Introducing: Runaway Country with Alex Wagner

Missing America

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Being an American right now is a wild ride. Every day brings a new controversy, with breathless media narratives and the same loud voices rushing in to score political points. Then another Truth Social post drops and the circus moves on. But all that noise is drowning out the actual story. On Crooked Media’s new podcast Runaway Country, veteran journalist Alex Wagner talks to the voices at the center of the headlines: from the fringes of the resistance, to the marrow of MAGA, to the many people who’ve found themselves smack-dab in the crosshairs of a fight they never asked for. Because if you want to understand our unreal times, you’ve got to talk to the very real people who are experiencing it all first-hand. Join Alex as she brings together the stories of everyday Americans trapped in our national car with no brakes, alongside conversations with some of the smartest thinkers in politics. Buckle up, this road could lead anywhere. New episodes every Thursday wherever you get your podcasts, and @RunawayCountryWithAlexWagner on YouTube. Make sure to subscribe, so you don’t miss an episode.

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0:00.0	Hey, Ben, here. It's been a while since you've heard from me. I'm dropping in to share with you a new show from Crooked Media called Runaway Country with Alex Wagner.
0:08.8	Alex is fantastic. She's an excellent journalist, a good friend of mine. And using her experience as a veteran correspondent,
0:14.6	Alex shares real stories of people experiencing the most glaring impacts of President Trump's policies and lets them put the moment into their
0:21.6	own words. Then she calls in some of the smartest minds in politics to put it all in context.
0:26.8	This isn't a glib, coastal elite, notes from Trump country type of show, you're going to hear
0:32.1	reactions from regular people across the spectrum, incisive analysis from Alex, plus reporting from local journalists on
0:39.5	the ground, bringing the story to you from where it's happening. If you're going to love
0:43.2	Missing America, then you're going to love this show. I promise you, Alex has been doing this,
0:46.5	getting out, reporting on immigration stories, on opioid stories, on stories, on stories of
0:51.6	growing authoritarianism. She knows what she's doing.
0:55.5	She knows how to find the story.
0:58.3	And I'm excited to share with you the first episode right now.
1:00.1	If you enjoy this one as much as I do,
1:03.5	make sure to subscribe to Runaway Country with Alex Wagner on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast.
1:06.0	New episodes will drop every Thursday.
1:08.6	Hi, everyone.
1:10.0	Welcome to my new show, Runaway Country.
1:13.2	We are less than a year into the Trump administration, and I don't know about you, but I barely
1:18.0	recognize this place.
1:20.5	National Guard troops are invading blue cities.
1:23.5	Citizens are being snatched off the street.
1:25.4	And the east wing of the White House is being ripped
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