Receipts-first reporting on American collapse.
American Doom tracks American power where paperwork meets consequence: raids, deaths in custody, election disputes, and public officials dodging scrutiny. It is blunt, document-driven, and more interested in what institutions are doing than what they say they are doing.
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American Doom is a hard-edged current-events show built around adversarial reporting. It spends its time where public institutions leave a paper trail. Court orders matter here. So do autopsy reports, county commission minutes, election-board meetings, affidavits, agency statements, and the strange little phrases officials use when the story is getting away from them. Recent episodes move through Georgia election denial, a federal court fight over witnesses in an FBI election raid, the death of Brian Garzan-Rayo in ICE custody, and the killing of Renee Goode during immigration enforcement activity in Minneapolis. The show keeps asking the same useful question from different angles: what is the official explanation trying to make people ignore? Its politics are direct. Its method is more granular than theatrical. A claim about election fraud gets tested against affidavits, named officials, and the history of 2020 ballots in Fulton County. A claim about public safety gets placed next to deaths, withheld records, and local detention agreements. A claim about military force gets measured against evidence, legal justification, and the behavior of leaders trying to look forceful. The result is not neutral in the bloodless sense. It is skeptical, impatient, and willing to call a bad argument a bad argument. The show can be monologue-heavy, but it also brings in conversations that add local detail, especially around Texas politics, disaster response, trans oppression, immigration, and Republican priorities. Its rhythm is brisk. A long setup often lands in a short verdict. That makes the show feel less like a studio panel and more like a reporter talking through the case file after another institution has failed its own test. The material can be bleak. That is part of the point. American Doom is for listeners who want the connective tissue between hearings, raids, deaths, lies, and the broader authoritarian drift the show sees in American politics.
Made for: For politically engaged listeners who follow courts, elections, immigration, policing, and federal power closely. It suits people who want argument backed by records, not tidy both-sides theater.
What sets it apart: American Doom pairs local-level reporting with a national theory of democratic breakdown. Its edge comes from documents, meetings, and court fights rather than pundit roundtables.
I’m Justin Glawe, writer and journalist, and I’ve spent my career chronicling the violence, unrest and chaos of American life. On this podcast, I’ll discuss the events roiling this complex and troubling country, and speak with some of the people trying to make sense of the madness that pervades our world. This is American Doom. www.american-doom.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Justin Glawe connects national political rhetoric to its consequences in immigration enforcement, extremist organizing and local disaster response.
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Georgia's election debate keeps getting pulled into distrust of the people and systems meant to run it.
This episode tracks how Georgia election deniers keep pressing state Republican lawmakers to treat ordinary election administration like a conspiracy.
A flood disaster, a budget trail, and the questions left by failed planning.
This episode frames the Kerr County, Texas flood disaster as a question of priorities as much as a natural catastrophe. Stephen Monticelli traces what local officials did not fund, from emergency radios for police to a sidewalk, and keeps returning to the failure to plan for…
A hard look at immigration law, due process, and how official cruelty gets made ordinary.
Justin Glaw and Arturo Dominguez use the Kilmar Abrego-Garcia case to get at the rough machinery of immigration politics: due process gets brushed aside, disputed claims harden into fact, and local enforcement choices help shape the larger story.
A town hall removal becomes a blunt look at how private security, a moderator, and a watching sheriff shape the room.
American Doom turns a Republican town hall into a sharp look at local power when dissent runs into private security. Justin Glaw keeps the focus on Teresa Borenpole's removal, the sheriff standing by, and Ed Bejarana's role as moderator, which seems to have helped push the room…
British perspective gives a clearer read on Trump, Starmer, tariffs, and censorship.
Justin Glaw makes a messy stretch of politics easier to track by using Dan Bates's British perspective to frame Starmer's White House visit, Trump's meeting with Zelensky, and the friction around tariffs, digital services taxes, and censorship claims.
A hard look at immigration enforcement, border militias, and the blur between them.
American Doom follows Arturo Dominguez through border immigration reporting, where Customs and Border Protection, ICE, militias, local police, and state troopers all sit in the same uneasy frame.
A steady, unsettling look at how far-right radicalization builds, normalizes, and turns into organizing.
American Doom makes a hard, brisk case for how far-right radicalization gets normalized over time. Justin Glaw and Teddy Wilson move from Trump's 2016 election denial to the 2020 buildup and then to the organizing that led into January 6, and Wilson keeps the chain of events…
A wildfire conversation that quickly turns into a fight over blame, misinformation, and narrative control.
This episode works best when Brian Tyler Cohen stays close to the damage on the ground and Justin Glaw pushes the conversation almost immediately into the blame game that follows.
Armenia-centered analysis for a volatile region.
This episode investigates how two Missouri coroners with anti-immigrant views are refusing to release the autopsy report of an immigrant who died in ICE custody, highlighting transparency issues amid rising deaths in immigration detention under the Trump administration.
This episode discusses Georgia Republican officials distancing themselves from an FBI raid related to seized 2020 ballots, with a focus on witnesses and court filings.
This episode examines the government's alleged deception in the killing of American woman Renee Goode, drawing parallels to the 2015 police shooting of Samuel DuBose and criticizing federal immigration actions in Minneapolis.
This episode analyzes the White House's explanation for bandages on Trump's hands as an obvious lie, connecting it to broader patterns of deception and scandals in his administration.
This episode critically examines the Trump administration's airstrikes on alleged drug smugglers, highlighting inconsistencies, lack of evidence, and potential war crimes involving Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
Georgia's election deniers are back in the frame.
Stephen Monticelli joins John live.
Justin Glaw talks with Arturo Dominguez about the government's handling of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and the legal fight over his deportation.
Justin Glaw talks with friends of Teresa Borenpole about a Republican town hall where Borenpole was pulled from her seat by private security while the local sheriff looked on.
Justin Glaw talks with Dan Bates about the latest White House chaos.
Justin Glaw talks with Arturo Dominguez about the militarization of immigration enforcement.
This episode features an interview with investigative journalist Steven Monacelli discussing his work on new American fascism, competitive authoritarianism, and an investigation into an ICE lawyer with neo-Nazi ties.
Justin Glaw opens by framing American Doom as an examination of the violence, unrest, and chaos that keep shaping American life.
Justin Glaw opens American Doom with a check-in on Brian after the LA fires.