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By: Sam Seder

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Episodes

1/9 Empire Abroad, Fascism at Home, Trump's America w/ Jeet Heer (M)
Jan 09, 2026

FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/cY6mliJ8Chk?...

It's Casual Friday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

Zohran Mamdani reaffirms his position that his administration will not cooperate with ICE and NYC will honor their sanctuary city policies.

Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent at The Nation magazine, joins Sam and Emma to wrap up the week’s news.

In the Fun Half:

Country singer and influencer calls out the fascist state murder of Renee Good.

In response to the shooting of Renee Good, Ch...

Duration: 02:27:20
1/8 Protests Erupt Over ICE Murder; Big Oil’s DC Influence Operation w/ Nick Cleveland-Stout (M)
Jan 08, 2026

Fun Half: https://youtube.com/live/Q_My9224XeY?...

It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

ICE agents kill legal observer Renee Good, shooting her point-blank in the head. Donald Trump takes to Truth Social to spread false claims of self-defense and smear Good’s character. In lockstep with the president, Jesse Watters delivers a glib monologue attempting to justify the killing by pointing to the fact that Good had “pronouns in her bio,” was a lesbian, and was a protest disruptor. Within an hour of the murder, Kristi...

Duration: 02:36:57
1/7 ICE Murders Observer, Labor Fights to Expect in 2026 w/ Keith Brower Brown (M)
Jan 07, 2026

Fun Half: https://youtube.com/live/CigIcE2PNhA?...

It's Hump Day on the Majority Report

On the today's program:

As Republicans continue to rewrite the history of January 6, we revisit footage from the riot and revisit the very different tone figures like Marco Rubio and Greg Gutfeld struck at the time.

Labor-climate organizer and Labor Notes writer Keith Brower Brown joins the show to preview the biggest contract fights of 2026.

In the Fun Half:

The crew discuss an incident in which an ICE agent, while the show...

Duration: 02:34:21
1/6 Trump and RFK Jr's Assault on Your Health w/ Dr. Kristin Lyerly (M)
Jan 06, 2026

Fun Half https://youtube.com/live/guPs60_ZENU?...

It's News Day Tuesday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

Sean Hannity attempts to coax Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado into gifting her Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump as a way to flatter him into installing her as Venezuela’s president.

Dr. Kristin Lyerly, OB-GYN and chair of the board of the Committee to Protect Public Health, joins the show to discuss RFK Jr.’s plan to reduce the number of vaccines recommended for newborns from 17 to 11.

in th...

Duration: 02:33:04
1/5 Trump Kidnaps Maduro, What's Next? w/ Jose Luis Granados Ceja (M)
Jan 05, 2026

Fun Half Link: https://youtube.com/live/c5rjJ4SvAdw?feature=share

Happy new year! It's Fun Day Monday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as the 112th mayor of New York City.

Jose Luis Granados Ceja, journalist at Drop Site News covering Latin America, joins Sam and Emma to discuss the Trump's Venezuelan coup.

In the Fun Half:

Chuck Schumer warns the GOP that if they don't stand up to Trump then they will "feel the heat" from their base...

Duration: 02:36:33
1/2 Mark Blyth Trump’s Tarrifs and Inflation (M)
Jan 02, 2026

It’s our last Best of 2025 episode. We will be back live on Monday.

Live-streamed on May 12, 2025

Sam speaks to Mark Blyth to help unpack Trump’s topsy turvy tariff policy and how it relates to inflation. Blyth is the Director of The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance and a professor at Brown University.

On today’s program:

All that and more.

The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Repres...

Duration: 01:34:29
1/1 Best of 2025: Trump’s End-Times Fascism w/ Naomi Klein (M)
Jan 01, 2026

It's another Best of 2025 episode

On today's program:

Live-streamed on April 17, 2025

Emma is joined by writer, activist and professor Naomi Klein about her new essay The rise of end times fascism. Naomi points out the new form that right wing authoritarianism has taken in finding ways to exit society and Earth itself. Naomi co-wrote the essay with Astra Taylor, which you can read here in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/n...

All that and more.

The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to...

Duration: 01:51:19
12/31 Best of 2025: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance w/ Kellie Carter Jackson (M)
Dec 31, 2025

On today's Best of 2025, Sam and Emma speak with Kellie Carter Jackson, associate professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, to discuss her recent book We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.

The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives.

Check out IceRRT.com to find an ICE rapid response team nearest to you.

Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm

Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv...

Duration: 01:59:26
12/30 Best of 2025: Dispatch From Gaza's Nasser Hospital w/ Dr Tarek Loubani (M)
Dec 30, 2025

It's another Best of 2025 episode.

On today's program:

8/11/25 - It's Monday! Sam and Emma are joined by Palestinian-Canadian emergency room physician, Dr. Tarek Loubani who is currently volunteering at Nasser hospital in Gaza. It’s a harrowing interview but we must bear witness to the terror our tax dollars are funding. Watch/Listen to The Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12pm EST on YouTube OR via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.fm

All that and more.

The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with...

Duration: 01:39:51
12/29 Best of 2025: Zohran Mamdani New York's Next Mayor? (M)
Dec 29, 2025

It's another Best of 2025 episode.

On today's program:

Live-streamed on January 15, 2025

Sam speaks with Zohran Mamdani, State Assemblyman for New York’s 36th District & candidate for Mayor, to discuss his candidacy.

https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani

Zohran Mamdani then joins, diving right into his history in progressive organizing spaces after joining the DSA in 2017, working on a city council campaign, as a housing counselor, and helping the NY Taxi Workers’ Alliance fight for reparations over the city’s Medallion bait-and-switch. Next, Mamdani walks through his campaign’s central policies, including launchin...

Duration: 01:53:49
12/26 Best of 2025: Trump and Elon's CEO-Dictator Playbook w/ Gil Duran (M)
Dec 26, 2025

It's another Best of 2025 episode on the Majority Report.

On Today's program:

Original air date: February 11, 2025

Gil Duran, journalist based in California, proprietor of the website The Nerd Reich, co-writer of the FrameLab newsletter, joins to discuss his recent piece in The Nerd Reich entitled “‘Reboot’ Revealed: Elon Musk’s CEO-Dictator Playbook.”

https://x.com/gilduran76

https://www.thenerdreich.com/

https://www.theframelab.org/

https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-e...

Gil Duran then joins, diving right into the concept of the Network State – an idea advance...

Duration: 01:48:48
12/24 Best of 2025: 10 Ways to Prepare for Trump's Return w/ Daniel Hunter (M)
Dec 24, 2025

It's Hump Day and we have a Best of 2025 episode but first we revisit Sam's infamous war on Christmas segment on CNN from 200 years ago.

Original air date: November 11, 2024.

Sam speaks with Daniel Hunter, activist & co-author of the book What if Trump Wins?: An Interactive Pick-Your-Path Adventure.

Check out Daniel’s book here: https://www.amazon.com/What-Trump-Win...

Check out Daniel’s piece entitled “10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won”: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11...

All that and more.

The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Y...

Duration: 01:56:36
12/23 LAST 2025 LIVE SHOW! Trump Implicated In New Epstein Dump; Bari Weiss’s Censorship Fail (M)
Dec 23, 2025

Fun Half Link: https://youtube.com/live/x1imS2DB2Ns

On this final live stream of 2025, we talk about how deeply Trump is implicated in the Epstein files. Also, the Bari Weiss's ham-handed attempts to curry favor with the Trump administration by censcoring journalists she's been installed above.

And on the fun half: Benny Johnson compensates, a Canadian zionist equivocates, and more!

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Duration: 02:27:55
12/22 Epstein Cover-up & Conservative Crack-up, Continued (M)
Dec 22, 2025

Watch here: https://youtube.com/live/x-7hVJcvhoc

Sam and Emma cover the day's news and politics headlines. Trump's Epstein release continues in scandal. TPUSA becomes a circular firing squad.

And on the fun half:

More on the TPUSA/Candace Owens/Ben Shapiro/Steve Bannon imbroglio. Also Zohran talks about wealthy problems being addressed and an old Tea Party villain on the failing economy.

The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121.

You can use this number to connect with either the US Senate or the House of Representatives. Watch/Listen...

Duration: 02:35:46
12/19 DOJ Epstein Files Cover up Continues and more w/ Heather 'Digby' Parton (M)
Dec 19, 2025

Watch: https://youtube.com/live/bADa4jEFcTM?feature=share

It's Casual Friday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

Today is the deadline for the release of the Epstein files, and the DOJ is scrambling to delay and redact as much as possible.

Heather “Digby” Parton joins Sam and Emma to wrap up the week’s news. The three dig into the Epstein files, Trump’s impromptu speech on Wednesday, the results of the DNC’s self-audit, and more.

James Talarico makes his stance on the genocide in Palestine clear at a...

Duration: 02:35:17
12/18 Uprising Against AI Data Centers; Sudan Torn Apart w/ Miles Bryan, Dr. Khalid Medani (M)
Dec 18, 2025

It's Emmajority Report Thursday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

As members of the Trump administration revive Iraq War–era justifications for an invasion of Venezuela, Trump himself cuts through the spin and openly admits he wants the country’s oil.

Rep Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) gives an impassioned plea to Congress to stop "sleepwalking" into war with Venezuela.

Miles Bryan, senior producer and reporter for Today, Explained, Vox’s daily news podcast joins Emma for a conversation about the bipartisan uprising against AI data center construction across America.

Khalid...

Duration: 02:28:17
12/17 The Rise of the New Right and MAGA w/ Laura K. Field (M)
Dec 17, 2025

FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/HK2SK6NrDhs?...

It's Hump Day on the Majority Report:

On today's program:

At a House Rules Committee hearing, Rep Jim McGovern (D-MA) highlights how many times Donald Trump has promised to unveil a health care plan going back 2015.

At the same hearing, Rep Chip Roy (R-TX) has a melt down over the Republican's inability to draft a realistic health care proposal

Political theorist, Laura K. Field joins Sam and Emma to discuss her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA...

Duration: 02:38:39
12/16 The Plan to put Homeless in Concentration Camps; The Fight for Health Care w/ Jesse Rabinowitz, Abdul El-Sayed (M)
Dec 16, 2025

FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/HlFoSP2wiwI?...

It's News Day Tuesday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its November data, showing negative job growth in three of the past six months, alongside the lowest unemployment rate since 2021. Keep in mind that Donald Trump fired much of the BLS staff and replaced them with loyalists so the real numbers may be much worse.

Jesse Rabinowitz, the communications director for the National Homelessness Law Center joins Sam and Emma to discuss Utah's plan to...

Duration: 02:18:19
12/15 SCOTUS Update w/ Mark Joseph Stern (M)
Dec 15, 2025

https://youtube.com/live/0SaiSMQo2-c

It's Fun Day Monday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

As ACA subsidies expire, 24 million Americans facing massive increases in health care premiums. Trump is asked what his message is to those 24 million Americans and he replies with "don't make it sound so bad" and accusing the reporter of being a "sycophant for Democrats".

Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer at Slate covering law and the courts, joins Sam and Emma to discuss the Supreme Court’s recent activity and the key cases to watch in...

Duration: 02:23:37
12/12 Candace Owens, Tim Pool, Charlie Kirk; The Right-Wing Conspiracy Snake Eats its Tail w/ Will Sommer (M)
Dec 12, 2025

Fun Half Link: https://youtube.com/live/rTwcjpyMGHw?...

It's Casual Friday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

Indiana GOP refuses to gerrymander despite the onslaught of threats of stripping federal funding coming from the Trump administration.

Will Sommer, author of the False Flag newsletter, joins Sam and Emma to talk about the week's news and the Charlie Kirk fallout that is cratering right-wing media

In the Fun Half:

Rep. Bennie Johnson (D-MS) grills an FBI official at a Homeland Security Committee hearing over his claim that...

Duration: 02:29:37
12/11 Witnessing the Gaza Genocide; Progressive Runs in Denver w/ Anthony Aguilar, Melat Kiros (M)
Dec 11, 2025

Fun Half Link: https://youtube.com/live/9Nved4zshrw

It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

The U.S. has seized a Venezuelan oil tanker, marking a serious escalation in Trump’s march toward war with the South American country.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer offers a statement so empty it all but amounts to an endorsement of Trump’s goal of regime change in Venezuela.

At a news conference held moments after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Macha...

Duration: 02:26:19
12/10 Bernie Sanders on Oligarchy; Trump Sponsored Wage Theft w/ Bernie Sanders, Kalena Thomhave (M)
Dec 10, 2025

FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/QuGN6D6NBpc?...

It's Hump Day on the Majority Report

On today's program:

Ahead of Trump's rally in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, News Nation talk to locals on their thoughts on Trump's economy and the results were not good for the president.

Trump kicks off his "Affordability Messaging" tour and spends most of his time at the podium complaining about immigrants and replaying his old hits but with much less energy and way fewer people in the audience.

Independent journalist, Kalena Thomhave joins...

Duration: 02:38:43
12/9 The Affordability Argument w/ David Dayen (M)
Dec 09, 2025

FUN HALF https://youtube.com/live/Tpnv-NGIBMw?...

It's News Day Tuesday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

Donald Trump is well into his second term and still has no health care plan beyond a market-juicing scam that serves no one.

In her first CNN appearance, Emma goes to the mat over ACA subsidies and makes a strong case for Medicare for All.

David Dayen, executive editor for the American Prospect joins Sam and Emma to discuss the Prospect's affordability project.

In the Fun Half:

...

Duration: 02:24:39
12/8 The Trillion Dollar War Machine w/ Benjamin Freeman (M)
Dec 08, 2025

FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/wxRK3H4yg00?...

It's Fun Day Monday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

Small business and large corporate bankruptcies are spiking, and Fox Business is struggling to find any way to spin the data in a positive light.

Benjamin Freeman joins Sam and Emma to discuss his book he coo-authored with William Hartung, Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America Into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home. For more work from Benjamin Freeman, check out his work at the Quincy...

Duration: 02:30:06
12/5 Who's Coming for Hegseth and Mike Johnson's Mutiny Woes w/ Jeet Heer, Rep Summer Lee (M)
Dec 05, 2025

Fun Half: https://youtube.com/live/vFQJ9Yre1LM?...

It's Casual Friday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

On CNN, John Berman spars with Senator Tom Cotton over the legality of the boat strikes, and Cotton offers nothing but total deference to his supreme leader, Donald Trump.

National Affairs correspondent at The Nation magazine, Jeet Heer joins Sam and Emma to wrap the week's news. The three get into the boat strikes, the house GOP women are leading a revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson and more.

Rep. Summer...

Duration: 02:35:26
12/4 How the Red Scare Forged Trumpism; Organizing Against ICE w/ Clay Risen, Chris Newman (M)
Dec 05, 2025

FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/2RertiM_hu4?...

It's Emmajority Report Thursday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

The New York Times reports growing frustration among GOP members with Speaker Mike Johnson as anxiety over the midterms intensifies.

The Wall Street journal covers the fallout between Pete Hegseth and Admiral Alvin Hosley over the Admiral’s concerns about the legality of the Caribbean boat strikes.

On Morning Joe, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) of the Armed Services Committee says lawmakers are increasingly concerned about the boat strikes.

Cl...

Duration: 02:32:37