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Heather Cox Richardson · 905 episodes with transcripts

Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

Spoken has transcripts of 905 Letters from an American episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from July 2, 2026.

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  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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The White House is Not a Business Opportunity

July 2, 2026

Heather Cox Richardson (0:07)

July 1st, 2026

Today, President Donald J. Trump took his first flight on the new Air Force One, a gift from Qatar. The Constitution prohibits presidents from accepting gifts from foreign governments without the consent of Congress. So Trump's announcement he would accept the $400 million plane from a foreign country raised a…

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