Guest Host Alex Lawson (Executive Director - Social Security Works, Co-Owner - We Act Radio) sits down with guest Wendell Potter (Former Health Insurance Executive, Author - Deadly Spin and Nation on the Take) whose latest project is Tarbell.org (examining the impact of money in politics) to talk about the current healthcare battle happening in Congress.

Thom talks with guest David Wood (Senior Military Correspondent - Huffington Post) possibility of an intentional or even accidental nuclear incident between neighbors India and Pakistan.

Thom talks with Garlin Gilchrist II who is running for City Clerk of Detroit about the challenges facing the city.

Thom talks with a caller who reports the formation of a group of likeminded Michiganders working to promote cannabis friendly legislation, including rights for patients, caregivers, and workers in the industry. The shift to grassroots organizing is taking over the country and support for marijuana is growing!

Thom talks with a caller who suggests our healthcare situation now might be very different if Obama and congressional democrats had seized the moment during the brief time they had control after Obama's historic 2008 election win.

Thom lays out the dirty republican strategy of BIG LIES on their healthcare plan and on the ACA (Obamacare). Their plan WON'T cover more people, WON'T lower deductibles, WON'T increase choices or quality of care, but WILL provide a HUGE tax cut for billionaires. Is the corporate media telling you this?

Thom talks with a caller who is less than charitable on what the "American Health Care Act" is really about.

Thom covers a new bill just out of committee by the republicans that is set to roll back Dodd Frank financial protections for consumers. Why do people keep voting for these guys?

Thom speaks with a caller who is deeply concerned about the future of the country in light of the republican destruction of American values in general. Thom does his best to give the caller hope and motivation to fight back!

Thom talks to guest Alex Lawson (Executive Director - Social Security Works, Co-Owner We Act Radio) on location from a rally on Capitol Hill against the republican healthcare bill.

Thom talks with guest Cole Stangler (Paris based Journalist covering Labor and Politics, whose work has appeared in The Village Voice, VICE, The Nation, and more) for an update on the French presidential election which will be decided this Sunday (May 7th).

Thom lays out what the current republican "healthcare" plan is really going to do to the country.

Thom speaks with guest Kate Raworth (Economist, Author - Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist, Senior Visiting Research Associate - Oxford Univerity's Environmental Change Institute, Senior Associate - Cambridge Insitute for Sustainability Leadership) about the damage done by neo-liberalism and looking for a new way forward.

Thom reads a passage from the book "Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist" about updating society's often antiquated ideas on economics.

Thom covers 2 very different stories that show where the priorities of the Department of Justice head really lie.