When the republic is on fire and the algorithm keeps handing Zuckerberg a bucket of gasoline, who do you call? Meet Jesse Duquette — Chicago-based political cartoonist, creator of The Daily Don, and the most shadow-banned cartoonist on META — a distinction he's earned by doing what the mainstream press too often won't: holding a funhouse mirror up to the authoritarian clown show currently occupying the White House.
From the weaponization of federal agencies and the gutting of due process, to ICE raids tearing apart communities, tariff chaos tanking the economy, and a cabinet that reads like a casting call for the world's most unqualified people in positions of power, Jesse has been drawing it all — one savage, ink-soaked cartoon at a time.
In this episode, Jesse and I discuss the art and fury behind political cartooning in the age of Project 2025, MAGA disinformation, and a tech oligarchy that would rather suppress dissent than defend it. We dig into what it takes to document an unfolding assault on democracy — from attacks on press freedom and why it's important to turn political rage into something funny enough to share and sharp enough to hurt. If you think satire is dead, Jesse Duquette is proof it's just been shadow-banned. Subscribe, follow, resist.
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