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The Weekly List

The Weekly List is a podcast hosted by Amy Siskind, author of The List. It supplements the popular Weekly List on our website, www.theweeklylist.org, which tracks the ever changing new normals of American politics. The podcast gives greater context to the "not normal" news items from the previous week, and will highlight a few stories and changing norms from the Trump regime that you may have missed.

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Democracy at Risk - Trump Reindicted from 2023-08-21T23:54:19

Host Amy Siskind discusses former US President Donald J. Trump's indictment in Georgia

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Democracy at Risk - Trump's Indicment from 2023-04-14T04:44:06

Host Amy Siskind discusses former US President Donald J. Trump's March 30th indictment.

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Democracy at Risk - We Did What We Had to Do from 2022-11-18T04:13:05

Host Amy Siskind discusses the aftermath of the 2022 US midterm elections

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Democracy at Risk - Are We Sleepwalking into Autocracy? from 2022-10-20T04:12:30

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of US news and the upcoming midterm elections.

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Democracy at Risk - FBI at Mar-a-Lago from 2022-08-24T01:26:47

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of US political news including primary updates and Donald Trump's legal troubles.

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Democracy at Risk - Roe v. Wade Overturned from 2022-07-03T01:17:37

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of political news.

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Democracy at Risk - Leaked Supreme Court Decision from 2022-05-24T05:45:34

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of political news.

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Democracy at Risk - The Price of Authoritarianism from 2022-04-07T06:00

Host Amy Siskind discusses Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Recorded April 6th, 2022.)

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Democracy at Risk - Russia Invades Ukraine: How Did We Get Here? from 2022-03-09T05:45:01

Host Amy Siskind discusses the factors at play in Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Recorded March 7th, 2022.)

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Democracy at Risk - Nine Months Until the Midterms from 2022-02-13T19:34:11

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in American politics.

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Democracy at Risk - One Year After the United States Capitol Attack from 2022-01-10T05:16:30

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.

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Democracy at Risk - Looking to 2022 from 2021-12-27T04:49:02

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.

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Democracy at Risk - Electoral Apathy from 2021-11-08T05:46:05

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.

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Democracy at Risk - Handmaid's Tale from 2021-09-17T18:00

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.

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Democracy at Risk - January 6th Commission from 2021-08-02T00:46:21

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.

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Democracy at Risk - Six Months After the Insurrection from 2021-07-12T05:27:52

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.

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Democracy at Risk - The Cult of the GOP from 2021-06-18T05:35:52

Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.

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Democracy at Risk - Two Sides, One Truth from 2021-06-01T05:53:31

Host Amy Siskind talks about the progress of the Biden administration and the continuing attacks on democracy.

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Returning to Normalcy - Republicans in the Post-Trump Era from 2021-05-17T05:20:18

Host Amy Siskind discusses the political events of the last few weeks.

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Returning to Normalcy - Nearing 100 Days from 2021-04-19T03:45:10

Host Amy Siskind discusses the vaccine rollout, improving economy, and the latest instances of police brutality.

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Returning to Normalcy - Violence Against Asian Americans from 2021-03-22T05:29:47

Host Amy Siskind talks about the wave of attacks against Asian Americans during the last year and the Biden administration's work toward coronavirus relief.

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Returning to Normalcy - Insurrection Debrief from 2021-03-08T03:29:26

Host Amy Siskind discuss additional facts about the attack on the Capitol that have come to light in the last few weeks.

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Repairing Our Democracy - Impeachment from 2021-02-15T07:02:07

Host Amy Siskind talks about Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.

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Repairing Our Democracy - The First Days from 2021-02-02T06:54:44

Host Amy Siskind talks about the shift to "normalcy" after the end of the Trump administration.

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After - January from 2021-01-26T05:31:56

January 2021

I am grateful, with all your input, to have continued this project through inauguration. Since I started tracking Donald Trump in November 2016, I have posited that he cared ...

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After - December from 2021-01-04T01:02:27

In December, Trump continued to push lies and  conspiracy theories about the election, not only failing to concede, but  pushing efforts to overthrow the election results. During this ...

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After - November from 2020-12-01T06:04

Summary of the continuing broken norms in the weeks after the election of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States.

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Week 208 - Victory from 2020-11-09T03:00

This project could not have ended in a more  perfect way (she writes while sipping champagne): Donald J. Trump was  defeated shortly before noon on Saturday, the cutoff time each week,...

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Week 207 - The Final Countdown from 2020-11-02T05:56:19

In the final full week heading into the  election, the seeds of Trump’s bungled pandemic response came back to  haunt him, with the twin challenges of record daily cases and  hosp...

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Week 206 - Record-Setting Week from 2020-10-26T05:26:20

This week, with Election Day nearing, the  coronavirus raged out of control, with a record number of new daily  cases on Thursday, and then again Friday, topping 83,000.  Hospital...

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Week 205 - Early Voting from 2020-10-19T05:14:23

This week, despite millions of Americans having  voted already, Senate Republicans started the process of confirming  Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court. With Republicans in control...

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Week 204 - Altered State from 2020-10-12T04:51:57

This week the public was given little information  about Trump’s health and recovery from the coronavirus, including basic  questions like when he last tested negative or his medical s...

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Week 203 - Super-Spreader from 2020-10-05T05:12:30

On Thursday of this week, around 5 p.m., I  tweeted that this week was unusually quiet in terms of the chaos, and  was on pace for the fewest broken norms in 2020. I wrote that I was n...

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Week 202 - Peaceful Transition of Power from 2020-09-28T06:15:50

This week Trump said he would not accept a  peaceful transition of power — a remarkable, unprecedented statement.  While there was pushback in the form of the Senate voting for a  ...

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Week 201 - May Her Memory Be a Blessing from 2020-09-21T05:26:17

It’s hard to express the sense of loss this year  has brought to the our country: already we’ve endured three years of  division, broken norms, lawlessness, kleptocracy, bigotry and ha...

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Week 200 - West on Fire from 2020-09-14T05:03:26

Things are getting worse in America, week by  week. This week, as the West Coast saw wildfires spread, with much of  California, Oregon, and Washington covered in smoke so thick the su...

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Week 199 - Vote Twice from 2020-09-07T05:40:23

This week, with no discernible post-convention  bounce and the election two months away, Trump was frenzied. He started  the week with a storm of tweets, and then embarked on espousing...

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Week 198 - Republican Nepotism Convention from 2020-08-31T04:55:16

This week, the Republican Party held its  convention — which was likened to a Trump convention — a four-day span  of shattered norms, and possibly multiple violations of the law. Gone ...

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Week 197 - Bannon Charged from 2020-08-24T05:30:54

This was the longest weekly list, and it was  simply exhausting. The Democrats held a very successful first virtual  Democratic National Convention, while Trump spent the week advancin...

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Week 196 - Post Office Under Attack from 2020-08-17T05:26:23

This week, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe  Biden chose his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, the first Black and  Asian American vice presidential candidate. An oddly unprepared Tr...

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Week 195 - Back to School from 2020-08-10T05:24:07

This week U.S. intelligence revealed Russia is  actively interfering in the 2020 presidential election, with a goal of  harming presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Democratic l...

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Week 194 - Delay the Election? from 2020-08-03T05:30:32

This week, for the first time, Trump publicly  floated the idea of delaying the November election, drawing swift  condemnation from Democrats and a mild rebuke from Republican  le...

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Week 193 - Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. from 2020-07-27T05:18:13

This week, as the coronavirus raged out of  control, passing 4 million U.S. cases and 145,000 deaths, Trump  resurrected his daily coronavirus briefings — by himself, with no health &n...

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Week 192 - Secret Police from 2020-07-20T05:03:57

This week, as the coronavirus raged out of  control in many states, Trump sought to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci,  with several members of the regime publicly attacking Fauci’s  cr...

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Week 191 - Daily Records from 2020-07-13T05:04:52

This week, the pandemic continued to worsen,  with many states seeing new highs and the death toll starting to rise.  By week’s end, the U.S. registered an unthinkable nearly 70,000 ne...

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Week 190 - Russian Bounties from 2020-07-06T05:32:37

This week the coronavirus spread further out of  control, topping 50,000 daily cases for three consecutive days — more  than 10,000 higher than the early peak in April. Trump continued...

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Week 189 - Out of Control from 2020-06-29T14:40:18

This week started with a humiliating return to  the campaign trail for Trump, as a mere 6,200 supporters showed up for  his rally in Tulsa, after the campaign bragged more than one mil...

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Week 188 - Tulsa from 2020-06-22T05:02:59

This week grave polling results revealed a  downtrodden country feeling the impact of concurrent and intersecting  crises, as national pride fell to its lowest level in two decades, wh...

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Week 187 - Questionable from 2020-06-15T05:02:59

This week Trump seemed to fade into the  background, unsure of how to respond to a triple set of crises that  gripped the nation: continuing social unrest, a second wave of  coron...

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Week 186 - Coward-in-chief from 2020-06-08T05:35:38

This week, in a scene reminiscent of a crackdown  in an authoritarian regime, U.S. troops stationed in our nation’s  capital at Trump’s behest fired tear gas and rubber bullets on peac...

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Week 185 - Kerosene on the Flames from 2020-06-01T05:17:23

This was one of the darkest weeks since I  started the list. The week began with Trump spinning conspiracy theories  to distract from the country reaching the grim milestone of losing ...

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Week 184 - Transition to Greatness from 2020-05-25T04:53:34

This week, Trump fully transitioned from leader  to salesman, leaving the states to fend for themselves, while he  promoted a “transition to greatness.” After a week when two White Hou...

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Week 183 - Obamagate from 2020-05-18T05:34:26

This week Trump tried out a new, more positive  approach as the death toll passed 80,000 and more than 36 million  Americans were unemployed, claiming, “We have met the moment and we h...

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Weeek 182 - Outbreak in the West Wing from 2020-05-11T05:20:26

This week, despite a White House model showing  ending social distancing would result in a spike of 200,000 new cases a  day and deaths of 3,000 a day, the majority of the country star...

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Week 181 - Vietnam War from 2020-05-04T05:00

This week, with his approval dropping and  Republicans alarmed about losing the Senate in 2020, Trump shifted away  from holding daily task force briefings. Instead, he and his regime ...

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Week 180 - Global Epicenter from 2020-04-27T05:55:14

This week opened and closed with Russia: opening  with a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report reaffirming U.S.  intelligence’s January 2017 conclusion that Russia interfered...

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Week 179 - Absolute Authority from 2020-04-20T05:35:39

This week Trump threw a series of shiny coins to  distract from the growing death toll and his mishandling of the  coronavirus response. On Monday, he proclaimed he, not the governors,...

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Week 178 - Most Deaths in the World from 2020-04-13T04:58:13

This week, nearly 12,000 Americans died of the  coronavirus. The U.S. became not only the country with the most cases by  a factor of three, but also the country with the most deaths i...

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Week 177 - National Stockpile from 2020-04-06T05:09:46

This week coronavirus cases and deaths in the  U.S. spiked, adding close to 200,000 reported cases, and by midweek,  more than a thousand Americans were dying each day. Trump pivoted f...

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Week 176 - Shelter in Place from 2020-03-30T05:38:37

This week the U.S. continued exponential growth  of coronavirus cases, finding itself with the most cases in the world on  Thursday — surpassing Italy and China. The number of deaths likewise  cont...

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Week 175 - Where Are the Tests? from 2020-03-23T04:23:56

This week the United States had the highest  spread rate of the coronavirus of countries reporting, starting the week  with roughly 2,500 cases, and ending the week fourth in the world with  more t...

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Week 174 - Global Pandemic from 2020-03-16T05:40:36

This week Trump finally was no longer able to  sustain a narrative minimizing the severity of the coronavirus outbreak.  The week started with 387 cases in 28 states, and ended with mo...

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Week 173 - Coronavirus Spreading from 2020-03-09T04:24:02

This week the coronavirus spread in the U.S.  from 15 to 387 cases in 28 states, with at least 19 people dead. The  number of cases is likely well under-reported due to the lack of &nb...

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Week 172 - Markets Crashing from 2020-03-02T06:04:02

This week the coronavirus consumed the country  and the world, as it spread from continent to continent. Trump’s  strategy in recent weeks of ignoring and minimizing the virus’ import ...

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Week 171 - Russian Election Interference: 2020 Edition from 2020-02-24T06:06:12

This week the country strayed further from  democracy, as Trump purged the Office of the Director of National  Intelligence. The firings started when Trump learned a senior official &n...

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Week 170 - Tuesday Massacre from 2020-02-16T22:00

This week, unchecked by checks and balances,  Trump continued his retaliation tour, unabashedly showcasing his will to  control the Justice Department. After career prosecutors made &n...

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Week 169 - Trump's Vendetta from 2020-02-10T05:52:09

This was one of the most frightening weeks, as  Trump seized on his impeachment acquittal to retaliate against his  perceived enemies. Within 48 hours, Trump’s Department of Homeland &...

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Week 168 - No Witnesses from 2020-02-03T06:12:26

This week, despite explosive new allegations  implicating Trump in leaked portions of the manuscript for John Bolton’s  upcoming book, the Senate voted 51–49 on Friday not to call witn...

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Week 167 - The Trial Begins from 2020-01-27T06:18:15

This week the Senate impeachment trial of Donald  J. Trump began, even as evidence continued to trickle out. House  Democrat impeachment managers made their case for the two articles o...

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Week 166 - Articles of Impeachment from 2020-01-20T04:56:18

This week the articles of impeachment were  transmitted to the Senate, and the impeachment trial formally began.  Senators were sworn in, but it was unclear if they planned to follow t...

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Week 165 - Unintended Consequences from 2020-01-13T06:33:01

This week as the country was on the brink of war  with Iran, we stood alone, with the Trump regime having neglected to  consult with our allies in Europe or the region. Reporting indic...

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War With Iran? from 2020-01-07T05:17:22

Throughout my time keeping the list, I have been  concerned that since Trump would do anything to stay in power, when he  felt he was losing his grip, we risked him taking extraordinar...

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Week 163 - Losing the Evangelicals? from 2019-12-30T06:58:11

This was the quietest week in months as Congress left Washington for a  two-week holiday break. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to  transmit articles of impeachment to the Sen...

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Week 162 - Third in History from 2019-12-23T06:45:10

In this historic week, Trump became the third  president in U.S. history to be impeached. Unlike his recent  predecessors who faced the process, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton,  Trump showed no rem...

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Week 161 - Articles of Impeachment from 2019-12-16T06:18:33

This week, the House Judiciary Committee debated  and voted to approve two articles of impeachment against Donald J.  Trump, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. After two f...

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Week 160 - Laughingstock of the World from 2019-12-09T06:19:07

This week, Trump traveled to London for the NATO  summit as impeachment hearings got underway in the House Judiciary  Committee, and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee issue...

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Week 159 - Donald Balboa from 2019-12-02T06:34:42

This week, more conspiracy theories were  debunked, as a draft of the Department of Justice Inspector General  report found the FBI did not try to place spies in Trump’s 2016  cam...

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Week 158 - Impeachment Hearings Continue from 2019-11-25T18:16:49

This was a remarkable week in impeachment  hearings as nine witnesses testified. By week’s end, it was clear that  there was a coordinated effort that included multiple senior Trump &n...

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Week 157 - Impeachment Hearings Begin from 2019-11-18T05:58:40

This week public impeachment hearings started,  with three career diplomats testifying before the House Intelligence  Committee. Senate Republicans were notably quiet in their defense ...

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Week 156 - Democratic Victories from 2019-11-11T06:18:54

This week, House Democrats released transcripts  of eight depositions, and announced a schedule for public hearings next  week. As support for impeachment plateaued, Democrats tentativ...

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Week 155 - "Lock Him Up!" from 2019-11-04T05:51:42

This week, further testimony in the impeachment  probe brought the fifth and sixth public confirmation of a quid pro quo  between Trump and Ukraine, including so far William Taylor, Go...

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Week 154 - Republican Sit-In from 2019-10-28T04:39:38

This week marked a major shift in the world  order, as Trump finalized the evacuation of troops on Turkey-Syria  border, and the void of leadership was instantaneously filled by Russia...

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Week 153 - All Roads Lead to Putin from 2019-10-21T01:44:22

This week they just said it out loud: Trump’s  acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney scolded reporters, saying Ukraine  was a quid pro quo, and “Get over it!” This was yet another in a s...

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Week 152 - Thirty-three Tweets from 2019-10-14T04:08:34

In addition to the number of not normal items  surging since the start of the impeachment inquiry, Trump’s Twitter  activity has proliferated — in one 25 minute span on Friday alone, <...

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Week 151 - Soliciting Foreign Help...Again from 2019-10-07T05:02:45

With impeachment looming, Trump started this  week by attacking the credibility of House Intelligence Committee Chair  Adam Schiff and the whistleblower, both of whom he also endangere...

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Week 150 - The Beginning of the End? from 2019-09-30T04:11:23

This week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a  formal impeachment inquiry of Trump. I’ve always had the sense that when  we were finally on the road to the end of the Trump regime, ...

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Week 148 - Taliban Invite from 2019-09-16T05:00:24

As Congress returned to session, House Democrats  had conflicting messages on impeachment. The Trump regime’s Justice  Department seized on the divergence, saying lawmakers were not en...

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Week 147 - Hurricane Dorian from 2019-09-09T04:48:37

This week is not the longest list with Congress  out on summer break for the sixth and final week, but it is perhaps the  most alarming in terms of the irreverent authoritarian actions...

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Week 146 - FEC Out of Commission from 2019-09-02T00:54:02

This week Trump’s strange behavior towards  Russia drew renewed concern as he advocated for adding Russia back at  the Group of Seven summit in France, then held up military aid to  Ukraine. A vaca...

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Week 145 - Greenland is Not for Sale from 2019-08-26T04:46

This week, renewed questions surfaced about  Trump’s mental health, as he referred to himself as the “King of  Israel,” the “chosen one,” and “hereby ordered” U.S. companies to change ...

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Week 144 - Bracing for a Downturn from 2019-08-19T04:38:33

This week Trump’s beloved economy faltered under  pressure from his trade war with China, a ballooning U.S. budget  deficit, and other global factors. An anxious Trump, realizing a str...

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Week 143 - Mainstream White Supremacy from 2019-08-12T03:53:40

This week has the most incidents of violence,  attempted violence, and acts of hate inspired by Trump and his rhetoric  since I started keeping track. The week started with two deadly ...

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Week 142 - Moscow Mitch from 2019-08-05T00:45:24

This week started with Trump’s attacks on Black  leader House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, whose panel has  several ongoing investigations targeting Trump and his family....

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Week 141 - Robert Mueller Testifies from 2019-07-29T04:21:10

This week Robert Mueller testified before the  House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees about his 448 page report.  The testimony was the first glimpse many Americans had of its fin...

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Week 140 - Trump Attacks the Squad from 2019-07-22T05:36:51

This week, in a shocking display of racism,  Trump tweeted that four congresswomen of color should “go back” to the  countries they came from. Amid Republican silence, rather than back...

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Week 139 - Consolidation of Power from 2019-07-15T05:46:06

This is the longest week so far, and it felt  that way. The chaos of our lives has obfuscated the damage and extremes  under Trump, as each week blurs into the next week’s crises and &...

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Week 138 - 2020 Census Citizenship Question from 2019-07-08T06:00

This week, two years after visiting France for  Bastille Day and admiring its military display, Trump hosted a “Salute  to America” on July Fourth, replete with an expansive array of m...

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Week 137 - Detention Center Realities from 2019-07-01T04:48:36

This week as Trump backed off mass deportations,  public outcry grew over conditions at detention centers for migrant  children. Reminiscent of Theresienstadt Ghetto in the Nazi era, t...

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Week 136 - An Almost War with Iran from 2019-06-24T19:58:37

This week Trump manufactured two major story  lines: an almost war with Iran, and mass roundups and deportations of  “millions” of immigrants. The two stories occupied much of the nati...

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Week 135 - No Protection for the 2020 Election from 2019-06-17T05:04:46

This week in an interview with ABC News, Trump  suggested he would take damaging information from foreign governments on  political adversaries without reporting it to the FBI, setting...

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Week 134 - Trump's Trip to London from 2019-06-10T07:00:35

This week Trump traveled to the U.K., where he  was met with mass protests which he denied existed, then to his property  in Ireland en route to the 75th anniversary of D-Day ceremony ...

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Week 133 - Robert Mueller's Resignation from 2019-06-03T05:44:06

This week, special counsel Robert Mueller addressed the nation for the first time since the start of his investigation. Notably, Mueller said, “If we had had confidence that the president clearl...

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Week 132 - Support for Impeachment from 2019-05-28T04:51:43

This week the first Republican, Rep. Justin  Amash, came out for impeaching Trump. While Trump allies sought to  attack and punish Amash to avoid further defections, momentum grew amon...

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Week 131 - Attacks on Abortion Rights from 2019-05-20T05:43:53

This week, in a letter, White House counsel Pat  Cipollone issued a blanket refusal of records and testimony from Trump  and dozens of current and former White House staff, saying Trum...

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Week 130 - Constitutional Crisis from 2019-05-13T06:00:14

This week marked a subtle shift in House  Democrats’ position on impeachment, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and  her committee chairs cited a “constitutional crisis,” and argued Trump ...

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Episode 47 - Leaked Mueller Letter to Attorney General William Barr from 2019-05-06T05:58:42

This week a leaked letter sent from special  counsel Robert Mueller to Attorney General William Barr days after Barr  released his four-page “summary” indicated Mueller did not believe...

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Week 128 - The Redacted Mueller Report from 2019-04-29T05:58:38

This week Trump’s White House refused all requests by House Democrats  to interview current or former members of the regime, or to turn over  records, including those requested by subp...

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Week 127 - The Mueller Report from 2019-04-22T01:23:34

This week Attorney General William Barr publicly  released a redacted version of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s  report, almost a month after he delivered it to Barr. The redacte...

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Week 126 - Stephen Miller: Immigration Czar from 2019-04-15T05:40:40

This week, Trump’s frustration with migrants coming to the southern  border boiled over, as he purged the Department of Homeland Security,  and empowered immigrant hardliner Stephen Mi...

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Week 125 - Waiting on the Mueller Report from 2019-04-08T05:44:15

This week, two weeks after Mueller had sent his final report to  Attorney General William Barr, members of the special counsel  anonymously broke their silence, indicating to the T...

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Week 124 - William Barr's Letter on the Mueller Report from 2019-04-01T05:15:33

This week was dominated by news of the Mueller report, which was  delivered to Attorney General William Barr last Friday, but has yet to  be given to Congress or the American people. O...

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Week 123 - Trump's Conspiracy Theory Tweets from 2019-03-25T05:27:49

This week started with maniacal tweeting by Trump: more than 50 tweets  over the weekend on a variety of unrelated topics, including multiple  retweets of conspiracy theorists. The wee...

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Week 122 - Trump's National Emergency from 2019-03-18T05:30:23

Trump issued his first veto after the House and Senate voted to block  his emergency declaration. The veto followed Trump’s declaration of a  national emergency after Congress refused ...

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Week 121 - Fox News: State TV? from 2019-03-11T03:51:49

This week a bombshell exposé by Jane Mayer on the ties between Trump and Fox News sparked questions of whether America had its first version of state TV. The piece had broad fallout, and sparked...

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Week 120 - Michael Cohen's Testimony from 2019-03-04T06:38:52

This week the country was riveted by the public testimony of Michael  Cohen, Trump’s long-time attorney and fixer, before the House Oversight  Committee — the first public testimony in...

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Week 119 - The Continuing Rise of White Nationalism from 2019-02-25T05:58:18

This week the FBI thwarted a major domestic terrorism plot by a white  nationalist serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard, who had  called for the establishment of a “white ho...

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Week 118 - Paul Manafort's Mueller Probe Troubles from 2019-02-18T07:23:35

This was a jarring week as Trump declared a national emergency after  Congress refused to fund his wall — perhaps his most brazen  authoritarian act yet. Trump’s predilection not to go...

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Week 117 - State of the Union from 2019-02-11T06:38:01

This week was filled with news of Congressional inquiries, subpoenas,  and investigations, as House committee chairs took the first steps to  hold Trump and his regime accountable. Lea...

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Week 116 - Trump Meets Putin from 2019-02-04T06:00:57

This week concerns about Trump’s foreign policy were front and center,  as the regime rolled back sanctions against a Russian oligarch, and  withdrew from the Cold War-era Intermediate...

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Week 115 - The End of the Government Shutdown from 2019-01-28T06:23:43

This is the longest and perhaps most perilous week for Trump so far.  Not only did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outmaneuver him in the  government shutdown, but by week’s end she was pub...

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Week 114 - 29 Days (and Counting) Government Shutdown from 2019-01-21T06:57:51

This week marked 29 days of the government being shuttered, with no  end in sight. Agencies continued to feel the effects, as thousands of  furloughed employees were called back to wor...

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Week 113 - Trump's Prime Time Oval Office Address from 2019-01-14T06:50:20

This week Trump struggled to create stagecraft and find narratives to  justify funding for his border wall, while keeping the government  shuttered. Trump delivered a prime-time Oval O...

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Week 112 - Nancy Pelosi's Return as Speaker of the House from 2019-01-07T05:34:04

This week, for the first time since he took office, Trump faced a  check on his power as the 116th Congress was sworn in. As House Speaker  Nancy Pelosi took back the gavel, she made c...

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Week 111 - Trump's Isolation from 2018-12-31T05:46:13

Increasingly, Trump stands alone. The generals are gone, much of his  experienced and competent senior staffers have resigned or been fired.  This week, in a tantrum over his decision ...

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Week 110 - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' Resignation from 2018-12-24T04:07:06

This week Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, thought to be one of the sane  and sober voices remaining in the regime, resigned in a public letter  rebuking Trump’s treatment of allies and d...

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Week 109 - The Mueller Probe Continues from 2018-12-17T07:11:51

As I’ve been listing, I’ve always suspected things would crescendo as we were moving towards the end of the Trump era. Week 109 is the longest list so far, with 181 not normal items. Up unti...

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Week 108 - The Effects of Trump's Trade Tariffs Begin from 2018-12-10T06:53:07

This week featured the normalcy and tranquility of the funeral of George H.W. Bush, juxtaposed with bombshells of damning information on Trump coming from the Mueller probe and other investigations...

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Week 107 - Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone from 2018-12-03T06:00

This week started with escalations, both between Russia and Ukraine, and at the U.S.-Mexico border. Heartbreaking images and video surfaced from Tijuana of migrants from Central America, including ...

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Week 106 - Ivanka's Personal Email Account from 2018-11-26T06:14:06

There is no such thing as a slow holiday news week in the era of Trump! This week, in the chaos of news and not normal, reporting of Ivanka Trump’s use of a personal email account for White House b...

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Week 105 - Trump Reels From the Midterms from 2018-11-19T04:44:28

We are back after a midterm hiatus. Reporting this week indicates Trump is reeling from the midterms, as additional House seats were called for Democrats, possibly leading to a 40 seat pick-up, as...

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Week 102 - Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting from 2018-10-29T06:00:10

This was a heartbreaking week in America, after several domestic attacks left the country shaken, frightened, and on edge. On Monday, an explosive device mailed in a package to the home of G...

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Week 101 - The Midterms are Coming from 2018-10-22T05:14:05

With midterms approaching, the country is electrified and on edge. This week Trump recycled themes from his 2016 campaign to help boost Republican messaging: stoking fear of “the others” (a ...

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Week 100 - Stacking the Judiciary from 2018-10-15T04:51:49

This week as Republicans celebrated the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, polling told a different story: more Americans disapprove of the confirmation, are concerned about Kav...

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Week 99 - #MeToo Culture Wars from 2018-10-08T05:23:49

This was all predictable. The descent to authoritarianism follows a predictable path in history. Masha Gessen, one of the “experts in authoritarianism” I read before starting the project of ...

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Week 98 - The Sexual Assault Accusations Against Brett Kavanaugh from 2018-10-01T05:50:36

This week our country was riveted as new allegations of sexual assault surfaced against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. On Thursday, 20 million Americans tuned in to the watch the K...

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Week 97 - Dr. Christine Blasey Ford from 2018-09-24T06:19:55

This week the news was dominated by accusations of sexual assault against Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, as the accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came forward. Trump restra...

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Week 96 - Paul Manafort Fully Cooperates with Mueller Probe from 2018-09-17T05:02:45

Increasingly, Trump stands alone. Reporting indicates his sense of betrayal from current and former officials speaking out in Bob Woodward’s book and in the anonymous Times op-ed has left Trump ...

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Week 95 - Brett Kavanaugh Hearings from 2018-09-10T06:53:27

This week, the country watched the contentious Senate hearings for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Senator Patrick Leahy called it the “most incomplete, most partisan, least transpa...

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Week 94 - Farewell to John McCain from 2018-09-03T06:04:13

This week the death of Senator John McCain loomed large. McCain’s military and public service, and his statesmanship stood in sharp contrast to Trump, who acted like a petulant child, refusing to i...

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Week 93 - Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty from 2018-08-27T06:03:23

This was an ominous week for Trump, as three longtime allies turned on him. If you’ve come to one of my book events, I’ve said one of the three paths to ending Trump’s time in office was through...

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Week 92 - CIA Director John Brennan's Security Clearance Revoked from 2018-08-20T05:38:51

This week Trump met his match in former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, who launched a new book and publicly shared her stories and perspectives on Trump and his regime members. Their fe...

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Week 91 - Republican Fundraiser Leaked Audio from 2018-08-13T05:06:16

This was a week of widespread and outrageous corruption in the Trump orbit — from Congressman Chris Collins and insider trading, to Secretary Wilbur Ross and grifting, to Secretary of State Kris...

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Week 90 - Trump's Attacks on the News Media from 2018-08-06T14:50:35

This week Trump’s battle with the media escalated as he ramped up his “enemy of the state” rhetoric, and his staffers and supporters followed his lead. The United Nations Human Rights office issued...

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Week 89 - Trump's Alt-truths from 2018-07-30T04:50:31

This week there were dramatic developments in several areas which could be perilous for Trump: a federal judge ruled an emoluments clauses lawsuit can proceed; Michael Cohen asserted Trump knew abo...

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Week 88 - Trump in Helsinki from 2018-07-23T06:17:15

This week it was hard to believe what was happening right before our eyes: Trump stood on stage in Helsinki, after a two hour, private meeting with Putin, and sided with our former foreign adversar...

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Week 87 - NATO Summit from 2018-07-16T06:46:24

This week Trump continued his ramped up level of lying and unhinged behavior as he once again made a spectacle of himself on the world stage at the NATO Summit in Brussels. Trump continued his patt...

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Week 86 - The GOP's July 4th in Moscow from 2018-07-09T05:59:43

This week Russia was front and center as a delegation of seven Republican Senators traveled to Moscow, without any Democrats or U.S. media along, for what was described as “conciliatory” meetings w...

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Week 85 - Capital Gazette from 2018-07-02T05:34:12

This was a devastating week for our country. People — especially women, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ people —are legitimately scared. Much is at stake as our country shows i...

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Week 84 - Atrocities at Our Southern Border from 2018-06-25T05:15:03

This week the world looked on in horror as the atrocity of separating families at our southern border was finally exposed by widespread media coverage. That coverage was limited as the press and ev...

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Week 83 - The Border Crisis from 2018-06-18T05:38:17

This week the atrocities at our southern border finally garnered widespread attention, as stories on the scope and the devastating impact of the Trump regime’s zero-tolerance policy were reported. ...

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Week 82 - Trump's Pardon Talk from 2018-06-11T07:30:20

This week started with Trump pushing yet another norm, saying he could pardon himself. This comes after a string of recent pardons, and Trump bragging to reporters that he is considering 3,000 more...

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Week 81 - Ally Trade Wars from 2018-06-04T04:34:11

The news stories for this week speak to critical degradations of the fabric of our country — the inhumane treatment of immigrants at our border and calamity unfolding in Puerto Rico — got drowned o...

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The Weekly List Podcast Preview from 2018-05-31T19:43:25

Welcome to The Weekly List podcast, hosted by Amy Siskind, author of the book The List. Every week the podcast will give greater context to the news items of that week's Weekly List and highlight a...

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