How the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was dismantled.
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5-4 is presented by Prologue Projects. This episode was produced by Alli Rodgers. Leon Ne...
2026-01-27 09:00:10 +0000 UTC
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It's a new year and a lot has happened since our last mailbag episode, so send us any questions you have about, well, anything at all. The winter storm, the bruises on Trump's hands, the ICE occupa...
2026-01-26 03:43:57 +0000 UTC
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The history of why we needed (and still need) the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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2026-01-20 09:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello Court Haters of America (that should be our PAC name),
YOU’RE INVITED! we will be having a zoom event with Archenemy subscribers (that’s $10/month patrons!) to kick off the new year...
2026-01-15 01:23:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! We wanted to give you a heads up that we will be back next week with the first of a 2-part miniseries on the Voting Rights Act. We are extremely excited to share it with you, a wide lens ...
2026-01-12 18:40:24 +0000 UTC
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A movie about a dipshit who prays his way to the Supreme Court. It’s worse than you imagine.
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2025-12-16 09:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Trans erasure. Anti-intellectualism. Culture war. Moral panic. These are a few of the Supreme Court’s favorite things!
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2025-12-09 09:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! We’ve been getting requests for the most straightforward merch ever for a while now, and on this gorgeous Black Friday, our trademarked (not actually) logline is now available — t-sh...
2025-11-28 20:53:43 +0000 UTC
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These days, three degrees of separation from a drug dealer is all it takes to get you drone struck by the U.S. government in Venezuela. And look, maybe these extrajudicial killings aren’t exactly...
2025-11-25 09:00:13 +0000 UTC
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** An earlier version of this episode incorrectly referred to the asylum officers who conduct credible fear interviews as border patrol agents. **
If the government is acting all au...
2025-11-18 09:00:10 +0000 UTC
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You've heard about all the Supreme Court cases about how immigration law is different, about how ICE's powers are different, about how the Trump administration can do whatever it wants…on this ep...
2025-11-11 09:00:25 +0000 UTC
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The Supreme Court tramples upon your most sacred right: the right to complain about your co-workers.
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2025-11-04 09:00:08 +0000 UTC
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You know things are really bad when federal judges–historically an extremely reticent group–are sounding the alarm about the chaos and confusion the Supreme Court is reaping these days. Never f...
2025-10-28 08:00:07 +0000 UTC
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I think we can all agree that the Constitution guarantees every individual certain unalienable rights–oh wait, sorry, getting a call. Right. Sorry. Okay. Yea. Got it. Hey, so I think we can all a...
2025-10-21 08:00:09 +0000 UTC
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On this episode of Popular Cradle, (Rhiannon’s other podcast!), she interviews Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained by ICE for more than 100 days earlier this year. You can find...
2025-10-18 14:28:51 +0000 UTC
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Feels like we should be able to collectively wrestle with the problems of a system by which 14 million people will die in the next five years because one man can decide to withhold a bunch of money...
2025-10-14 08:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Do you ever feel…like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? That’s understandable because battles over free speech and the First Amendment are raging right now, whet...
2025-10-07 08:00:25 +0000 UTC
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You are getting very sleepy…you are getting very sleepy…HEY! Wake up. It may look like the slate of cases for this Supreme Court term doesn’t have many fundamental constitutional rights hangi...
2025-09-23 08:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Papers, please. The hallmark of fascist states of eras past and your favorite movie about authoritarianism is now also the official policy of the United States, with the Supreme Court’s blessing....
2025-09-16 08:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Kudos to everyone who is starting law school in this economy and during an authoritarian regime. In this annual episode, Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael share their wisdom on how to survive law school...
2025-09-09 08:00:09 +0000 UTC
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It's okay to be scared. It's hard not to succumb to the nihilism of the second Trump administration. But that is precisely what he and his administration want you to do. Please don't fall for it. I...
2025-09-02 08:00:22 +0000 UTC
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Federal law says that Medicaid recipients have the right to choose their healthcare provider. One problem, though–what if a Medicaid recipient chooses to go to Planned Parenthood to get healthcar...
2025-08-26 08:00:08 +0000 UTC
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But first: you need to ask them! We are doing a mailbag episode, please send any questions you have to fivefourpod@gmail.com if ...
2025-08-24 16:01:17 +0000 UTC
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Last week's subscriber-only episode on Trump's efforts to blur the line between the military, ICE, and other law enforcement hit a nerve — and arrived on the eve of Trump taking federal control o...
2025-08-12 18:34:15 +0000 UTC
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Don't be sad, little Johnny, Trump just took the Department of Education to live on a big farm with so much space to run around and play in, and all the treats the Department of Education could eve...
2025-08-12 08:00:08 +0000 UTC
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California has become a testing ground for Trump's police state ambitions. In Los Angeles and across the country, he’s merging the military and the police into one entity with its guns aimed inwa...
2025-08-05 08:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Please have your driver's license, social security card, or any other highly personal private information ready to share if you wish to rub one out to online porn.
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2025-07-29 08:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Because the conservatives on the Supreme Court are lowkey homophobic, they have made it easier for parents of kids in public schools to opt out of topics that make them uncomfortable. LGBTQ books, ...
2025-07-22 08:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Hello Patreon subscribers!
Leon here. We are pleased to be sharing with you a line of ALL NEW MERCH, now available at our online store. There are, strictly speaking, three new designs, though...
2025-07-15 20:02:06 +0000 UTC
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