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Chuck Schumer’s Candidate Got Humiliated in Maine

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com In this bite-sized bonus Focus Group episode, Sarah Longwel...

5:51May 6, 2026

America's 'House of Cards' Mentality (with David Frum)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Usually, an assassination attempt outside a dinner with the...

16:51May 2, 2026

Are Democrats Blowing an Easy Way to Win? (w/ Rotimi Adeoye)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Enjoy a bonus episode of The Focus Group Podcast—Rachel Jan...

22:42Apr 30, 2026

America's Divisions: Getting on Our Nerves (with Jessica Tarlov)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Everyone agrees that America is too divided. But ALMOST eve...

33:38Apr 25, 2026

Trump Voters Say 'Nope' to the Pope (with Jonathan V. Last)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV are probably the two most pro...

23:15Apr 18, 2026

BONUS EPISODE: Are Millennials Cool Again?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com On this bonus episode, Rachel and guest Sami Sage of Betche...

22:17Apr 17, 2026

The Sad, Mad GOP Base (with Amy Walter)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com EDITOR'S NOTE: This episode has been updated to remove comm...

20:29Apr 11, 2026

It’s ‘Messing With Me Mentally’ (with Ashley Parker)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Iran War has been going on for a month, and it’s deeply...

11:30Apr 4, 2026

PSA: AI Is NOT Your Boyfriend!! (with Megan McArdle)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Artificial intelligence is such a big change to human civil...

27:50Mar 28, 2026

'All of You Could Be Democrats' (with Anderson Clayton)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com A lot of the young people we’ve been talking to recently in...

11:48Mar 21, 2026

Illinois Senate Race: Daaaa Dems (with David Axelrod)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Democratic primary for US Senate in Illinois is a bit q...

21:53Mar 14, 2026

BONUS POD: Iran Fears &...Focus Groups Love The Bulwark?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah was out last week, and felt she had to bring you some...

5:48Mar 12, 2026

What's a "Rug Pull"? (with Ed Elson)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Rachel Janfaza sits in for Sarah on this week’s Focus Group...

17:10Mar 7, 2026

Twitter vs. Texans (with Elaine Godfrey)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Texas Senate primary on March 3 between James Talarico...

9:33Feb 28, 2026

Texas-Sized Scandal (with Eric Benson)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sen. John Cornyn has been a consistent ally of President Tr...

11:44Feb 21, 2026

Two Qual Researchers Walk Into a Bar (with Margie Omero)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com More and more Trump voters are souring on his administratio...

11:05Feb 14, 2026

Young Trump Voters Have Feelings (with Rachel Janfaza)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Why are Gen Z men drifting right while Gen Z women move lef...

14:43Feb 7, 2026

Put Excuses on ICE (with Adrian Carrasquillo)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com We saw an ICE officer kill an American citizen for the seco...

16:19Jan 31, 2026

The Heebie Jeebie GOP (with Will Sommer)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Some strange, under-the-radar things are happening on the r...

11:36Jan 24, 2026

America: Playing Stupid Games, Winning Stupid Prizes (with Bill Kristol)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com There's a lot of bad news right now—so much that none of it...

10:50Jan 17, 2026

What a Difference a Year Makes (with Jonathan Chait)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The United States just captured Venezuela's dictator, and w...

6:36Jan 10, 2026

Sarah’s First Focus Groups

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah started doing focus groups in 2018 and 2019 hoping to...

14:50Jan 3, 2026

America on Tape: A Brutal (and Hopeful) Year

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com A year in review from The Focus Group Podcast: the revealin...

90:20Dec 27, 2025

MAGA's 'Crunchy' Surprise (with Jonathan Cohn)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' movem...

19:50Dec 20, 2025

The Civilian-Military Relationship (with Mark Hertling)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The American military used to be one of the more trusted in...

11:42Dec 13, 2025

(Focus) Group Therapy (with Astead Herndon)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Swing voters are pretty fed up with politics in general. Th...

9:24Dec 6, 2025

Just Press The Deflation Button! (with Catherine Rampell)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Donald Trump got elected in 2024 because voters felt prices...

12:25Nov 29, 2025

Epstein Files & Illegal Orders (w/ Will Sommer and Sen. Elissa Slotkin)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Donald Trump had to make an about-face on the Epstein Files...

18:36Nov 22, 2025

The GOP's Life After Trump (with Robert Draper)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com There’s always a possibility that Donald Trump will try to...

10:28Nov 15, 2025

Gen Z: They're Zooming Apart (with Rachel Janfaza)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com We’ve heard a lot about how young men have shifted to the r...

11:42Nov 8, 2025

Virginia: National Politics is Local (with Jeff Schapiro)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com No election in 2025 has been more impacted by the Trump pre...

18:13Nov 1, 2025

New Jersey: The 'No Narc' State (with Jonathan V. Last)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The New Jersey governor’s race is a little too close for co...

7:42Oct 25, 2025

New Yorkers Brace for Mamdani (with Harry Siegel)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Zohran Mamdani, the young, telegenic, democratic socialist...

9:33Oct 18, 2025

They're 'Opening the Door' (with Andrew Egger)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com For the last few weeks, the Trump administration has escala...

10:02Oct 11, 2025

I’d Do Anything To Win (But I Won’t Do That) (with Dan Pfeiffer)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com We haven’t caught up with Democratic voters since the summe...

12:54Oct 4, 2025

The Right's 'Turning Point'? (with Will Sommer)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Charlie Kirk was one of the most important figures in conse...

13:48Sep 27, 2025

‘Secure Borders...at What Cost?’ (with Adrian Carrasquillo)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Donald Trump is bleeding support from Hispanic voters, incl...

18:15Sep 20, 2025

You Can Ramp It Up or Ramp It Down (with Rachel Kleinfeld)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The murder of Charlie Kirk was the culmination of Americans...

52:11Sep 13, 2025

Swing Voters Say Trump is "Meh" (with Ashley Parker)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Donald Trump has run into some summer doldrums...from the u...

64:09Sep 6, 2025

What Are Focus Groups For Anyway?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Focus Group will be back for real in a couple of weeks,...

9:39Aug 16, 2025

2024 Trump Voters on the "Epstein Files" (with Will Sommer)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Focus Group Podcast is still on hiatus, but the Trump a...

11:20Jul 12, 2025

Do the Next Right Thing, Change the World (with Heather Cox Richardson)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Our season finale is a bit of a pep talk. America is in a p...

21:08Jun 28, 2025

Cuomo vs Mamdani (with Harry Siegel)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The New York City mayoral primary is "dumb" and getting lot...

32:09Jun 21, 2025

'This Country is Effed' (with Jonathan Cohn)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is moving through Congres...

13:12Jun 14, 2025

New Jersey's (Very) Odd Year (with Amy Walter)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Democratic primary for New Jersey governor is crowded,...

20:19Jun 7, 2025

Raw Audio: Democrats on Biden's Decline

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah had a busy travel schedule this week, so we're bringi...

19:23May 31, 2025

Congress: Trump's Super-Staffers (with Annie Karni)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Donald Trump is looking to pass his Big, Not-So-Beautiful B...

27:15May 24, 2025

Liberal Order Elegy? (with Ian Ward)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JD Vance is one heartbeat away from the presidency, and he'...

29:24May 17, 2025

Trump Had ONE JOB (with Dave Weigel)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com With Donald Trump's approval ratings falling, that means so...

31:29May 10, 2025

Can You Say 'Oligarchy'? (with Faiz Shakir)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah didn't think she'd be looking to Bernie Sanders and A...

32:32May 3, 2025