Air Date: 05-01-2026

The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we open with Jesse Jackson's death as a reckoning with the multiracial coalition America chose not to build, trace the American playbook from the 1953 Iran coup to Cuba to the current war on Iran, examine how the same logic of control operates at home through AI monopolies, sports money, and captured courts, and close with the religious and labor traditions that have always driven change — plus Orbán's defeat in Hungary as proof that authoritarian projects don't last forever.

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PART 1: AMERICA, CONTESTED

(00:01:19) #1775 - Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition and the Remaking of American Politics

1: Remembering Jesse Jackson - Here & Now Anytime - Air Date 2-17-26

2: The Historic Presidential Campaigns Of Rev. Jesse Jackson - Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - Air Date 2-29-24

3: Jesse Jackson Fought for Justice at Home & Abroad: Juan González & Bishop William Barber - Democracy Now! - Air Date 2-18-06

(00:23:12) #1776 - Trump's Pharaoh Complex, Our Flawed Constitution, and the 250th Anniversary

4: Black History Month Is Different This Year Part 1 - Radio Atlantic - Air Date 2-19-26

5: Will Trump Turn Americas 250th Birthday Into a MAGA-fest Part 1 - The Bunker - Air Date 3-3-26

6: Trumps Gilded White House Makeover Is All About Power Part 1 - Reveal - Air Date 12-10-26

PART 2: THE AMERICAN WAY

(00:45:27) #1777 - How Christian Nationalism, Oil, and Zionism Built The War Against Iran

7: Understanding America’s Complicated Relationship with Iran - Velshi - Air Date 3-1-26

8: Why the F#!@ Are We at War with Iran? with Reza Aslan - Factually! with Adam Conover - Air Date 3-6-26

9: Mehdi Slams Trump’s Illegal Iran War - Zeteo - Air Date 3-5-26

(01:06:48) #1782 - Cuba's Crisis: Trump's Deadly Embargo, Blackouts, and Dream of Regime Change

10: Explainer 509 Is Cuba Next on Trumps Hit List - The Foreign Desk - Air Date 3-18-26

11: Medea Benjamin Its a Very Dire Situation in Cuba Right Now Part 1 - The Marc Steiner Show - Air Date 3-17-26

12: The Future of Democrats and the Desperation of Centrist; The Cuba Blockade with Hasan Piker Part 1 - The Majority Report - Air Date 3-27-26

(01:29:45) #1785 - Iran and the Chain Reaction: The War Nobody Thought Through (Or, Bomb First, Think Never)

13: The TV War That Backfired - Brendan Miller - Air Date 3-20-26

14: 10 Minutes, 100 Air Strikes: Israel Rejects Ceasefire for Lebanon, Kills 250+ in Massive Attack - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-9-26

15: The BRICS Unit: The Beginning of the End for Dollar Dominance? - Unf*cking The Republic - Air Date 1-26-26

PART 3: CONTROLLING THE GAME

(01:51:40) #1778 - AI, the Pentagon, Labor and Capitalism: The Fight Over Who Controls the Future

16: How Long Until AI Takes Your Job - Consider This - Air Date 2-23-26

17: AI Goes to War Part 1 - Today, Explained - Air Date 3-4-26

18: Don't Download Claude, Either. - Why, America with Leeja Miller - Air Date 3-4-26

(02:15:29) #1781 - Your Team Is a Hedge Fund Now: How Gambling and Billionaires Captured American Sports

19: Trump's Record $239M Inauguration & the Sports Owners Who Funded It | Spolitics - Jemele Hill - Air Date 4-30-25

20: Senator Chris Murphy CRACKS DOWN on Prediction Markets | PTFO - PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT - Air Date 3-26-26

(02:29:38) #1783 - The Ideology of a Cancer Cell: AI, Surveillance, and Silicon Valley's Psychopath Problem

21: This Will Be the Death of Us All! - PissedMagistus - Air Date 3-18-26

22: Sam Altman Isn’t Building a Company, He’s Building an Empire (with Karen Hao) Part 1 - There Are No Girls on the Internet - Air Date 3-31-26

23: Zuck Never Understood the Metaverse - The Morbid Zoo - Air Date 4-4-26

(02:51:36) #1784 - Who Gets to Be American, Who Gets to Vote, and Who Decides

24: SCOTUS Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 4-1-26

25: Arizona Secretary of State Trump Is Trying to Pick His Own Voters by Restricting Mail-in Ballots - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-3-26

26: Voting Rights & Wrongs, According to SCOTUS with Steve Vladeck - Stay Tuned with Preet - Air Date 3-25-26

PART 4: HISTORY’S ENGINE

(03:17:49) #1779 - Community After God: Why the Left Needs What Church Provided

27: Cornel West: Can Socialists Reclaim Christianity? - Jacobin - Air Date 3-4-26

28: America’s Christian Death Cult - Michael Burns - Air Date 12-15-25

29: The World Is Always Ending - The Magnificast - Air Date 1-13-26

(03:43:07) #1780 - Cynicism Is a Scab: Hope, Solidarity, and the Labor Fight That Never Stopped

30: A Case for Human Decency (by Rutger Bregman) Part 1 - Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso - Air Date 10-25-20

31: Striking At Kings Part 1 - Labor Heritage Power Hour - Air Date 2-12-26

32: Climate Justice Through Collective Liberation Mikaela Loach Part 1 - This Is Hell! - Air Date 8-6-25

(04:09:26) #1786 - Defeating Viktor Orbán in Hungary and the Authoritarian Playbook Worldwide

33: What Orban's Loss Means for Anti-Fascists; Iran's Endgame with Jason Stanley, Mohammad Ali Shabani Part 1 - The Majority Report - Air Date 4-14-26

34: Viktor Orbán Part 1 - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Air Date 3-30-26

35: How Do Peter Magyar's Politics Differ From Orban's Right-wing Populism Part 1 - DW News - Air Date 4-13-26

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