Air Date: 3-18-2025

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Activism Roundup

KEY POINTS

KP 1: Bernie Response Does Huge Numbers｜One Democrat Defies Trump - The Rational National - Air Date 3-5-25

KP 2: How to Rebuild the Left as the Far Right Floods the Zone - UNFTR Media - Air Date 2-5-25

KP 3: How to Really Resist - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 2-28-25

KP 4: Republicans finally go NUCLEAR over town hall disasters - Brian Tyler Cohen - Air Date 3-5-25

KP 5: How Leftists Can Win in 2025 - Harper O'Conner - Air Date 1-3-25

KP 6: Gov. Pritzker SLAMS Trump and Musk in closing remarks of State of the State address - NBC Chicago - Air Date 2-19-25

(50:04) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Giving the call to join the fight at Indivisible.org

DEEPER DIVES

(52:46) SECTION A: STRATEGY & GOALS

A1: Election Integrity: Getting Money Out of Politics. Non-Negotiable #4. - Unf*cking The Republic - Air Date 2-21-25

A2: Courts & Crowds Not Kings | 2 Ways to Keep From Falling Into an Authoritarian Abyss | Andrea Pitzer - Next Comes What - Air Date 2-21-25

A3: The power of practicing peace - Democracy Works - Air Date 2-3-25

A4: Pushing back against political violence - Democracy Works - Air Date 1-16-25

(1:16:30) SECTION B: HUMOR AS A TACTIC

B1: Laughing at Power: A Troublemaker’s Guide to Changing Tech - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 1-16-25

B2: How Humor Can and Can't Fight Authoritarianism - Next Comes What - Air Date 12-6-24

B3: Dr. Sophia McClennon & Srdja Popovich Reveal the Revolutionary Power of Humor - Hope & Hard Pills - Air Date 2-3-25

(1:35:34) SECTION C: PROTEST

C1: "Resistance" Isn't Enough for Trump 2.0 with Dr. Dana Fisher - Factually! with Adam Conover - Air Date 3-5-25

C2: Beyond Trump: The new frontlines for climate action - Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast 

C3: Former NFL Player Chris Kluwe On His Arrest Protesting MAGA - Edge of Sports - Air Date 2-24-25

(1:54:57) SECTION D: BOYCOTT

D1: Protesting Tesla Can Hurt Elon Musk - Tech Won't Save Us - Air Date 2-27-25

D2: Resistance in the Time of Monsters w/ Colin Smalley - Jacobin Radio - Air Date 2-18-25

D3: Boycotts, Town Halls, & Other Actions - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Show - Air Date 2-28-25

(2:13:48) SECTION E: RESOURCES

E1: What can I do to fight the coup? - Make Your Damn Bed - Air Date 2-22-25

E2: Gramsci on Authoritarianism - Against the Grain - Air Date 2-11-25

E3: Pathways to stop authoritarianism - Make Your Damn Bed - Air Date 2-20-25

(2:37:09) SECTION F: POWER STRUCTURES

E1: Trying To Undo A Coup, In The Courts -Trying To Undo A Coup, In The Courts - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 2-8-25

E2: Media critic Jamison Foser on 'fights' worth having - The BradCast - Air Date 2-20-25

E3: ‘We won't succumb’: Jim Acosta on the ‘lunacy’ of Trump’s takeover of the White House press pool - Velshi - Air Date 3-3-25

E4: Massive Crowds Show For Bernie Sanders In Trump States - The Rational National - Air Date 2-24-25

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Description: A protestor holds a Trans Pride flag with the word RESIST (with an equals sign in the E) in front of a state capitol building.

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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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