On the show this week, Cayden talks first about Convergence Magazine's recent publishing collaboration with In These Times, The Forge, and The Real News Network. Together, we published a collection of writing and podcast episodes entitled Left Out: The Missing Election Narratives – available in the latest print edition of In These Times and in full and online.

Then we're joined by Vice President for Institutional and Sectoral Change at Race Forward, Cathy Albisa, as well as federal workers Lauren Leib, President of NTEU Chapter 340 and Chris Dols, President of IFPTE Local 98, to talk about their efforts to protect vital state services - and our democracy - in this coming period.

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This week on the show Cayden is joined by fellow Convergence editorial board members Max Elbaum and Jon Liss. We recently published a collective editorial statement called Block & Build 2.0. The piece lays out the many ways the Block & Build strategy has to re-orient to the seismic shifts in the political landscape that are happening as we enter a 2nd Trump term this coming week. Max and Jon walk us through some of our most important strategic adjustments as well as wrestle with some of the areas we still face questions and uncertainty.

This week on the show Cayden is joined by one of the editors of the new anthology We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, out now from Haymarket Books, Maya Schenwar. The book brings together a remarkable collection of voices revealing the complex tapestry of ways people are living abolition in their daily lives through parenting and caregiving. Ranging from personal narratives to policy-focused analysis to activist chronicles, its writers highlight how abolition is essential to any kind of parenting justice.

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Cayden is joined this episode by organizer and strategist, as well as co-founder of MediaJustice and founder of the Radical Loss Project, Malkia Devich-Cyril and journalist and author of From The Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, Sarah Jaffe. Together, they seek to grapple with the political and cultural implications of grief, both individual and collective, arising from everything that’s happened to us, collectively, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This week on the show Cayden is joined by the Principal of Ejerie Labs, Ejeris Dixon. Ejeris recently launched The Fascism Barometer, a podcast and resource hub project working to educate communities already feeling authoritarian impacts about what fascism is and how we stop it. We’ll explore the history of creeping fascist trends in our society and politics and how we all should think about our relationship to state power.

Before that, Cayden is joined by Ju-Hyun Park, a Movement Media colleague at The Real News Network and organizer with Nodutdol about what’s been unfolding in South Korea since the unsuccessful coup attempt by President Yoon Suk Yeol on December 3. Read Ju-Hyun's full story at People's Dispatch.

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This week on the show we’re exploring the challenges of building a progressive media ecosystem and mainstreaming movement narratives in existing corporate media. First, Adam Johnson, co-host of the Citations Needed podcast, joins Cayden to help us understand the current state of play in media and public relations work and why it’s against us by design.

Then Cayden talks with Hermelinda Cortés, Executive Director of ReFrame, about her organization's research on the ways narrative links traditional and social media to create the social “weather” conditions for our movements. They dig into ReFrame's post-election efforts to help build deeper, more powerful, and farther-reaching movement narratives.

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This week on the show we’re looking at how our strategies need to adapt in the coming months. First, we are joined by Senior Political Director for United We Dream, Bruna Bouhid, about their vital lame duck session advocacy. Then we take a bit of a longer view of what movement work needs to look like during the second Trump administration with Senior Fellow at Future Currents, LJ Amsterdam. Her soon-to-be-published report about the changing nature and strategy behind direct action holds some key learnings for all of us preparing for next year.

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Cayden is joined by political strategist Waleed Shahid, to discuss the lay of the land that is the many…many hot takes and finger pointing that has been going on since last week’s election both inside and outside the Democratic party. Waleed recently laid out a really helpful typology on his Substack and we’ll discuss what we should we sit with and digest versus what should roll right off our backs. We’ll also assess how the Uncommitted movement played out through this election season and where we go next to continue the important work toward Palestinian safety and liberation.

Then Executive Director of Future Currents, Connie Razza, joins to talk about scenario planning and research work they’ve already been doing that can help us prepare for this treacherous moment. Find their recent report on how movements prepare: Getting Ready & Staying Ready: Lessons from 2025-26 Scenario Exercises

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Lots of folks are getting tugged at by the “blame game” that happens after every election cycle. Instead of looking at counterfactuals, we want to ground in reflection and self-critique, as well as where trends are going and what we need to do next.

Cayden is joined today by a panel of folks we often look to when we need to think about what the hell is going on:

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We’re just a few days out from Election Day, so this episode covers a lot of ground. First we hear from Dusti Gurule, President and CEO of COLOR Latina. Dusti and COLOR are front and center in the campaign to pass Colorado's Amendment 79, which would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution and remove a major barrier to accessing those rights by allowing public funds to pay for abortion services. Then we're joined by Rising Majority National Director Loan Tran, back to check in on the state of the united front against MAGA as we go into election week. And we have another report from the doors, this one from Ellie, a canvasser with Essie Justice Group, which works to harness the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration's harm to women and communities.

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