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Politics has never been more chaotic, and most podcasts just add to the noise. Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes cuts through it. Grant is an AP Award-winning journalist with over a decade of on-the-ground reporting on the biggest political stories, scandals, and elections in America. Twice a week, he takes the stories dominating the headlines and breaks them down in plain English — no jargon, no spin, no shouting. If you care about what’s happening in this country but you’re exhausted by how it’s being covered, this is the show for you. Real reporting. Clear explanations. Actual context. Make It Make Sense drops three times a week. Subscribe so you never miss it.
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Signup to Generate a PitchPolitics has never been more chaotic, and most podcasts just add to the noise. Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes cuts through it. Grant is an AP Award-winning journalist with over a decade of on-the-ground reporting on the biggest political stories, scandals, and elections in America.
Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes is hosted by Grant Hermes. The show has published 342 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Administration Is Trying to Pull Votes From the Count as They Come In" (28 October 2026, 25 minutes), ""We're Running a Fu*king Election" w/ Nevada Sec. of State Cisco Aguilar" (24 October 2026, 44 minutes), and "The Texas Senate Race Is Putting Trans Kids At Risk w/ Spencer Macnaughton from Uncloseted Media" (22 October 2026, 46 minutes).
Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 342 episodes.
Booking probability for Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes's contact route on record: verified email.
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Grant Hermes hosts Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes, a news podcast with 342 episodes published.
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Seven days to November 3rd. 32 million people have already voted. Democrats have an 80% chance of winning the House and a 57% chance of winning the Senate. Only 53% of people who voted for Trump in 2024 say they're...
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11 days to November 3rd. Cisco Aguilar is the Secretary of State of Nevada and the Chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State. He is one of the people most directly in the crosshairs of everything this...
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Over the course of the last week, Trump has had a remarkable number of incidents that raise serious questions about his mental state and physical health. He walked past his open limousine door and was turned around by a...
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14 days to November 3rd. Today is a deep dive into the most important Senate race in the country: Michigan. JD Vance spent the weekend in Michigan campaigning for Republican candidate Mike Rogers. While he was there he...
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17 days to the midterms. Eric Zuleger is reporting live from Tirana, Albania, where violent protests have been building for 139 days and escalated this week into what he calls the most violence he has ever seen in five...
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18 days to November 3rd. Two stories today, both of which tell you exactly where we are. The DOJ sent letters to California's Secretary of State and the head of elections in Los Angeles County demanding they purge more...
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21 days to November 3rd. This week started with DHS raiding the Washington DC home of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar. Grant has investigated the claims behind this raid personally. Here is what he found. The DOJ...
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The number one issue for voters heading into November 3rd is the economy. The cost of everything is too high. Groceries, gas, housing, healthcare. Inflation is outpacing wages. And most of the economics coverage sounds...
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25 days to the midterms. Trump knows what's coming. And he's telling us what the last stretch looks like. First: a mea culpa on Tuesday's episode. In trying to contextualize what Trump said about Iran and LA, it came...
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The Supreme Court's new fall term starts Monday. Melissa Murray, NYU law professor, co-host of Strict Scrutiny, and New York Times bestselling author of The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the...
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Jack Smith testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today for the first time since the January 6th prosecution was shut down. Republicans had hours to ask questions about one of the most consequential legal...
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In May, Dr. Henry Abraham and about 30 colleagues published a letter saying medical professionals have a duty to warn the public about what they are observing in the president of the United States. Five months later...
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Two things happened today that don't add up when you put them next to each other. At 1 am, a federal judge ordered Trump to immediately reinstate CNN, MSNBC, and Politico's White House credentials. The order...
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Three things happened today that, on any other day in American history, would each be the only news story anyone talked about. At the UN General Assembly, Trump addressed 130 nations with what sounded like a campaign...
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Only 18 of 435 House seats are genuinely competitive in 2026. That means 95% of Americans go to the polls for their House race with functionally one real option. It's not because the country is that divided; it's...
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Twenty-five years ago today, Grant was eight years old, watching the second plane hit the second tower before walking to school. He didn't know what he was seeing. He just felt the fear coming off every adult around...
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Night one of the first-ever Republican midterm national convention in Dallas is in the books. Grant was watching so you didn't have to. The arena was half full for most of the night and about 75% full during Trump's...
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Something that has never happened in American history is underway in Dallas right now: the first-ever midterm Republican National Convention. Past midterm conventions have been about righting the ship, the party coming...
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EDITOR NOTE: This episode was recorded before a federal judge in Massachusetts issued her ruling blocking the mail-in ballot rule. North Carolina and Delaware started sending out mail-in ballots today. Two weeks from...
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The 2026 midterms are on track to be the most expensive in American history, $12 billion in ad spending alone, before counting what's sitting in PACs and super PACs. 100 billionaire families are contributing over 20% of...
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chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, Nevada Secretary of State
President of End Citizens United, End Citizens United, Let America Vote, and End Citizens United/Let America Vote Action Fund
White House Correspondent for The New York Times, The New York Times
former Trump personal lawyer and acting attorney general, United States Department of Justice
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