Empire Files
Hosted by Abby Martin and Mike Prysner · Empire Files
4.9from 1,139 ratings
- 215
- Episodes
- 38
- Transcribed
- 1,139
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 23M
- YouTube views
About Empire Files
The podcast version of a documentary & interview series on war and inequality from the heart of Empire hosted by Abby Martin. Empire Files is donor-funded, independent and add free. Help keep us going by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/empirefiles. Follow: @EmpireFiles and @AbbyMartin Like: www.facebook.com/TheEmpireFiles
- Publisher
- Empire Files
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Nov 2017
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
38 of 215 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Israel’s Systematic Sexualized & Gendered Violence on Palestinians | New Report w/ Abby Martin & Palestinian Feminist Collective
7 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
ANTIFASCIST ARCHITECTURE - Empire Files LIVE at PSU
23 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Cult Came Home To Roost: Why Tulsi Gabbard Resigned
Inside a recent episode
Israel’s Systematic Sexualized & Gendered Violence on Palestinians | New Report w/ Abby Martin & Palestinian Feminist Collective
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] That's a really great example of what we were hoping for. And in regards to, I guess, the how, I'll say a few words about how we went about this report. First, we take very, very seriously the dignity and the courage of our people, but also of all the, again, children, adolescents, and adults who have come forward to share their testimonies. And so we have taken a tremendous amount of care to treat these accounts and testimonies with all the love and the care that this material requires. And as such, we don't see Palestinians and our people as victims of colonial design, but rather we see them as freedom fighters, as people who are confronting an illegal occupation and who are fighting for liberation with every breath, even a dying breath. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Empire Files
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Ted Khoury
- Yazan Zahrah
- Stéphanie Wahab
- Andrew Santa Lucia
- Daniel Jonas Roche
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 22,976,811
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 728 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 411 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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Who hosts Empire Files?
Abby Martin and Mike Prysner host the show. Published by Empire Files.
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The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Empire Files take guests?
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