#1424 Fighting with at least two hands tied (Conservative Democrats Manchin and Sinema)
Air Date: 6–18-2021
Today we take a look at the politics of obstruction in service to big donors' interests while sacrificing the ability to run a functioning democracy in the process.
Read more#1404 Democracy Under Siege (Voting and Protest Rights)
Air Date: 3–12-2021
Today we take a look at the multiple tactics being implemented in an attempt to undermine the entire concept of democracy because adhering to the will of the majority and allowing for unfettered protests is currently working to the distinct disadvantage of the Republican Party. Most people see the right to vote and to protest as foundational to a functioning democracy, others see them as impediments to their divine right to rule.
Read more#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America
Air Date: 11–10-2020
Today we take a look at the long and shifting history of the myth of democracy in America. We've never had it since the beginning but the reasons have shifted, ebbed and flowed over time. Now, in the midst of an attempted slow-motion coup, we look back at this most central American myth.
Read more#1332 Old Wounds, New Wounds (Democratic Primary)
Air Date: 1–29-2020
Today we take a look at the flurry of controversy around the Democratic Primary race, once again exposing multiple rifts within the party along both ideological and gender lines.
Read more#1324 State of the Unions and the 2020 Elections
Air Date: 12–10-2019
Today we take a look at the labor movement as energy and power continue to build and more workers continue to strike to demand better conditions for themselves and all of society in an intersectional movement for social justice. Though not much thanks can be given to either political party.
Read more#1307 The Melting Pot Goes to the Polls (The 2020 Electorate)
Air Date: 9–24-2019
Today we take a look at the 2020 electorate. Not the election, not the candidates, the electorate - the people voting.
Read more#1303 Election Systems are Not to Be Trusted, They are to Be Verifiable
Air Date: 9–6-2019
Today we take a look at the fact that our election system is designed to fail in ways that undermine the legitimacy of our elections and, by extension, our entire democracy.
Read more#1299 The Democratic Divide, Disagreeing AND Being Disagreeable
Air Date: 8–23-2019
Today we take a look at the lengths the Democratic leadership will go in an attempt to silence the emerging progressive movement within their ranks and how all of this is self-defeating if one actually cares about general Democratic principles rather than just maintaining power for powers sake.
Read more#1297 Corporate Media is Designed to Ruin Political Discourse in America
Air Date: 8–16-2019
Today we take a look at just a few of the ways that it is in the nature of corporate media to ruin political discourse by dismissing progressive perspectives and preferring hype and controversy over substance
Read more#1292 A Republic, If We Can Keep It (Unrigging Gerrymandering)
Air Date: 7–26-2019
Today we take a look at the fight for free and fair elections in which voters choose their representatives rather than the politicians getting to select their voters to keep themselves in power indefinitely regardless of the will of the people.
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