At the time of this recording, the U.S. has had 199 mass shootings in the first 128 days of 2023. Number 200 will have happened by the time you finish this episode. For more of Michael's work, subscribe to his Substack at MichaelMoore.com. ******************** Episode Underwriter: Get a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale at https://www.stamps.com/moore. Thanks to Stamps.com for sponsoring the show! ******************** Write to Mike: [email protected] ---...

Today, April 23rd, is Michael Moore’s birthday. And he woke up this morning to the Best. Birthday. Present. Ever. For more of Michael’s work, subscribe to his Substack at MichaelMoore.com ******************** Music in today’s episode: 1) “Happy Birthday 1975” — Joni Mitchell 2) "Happy Birthday" — Imelda May ******************** Episode underwriters: 1) Shopify. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://www.shopify.com/rumble [all lowercase] and get full access to...

Because Republicans and Trumpsters know they are unable put down their own suicide pills, they soldier on in denying women (the majority gender) their basic reproductive rights — and they continue making it so easy for mass killers to buy as many assault rifles as they want (according to The New Republic, American citizens have now stockpiled 400 million guns in their homes, more than the entire US armed forces, Dept. of Homeland Security, and all local police agencies combined). And women,...

When you’re young, you can only take so much b.s.  And when you watch a bunch of older white racist Southern men — i.e., the Republican supermajority of the Tennessee House of Representatives — attack two young black elected House members for “improper decorum” when they spoke out against gun violence just two days after the mass school shooting last week in Nashville, well racist acts are nothing new to the state where the KKK was born.  So last night the Tennessee House Republicans...

You know the feeling when you casually come across a news article that unexpectedly, yet utterly, blows your mind? When you find yourself looking around with your jaw agape, but nobody else seems to be paying attention? That happened to Michael last week — not once but twice.  On this week’s episode of Rumble, Michael Moore shares the articles that left him riled and pondering — is it possible that every Republican president since Ike has had treason in their heart? THIS WEEKEND...

In last month's news cycle, dominated by yet another school massacre, a toxic train derailment, and the military's obliteration of threatening balloons — you may have missed some good news! The anti-MAGA Democrats continued their winning streak in February in one special election victory after another, and on this episode of Rumble, Michael spreads the good word.  For more of Michael's work, subscribe to his Substack at MichaelMoore.com. ******************** Watch Katy Perry's emotional...

Random Thoughts about a winter without snow, Texas trying to ban the abortion pill for all 50 states, and what to binge on while Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to put the US through a red-blue divorce.  For more of Michael's work, subscribe to his Substack at MichaelMoore.com. ******************** Episode underwriters: 1) Anchor.fm can help you start your own podcast. Go to anchor.fm to learn more. 2) Netflix and their Oscar-nominated film, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Watch this...

Michael shares his random thoughts on a dark and cold February night. For more of Michael’s work, subscribe to his Substack at MichaelMoore.com ******************** Read the New Yorker article “Yoko Ono’s Art of Defiance” from June 2022. Watch Patti Smith & Tony Shanahan perform "Oh Yoko!" at the 30th Annual John Lennon Tribute. ******************** Music in today’s episode: "Oh Yoko!" — Patti Smith & Tony Shanahan ******************** Episode Underwriters: 1) Anchor.fm...

The last thing you expect to hear on a quiet Sunday afternoon in your Northern Michigan apartment two blocks off Lake Michigan, in the middle of winter, is the sonic BOOM of a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier. But that's exactly what Michael Moore’s neighborhood heard yesterday afternoon, February 12, 2023. Why? Because the U.S. Air Force was on its way to shooting down the 3rd UFO of THIS WEEKEND — this time over Lake Huron. All this and after that Chinese spy balloon last...

A little over a week ago, Michael watched, along with millions of Americans, 5 Memphis police officers brutally execute 29-year-old photographer and father, Tyre Nichols — a 2nd-shift Fed-Ex employee en route home on his dinner break to sit at his mother’s table for some of her home-cooked sesame chicken — and felt… Numb. A week later, he finally realized why. Under the guise of transparency, we are being lied to — including by Memphis police chief Cerelyn Davis. On this episode of...

Over 2 weeks ago, on Christmas Day, Michael launched his special Rumble mini-podcast series “Blue Dots in a Red Sea: How to Win When You’re Blue in a Red State” with ideas and strategies of how we can build on our Blue Wall momentum from the 2022 midterm elections, and turn even more red states, red counties, and red towns blue in time for the 2024 election. On this final episode, he reflects on the lessons learned throughout the series, and looks to the road ahead… What if we do...

We are often told that we are led by a “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” But being a liberal/left/progressive/Democrat in a red state, run by a red legislature intent on banning books, suppressing the vote of its Black and Brown citizens, and stripping women of their right to bodily autonomy, it can feel more like you’re living in a 16th century Christian state or last week in Alabama. And change seems at best improbable, but most often impossible. Yet, 26 states —...

Perhaps the most important job your new Blue Man and Woman Group needs to do is to find candidates to run as Democrats and win! In a red county! The last three national elections in 2018, 2020 and 2022 saw many liberal/left/progressive Democrats defeat Republicans in red states and counties across America. Every district, every county in the red states has thousands of people who are pro-choice, pro-earth, anti-racist, anti-gerrymandering and believe the way you believe. If you are forming...

So you already live in a Blue city. What can you do to help those who don’t? Become sister cities! Reach out to each other. Share ideas on how to win. How to run the right candidates. Raise money for them in Idaho or West Virginia. Hold potlucks over Zoom. Get in the car and go visit them. At election time make calls and send postcards for their candidates. You can help turn a red area blue! This act of solidarity is a sure fire way to unite the majority of us and create the world we want to...

One by one, the wheels come off the clown car in the Best Comedy of the decade. On the first day of the 118th Congress, in a performance not witnessed by this nation in nearly 170 years, the House Republicans chose to commit a mass murder-suicide of their last vestige of electoral political power, putting on a humiliating show to the world, and offering massive relief to all who worried about the damage they might do to the USA over the next two years. We learned yesterday that the only...

Local journalism in the United States is virtually dead. And when there's no free press, eventually there'll be no democracy. And if you live in a red state, it's even worse.  If you live in any red area, you can almost guarantee there is no journalistic watchdog keeping an eye on the local men with the money and the power. What better project for your new Blue group to do than to start up your own online local "newspaper." A little bit of reporting goes a long way, and it's a great place to...

In this Rumble episode #7 of “Blue Dots in a Red Sea,” Michael Moore invites you to join him in his list of New Year’s resolutions intended to increase the level Democracy in the United States.  Gerrymandering, the Electoral College, and the Filibuster have no place in a democracy and must be eliminated. Red states will remain red as long as the right wing draws the maps and “elects” candidates who lose the popular vote. Mike suggest a list of 10 things we must do to bring true democracy to...

On this Rumble episode of Michael Moore's special podcast series, “Blue Dots in a Red Sea,” Mike asks for all of us to attend one or two school board, town council or County Commission meetings this coming year — to be there as a Democratic/Progressive/Left witness to what the elected officials are up to. In a red, Republican area, they are very used to no one showing up, especially not any liberals or the new Blue group you and your friends are forming. And all you’re doing is just sitting...

On this episode of Mike’s mission to turn Red into Blue, he offers a number of specific ideas for progressives and liberals (who are stuck in deep red parts of the country) to establish liberal Democratic outposts that provide real, everyday help to anyone in need, regardless of their political affiliation.  Mike believes that once a few people see how it’s the libs and the Dems who are truly here to help, a seismic political shift will begin. Nothing says “love your enemy” more than giving...

Now that you know there are THOUSANDS of like-minded progressives, liberals, Democrats, independents and nonvoters in your red county and state, it’s time to get to work and have a gathering of this new Blue Tsunami movement. It’s time to either jump in and grow the existing local Democratic Party or, better yet, start your own Dem org if a seriously active and successful one doesn’t currently exist.  On this quickie episode of Michael Moore’s special series this week (and next) of mini...

SPOILER ALERT! Your neighbors and coworkers are a lot more progressive than you think. They already agree with you on so many things. If you talk to them, not about Democrats vs. Republicans but rather about clean air vs. polluted air, or the Golden Rule vs. the Rule of the Bullies, or women being paid the same as men vs. not, you’ll find more agreement with each other than not. So your Blue army is much bigger than you thought. In this third episode of Michael Moore’s special 12-day mini...

No matter how isolated you feel living in your conservative town, how lonely it seems in your Trumpster county, how appalling it is to be in your Republican state, the truth is you are surrounded by thousands of like-minded people who voted for Biden and who will fight for change. It just takes the effort of finding them and then acting together. Isn’t saving this country worth the try? In this episode of Michael Moore’s special Rumble series, “Blue Dots in a Red Sea,” Mike tells you how to...

Today begins Michael's 12-day podcast tsunami series called Blue Dots in a Red Sea: How to Win When You're Blue in a Red State.  A special note from Michael: "You and I and millions of others in our Blue Tsunami this fall stopped the predicted red wave — and now what’s left of the Republicans finds them in complete discombobulation. And the January 6th final report is every bit as damning as we thought it would be. Now it’s time to take on the next job the pundits will proclaim we will...

Michael Moore shares his annual Christmas message, recalls Santa’s visits as a child, asks President Biden to free Leonard Peltier, shares what happens when he “loves his enemy,” and announces 12 days of mini podcasts that will lay out how we can turn red into blue. For more of Michael's work, subscribe to his Substack at michaelmoore.com ******************** Write to President Biden today and ask him to free Leonard...

On this episode of Rumble, Michael shares what he believes was the key to his home state of Michigan's historic Democratic victories these midterm elections — something Democrats in every red state and red county should be doing to find the same success 2024. ******************** Read about Michigan's 2018 ballot proposal that ended gerrymandering: Michigan Proposal 2, Independent Redistricting Commission Initiative (2018)  ******************** Music in this episode: "Michigan, My...