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US politics & elections Videos Recommended on Hacker News (187)
US politics & elections is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 187 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 291 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
US politics: elections, presidents, Congress, campaigns, debates, polling, Trump, Obama, Democrats and Republicans, political speeches, C-SPAN clips, political commentary.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on George Lakoff: Moral Politics: “Changed how I listen - to anyone - forever.” — an HN commenter, 2021.
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1 mo on HNAlexander Nix: From Mad Men to Math Men | OMR Festival 2017 - Hamburg, Germany | #OMR17
OMR
1 HN recommend · 2018–2026
1 mo on HNCOVID-19: A Second Opinion
SenatorRonJohnson
1 HN recommend · 2022–2026
1 mo on HNThe Daily Show - Gun Control Whoop-de-doo (ft. John Oliver)
Comedy Central
1 HN recommend · 2013–2024
1 mo on HNSen. Cruz Grills Google Executive on Alleged Censorship Bias
Senator Ted Cruz
1 HN recommend · 2019–2020
1 mo on HNWatch Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Corresponde...
CNN
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNJulian Assange on Seth Rich
Nieuwsuur
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HNDECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay
eon3
1 HN recommend · 2018–2023
1 mo on HNDNI Clapper tells Wyden the NSA does not collect data on millions of Americans
Ron Wyden
1 HN recommend · 2013–2023
1 mo on HNThomas Sowell: affirmative action creates academic failure & resentment
Gravitahn
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HNCongressional Fundraising: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2016–2022
1 mo on HNPutin's Revenge: Julia Ioffe (interview) | FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE PBS | Official
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump
PowerfulJRE
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNLiberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
New York Times Opinion
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNVoting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNPolitics and Language | Noam Chomsky | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2008–2018
1 mo on HNVoting Machines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNWhy was Biden's win calculated to be ONE IN A QUADRILLION?
Stand-up Maths
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNThe Newsroom - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore...(Restricted language)
tpratt441
1 HN recommend · 2018–2026
1 mo on HNViral video raises worry over Sinclair's political messaging inside local news
PBS NewsHour
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNAmi Horowitz: How white liberals really view black voters
Fox News
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HNThe Alt-Right Playbook: I Hate Mondays
Innuendo Studios
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNWATCH: Elon Musk appears to give fascist salute during Trump inauguration celebration
PBS NewsHour
0 HN recommender · 2025–2026
0 mo on HNHarris On Vaccine: 'If Donald Trump Tells Us To Take It, I’m Not Taking It.' | NBC News
NBC News
0 HN recommender · 2021–2022
0 mo on HNTrump blasts Germany over gas pipeline deal with Russia
CBS Evening News
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025
0 mo on HNUSA's Leading Dissident Voice | Noam Chomsky | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
0 HN recommender · 2017–2018
0 mo on HNUS President Joe Biden: “If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one.”
Middle East Eye
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HN1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives (ft. Mehdi Hasan)
Jubilee
0 HN recommender · 2025–2025
0 mo on HNPresident Trump claims injecting people with disinfectant could treat coronavirus
The Telegraph
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNSen. James Inhofe (R-OK) Snowball in the Senate (C-SPAN)
C-SPAN
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNDonald Trump on Russia & missing Hillary Clinton emails (C-SPAN)
C-SPAN
0 HN recommender · 2018–2021
0 mo on HNIs the price worth it
tclim988
0 HN recommender · 2022–2026
0 mo on HNCNN treats politics like sports — and it’s making us all dumber
Vox
0 HN recommender · 2017–2017
0 mo on HNSchumer Warns Trump: Intel Community Has Many Ways to 'Get Back at You' (FLASHBACK)
Nicholas Ballasy
0 HN recommender · 2020–2025
0 mo on HNBen Shapiro: US commentator clashes with BBC's Andrew Neil - BBC News
BBC News
0 HN recommender · 2020–2025
0 mo on HNPaul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)
peoplefor
0 HN recommender · 2017–2022
0 mo on HNPresident Bush -- Fool me Once
Wisaam
0 HN recommender · 2008–2015