3565 - Trumpflation Squeezes Parents; Populist Dem Runs in Maine w/ Elizabeth Pancotti & Graham Platner

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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It's Emmajority Report Thursday on the Majority Report

On today's show:

In an interview with Laura Ingraham, JD Vance spews great replacement theory racism as he threatens to withhold federal funding for states that refuse to comply with the administration's Immigration Policy.

Former economic advisor to Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Pancotti joins us to talk about how the Trump administration's policies are making back-to-school supplies prices rapidly rise.

Maine Senate candidate and MR listener, Graham Platner joins us to discuss his campaign and platform.

In the Fun Half:

JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller are heckled relentlessly on their way to a press conference in the depths of Union Station in DC.

Stephen Miller claims that the federal invasion of DC is to protect black people and the protestors are just "elderly hippies" from somewhere else.

RFK, Jr works out with Pete Hegseth at the pentagon and then later that night explains to Jesse Watters why he works out in jeans.

We take a look at a 2022 campaign ad from an Israeli born acting US Attorney in Nevada who recently made news for allowing a detained Israeli pedophile return home.

All that and more.

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0:00.0	The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:06.6	It is Thursday.
0:09.6	August 21st, 2025.
0:12.3	My name is Emma Vigland in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:18.2	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America,
0:26.5	downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:29.4	On the program today, Elizabeth Pankati of the Groundwork Collaborative, will be with us to talk
0:36.3	about Trump's tariffs raising prices on back-to-school essentials.
0:41.3	And later in the show, Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, will be with us to talk about his race.
0:50.3	Also on the program, Pam Bondi ramps up her threats against blue states and cities over them legally not complying with the ICE Gestapo.
1:06.2	Deportations hit a new high, 180,000 so far.
1:13.2	Uganda is the latest country to cut a deal with Trump to take abducted immigrants.
1:21.0	Texas Republicans officially pass their deeply gerrymandered map.
1:30.2	J.D. Vance is booed in D.C.'s Union Station,
1:34.1	as Stephen Miller promises that more federal dollars will be wasted on this display.
1:41.2	They are spending $1 million a day on the D.C. occupation.
1:48.4	Vance, fresh off his eighth vacation in seven months, will travel to Georgia today to sell the
1:54.9	administration's deeply unpopular, big, ugly-ass bill.
2:09.1	The DOJ is demanding that hospitals hand over sensitive information on trans kids receiving care, including addresses and private doctor's notes.
2:15.2	A Reuters poll finds that a majority of Americans 57 percent think democracy is in peril,
2:23.7	as Newsom's redistricting plan gets Obama's approval.
2:31.2	After accomplishing nothing, Trump is reportedly taking a step back from Ukraine-Russia peace talks.
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