• MADDOW DEBUNKS: Weird fake news, A.I. slop stories about her and MSNBC infect social media
    Jul 22 2025

    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 from rescuing Texas flood victims, to having a baby, to starting her own news network, none of which are true. The lesson is that now, more than ever, it is important to check the source of anything you see or read.

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    42 mins
  • Heckuva time to make an appearance: Trump's FEMA chief drops in on Texas flood zone
    Jul 15 2025

    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.

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    44 mins
  • Devastating Texas floods highlight stakes of vital weather services amid reckless Trump cuts
    Jul 8 2025

    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 researchers who help make more accurate predictive models, and the coordinators and other administrators with the experience to make sure the right people are working with the right information. Eric Holthaus, meteorologist and climate journalist, talks with Rachel Maddow about the challenges weather officials face with climate change and staffing cuts under the Trump administration.

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    43 mins
  • Trump's poor choices for national security staffing have new relevance after Iran bombing
    Jun 24 2025

    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 of Iran has raised the threat level for Americans everywhere in the world.

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    43 mins
  • Defying Trump, Americans refuse to be denied their right to protest
    Jun 17 2025

    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 right to protest against Donald Trump and came out by the millions on Saturday for "No Kings" marches and rallies.

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    43 mins
  • Maddow: Military last resort in L.A. shows a weak president with no ideas and no political skills
    Jun 10 2025

    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 authoritarian overreach, and the fact that Trump skipped ahead to the last resort of calling in the military against protesters in Los Angeles is a sign of his weakness, his lack of ideas, and his lack of political skills to turn his plummeting popularity around.

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    44 mins
  • Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants
    Jun 3 2025

    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 of cruelty to immigrants, his expectation that Americans would support him in that cruelty was clearly misplaced.

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    44 mins
  • 'Our superpower': Trump confronted by diverse, robust pushback on 'a million' different fronts
    May 20 2025

    Rachel Maddow considers how the history of the Trump era will be written and how the defense of democracy and resistance to Trump authoritarianism will be seen as having a wide range of motivations, reflecting the breadth of Trump's catastrophe but also the consistency of America's defenders across demographics and interests.

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    43 mins