Big Picture Progressive Roundtable: Valerie Ervin, Working Families Party & Kymone Freeman, We Act Radio/Black Lives Matter DC. A Jill Stein-led recount effort will officially begin this Thursday in Wisconsin. The goal is to ensure a free and fair election - but could this recount effort end up legitimizing voter suppression?

In tonight’s Progressive Roundtable, Thom talks with Valerie Ervin of the Working Families Party and author and Black Lives Matter activist Kymone Freeman about Trump’s voter fraud comments, Jill Stein and Hillary Clinton’s re-count hopes, and calls for protestors to leave the Dakota pipeline site by the Army Corps of Engineers. Then, Thom talks with author Max Blumenthal of the Alternate’s Gray Zone Project about Alan Dershowitz’s defense of Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon.

Thom talks with Alex Lawson of Social Security Works about how Trump and his Republican cronies look to privatize Medicare and Social Security. Then, in the Lone Liberal Rumble, Thom debates Charles Sauer of the Market Institute and Republican Strategist David Ferguson about Trump’s pick of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General and torture supporter Mike Pompeo for CIA director. Plus, a disturbing Thanksgiving Fact of the Day.

In tonight's Politics Panel, Thom talks with writer and filmmaker Agunda Okeyo and Bryan Pruitt of RedState.com about outgoing NC Governor McCrory’s attempt to steal an election, Trump’s verbal lashing of mainstream media, and Bernie Sanders calling Trump’s infrastructure plan a “scam.” Later, Thom talks with Isaiah Poole of People’s Action and Our Future.org about the National Policy Institute’s “alt-right” agenda and why they love Trump’s cabinet picks Steve Bannon and Jeff Session. Plus, a not so friendly fact of the day on Native American land treaties.

Big Picture Politics Panel: Feminist Writer/Producer/Filmmaker/Activist Agunda Okeyo & Bryan Pruitt, RedState. North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory looks like he's trying to steal an election that he lost by more than 6,000 votes. More on his insidious plan...

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Big Picture Interview: Isaiah Poole, People's Action/Campaign for America's Future. No one is happier about Donald Trump's election than the devil's brew of white nationalists - neo-nazis - and racist collectively known as the "alt-right." How serious a threat to they pose to our democracy?

In tonight's Progressive Roundtable, Thom talks with Alex Lawson of Social Security Works and Sarah Badawi of the Progressive Change Committee about how Trump uses Twitter to bait liberals, the possibility of Tulsi Gabbard serving in the Trump administration, and the danger of Republican control of the surveillance state. Thom also talks with author Daniel Lazare about why we need to do away with the Electoral College.

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Big Picture Interview: Daniel Lazare, Jacobin Magazine/Consortium News/The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy. As it stands right now - Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2 million votes. If we want to become a real democracy - we need to do away with the Electoral College once and for all. But do we also need to away with our 200-year-old Constitution?

Big Picture Progressive Roundtable: Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee(PCCC) & Alex Lawson, Social Security Works. In a shocking development - Donald Trump is reportedly considering progressive Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for the position of ambassador to the United Nations. Does this tell us more about Trump or Gabbard?

Big Picture Politics Panel: Joel Silberman, Progressive Strategist/Politics Is Theater With Real Bullets & Siraj Hashmi, Red Alert Politics. Alabama Senator Jeff Session - who supposedly once said that the KKK are "OK guys" - is line to be the next Attorney General of the United States. Is this kind of bigotry what Making America Great Again was really all about?

Big Picture Interview: Craig Holman Ph.D., Public Citizen's Congress Watch. Donald Trump ran for president as a business man primed for success. This was part of his appeal - but it could it also lead to his downfall?

Find Out… Big Picture Fact Of The Day

Donald Trump is beginning to offer up cabinet positions to career politicians, and so far, it’s looking like a real basket full of deplorables. Joel Silberman, author of “Politics is Theater with Real Bullets,” and Siraj Hashmi, assistant editor of Red Alert Politics, join Thom to examine Trump’s picks.