The Ken Harbaugh Show features daily commentaries and intimate conversations with leaders in the fight to protect democracy. Host Ken Harbaugh is a former Navy pilot who helped build several of the country’s most influential veteran organizations. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Hill, and the Yale Journal of International Law. He produced the #1 Apple TV documentary Against All Enemies, and has hosted multiple award-winning podcasts, including Reclaiming Patriotism, Burn The Boats, Against All Enemies, The Medal of Honor Podcast, and Warriors in Their Own Words.
Latest episodes
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21 min
Trump's Midterm Nightmare Spreads to Unlikely Place...
One week out, the midterms come down to one thing: Donald Trump’s corruption, his war with Iran, and his economic incompetence. That message has put races in play no one thought we…
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18 min
Army Vet Delivers Knockout Blow Before Midterms
With less than two weeks until the American Midterm Elections, Retired U.S. Navy Commander Bobby Jones sat down again with Cait Conley, the Democratic nominee in New York's 17th Di…
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21 min
Trump Looks Utterly Weak as he Faces his Reckoning
In a single week, Russia launched more than 2,500 strike drones, 1,500 aerial bombs, and over 50 missiles at Ukraine, killing civilians like a one-year-old in her stroller. Trump a…
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26 min
Trump's Crypto Story just got Much Bigger
In this episode of the Meidas Defense Podcast, host Joe Plenzler sits down with cryptocurrency researcher and journalist Molly White to expose the darker side of the crypto industr…
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21 min
Trump and MAGA Just Went After Her for This...
Ken Harbaugh sits down with Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan to unpack the coordinated, implicitly violent backlash that followed her remarks on holding lawbreakers in the Trump…
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15 min
Trump Pulls the Plug on Hegseth
Trump just pulled the plug on Pete Hegseth's livestreamed execution. That decision tells you a lot about the man running the Pentagon. Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will still face…
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20 min
Trump’s Midterm Meltdown Hitting Him Where He Least Expected
Ken Harbaugh talks with Brian Bengs, the Navy and Air Force veteran running as an independent against Sen. Mike Rounds in South Dakota, about how he’s reaching former Trump voters…
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21 min
Trump's New Pick has a Dark Past
Ken Harbaugh reacts to new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia’s rocky first briefing, and to her history of amplifying Pizzagate, calling to “Suspend Habeas Corpus,” and fa…
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21 min
Trump Critic in Air Force just got Thrown in Solitary
In this episode of the Meidas Defense Podcast, host Joe Plenzler sits down with military defense attorney Cody Harnish to discuss the controversial prosecution of Air Force Major J…
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23 min
Trump's Most Dangerous Influence Just Got Exposed
Ken Harbaugh sits down with Joanne Carducci, better known as JoJoFromJerz, for the second half of their conversation, a deeply personal one about the assault she survived at 17 and…
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18 min
Retired Army Major Just Made His Move
Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda is a combat veteran who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now he lives in Aberdeen, and he's the Democratic nominee in North Carolina's 9th District. His…
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18 min
Trump Just Abandoned Them...
Meidas Defense host Joe Plenzler sits down with retired U.S. Army Colonel Steve Miska to discuss why abandoning the local partners who served alongside American forces isn’t just a…
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18 min
Trump and GOP Get Nightmare News in Ohio
Ken Harbaugh argues that November 3rd is a referendum on Trump and on a Republican Party that followed him over the cliff, and that Ohio is already showing signs of a shift. He the…
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18 min
Army Veteran Just Walked Away
Army tank officer. Tech executive. State legislator. Now an independent running for U.S. Senate in Idaho. Todd Achilles has been a Republican, a Democrat, and now neither. He left…
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20 min
Trump Just Became Republican's Worst Nightmare...
Ken Harbaugh argues that Trump is losing and dragging the entire Republican Party down with him, and asks what Democrats can do to make November as bad as possible for the GOP. In…
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24 min
Ex-GOP Strategist Just Gave Midterm Warning
Ken Harbaugh sits down with former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens for part two of their conversation, on why Democrats can't choose between rebuilding and accountability – th…
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20 min
Ex-GOP Strategist says Trump just Broke the Party...
Ken Harbaugh breaks down a taxpayer-funded ad pushing Trump's authoritarian rhetoric, arguing it's backfiring as his approval craters ahead of a potentially historic November. He's…
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18 min
Russia's Army just hit a Breaking Point...
On this episode of the Meidas Defense, Joe Plenzler speaks with Dr. Roman Sheremeta and Ken Harbaugh about the war in Ukraine, why it matters to U.S. national security, how Russian…
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14 min
Navy’s Own Letter Just Blew Up Trump’s Story...
First, Navy officials said they had "not identified an increase" in suicide attempts. Now the Acting Secretary of the Navy has confirmed eight. In a letter to Sen. Kirsten Gillibra…
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19 min
Top Election Official Just Went Public on Midterms…
Ken Harbaugh argues that Donald Trump has so thoroughly discredited the Republican Party that November will bring not just a blue tsunami but a true political realignment. He then…