Why we as Democrats need to join African Americans and proactively fight for the rights of African Americans just as hard as we fight for Bernie Sanders, for Universal Healthcare and for all other causes.

Fascism unites through a negative solidarity of hatred, hatred for women, for leftist, for people of color, immigrants and Democrats, if this is true we have to as progressives come together in love and struggle.

Thom reads from his book Threshold - The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink

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The racist elements in America's past and present are being used as tools by the Koch Brothers and others with money in effort to ramp up a social movements like the Tea Party and the Alt Right that are electing far right politicians and creating a very dangerous place for Americans today

Privatization changes from having functional and safe infrastructure to making profit off infrastructure and that as the example from Italy shows leads to a danger to people and the environment. Is this what we want for America?

Should the next move for progressive Democrats be adding the platform of the Movement for Black Lives to their list of policy demands?

Thom reads from Book Club: Kickback - Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network - by David Montero

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Prisoners across the nation are striking to end prison slavery, codified in the 13th amendment that ends all forms of slavery except as punishment.

Right wingers are politicizing the tragic end of Mollie Tibbetts's life by calling for more deportations, increasing calls for Donald Trump's proposed Border Wall and now, as Fox News and other mainstream conservative press focus on Cristhian Bahena Rivera's identity as an immigrant, phones are ringing with robocalls advocating for the extermination of undocumented people from the United States. What can we do to stop the hate?

Thom reads from The Perfect Weapon by David E. Sanger

Congressman Mark Pocan answers questions from callers on financial reality behind Trump's election, was economic anxiety the reason rural communities supported then candidate Trump or was it something more sinister.

Professor of history at Columbia Unversity and Director of the European Institute, Adam Tooze joins the show to discuss his new book, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.