Letters from an American
Hosted by Heather Cox Richardson · Heather Cox Richardson
4.9from 8,093 ratings
- 927
- Episodes
- 905
- Transcribed
- 8,093
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 32M
- YouTube views
About Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com (https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Category
- history · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 5 Mar 2022
- Latest episode
- 7 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
905 of 927 episodes have a transcript.
7 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
They Voted
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They Voted
Published 7 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They elected Byron Donalds, a black Republican, to govern Florida. Voters elected Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed to be the nation's first Muslim senator, and they re-elected Representative Ilhan Omar, whom Trump has made a key target of his attacks, with an astonishing 76.5% of her district's vote. […]
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- YouTube views
- 32,433,139
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 6,383 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,710 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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- Quality
- 72
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 96
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