Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Every Thursday for the better part of a decade, we get together with Howie Klein. Howie writes at DownWithTyranny.com, and runs the Blue America PAC, identifying and raising money for real progressive candidates running for office. Plus, some scary info about the clandestine privatization of Medicare, started under Trump and continuing under Biden.
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I’ll admit it… I have The Beatles on my mind. We’re in the middle of “Get Back,” the new documentary on the last album and live performance from the greatest band in history. But I’ve already learned a few things from it. Relationships are complicated. Life isn’t fair. Working within a group is often more…
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Charles Lenchner has been one of the unsung heroes of the progressive movement for as long as I’ve been covering the movement. He was one of the original occupiers at Occupy Wall Street. He’s a co-founder of People for Bernie. He’s Executive Director of Organizing 2.0. He’s part of Progressive Hub and Roots Action, and…
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With the 2022 midterm elections looming, we turn our attention to the state district maps. They’re re-drawn every 10 years as new data from the census is released. Unfortunately, this year we’re dealing with a very flawed census (sabotaged by the Trump administration) and Republican rule of a majority of the state legislatures who oversee…
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It was exactly 21 years ago today that I took my daughter Alison from the orphanage in Kazakhstan where she spent her first 18 months to start our new life together! Twenty-one years ago yesterday, which was Thanksgiving, a judge in a freezing cold courtroom there made it official, Alison was my daughter! We call…
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