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Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

by Rachel Maddow, MS NOW
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Today: #123 in History on our combined chart.

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#106#116#127#137#147Chart rankOct 15Oct 18Oct 21Oct 24Oct 27#123
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DateCombined RankApple Podcasts
Oct 27#123#117
Oct 26#116#108
Oct 25#116#109
Oct 24#119#111
Oct 23#129#121
Oct 22#137#130
Oct 21#131#123
Oct 20#124#117
Oct 19#121#114
Oct 18#124#117
Oct 17#133#126
Oct 16#118#110
Oct 15#131#125

Latest episodes

  • Check Out a Preview for “Clock It”

    February 12, 2026 · 6 min

    “MS NOW Presents: Clock It” is an invitation to the liveliest and most informed groupchat in your feed. Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels are long-time political powerhouses. And they understand more than most how culture…

  • MS NOW Presents: Clock It with Symone and Eugene

    February 5, 2026 · 2 min

    Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels were once at odds as White House staffer and White House reporter. Now they’re friends and colleagues—each co-hosting their own shows at MS NOW. But their off-air conversations are where the real…

  • Episode 8: Mystery Man

    August 5, 2024 · 1 hr 12 min

    With the backing of an eccentric billionaire and powerful voices on the American far-right, a high-stakes effort to make Sen. Joseph McCarthy president surfaces at the Republican convention, as the years-long manhunt for American fascist…

  • Episode 7: Mobilized

    July 29, 2024 · 51 min

    With Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy facing the most serious challenge of his political life -- a looming censure vote in the U.S. Senate -- McCarthy's most fervent supporters raise up an army to fight in his defense. The effort, which…

  • Episode 6: Under Pressure

    July 22, 2024 · 53 min

    As Sen. Joseph McCarthy's activities -- and his troubling connections to those on the ultra right -- are exposed in the press, Democratic Sen. Lester Hunt launches a final effort to take McCarthy on and rein in his abuses. In response…

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  • Episode 5: Coming Home

    July 15, 2024 · 53 min

    The U.S. government’s search for American fascist Francis Yockey picks up steam as Yockey secretly returns home to America and joins forces with the growing pro-Nazi American ultra right. With investigators continually one step behind…

  • Episode 4: Spectacle

    July 8, 2024 · 44 min

    Elements of the American ultra right -- including the trailing ends of the America First movement -- begin taking up a strange new cause after the war... sympathy for Nazi war criminals. The surprising efforts to oppose the Nazi war crimes…

  • Bonus Episode: Rachel Maddow in Conversation with Tony Kushner

    July 1, 2024 · 1 hr 24 min

    In a live conversation recorded at the Provincetown, MA Town Hall on May 26, Rachel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner discuss “Ultra,” her book “Prequel,” and the rise of fascism both throughout history…

  • Episode 3: Malmedy

    June 24, 2024 · 44 min

    One of the most shocking incidents of World War II for Americans -- a cold-blooded Nazi massacre of surrendering American troops -- gets weaponized against the United States by surviving Nazis hoping to return to power, as well as a group…

  • Episode 2: The Mole

    June 17, 2024 · 38 min

    The American government launches an all-out manhunt for a young American ultra-right fascist who harbors sympathy for the Nazis and who is actively peddling one of the world's most dangerous weapons. Francis Yockey’s journey -- and the…

  • Episode 1: Dr. Hunt

    June 10, 2024 · 38 min

    The sudden and shocking suicide of a popular Democratic Senator, inside his Senate office, stuns the country and the nation’s capital. And soon, a series of bombshell revelations concerning the circumstances around the senator’s death will…

  • Introducing Season Two of Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

    June 3, 2024 · 2 min

    As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army’s Nazi war crimes trials in Germany…

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About the show

As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army’s Nazi war crimes trials in Germany have been infiltrated by a spy -- a mole for the other side. A gruesome foreign influence operation unfolds in Washington. A blackmail plot turns deadly in the U.S. Senate. A Hail Mary scheme to stop the counting of the Electoral College votes rattles democracy’s cage. With the line between the violent ultra-right and mainstream American politics fraying beyond recognition, with the FBI always one step behind their quarry, Americans of all stripes step up to confront a seemingly unstoppable, ascendant, anti-democratic force.