Resolute Square

Maya May

Host of Punching Up on Resolute Square, writer, teacher, and strategic humorist

About Maya May

Maya May is a stand-up comedian, writer, teacher and host of Resolute Square's newest show, Punching Up. As a comedian, she’s headlined at dozens of colleges and has been featured on CNBC, Fox, ABC, and iHeartRadio. Prior to pivoting to comedy Maya lived in Argentina, launching a language learning and community-building event, Spanglish Exchange, which has since connected over 50,000 English and Spanish speakers, one conversation at a time.

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Time To Become Project 2025 Preppers

Punching Up with Maya May

America voted for Project 2025, Christian Nationalism, and to be governed by incompetent, amoral degenerates. Oh, you voted for cheaper eggs? Yeah, it was a package deal. Read the fine print. And the eggs will cost more. So now what? Maya May and award-winning author and Christian Nationalism survivor Andra Watkins get real real about what comes next.
November 21, 2024
Motherhood for Good Is Punching Up With Maya May

Punching Up with Maya May

Any mother will tell you, we have long memories when it comes to people hurting our children and the Trump Administration is poised to do a whole lot of hurting. Matt Gaetz, RFK Jr, Tom Homan...the list on Trump nominees willing to hurt children goes on and on. Maya May is joined by Kate Duffy, Wisconsin-based founder of Motherhood for Good to talk about effectively punching up in 2025.
November 14, 2024
Punching Up with Maya May: How We Land Punches Now

Punching Up with Maya May

Host Maya May dives into The Day After with activist and White Women for Harris co-chair Liz Minnella and comedian Allison Reese. This is an incredible conversation - raw, realistic about what we face but also what comes next in protecting our loved ones and creating political and social change.
November 7, 2024
Punching Up: That Sh*t Ain't Funny

Punching Up with Maya May

Host Maya May and her amazing panel of comedians discussed and debated where the line is or should be for political comedy. Is "it was just a joke" a legit excuse for calling Puerto Rico a "floating pile of garbage?" What does it mean for comedians to "punch up" and how many are punching down for laughs? Should they pay a professional price or is it time, as JD Vance says, for people to "get over" being offended by racist jokes? Catch up now!
October 30, 2024
Punching Up: Gen Z guys...WTF?

Punching Up with Maya May

The gloves came off as host Maya May, viral video sensation, and parent of Gen Z’ers, Kristen Toomey, and expert on Gen Z voters and founder and executive director of Voters of Tomorrow, Santiago Mayer discussed “WTF is happening with Gen Z male voters supporting Trump?” What’s the appeal of hypermasculinity and the influencers who push it? Is comedy the answer to bringing them back before we lose an important segment of the electorate for good? Catch up now!
October 24, 2024
Punching Up with Maya May, Guest Juliet Jeske

Punching Up with Maya May

With 20 days until election day, whodda thought talking about Fox News could be so fun and funny?! Catch up now with host Maya May and Decoding Fox News' Juliet Jeske. Punches were landed!
October 16, 2024
Punching Up With Maya May, PREMIERE

Punching Up with Maya May

Grab your gloves because Maya May is Punching Up! Our new show launched last night with guests Texas activist Kat Vargas (aka HowdyPolitics) and comedian Maggie Maye. How effed up are Texas politics? Will Colin Allred send Cancun Ted packing? Catch up now!
October 9, 2024
The Enemies List
They're Coming For You Next
The Enemies List

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

On this episode of The Enemies List, comedian and activist Maya May sits in for Rick as he took a rare week off. Maya welcomes New York Times writer, Ted Talk speaker, author, and comedian, Wajahat Ali to the podcast. They discuss how the Republican party methodically makes different groups the villain trying to inject fear into the American people.
June 7, 2023
Maya May and family
Got Rage? Then Do Something
I consider myself an expert at converting rage into positive action, but this election cycle was different. There was too much of it.
November 22, 2022
The Strategy Call
Strategy Call Premiere Episode
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

On the premiere episode, Tara Setmayer takes you inside the room with Rick Wilson, Reed Galen, Stuart Stevens, Joe Trippi, and Maya May, as they talk strategy about the GOP implosion after the midterm, the return of the orange one, and more. This is a free preview of our subscriber-only weekly event.
November 16, 2022

Topics

Project 2025
Project 2025
Hellscape Christian Nationalist plan to be enacted if Trump's wins in 2024. Backed by the right-wing extremist Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 is an authoritarian Christian nationalist movement with 900+ pages of detailed plans to turn America into an autocracy. Legal experts state clearly that it would undermine the rule of law and the separation of powers - and the Heritage Foundation, Trump, and their ilk have no problem with that because this is precisely what they want to accomplish.
Christo-Fascism
Christo-Fascism
Christo-Fascism extremist ideology that combines authoritarian, nationalist, and religious elements, seeking to establish a totalitarian state governed by a fusion of Christian fundamentalism and dictatorial leadership.
2024 Presidential Election
2024 Presidential Election
The 60th quadrennial presidential election, scheduled for Tuesday, November 5, 2024, is considered to be the most consequential election of our lifetimes where Americans will have the opportunity to protect democracy and democratic norms from extreme right-wing policies, racial violence and growing threat of authoritarianism by Republicans.
Political Comedy
Political Comedy
Yes, comedy has a place in politics. It can take down the temperature and enable us to drop our guard and hear messages in a different way. But no, JD Vance, it's not time for America to "get over" racist jobs.
Gen Z
Gen Z
Gen Z is the generation born beginning in 2000. They are the largest and most diverse generation is US history, as well as one of the most politically engaged breaking youth voter turnout records in 2018, 2020, and 2022. Most frequently voting for Democrats, the majority of Gen Z identify as political independents. They are complete digital natives who have grown up with social media as a major means of connection and communication, and, because of that, are more connected to peers internationally than any previous generation. They have also grown up under the threat of climate change, school mass shootings, and a global pandemic. Despite these challenges, they are funny, ironic, positive, organized, solutions-oriented, and an excellent reason to be hopeful for the future. In short, R2 loves Gen Z.
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
Unabashed liar, chief Fox News propagandist, and promoter of the racist, debunked Great Replacement conspiracy theory. Carlson has taken white, male grievance to its most fascistic extreme throwing molotov cocktails on the fire of a dangerous, militant far right movement because being Ivy League educated and heir to a TV dinner fortune still didn't make people like him.
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
Vice president of the United States
Texas
Texas