Weekender Live: AOC’s Opening, Newsom’s Ceiling, and Fighting the Surveillance State

The Muckrake Political Podcast

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News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This is a preview of our full Weekender. 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 In a live Weekender taping, Jared Yates Sexton holds down the fort while Nick Hauselman battles the “Socialist Republic of New York,” then tags in for a fast, sharp Q&A. The guys break down what Zoran Mamdani’s win actually signals, whether AOC just gained real 2028 juice, and why Gavin Newsom looks like yesterday’s model in a changing market. They torch the Heritage crowd’s flirtation with Nick Fuentes, talk shutdown brinkmanship and mutual-aid politics, and lay out practical protest security in a surveillance state. There’s a quick detour through JFK/FDR alt-history, a brutal review of that Springsteen movie, and a courtside reality check on a foul-fest Lakers–Spurs game featuring a very mortal Wemby. It’s smart, a little spicy, and deeply unsentimental—just how Muckrake listeners like it.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to a live taping of the Weekender edition of the Muckreg podcast. I'm Jerry Yates Sexton. Nick Hausman is not here. He is currently navigating the Socialist Republic of New York. He will be with us in a few short minutes. Before we get going,
0:24.9	first things first, I'm so happy to be doing a live show and watching the chat play out
0:31.4	with all of our subscribers. As we're answering these questions, feel free to ask questions there in the chat.
0:39.0	If we see them and it sparks something, we will refer to them.
0:43.8	And yeah, really looking forward to it.
0:45.6	For those who are listening to this as a preview of the Weekender, head over to patreon.com
0:51.1	slash Montcrayb Podcast and or support the show.
0:53.8	Do live tapings like this,
0:56.4	specials, all of that, and to hear the entirety of the weekender. And I got to tell you the questions
1:01.7	that have been sent in so far are really, really good. And I am looking forward to getting to
1:08.1	all this stuff. So Patreon.com slash McCunkirk podcast. So I'm sitting here,
1:13.9	by the way, I saw that some people have their beers ready. I am taking down a Red Bull because it
1:21.4	has been one of those kinds of days. I hope wherever you are, whatever you're doing, it's been a decent day.
1:28.4	There's a lot to talk about. Of course, there is a little bit of excitement stemming from the
1:34.4	elections on Tuesday. Our first question is going to be about Zeran Mamdani. And before we get to
1:42.8	that, I just want to speak on what we saw on Tuesday,
1:47.5	which is a complete repudiation of the Trump administration, rising fascism within the United
1:55.5	States of America. It was one of those moments that I think for a lot of people who have been very frustrated and
2:03.4	afraid a nice little respite and I hope you felt that I hope that you were able to bring that in
2:11.8	and hold it a little bit because this is a long fight that we are in the middle of a very, very long and arduous
2:23.1	fight and victories in politics. And I said this the other day when I was talking with
2:29.3	Daniel Moody that politics will break your heart constantly. And I don't think that we need to
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