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Hawk

He's raw, unfiltered, unedited, authentic, vulnerable and sometimes annoying. His laugh is infectious, and he often engages in long periods of awkward silence. He will tell it like it is, and whether you’re on the left or the right he’s bound to make you uncomfortable at some point. But he will definitely make you think. A licensed, practicing trial attorney for the last 25 years, he brings his legal experience and knowledge to the news of the day and current events here at home to offer different perspectives and additional things to consider.

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#290
Yesterday · 13 min
Zohran Mamdani Mourned October 7th and Named Gaza - The Backlash Was Instant
On the third anniversary of October 7, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a statement mourning the more than 1,100 Israelis Hamas killed and the 251 taken hostage, then turned to Gaza, citing more than 74,000 Palestinians killed, including over 21,000 children, and calling Israel's campaign a genocide funded by American tax dollars.
#289
September 29 · 24 min
The Jack Smith Hearing Backfired Spectacularly
Hawk breaks down the Jack Smith hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Republicans scheduled five weeks before the midterms, and the moment that turned it into an instant viral disaster for the GOP. Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt tried to spring a perjury trap, accusing former special counsel Jack Smith of lying about attending an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024, and insinuating Smith had used the trip to coordinate with Fulton County DA Fani Willis. Schmitt called Smith a dirtb
#288
September 29 · 9 min
Jack Smith Testifies Tuesday - The Worst Possible Timing for Republicans
Hawk breaks down what he sees as a remarkable unforced error: this Tuesday, September 29, former special counsel Jack Smith will testify in a public, televised hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Chuck Grassley. Republicans titled it Oversight of Jack Smith's Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans, but Hawk argues the format is exactly what Smith has been asking for, since his previous congressional testimony was forced behind closed doors.
#287
September 25 · 47 min
Words Have Meaning
Following up on his earlier video, Hawk does an extended reaction to a Majority Report segment with Sam Seder that responds to Scott Galloway's much-discussed podcast interview with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Hawk's throughline is that words carry precise meanings, and that a lot of today's political conflict comes from those meanings being stretched or redefined to fit competing agendas.
#286
September 22 · 12 min
ICYMI Lauren Boebert is Not a Lesbian
Hawk runs through three stories from the weekend. He opens with longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove, who wrote last week that he will vote for a Democrat in Texas for the first time in thirty years, drawing a personal insult from Donald Trump and an impression of Trump from Rove in response. Hawk has some fun with the idea of a live Karl Rove event.
#285
September 22 · 9 min
The Rule of Law No Longer Exists - ICE Agents Are Domestic Terrorists
Hawk holds off a day to let the details settle before addressing the ICE shooting in Austin, Texas, where an agent shot and wounded Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan man who was working as a DoorDash driver at the time. He walks through what the video and reporting show, a stopped vehicle, gunfire, bullet holes through the rear window, and a man who survived and is hospitalized, and places it in a pattern that includes fatal ICE traffic-stop shootings in Houston and Maine.
#284
September 21 · 12 min
Trump Says Biden Ordered the Hit on Him in Butler, PA - The Media is Silent
Hawk flags a story he says he almost entirely missed, and thinks the press did too. On Truth Social, Donald Trump claimed the 2024 assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania was a Democrat plot to keep him out of the election, accused the Biden-era FBI of leaving evidence missing, altered, or gone by the time he took office, and said former FBI Director Christopher Wray should pay a price for how he handled it. Trump offered no evidence, and his own current FBI Director, Kash Pate
#283
September 14 · 21 min
The End Of American Democracy - The January 3rd Scenario
Hawk walks carefully through a warning from conservative former federal judge J. Michael Luttig, laid out in his New Republic piece The Final Battle for America's Democracy and amplified in Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American. He plays part of Luttig's Legal AF interview and reads through the newsletter step by step.
#282
September 13 · 53 min
And Another Thing with Shaana and Hawk: AI Doom, Stolen Midterms, and the 2028 Field
Hawk sits down with his friend Shaana, a future attorney, for an episode of And Another Thing, ranging from the genuinely alarming to the genuinely mundane. They open on the AI safety warnings making the rounds, the eye-popping odds some industry insiders reportedly put on catastrophic risk, and why almost no one seems to be talking about it.
#281
September 10 · 16 min
Trump - a - Palooza: Night One
Hawk recaps the opening night of the first ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas, where Donald Trump headlined and made a promise unlike anything in modern American politics: a $5,000 Trump dividend to every adult citizen, but only if Republicans keep the House and the Senate. Critics quickly called it what it looked like, an offer to pay people for their votes, with reporters noting the payout could cost well over a trillion dollars and no explanation of where the money would come from.
#280
September 4 · 10 min
It’s Just Like Covid - Everyone is an Expert
Hawk takes on one of the strangest features of social media: people with no relevant training confidently telling actual experts they have no idea what they are talking about. He compares the wave of Covid era commenters who lectured immunologists, doctors, and researchers to the reaction he now gets on his videos about the Lindsay Clancy trial, where commenters with no legal background insist they understand jury trials and courtroom procedure better than someone who practiced law for decades.
#279
September 2 · 21 min
Nobody Is Stopping Trump's Plan to Throw Away Your Ballot
Hawk makes the case that the 2026 midterm elections are the ball game, the vote that decides whether voting itself still matters, and walks through the mounting evidence that Donald Trump intends to interfere. A new whistleblower report published by Senator Richard Blumenthal alleges the Postal Service is defying court orders and rushing a secretive, error prone system to screen and verify mail-in ballots ahead of November.
#278
August 31 · 10 min
Should Democrats IMPEACH TRUMP a Third Time?
Hawk takes on a question circulating among frustrated voters: if Democrats retake the House or the Senate in the 2026 midterms, should they impeach Donald Trump a third time? He starts with the procedure many people still misunderstand, walking through how impeachment is a two part process, articles passed in the House that function like an indictment, followed by a trial in the Senate that requires 67 votes to convict and remove.
#277
August 31 · 8 min
Some Good News - Senate Polling Shows Democrats Leading in 8 Races
Hawk delivers a good news roundup on the road to the 2026 midterm elections, walking through the Senate math and why Democrats need a net gain of several seats to flip control from the current 53 to 47 Republican majority. He lays out the calculation for reaching a working majority while holding Democratic seats in Michigan, Georgia, and New Hampshire.
#276
August 28 · 8 min
We ALL Know What Is Coming and No One Is STOPPING HIM
Hawk opens with an honest look at how heavy the last couple of weeks have felt, both emotionally and physically, while coexisting with PTSD and ADHD and leaning on the tools that keep him grounded. It is a candid window into mental health, grief, and the daily work of monitoring your own emotional state during exhausting political times.
#275
August 28 · 31 min
AIPAC Democrats Can't Stop Attacking Hasan Piker
A coordinated Democratic campaign against Hassan Piker are at the center of Hawk’s criticism of CNN, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, and pro-Israel Democrats. Hawk argues that Piker’s criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Gaza, and the Israeli military is being misrepresented as antisemitism or calls for violence.
#274
August 27 · 15 min
This is Sad and Embarrassing
Trump Thinks You Need to See MORE TRUMP for the GOP to Win The Midterms
#273
August 27 · 24 min
The Lindsay Clancy Trial: How Expert Witnesses Actually Work
Both sides rested today in the Lindsay Clancy trial in Massachusetts, and Hawk uses a few moments from it to explain some courtroom mechanics that come up in almost every case like this one.
#272
August 27 · 25 min
Abolish and Prosecute ICE
Footage discussed on Morning Joe shows a mother and daughter handcuffed in a hospital room, where they had gone for treatment after a car accident. Hawk leads with it today because it is the clearest picture yet of who this enforcement is actually reaching.
#266
August 26 · 25 min
The Flock CEO Says Privacy Can't Be The Main Concern
Axios reports that Mike Rogers, the Republican running against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, met with AIPAC chair Michael Tuchin and asked the group to stay out of the general election. A finished ad targeting El-Sayed was scrapped, and AIPAC officials are described as furious.

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