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Michael Tracey
@mtraceyTracked since May 2026
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Total audience
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Michael Tracey24 members · $142/mo
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8 of 9 cohort creators have a measured total audience; the other 1 remains unranked for this metric.Ranking data · includes stale rows| Rank | Creator and why included | Total audience | Gap vs Michael Tracey | Freshness |
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| #3 |  Mark PainterPodcastsContent relevance + business context | 508 | 345 more | Aug 7, 2026 |
| #4 |  Planet: CriticalPodcastsContent relevance + business context | 184 | 21 more | Jul 26, 2026Stale |
| #5 | Michael TraceyProfilePodcastsTotal audience position in Recommended cohort | 163 | Reference | Jul 25, 2026Stale |
| #6 |  The Political Philosophy PodcastPodcastsContent relevance + business context | 159 | 4 fewer | Jul 31, 2026 |
| #7 |  Angus McMahanPodcastsContent relevance + business context | 54 | 109 fewer | Jul 24, 2026Stale |
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Video Latest postPublicThe whole thing's a fraudOr so we're told! If you're like me, you've been flooded with theories of widespread, systematic election fraud having been the decisive factor in the 2020 election. So I thought I'd at least try to have a rational discussion with someone who's a proponent of such theories -- no use just ignoring them. Happily, the results were reasonably edifying. Maybe you'll find this video helpful if any friends/relatives similarly flood you with such theories over the Holidays.
Nov 26, 2020 0 likes 0 commentsComing up...Sep 30, 2020 View post My first attempt at "crowd-funding" was in October 2016 when a bunch of people gave me money to go report on the presidential campaign. I think that worked out pretty well. I employed a similar philosophy this summer when I spent two months covering the aftermath of the riots. That also worked out pretty well. So next month (October) I'll be doing the same vis-a-vis the 2020 election -- going to "swing states," talking to normal voters, visiting campaign offices, and so forth. One thing I can tell you is that it won't be slanted with partisanship or hysterics so if that's what you value in commentary/reportage, you're in luck.ArticleSep 30, 2020Public 0 0And so it beginsView post Greetings Patrons. The conventions are over. (They weren't even really conventions, but whatever.) "The campaign has truly begun." These are the standard pundit cliches one hears as we pass through Labor Day in an election year. I will at least try to provide a rational alternative, not mired in the standard tropes and nostrums that you can get pretty much anywhere else on YouTube/Twitter/TV/etc. Maybe I will falter, but at least I can say I tried. So, here's today's installment in that endeavor. Enjoy. Or not.Articletoday at Jul 25 crawlPublic 0 2MT goes to WashingtonAug 8, 2020ArticleAug 8, 2020Public 0 3Riots? What riots?Traveling around the country for the past six weeks has been a slightly surreal experience. Everywhere you go, there's evidence of the most pervasive riots since at least the 1960s -- and possibly further. Yet you then glance at the national media narrative, and it's as though nothing happened. Very strange discrepancy. Nonetheless, this piece is one attempt of mine to provide some additional details.ArticleJul 27, 2020Public 0 2Chatting with Portland protesters...Here was my experience Wednesday evening attempting to ask questions of Portland mayor Ted Wheeler. As you can tell, protesters in the vicinity didn't like the questions I posed and registered their discontent fairly vehemently. Later on, I got teargassed by federal troops. And the following day, a protester snatched my phone as I was livestreaming and threatened me with physical attack. So it's been an eventful few days over on the ol' YouTube channel.ArticleJul 24, 2020Public 0 3This headline is going to get me in troubleBut I understand its logic from an attention-generating standpoint. And I stand by everything in the text itself. The manner in which these protests/riots have been covered -- supposedly they were literally the largest in US history -- continues to boggle the mind.ArticleJul 16, 2020Public 0 3New WSJ column on the victims of the riotsView post I'm continually staggered (although I guess I shouldn't be) by how little media attention the victims of the riots have received. Largely minorities, they don't fit neatly into any preordained political narrative either on the left or the right. So, for the most part they just get ignored. I talked to a few in Minneapolis/St. Paul for a column in today's Wall Street Journal. It's also in the physical newspaper. Sorry, there's nothing I can do about the paywall. Maybe you can figure out a way to circumvent it. I know my Patrons are highly resourceful!Articletoday at Jul 25 crawlPublic 0 0Inside the riotsHey! I found a guy who rioted inside the Minneapolis Police Precinct building, which as you may recall sparked a national and international protest/riot movement. So, good to have some first-hand perspective on what exactly went down.ArticleJul 4, 2020Public 0 1When did everyone become trans?Trans stuff is generally not "my issue," but you might have noticed that it's come to the forefront of elite consciousness as a result of the protests of the past month -- despite the protests nominally being about "anti-racism." So, in a sense we have all been forced to engage with the issue. I'm glad I did so with Helena, who is remarkably incisive, for reasons you will quickly glean once you watch this discussion.ArticleJul 1, 2020Public 0 1Videos of ordinary AmericansJun 29, 2020 View post One thing I like doing is traveling around America and talking to people who don't exist within the narrow, frequently psychotic world of online media and activism. Often, they have far greater common sense and insight than your average manic depressive Twitter freelancer. So, I have started putting more of these encounters on video and uploading them to YouTube. The discussions of late mostly pertain to the aftermath of the protests/riots and the ongoing effects of COVID. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for regular updates of this kind. Or don't, who cares!VideoJun 29, 2020Public 0 1We are living through a religious revivalExcept it's secular religion. Often couched as heavily adversarial, yet backed by the state. Without this framing, I don't think you can fully understand the nature of what's transpired in the past few weeks.ArticleJun 26, 2020Public 0 0
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