#1362 Politics is Pointillism, Stand Back to See it Clearly (Voter Suppression)
Air Date: 8–22-2020
Today we take a look at the long history and motivations for voter suppression, explain why it tends to help one party over the other and why vote-by-mail is the best solution to the majority of our voting problems.
Read more#1385 The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives
Air Date: 12–9-2020
Today we take a look in real-time at the construction of the world's newest Lost Cause narrative, the failed re-election of Donald Trump. This is not our country's first experience with Lost Causes and it's not, contrary to popular opinion, even our second connection to a Lost Cause narrative because we didn't invent the first one, we borrowed it from somewhere else and I will tell that story today.
Read more#1382 Progressive Policies Are Good Politics
Air Date: 11–20-2020
Today we take a look at the results of the elections beyond the presidency and find that progressive policies did well which should be a lesson to Democrats currently looking to find their bearings and choose a direction.
Read more#1381 The Conservative Fever Swamp is Reaching Critical Mass
Air Date: 11–17-2020
Today we take a look at the Republican Party and that which is hath wrought. The deeply racist and conspiratorial constituency has been part of the party for decades but it wasn't always the dominant strain. Today it clearly is and in an age of hyper-polarization and with enthusiastic stoking from Trump, that branch of the party is perfectly primed to splinter from shared reality completely in a spectacular, violent way.
Read more#1380 The Coup Attempt We Saw Coming Years in Advance
Air Date: 11–13-2020
Today we take a look at the slow-motion coup that we've known was coming since 2016. The baseless lawsuits, the absurd claims and the perpetual grift. Always the grift.
Read moreBonus Edition #221 All the credit we can give to the saviors of democracy
Air Date: 11–6-2020
Today, Amanda and I process the election, explain hyper-polarization, and why Black women are saving the country again.
Read more#1378 Bracing for Impact (Election 2020, #AllVotesMatter)
Air Date: 11–2-2020
Today we brace for the election, consider what may come after it and prepare for the role we may need to play in the coming weeks.
Read more#1370 Bernie Sanders on Trump as a Threat to American Democracy
Air Date: 9–26-2020
Today we present, instead of what was intended to be a rerun episode, Senator Bernie Sanders' major speech on the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy. Plus, new voice messages and a bonus clip in conversation with one of those messages.
Read more#1367 The Post Office and the Census, Unmaking the American Institutions That Most Bind Us Together
Air Date: 9–15-2020
Today we take a look at two of America's oldest institutions which are both under attack, the US Post Office and the Census. The clear through-line of the attacks on both is a classic struggle over power.
Read more#1365 White Supremacy, Authoritarians, Trump and the Coming Election
Air Date: 9–8-2020
Today we take a look at the dynamics of the white nationalist movement, authoritarian psychology, the legacy of Richard Nixon and the uncertainty of a peaceful election.
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