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Progressive women are fed up & fighting back (feat. IHIP News)

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Political podcasting is said to be a men's game (and predominantly conservative). But two women stood up and said "I've had it!" Now they are revolutionizing political commentary in America.

The hosts of the ‘I’ve Had It’ podcast: Jennifer Welch, a lifelong atheist, and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, a former evangelical conservative, started their podcast to air petty grievances. But, as American politics got heated so did their podcast. Wine jokes became unfiltered takedowns of both Democrats and Republicans. In the process, they gained millions of followers and changed how the progressive media system works. And there's no slowing them down. 

Host Brittany Luse sits down with Jennifer and Angie to talk about the power women have for shaping politics, why women just can't let go of Trump, and how Democrats can actually listen to progressive women.

(00:00) IHIP's success as an indictment of the Democratic party
(03:16) Jennifer and Angie's personal political journey
(10:30) White women leaving the right
(15:11) Jennifer's journey to progressivism
(20:45) Why IHIP's unfiltered approach resonates
(25:00) Why Democrats like Jack Schlossberg seek out IHIP's platform
(30:28) The importance of women's voices ahead of the midterms
(35:03) Why we should pay attention to how women do their politics

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0:00.0

Well, I would say to the claim that we are not qualified to do this, I would say you're right.

0:06.7

We're not.

0:07.8

And that is sad that we have this big of an audience and that this many people listen to us.

0:14.6

And it is an indictment on the Democratic Party and their messaging and on mainstream corporate media, that two women

0:24.8

from Oklahoma started talking about politics and that we've ascended in this manner.

0:30.8

So they're 100% right.

0:31.9

We are not qualified.

0:33.2

I think about it all the time.

0:34.5

I was an interior designer two years, three years ago.

0:36.9

I still am.

0:37.4

I still do projects. It's like this is crazy.

0:42.2

The I've Had It Podcast, co-hosted by Jennifer Welch and Angie Pumps Sullivan, started as a place

0:48.2

for the two former Bravo stars to let loops and get out their petty frustrations. But over time,

0:55.8

I've had it, and its sister podcast, IHIP News, have morphed into a political battleground. And Welch and Sullivan have amassed

1:02.4

quite an audience in the process. Videos for IHIP News, which now publishes seven days a week,

1:08.0

often multiple times per day, regularly get hundreds of thousands of views.

1:13.7

And across all their platforms, Welch and Sullivan have millions of followers. And as their show has

1:19.0

grown and changed, so have their politics, moving from conservative or liberal over to

1:24.3

progressivism. So how did they go from trash-talking BFFs to formidable political

1:29.4

commentators? Well, you'll have to stay tuned to hear that story. On today's show, Jennifer Welch and

1:34.8

Angie Sullivan join us to dish about their personal political journeys, why they think some women

1:40.0

are leaving the right, and why the Democrats are struggling to unify their base.

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