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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's 2026 Bind]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t wait for 2026 to begin the fight for control of Congress. In December, the president showed up at a ski resort in the Poconos, and he wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t there for the lovely Pennsylvania mountain scenery. He knows what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s headed his way.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Falling Into a Trap With Crime in DC]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/13/chris_matthews_democrats_falling_into_a_trap_of_defending_whats_indefensible_with_crime_in_washington_dc.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The murder rate, you can't keep saying violent crime is down, but the murder rate is up.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump Means by 'Great Television']]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/03/what-trump-means-by-great-television/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump wants to kill the Department of Education while he creates a new one for himself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Using the Media Just Like Mussolini]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/03/07/chris_matthews_trump_is_mussolini_hes_using_the_media_to_get_people_to_believe_what_he_says_verbatim.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chris Matthews on Friday told the 'Morning Joe' panel that President Donald Trump is Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCarthy, Biden and the Washington Snub]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/02/10/mccarthy-biden-and-the-washington-snub/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House Speaker is reportedly still angry over a two-year-old incident with the president. It reminds anthropologists studying capital culture that real or perceived slights can drive policy and politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sen. Leahy's Long and Winding Road]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/30/patrick-leahys-long-and-winding-road/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At 83, the Vermonter is retiring after 48 years in the U.S. Senate, and in his new memoir, he somehow finds hope for the chamber'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Dems Can Push GOP to Vote for Infrastructure]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/07/07/the-hardball-way-to-push-republicans-to-vote-for-infrastructure/https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/07/07/the-hardball-way-to-push-republicans-to-vote-for-infrastructure/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats have to get tougher by sounding the alarm about collapsing bridges and dangerous roads in each GOP district and state.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Concession Speeches Matter]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/06/24/why-concession-speeches-matter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's refusal to admit electoral defeat is even more poisonous than you think.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter's Powerful Voting Rights Message]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/03/18/jimmy-carters-powerful-message-on-voting-rights/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He's monitored more than 100 elections around the world. Now he's taking on GOP efforts to suppress the vote in the state of Georgia and across the country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Make Congress Stronger]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/03/09/how-to-make-congress-stronger/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time to kill the filibuster, return to regular order, and obey the budget law instead of threatening the parliamentarian.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Smart Way for Dems to Use Reconciliation]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/02/06/the-smart-way-to-use-reconciliation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Watergate-Era gave Democrats a big stick'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but only if they wield it right.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Torch Is Passed. It's Up to Biden to Make it Glow]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/01/19/the-torch-will-be-passed-its-up-to-biden-to-make-it-glow/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A former presidential speechwriter explains what Biden needs to do in his inaugural address and what he can learn from Washington, Lincoln, and F.D.R.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What RFK's Legacy Can Teach Liberals About Beating Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/bobby-kennedy-s-humility-willingness-change-makes-him-perfect-antidote-ncna879961</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At times a hothead, Kennedy had the ability to step back, give a matter some thought, learn from the experience and discern a better option.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservative Elite All About Defending Iraq War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/24/chris_matthews_love_for_regime_change_unites_republican_opposition_to_trump_theyre_all_the_hawks.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday's Hardball Chris Matthews confronts the National Review's Eliana Johnson over the magazine's strong stance against Donald Trump. Matthews says he has identified one factor that all 22 members of the "posse" of anti-Trump conservatives. CHRIS MATTHEWS: Rich Lowry supported the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem 2016 Convention Belongs in Philly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chris-matthews-the-2016-democratic-national-convention-should-be-in-philadelphia/2015/01/30/46ae5f04-a7e7-11e4-a06b-9df2002b86a0_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beginning of the End for the Euro?]]></title>
							<link>http://fortune.com/2015/01/26/greece-elections-euro-end/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Markets are taking the landslide election in Greece more or less in stride.Greek stocks fell on the news that the anti-austerity Syriza party will take power. But European stocks and the Euro seemed to be largely unaffected by the news, despite the fact that Syriza vows to fight the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is Swimming in Racism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/04/15/chris_matthews_america_is_swimming_in_racism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MATTHEWS: This is always tricky business because we grew up in a country that had slavery for 350 years, we had Jim Crow for 100. We have racial segregation in housing, which is unbelievable, there's an untold amount of it still in business that you can't isolate, and then we sit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes, Politics Was Once Friendly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/10/17/yes-there-was-time-when-politics-was-friendly/t3SBFp0wEkoOev1assArwO/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that 78 percent of us think the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s headed in the wrong direction. The true surprise is the 14 percent who think that things are getting better.Government shutdowns that once amounted to a couple of days are now more than a couple of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Breaking the Deadlock in Washington]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chris-matthews-ending-the-shutdown-will-require-an-inside-outsiders-help/2013/10/08/a0feb2b2-2f9b-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I remember a testy 1982 meeting between Ronald Reagan and Tip O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Neill over the budget. Republicans wanted to reduce the deficit projected for the coming fiscal year. Democrats, led by O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Neill, the House speaker, were resistant to cutting Social Security.With the meeting about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans' Problem With Obama Is He's Black]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/08/28/matthews_on_republicans_they_never_say_their_problem_with_obama_is_that_he_is_black.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At least back in 1939 when Marian Anderson had to sing here "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" rather than at the Constitution Hall because they said the reason was she was black. At least they were honest back then. Today in American politics you have people like Donald Trump who hangs around...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Will the Obama Haters Stop Hating?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/26/chris_matthews_when_will_the_obama_haters_stop_hating.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this.I said it before and am now saying it again.There are too many people on the American right who hate the very notion of Barack Obama in the White House. It grates on them, just as it thrills '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' even now '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' tens of millions of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Sees Voter Suppression as Ticket to Success]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/18/chris_matthews_republicans_view_voter_suppression_as_their_ticket_to_success.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I think the hearings this week up in Pennsylvania tell a huge story. They show how Republicans view voter suppression as their ticket to success.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Here you have a party chairman saying that merely the attention given to a voter photo ID...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Was Obama Tonight?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/03/chris_matthews_freaks_out_at_obama_after_debate_romney_was_winning.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Tonight wasn't an MSNBC debate tonight, was it?" Chris Matthews said after the first Obama-Romney presidential debate concluded on Wednesday night."I don't know what he was doing out there. He had his head down, he was enduring the debate rather than fighting it. Romney, on the other...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is U.S. Economic Growth a Thing of the Past?]]></title>
							<link>http://business.time.com/2012/09/04/is-u-s-economic-growth-a-thing-of-the-past/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States and economic growth have consistently gone hand in hand. The country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s history has consistently been accompanied by economic progress, and since the end of World War II the U.S. economy has averaged GDP growth of more than 3% per year.Of course that kind of growth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Booker Helped &quot;Sabotage&quot; Obama Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/21/chris_matthews_cory_booker_helped_sabotage_obama_campaign.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The news there, I think, was probably the president's deft handling of that sabotage, intended or not, by Cory Booker the other day on "Meet the Press." I have to tell you, in the years of covering politics, I've never saw anything like what we saw on 'Meet the Press.' They should call...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin is a Frightening Empty Vessel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/02/09/msnbcs_matthews_palin_has_nothing_going_on_mentally.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Matthews</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Latest Politics, News &amp; Election Videos          MSNBC's Chris Matthews says Sarah Palin is an empty vessel. To comment on this video  or click the "Comments" link below.Posted by RCP Staff '&#'.ord('|').';' Send to a Friend '&#'.ord('|').';'  Email Author '&#'.ord('|').';'  '&#'.ord('|').';' Permalink    Political Videos        		               ...]]></description>
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