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A roadmap to notching policy wins in the Trump Era and beyond.
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Conservatives won their long legal fight to eliminate affirmative education in higher education — and now they've trained their sights on corporate America. On our newest episode, Jasmine and Elliot sit down with Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to talk about the new wave of lawsuits designed to force companies to abandon their diversity and inclusion efforts, why the Supreme Court might hand them another victory, and how progressives should fight back.
Rep. Maxwell Frost is the first member of Gen Z to be elected to Congress — and the first lawmaker to publicly shout "f--k Ron DeSantis" at a rock concert. On our newest episode, Jasmine and Yochi sit down with Rep. Frost to talk about imposter syndrome, why far-right Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene make him worry about his own safety, and the challenge of balancing his own sense of urgency with the reality of being in a slow-moving and dysfunctional Congress.
Generations of Americans have studied Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s heroic civil rights work, but his more radical views on issues ranging from income inequality to war have been largely ignored. On our newest episode, Yochi and Jasmine speak with PEN America Literary Award winner and best-selling author Jonathan Eig about his book, "King: A New Life," what the public gets right about Dr. King, what it gets wrong, and why it matters.
Generations of journalists have been told to be impartial when reporting the news. But how can reporters remain objective when American democracy is under attack? On our newest episode, Elliot, Yochi, and Jasmine speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Wesley Lowery about his departure from The Washington Post, the media’s white supremacy problem, and his provocative new book, “American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress.”
Elizabeth Booker Houston is a government lawyer by day and massively popular TikTok influencer by night whose videos range from clips of her stand-up comedy routines to interviews with political stars like Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. On our newest episode, Jasmine and Yochi talk to Elizabeth about what it's like to go viral on TikTok, why she worries the app is suppressing both liberal and conservative voices, and how she's managed to maintain a boundary between her normal life and her online identity as bookersquared.
Conservatives are using their hardline view of Christianity to justify banning abortion and waging war on the LGBTQ+ community. With faith increasingly shaping politics, Jasmine and Yochi sit down with Rachel Laser, CEO of Americans United For Separation of Church and State, and The Raben Group’s Dr. Derrick Harkins to talk about why progressives have ceded the public debate over religion to conservatives — and what they need to do to take it back.
From bathroom bans to Bud Light boycotts, Republicans have declared war on the transgender community. With red states passing new anti-trans bills by the day, Elliot, Jasmine, and Yochi sit down with trans activist Charlotte Clymer to talk about why Democrats need to fight back harder, how the bans will hurt Republican candidates in 2024, and what's behind President Biden's surprising evolution from trans skeptic to trans supporter.
Republicans have declared war on "wokeism," but what does being “woke” actually mean? On our newest episode, Yochi and The Raben Group's Jasmine Burton sit down with Dr. Candis Watts Smith, a Duke University professor and author of the new book, “Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter," to talk about the forgotten history of the word, how conservatives are trying to make "woke" as politically toxic as critical race theory, and what progressives need to do to reclaim it before it's too late.
Ever wonder what it's like to testify on Capitol Hill and face questions from MAGA Republicans like Matt Gaetz? On a special episode of For the Win, our own Elliot Williams takes us behind the scenes of his recent appearance before a House committee probing the alleged "weaponization" of the federal government — and the hate mail that followed.
The GOP was once the party of big business. Now it’s attacking corporate America like never before — and reserving special scorn for so-called ESG investing. On our newest episode, Yochi talks with Robert Raben, founder and president of The Raben Group, about the growing ESG crackdown, how Republicans are using government power to punish allegedly “woke” companies, and why the fight will reshape the country’s economic and political landscape.
Historian Ruth-Ben Ghiat, author of "Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present," joins Abby and Yochi to talk about the modern Republican Party's growing embrace of right-wing extremism and political violence, why January 6 may have been inevitable, and how the former president governed like an authoritarian-in-chief rather than an American president.
Now that Republicans have a new speaker, they are going to try pushing through the harsh cuts to federal funding for HIV prevention and treatment that they've been threatening for months. Here’s the surprising thing: that would hit Black women harder than any other. On our newest episode, Jasmine and Yochi sit down with Toni Newman, a leading HIV advocate, to talk about why Black women have the highest HIV rates in the country and what can be done to prevent the epidemic from ravaging them even more harshly.
These have been busy weeks in the world of unions, with an ongoing actors strike in Hollywood stopping production of your favorite shows and movies and a strike by the United Auto Workers slowing production of our favorite cars. On our newest episode, Jasmine, Yochi, and guest host Andrea Nill Sanchez sit down with Faiz Shakir, the founder and executive director of More Perfect Union and former campaign manager for Bernie Sanders, to discuss the current surge in support for unions and what opportunities — and pitfalls — lie ahead.
Unsubstantiated rumors and lies spread widely through immigrant communities before the 2020 election, and they're spreading again in the run-up to the midterms. On our newest episode, Abby and Elliot spoke with Héctor Sánchez Barba, the CEO and executive director Mi Familia Vota, about what’s unique about misinformation in Spanish-language media — and how to best fight it.
The midterms are dominating the news here at home — and obscuring the protests and civil unrest raging across Iran, where hundreds of thousands of Iranian women are protesting four decades of brutal government repression. On our newest episode, Abby and Yochi talk to The Raben Group's Parnian Abunasr-Shiraz, who was visiting family in Iran when the protests erupted and had a front-row seat for the historic uprising being led by brave young women fighting for their human rights.
Three months after Dobbs, Abby speaks with Erika West, principal at The Raben Group and one of the creators of the After Roe newsletter, about the role progressives played in the fall of Roe, the persisting support for abortion legality, and the urgent need for businesses to be vocal about reproductive freedom.
With the midterms looming, progressives are rolling out a surprising new argument: "Trump Republicans" are trying to take away core freedoms, and Democrats are the only ones standing in their way. On our newest episode, Yochi talks with Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, the co-founder and vice president of Way to Win, about how the GOP crackdown on abortion and voting rights means that Democrats, not Republicans, are now the party of freedom — and why progressives are betting millions of dollars that the argument will stick.
School is right around the corner, but America’s kids – battered by COVID and the seemingly endless number of school shootings – are decidedly not alright. On the latest episode of For The Win, Elliot and Yochi spoke with Alison Malmon, executive director of Active Minds, about the mental health crisis facing our kids and how the suicide of her only brother led her to devote her life to persuading those who need help that its okay to not be okay.
Christian nationalists are defending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and openly embrace the use of violence against political opponents here at home. In our newest episode, Yochi and Abby talk to Rev. Pamela Cooper-White, the author of a new book on Christian nationalism, about why the movement is getting stronger, how it fueled the January 6th insurrection, and why its true agenda is white supremacy.
With a leaked decision showing that the Supreme Court will soon gut abortion rights, Abby spoke with Jennifer Welch, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois, about the mechanics of getting an abortion in a post-Roe world, how abortion providers in Illinois are already preparing for a surge of pregnant people from other states, and the constitutional rights SCOTUS might come after next.
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