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Jordan Chariton's Status Coup podcast is the progressive alternative to the Trump-Media-Industrial-Complex: Real stories of struggle, corruption, injustice, and communities. It's time for a journalistic coup d'état of the status quo! Subscribe and rate this podcast! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/statuscoup Support Status Coup News monthly via Patreon: http://Patreon.com/JordanCharitonReports
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Status Coup connects progressive political argument to labor fights, court cases, extremism and the institutional choices shaping each story.
Status Coup treats politics as a contest over power with consequences beyond campaign strategy. Jordan Chariton presses Cornel West on presidential politics, the UAW and penalties for corporate wrongdoing, while Tina Desiree Berg returns to right-wing extremism through…
An auto strike and a San Diego protest case: plenty for your 'who gets heard?' reflex.
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A clear reminder that East Palestine is still an active public-health story, not a closed chapter.
It returns to East Palestine with the Norfolk Southern derailment framed as an ongoing public-health problem, not a closed chapter. The most affecting passages stay close to residents living with symptoms that flare when they go home: upper respiratory trouble, sore throats,…
Live labor-and-campaign call-in radio that folds the UAW countdown into the 2024 race.
A live call-in hour about the looming UAW strike, 2024 campaign churn, and the kind of political weather report that only works when the host is thinking out loud.
A labor-and-disaster dispatch with real reporting weight.
The episode frames labor conflict and climate disruption as one pressure system, moving from East Palestine to wildfires, storms, and an earthquake. Its urgency lands best when the reporting stays close to the ground and notes that other outlets have already moved on.
A sharp conversation linking climate warnings, labor politics, and Democratic power.
The show threads climate alarm through labor politics, with Steve Grumbine giving the host room to push past the familiar headline cycle. It keeps circling back to heat waves that are not just temporary, the UAW's pressure on Democrats, and the uneasy fit between workers asking…
A blunt labor update that folds in the week's biggest political and foreign-policy headlines.
The episode moves from a hard-edged UAW strike update into the bleak reporting from Israel and Palestine, then widens to the week's political churn.
A Gaza focused segment that uses a Politico power name story to sharpen a critique of elite political reflexes.
Status Coup Podcast spends this segment on Gaza and on a Politico report about Democrats looking for a way to turn Biden around by leaning on familiar power names.
Labor politics and polling anxiety meet in a blunt progressive read.
The discussion ties labor politics to a sharp look at polling around Biden and Trump. It starts with labor, then moves into a CNN SSRS result and the case that Black, Latino, and AAPI voters remain central to the 2024 race.
A sharp San Diego case report built on livestream detail, witness labels, and policing-bias claims.
Status Coup turns a San Diego court case into a pointed account of two January 9 proceedings in Pacific Beach, three days after the Capitol insurrection.
Sharp political debate with policy detail and real disagreement.
Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson debate Canadian politics, from Alberta separatism to Ottawa's bureaucracy.
Robert Evans, Katie Stoll, and Cody Johnston build fake conspiracies and mock right-wing media.
Steve Hayes and Dispatch panelists argue through the week's Iran, DOJ, and Supreme Court news.
Jonah Goldberg's solo political rants and author interviews on conservatism, courts, and current events.
John Donvan moderates two-sided debates on AI, bioethics, feminism, and film's future.
Status Coup Podcast centers on the UAW's fight with General Motors, with Sean Fain describing temporary workers making $15 and change an hour while in-progression employees can wait eight years for full pay.
Jordan Sheridan opens by saying he finished the early manuscript of his Flint water cover-up book and sent it to the publisher, while also previewing Gaza coverage, the United Auto Workers vote, and the 2024 race.
Status Coup host Tina Desiree Berg says San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan is trying to disqualify a defense attorney’s case around the January 9 Pacific Beach protest, three days after January 6.
Lewis opens with Mitch McConnell freezing at a press conference on August 30, 2023, then uses the moment to argue that aging leaders in Washington are too impaired to serve millions of people.
The stream opens live and loose with climate anger.
Status Coup covers major political news including Colorado's 14th Amendment lawsuit to remove Trump from ballots, timing chaos across states, Mitch McConnell's second freezing episode raising fitness questions, and prosecutorial overreach against cop city protesters in Atlanta with charges unrelated to their actual conduct.
Lewis opens Status Coup Podcast on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 by framing the Fox News GOP debate as a Trump-led race where Donald Trump is polling around 55% and skipping the stage.
Tina Desiree Berg and Chuck Mody trace how sports, boxing, MMA, and soccer have been used as recruitment tools for neo-Nazi and white-supremacist politics.
The show opens live and tired on Monday, September 11th, 2023, with the host greeting listeners and setting a heavy tone before taking calls.
The episode opens with a packed Tuesday rundown.
Jordan Sheridan comes back live after some time away from the mic.
Jordan Sheridan opens live on a Monday with a packed news agenda.
Jordan hosts Cornel West, an independent presidential candidate, after covering Columbia University protests and student groups suspended over pro-Palestinian ceasefire activism.
Status Coup opens Friday's show with Tina Desiree Berg framing the day as another right-wing insanity report.
Status Coup Podcast centers on Steve Grumbine’s case that a possible UAW strike at General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis matters to workers far beyond the auto industry.
Jordan Chariton frames East Palestine as a “mini Chernobyl” and attacks Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw after Shaw’s CNBC interview with Jim Cramer.
Jordan Chardin and Tina Desiree Berg open with drinks and a loose, live reaction to a Republican debate.
Ron Placone opens Status Coup Podcast with a live update about his film Left at Wall premiering November 2nd at 7 p.m.
Jordan Sheridan opens with Cornel West, who is running for the Green Party nomination for president, and previews a possible UAW strike that Sheridan says may send him to Detroit.
Tina Desiree Berg opens Status Coup Podcast’s “Book Banning BONZANZA: GOP States Compete for Dystopia” with Texas leading the country at 713 book-banning incidents, ahead of Pennsylvania’s 456 and Florida’s 204.
Status Coup Podcast’s Jordan speaks with Green Party member Rick Lass about Cornel West ballot access, including Arizona’s November 21 deadline and a need for 37,000 valid signatures.
Status Coup Podcast centers on two climate-related confrontations: Climate Defiance disrupting Pete Buttigieg over the Seaport Oil Terminal and a Lever News report on Norfolk Southern’s bid for Cincinnati’s publicly owned railroad.
Ron Placone critiques CNN's war propaganda coverage of Israel-Gaza conflict, analyzing how military-focused reporting and absence of civilian casualties creates narrative bias.
Breaking news analysis covering Israel-Palestine escalation, with focus on Netanyahu's refusal of ceasefire calls, contradictions in civilian evacuation strategy, and humanitarian collapse in Gaza.
Host Tina Desiree Berg and guest Daryl Lamont Jenkins analyze recent right-wing extremism news, including the exposure of writer Richard Hanania's neo-Nazi past, Marjorie Taylor Greene's inflammatory rhetoric, the sixth anniversary of the Charlottesville rally, and legal actions involving figures like Andy Ngo and Patriot Front.