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Matthew Hoh (https://twitter.com/MatthewPHoh) is a disabled Marine combat veteran for peace who is running as a Green Party candidate for the US Senate to represent the people of North Carolina. The North Carolina Democrats have refused to certify the Green Party Ballot access petition required to run. Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy. He is a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran and, in 2009, he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the war. He is a candidate with the Green Party to represent North Carolina in the US Senate in 2022.

Plus journalist Chip Gibbons (https://twitter.com/ChipGibbons89) with a Julian Assange update and Leslie Lee (https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii) and Katie react to infuriating media clips.

Chip Gibbons is policy director of Defending Rights & DIssent, where he has advised multiple congressional offices on reforming the Espionage Act. He covered the legal proceedings against Julian Assange and Daniel Hale as a correspondent for Jacobin. He is currently working on a book on the history of the FBI for Verso.

Leslie Lee is co-host of the program Struggle Session (https://www.patreon.com/strugglesession).