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American Democracy is not promised to us and, with all the forces working against it, saving it will take a level of work most people aren’t ready for. The Politics Girl Podcast is here to give people a reason to care and a reason to fight. Our goal is to inspire. To instill in people a true understanding of what this country COULD be, if the right people were fighting for it, and what it WILL be if they don’t. It’s a political podcast yes, but more than that, it’s a podcast about America’s potential, where one passionate, and slightly mouthy, immigrant attempts to motivate the country to become what it promised to be but, so far, has yet to become. You’ll leave more knowledgeable, more engaged, and more sure that you, personally, can make a difference to the future of American democracy. Everyone’s got a little time for that right? Subscribe for new episodes every Tuesday. We’re in a fight for our country. We sure as hell better know what we’re fighting for. xo

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My first book ‘A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow’ It drops today, so I’ve invited my friend, and beloved American actor and director, Jason Alexander to join us to guest host the episode. We talk, not only about getting us out of this mess we’re in, but how we can build the nation we tell the world we are. At the end of the day you can’t fix something you don’t understand, and I wrote a book to fix things.   As always, IF YOU FIND WORTH IN WHAT WE DO, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast AD FREE, along with a bunch of other PERKS, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and SUBSCRIBE TODAY!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social:   Really? No Really? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/really-no-really/id1668887882   https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004517/   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Alexander   Twitter: @IJasonAlexander Insta: jalexander1959   As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by…   https://oneskin.co code: politicsgirl https://drinkAG1.com/politicsgirl https://moshlife.com/politicsgirl https://sundaysfordogs.com/politicsgirl https://dailylook.com code: PoliticsGirl
The women of this nation hold the spending AND voting power so why are we so constantly marginalized? Tired of being overlooked, used as pawns, and ready to be taken seriously, we talk to Erin Erenberg, co-founder and CEO of the Chamber of Mothers, about the growing collective movement to advance maternal rights in America. The truth of the matter is: we’re hardly a country that should be forcing women to have babies, since the US is currently experiencing a maternal health crisis and we barely respect the role or what goes into it. It’s well past time our needs are better reflected and responded to by our government. It’s not just what’s best for mothers and their children, but what’s best for society as a whole. As always, IF YOU FIND WORTH IN WHAT WE DO, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast AD FREE, along with a bunch of other PERKS, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and SUBSCRIBE TODAY!!  Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://chamberofmothers.com https://www.instagram.com/chamberofmothers/ https://x.com/chamberofmoms https://shop.chamberofmothers.com https://www.instagram.com/totumwomen/ As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… DeleteMe : TEXT PoliticsGirl to 64000 https://nurturelife.com code: PoliticsGirl https://calm.com/politicsgirl https://Oracle.com/PGP
Happy Labor Day!!! Department of Labor’s Acting Secretary Julie Su reminds us that the Biden Administration has been focused on building what they call the “high road to the American dream”. That looking out for the American worker is not just about having enough work, it’s about those workers being paid properly, treated with respect, and at the end of the day, giving our citizens what President Biden calls “a little breathing room” to live our lives. How do we “pursue happiness” without that? On this Labor Day we dig into the Department of Labor and all the programs and agencies ready and willing to help the American people that most of us don’t even know about, and the importance of having a government that not only respects our workers but will fight for them. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: US Department of Labor: https://www.dol.gov/ Twitter: @ActSecJulieSu As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… https://oneskin.co Code: politicsgirl https://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl https://smalls.com/politicsgirl Code: politicsgirl https://moshlife.com/politicsgirl
Coming right off the Democratic Convention, brilliant historian and writer Heather Cox Richardson gives her insights on where we are with the two parties and the upcoming election. She reminds us that democracy is not a given, and though we have to fight for it, we should find joy in that fight. That the Republicans are used to controlling the narrative, and holding the mantle of patriotic American, but the convention showed the world they aren’t the only ones who have the right to that title. The winds have shifted…what comes next is up to us. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: Letters from an American: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/ Insta: @heathercoxrichardson Twitter: @HC_Richardson As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… https://marleyspoon.com/offer/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl https://nurturelife.com code: politicsgirl https://drinkAG1.com/politicsgirl https://moshlife.com/politicsgirl
I’m in Chicago this week for the Democratic convention, and I hope you’ll follow along to get the information, but as we watch, what we hope will be the first female president take the convention stage, I thought we should discuss what the other side is offering when it comes to women, women’s rights, and womanhood. With that in mind, our guest today is acclaimed writer Julie Kohler, host of award winning White Picket Fence podcast to talk to us about the rising extremist movement gaining steam to squash women back into “traditional” roles, roll back no fault divorce, as well as efforts, described in project 2025, to restore the “American family” as they define through a very specific lens. This isn’t just a conservative fever dream, it’s going to be Republican policy.   As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social:   https://www.juliekkohler.com/   Twitter:        @juliekkohler1   Insta:    juliekohlerwrites   As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by…   https://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl https://oneskin.co Code: politicsgirl https://smalls.com/politicsgirl https://3dayblinds.com/politicsgirl
According to our guest, YouTube sensation and wildly successful political commentator, Brian Tyler Cohen, the modern Republican Party has laid out a long con. That, while the increasingly radical right gaslights the American public with its lies, artificial slogans and hollow catchphrases, there’s an ever widening gap between the essential Republican “brand” and their actual behavior. It’s such a marked phenomenon that Brian wrote a book, Shameless, to best explain where things went wrong and to highlight this all hands on deck moment where we, the public, choose to fight back. Spoiler: the media is part of the problem.  As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: Buy Shameless here:  https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/shameless https://briantylercohen.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/briantylercohen Insta: briantylercohen Twitter: @briantylercohen As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… https://3dayblinds.com/politicsgirl https://oneskin.co Code: politicsgirl https://moshlife.com/politicsgirl  https://oracle.com/PGP
As guest, historian and writer, Rutger Bregman, reminds us, MLK didn’t inspire the world with his “I have a nightmare…” speech. It was about a dream. Rutger believes there’s an antidote to this sense of emptiness so many of us feel and it’s what he calls moral ambition, or the will to make the world a better place. That humanity, no matter what we’ve been taught, is actually cooperative and benevolent, it’s how we got so far as a species. So we can’t get so caught in the news of today, that we lose our historical imaginations for tomorrow. We must remember that the impossible often become the inevitable when enough people stand on the right side of history. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://www.rutgerbregman.com/ https://linktr.ee/rutgerbregman https://www.moralambition.eu/focus-areas All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… https://drinkAG1.com/politicsgirl https://3dayblinds.com/politicsgirl https://moshlife.com/politicsgirl
As today’s guest, CEO of the States United Democracy Center and States United Action, Joanna Lydgate says, “The battle for democracy begins before a single ballot is cast and continues long after the polls close on election day.” We keep repeating it, but the truth is, the American election system itself is under attack. There are anti-democratic forces working hard across the country not to win elections, but to limit the vote. To interfere with election administration and officials, and to spread lies and chaos around voting. It’s a tactic, and it works. Join the conversation so you can not only understand what’s happening, but so you’re able to fight back.   As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/ https://electiondeniers.org/ https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/our-team/joanna-lydgate/ Twitter: @JLydgate @statesunited @SUAction As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… https://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl https://smalls.com/politicsgirl https://marleyspoon.com/offer/politicsgirl https://3dayblinds.com/politicsgirl
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”  Joe Biden is no longer running for President and everything has changed. Join me and Michael Steele as we discuss what just happened, and what comes next.  As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much!  xoPG Guest social: https://michaelsteelenetwork.com/ Twitter: @MichaelSteele @steele_podcast @TheWeekendMSNBC Podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/qNXoDf9A As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… https://oneskin.co Code: PoliticsGirl https://lumen.me/politicsgirl  And the Vibes Only podcast: https://couriernewsroom.com/vibes-only-podcast-trailer/
Authoritarian propaganda is full of empty promises of unity. Of uniting the nation under a leader who alone can fix it. Authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat and I had this conversation BEFORE the events at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, but the facts remain the same if not more poignant now. The shock and awe we’re seeing is a tactic to distract us from what this party plans to do to our country, our democracy, and to anyone who doesn’t pledge absolute fealty or fit into their limited box of “acceptable” Americans. What happened at the Trump rally changes nothing about who Trump is or what he will do to this country if he and his party gain power. If anything, Ruth’s warnings of how a strongman comes to power, are more dire now. We are witnessing the playbook of authoritarianism unfold, we can not simply go along.   As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: Twitter: @ruthbenghiat Website: https://ruthbenghiat.com As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… https://lumen.me/politicsgirl https://rhone.com/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl Vibes Only Podcast:  https://couriernewsroom.com/vibes-only-podcast-trailer/
We just finished probably the most life altering Supreme Court’s session in the history of our country. The six conservative justices, and I use the term conservative loosely, because they’re actually right wing extremists, just took a sledge hammer to decades of legal precedent, human rights, civil rights and the constitution itself, but this idea that there’s nothing we can do about it is wrong. Join me and absolute legal superstar Dahlia Lithwick as we discuss what comes next for court and country. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: Twitter: @Dahlialithwick Slate: https://slate.com/author/dahlia-lithwick Lady Justice: https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Justice-Women-Battle-America/dp/0525561382 As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… https://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl Upgrade your closet with Rhone and use POLITICSGIRL to save 20% at: https://www.rhone.com/politicsgirl Code: PoliticsGirl And the Vibes Only podcast: https://couriernewsroom.com/vibes-only-podcast-trailer/
America’s rising domestic terrorism movement is not getting better it’s getting worse. We have to look at ourselves, particularly if we’re in the American Christian community, and realize something must be done to start seeding the ground for a different way of thinking. Which is why we’re talking to former US security official and counterterrorism expert Elizabeth Neumann. Elizabeth served as the assistant Secretary for counter terrorism and threat prevention at the US Department of homeland security under President Donald Trump after starting her career in the George W. Bush White House. Now an ABC News contributor and chief strategy officer at Moonshot, Elizabeth has written the book ‘Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace’. A literal expert on both sides of the story, Kingdom of Rage is an incredible take rising Christian nationalism, but from a place of belief, and if you can’t understand how devout Christians can also worship Trump and the MAGA movement then this might be the exact book you need to bridge a conversation with yourself and others from a place of love.  As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://elizabethneumann.org/ Twitter: @NeuSummits As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… https://moshlife.com/politicsgirl https://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl
To keep democracy’s head above water in 2024 the Democrats need what’s called a trifecta - meaning the Presidency, the House and the Senate - and keeping the senate is going to be a tough slog because Democrats have what’s called a “bad map”. So today, instead of talking about the must win swing races we hear about all the time, we’re going to discuss two Senate races that almost no-one is paying attention to. Two Senate races practically no-one is investing in, because it’s assumed they’ve already been won by Republicans when the truth is they haven’t. American Democrats often function in this weird defeatist culture where we keep fighting over the same 6 states and seeding other states to Republicans with the assumption they’re lost and no Democrat can ever win there. It’s not fair to the people who have different opinions in those states. It’s not fair to the people who lose their rights thanks to Republican policies, and it’s not democratic. People should have a candidate to vote for, and that candidate should have the opportunity to win. So today’s episode includes two women, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (or DMP) from Florida and Katrina Christiansen from North Dakota. We’re going to hear their stories and remind ourselves that no state should be written off. That everybody deserves a chance to be represented in America and with so much on the line, we need to support every Democrat running. The party might not be focusing on these two races, but We the People, should be. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible.  If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://www.debbieforflorida.com/ Twitter: @DebbieforFL Insta: @debbieforfl https://www.katrinaforussenate.com/ Twitter: @KatrinaforND Insta: @katrinaforussenate As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://marleyspoon.com/offer/PoliticsGirl code: PoliticsGirl https://rhone.com/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl https://birchliving.com/politicsgirl https://oneskin.co code: politicsgirl
We just had the G7. There was just a Ukrainian Peace Conference in Switzerland. Here at home we have a wanna be dictator running against a President who fights dictators. Today we talk to international expert Andrea Chalupa about two broad stroke topics, what’s going on in Ukraine, because I think most of us have kind of checked out and don’t have a clue anymore, and what Trump will offer in a second term in regards to American immigration which, after doing the research is so horrifying that it absolutely can’t come to pass. At the end of the day Trump wants to make America Russia and Russia believes it’s owed the world and we need to understand both things if we’re going to properly fight back. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible.  If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://www.andreachalupa.com/ Twitter: @AndreaChalupa @GaslitNation Instagram: @andreachalupa YouTube: @gaslitnation As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://sundaysfordogs.com/politicsgirl code:PoliticsGirl https://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl https://oneskin.co code: PoliticsGirl https://lumedeodorant.com code: PoliticsGirl
Happy Pride!! It’s easy to criticize government, and candidly, there’s plenty that deserves criticism. But government is not something we can live without, so maybe if we spent less time complaining about it, and more time understanding it, we’d know how to use it properly and how to best fix it. So, today we’re joined by Four Star Admiral and one of the highest ranking members of our Department of Health and Human Services, to talk about what our government is doing to keep Americans safe and healthy. And, because it’s Pride Month, it’s important to acknowledge that Admiral Levine is part of an administration where equity, inclusion and diversity aren’t just talking points but a way of life. That the Biden/Harris administration is committed to an America where everyone belongs and we can see that reflected in the very highest levels of our government. Representation matters, but competence and skill come first, and boy does the Admiral bring the goods! Listen to this conversation and you’ll understand why we’re so lucky to have such a powerhouse like her at the wheel.   As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible.  If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://www.hhs.gov/ Twitter: @HHSGov @HHS_ASH Instagram: @hhsgov YouTube: @HHS Facebook:US Department of Health and Human Services As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://oneskin.co code: politicsgirl https://birchliving.com/politicsgirl https://lumen.me/politicsgirl
Christian Nationalism is a giant threat to our country. A danger to women, to minorities, to the marginalized and to democracy itself. While these white, Christian nationalists believe they’re saving the country from heathenism, what they’re really offering is a theocracy of top down control with themselves at the top. We must see this threat for what it is, and that starts with understanding. Tim Whitaker is the founder of the New Evangelicals, an inclusive, Jesus-centered community that holds space for those marginalized by the evangelical church and advocates for systemic change. Raised deep in the evangelical world – Tim had a crisis of faith watching his church leaders embrace a man who was so antithetical to what he had been taught to believe. He now holds the toxic churches and their leaders accountable, while still offering a home of faith to his fellow Christians. Please join us for this incredibly engaging conversation.  As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible.  If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://www.thenewevangelicals.com/ Twitter: @newvangelicals Facebook:The New Evangelicals Instagram: @thenewevangelicals YouTube: @TheNewEvangelicals As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://marleyspoon.com/offer/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl https://moshlife.com/politicsgirl  https://rhone.com/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl https://sundaysfordogs/politicsgirl
Wanna win back democracy? Start with the states. The federal government is clearly essential, and to save our nation the Democrats must win the Presidency, House and Senate in ’24, but we can’t stop there. So many of the terrible laws we’re seeing around the country come directly from Republican state legislatures. People like to blame the president when things don’t go their way, but so much of what affects our daily lives is decided in state houses. Which is why joining the State’s Project is one of the most effective ways to fight back. They’ve done the preparation. You just gather your people and start stacking up the wins. It’s not just effective. It’s fun. It’s FUN to WIN.  As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible.  If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: www.statesproject.org Twitter: @StatesProjectUS Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/StatesProjectUS Instagram: @statesprojectus YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheStatesProject As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://rocketmoney.com/PoliticsGirl https://rhone.com/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl https://oneskin.co code: politicsgirl
Fixing the crisis America is in is hard, but it’s also simple. We can’t stop talking about reproductive rights because it’s not just about stripping women of the right to manage their own lives and bodies, it’s about the slippery slope we find ourselves on if we accept that government can just take our essential human rights. At the end of the day, it’s not just about abortion, it’s about precedent. If they can take this freedom, what’s next? Emily’s List is out here fighting back, which is why I’m pleased to speak to known strategist and fighter Jessica Mackler. Emily’s List isn’t just about winning elections at every level, but to supporting those winners once they’re in office.Government is simply better when all voices are at the table. It took almost 50 years for them to strip us of our rights. If we vote correctly, we can get them back in two.  As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible.  If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://emilyslist.org Twitter: @emilyslist As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://oneskin.co code: politicsgirl https://sundaysfordogs.com/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl
The Republicans are telling us their plans for America’s future and it is terrifying. The Democrats, in contrast, are vocally offering the opposite. Where the last Democratic House was the most effective in modern American history, passing more legislation passed than any Congress since FDR’s New Deal, the current Republican House has been the least effective, least cohesive since the Civil War. The American people deserve better than obstructionists playing games with our time and money. We are joined today by Minority Whip Katherine Clark, to hear an insider perspective on the 118th Congress and why returning power to the grown ups in the room in so essential to the success of our nation. Absolutely worth your time.  As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible.  If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://katherineclark.house.gov/ Twitter: @WhipKClark As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… http://lomi.com/politicsgirl http://rhone.com/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl http://birchliving.com/politicsgirl http://marleyspoon.com/offer/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl
I’ve been watching what’s been happening on college campuses with real uncertainty. I don’t believe we’re getting the full story from the media. Much like the horserace neck and neck BS they’re peddling for the election, I feel as if traditional media is pushing narratives with the protests that don’t tell the full picture and it leaves people feeling outraged or confused. As today’s guest David Rothkopf says, “If you want this crisis to be simple, you’re looking in the wrong place. It’s not simple. It’s difficult and it requires grown-ups who have a sense of history and the ability to weigh different and competing ideas at the same time.” As David so aptly points out, our tendency to be tribal has turned these conflicts on college campuses into a Rorschach test where we often end up seeing what we want to see. As Robert Reich said, “There should be nothing inherently anti-Semitic about condemning the ongoing destruction in Gaza”. And yet…that is not how it’s always playing out. So let’s talk about it.   As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social:   The Rothkopf Group: https://trgmedia.com   Deep State Radio:https://pod.link/1245002955 Twitter: @djrothkopf   Amazon for books:https://www.amazon.com/David-J.-Rothkopf/e/B001H6O2A0%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share     As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… http://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl http://honeylove.com/politicsgirl http://sundaysfordogs.com/politicsgirl Code: PoliticsGirl
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VIRGINIA MASHFORD

Thoughtful, inspiring and hopeful

Aug 8th
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Shannon

I love it when Michael Steele is your guest!

Apr 5th
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Mary Mc

Essentially the plot of "Dr. Strangelove", 1964

Nov 29th
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Dont BoxMeIn

Please don't say "Communist China". The word communist has become a word of hate. The USA is not actually a Capitalist government, it is more a social democracy. It is true that they call their party communist but we have parties called Democrat or Republican which are meaningless terms. China is a blended economy as we are.

May 17th
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ID20983756

Wow, this is an amazing, intelligent summary of what has happened to the Republican Party and the division in this country. You are spot on with every point. I found myself yelling, “YES” the whole time while listening. It’s validating to hear from someone such as yourself what a I’ve been saying and thinking for the past couple of years. I live in Texas and am surrounded by hard core Republicans and people that don’t get what is happening and claim to be “somewhere in the middle”. There is no middle here-they just don’t care. Keep up the good work getting the information out there! Bravo!

Apr 20th
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Ouida Hampton-Taylor

interesting take on accountability

Apr 12th
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Yolanda Rowe

A mask works better when one wears them properly: no chin straps, no under the nose, etc. I saw a guy take his off TO SNEEZE in a drug store a couple of weeks ago.

Apr 2nd
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Renee Oliver

Thank you for the concise, informative podcast!👍

Dec 15th
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Corinne DeMeuse

Thank you so much for this!! I stumbled upon your Twitter announcement completely by chance and was hooked. I appreciate your style and candor. You articulate exactly what I've been feeling. I'm guilty of having avoided politics most of my life. I woke up when Trump won the primary. If there's any silver lining, it's that I started paying attention. When he was elected, my image of this country and who we were as a people wasn't just shattered, but obliterated. I was completely traumatized for the following 4 years. He was everywhere and you couldn't get away from him. I honestly don't know what I will do if that man gets elected again. There's still so much nonsense, I find myself in complete disbelief and disgust half the time. New subscriber!! Thank you again!!

Nov 16th
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Sko Hayes

Can't wait to hear you riff with some guests! subscribed!

Nov 16th
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Patty Plummer

So excited for your new venture! 🤸‍♀️

Nov 16th
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