#1809 Democrats Seek a Blue Wave, Progressives Push Democratic Socialism, GOP Revive the Red Scare
Air Date: 7/18/2026 Today we examine recent primary elections and how the political smear of crying 'socialism' has been dusted off and aime...
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#1634 Abortion as the Tip of the Iceberg (Throwback)
Re-Air Date: 7-14-2026 Original Air Date: 6-7-2024 Banning abortion is wildly unpopular and also one of the primary motivators for the group...
#1808 Billionaires vs. Democracy: They're Not Coming For Your Job, They're Coming For Your Government (And The Entire Economy)
Air Date: 7/10/2026 Today we look at what it means to live in an economy that has quietly split in two with a soaring stock market driven by...
#1807 What the World Cup Exposes: Identity, Colonialism, and Racism in 2026
Air Date: 7/7/2026 Today we use the 2026 World Cup to pull everything that runs under the game up into the light. Nearly a quarter of the pl...
#1806 America at 250: The Declaration, the Constitution, and our Crisis of Democracy
Air Date: 7/4/2026 Today we examine what America has celebrated for 250 years and what it keeps refusing to look at. The Declaration promise...
#1805 Trump Giving Iran $300 Billion to End His Own War
Air Date: 7/1/2026 Today we examine how four months of American bombardment accomplished what decades of diplomacy never could, making Iran,...
#1804 Elon Musk, the First Trillionaire, and the Broken System That Made Him
Air Date: 6/27/2026 Today we trace how one man went from receiving a $278 million government grant to becoming the world's first trillionair...
#1803 Monthly-ish Mix: Manufactured Legitimacy and the Fight to Reclaim It
Air Date: 6/24/2026 The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! If you've been pulling back...
#1802 Department of Injustice: Revenge Prosecutions, Judges Threatened, and Incompetence All the Way Down
Air Date: 6–20-2026 Today we explore how political revenge became official government policy. The Department of Justice has dropped fraud ca...
#1801 Counterfeit Populism: Trump, the 2026 Primaries, and the Era That's Ending (Transcript)
Air Date: 6/17/2026 Today we trace a pattern that repeated across half a dozen states this primary season: working-class candidates running...
#1800 How Capitalism Created Loneliness and How To Joyfully Organize Our Way to Community
Air Date: 6/12/2026 Today we examine how America caused a loneliness epidemic by tearing down the places where people used to find each othe...
#1799 The US and China Are Fighting Over Taiwan, Semiconductors, and Africa's Minerals
Air Date: 6/10/2026 Today we explore how Taiwan's own people are stuck between the US and China. Fewer and fewer of them want to rejoin Chin...
#1798 FIFA Sportswashing Fascism: The World Cup from Mussolini to Trump
Air Date: 6–5-2026 Today we explore sportswashing past and present, from fascist dictators who first weaponized the World Cup to FIFA's mode...
#1797 AI Spent $540 Billion to Make You Lonelier: Betting Against Jobs, Art, and Community
Air Date: 6–3-2026 Today we examine the AI industry's economic house of cards, the ideology Silicon Valley uses to sell a broken product, an...
#1796 1.8 Billion for the Mob and a Kill List for Dissent: Trump's payout fund and counterterrorism strategy, decoded
Air Date: 5–30-2026 Today we examine how Trump turned a sham lawsuit into a $1.8 billion reward fund for his political allies who attacked t...
#1795 You Say You Want A Revolution: Successful Revolutions are the Boring Ones
Air Date: 5–26-2026 Today we examine what separates successful revolutions from failed ones, ask why so many revolutions of the 2010s fell s...
#1794 From MAHA to Measles: RFK's Public Health Purge Will Make America Sick Again
Air Date: 5–23-2026 Today we examine the real-world cost of dismantling America's public health infrastructure, the dangerous pseudoscience...
#1793 Anti-Immigrant Brutality Costs Countries More Than Their Morals: ICE, Mass Deportation, and the Global Far-Right
Air Date: 5/20/2026 Today we examine how the Trump administration is quietly reshaping its unpopular immigration crackdown by moving enforce...
#1792 Capitalist Class Warfare: AI, Billionaire Capture, and the How to Fight Back
Air Date: 5/15/2026 Today we examine what it would actually take to claw back democracy from billionaire capture — and why some people think...
#1791 Jim Crow 2.0 — SCOTUS Kills the Voting Rights Act and Unleashes the Gerrymandering War
Air Date: 5/12/2026 Today we examine the redistricting scramble unleashed by the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act. We'll hea...