• Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
    Apr 22 2025

    Rachel Maddow surveys some of the many "No Kings" protests that took place in cities large and small across the United States against Donald Trump's push toward autocracy, and notes that unlike previous remarkable protest days, this one was given prominent attention by major news outlets.

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    44 mins
  • Lost in the sauce: Stories Trump probably hoped you wouldn't notice while he 'flooded the zone'
    Apr 19 2025

    Did you know Donald Trump plans to eliminate Head Start the preschool program? Did you know he gutted Americorps? Have you heard what he did to the National Weather Service? Rachel Maddow rounds up stories that would be huge news in normal times but may have slipped by unnoticed by many Americans in the shadow of Trump's daily wrecking ball spectacle.

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    42 mins
  • 'This should be shocking': Judge torches Trump admin. for neglecting due process for deportees
    Apr 18 2025

    Rachel Maddow reads from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the Trump administration as it tries to avoid accountability for mistakenly deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia without the due process that is foundational to American values.

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    44 mins
  • 'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
    Apr 17 2025

    The judge hearing the case against Donald Trump's deportation flights is losing patience with the administration's excuses and stall tactics, and today raised the specter of holding members of the administration in contempt of court. Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, discusses with Rachel Maddow.

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    43 mins
  • 'They can't hide the ball': Judge cracks the whip on Trump lawyers in deportation case
    Apr 16 2025

    Trump administration lawyers are running out of excuses to avoid being accountable for the rights and whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland immigrant father who was improperly deported and sentenced without due process to an indeterminate amount of time in a prison in El Salvador. Rina Gandhi, and attorney for Mr. Abrego Garcia, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the judge is pinning down the Trump lawyers for answers and accountability.

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    48 mins
  • Making a mockery of Musk: Backlash against dismantling U.S. government focuses on hatchet man
    Apr 15 2025

    Rachel Maddow looks at creative new ways activists are mocking and protesting Donald Trump's top campaign donor, Elon Musk, for his central role in butchering the staff and services of the U.S. government.

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    43 mins
  • 'How is it possible that you have this job?': RFK Jr.'s incompetence becomes too glaring to overlook
    Apr 12 2025

    From his cluelessness about critical cuts made to his agency, to his celebration of dangerous quackery, Robert. F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's HHS secretary, is distinguishing himself as not only incompetent but dangerously so, leading a department with lives at stake. Rachel Maddow reports.

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    43 mins
  • 'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
    Apr 11 2025

    Former Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's efforts to intimidate the legal system in the United States and bend it to his will, and emphasizes the importance of the American legal community standing together and pushing back in defense of the rule of law. "The time is now to stand up and do all that we can to fight this administration."

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    44 mins
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