HeyJaredFiltered with TJ Walker
Filtered with TJ Walker is your daily lens on news, business, technology, and culture - analyzed through the skills and strategies of effective communication.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 29
- Latest publication
- Sep 14, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 6, 2026
Latest episodes
Gavin Newsom Under Federal Scrutiny & The GOP’s Vetting Disaster (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Gavin Newsom is facing an expanding federal investigation involving travel, outside funding, and personal expenses, but the subpoenas reportedly do not identify a specific alleged crime. TJ Walker looks at what happens when investigators appear to start with a political target and work backward toward possible wrongdoing.Also on today’s Filtered with TJ Walker: an Ohio Republican Senate campaign hires, and quickly fires, a political director after reporters uncover Nazi imagery and Rhodesia-rela
The Truth About Trump's $5,000 Checks and Rising Debt (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Donald Trump wants voters to “pretend I’m on the ballot” in the 2026 midterms, and he’s pitching a $5,000 payment to every American adult if Republicans retain control of Congress.But while politicians make promises, the bond market is sending a much less comfortable message about inflation, federal debt, interest rates, mortgages, and the cost of borrowing.In this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ breaks down why the bond market may be the most brutally honest institution in America, how r
Trump’s Midterm Gamble, Data Center Backlash & Right-Wing Cancel Culture (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Donald Trump is taking center stage in the Republican midterm strategy, but is that an advantage or a gift to Democrats?On this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ looks at Republicans building their midterm convention around Trump, questions the logic of promising voters a $5,000 “dividend” while the national debt keeps climbing, and breaks down the growing political backlash against AI and data centers.TJ also examines the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the controvers
Why the Iran War Is Costing You More Than You Think (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The war with Iran is no longer just a foreign-policy story. Oil tankers are burning, the Strait of Hormuz is under pressure, fuel prices are climbing, and Americans are paying the bill. TJ Walker asks the question Washington keeps avoiding: What does winning this war actually mean?Then Elon Musk’s America PAC pours money into culture-war advertising focused on transgender athletes while TJ argues that voters should look at the issues actually affecting their bank accounts.Also in this episode: L
Workers Get Less While Culture Wars Get Louder | Filtered with TJ Walker (opens the original)
Read excerpt
American workers are producing more, but receiving a smaller share of the economic rewards. In this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ looks at the shrinking labor share of the U.S. economy, record corporate profits, stagnant worker pay, and the political culture wars that keep voters focused on everything except one basic question: Who gets the money?TJ also takes on the strange distrust of DEET, asking why some people who say they “follow the science” suddenly reject decades of scientific
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.