The Dispatch

Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney respond to the new allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and the coordinated wave of Democrats withdrawing support only after new polling showed him losing to Susan Collins. Why did it take a fifth accusation to get people who claim to "believe women" to actually believe one? Julie and Michelle connect it to a bigger pattern: progressive kingmakers who are great at winning safe-seat primaries and terrible at winning competitive general elections.
Recorded live Monday July 6, 2026
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A controversial red card. A phone call from the Oval Office. And a FIFA president with an office in Trump Tower that's sat empty for a year. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney break down how Trump personally called FIFA president Gianni Infantino to reverse Team USA striker Folarin Balogun's suspension hours before a knockout match — and trace the Trump-Infantino relationship through the invented "FIFA Peace Prize," a $75 million Gaza reconstruction pledge, free Trump Tower rent, and a dropped DOJ corruption case.
Recorded live Monday July 6, 2026
New episodes drop regularly.
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Two former FBI directors. One Russian money laundering case. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney trace Trump's Russia ties back to 1986 and ask why the FBI's own former directors — Louis Freeh and William Sessions — ended up representing the very Russian-linked figures the Bureau should have been investigating. Plus: Comey's timing on the Clinton emails, and why Julie warns progressives against making common cause with Tucker Carlson on Israel.
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Recorded live July 3, 2026

The New York Times says Jeffrey Epstein took his own life — and (conveniently) clears Trump in a single sentence.
Michelle Kinney and Julie Roginsky talk with independent journalist and researcher Ellie Leonard about the holes in that story, plus the real question they keep coming back to — why this story, why now, and why the Times' own history with Epstein and the Sulzbergers makes the timing worth questioning.
Follow Ellie Leonard's reporting: https://ellieleonard.substack.com

Wired.com just blew the lid off Peter Thiel's secret society. Internal records from an invitation-only organization called Dialogue — co-founded by Thiel and running for twenty years — were exposed online, naming 222 registrants for this year's retreat: the NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Trump administration officials, Ted Cruz, Scott Bessent, Palantir's Joe Lonsdale, the head of the ADL, and Democrat Jim Himes — ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee overseeing Palantir's government contracts.
The agenda includes sessions on World War III, nuclear weapons, cult-building, and matchmaking. Michelle Kinney and Julie Roginsky connect the dots — from Thiel's long game on JD Vance, and DOGE.Recorded live Tuesday June 16, 2026

Someone brought a recording device into the Situation Room — and now Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have the verbatim quotes to prove it. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney dig into the explosive NYT reporting on two White House meetings: one about managing the Epstein fallout, one about invoking the Insurrection Act after the Pretti and Good murders.
JD Vance gets outmaneuvered in both rooms, Susie Wiles is running her own game, and Todd Blanche is protecting his real client.Recorded live on Monday June 15, 2026

Michelle Kinney and Julie Roginsky react to the Knicks' first NBA championship in 53 years — Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, and Mikal Bridges, the Villanova trio that built something special, the $113 million pay cut that made it possible, and the city that came alive the night it finally happened.

[Recorded Live June 2, 2026]
Trump just named Bill Pulte as acting DNI Director. This guy has been Trump's housing finance chief and the man behind a string of weaponized mortgage-fraud referrals against the president's political enemies like Letitia James, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Cook.
Pulte 👏has 👏no 👏intelligence 👏background. NONE.
Now he could oversee the CIA, the FBI, and the entire intelligence community — with access to ALL of it, the tools and the secrets, to weaponize against people here at home and abroad.
This is fascism with an emboldened Donald Trump acting more unhinged by the day, and who has never faced a consequence in his life.

[Recorded Live June 1, 2026]
Join Olga Lautman and Julie Roginsky as they check in with Ken Harbaugh of the Meidas Touch Network from the war zone in Ukraine.
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ICE guards tear-gassed and assaulted hunger-striking detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey today. Three ambulances. Congressional oversight blocked. The GEO Group is being paid a billion dollars for this. Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney are not letting this get buried.