🎙️ What a show tells
1A (WAMU/NPR)
- CENTERour grouping of the show
- 32claims in our motif index
- 35motifs they came up in
⚠️ Stories told, not claims that they're true.
What the show's hosts, guests, callers and the clips they play said, as claims in our words, filed by the shape of the story. "Came up on" the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which.
✍️ Its signature
the motifs it tells far more than the other shows we follow do
🧩 Silent majority 🧩 Polarization 🧩 Social trust erosion 🧩 Solution in search of a problem 🧩 Political coercion 🧩 Inflation 🧩 Rigged election 🧩 Polls are inaccurate
👯 Tells the most alike
the shows whose stories overlap most with its own, whatever their lean
- 🎙️ Pod Save America 33% alike · left
- 🎙️ Breaking Points 31% alike · center
- 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 26% alike · left
- 🎙️ Up First (NPR) 24% alike · center
- 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 21% alike · right
🧩 Its repertoire
every motif its claims came up in, the most first
🧩 Inflation ×3 🧩 Social trust erosion ×2 🧩 Political coercion ×2 🧩 Rigged election ×2 🧩 Polarization ×2 🧩 Political party surge ×2 🧩 Oil market instability ×2 🧩 Polls are inaccurate ×2 🧩 Smear campaign ×2 🧩 Silent majority ×2 🧩 Solution in search of a problem ×2 🧩 Tax-raiser ×1 🧩 Disinformation campaign ×1 🧩 Tariffs hurt consumers ×1 🧩 Corporate accountability ×1 🧩 Blue Texas ×1 🧩 Data center panic ×1 🧩 Staffing shortage ×1 🧩 Trade as a weapon ×1 🧩 Too stupid to understand ×1 🧩 Tight race ×1 🧩 Enthusiasm gap ×1 🧩 War for votes ×1 🧩 Ballot security ×1 🧩 Demographics is destiny ×1 🧩 The forgotten man ×1 🧩 Great Recession ×1 🧩 The backdoor ×1 🧩 Shy Tory ×1 🧩 Thirsty data centers ×1 🧩 Shame if something happened to it ×1 🧩 Sleeping giant ×1 🧩 The ends justify the means ×1 🧩 A symptom, not the cause ×1 🧩 The war hits your wallet ×1
🎙️ Lately on the show
its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs
- 2026-10-27 “Marine Le Pen's far-right party stands to benefit from the violence as the party of law and order.”
🧩 Silent majority - 2026-10-26 “Voting machines in several states are reverting Democratic votes to Republican votes.”
🧩 Rigged election - 2026-10-26 “The Department of Justice is planning to send election monitors to polling locations to ensure legality.”
🧩 Ballot security - 2026-10-26 “Allegations of rigged voting machines are actually caused by voter error.”
🧩 Solution in search of a problem - 2026-10-26 “Non-citizen voting has never been significant enough to alter the outcome of an election.”
🧩 Solution in search of a problem - 2026-10-23 “Trump is pressuring Zelenskyy to end the war with Russia.”
🧩 Political coercion - 2026-10-23 “Trump is pressuring Ukraine to stop attacking Russian refineries, which would remove Ukraine's primary leverage against Russia's war funding.”
🧩 Political coercion - 2026-10-23 “Donald Trump is peddling false claims about election fraud to undermine Democratic officials.”
🧩 Disinformation campaign 🧩 Rigged election - 2026-10-23 “Democrats believe Texas could be a new battleground for success in the governor and Senate races.”
🧩 Political party surge 🧩 Blue Texas - 2026-10-23 “Marine Le Pen is gaining support because scenes of chaos and looting benefit the far right.”
🧩 Political party surge 🧩 Silent majority - 2026-10-23 “Elon Musk decided to restrict Starlink after speaking with Donald Trump.”
🧩 Trade as a weapon 🧩 The backdoor - 2026-10-23 “Benjamin Netanyahu is pressuring the Israeli military into an attack on Iran to gain political momentum.”
🧩 War for votes - 2026-10-23 “Trump is delivering an ultimatum by tying government settlements to election outcomes.”
🧩 Shame if something happened to it - 2026-10-23 “J.D. Vance defends the Ramaswamy campaign ad because he believes the ends justify the means.”
🧩 The ends justify the means - 2026-10-22 “Governor Gavin Newsom opposes a billionaire's tax because it could hurt California's budget.”
🧩 Tax-raiser - 2026-10-22 “The development of AI and data centers causes significant environmental and social harm, such as increased emissions and water usage.”
🧩 Corporate accountability 🧩 Data center panic 🧩 Thirsty data centers - 2026-10-22 “Polls are more likely to be underestimating Democrats than Republicans.”
🧩 Polls are inaccurate - 2026-10-22 “Pollsters may fail to reach rural voters in states like Iowa and Kansas.”
🧩 Polls are inaccurate 🧩 Shy Tory - 2026-10-22 “Amy Acton is narrowly ahead of Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio.”
🧩 Tight race - 2026-10-22 “Democrats are showing much higher enthusiasm and turnout in early voting compared to Republicans.”
🧩 Enthusiasm gap - 2026-10-22 “The Vivek Ramaswamy campaign released a disgusting ad using Amy Acton's estranged mother to attack her credibility.”
🧩 Smear campaign - 2026-10-22 “The ad featuring Amy Acton's mother is disturbing and disgusting.”
🧩 Smear campaign - 2026-10-22 “The Supreme Court decision on voting rights has caused a surge in Black voter turnout.”
🧩 Sleeping giant - 2026-10-21 “Tariffs have contributed to goods price inflation in the United States.”
🧩 Tariffs hurt consumers 🧩 Inflation - 2026-10-21 “The rise in diesel and gas prices is caused by Trump's catastrophic war in Iran.”
🧩 Oil market instability 🧩 The war hits your wallet - 2026-10-21 “The surge in diesel and gas prices is caused by the war in Iran.”
🧩 Oil market instability - 2026-10-21 “Immigration cutbacks have caused labor shortages that drive inflation.”
🧩 Staffing shortage 🧩 Inflation - 2026-10-15 “Rising diesel and energy prices are driving overall inflation through the economy.”
🧩 Inflation - 2026-10-05 “Politics is negatively affecting the psychological, social, and physical health of many Americans.”
🧩 Social trust erosion 🧩 Polarization - 2026-10-05 “The current political administration is experienced by many Americans as a physical and mental threat.”
🧩 Social trust erosion 🧩 Polarization