Each Friday, we get to spend an hour with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net for a conversation about much of what happened that week. This week was pretty remarkable in that Donald Trump is finally on trial for some of his crimes. By the time we finished recording this morning, the entire jury and six alternates had been seated. It appears that opening statements are possible on Monday. Stay tuned... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBr4xMP-Y1M
Howie Klein, the man behind DownWithTyranny and the Blue America PAC joins me every Thursday for some plain talk about politics. In election years, like this one, we talk a lot about specific races -- many of them where Blue America has endorsed a candidate. Today, Howie wrote about two races whose primaries are in full swing right now -- the CA Senate seat to replace Dianne Feinstein, and Adam Schiff's current congressional seat that he's vacating to run for the open Senate seat. That's the district Howie lives in. So we'll get the inside scoop on [...]
Shit happens. Last Wednesday, we were expecting journalist Brian Karem to pop into the Zoom room at any moment. That moment never came. When I invited Brian on the show, he told me that he had pool duty that day, but should be on the tarmac at LAX where he could jump on the air with me while waiting for the Vice President to get back to the plane. Unfortunately, the Secret Service had a different idea that day, and Brian was unable to join us. So we'll try again today when, I think, he'll be in a more [...]
https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6595ee358d8d8944b76f7f48/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/38758727-2945-41e1-816e-061e0b95965b.mp3 I'm thrilled to welcome Anat Shenker-Osorio back to the show. It's been a while -- the last time she was here was in July of 2014! Yes, she's been trying to help progressives win elections for many years and I thought this was the perfect time to have her impart some of her wisdom to our listeners. As she explains at the start of her great podcast WORDS TO WIN BY, Anat is a researcher, message maker, and campaign advisor in addition to author and podcaster. An essay in the NY Times she co-wrote with Norm Eisen and [...]
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) Election Day has finally arrived and the best thing about today is that those damned commercials will end, making it somewhat safe to watch TV again. All we know at this point is that we don't know how it'll all shake out, but we do know the Republicans will again try to steal the election while accusing Democrats of being the ones doing that. GottaLaff is here... She'll bring us her Tweet Spot while we wonder if Mastodon Moment would be a [...]
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) One more week in this election season, and it can't end soon enough. If sensible people ever regain power, they really must shorten our election seasons, because this has gotten ridiculous already. And with tensions riding so high, I'd expect the worst in the final stretch. I'm afraid the crazy man who attacked Paul Pelosi won't be the last right-wing extremist to get violent. There's a lot of news happening today. I'll attempt to deal with much of it... I'll call [...]
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) Laffy's back today, just in time to join me in trying to figure out just what it is about Ron DeSantis that appeals to anyone! Last night's debate was the first time the rest of the country got to see him on the debate stage, and I'm hoping they all watched. THIS is who they think will lead them out of Trump's control? LOL. TFG will wipe the floor with that sniveling, fake smiling coward. But I do give Ronald credit... he [...]
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) Laffy's back today, just in time to join me in trying to figure out just what it is about Ron DeSantis that appeals to anyone! Last night's debate was the first time the rest of the country got to see him on the debate stage, and I'm hoping they all watched. THIS is who they think will lead them out of Trump's control? LOL. TFG will wipe the floor with that sniveling, fake smiling coward. But I do give Ronald credit... he can [...]
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) Up until showtime, I wasn't sure whether or not I'd do a show today. I'm tired and cranky (I can't remember the last time I had a good night's sleep), and just feeling like I need a day to regroup. But, there's so much to talk about that I'd feel guilty if I just reached back into the archives for a show from 10 years ago to show you that the more things change, the more they stay the same.. Well, [...]
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) We took a break last week to watch the final House Jan 6 hearing, before election day anyway. But Howie Klein is back today. And there's lots to talk about, including a post script to my interview with Ryan Grim on yesterday's show. It was about AIPAC and DMFI targeting progressives during the primaries, effectively killing off most of them. What we both realized was that a major part of the story wasn't addressed... that's the fact that these groups are led by [...]
