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Congressional Politics
Episodes · 12 months
17
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, May 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 3 of 3,584, 2 of 3,862, 1 of 4,115, 1 of 4,226, 2 of 4,731, 3 of 4,438, 5 of 4,230, 0 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
All time
27
+37 via 24 narrower
On record
33
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
3mo ago
Jul 23, 2026
via Congressional Ethics
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 3Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp15 people
47%
33%
20%
- Reform corporate influence7 people · 47%
- Prioritize constituent welfare5 people · 33%
- Ban congressional stock trading3 people · 20%
Reform corporate influence
Political decision-making is corrupted by corporate, lobbyist, and billionaire interests that undermine service to the working class.
7 people · 6 episodes
Democrats must prioritize serving the needs of their constituents over corporate interests and choose a clear political path.
“You cannot serve. You cannot serve the oppressed and the oppressor. You can't serve the money and the many. You can't do both at the same time.”
Pod Save America · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 308K views on this topic
Democrats must prioritize a more populist economic agenda that challenges the status quo, including limiting corporate power, to regain credibility with voters.
“I think we just need to be engaged in sort of more broadside frontal assaults on the existing Marketplace have Bolder economic reform ideas and maybe think about having a better diversity of candidate backgrounds”
Pod Save America · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 120K views on this topic
The Democratic Party should be an opposition party and must stop accepting money from the same corporate pimps that fund Donald Trump.
“You cannot have a party of prostitutes that have the same pimps as Donald Trump has. We have to be a full-blown opposition party”
I've Had It · May 2026 · 2 episodes · 440K views on this topicPrioritize constituent welfare
Politicians must abandon personal gain, donor interests, and performative politics to effectively serve the needs of their constituents.
5 people · 5 episodes
Congressional committees are structured to reward political loyalty and fundraising over merit, preventing effective governance.
“every committee that you look at up in Capitol Hill it's not you know who's the best for the job it's you know who has influence who has money who can fund raise who's been here longest and so you see a lot of the same stuff in other committees as well”
Shawn Ryan Show · Oct 2024 · 1 episode · 541K views on this topic
Congress needs to move beyond its current broken state to better serve the needs of the American people.
“I think we need as Californians to be sending our best warrior to Washington somebody who understands that the way Congress has been working the last years it's just not working for the American people”
Pod Save America · Jan 2023 · 1 episode · 261K views on this topic
Members of Congress prioritize maintaining their grip on power and networking with lobbyists over defending the interests of their constituents.
“Perhaps it's because these guys don't come across as earnest. They don't come across like they believe in anything but maintaining their grip on power, their marginal grip on power as they can just farm out funds from lobbyists as they can like network with high-profile individuals and and develop a”
HasanAbi · Aug 2025 · 3 episodes · 739K views on this topicBan congressional stock trading
Members of Congress should be prohibited from individual stock trading to prevent conflicts of interest and corruption.
3 people · 3 episodes
Members of Congress should be prohibited from engaging in individual stock trading while in office.
“I'm not for stock trading in Congress and I think you need to ban it and I have a a political reform Bill to do that”
PBD Podcast · Jan 2025 · 4 episodes · 981K views on this topicJN
Congress must pass anti-corruption reforms such as banning members from stock trading, prohibiting them from becoming lobbyists, and strengthening bribery laws.
“Our bill to ban members of Congress from becoming lobbyists, Representative Ocasio-Cortez is our our colleague in the House on that measure. A bill to essentially strengthen the definition of bribery, it revert back to a pre-2016 legal landscape from Emilia Sykes, a young congresswoman from Ohio.”
Heather Cox Richardson · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 306K views on this topicBM
Members of Congress should be prohibited from trading stocks because it creates a conflict of interest when they make policy decisions that affect the markets.
“In my opinion, my personal opinion, if you are making decisions that could dictate the price of stocks, if you are making these decisions with insider knowledge by nature, right? Being on a Homeland Security Committee, being on any committee that could impact any of these various businesses. I mean,”
MeidasTouch · May 2026 · 1 episode · 746K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Jan 2023