Thom talks with Jessica Jackson (National Director and Co-Founder of #Cut50 with Van Jones, Mayor of Mill City, CA, and former Death Row Attorney) about the harmful effects of the prison industrial complex, as well as efforts to greatly reduce them nationwide.

Thom talks with Michael Eric Dyson (Professor of Sociology at Georgetown, Contributing Opinion Writer - The New York Times, and Author - Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America) about race relations in America, white privilege, takes listener calls, and more. (Part 4)

Thom talks with Michael Eric Dyson (Professor of Sociology at Georgetown, Contributing Opinion Writer - The New York Times, and Author - Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America) about race relations in America, white privilege, takes listener calls, and more. (Part 3)

Thom talks with Michael Eric Dyson (Professor of Sociology at Georgetown, Contributing Opinion Writer - The New York Times, and Author - Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America) about race relations in America, white privilege, takes listener calls, and more. (Part 2)

Thom talks with Michael Eric Dyson (Professor of Sociology at Georgetown, Contributing Opinion Writer - The New York Times, and Author - Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America) about race relations in America, white privilege, and more. (Part 1)

Thom talks about how Hitler used a fire in the German parliament building to gain power and how the Trump administration may be looking to use a similar strategy.

Thom talks with a caller about the election of Tom Perez as DNC chair, Obama's involvement in the results, and how best to react to the party's intention to stay entrenched in corporate donations.

Thom discusses republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with policies that would funnel money to insurance companies and the rich. But "Obamacare" is only broken because the republicans broke it!

Thom talks about a few of the ways republicans are trying to sap the power of the resistance against them, redistribute wealth upwards, and also their double standard on protests.

Thom talks with a caller about the possibility of the Golden State creating it's own bank, and using the money to fund projects like the high speed rail recently torpedoed by the Trump administration.

Thom covers Bannon's recent comments on the "deconstruction of the administrative state", in other words, the mechanism that actually make government work. Clean air and water, public schools? Nope. More profits for billionaires? Absolutely.

Thom talks with a caller about stopping the republican party and how more people need to get informed by various media sources and get involved in their communities and beyond!

Thom covers a new Quinnipiac poll that shows a majority of Americans, including many republicans do not support republican policies and recent actions. So why do so many people keep voting for them?

Thom chats with Howard Epstein (British Historian, Attorney, and Author of "Guns, Trauma, and Exceptionalism: American in the Twenty First Century") about some of the underlying reasons for America's very unique gun violence problem, and some of the solutions we could try to solve it.

Thom talks with a caller who took his 13 year old daughter to a protest march in their area, and her reaction to it and what she's doing now to become an activist.