Air Date 1/26/2024
In an election year where, more than ever before, democracy itself is on the ballot, there is less democracy happening in the lead-up to the election than at any time in recent memory. And with two profoundly disliked candidates running, the supporters of democratic ideals have a hard uphill push ahead of them.
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Ch. 1: Democratic Strategists Have Their Heads In The Sand - The Majority Report - Air Date 1-24-24
Semaphor's Dave Weigel talks to Sam about what happened during the 2024 Iowa Caucus.
Ch. 2: Bidenomics Continue To Worsen For Young Adults - The Ring of Fire - Air Date 1-21-24
The Biden administration keeps telling us that the economy is humming along, but for young Americans, things are getting worse.
Ch. 3: Is Biden Trying to Lose - The Humanist Report - Air Date 1-18-24
Ch. 4: Maddow on Trump-Biden rematch 'Not very much democracy in an election about saving democracy' - MSNBC - Air Date 1-24-24
Rachel Maddow discusses the looming 2024 general election clash with President Biden possibly taking on Donald Trump again. Maddow points out that there has been little democracy so far in the race for the White House.
Ch. 5: 2024 Election Is About The Fight For Democracy - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 1-25-24
President Biden used his first campaign event of 2024 to call out his likely opponent, former President Donald Trump, for the threat he poses to American democracy, calling the issue a 'sacred cause' for the race ahead.
Ch. 6: Iowa, New Hampshire, and No Fair Remembering 2012 - The Professional Left Podcast - Air Date 1-24-24
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Description: A photograph with bokeh edges of glossy, red-white-and-blue-striped "VOTE" buttons on a table.
Credit: "2012 U.S. Presidential Election Gala" by U.S. Embassy Dakah, Flickr | License: Public Domain
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Bonus Sample #271 Infantile Engineers
#1563 Putting Our Kids to Work for Corporate Profits
#TBT #1080 Corporate media’s fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump (Throwback)
#1560 Immigration Crisis: Biden vs. Trump, Undocumented Workers, Anti-Immigrant Hate, Migrant Abuse, and the Economic Fallout of Florida's New Law
#1559 Company Towns are a Bad Solution to a Real Problem
#TBT #1133 Understanding Authoritarianism (Throwback)
Bonus Edition #270 I'd Like to Phone a Friend
#1558 States of Hate, Right-Wing Legislatures Go Full-Tilt While the Courageous Fight Back
#1557 Tactics and Counter-Tactics of the Struggle for Labor Rights
#1556 Oil Wealth and Oligarchy, Over 100 Years of Polishing Unredeemable Reputations
#1555 The Kids Are Not Alright (Boys, Girls, Culture and Social Media)
Bonus Sample #269 Tell Good Stories and Jokes
#1554 Destroying Education and Democracy for Fun and Profit
#1553 The Nuremberg Trials of J.K. Rowling: Misogyny and Authoritarianism in the Bizarro World
#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful (Repost)
Bonus Sample #268 Making Corrections
#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor (Repost)
#1552 Invasion of Iraq, 20 years later
#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting (Repost)
#1551 Making sense of the senseless war in Ukraine
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