Hawk Podcasts

Three progressive Democratic Socialist candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the DSA won their Democratic primaries on June 23rd in New York City's 7th, 10th, and 13th congressional districts. Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Daria Lisa Avila Chevalier all defeated opponents backed by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Governor Kathy Hochul, and the AIPAC-aligned Democratic establishment. Lander defeated incumbent Congressman Dan Goldman by 22 points. Hawk plays a clip of Sean Hannity visibly shaken delivering the results.

Hawk references a June 16th Atlantic article by Tom Nichols, a 25-year professor at the US War College, titled "Trump Does Not Understand the War He Lost." The piece examines statements Trump made at the G7 summit in France, where he reversed his own stated positions, claimed he never cared about regime change despite having said the opposite repeatedly, and described Iran's new leadership as rational, non-radicalized people he enjoyed dealing with. That new leadership includes individuals who lost family members in US airstrikes.

Hawk reads through all 14 terms of Trump's Iran memorandum of understanding as reported by CNN and Fox News, signed by Trump at the Palace of Versailles. The reaction from Republican commentators, military experts, and Fox News is uniform: it is a disaster. Hawk's read of the actual text leads to the same conclusion: a complete U.S. surrender.

Hawk pulls no punches in this sharp political commentary on the state of voting rights, racial representation, and what Republican policies in 2025 and 2026 actually signal about the people who support them. Red state legislatures across the South are racing to dilute Black representation in the House of Representatives through aggressive gerrymandering, and Hawk argues the label "the South" no longer applies — the Confederacy is the only accurate term.

A court recently released Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide note, and it sat locked in a courthouse safe for nearly seven years. Hawk, a former trial attorney with 27 years of courtroom experience, takes a close look at the handwriting, the signatures, and the details surrounding the note's discovery inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center special housing unit.

Four House Republicans crossed Donald Trump over the Epstein files and each one paid a steep price. Thomas Massie, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Nancy Mace signed a discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and Trump responded by endorsing primary challengers, vetoing a Colorado clean water bill, and reportedly threatening members in private White House meetings.