Posting Through It

When the late Wesley Willis had a schizophrenic episode, he would refer to it as a “war hell ride.” Well, that’s what the GOP seems to be feeling right now. It’s last call before the midterms, and MAGA is stumbling toward the exit with a closing message that’s somehow darker, dumber, and more chaotic than any previous dark and dumb election they’ve participated in. Billionaire money is flowing into their coffers in record amounts, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Nothing has stuck for them, and everyone’s mad.On this episode, Jared and Mike break down the administration’s apparent groundwork for federal meddling: a $1 million election fraud bounty, the largest DOJ poll-watcher operation ever, and election deniers pushing for a “national emergency.” Then they dig into the GOP’s final pitch to voters. That includes naked bigotry from RFK Jr., Trump, and JD Vance; Haley Stevens’ stunning eleventh-hour endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers; the White House defending the honor of the Cheesecake Factory; Glenn Beck’s latest “color revolution” panic; and enough AI slop to make Wesley Willis cry in the afterlife. So, without further delay: Rock over London. Rock on Chicago. Posting Through It. It’s the most trusted name in news.(Stay tuned for Part II of this episode on Thursday, after midterm results are in!)Transition Music: “Mother is God” by Abertooth Lincoln

Support the show on Patreon and get access to premium episodes: Patreon.com/postingthroughit--This episode features audio from our book event with Christopher Mathias at New York University on Oct. 28, 2026. The guys talk about the books Mike and Chris wrote before turning their attention to contemporary topics, including 2026 midterms, how the fight against fascism has changed in the second Trump Administration, and what ever became of the "antifa civil war" that was supposedly imminent in 2019.Thanks to everyone who came to hear our talk and hang out after!

From 2008 to 2012, Richard Hanania wrote under the name “Richard Hoste” for white nationalist websites, where he argued for forcibly sterilizing people with IQs under 90 and warned that “race mixing” was destroying the white gene pool. Then he went to law school, got a PhD, founded a think tank, and reinvented himself as an “anti-woke” pundit beloved by Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel and Vivek Ramaswamy. Now he’s a repentant Trump voter writing for the Boston Globe, being praised by liberals, and defending Jeffrey Epstein. What are we to make of a guy like this? Jared and Mike are joined by Christopher Mathias, the reporter who unmasked Hanania’s alt-right past in 2023, and Henry Burke, a senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project who shared a mountain of research for this episode. Together they trace how Hanania was accepted by three political worlds in turn: the white nationalist fringe, the MAGA-adjacent tech right, and liberals hungry for MAGA converts. (Richard Hanania answered some of our questions by email for this episode but not others.)Links for Christopher Mathias:To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical RightRichard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym (HuffPost)Bluesky: @letsgomathias.bsky.social / X: @letsgomathiasLinks for Henry Burke:The Revolving Door ProjectBluesky: @henryburke.bsky.social / X: @burkehenrytTransition Music: “RIVULET” by TRIAGEJoin us at NYU on Oct. 28: RSVP Here

Subscribe to our Patreon to listen to premium episodes: patreon.com/postingthroughit--What are you scared of this Halloween? Michael Myers? Jack Torrance? Drake? The American right’s answer to that question is France. They have noticed what is happening there and they are scared and excited as hell. Jared and Mike dig into the wave of school blockades, Yellow Vest revival protests, and brutal police crackdowns sweeping France (and now spreading to Belgium, Italy, Greece, and beyond), and how MAGA influencers are already repurposing the footage, stripped of context and sometimes outright faked by AI, into an implausible story about scary leftists and immigrant chaos coming for the West next.Also in this episode: the DOJ digs through 50 years of Ilhan Omar’s life looking for a deportation pretext while the FBI rushes noncitizen voter-fraud cases ahead of Election Day. Trump and Vance roll out a $25 million snitch fund and dangle pardons for patriotic brain genius Nick Shirley. A brutal attack ad against Ohio’s Amy Acton drags her childhood sexual abuse into the governor’s race, and right-wing influencers immediately accuse her of lying about it.We are forming like Voltron on this Creamium episode of PTI, out to destroy every copy of the Tempest we can find!

The GOP is spending big enough on TV ads that you’d think they were in a strong position headed into the midterms. The opposite is true. They are lost in a sea of dogshit and running out of scapegoats to attack. To the average swing voter, they have now entered… the Libbity Bibbity Zone of the terminally insufferable.On this episode, Jared and Mike are joined by Nikki McCann Ramírez, political reporter at Rolling Stone and cohost of the American Friction podcast, to talk about MAGA’s scattershot closing argument: migrant caravans, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Muslim attacks, conspiracy theories about James Talarico, and whatever else they can pull out of their money-stuffed asses. They dig into the Trump/Vance road tour through red states, an administration drowning in cartoonish corruption and self-inflicted wounds, and leaked audio of Ken Paxton sounding worried about Texas. Plus: how realistic is a Democratic sweep of the House and the Senate, and if MAGA gets wiped out in November, what does the “post-MAGA” right look like.So look out for Mayhem. You’re in good hands with Posting Through It.Links for Nikki‘Corruption to Go Around’: How Dems Are Preparing to Investigate Trump After the Midterms‘Abbott Is Struggling’: Ken Paxton Gripes About Texas GOP and Campaign Woes in New Leaked Audio"American Friction" podcastX: @NikkiMcR / Bluesky: @nikkimcr.bsky.socialJoin us in NYC on Oct. 28: RSVP HereTransition Music: "LEMONBRAIN" by Bergie and the Magic Bag

Listen to premium episodes on our Patreon: patreon.com/postingthroughit~~~You’re a groyper in October 2026: You get cozy to watch your idol, Nick Fuentes. But what’s Nick talking about here? Weight loss tips, his opinions on how to drink coffee and the wonders of autumn? And what are you wearing while watching Nick? How about some naughty-looking athletic socks... and a thong, perhaps? If you only follow Fuentes out of the corner of your eye, you might have missed some changes in his fanbase. What started as a white nationalist movement claiming to defend tradition and heteronormativity has evolved into something much more about culture and sexuality, with Fuentes’ fans adopting all kinds of public postures that white nationalists are supposed to consider degenerate. On the heels of this, Fuentes himself was allegedly spotted out at dinner with a fellow groyper in one of Chicago's LGBTQ+-friendly neighborhoods.On this episode, Jared and Mike dig into Fuentes’ alleged gay date at Big Jones in Andersonville, the years of rumors about Nick’s sexuality that led up to it, and the openly gay groyper accounts now hawking his merch in thongs and America First socks. Then Jared walks through the conspiracy theory MAGA media cooked up after Texas Senate nominee James Talarico came down with the flu: that he had secretly flown to an Ohio psychiatric hospital. The evidence? An anonymous account with an AI-generated profile picture, a private flight with no connection to Talarico, and a call to the Lindner Center of Hope edited to cut out the part where the employee said there was no record of him receiving care there. So, get your poppers ready for a hypnotically gay and potentially mentally ill pumpkin spice creamium episode of Posting Through It. We are feeling cozy!

Picture it: You are in a secluded strip of fancy-pants military housing. In the distance, a Bose stereo pumps out an EDM remix of “Ring of Fire.” A beleaguered Benihana chef squirts sake into Doug Burgum’s wiggling, groaning, drunken mouth. A mechanical bull launches an unattended seven-year-old boy into the air, his landing spot out of sight. You are now in Katie Miller’s domain, partying with the least popular and most cruel administration in recent memory.On this episode, Jared and Mike welcome Madeline Peltz, an independent journalist who covers right-wing media, to dig into Vanity Fair’s portrait of Katie Miller as MAGA Washington’s deeply hated hostess. Madeline and the boys also run through a cast of other unsavory MAGA characters, including Andrew Tate, who allegedly possessed eel porn; “Dad Chat” daddy Joshua Lisec, who won’t let Madeline into his event; Megyn Kelly, who wants you to know how ugly sexual assault victims are; and Michael Tracey (again), who went to Cornell to shout at people while dressed like sentient body odor.So, throw your tap water in the garbage like Michael Tracey’s request for time. There are no “brokies” on Posting Through It. We are now en route to white boy heaven.Links for Madeline:Pre-order "GOOD GIRLS AND ALPHA MALES": Source BooksNewsletter: Number Two PencilBlueSky: @peltzmadeline.bsky.social / X: @peltzmadelineInstagram: @peltzmadelineJoin us in New York City on Oct. 28: RSVP Here

A recurring sexual-assault controversy puts Michael Tracey’s online behavior under scrutiny once again. Jared Holt, Michael Edison Hayden, and Bobby Silverman reenact Tracey’s tense direct messages, unpack his demands for access, and question his fixation on the story. The discussion also veers into a bizarre sample from a MAGA divorce advice show.

Everyone, likely including the Trump administration itself, understands the racist roots of the word "remigration." Before it appeared in US politics, white nationalists coined the term and amplified it throughout Europe. So if everyone knows this, why has our government chosen to publicly associate with it?The answer may be as simple as "Stephen Miller." Jared and Mike continue their coverage of the most consequential figure in our government, and the architect of its most sadistic policies, in a conversation with Greg Sargent of The New Republic. Sargent, who has done big-picture reporting on Miller's ideology, explains that American taxpayers have been quietly funding a federal "Office of Remigration," and how it relates to the Trump Administration's rhetorical war against "communism."The situation for immigrants is precarious, to put it mildly. But as Stephen Miller himself once said: "Racism must be defeated. Thank you."Links for Greg:Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror StateStephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New LeaksPodcast: The Daily Blast with Greg SargentX: @GregTSargent / Bluesky: @gregsargent.bsky.socialJoin us in New York City on Oct. 28: RSVP HereTransition Music: "Any Time Any Place" by Jester Of No Court

Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden examine the online right’s rising anti-Indian racism, including Jonathan “Lomez” Keeperman’s bizarre theory that assimilation means becoming invisible. They critique The New York Times’ elevation of racist figures as serious thinkers, revisit a Texas football crowd treated as evidence of failed assimilation, and reveal Mike’s first media fatwa.