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Heather Cox Richardson’s Politics Chat, October 28, 2025

Topics include: 00:27 – We’re in a “funny” place right now 01:11 – November 1st SNAP benefits will not go out 10:10 – At an unprecedented moment with this shutdown 13:48 – Trump is not okay 16:05 – Who’s calling the shots while Trump is away? 19:46 – Defense Department, strikes without evidence 23:35 – Pattern of Republicans messing with the upcoming vote next week 26:41 – How did we get from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era? 29:37 – Where we are and what we can do 31:53 – Keep up national pressure on the Epstein files 34:56 – Register to vote, push back against misinformation, keep the joy.

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Heather Cox Richardson
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.
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