From Epstein Emails To Diaper Tax, With Congressional Candidate John Cavanaugh

The Muckrake Political Podcast

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4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Support the show on Patreon and unlock special content like our Weekender show every Friday. As a bonus, today's show is released in full in order to hear co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman's analysis on the newly released Epstein emails and what they might, and we stress might, mean for Trump. Then, Nick interviews John Cavanaugh, who is running for Congress in Nebraska. Topics include banning congressional stock trades, repealing the diaper tax, ICE raids hitting Nebraska’s meatpacking towns, the costs of tariff chaos, redistricting reform, judicial term ideas, cannabis access, and how to actually rebuild public trust.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Muckrake podcast Weekender Edition. I am Nick Housman,
0:08.0	your co-host, and I'm joined by Jared Day Sexton, who is with us from the road, to do a quick
0:12.4	little intro to a fantastic interview I have with John Kavanaugh, who you'll definitely
0:17.4	want to stay and listen to because he is a two-time state legislator in Nebraska and is currently running for Congress and will have a lot of great ideas and showing us how
0:25.7	someone like that will get into the race to try and get into the next level of federal office.
0:31.5	So Jared, thanks for joining us out there on the roads.
0:35.9	Holy shit, heck.
0:38.6	Yeah. Like, holy. Holy shit, Nick. Yeah.
0:39.3	Like, holy shit.
0:40.9	So I've been out of pocket and I wasn't planning on coming on the Weekender, but then
0:47.6	we had this tranche of emails that were released from Jeffrey Epstein.
0:53.7	And let's just say the game has changed.
0:56.9	Oh, how has it changed?
0:59.0	And also don't forget, if you want to listen to the full episode of this every Friday,
1:03.2	when we have our weekenders, it's patreon.com slash muckrake podcast.
1:07.1	Join our wonderful community, be part of it, and you will not regret it.
1:11.9	And yes, it was, I wasn't expecting the text, the late night text to jump on and report something.
1:18.7	And I don't know.
1:20.4	Is it shocking to you?
1:22.6	Are you shocked like people in Casablanca were shocked about these emails and what they're saying?
1:29.1	Gambling, Nick.
1:30.6	Gambling in this establishment.
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