The Home Front
Reed Galen - reedgalen.substack.com
Latest episode: Tue Nov 04 2025
Our nation is at an inflection point and American democracy is at stake. This podcast is hosted by Reed Galen and features conversations about today’s political challenges, our vision for the future, and how all Americans can be a part of the pro-democracy movement. Guests include political experts, thought leaders, journalists, authors, and activists. Reed Galen is author of “The Home Front” on Substack, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, and President of JoinTheUnion.us, a pro-democracy coalition dedicated to defending American democracy and defeating authoritarian candidates.
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- Nov4Dissecting the Master Plan with David Sirota57mins
- Oct31Left? Right? Yugo? with Evelyn Quartz and Tyler Emerson (BONUS)41mins
- Oct29Taking Texas Back with Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Gina Hinojosa31mins
- Oct28A Populist's Journey with Former FTC Commission Alvaro Bedoya39mins
- Oct26BONUS :: Goodbye, East Wing with Jim Acosta23mins
- Oct25The Center Didn't Hold (or the Anti- Anti- Anti-) with Mike Brock43mins
- Oct24The AI Singularity (and Gold!) with CNBC's Ron Insana35mins
- Oct22Shutdowns, No Kings, and Health Care with Reed, Evelyn and Corbin25mins
- Oct16Meeting Voters Where They Are with Joe Wrote54mins
Oct14Between the World and Ezra Klein15mins- Oct8Kentucky Bluegrass with US Senate Candidate Amy McGrath34mins
- Oct6Two Wild and Crazy Guys with Cliff Schecter (Bonus)55mins
- Oct5America 2.0 with Technologist and Historian Dave Troy30mins
- Oct2Is Anyone Listening? with Nina Jankowicz29mins
Sep30Imagination and Emancipation with Clara Mattei48mins- Sep26The American Economy is a House of Cards with Grace Blakely59mins
- Sep24Where's the $50,000? Featuring Katie Phang32mins
Sep18Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, and Cascading Effects with Denver Riggleman31mins- Sep17Reed's Wednesday Recap18mins
- Sep16What the World Looks Like Now with Corbin Trent46mins
- Sep14WTF Friday with Presidential Historian Alexis Coe48mins
Sep11After Charlie Kirk7mins- Sep9Will David Jolly’s Run for Governor Redefine Florida Politics?46mins
- Sep3BONUS :: Katie Phang Joins the Home Front Live on Substack46mins
- Aug29A Shocking Lack of Imagination with Gary Gerstle, Part 237mins
- Aug28Has the New Political Order Already Begun? (with Gary Gerstle), Part 140mins
- Aug24Liberal Revanchism with Mike Brock74mins
- Aug23WTF Just Happened! with Jessica Yellin46mins
- Aug20The Afterlife of Expertise with Tom Nichols42mins
- Aug18Soldiers in Washington, DC with Miles Taylor31mins
- Aug17Explaining the Consumer Economy with Axios Reporter Madison Mills32mins
- Aug15Tech and Politics A Match Made in...??? with Tina Nyguen43mins
- Aug13Scandal in the Utah Legislature with Bryan Schott35mins
- Aug12Bursting Bubbles with Evelyn Quartz51mins
- Aug6Keeping it Real with Mondale Robinson38mins
- Jul31America Has A Trust Problem with Alexander Theodoridis47mins
- Jul28Social Atrophy and the Fight to Reclaim Real Connection with Sarah Stein Lubrano, Part 238mins
- Jul25The Surprising Truth About Changing Minds in Politics with Sarah Stein Lubrano, Part 143mins
- Jul24BONUS :: Polling Review with Florida Strategist Steve Schale56mins
- Jul21Declaring Indepedence with Nebraska US Senate Candidate Dan Osborn31mins
- Jul20Home Grown Leadership with Florida Congressional Candidate Jennifer Adams35mins
- Jul16Manipulating the Truth with Katherine Stewart42mins
- Jul13BONUS :: How the Far-Right Recruits Young American Men46mins
- Jul10How Opportunity and Outrage Are Fueling the Youth Gender Gap with Abby Tracy49mins
- Jul7What Comes After #NeverTrump Featuring Charlie Sykes42mins
- Jul4Breaking Free of the Establishment and Elite with Grace Blakeley and Evelyn Quartz73mins
- Jul3BONUS :: Katie Phang Joins the Home Front!34mins
- Jul2Campaigning for the People with Kat Abugazaleh55mins
- Jun28On the Road in Virginia23mins
- Jun23BREAKING NEWS :: DO NOT MISS THIS8mins
- Jun20Romanticizing the Past, Ignoring the Future: Ron Insana on America’s Blind Spot40mins
- Jun19The Trumposcene Era with Dartmouth Professor Jeff Sharlet33mins
- Jun17Ten Years in Trumplandia with Investigative Journalist Tara Palmeri30mins
- Jun16Hate Is Not The Answer with Host Reed Galen18mins
- Jun13Welcome to the Party, Pal! with Joe Walsh34mins
- Jun6When the President Makes You an Enemy: Miles Taylor on Speaking Truth to Power42mins
- Jun3It's Even Worse Than You Think with Alexis Coe (from Substack Live!)64mins
- Jun2You Have to Fight If You Want to Win16mins
- May29Democracy Must Deliver: Dr. Francis Fukuyama on Governance, Discontent, and the Path Forward47mins
- May27Uncovering the Truth in MAGA-Land with Lauren Windsor34mins
- May25Memorial Day Special with Valor Media's Mike Smith28mins
- May23The Democrats Have a Trust Problem and Rep. Seth Moulton Says It's Time to Fix It23mins
- May19Who Really Killed the American Dream? (with Daniel Markovits)37mins
- May13The Democratic Party Is Losing the Future and David Hogg Knows Why40mins
- May8In Trump’s America, Favoritism Reigns and Main Street Pays with Stephanie Ruhle33mins
- May7Taking it to the Streets with Carlos Alvarez-Aranyos37mins
- May4Creating a United Front with Yevgeny Simkin57mins
- Apr29Old Grievances and New Machines: Dave Troy Breaks Down the Tech Fueled Attack On Our Democracy53mins
- Apr26Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom: Grace Blakeley on Vulture Capitalism59mins
- Apr24Inside the Mad House with Annie Karni & Luke Broadwater39mins
- Apr22Small Businesses on the Front Lines of the Tariff Wars with Wonderstate Coffee's TJ Semanchin41mins
- Apr15Executive Power with Presidential Historian Alexis Coe51mins
- Apr11Who Deputizes These ***Holes, Anyway?56mins
- Apr7Building a Resist and Refuse Movement with Joe Trippi48mins
- Apr3It's Been a Minute with Abigail Tracy52mins
- Mar31On The Stump with Reed Galen22mins
- Mar24Keeping it Real with Independent Journalist Tara Palmeri55mins
- Mar21The House is on Fire and Chuck Schumer Wants to Roast Marshmallows! (with David Rothkopf)54mins
- Mar17The Donald Trump Economy is Chaotic and Uncertain with Stephanie Ruhle46mins
- Mar14Run for Something with Amanda Litman39mins
- Mar9(Let's Talk About) The Elephants in the Room25mins
- Mar5We are the Enforcement with Lauren Groh-Wargo50mins
- Mar3Trump and Musk’s Big Distraction with Kara Swisher42mins
- Feb28Bezos and the Bobos in Pressland with Abigail Tracy44mins
- Feb25Money, Lies, God, and the Movement to Destroy American Democracy with Katherine Stewart61mins
- Feb24Olson's Rules for Dealing with Autocrats :: Part 2 - Speak Truth to Power10mins
- Feb18Foreign Agents and American Kleptocracy with Casey Michel52mins
Feb15Get Off the Moral Mountain with Kurt Bardella40mins
Feb12Olson's Rules for Dealing with Autocrats :: Part I - Play the Game You're In17mins- Feb9All Over the Place with Abigail Tracy45mins
- Feb6Fascism, Modern Masculinity, and TikTok with Jonathan Buchwalter59mins
- Feb4You Can’t Fire Everyone with Brendan Ballou38mins
Jan31Good Parts, Bad Brand with Reed Galen23mins
Jan26Trump's First Week Featuring Journalist Abigail Tracy57mins- Jan24Behind Enemy Lines with Matt Bennett39mins
Jan21Donald Trump, Day 224mins
Jan16The Great Convulsion with Ron Fournier33mins- Jan14How Long Will Elon Musk Last in MAGAland? (with Trygve Olson)50mins
- Jan10Creating Community with Task Force Butler's Kris Goldsmith59mins
Jan8SPECIAL EPISODE :: Reed Galen Joins the All Things Negotiation Podcast with Host Stan Christensen66mins
Jan6Replay :: January 6th Four Years Later Featuring Officer Michael Fanone58mins- Jan4Why Democrats Should Value Talent Over Tenure with Abby Tracy51mins
Jan3The Tables are Turned with Host Reed Galen and Check My Ads' Claire Atkin56mins
Dec30Distraction, Echo Chambers, and Missing the Overall14mins- Dec21Stop Treating the Government Like It’s a Business with Ron Insana57mins
- Dec19Listening and Talking with Kat Abughazaleh55mins
Dec16Monday, Monday with Host Reed Galen23mins- Dec11A Pot of Spaghetti with a Side of Disinformation with Nina Jankowicz42mins
- Dec6From the C Suite to the TV Studio Featuring Abigail Tracy51mins
Dec2The Apollo 13 Election :: The Pod Save America Interview Created More Questions Than It Answered44mins- Nov27What Happens After the Bird Crashes Into the Window? (with Charlie Sykes)55mins
- Nov22Can the Democrats Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time? (with Lauren Windsor)51mins
- Nov16Trump's Clown Car Begins to Roll with Abigail Tracy55mins
- Nov14Does the Left Need Its Own Joe Rogan? (with Taylor Lorenz)48mins
Nov13Trumps Early Picks and Where The Pro-Democracy Movement Goes from Here17mins- Nov8The Pro-Democracy Movement’s “To-Do List” with Rep. Eric Swalwell22mins
Nov7American Gut Punch :: Thoughts on Election 202420mins- Nov4How Crazy Will It Be? With Abigail Tracy51mins
Oct31Five Days to Go!8mins- Oct29An American Mission Statement with Michael Ian Black49mins
Oct28Hello Wisconsin!9mins- Oct25Donald Trump Isn’t Running For President…He’s Running From Prison with George Conway36mins
Oct21Reclaiming Florida with Jennifer Adams36mins
Oct17The Nuremberg Rally on Ketamine with Abigail Tracy50mins- Oct15Cloudy With a Chance of Tyranny11mins
- Oct9Trump, the Russians, and Elon Musk with Abigail Tracy34mins
- Oct8There’s Nothing Conservative About Today’s GOP with Adam Kinzinger34mins
- Oct3Is JD Vance More Dangerous Than Donald Trump? (with Trygve Olson)53mins
- Sep30Stiffen the Spine with Abby Tracy41mins
- Sep28Donald Trump is the Opposite of a Protector with Joanne Carducci49mins
- Sep25Republicans Have Been Shameless for a Long Time with Brian Tyler Cohen40mins
- Sep23The Devil Went Down to Georgia with Abby Tracy44mins
- Sep21Which Table Will You Sit At?20mins
- Sep18The Pro-Democracy Roadshow with Olivia Troye & Joe Walsh36mins
- Sep16Donald Trump’s “Scare the White People” Era with Abby Tracy51mins
- Sep14There’s Panic in MAGAstan with Simon Rosenberg53mins
- Sep11Russia’s “Secret” Payments to Right Wing Influencers with Pete Strzok46mins
- Sep9The Prosecutor is Set to Debate the Felon with Abby Tracy51mins
- Sep7Liz Cheney Endorsing Kamala Harris is a “B.F.D.” with Charlie Sykes44mins
- Sep4Welcome To The Home Front!9mins