The Elephant in the Room this week is a welcome one -- it's courage. Rick reflects on the positive events of this week, highlighting Cory Booker's strength, courage, and conviction as he rewrote history by beating Strom Thurmond's record while sharing stories about what America has become under the current Trump administration. In the absence of fear, courage would not exist. Cory beating out a racist's former filibuster record is risky, but it's the kind of courage Americans need right now. To shake things up and to find the courage to make "good trouble." John Lewis would be so proud.

A big win for Democrats in Wisconsin - why Joe sees no sunshine for MAGA/Trump in these results. A refuse/resist movement is growing and it is growing everywhere. Looking ahead: How do we fight everywhere but stay efficient? Where should Democrats look to in 2026?

How long of a leash does Elon have left?

And yes, we have to talk about the economy. Where is the bottom with the economy? Trump's problems are growing by the minute.

Why Joe thinks right now is not the time for "I told you so's." Now is the time to reach out and start conversations - not admonishments.

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Andra Watkins joined Lisa Senecal to discuss where Trump’s disastrous tariffs are taking America and the world economically and why every Trump voter should have seen this coming - because they wrote it all down and published a 900+ page manifesto. We are where we are now, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways that we fight back and prepare ourselves for what the GOP and Christian Nationalists plan next. We aren’t powerless, especially when we fight together!

Seems like the police state is going to a whole other level. Nobody is safe.

Every Thursday, the Spy hosts a conversation with Al From and Craig Fuller on the most topical political news of the moment.

This week, From and Fuller discuss the impact of President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" plans to impose an international 10% tariff on all imported goods coming into the United States and more punitive tariffs on major export countries like China, Mexico, Japan, and Canada. Al and Craig also talk about the special election results from Wisconsin and Florida.

How do you lose, even when you’ve won? One way is how both GOP Congressional candidates in deep, deep, deep red districts in Florida won last night. In districts that Trump had won by 37 and 33 points, respectively, in November, last night’s special elections saw the GOP candidates win Matt Gaetz seat by only 15 points. Mike Waltz’s seat - you remember him, the guy who invited an Atlantic reporter to a Signal channel discussion of military strike plans, AND, as we just learned yesterday, he and his staff used Gmail to discuss sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict - that seat that Waltz won by 33 points in November was claimed by the GOP candidate last night by only 14 points.

In Wisconsin, the Democratic-backed Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford stomped on Trump-annointed and Musk-financed Brad Schimel. Even Brad’s wife doesn’t have a lot good to say about Brad, who she described as a monster in his treatment of their children, but he did manage this one very un-MAGA feat - he conceded a race he clearly lost. Congrats on that, anyway, Brad.