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Joining Robert Pilot: Nicole Matthews; US Sen. Candidate Peggy Flanagan; Wendy Pilot

Trump administration lies; Tennessee’s failed execution; Sen. Schmitt’s stupid gaffe; Good family files lawsuits against federal government as Daily Wire films right-wing version of events in Montana; author David Mura returns to the show.

David Mura is a memoirist, essayist, novelist, poet, critic, playwright and performance artist.

A Sansei or third generation Japanese American, Mura has written two memoirs: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei (Grove-Atlantic), which chronicles his year-long stay in Japan and which won a 1991 Josephine Miles Book Award from the Oakland PEN and was listed in the New York Times Notable Books of Year; and Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity (1996, Anchor/Random). His novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire (2008, Coffee House Press) was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the John Gardner Fiction Prize and Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award.

Lisa M. Stulberg is author of How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture

Joining Robert Pilot: State Rep. Heather Keeler, Sean Sherman the Sioux Chef, Ruth Anna Buffalo of MIWRC, and Wendy Pilot

Matt is back in studio today; Sen. Schmitt’s embarrassing gaffe; DOJ targets MN federal judges; what’s going on in the Middle East; Jeff Stein is back; Boelter team seeks gag order for Hoffmans; Iowa steel plant.

Jeff Stein of KXEL/Waterloo and the Iowa Politics Report joins Matt every Wednesday at 3:30 to cover national politics.

Fernando Z. López is the Senior Strategist and Creating Change Director at the National LGBTQ Task Force. Jake Wittich is Managing Editor of Windy City Times.

Joining Robert Pilot: Dr. Stately of NACC and Arvina Martin of Emerge Wisconsin