Global Thermonuclear Election

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Is the 2020 “stolen election” story really a setup to seize control of future elections? Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman react to a Washington Post report that lays out an executive order blueprint to blame China for 2020 and trigger emergency powers that could reshape how Americans vote. They argue this is what happens when a bloated presidency meets a party that treats democracy like an optional accessory, and they talk about what actually stops it when Congress will not. Then they pivot to new reporting on Epstein documents, storage units, and a DOJ that keeps finding ways to investigate itself with a straight face. From there it gets darker as they dig into the military push for full access to leading AI systems, the rush to turn surveillance and war into software, and why Democrats taking piles of cash from Palantir and SpaceX tells you plenty about what is not going to get fought. They close with what they’re watching and reading, including The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere and Gravity’s Rainbow. Support the show by signing up to our Patreon and get access to the full Weekender episode each Friday as well as special Live Shows and access to our community discord: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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0:00.0	Whoa, buddy.
0:03.9	Welcome to the Weekender Edition of the McCrack Podcast.
0:06.2	I'm Jerry Dayt Sexton.
0:07.4	Nick Houseman is with me.
0:09.0	Nick, this is one of those episodes where we put together the episode and then things just kept happening to the point where this is like a like a triple quadruple stuffed Oreo weekender edition.
0:22.2	Yeah.
0:22.4	I mean, a puzzle isn't the right kind of description for this.
0:25.4	It's got too many pieces to figure out how to connect.
0:28.3	There's so much going on.
0:30.4	We had to completely reorder everything because, oh, by the way, and over to patreon.com
0:35.6	slash McCrigg podcast.
0:36.9	Support the show, become a patron. Listen to the
0:39.0	entire weekend or on top of that. Come out for live shows like what we did after the State of the Union this
0:43.9	week, which rave reviews, if we may pat ourselves on the back. And people are realizing this is,
0:50.7	it's worth supporting the show, Patreon.com slash McCrack podcast.
0:59.9	Nick, uh, right before we started recording a, uh, blockbuster report coming out of the Washington Post that groups who are working in tandem with the Trump administration are working to
1:06.4	craft an executive order to declare the 2020 election stolen by China, which would then allow Trump
1:13.7	to enact emergency powers to control elections using the presidency. It sounds like what he would be
1:21.3	able to do at this point would outlaw voting machines, mail and ballots.
1:28.9	This is the kind of thing.
1:31.2	We've been talking about this for a while.
1:33.7	We've expected the move to happen.
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