About this podcast
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.
Episodes
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- Hegseth's Disaster Gets Even Worse · 19 minKen Harbaugh breaks down footage of Pete Hegseth and senior Administration officials laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day, and the young Tomb Guard who…
- Hegseth Gets Warning from Angry Veterans · 19 minHegseth’s impeachment vote failed in the Republican-controlled House, but the incoming Congress will take it up again, and veterans groups say he won’t be allowed to simply ride…
- Trump's Iran War Backfires in Ways He Never Expected · 18 minOn this episode of Meidas Defense, host Joe Plenzler sits down with Dr. Emma Ashford, Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and author of First Among Equals: U.S. Foreign Policy…
- Hegseth Gets More Bad News as Veterans Head to D.C. · 19 minImpeaching Pete Hegseth is a top priority for the veterans heading to Congress, and it has to happen even if he resigns or is fired first. Ken Harbaugh is joined by Army combat…
- Trump's Biggest Mistake Just Blew Up in his Face · 14 minMAGA didn’t lose to the Democratic Party on Tuesday night. It lost to the people Donald Trump spent two years going after. Democrats took the House, flipped the Senate, and won…
- Former WH Lawyer Reveals the Election Playbook · 19 minOn this episode of Meidas Defense, host Joe Plenzler sits down with Ian Bassin, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Protect Democracy and former Associate White House Counsel…
- Trump Faces Huge DC Protest after Historic Midterm Defeat · 21 minTuesday’s election result was historic, but Donald Trump remains president and is already working to undermine the voters’ verdict. Ken Harbaugh talks with Kris Goldsmith, Army…
- Trump's Ex-Political Director Gets Bad News in Georgia · 17 minRetired Navy Commander Bobby Jones sits down with retired Army Lt. Col. Maura Keller, the Democratic nominee for Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District. It’s Bobby’s home district…
- Mike Johnson Gets Bad Midterm News · 21 minMike Johnson says the polls are all wrong, and he’s bragging about arenas filled with a few hundred people. That’s what panic looks like. Ken Harbaugh explains why the blue wave…
- Trump gets Ditched by GOP Candidate as Midterms Near · 21 minSeven months ago, Kentucky Republican Ralph Alvarado boasted that he’d stood with Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Now the self-described MAHA doctor has scrubbed the president…
- Trump Weakness Exposed at Pentagon · 28 minOn this episode of Meidas Defense, host Joe Plenzler sits down with former Pentagon official and national security expert Dr. Michael Horowitz to discuss how drones, artificial…
- Trump's Midterm Nightmare Spreads to Unlikely Place... · 21 minOne 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…
- Army Vet Delivers Knockout Blow Before Midterms · 18 minWith 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…
- Trump Looks Utterly Weak as he Faces his Reckoning · 21 minIn 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…
- Trump's Crypto Story just got Much Bigger · 26 minIn 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…
- Trump and MAGA Just Went After Her for This... · 21 minKen 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 Pulls the Plug on Hegseth · 15 minTrump 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…
- Trump’s Midterm Meltdown Hitting Him Where He Least Expected · 20 minKen 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…
- Trump's New Pick has a Dark Past · 21 minKen 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…
- Trump Critic in Air Force just got Thrown in Solitary · 21 minIn 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…
- Trump's Most Dangerous Influence Just Got Exposed · 23 minKen 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…
- Retired Army Major Just Made His Move · 18 minMaj. (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…
- Trump Just Abandoned Them... · 18 minMeidas 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…
- Trump and GOP Get Nightmare News in Ohio · 18 minKen 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…
- Army Veteran Just Walked Away · 18 minArmy 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…
- Trump Just Became Republican's Worst Nightmare... · 20 minKen 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…
- Ex-GOP Strategist Just Gave Midterm Warning · 24 minKen 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 –…
- Ex-GOP Strategist says Trump just Broke the Party... · 20 minKen 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…
- Russia's Army just hit a Breaking Point... · 18 minOn 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…
- Navy’s Own Letter Just Blew Up Trump’s Story... · 14 minFirst, 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…
- Top Election Official Just Went Public on Midterms… · 19 minKen 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…
- Retired General Just Delivered Warning... · 19 minKen argues that Trump's ridiculous bluster, including his UN threat to "annihilate" Iran, has destroyed America's credibility, and that Pete Hegseth's gutting of the Pentagon is…
- Former Squadron Commander Just Gave Hegseth a Brutal Warning... · 16 minOn this episode of Meidas Defense, Joe Plenzler is joined by retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Tony Carr to discuss the growing culture of fear inside the Pentagon under Pete…
- Trump’s Epstein Question Just Got an Answer… · 19 minEpisode Description: Ken Harbaugh answers Trump's dismissive Epstein question, "Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?", with a firm yes, arguing that the administration…
- Military Spouse Just Went Public... · 16 minHer husband deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with the Marines and came home with PTSD and a TBI. She became his caregiver, then became a lawyer who helps veterans get free legal…
- Trump Ignored This Dire Warning… · 22 minKen Harbaugh traces the line from Trump family drone deals, defense stock trades, and oil market manipulation back to General Smedley Butler's 1935 book War Is a Racket, which…
- Trump Scrambles After Making Total Mess · 22 minKen Harbaugh breaks down how Trump's bungled Iran war has left both the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb under threat, shut down a critical Saudi pipeline, and somehow left…
- Trump Family Scandal Just Exploded… · 20 minOn this episode of Meidas Defense, host Joe Plenzler sits down with The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood to examine what we’ve learned about Al-Qaeda 25 years after 9/11. They discuss…
- Trump’s Cult Movement Just Crossed a Line… · 20 minKen Harbaugh sits down with Dr. Robert P. Jones, founder and president of PRRI and author of the new book Backslide, to examine how white evangelical Christianity has fused…
- Hegseth just made a Fatal Mistake · 14 minTwenty-five years after 9/11, the generation that fought the Global War on Terror produced two decades of hard-won lessons about how America goes to war; on authorities, on…
- Putin Gives Answer after Trump Envoys Le · 18 minKen Harbaugh talks with war correspondent and bestselling author Sebastian Junger, fresh off a trip to Kyiv where he was the sole American honored at Ukraine's Independence Day…
- Pentagon Reporter Warns it's Worse than we know... · 18 minMeidas Defense host Joe Plenzler sits down with New York Times national security reporter Greg Jaffe for a sobering look at the limits of American military power and the growing…
- Trump's Envoys get Rude Awakening After Putin Meeting · 18 minKen Harbaugh breaks down the arrival of Trump envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in Kyiv — and the disgust their Moscow remarks have stirred among Ukrainians enduring Putin's…
- Navy Combat Pilot Shakes Up Georgia House Race · 18 minA Navy F/A-18 pilot turned lawyer is running for Congress in Georgia's 7th.Why? An Army veteran got deported over a missed hearing. Tony Kozycki called the congressman's office…
- Army Veteran Warns What Trump Is Really Doing… · 18 minKen Harbaugh breaks down the Trump administration's latest attempt to restrict mail-in voting through the Postal Service despite court rulings against it, then talks with Army…
- Journalist Goes Inside City Under Siege... · 18 minKen Harbaugh sits down with journalist Caolan Robertson to discuss his new short documentary on Kramatorsk, a front-line Ukrainian city under relentless Russian bombardment. The…
- Military Legal Expert: Trump Just Crossed a Major Line... · 13 minMeidas Defense host Joe Plenzler sits down with retired Army JAG officer, law professor, and combat veteran Daniel Maurer to break down the legal limits of military power — from…
- Trump's Nightmare Brews in Montana... · 19 minKen Harbaugh argues Democrats can't win in the reddest places until the party counters the disinformation shaping its brand. That's why independents like Seth Bodnar may be the…
- Commander Reveals Shock Admission from U.S. Navy · 15 minThe USS Theodore Roosevelt hasn't left San Diego yet and her crew has already been told to plan on eight months; an extension baked in before the ship gets underway. The USS…
- Navy Commander Goes Nuclear on Trump’s Election Scheme · 15 minOn March 31, President Trump signed Executive Order 14399. It does not ban voting by mail but it builds a gate. States hand the Postal Service a list of approved mail voters 60…
