re...

On today’s episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down the latest breaking news to keep you informed! On today’s show we discuss Trump’s lawyer, Christina Bobb, speaking to federal investigators in the Mar-a-Lago stolen documents case, a recap of Trump’s deranged ‘rallies’ from over the weekend, why the radical right is providing cover for Kanye West’s anti-Semitic social media posts + more!...

On this episode of The Mighty, we speak with Antjuan Seawright. Seawright is a Democratic political strategist, founder and CEO of Blueprint Strategy LLC, a CBS News political contributor, and a senior visiting fellow at Third Way. He serves as Senior Advisor at the DCCC and DNC. He is also the political advisor to Majority Whip Clyburn and many others. On The Mighty, we feature some of the most i...

On today’s episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, we bring you the latest news of the week to keep you informed. We dive in deep with the latest lies Herschel Walker is spewing as his campaign continues to implode, confirmation that members of the Oath Keepers were in contact with secret service members leading up to Jan 6, a Proud Boy pleads guilty to Seditious Conspiracy for the first time, Preside...

Matthew Diemer is the Democratic candidate running for U.S. Congress in Ohio's 7th district. At a time when distrust in the government is high and polarization between the parties is at record levels, Diemer is running on a simple message: "Policy, not politics." Diemer's no nonsense approach and commitment to the working class run in stark contrast to his MAGA Republican opponent, who literally s...

Donald Trump just filed a deranged application with Supreme Court regarding the Mar-a-Lago search warrant case. Trump is asking the justices to overturn a ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in order to allow the special master to review the roughly 100 documents with classification markings that Trump stole. MeidasTouch co-founder and legal expert Ben Meiselas breaks down the latest news...

On today’s episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, we discuss the latest updates coming out of Florida as Hurricane Ian wreaks havoc on the state and Gov. DeSantis’s refusal to take responsibility for delayed evacuation orders and a failed insurance system, Trump’s fascist cosplay rally in Michigan along with his racist and violent attacks against Mitch McConnell and his wife, Brazil’s presidential el...

Donald Trump on Saturday brought his fascist cosplay circus rally to a small venue in Warren, Michigan. Trump and his deranged group of sycophants continued to spread dangerous lies about our elections, gaslight the audience about what happened on January 6th, stoked violence against Democrats and more. It is important that all Americans are aware of what is being said at these events, and underst...

On today’s episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, we bring you the latest updates surrounding Hurricane Ian, including President Biden’s quick federal response to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s requests for help, despite the fact that DeSantis voted against provided aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy. We dig into Trump’s latest debacle with the Special Master—the one HE REQUESTED—as his plot to dela...

The DOJ just ripped Donald Trump in a new public court filing before the Special Master Judge. Apparently, Donald Trump filed “objections” to the Special Master in an under seal filing, and the DOJ responded publicly by essentially saying, “This is the process you asked for, and you got it, so stop complaining and put up or shut up!” MeidasTouch co-founder and legal expert Ben Meiselas breaks it a...

On The Mighty, we feature some of the most impactful responses, reactions, narratives, musings, and rants of Meidas content creators. New episodes of the traditional MeidasTouch Podcast featuring all the brothers drop every Tuesday and Friday morning. Sheena King is the Democrat running for the newly formed Texas House District 61 for the 2022 elections. King is running against a Radical MAGA Repu...

On today’s episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, we dig into the vast divide forming across the globe as the battle between democracy and autocracy reaches a boiling point not seen since the last World War. Italy has elected as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the hard-right Brothers of Italy, a party which is the most direct descendant of Mussolini’s fascist party. Protests in Iran have...

On The Mighty, we feature some of the most impactful responses, reactions, narratives, musings, and rants of Meidas content creators. New episodes of the traditional MeidasTouch Podcast featuring all the brothers drop every Tuesday and Friday morning. It’s easy to focus on the elections everyone is talking about. The House. Senate. Gubernatorial races. But it’s often the elections we don’t hear as...

On today’s episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast we have an incredible guest, Director of Political Strategy ‘Gen-Z For Change’, Olivia Julianna! We discuss Olivia’s activism, her passion for pro-democracy causes and her public spats with Ultra MAGA Republicans whose attacks on her backfired in a major way. During the rest of the show, we discuss the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ complete smackdown...

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has GRANTED the Department of Justice’s Motion for Partial Stay regarding the 100 classified documents. This is a massive defeat for Trump and a massive embarrassment for the corrupted disgraced Judge Aileen Cannon. The 11th Circuit Panel consisted of two Trump appointees and one Obama Appointee, but they all voted unanimously that the DOJ should get its own c...

Donald Trump’s lawyers had a bad day in court before the Special Master in the Mar-a-Lago search case on Tuesday. The Special Master, who Trump recommended, pressed Trump’s lawyers on the claims Trump declassified records and why it would be the court’s business to challenge the actual current Executive Branch's assertion that documents are classified and belong to them. Judge Raymond J. Dearie to...

On today’s show, we have an amazing interview with Congresswoman Shontel Brown, the Democrat representing Ohio’s 11th district. During the interview, we discuss Rep. Brown’s focus on getting straight to work to deliver for the American people, the stakes of the midterm elections, and much more. The remainder of the show, we bring you the latest news of the week. We break down Trump’s fascist circu...