The Rachel Maddow Show
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The Rachel Maddow Show airs Mondays at 9pm ET on MS NOW and drops shortly thereafter in this feed.
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Maddow: Trump Cabinet too rife with scandal to designate a 'survivor'
Rachel Maddow considering the tradition associated with the State of the Union address in which one member of the president's Cabinet does not attend the event in case something happens that prevents everyone in…
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'Ignorance is Strength': Judge shuts down Trump's history re-write in devastating ruling
Rachel Maddow shares highlights from a judge's remarks in rejecting Donald Trump's power to dismantle a national monument i Philadelphia to hide the fact that George Washington owned slaves. The judge compared Trump's…
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Check Out a Preview for “Clock It”
“MS NOW Presents: Clock It” is an invitation to the liveliest and most informed groupchat in your feed. Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels are long-time political powerhouses. And they understand more than most…
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'All over the files': Maddow names names of people in Trump's orbit in the Epstein files
Donald Trump is, of course, mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files, as one would expect given his close relationship with notorious pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but Trump's association with…
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MS NOW Presents: Clock It with Symone and Eugene
Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels were once at odds as White House staffer and White House reporter. Now they’re friends and colleagues—each co-hosting their own shows at MS NOW. But their off-air…
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Maddow: Trump 'wobbling' as his agenda falls apart in the face of pressure
Rachel Maddow looks at the latest headlines showing Donald Trump backpedaling in the face of protests and plummeting poll numbers, taking a shocking loss in a special election, losing court cases, and watching…
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Maddow: Trump in retreat as disastrous anti-immigrant campaign becomes political catastrophe
Donald Trump's anti-immigrant mission was already damaging his standing with the portion of Americans who didn't already dislike him, but the escalating violence and brutality and shocking on-camera killings have seen…
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MS NOW's special report on the Jack Smith testimony: Prime Time recap Part 2
Rachel Maddow and her MS NOW colleagues share their reaction and analysis of former special counsel Jack Smith's testimony about the criminal investigations of Donald Trump before the House Judiciary Committee. Want…
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MS NOW's special report on the Jack Smith testimony: Prime Time recap Part 1
Rachel Maddow and her MS NOW colleagues share their reaction and analysis of former special counsel Jack Smith's testimony about the criminal investigations of Donald Trump before the House Judiciary Committee. Want…
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Moral principles drive faith leaders to speak out against Trump on immigration, foreign policy
Rachel Maddow shares recent examples of prominent members of the clergy speaking out against Donald Trump's abuse anti-immigrant tactics and his belligerent foreign policy, and talks with Cardinal Blase Cupich,…
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For Trump's opponents, a model for finding their fight to stop him
While Donald Trump has made clear how he intends to wield his power and retain his power, the most pressing question for Americans is how his opponents intend to stop him. Jon Ralston, founder and CEO of the Nevada…
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Trump rebuked at every turn; Courts and Congress show new spine as Americans take to the streets
Rachel Maddow rounds up a litany of recent court losses Donald Trump has suffered, as even some Republicans in Congress are agreeing to block or otherwise mitigate the damage Trump's policies are inflicting on their…
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Maddow calls out the real reason Trump invaded Venezuela
Rachel Maddow runs through the litany of excuses and justifications the Trump administration has presented to explain the military invasion of Venezuela, and points out that none of what has been floated holds up under…
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Live community event: Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
Rachel Maddow hosts a special conversation with guests from her "Burn Order" podcast, live from the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles to discuss the fight against the race-based incarceration of Japanese-Americans during…
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'Don't feed the pig': For all of his unpopularity, corruption may bring Trump's downfall
Rachel Maddow shares a look at how outrage over government corruption in Bulgaria prompted massive protests and eventually the resignation of the prime minister and his government. And in the United States, for all of…
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Trump learns Politics 101: Do unpopular things, become unpopular, lose political power
Rachel Maddow reviews how poorly Donald Trump's policies are being received by the American public as Trump continues to appoint laughably unqualified sycophants to top agency roles, and leadership failures mount. As a…
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We The People: A conversation with Rachel Maddow and Timothy Snyder
Rachel Maddow hosts a prime time special event with historian Timothy Snyder about the rise of authoritarianism and how we can meet the moment. (Recorded on November 21, 2025 at the Harris Theater in Chicago’s…
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Trump suffers frequent failures as Americans push back at every turn
Rachel Maddow looks at a variety of legal tactics and pressure campaigns that are having success against the Trump administration's overreach in immigration enforcement and the Justice Department's vendetta…
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Possible war crime puts Trump's 'illegal orders' freakout in new context
Rachel Maddow relays the details of a new Washington Post report that Donald Trump's secretary of defense, former weekend cable news host Pete Hegseth, gave orders to kill everyone on board a boat he accused of running…
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Preview of “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order”
Rachel Maddow’s new series lays bare one of the most shocking decisions in American history. It’s story that reveals how an executive order authorizing the mass roundup of innocent Japanese Americans came to be, the…
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'It's absurd': Sen. Kelly bites back at Trump, Hegseth threats over 'illegal orders' video
Senator Mark Kelly, in an interview with Rachel Maddow, emphasized his view that "it's almost comical" that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are calling it a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that he cited…
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Introducing "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order"
"Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order" is the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history: the executive order to target and round up innocent citizens, Japanese Americans, at the outbreak of World…
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Maddow: 'Trump weirdness and destruction' produces ceaseless string of bizarre headlines
Rachel Maddow relays a series of stories that in any normal administration would be a shattering cascade of scandals, but in the perpetually disgraced Trump administration is merely a string of ordinary headlines of…
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Maddow: Democrats snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (again)
Rachel Maddow looks at the powerful political momentum Democrats had built, including massive nationwide protests and a wildly successful election, only to have their unity falter on the shutdown fight with…
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Maddow shows Trump in polling free fall ahead of first election test of new term
Rachel Maddow shares the results of several new polls, all showing the deepening descent of Donald Trump's popularity with the American people. Not only are Trump's actions being met with displeasure, but a remarkable…
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'We need to watch out': Maddow sounds alarm on ICE surveillance as Trump wields new weapon
Rachel Maddow explains that while much of Donald Trump's abuse of power is typical of authoritarians, Trump has a new tool that no authoritarian before him has had: extremely advanced spyware. Trump is already…
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MSLIVE ’25: The State of U.S. Democracy with Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell
We’re thrilled to share one of the most anticipated conversations from our recent MSNBCLIVE ‘25 event in New York City. Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell sit down to discuss coping with this political moment, the…
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Maddow: 'No Kings' protests send message to Trump from EVERY state in the nation
Not even a year into his new term and Donald Trump is already seeing people take to the streets by the millions to voice their objections how he is approaching his job as president of the United States. Rachel Maddow…
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Doors slam on weak Trump as pushback hardens at every level
Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's position of extreme weakness ahead of what are expected to be massive "No Kings" protests, with Trump's agenda running into resistance from everyone from students and universities…
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Rachel Maddow in Discussion with Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young
Ahead of the premiere of Rachel’s new documentary, “Andrew Young: The Dirty Work,” Rachel sits down with Andrew Young and John Hope Bryant in a discussion led by Rev. Al Sharpton at Clark Atlanta University. They talk…
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Preview of “The Blueprint” Season 2
Jen Psaki is on a mission to show us how the Democratic party can use this political moment to fight and win again. On Season 2 of her podcast, “The Blueprint,” she interviews the people reshaping the party, starting…
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Rambling Trump accidentally reopens questions about an election payoff
Rachel Maddow points out the exceptional and unusually effusive praise and thanks that Donald Trump heaped on Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the president of Egypt, at an event tied to the Israel-Gaza ceasefire, in which Trump…
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Pritzker digs in against Trump abuse of National Guard; warns of 2026 Trump scheme
Donald Trump continues to terrorize urban populations with militarized ICE raids while trying every loophole he can find to justify using the actual military in U.S. cities. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker talks with…
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Governor serves Trump a dose of reality over bizarre Portland military deployment
Rachel Maddow reviews how the Trump administration has made a practice of weaponizing access to personal data in order to attack people Donald Trump doesn't like, and talks with Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic…
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Exclusive: Former Vice President Kamala Harris joins for an extended interview
Rachel Maddow hosts former Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic nominiee for president, on the eve of the publication of her new book, "107 Days," to revisit some of the decisions and circumstances that…
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Maddow: For a would-be strongman, Trump is profoundly weak
Rachel Maddow points out that Donald Trump is following the "strongman" playbook so closely, and with such a lack of originality, that his behavior in his second term has become entirely predictable. And yet, for all…
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Maddow: Trump busted by his own distinct signature, sinks to new depths of historic disgrace
The estate of Jeffrey Epstein released materials today to the House Oversight Committee, including the "birthday book" that Donald Trump disputed (and continues to dispute) includes a crude drawing and note he…
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'Five alarm fire': Trump attempts to fire Fed board member, inviting economic calamity
Rachel Maddow highlights the difference between Donald Trump's rhetoric and his actions and notes that taking the big picture of Trump's actions can illuminate significant trends. For example, moving an individual out…
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Maddow: Three ways Trump is trying to rig the 2026 midterm elections
Donald Trump seems to move from one unpopular catastrophe to another. With people still in the streets protesting his military take-over of Washington, D.C., his disgraceful capitulation to Putin in Alaska prompted…
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'Not about crime': Maddow CRACKS OPEN Trump's real motives in deploying the National Guard to D.C.
Rachel Maddow cites example after example of Donald Trump going out of his way to help criminals, including some really terrible ones, so the idea that Trump's concerns about crime are behind his deployment of the…
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Maddow: U.S. profoundly changed by authoritarian leader; 'We're beyond waiting and seeing now'
Rachel Maddow points out that the thing most Americans were dreading has come to pass, and the United States has changed profoundly in only six months of authoritarian rule. "We have a consolidating dictatorship in our…
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BAD NEWS FOR TRUMP: Democrats get their wish as Roy Cooper enters North Carolina Senate race
In an election year of astronomically high stakes, in the absolutely crucial Senate race in North Carolina, Democrats got their wish with popular former Governor Roy Cooper entering the race. Fresh from announcing his…
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MADDOW DEBUNKS: Weird fake news, A.I. slop stories about her and MSNBC infect social media
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the sudden flood of artificial intelligence-generated fake stories on social media, using false stories with her at the center as examples. These false stories have her doing everything…
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Heckuva time to make an appearance: Trump's FEMA chief drops in on Texas flood zone
Rachel Maddow introduces viewers to the unfamiliar image of Donald Trump's pick to lead FEMA, David Richardson, who finally made an appearance in Texas more than a week after flooding killed scores of people. Want…
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Devastating Texas floods highlight stakes of vital weather services amid reckless Trump cuts
As the death toll continues to rise and search and rescue teams continue to look for victims, the devastating flood in Kerr County, Texas show not only the vital role of weather forecasters, but also climate…
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Trump's poor choices for national security staffing have new relevance after Iran bombing
Rachel Maddow reviews the cast of characters that staff important national security roles in the Trump administration, and whose lack of qualifications for their jobs matters even more now that Donald Trump's bombing…
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Defying Trump, Americans refuse to be denied their right to protest
Rachel Maddow shows that despite Donald Trump's admonitions against protesting, and despite physical threats from local law enforcement, and despite genuine public safety concerns, Americans would not be denied their…
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Maddow: Military last resort in L.A. shows a weak president with no ideas and no political skills
Rachel Maddow points out that the most important story of our era is not what Donald Trump is trying to do, but what the American people will allow him to do. Maddow notes that pushback works against Trump's…
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Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants
Rachel Maddow looks at fresh examples of communities across the United States rallying in defense of local immigrants being hunted by ICE agents, and notes that while Trump was open during the campaign about his policy…
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