Beste Potomac Podcasts (2025)

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Speaker Mike Johnson Keeps His Gavel, After Two Flipped GOP Votes 26:34

19h ago26:34

26:34

The House GOP avoids an embarrassing crackup, after two Republicans who initially opposed Speaker Mike Johnson switch their votes to him at the last minute. But the leaders of the Freedom Caucus post a letter afterward with a list of demands, suggesting that Republican disunity could return as soon as the House tries to pass a significant bill on s…

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2025 Begins With an Act of Terror in New Orleans 23:42

2d ago23:42

23:42

The FBI says Shamsud-Din Jabbar acted alone when he killed at least 15 people in the early hours of New Year’s Day, but questions remain about his motive and how the military veteran was radicalized. Plus, what happens if Mike Johnson fails to win another term as House Speaker as the 119th Congress begins? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me…

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Donald Trump Asks the Supreme Court to Save TikTok 23:47

3d ago23:47

23:47

The Justices take up an expedited challenge to a law that could ban TikTok on Jan. 19, unless the social app agrees to divestment from Chinese ownership. Why did the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals uphold this ultimatum passed by Congress? Plus, Donald Trump files a brief asking the Supreme Court to pause the law, though he's making less of a legal c…

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The Legacy and Presidency of Jimmy Carter 24:15

5d ago24:15

24:15

Jimmy Carter, who won the Oval Office after the Watergate scandals by portraying himself as an earnest evangelical, dies at age 100. The 39th president served only one term, which was marred by an energy crisis, economic woes and a failed hostage rescue mission in Iran. But how will he be remembered for what he did while President and afterwards? L…

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Joe Biden's Death Row Commutations and the Pardon Power 26:32

8d ago26:32

26:32

The president spares 37 of the 40 inmates facing the federal death penalty, commuting their sentences to life in prison. Is this an appropriate use of the pardon power, issuing mass clemency based on policy disagreements with the law? Will this action in Biden's last days in office, so soon after he pardoned his son Hunter, add to the arguments for…

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Donald Trump’s New Manifest Destiny 22:53

9d ago22:53

22:53

Donald Trump has seemingly put the expansion of the United States on his agenda with threats of reclaiming the Panama Canal, acquiring Greenland, and wanting to make Canada the 51st state. How much of this should be taken seriously, and what does it say about the worldview of the next administration? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon…

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GOP Lessons From the Christmas Shutdown Brinkmanship 25:48

11d ago25:48

25:48

Congress passes a bill to fund the government, narrowly averting a shutdown over the holidays, but what did Donald Trump and Elon Musk accomplish by going nuclear on the initial legislation? Is this a bad omen for 2025, when Republicans will take control of Washington and begin negotiations on their priorities? And can Speaker Mike Johnson muster t…

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All Things with Kim Strassel: The Ones Who Got it Right in 2024 28:00

11d ago28:00

28:00

On this episode of All Things, Kim Strassel looks back at some of the podcast’s 2024 all-stars, including candidates who correctly predicted their own victories, as well as at experts who called the issues that would lead Donald Trump to the White House and a Republican majority in both the House and Senate. Guests include Sen. Ted Cruz, Senator-el…

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The House Ethics Committee's Report on Matt Gaetz 27:33

12d ago27:33

27:33

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was Donald Trump's first choice to be Attorney General, denies illegal wrongdoing, but a House investigation into his past conduct finds "substantial evidence" of drug use, prostitution, and statutory rape, vindicating the GOP Senators who looked skeptically on his cabinet nomination. Plus, Trump promises that the GOP wi…

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A Republican Backup Plan for Keeping the Government Open 24:44

15d ago24:44

24:44

Speaker Mike Johnson scrambled to avoid a government shutdown, after Donald Trump and Elon Musk blew up his first deal and a floor vote on a slimmed-down alternative failed package failed. What will be the final outcome? Plus, in a blow to the Democrats’ strategy of lawfare, Fani Willis is disqualified from Donald Trump’s election interference case…

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How Donald Trump and Elon Musk Blew Up The Funding Bill 21:39

16d ago21:39

21:39

After a bipartisan agreement was reached to keep the government funded until mid-March, Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s criticisms killed the deal, put Congress on the precipice of a government shutdown, and undermined Mike Johnson's leadership as House Speaker. What do Musk and Trump want? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice…

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The Democrats' Final Judicial Push 24:36

17d ago24:36

24:36

A blizzard of federal judicial confirmations by Chuck Schumer, “unretirements,” and a possible presidential veto are all part of a plan to keep Donald Trump from appointing judges himself. Despite claims it is the President-elect who is upending norms, Democrats are busy breaking precedents when it comes to the judicial system. This as Joe Biden ne…

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The Cost of the GOP’s Union Embrace 24:43

18d ago24:43

24:43

With Donald Trump giving union workers credit for his victory, the GOP is rebranding itself as the party of the blue-collar worker and labor unions. But with this new outreach comes promises and policies with high price tags, including the Social Security Fairness Act, which would reward $200 billion to government union workers. So is this break fr…

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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Paul Gigot, The Wall Street Journal

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Potomac Independent Guard Podcast

Shane Pinson

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The Real Housewives of Potomac Podcast

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Speaker Mike Johnson Keeps His Gavel, After Two Flipped GOP Votes 26:34

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2025 Begins With an Act of Terror in New Orleans 23:42

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Donald Trump Asks the Supreme Court to Save TikTok 23:47

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The Legacy and Presidency of Jimmy Carter 24:15

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Joe Biden's Death Row Commutations and the Pardon Power 26:32

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Donald Trump’s New Manifest Destiny 22:53

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GOP Lessons From the Christmas Shutdown Brinkmanship 25:48

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All Things with Kim Strassel: The Ones Who Got it Right in 2024 28:00

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The House Ethics Committee's Report on Matt Gaetz 27:33

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A Republican Backup Plan for Keeping the Government Open 24:44

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How Donald Trump and Elon Musk Blew Up The Funding Bill 21:39

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The Democrats' Final Judicial Push 24:36

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The Cost of the GOP’s Union Embrace 24:43

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