The Tony Michaels Podcast
Independent political commentary for people who are done with the corporate media filter, billionaire bootlicking, and party-approved talking points — focused on constitutional accountability, concentrated power, and working-class democracy.
Tony Michaels delivers sharp, in-your-face coverage of American politics, democracy, constitutional power, authoritarian threats, corruption, courts, elections, media propaganda, and the working-class fight against oligarchy.
No scripts from the establishment. No pretending both sides are equal when power is being abused. Just news, accountability, and the kind of political talk built for people who still believe democracy is worth fighting for.
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Episodes
1148 episodes
Before America Knew His Name
Before America knew him as George Washington... he was just a young man hoping someone would tell him he belonged.Long before he crossed the Delaware...Long before he became the first President...Long before he refused a crown.....
Birthright Citizenship Is Not a Presidential Permission Slip | TMP #1084
Birthright citizenship is not a presidential permission slip.In today’s Opening Argument, Tony Michaels tells the story of a barbershop just outside Atlanta, Georgia, where three American stories collide: one family from Ireland, one fa...
Why America Keeps Looking for a King | TMP #1083
America didn’t wake up in a ditch overnight.Like a washed-out country road, the damage to our republic has been building beneath the surface for years.Today’s Opening Argument begins in a small American town where a road has was...
A Letter From 1914 Saw AI Coming | TMP #1082
A Letter From 1914 Saw AI ComingA woman sat at her kitchen table in Detroit in 1914 and wrote a letter to Henry Ford.She wasn't asking for more money.She wasn't demanding that the assembly line be shut down.She w...
Trump's War Just Hit Your Wallet | TMP #1081
Every war has a cost.Most Americans assume that cost is measured on a battlefield.But long before most of us ever see the headlines, working families begin paying in another way—at the gas pump.Today's Opening Argument t...
The Government Is Turning Speech Into Evidence | TMP #1080
When the government cannot prove the crime, it often reaches for the label.In today’s Opening Argument, Tony Michaels tells the story of Lucy Parsons sitting in a Chicago courtroom, watching her husband Albert Parsons face trial after t...
Why Are You Paying for Trump's War? | TMP #1079
A family trucking business in a small Midwestern town is doing everything right—but every trip to the diesel pump gets more expensive.Most people blame the president.But what if we're blaming the wrong branch of government?<...
Congress Let This War Burn for 40 Years | TMP #1078
The war with Iran did not begin with the latest bombs.It did not begin with one president, one missile strike, or one nuclear dispute.It grew out of decades of foreign interference, authoritarian rule, sanctions, hostage crises,...
America Was Supposed to Hate These Strangers | TMP #1077
There’s a story America keeps telling itself.That we’re angry.That we’re divided.That we’ve forgotten how to welcome people who come from somewhere else.Then a soccer team from Algeria arrived in Lawrence, Kansas.
Who's Really Raising Your Grocery Bill? | TMP #1076
A retired electrician and a 24-year-old grocery clerk have something in common.Neither one of them started a war.Yet both of them are paying for one.In today's Opening Argument, Tony Michaels tells the story of two Ameri...
Trump DOJ Just Crossed a Constitutional Line | TMP #1075
Trump’s DOJ Just Tested the First AmendmentDonald Trump says this is about law and order.History says we've heard that before.In today's Opening Argument, I tell the story of a 25-year-old man named John Lewis walking ac...
Trump's Team Wants This Dangerous Power | TMP #1074
Stephen Miller said it out loud.The Trump administration openly discussed suspending habeas corpus—the constitutional protection that forces the government to explain why it is detaining someone.Most Americans have never heard t...
Mike Johnson's MOST PATHETIC Trump Favor Yet | TMP #1073
Donald Trump wants Congress to do something the Constitution never assigned it to do: clean up his mess.House Speaker Mike Johnson is reportedly under pressure to support an effort to "expunge" Trump's impeachments from the House record...
Trump Got EMBARRASSED... So He Covered It Up | TMP #1072
Trump Got Embarrassed... So He Covered It UpThe President is embarrassed because he lost to the Constitution.That's not a metaphor.A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump's name could not remain on the Kennedy Center bec...
I Didn't Expect This From Elon Musk — Here's Why | TMP #1071
Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire.But here's the question nobody seems to be asking:Did some of the workers get rich too?In today's Opening Argument, I tell the story of a former Walmart employee who rememb...
Tucker Carlson CALLED Big Banks Drug Dealers | TMP #1070
Tucker Carlson just called America's biggest banks "drug dealers."And whether you agree with Tucker or not, he stumbled onto a question nobody in Washington seems willing to ask:If borrowers have responsibilities, don't lenders ...
A Bag Of Groceries Costs $50 — Trump Says He Loves It | TMP #1069
Donald Trump said he “loves inflation.”Working people heard that while staring at a fifty-dollar bag of groceries.Inflation is not a chart to regular people. It is dinner. It is gas. It is rent. It is the paycheck that shows up ...
We Already Know How to Beat Trump | TMP #1068
Everybody keeps asking the same question:How do we beat Donald Trump?Today, I argue that we already know the answer.The Constitution already has Trump in a straight jacket. The problem isn't the jacket. The problem is wh...
America Isn't A Two-Party System (And I'll Prove It) | TMP #1067
For decades, Democrats and Republicans have sold Americans the same story:There are only two choices.Vote for us... or them.But what if that isn't true?What if the Constitution never created a two-party system in...
Trump BANKRUPTED His Casinos — Now He's BANKRUPTING America | TMP #1066
Trump bankrupted his casinos.Now he’s bankrupting America.This isn’t a prediction. It’s a pattern.Tony breaks down Trump’s casino playbook: debt, hype, ignored warning signs, and regular people getting stuck with the los...
If AI Is So Dangerous, Why Give Government 50% Of It? | TMP #1065
If AI is going to change everything, why are the only people getting a say the billionaires building it and the politicians trying to control it?That's the question at the center of Bernie Sanders's proposal for public ownership of AI.<...
Trump CORNERED by Iran War Vote as GOP Splits | TMP #1064
Trump got cornered by the House vote on his Iran war powers — and the GOP split is now on the record.The House passed a War Powers Resolution 215–208, with four Republicans joining Democrats to say Trump should not be able to keep U.S. ...
Bernie’s Wild AI Plan Exposes Congress’ Bigger Failure
Bernie Sanders is proposing a public ownership stake in major AI companies through a sovereign wealth fund. You can support that idea, oppose it, amend it, or reject it — but Congress cannot keep hiding from the biggest power question of our ti...
TRUMP HUMILIATED: Judge Forces Him To Admit He Has No Power | TMP #1063
Donald Trump just got a lesson in something he hates hearing:No, you don't have that power.A federal judge ordered Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center after ruling that only Congress—not Trump, not his board, not his lo...
AI Data Centers Are Breaking Party Lines — Who Pays the Bill? | TMP #1062
The AI data-center boom is no longer a simple left-right issue.In Pennsylvania, Republican lawmakers are pushing an 18-month pause so local communities can update their rules before massive data-center projects get locked in. A Democrat...