I’ve been hosting this show exclusively online since January 21, 2010. Prior to that, we were on Air America Radio weeknights. But on that day, Air America went dark… coincidentally, that was the day that the Supreme Court handed down its democracy-killing decision in Citizens United, basically equating money with speech and upending one of the legs of democracy.

Howie Klein has been a regular guest on this show since the Air America days. So, for more than 15 years now, Howie and I have spoken on the show almost weekly about our democracy and how to best keep or move the nation to be a bit more progressive.

In addition to his blog at DownWithTyranny.com, Howie also oversees the Blue America PAC (joined by Heather ‘Digby’ Parton and Crooks & Liars‘ John Amato, who actively raise money for the best progressive candidates running.

I’m doing this ‘re-set’ as it’s been a few weeks since Howie has been here (all on me and my health issues), and because of a bit of a media realignment that I believe is just beginning, we have some newcomers checking out the show.

Since we haven’t spoken since the election, one of the things we’ll discuss today is the disconnect between the narrative pushed by the legacy/corporate media pushing and the truth regarding the election results and, frankly, just about everything else…

Running list of our vetted media outlets: nicolesandler.com, emptywheel.net, prospect.org, downwithtyranny.com, digbysblog.net, crooksandliars.com, truenorthresearch.org, snyder.substack.com, heathercoxrichardson.substack.com, thefuckingnews.substack.com, wonkette.com, meidasnews.com …. We’re just getting started. Please leave your suggestions of sites to vetted in the comments.