Grab your cafecito and settle in for a 90-minute deep dive into the wildest political year in modern American history. Your host Mateo—a pansexual, polyamorous, Cuban-American drag performer—walks you through 2025 chronologically, from Trump's record-breaking inauguration to the government shutdown that's still happening right now.

This isn't your typical political podcast. Mateo brings receipts, empathy, and a perspective shaped by lived experience as a queer person of color who understands what's at stake when democracy starts to crumble. Because when your family fled authoritarianism in Cuba, you recognize the warning signs.

What We Cover:

💰 Trump's Inauguration - How corporations showered his inaugural committee with $239 million, more than double any previous inauguration, and what they got in return

📊 The Tariff Disaster - Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs that courts ruled illegal but stayed in effect anyway, costing middle-income households $22,000 over their lifetime

🚨 Immigration Enforcement - ICE arrest quotas, 20 deaths in custody (the deadliest year since 2004), and a UCLA study showing operations were "largely driven by political and demographic targeting"

🎯 Charlie Kirk's Assassination - The tragedy that shook the nation and was immediately weaponized for political gain

📺 The Kimmel Suspension - When the FCC chairman threatened to revoke ABC's broadcast license over a comedian's jokes, and what it means for free speech

⚖️ DOJ Weaponization - How Trump's "enemies list" became actual criminal investigations, and why that should terrify everyone

🏛️ The Government Shutdown - 42 million Americans lost food assistance while Trump golfed at Mar-a-Lago

Plus: The White House ballroom controversy, Antifa designated as terrorism, Ukraine peace talks going nowhere, and so much more.