It was a tough night last night, but Nicole Sandler is here to point out the many silver linings in #StillSanders-land. Dave Johnson of the Campaign for America's Future joins in to help put things in perspective. And Deborah Newell returns for our Wednesday morning Oy FloriDUH session, with a 4/20 detour to the "Patients Out of Time" conference.
Think the 2016 race is the ugliest ever? Think again. Today, Nicole Sandler speaks with Joseph Cummins, author of "Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots and October Surprises in US Presidential Campaigns". And Deborah Newell brings us some stories from the Oy, FloriDUH files. And WTF Tom Hayden??
Bernie Sanders won a decisive victory in Wisconsin last night. He's on to Wyoming for Sat. caucus, then on to New York, where Hillary Clinton and her surrogates have stepped up the lies and attacks. And the media is smearing Bernie over his NY Daily News editorial board interview which, frankly, was spot on. Today, Nicole pushes back on the corporate media narrative. Plus Deborah Newell joins in to talk a bit of FloriDUH. And energy analyst, journalist and author Antonia Juhasz tells us about women making a difference in combating climate change
Nicole Sandler recaps last night's CNN Forum with the 3 remaining GOP presidential hopefuls and it's a sadder reality than we could have imagined. Deborah Newell weighs in on one of her biggest problems with Hillary Clinton from her experience as a kid in Honduras (and a dip into the Oy Floriduh files too!).
Nicole Sandler recaps yesterday's not so super Tuesday primary results Deborah Newell returns to talk about her first voting experience and to share some FloriDUH stories. And Randi Rhodes weighs in on the election results, the future, the president's SCOTUS nominee (to be announced during the show), and her own FloriDUH voting experience too
Nicole Sandler discusses last night's Bernie Sanders rally in Miami and what had her distracted the whole time. Marcy Wheeler tells about Bernie's victory in Michigan last night, and Deborah Newell joins in to talk about FloriDUH and her reasons for becoming a US citizen.
Deborah Newell (of the blog Litbrit) is a regular guest on the Nicole Sandler radio show, as am I, although we've never been on together. But we do keep in touch in various ways. One way is through a listserv (a private email group of progressives) on which Deborah wrote the following on why she, a diehard feminist, is voting for Bernie Sanders. It took some serious thought, introspection, and scrutiny of Hillary Clinton's policies before Deborah made that decision. Her personal story and experiences that led her to support Bernie Sanders touched me so deeply that I felt compelled to share. [...]
Nicole recaps the Super Tuesday election returns with fellow FloriDUHian Deborah Newell and the Campaign for America's Future's Dave Johnson.
Nicole Sandler discusses the results of the NV GOP caucus which saw Trump winning with 46% of the vote! Fellow FloriDUHian Deborah Newell is back with some stories from the FloriDUH files. Huffington Post's Ryan Grim tells us about the still-growing heroin epidemic in the US and how DC isn't helping.
We're back up on YouTube today! Nicole welcomes Deborah Newell back for another edition of Oy Floriduh. Fred Clarkson has been analyzing the Religious Right for over 30 years, and just published a new study on The Religious Freedom Strategy of the Christian Right. Plus we're feeling the bern!