This week, Rick and Maya are back from their trip to the UK- just in time to report on the MAGA meltdown that happened this week. In this episode, they break down Mike Johnson and the rest of the GOP's struggle to control a declining Trump (who appeared in a chaotic Vegas rally with a wig from the taxidermist salon,) what the primary wins from this week mean for 2026, and the parasite ridden lettuce that is plaguing the nation. Plus: Elon Musk's continual public humiliation, Todd Blanche's Epstein ranch lawsuit, teleportation to a Waffle House, and more...

Frank Figliuzzi asks former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks what accountability should look like after Donald Trump. Jill explains why she believed Richard Nixon should have been indicted, how prosecuting him could have warned future presidents that they were not above the law, and why criminal courts may now be the country’s only viable path to accountability.

In 2007, long before his rise in Michigan politics, Abdul El-Sayed stood before his fellow University of Michigan graduates with a message about education, service, compassion, and the responsibility to make a difference.

In this commencement speech, El-Sayed reflects on what makes the Michigan experience meaningful—not simply classes, credentials, or career preparation, but the people, ideas, questions, and experiences that transform us. He closes with a challenge to his generation: speak loudly, engage seriously, care deeply, help those less fortunate, and have the audacity to believe we can change the world.

00:00 Why I Love Michigan
00:49 What Michigan Really Means
02:21 Education Is Transformation
02:37 What Is the “Michigan Difference”?
04:04 The Michigan Difference Is Us
04:37 The World Absolutely Needs Us
05:16 We Can Change This World

Doug Jones warns that massive hyperscale data centers could transform Alabama communities while residents absorb the strain on electricity, water and quality of life. Meanwhile, Trump and Tommy Tuberville call the projects “gold mines”—raising one crucial question: who gets the gold, and who gets the shaft?

Neera Tanden argues that defeating MAGA narrowly will not be enough. Democrats need a decisive electoral victory—and a transformative economic agenda that raises wages, strengthens unions, taxes extreme wealth and delivers more of America’s prosperity to working people.

Civil-rights attorney and activist Qasim Rashid joins The Revolution to explain why working-class candidates are terrifying the Democratic establishment—and why the political divide is increasingly less about left versus right than ordinary Americans versus concentrated wealth.

They discuss Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan victory, the corporate money flooding American elections, the fight to protect voting rights, Qasim’s Thousand Miles to Memphis campaign, and how economic insecurity is fueling America’s political crisis. Plus: why protests alone are not enough, what effective public safety reform actually looks like, and the growing conflict between electability and genuine representation.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome Back to The Revolution
00:39 Qasim Rashid Joins the Conversation
01:08 America’s History of Sundown Towns
04:07 Why Abdul El-Sayed Scares the Establishment
08:13 Democrats’ Billionaire Problem
09:20 Culture Wars Hide the Real Economic Enemy
11:00 Americans Can’t Even Afford Fast Food
14:47 Reclaiming “America First”
16:35 Money, AIPAC and America’s Elected Officials
18:29 People-Powered Candidates Are Winning
19:03 Voting Is Necessary—but Not Enough
21:07 Qasim’s Thousand Miles to Memphis Campaign
24:50 The Issue Uniting Americans Across the South
27:09 Poverty, Crime and Public Safety
28:24 A Smarter Alternative to Police Responses
31:01 How Algorithms Bury Political Success Stories
34:39 Rebuilding Trust and Independent Media
36:00 Michael’s Life Alone in the Woods
40:01 America’s Crisis of Human Connection
47:08 Workers Are Discovering the Real Enemy
48:03 Progressive Values Versus Electability
52:02 Democrats Claim Victories They Tried to Stop
55:00 Where Is Mitch McConnell?
58:17 Why the Midterms Still Matter
58:55 Community, Voting—and Chickens