Letters from an American
Hosted by Heather Cox Richardson · Heather Cox Richardson
4.9from 6,287 ratings
- 885
- Episodes
- 862
- Transcribed
- 6,287
- 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
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
862 of 885 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Direct Assault
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NATO 3.0
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bacon’s Rebellion
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A Direct Assault
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There's that national security claim again, the same justification he's using for building his ballroom and now his triumphal arch. It is also, not coincidentally, the excuse President Richard M. Nixon floated for covering up the Watergate break-in in June 1972. In any case, no one's buying it. MAGA Republicans have tried to claim that President Joe Biden canceled 400 press passes, In fact, in 2023, the Biden administration tightened the rules to get a hard press pass that allows repeated, unaccompanied access to the press area of the White House. To have one, a reporter had to renew it annually, be employed full-time as a reporter, have a Washington, D.C. area address, and have had recent access to the White House. […]
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- YouTube views
- 32,433,139
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 6,287 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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- Quality
- 72
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 96
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