Politics Chat, October 21, 2025

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00:00 – Welcome
01:14 – No Kings protests
08:32 – There’s a lot going on this week
09:13 – The East Wing of the White House
15:05 – Who’s actually to blame for the government shutdown?
25:15 – Adelita Grijalva and the Epstein files
29:18 – Big picture: 2 different ideologies clash
38:05 – Could the SC overturn Trump v Supreme Court (2024)?
39:00 – General strike?
41:40 – What can you do?
43:40 – Upcoming interviews

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Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American politics. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. She is the author, most recently, of the best-selling Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.