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The Lincoln Project Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2022 - 2022
Episode 1
Gunslingers
Fri, Oct 7, 202258 mins
With 60 days until the 2020 elections, a group of former elite Republican strategists and consultants known publicly as The Lincoln Project gather in Park City, Utah to save democracy. We meet Steve Schmidt, the de facto leader of the pack, and Reed Galen, the glue holding the group together along with Rick Wilson, Mike Madrid and Sarah Lenti.
Episode 2
It's COVID, Stupid
Fri, Oct 14, 202256 mins
The Lincoln Project is the fastest-growing super PAC in America, and The New Yorker comes out to profile them. When the article appears and Mike and the data team aren't even mentioned, resentments surface amid accusations that other staffers are stealing credit.
Episode 3
Eve of Destruction
Fri, Oct 21, 2022
A barrage of hate mail targets all members of the team and violent rhetoric in the country is reaching a boiling point. Still The Lincoln Project pushes on working with team members across the country to reach every last vote as founders contact Trump-supporting family members to make a final pitch to try and change their minds.
Episode 4
Angels with Dirty Faces
Fri, Oct 28, 2022
The election is called for Biden, but all is not well in The Lincoln Project. As battle lines are drawn, the junior staff back home are out of the loop and unsure of what their role will be. All the while Trump is denouncing the election as a sham and playing on the paranoia of his followers to drum up support in his efforts to overturn the result.
Episode 5
Icarus
Fri, Nov 4, 2022
In the aftermath of the insurrection on the US Capitol, it's clear that The Lincoln Project has a lot of work left to accomplish. But as they struggle to reset following internal upheaval, a sexual harassment scandal that has been brewing for months finally erupts into the public arena.
