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Essay · May 5, 2026 · 8 min
Today the Tennessee legislature carves up Memphis. Here’s the door the Court opened, and how we walk through it.

Essay · May 3, 2026 · 4 min
We are told to fear the Iranians. We are told that they hate us because we're free.

Essay · April 30, 2026 · 7 min
How we get more of what we want and need.
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EssayMay 5, 2026 · 8 min read
Today the Tennessee legislature carves up Memphis. Here’s the door the Court opened, and how we walk through it.
EssayMay 3, 2026 · 4 min read
We are told to fear the Iranians. We are told that they hate us because we're free.
EssayApril 30, 2026 · 7 min read
How we get more of what we want and need.
EssayApril 28, 2026 · 8 min read
AI is like when the engine replaced the horse. This time, we’re the horse.
EssayApril 28, 2026 · 8 min read
AI is like when the engine replaced the horse. This time, we’re the horse.
EssayApril 22, 2026 · 9 min read
That was our question. We chose wrong. Again.
EssayApril 14, 2026 · 6 min read
What if they worked together?
EssayApril 12, 2026 · 5 min read
The filibuster, the supermajority, the constitutional amendment. The prices are seat.
EssayApril 9, 2026 · 8 min read
A lack of imagination led us here, where an American president would suggest ending an entire civilization.
EssayApril 7, 2026 · 6 min read
The New York Times isn't mourning the dead. They're mourning the manners.
EssayApril 4, 2026 · 7 min read
2026 and 2028 can be our time.
EssayApril 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Two weeks ago I told you what I was trying to build.
EssayMarch 29, 2026 · 5 min read
As we planned to have our voices heard Democratic leaders in Congress ignored us.
EssayMarch 27, 2026 · 7 min read
We have a lot to learn from both candidate and president Obama. A new generation of candidates is learning the wrong lessons.
EssayMarch 24, 2026 · 5 min read
Lets end stock buybacks and start reclaiming what was ours/
EssayMarch 19, 2026 · 9 min read
The machine that beats us is real. So is the one we have to build.
EssayMarch 17, 2026 · 8 min read
Why I've worked for more candidates than I've voted for.
EssayMarch 5, 2026 · 9 min read
There is a fight that would make us safer and more secure. But we refuse to wage it.
EssayMarch 3, 2026 · 8 min read
For years, Democrats have had one message. Trump is bad. He’s a criminal. He’s a fascist. He’s a threat to democracy. He’s breaking everything. And yet he keeps winning. He keeps.
EssayMarch 3, 2026 · 8 min read
Because too many Democrats in Congress don’t actually disagree with Trump
VideoFebruary 19, 2026 · 01:59:51
What happens when the political opposition treats reality like a TV show? In my latest live panel, I sit down with a group of fellow political.
VideoFebruary 13, 2026 · 21:16
Is the Democratic Party's current strategy enough to hold back the rising tide of populism? Corbin Trent joins Driving It Home with Patti Vasquez on.
PodcastFebruary 12, 2026 · 1 min
Corbin Trent Joins MeidasTouch Network to Discuss Fighting for America
VideoFebruary 10, 2026 · 20:23
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on GOP Speaker MAGA Mike running scared after Howard Lutnick’s disastrous testimony and Meiselas highlights.
PodcastFebruary 10, 2026 · 58 min
A recording from America's Undoing and Christopher Peleo-Lazar's live video
VideoJanuary 24, 2026 · 00:29
What are some non-negotiable lines we should be drawing in the sand right now? Featuring Matthew Cooke
VideoJanuary 23, 2026 · 55:39
Featuring Matthew Cooke, writer-director of How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a documentary film that criticizes the war on drugs in the United.
VideoJanuary 22, 2026 · 00:42
As a country, we are experiencing a dangerous, life-threatening relationship. We must confront what we are seeing with our own eyes. Featuring.
PodcastJanuary 22, 2026 · 55 min
Featuring Matthew Cooke, writer-director of How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a documentary film that criticizes the war on drugs in the United.
PodcastJanuary 22, 2026 · 55 min
<p>Featuring Matthew Cooke, writer-director of How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a documentary film that criticizes the war on drugs in the United.
VideoDecember 18, 2025 · 50:21
Two for one: An Essay and a podcast with Reed Galen and yours truly.
VideoDecember 10, 2025 · 24:39
A recording from Corbin Trent and Kaivan Shroff's live video
VideoNovember 15, 2025 · 01:04:03
A recording from Corbin Trent's live video
VideoNovember 13, 2025 · 01:05:26
A recording from America's Undoing's live video
VideoOctober 25, 2025 · 53:36
VideoJuly 30, 2025 · 49:39
Had Tennessee State Rep Aftyn Behn on to talk about something that sounds impossible - flipping a Republican congressional seat in Tennessee. But.
VideoJuly 30, 2025 · 01:15:19
Had economist and Substack writer Noah Smith on to hash out something that's been bugging me for years - this disconnect between what the economic.
VideoJuly 17, 2025 · 01:02:09
In this conversation, Corbin Trent and the host discuss their backgrounds in politics, the challenges faced by working-class Americans, and the role.
VideoJune 19, 2025 · 19:07
Only 20 Dems have backed a bill to strip his war powers. The rest are standing with Netanyahu—or staying silent.
VideoJune 17, 2025 · 20:34
Why Noah Smith is dead wrong about American decline
VideoJune 14, 2025 · 20:34
I left my house-building job to cover the No Kings protest in Knoxville today. What I found surprised the hell out of me - 5,000 people in deep red.
VideoJune 14, 2025 · 00:52
For decades, working class people trusted the Democratic Party to look out for them. They trusted the Democratic Party to put out the economic and.
VideoJune 14, 2025 · 33:38
I get hate mail from Democrats calling me a Trumper and Republicans calling me a communist. That tells you everything about how useless political.
VideoJune 14, 2025 · 48:17
Two Democratic operatives from different wings of the party hash out what went wrong and where we go from here. Mike Nellis (White Guys for Kamala.
VideoJune 14, 2025 · 34:57
Republican Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-02) sits down for a surprisingly candid conversation about what's really broken in Washington - and it's not.
VideoJune 14, 2025 · 41:56
33% of US healthcare costs go to administration. Japan? 1.6%. This is just one shocking stat that exposes how broken our economic system really is.
VideoJune 14, 2025 · 20:34
Your dad bought a house with 5 years of work. You need 10. Healthcare took 2 weeks of wages in 1950. Now it's 4 months. This isn't progress - it's.
VideoJune 13, 2025 · 18:39
In the inaugural episode of 'America's Undoing,' Corbin Trent introduces himself and shares his journey from a food truck owner to a political.
VideoJune 12, 2025 · 13:27
Corbin Trent opens America’s Undoing with the story of how a food-truck owner from the Appalachian hills became a Bernie organizer, co-founded.
VideoJune 12, 2025 · 12:16
Chris Matthews joins Corbin Trent to dissect the Democrats’ identity crisis in Trump’s second term and the “Big Beautiful Bill” gutting Medicare &.
VideoJune 12, 2025 · 28:35
Rick Wilson and Corbin Trent break down the LA troop deployment, immigration crackdowns, AI-driven job loss, and why Democrats lost their brand.
VideoMay 21, 2025 · 00:55
Congress is filled with ivy-leaugers. These folks can't relate to people like me and many of you.
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