BONUS: Season 2 of “Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra”

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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As a bonus for listeners, we’re sharing a special preview of the second season of the award-winning original series, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra.” In the chart-topping second season, Rachel Maddow returns to uncover the shocking history of the ultra-right’s reach into American politics. Listen to the entire first episode now, and follow the show to get the whole series: https://link.chtbl.com/rmpust_fdlw. You can also subscribe to MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts for early access to every episode the Friday before it drops, and ad-free listening to all episodes of Ultra seasons one and two.

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0:16.3	Hi everyone. It's Rachel Maddo. I'm excited to tell you that we're releasing a brand new second season of my podcast Ultra. In the first season we heard an all but forgotten true story of sitting members of Congress working with a Nazi agent and align themselves with the violent ultra-right.
0:20.0	It all ended with the worrying reasons they mostly got away with it.
0:24.5	Well, this new season, season two,
0:26.7	reveals what happens next, the unnerving consequences
0:30.6	of those guys not being held to account.
0:33.0	This is another story that really happened.
0:36.0	It feels a little bit ripped from today's headlines,
0:39.0	but for this one, we do have the benefit of knowing how it all turned out in the end.
0:44.0	Episodes drop Mondays.
0:45.4	Stay right here to listen to a special preview of the first episode.
0:49.1	You can also subscribe to MS NBC Premium on Apple Podcasts.
0:53.8	If you do that, you will get early access to every episode
0:57.2	the Friday before it drops.
0:58.8	And with MS NBC Premium, you can listen to all of Ultra, season one and season two with zero ads.
1:07.0	Lester Hunt ran for public office for the first time in
1:16.4	1932. He was a Democrat. He ran for a seat in the state legislature, and he won.
1:27.0	And he quickly attracted notice from the Democratic leadership in the state. After he served just one term in the legislature,
1:30.0	they asked if he would consider running for a statewide office and he did he ran
1:35.7	for Secretary of State in Wyoming and he won.
1:38.8	Dr. Leffi, huh, Secretary of State.
1:41.5	Then he ran for a second term as Secretary of State and he won re-election as well.
1:47.6	And then flush with that success, he decided to run for the top job in the state.
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