A Massive Primary Day. 2.5 Million Independents Shut Out. Trump Drops Plan to Payout Insurrectionists.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It's primary day in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota — and depending on your zip code, you either get a real vote or you get told to sit down and shut up. Paul Rieckhoff cuts through the noise on the biggest primary day of the cycle so far, breaking down why California's open primary is what real democracy looks like, why closed primaries in places like New Jersey and New York are a rigged scam dressed up in public money, and why 17 million independents across 16 states are once again being locked out of the elections their taxes fund. He names names: Karen Matthews in CA-23, Seth Bodnar going independent in Montana, Rebecca Bennett taking on the missing-in-action Tom Kean Jr., Deb Haaland in New Mexico, and the partisan hacks — Brad Lander chief among them — who say they love democracy but fight open primaries every step of the way.

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0:00.0	When moderate Republicans or any Republicans break with Trump, which they could do much more often in the days to come, he will actually back down.
0:09.1	Pressure works.
0:10.5	And the country was universally outraged by this bullshit idea of a slush fund for domestic terrorists. Welcome to Independent Americans.
0:34.7	Welcome to a brand new episode 539. I'm your host, Paul Reichoff, and it is Tuesday, June 2nd, the second, the second day of June. We are into June. And it is a primary day in half a dozen states nationwide. I'm coming to you from a non-primary state today, New York City, USA. And the weather here again is pretty awesome.
0:56.9	I got to tell you, summer is coming.
0:59.6	And for many kids in America, school's already out.
1:03.2	And for them, summer's already here, but not here in New York.
1:06.7	We don't get done until June 27th.
1:09.0	And I feel like we have holidays every other day.
1:11.8	Maybe Mom Donnie will have thoughts on that, and we're coming up later.
1:15.2	But damn, we got another month to go before my kids are out.
1:18.3	And today's artist is one that my kids love.
1:21.3	The great Jack Harlow singer, rapper, songwriter, originally from Louisville, Kentucky.
1:27.1	He was born back in 1998, the same year I graduated from college.
1:31.3	He started recording music in high school, and then in 2020, his first album, which went
1:36.3	double platinum, and then he was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rap Performance.
1:40.3	You know him from Loving On Me, Industry Baby, First Class, What's Popping.
1:45.9	And I'm picking him today because he has a new Neo Soul album out called Monica. And it has a lead
1:52.9	track called Say Hello, which is very groovy. And the whole album is very different from anything
1:57.7	he's done before. I think it kind of harkens back to Maxwell or DeAngelo.
2:01.8	The latest album is entitled Monica, lots of good tracks.
2:05.3	And I heard about it on Song Exploder, one of my favorite podcasts, one that I highly recommend.
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