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The Red Nation Podcast
The Red Nation Podcast features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective. Hosted by Nick Estes and Jen Marley with help from our friend and comrade Sina. The Red Nation Podcast is also the home of Red Power Hour, hosted by Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz. Ou...
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RPH - Storytelling as resistance w/ Deborah Miranda
***Note: This is part one of a two-part episode. Patrons of Red Media can access the entire interview, so join the Patreon today for as little as $2...
The New Red Scare
President Trump is fomenting a right-wing fever dream of a communist plot to destroy America. TRN Podcast host Nick Estes, debunks this myth.
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"The Truth is Not Out There": RPH vs. Disclosure Day (2026)
RPH is back!!! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz discuss Steven Spielberg's latest summer blockbuster.
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First America S3.E1: Merciless Indian Savages
"Native people have been written out of the American story, but without us you don't know what happened. This summer the United States will celebrate...
What Indigenous People Think of the 250th: The First America Podcast Series w/ Rebecca Nagle
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks to returning guest and friend of the show Rebecca Nagle about her new podcast series, First America.
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We have a planet to save! The Red Deal 5th Anniversary
An all-star cast of hosts, friends, and comrades take part in this extra-long episode commemorating the 5-year anniversary of The Red Deal: Indigenous...
RPH vs. Exposure (2024)
RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Ramona Emerson's Exposure (2024)
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Say NO to Magellan Pipeline w/Mark Tilsen
Mark Tilsen, Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, returns to the show to discuss the Megellan Pipeline.
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Revolution "Betrayed"? What's Really Happening in Venezuela? w/Cira Pascual Marquina & Chris Gilbert
Since the illegal U.S. abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, Global North commentators have rushed to dec...
(How badly) did the US lose to Iran? w/ Sina Rahmani
Nick Estes conversation with Sina Rahmani, producer of The Red Nation Podcast and host of The East is a Podcast, discussing not only the historic fail...
RPH -Learning what we already know
RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Cannupa Hanska Luger's Surviva: A Future Ancestral Field Guide (2025), a hybrid art piece...
Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization A Hybrid Symposium (Panel 3)
Producer's note: We are releasing the audio edition of one panel of the conference TRN Podcast host Nick Estes helped organize. You can watch the vide...
RPH vs. Marvel's Echo (2024)
RPH is back!! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle the Disney+ television adaptation of Marvel's comics character Echo.
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RPH vs. Indigenous Futurism
RPH is back! Red Power Hour co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz tackle a collection of stories, Love after the End
An Anthology of Two-Spir...
Doing Native journalism w/ Danielle Paradis
The Red Nation Podcast host Nick Estes is be joined by Edmonton-based Otipemisiwak Métis journalist Danielle Paradis for an episode on Native journali...
RPH vs. Sinners (2025) w/ Jodi Byrd (Part 1)
**Producer's note: This is the first half of a two-part episode. The second half will be available to patrons of Red Media and on YouTube channel for...
The Cuban Revolution and U.S. Imperialism w/ August Nimtz
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in conversation with August Nimtz, Professor of Political Science and African American and African Studies at the Universi...
RPH - ICE Out! Drop the Charges! An Interview with Isabel Lopez
Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie sits down with Isabel Lopez to discuss almost a year of community-led resistance to Immigration and Customs Enfo...
Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization w/ Kim TallBear
TRN Podcast Nick Estes live in conversation with Kim TallBear about the conference they organized, Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against...
Red Power Hour - Solidarity with the Prarieland 19
Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie hosts a conversation with Kelsey Fryman and Cloud Runner, and Kristen on the Prairieland 19, a group of Anti-ICE...
Decolonizing West Asia: The Ramadan War" w/ Sina Rahmani
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with Sina Rahmani, host of The East is a Podcast and producer of The Red Nation Podcast, on the wider...
RPH. vs Smoke Signals (1998)
RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle the almost three-decade-old classic, Smoke Signals (1988),the first major motion picture w...
RPH vs. Avatar: Fire and Ice (2026)
RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie tackle the latest installment of the Avatar franchise.
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Drug Cartels do not exist w/Oswaldo Zavala and Alex Aviña
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with longtime friend of the show Alex Aviña (@alexander_Avina) and Oswaldo Zavala (@oswaldo__zavala),...
The Imperial Slingshot w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with Charisse Burden-Stelley.
Watch the livestream edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube ch...
Solidarity, Not Spam: Defend Chamoru Self-Determination, Oppose Bill 242-38!
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The Water Remembers w/ Amy Bowers Cordalis
RPH is BACK! Amy Bowers-Cordalis joins RPH Co-host Elena Ortiz to talk about her new book, the liberation of the Klamath River and her family's contr...
Minneapolis Update: Not Minnesota Nice
Operation Metro Surge is just two months old. In this episode, TRN Podcast host Nick Estes examines the recent history and the historic community resi...
"All we need is each other": From the frontlines in Minneapolis
RPH co-host Melanie Yazzie continues our series of frontline reports from Minneapolis. In this episode, Melanie speaks to Rachel Thunder from the Indi...
Red Power Hour - Hope in the Streets: Report from Minneapolis
Red Power Hour is back! The RPH crew discusses the fascist attack on Minneapolis by ICE and the mass mobilization against it. Joining co-hosts Melanie...
Minneapolis vs. ICE w/ Indigenous Protector Movement
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with the Indigenous Protector Movement on what's happening in Minneapolis.
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Maduro kidnapped: Is the Venezuela invasion an Indian war? - Left Reckoning 252
**TRN Podcast host Nick Estes did an episode with the folks over at Left Reckoning on the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro**
"Nick Estes, historian,...
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? w/ Gabriel Rockhill
Producer's note: We are reposting the most recent episode of Red Scare, TRN Podcast host Nick Estes' new(ish) media project. It is a very long episo...
2025: Year in Review
The Red Media family came together to discuss the tirefire that was 2025. Thank you from the entire Red Media podcast team and looking forward to more...
Indigenous Spirituality, Religious Freedom, and Psychedelics w/ Christine McCleave
Join TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live in conversation with Christine McCleave to discuss Indigenous spirituality and the psychedelic industry.
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RPH vs. Wind River (2017)
Red Power Hour is back!!! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena discuss Taylor Sheridan's Wind River (2017).
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Best of 2024 Mixtape (pt.1)
Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series. This tracklist features some of the best of th...
Socialist organizing and the DSA w/ Jorge Rocha, John Lewis, Luisa Martinez
Join TRN Podcast host Nick Estes live with members of the International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Becoming Little Shell w/ Chris La Tray
**Red Media is hiring an Executive Director!**
Chris La Tray joins TRN Podcast host Nick Estes in studio to discuss his latest book, Becoming Li...
Mormon Settler Colonialism w/ Elise Boxer
Elise Boxer returns to the show for a livestream conversation about her new book, Mormon Settler Colonialism: Inventing the Lamanite (2025)
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