Columbia, TN, Mayor Chaz Molder joins Hendrell for an unfiltered conversation about his congressional bid in Tennessee’s newly redrawn 5th District. The conversation covers Molder’s policy priorities, the cost of living, rural hospitals, farmers, data centers, AI regulation, tariffs, and government oversight.

Molder outlines his vision for serving Tennessee in Congress as a pragmatic, present, and accessible representative. He emphasizes listening to voters, engaging with constituents, and delivering practical solutions to challenges facing Tennesseans.

Hendrell returns after a hiatus to examine America’s political crossroads leading to the 2026 Midterm elections: an unpopular president, an escalating war with Iran, rising costs crushing working families, and a growing insurgency within both parties. The episode breaks down how affordability, foreign policy, and a new generation of candidates, including democratic socialists and increasing Black political power could reshape the midterms and American politics for years.

Hendrell sits down with Reverend Dr. Earl Fisher for an unfiltered conversation unpacking Tennessee's mid-decade redistricting and its consequences for Memphis’s majority-Black representation, voting power, and community resources. The two discuss how this moment could send ripples through an already politically strained society. Dr. Fisher breaks down the magnitude of the moment, as the intersection of faith, politics, and the disruption of social norms threatens to create a long-term impact on the political power of Memphis voters.

In this episode, Hendrell breaks down how the Supreme Court’s rollback of Voting Rights protections has enabled partisan redistricting in Tennessee and across the South allowing Radical Republicans to split Memphis into three Republican controlled congressional districts, diluting Black political power, and reshaping democracy through engineered maps instead of delivering for the people.

The episode connects the modern tactics to a long history of voter suppression, explains the stakes for representation and public resources, and issues a clear call to action: organize, register, and turn out voters to defend equal representation and win in upcoming elections.

In this episode, Hendrell warns the world is on the edge of a dangerous conflict involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran, exploring the sudden shift from diplomacy to military strikes, the death of Iran’s supreme leader, and the unpredictable succession that could escalate or de-escalate the war.

The episode examines regional alliances, the human and economic costs, the nuclear proliferation risk, and urges responsible leadership, renewed diplomacy, and Congressional debate as the stakes grow global during an election year.

Hendrell warns that current U.S. politics resembles a coordinated regime strategy that is attacking elections, normalizing violence, weaponizing culture wars, and hiding elite corruption to seize and centralize power.

He connects recent events (Fulton County raids, ICE-related deaths, racist presidential posts, and the Epstein files) and urges listeners to resist exhaustion, organize, and defend democratic norms.

On this MLK Day episode of Politics Unfiltered, Hendrell delivers a reflection on the fight to make MLK Day a national holiday, and how Dr. King’s battles against segregation, voter suppression, and poverty have modernized into discriminatory legislation, economic exclusion, and digital intimidation.

The episode calls out the weaponization of institutions, the persistence of racial and economic inequality, and the danger of complacency from politicians, clergy, and community leaders. Hendrell issues a clear call to action: quoting Dr. King isn’t enough, listeners must speak up, organize, and defend democracy.

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Hendrell closes out 2025 with Episode 25, a raw, no-holds-barred recap of 2025; a year he calls a political reckoning. This solo episode walks listeners through the biggest themes that defined the year: expanding executive power, a paralyzed Congress and politicized courts, runaway corporate profits amid everyday economic instability, and the immigration chaos that left communities exhausted.

2025 disillusioned more Americans than it radicalized. It proved that a broken system delivered for insiders while leaving most behind. This episode reveals that anger from the American people signals awareness and must be channeled into results, not more political theater.