Bryant Odega is graduate of UCLA with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Minor in Labor Studies. He is running for the Los Angeles city council in CD 15.

 "I'm  running because since 1925, our district has never had a Council Member  who looked or lived like the majority of us. We are renters, we are  people of color, we are working-class. We are a district with a diverse  and culturally significant history. But the political elites have been  dominating our politics for far too long. Everyday Angelenos deserve to  be represented by everyday Angelenos.”

We discuss current issues facing the district from real estate development corruption to environmental justice.

Eric Levai  is a national security journalist based in California. He hosts and produces the podcast "Counter Intelligence". Eric joins me to discuss his latest articles in the Daily Dot and Forensic News. 

In a little-discussed Jan. 22 press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki asserted “[the] assault on the  Capitol … underscored what we have long known: The rise of domestic  violent extremism is a serious and growing national security  threat.” Yet- are they using the capitol insurrection to justify a broader surveillance of activists- including BLM and ANTIFA? 

In this episode I speak with two California activists that feel this is true. Both are currently under investigation so agreed to speak with me under anonymity.

Join me with guests Pat Cote and Leila Charles Leigh, hosts of the Punch  Up Pod- on a conversation as who the progressive sell-outs are. We also  discuss the state of the left in California.

Activists marched from Pershing Square to City Hall, where they held a rally in support of abortion rights.Includes remarks from Gloria Allred, Maria Shriver, Barbara Streisand, Hilda Solis, Holly Mitchell, Planned Parenthood and Paxton Smith.

Marc Francois joins Tina-Desiree Berg to discuss the ongoing immigration crises that has manifested in Del Rio at the border and the underlying factors that brought us to this point.

Salem is a Kensington-based millennial activist running for  Pennsylvania’s 2nd Congressional district. He lives in Philly with his  life partner, Zane, and his hairless cat, Chicken.

Salem credits his political activism to growing up in poverty,  growing up LGBTQ+, and the Occupy protests in 2011. As a volunteer, he  worked on the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama

As U.S. COVID cases top 37 million, we look at  a shocking story out of California, where two people were stabbed and  two journalists were attacked Saturday while covering an anti-vaccine,  anti-mask protest outside Los Angeles City Hall. The protest was  attended by members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing groups. A  Southern California mortgage broker named Tony Moon was videotaped  screaming “Unmask them all!”  I sat down with Amy to discuss the groups involved and recent extremist behavior.

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This month we heard the biotech billionaire owner of the LA Times exclaim that billionaires should not be allowed to own newspapers. He's right.

In light of this. I re-examine Peter Theil's take down of Gawker with Peter Sterne- who originally reported on it for Politico.

Highlights from the Medicare for All March in Los Angeles. We hear from AB1400 Sponsor Ash Kalara, Shahid Buttar, Wendy Carillo, Maria Estrada, Dr. Paul Song, Ron Placone, Jimmy Dore, Maebe A. Girl, and many more!