Friday 12 August '22 show notes
By SueN
- Can American Democracy Survive the "Fake News" Crisis
- It's Anything Goes Friday!
- 5 YR Old Expelled from Christian School For Having Gay Parents- Can So-Called-Christianity Get Any More Cruel?
- There's are YUGE Pro-Democracy Protest Happening in Brazil - Will Bolsonaro Survive the Authoritarianism Dictatorship He Set Up?
- What Trump and Orbán want: It's fascism — it's not a metaphor or a joke
- Climate Change & Arctic Warming: What Starts in the Arctic Doesn't Stay on the Arctic...
Thursday 11 August '22 show notes
By SueN
- Should Trump's Business' Get The Corporate Death Penalty?
- The GOP Slams Dems for “Defund the police†Now They Want To Defund FBI & DOJ
- Is Trump Issuing A Rally Cry to QANON Scary or Crazy Land?
- Are Death Threats the Norm for GOPers now?
- Yikes. Election deniers are winning GOP nominations in key battleground states
- How can we best deal with growing white, rightwing "Christian" nationalism...and, remembering Heather Heyer 5 years after her murder... - Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127/Columnist-The Daily Beast
- Winter is coming: Vladimir Putin faces his "Hitler moment"
- The Blowout Jobs Report & Blowout Joe!
Wednesday 10 August '22 show notes
By SueN
- If Trump Is Shown to Be a Traitor - How Will it Change His Level of Support? Are Trump's Followers More Loyal to his fascist Vision or America?
- The GOP's Casual, Cynical, Disrespectful "Democrat Party" Slur
- Right-Wingers are threatening a 2nd Civil War - What Role Will Economics Play in an American Coup? - Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System
- Is America Preparing To Hold All Those Accountable for the Jan 6th Treason?
- Does the Ukraine Nuclear Plant Under fire Show Off the Dangers of Nuclear Power? - Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear
- What Do Spiders Dream Of? Catching Humans In Their Web?
Tuesday 09 August '21 show notes
By SueN
- How Many Russian & Chinese Spies Saw Top Secret Docs at Mar-a-Lago?
- What Is It that Republicans Actually Do Love?
- Is America Going to Let Nebraska Get Away With Charging a Teenager on Illegal Abortion? - Jessica Valenti, Writer/Publisher of All In Her Head on Substack & Host of the "Abortion, Every Day" Podcast / Author-7 books & Founder-Feministing
- Oh btw - Dear Media, Biden Got Mexico to Pay for the Wall!
- We Now Know the Going Price/Bribe of One Vote in the Congress
- Will Idaho Become the First Aryan Nation? How Do We Stop Them? - David "Dave" Neiwert, Investigative Journalist - Daily Kos / Author, 'Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us (2020) and, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
- We Need a Probe of the GOP-Led Effort to Break Into Voting Machines in MI - Will it happen?
Monday 08 August '22 show notes
By SueN
- Jefferson Smith is in for Thom today taking your calls...
- The Dawning of Pro-Democracy Climate Change...
- How the Koch Network and Others Keep Democracy in Chains... - Professor Nancy MacLean, William Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University / Author of 5 books including Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
- How do we make democracy more inclusive? Bridging the digital divide - how internet access expands income equality and economic opportunity...
Friday 05 August '22 show notes
By SueN
- #Hot Democracy Summer - Anything Goes Friday - Jefferson Smith (in for Thom today) Takes Your Calls...
Thursday 04 August '22 show notes
By SueN
- Big Rail Has Been Cutting Cost to the Bones & Workers Are Fed Up! - Dennis Pierce, President - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen (BLET).
- The New GOP Scheme To Do Away With Social Security & Medicare Unveiled
- Joe Walsh's MAGA warning: If Trump is indicted, expect "major violence" - Rep. Joe Walsh, Host, "White Flag w/Joe Walsh" (on Apple podcasts / Former U.S. Congressman (R-IL, 8th District) & former Presidential Candidate / Author, "F*ck Silence: Calling Trump Out for the Cultish, Moronic, Authoritarian Con Man He Is" / Former Republican, now an Independent
- The GOP Plan to Purge Un-Loyal Civil Servants Is Going to Be YUGE in 2024
- Was the Pentagon, corrupted by Trump, Part of the Jan 6th Coup?
- Will These Republicans Go Down In Flames Because Of Abortion?
Wednesday 03 August '22 show notes
By SueN
- National Progressive Townhall Meeting - Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Member & Former Co-Chair-Congressional Progressive Caucus / (Committees: Appropriations / Also, Education & Labor)
- How Should Capitalism Be Regulated or Changed? - Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System
- The "Share Buyback" Rape of American Business
- The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer & Now It's Killing Us - Ryan Busse, Former Firearms Executive / Author, Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America
- Progressive Town Hall, Did Kansas Send a Message to Republicans? - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th District) / Chair-Congressional Progressive Caucus / Senior Whip-Democratic Caucus/ Serves on the House Budget Committee, the House Judiciary Committee & the House Education & Labor Committee (as well as a number of sub-committees)
Tuesday 02 August '21 show notes
By SueN
- Republicans have a Plan to Change the Constitution and it Just May Work
- Our Dependence on China Is Insane and Should Stop - Bring our jobs & our industry home!
- Crazy Alert! Is there a Dictator Tucker Doesn't Love?
- What's in the Inflation Reduction Act - Good & Bad
- Biden Reunites 400 migrant families separated under Trump
- Should America End Churches Getting Special Status?
Monday 01 August '22 show notes
By SueN
- How a Child-Killer Set the Stage for Today's Republicans to Revel in Cruelty
- Crazy Alert! Trump Grimly Reaps Tax Benefits from Ivana's Paultry Cheap Grave - Is There Anything Sacred to Trump?
- The GOP Wants to Ban Child Support Because They Say it Incentivizes Abortion - Wow!
- Speaking of Abortions - Trial begins for Minnesota woman who sued after being denied morning-after pill
- Will the Fed Cause a Recession? - Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic & Policy Research / President-Just Foreign Policy / Author of several books including "FAILED: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy"
- Geeky Science - The Hidden History of Lawns - Could America Kiss Elite Grass Goodbye?
- Are the Aug 2 Primaries Trump's Biggest Test?
Friday 29 July '22 show notes
By SueN
- The Reagan Revolution Changed America's Values to "Greed Is Good" - Can We Take Them Back?
- It's Anything Goes Friday!
- Say What!? You Can't Get a Divorce in Missouri If You're Pregnant? Are We Returning to "Mad-Men" Times?
- Josh Hawley & Ted Cruz Have Fist-Bump On the Deaths of American Veterans - Could Anything Be More Disgusting?
Thursday 28 July '22 show notes
By SueN
- "Free Trade" Has Put America & Democracy At the Mercy of China
- Corruption w/Big Pharma & Big Oil Is Sabotaging Health & the Planet
- It Can Happen Here: A White Supremacist Coup That Succeeded... - Laura Flanders, Host & executive producer-The Laura Flanders Show on tv/radio & Youtube (including over 300 PBS Stations) / She is the author of several books & you can subscribe to the free podcast at LauraFlanders.org
- The GOP Is Holding School Lunches Hostage Because They Want Discrimination to Continue
- Christian Nationalism Is On the March - How We Got Here - Professor Marcia Pally who Teaches at New York University & Fordham University / Guest Professor, Theology Faculty, Humboldt University-Berlin / Fellow, Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton
- Why the GOP Is Numbing Americans to Mass Murder
Wednesday 27 July '22 show notes
By SueN
- Welcome To the Anthropocene - The Age Of Human Die-offs
- Now We know - Trump 2.0 is Mass Executions, Internment Camps and Martial Law
- How Is "Heat" Affecting the Economy? and What Will The New Fed Rate Hike Do to the Economy? - Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System
- They're Coming After Our Healthcare Again...
- How QAnon Themes Burrowed Deeper into GOP politics This Year - Mike Rothschild, Investigative journalist focusing on the intersection of internet culture, politics & conspiracy theories...specializing in QAnon conspiracy cult since its inception in 2018...contributor-The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and elsewhere. Author of the new book, The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
- This Is What TX Is Doing to Women - Does It Appear Pro-Life To You?
Tuesday 26 July '21 show notes
By SueN
- Will American Democracy Vanish If We Don't Drain the Swamp?
- How 2 Billionaires Run Texas
- Is the GOP Morphing Into Christian Nationalism?
- How Can Democrats Run for Office If They're Being Censored By the Media?
- Good News - What Biden and the Dems Are Doing for the Planet
- Crazy Alert! Eerie Glow in Sky Causes Town to Think the World Was Ending - What Was it?...Find out!
Monday 25 July '22 show notes
By SueN
- In for Thom today, Democracy Nerd Podcast host - Jefferson Smith taking your calls... what are you doing for "Hot Democracy Summer?"
- Taking back our vote & you won't BELIEVE what Karl Rove is up to now... - David Daley, FairVote / Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy
- Joe Manchin Just Proved Why We Need the OLIGARCH Act - Morris Pearl, Chairman - Patriotic Millionaires / former managing director at BlackRock Inc / Co-Author, Tax the Rich!: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer
