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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Started War w/Iran To Benefit Himself, Not America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/why-trump-war-iran-benefits</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's no four-dimensional chess here. There's just the president, and what we know he's like.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Religious Leaders Issuing Stark Warnings About Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/religious-leaders-trump-protest-minneapolis-greenland-jonathan-daniels</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow recalls the murder of Jonathan Daniels and explains how he has inspired religious leaders to stand up to Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Kings: Anti-Trump Movement Nearing Major Threshold]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/no-kings-protests-trump-successful-anti-authoritarian-movements-rcna238949</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you want to guarantee success against authoritarianism, research shows you need at least 3.5% of the country's population on your side.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Americans Suffer Shutdown, Trump's Corruption Shines]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-corruption-egypt-qatar-argentina-strongman-rcna237585</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a reason why every opposition movement to every authoritarian government focuses on the self-dealing and self-enrichment of the strongman leader.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Ways Trump Is Already Trying To Rig the Midterms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-rig-midterm-elections-redistricting-mail-in-voting-census-rcna225826</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Trump is taking tactical advice from Putin about how to hold an election, that doesn't bode well for the future of American democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Now Live in a Country With an Authoritarian Leader]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/04/maddow_we_do_now_live_in_a_country_that_has_an_authoritarian_leader_in_charge_a_consolidating_dictatorship.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a monologue entitled "It's Not Coming, It's Here," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow declared, "We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Trump Fumes, Americans Prep for Biggest Protests Yet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-los-angeles-protests-no-kings-day-resistance-rcna212080</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump already can't handle the number of protests against him. And with this weekend's No Kings Day of Defiance, it's about to increase exponentially.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Are Against Putin, President Trump Is For Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-russia-putin-polls-protests-rcna197096</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American people are against Putin. The American president is very much for him. That should be unsustainable in a democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Right To Warn About Threat of Oligarchy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maddow-what-biden-said-for-the-first-time-in-his-farewell-address-229435461592</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow reacts to President Joe Biden's farewell speech from the Oval Office, along with Chris Hayes, Joy Reid, and Jen Psaki.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everything Has Changed, Democrats' Internal War Is Over]]></title>
							<link>https://realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/07/21/maddow_everything_changed_sunday_democratic_party_instantly_ends_its_internal_war.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MSNBC Rachel Maddow comments on President Biden's historic decision to withdraw from the 2024 election and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in his place:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[People Pushing Peace Talks in Ukraine Don't Get It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/02/07/people_pushing_peace_talks_in_ukraine_dont_get_it_russia_news_to_lose.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On 'Independent Americans With Paul Rieckhoff,' Rachel Maddow explained why peace talks should not happen until Russia is beaten in Ukraine:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dr. Fauci on the 'Fog of War' in Fighting Disease]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/08/23/fauci_untruths_have_almost_become_normalized.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to President Biden, talks with Rachel Maddow on the day he announced his intention to retire at the end of the year, about the lessons he learned over his long career and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's the Worst Case Scenario With Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/17/maddow_time_for_americans_to_face_the_worst_case_scenario_on_trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RACHEL MADDOW: There was no explicable reason why he surprised everyone by inviting the Russian Foreign Minister and the Russian ambassador into the Oval Office with no notice, no U.S. media, and apparently no limit on his willingness to disclose to those Russian officials codeword level...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Disruptive Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reshaping-the-supreme-court-our-most-disruptive-branch-of-government/2015/06/23/bdaf3e8c-18ff-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When they announce that they are running for president, deliver their stump speeches, make their ads or head out on their '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'listening tours'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' trailed by caravans of reporters, we get to hear how the candidates talk to everyday Americans. But when they talk to big-dollar donors,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Beer Economic Bellwether]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/consumer-confidence-is-up-just-ask-new-englands-breweries/2015/01/25/892d8138-a324-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The woman in the cute fake fur coat got out of her car and immediately slipped on the ice in the parking lot. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Is this it?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' she yelled, laughing and grabbing the car door to keep from falling. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Do they have it? Please tell me they have it!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Her license plate indicated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Bank on Fear in Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rachel-maddow-republicans-bank-on-fear-in-this-election/2014/11/02/6be71d4c-6133-11e4-91f7-5d89b5e8c251_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I know it wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t planned this way, but there is a certain genius in how we snug Election Day up against Halloween on the calendar. We scare each other for fun and profit on the last day of October every year, but then in even-numbered years, we keep going. We scare each other on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Election Is Tied, &amp; GOP May Try to Steal It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/10/16/maddow_warns_national_races_are_so_close_that_they_could_be_stolen.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow points out that with less than three weeks to go before the midterm elections, and with some states already early voting, polls are showing statistical ties in several high profile races, increasing the danger of cheating.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Year of Three-Ways]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rachel-maddow-ballot-juggling-makes-midterm-races-unexpectedly-competitive/2014/09/21/7aa3a7e8-4021-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html?hpid=z2</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The elections held in a president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sixth year in office do not tend to be a happy thing for that president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s party. Over the past century, the party that holds the White House has lost an average of 29 seats in the House in sixth-year midterms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sebelius Exit Steps on Obamacare Good News]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/04/11/maddow_sebelius_exit_steps_on_obamacare_good_news.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MADDOW: Late breaking tonight, big surprise news out of D.C. that the health secretary Kathleen Sebelius is stepping down. According to the White House chief of staff Dennis McDonough, Secretary Sebelius started talking to the president last month about her future, they say she submitted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christie Shows Why We Need Local News]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rachel-maddow-nj-bridge-scandal-proves-the-need-for-dogged-local-journalism/2014/01/15/56ba6ab0-7c77-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you type '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Shawn Boburg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' into your Web browser address bar, a strange thing happens. Boburg is a reporter for The Record newspaper, in Bergen County, N.J. But ShawnBoburg.com sends visitors to The Record'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rival, Newark'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Star-Ledger.The man who bought the rights to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Koch Affiliated Group Pushes Welfare Drug Tests]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/01/06/rachel_maddow_koch-affiliated_group_pushes_welfare_drug_tests.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RACHEL MADDOW: The Florida Foundation for Government Accountability, this Koch brothers-affiliated group that ran the Alaska "don't enroll" campaign, and then sent its experts traveling around not just to Florida but to Oklahoma and Idaho and Mississippi and New Hampshire and Virginia,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How George W. Bush Failed the GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rachel-maddow-presidents-must-nurture-the-next-generation-of-political-leadership/2013/12/11/210bf702-60f3-11e3-94ad-004fefa61ee6_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a presidency, what comes next? Not just for the president but also for the members of the administration, the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s allies in Congress, his or her political party?In the eight years of the George W. Bush administration, no hearty saplings were ever able to take root in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Arguments Against Senate Bill Are Racist]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/12/rachel_maddow_the_arguments_against_the_immigration_bill_are_racist.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reagan Failed &quot;Moral Test,&quot; McCain Did Not]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/19/maddow_reagan_failed_moral_test_of_leadership_mccain_did_not.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MADDOW: And when that Panama Canal conspiracy theory was lighting up the tin foil hats of the far right wing a generation ago, it was an ambitious politician named Ronald Reagan who took that issue from the fringe and decided to mainstream it into national mainstream Republican politics....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[War on Birth Control]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rachel-maddow-the-gop-war-on-birth-control/2012/02/10/gIQAbZ734Q_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2008 in Colorado, a rebel faction of antiabortion activists decided to pursue a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'personhood'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' initiative. Over the objections of the mainstream antiabortion movement, they proposed amending the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s constitution to redefine the word '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'person'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to include...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Hypocrites on Stimulus Spending]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/11/maddow_republicans_are_hypocrites_on_stimulus_spending.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Doomed to Repeat History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/04/us_doomed_to_repeat_history.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rachel Maddow</author>
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