July 23, 2024

Joe Biden has stepped aside and endorsed his VP, Kamala Harris, for President. This kind of sacrifice for the good of the country has happened only a few times in our history, and frankly, it’s the kind of thing that makes America special, a legacy smeared by only one event – January 6, when Trump supporters attacked America and tried to overthrow an election by force. These two acts, one of patriotism and the other of pure greed and hate, define today’s America at its best, and worst. We discuss this and more with Phil Glover of AFGE and former Congressional Candidate Randy Bryce.

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July 22, 2024

The Republican National Convention is over, and once again, it was a well-staged, well-organized, four-day bludgeoning of truth, democracy, and working-class values. Now that it’s over, and ear-bandages can no longer be mistaken for a fashion statement, we discuss how America can recover and move forward. Our guests today are Craig Harrington of Media Matters, and Sarah Burris of Raw Story.

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July 19, 2024

Project 2025 is an absolute disaster for the working class, but it’s being sold as some grand appeal to choice. This is how they took our pensions and replaced them with 401ks, and it’s how they’re closing our public schools. Will it work this time, too? We discuss this and more with Labor Reporter Steven Greenhouse and Karla Walter of The Center for American Progress.

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July 18, 2024

As the RNC continues, we are hearing again and again about how broken America is, but nothing about how anyone plans to fix it. This RNC is absolutely devoid of any policy on anything at all – instead it’s only and always about the fear and hate that the GOP hopes to grow. We discuss this and more with Chris Anderson of the Ohio Dems, and Nidhi Hegde of The American Economic Liberties Project.

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July 17, 2024

So Trump picked JD Vance to be his VP. What does that mean, and how could his involvement change the campaign, and the administration should Trump pull off another unlikely upset? We talk about these effects and more with Jess Piper of Blue Missouri and Scott Paul of The Alliance for American Manufacturing.

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July 16, 2024

Politicians and talking heads across America are repeating the phrase “political violence is never OK” as they should. But we should not ignore the facts that America has a long history of political violence, and in the past several years, political violence has been called for time and again. We renew our calls for peace and also discuss how the attack on Trump is especially bad for American working people because it may just pave the way for Project 2025.

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July 15, 2024

As the RNC begins, it’s a good time to look back on our history, a history in which, at every stage, workers have been mistreated, and bosses have paid great sums of money to keep them that way. In fact, that simple truth explains the existence of the modern Republican party itself – a party dedicated to elevating the already elevated, and boot-heeling the rest of us. We discuss this and more with today’s guests: Saru Jayaraman of One Fair Wage, and Ryan Mulholland of The Center for American Progress.

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July 12, 2024

Once every four years, Republicans gather for what can only be called the most anti-worker event on planet Earth – the Republican National Convention. At this event, they will nominate anti-worker candidates, make anti-worker speeches, unveil their anti-worker platform, and celebrate the greed of the wealth class and the misery of everyone else. And this year, the greed class is getting lots and lots of mileage out of their latest show pony – Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, who will speak at the event, and maybe even endorse the king of greed himself, Donald Trump. We don’t know what will happen, but it’s probably not going to be good for America’s working people. Join us for this important discussion.

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