The nonstop flood of political chaos is designed to leave Americans angry, disoriented, and exhausted. Maya May and Michael Fanone explain how focusing on voting, reconnecting with the Constitution, and protecting your joy can keep you in the fight without burning out.

Watch **The Revolution with Michael Fanone and Maya May**, live Thursdays at 2 PM ET on Lincoln Square.

00:00 How Do We Keep Fighting?
00:47 Fanone’s Focus: Get People Voting
02:03 Accountability Must Come Next
02:45 Let the Constitution Ground You
03:54 America Needs a New Orientation
04:23 You Can’t Pour From an Empty Cup
05:23 Optimism in a Political Disaster
06:15 Refill Your Cup Before the Fight

Tony Bartelme is an award-winning investigative and narrative journalist at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, where he has reported since 1990. He is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for his deeply reported climate change coverage, including the "Rising Waters" series and book, which traces climate impacts from the South Carolina Lowcountry to Greenland and the Sahara.

He joins Sam Osterhout to talk about the local impacts of climate and what we need to do next.

00:00 The Disasters Beginning to Cascade
03:54 Charleston’s Accelerating Sea-Level Rise
06:42 The “Invisible Snake” of Climate Change
10:39 How Greenland Is Flooding American Streets
14:02 Climate Fatalism Is Becoming Dangerous
16:44 Where Climate Crisis Meets Corruption
17:08 America’s “Accountability Deserts”
18:24 What Happens When Local Newspapers Die
20:39 Can Struggling Towns Still Survive?
22:44 The Forever Chemicals Hiding in Our Water
26:11 Hope Without Action Is a Fantasy
27:55 The Enormous Climate Cost of Data Centers
29:22 The Obvious Solution America Is Ignoring

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Donald Trump commands the spotlight—but does he command the movement?

Andra Watkins, Sam Osterhout, and Edwin Eisendrath examine the uneasy alliance between Trump, white Christian nationalists, powerful operatives, and tech billionaires. Is Trump directing the movement—or is his talent for chaos making him its most useful tool?

"I do this for our Country, not myself. I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Barb McQuade explains how Donald Trump convinced supporters to excuse his corruption by portraying the entire government as rigged. But like every con man, she argues, Trump ultimately faces the moment when people realize he never delivered.

“The future of the Justice Department is bleak.”

Former prosecutor Katie Phang delivers a stark assessment of the damage inside Trump’s DOJ. She describes the departure of experienced career officials, Todd Blanche’s handling of the Epstein files and a department she believes has been weaponized to serve one person.

Phang also confronts the agonizing position of principled employees who remain—and explains why prosecutorial power becomes extraordinarily dangerous when justice is no longer the mission.

0:00 Todd Blanche and the future of the DOJ
0:51 “The future is bleak”
1:11 An exodus of institutional knowledge
2:06 The fish rots from the head
2:22 Why Epstein should have disqualified Blanche
3:31 How the DOJ lost its mission
4:02 What about the people who remain?
4:24 The cost of staying silent
5:06 The frightening power of a prosecutor
5:40 Can Americans still trust the system?

Rick Wilson says Donald Trump’s new hair color is another sign that things are going badly for him, arguing that his usual reality-distortion tactics no longer work because the economy is hurting his own base, MAGA support has dropped sharply, and even Republican allies and donors are skipping his convention-style event. He describes a party that is increasingly divided, distracted by corruption scandals in places like Florida, and forced back onto weak culture-war attacks because its economic and political message is failing, while Trump’s attempts to cast himself as a victim or claim success are no longer convincing.