For The Win

Media coverage of the abortion debate focuses on what's happening in Washington DC, but Yamani Hernandez of the National Network of Abortion Funds joins Abigail and Yochi to talk about why the real fights for the future of reproductive justice are being fought at the state level, why people of color are disproportionately harmed by abortion restrictions, and how to help the networks of volunteers across the country working to shelter and help the most vulnerable.

Two years after her daughter was murdered by a white supremacist in Charlottesville, Heather Heyer’s mother Susan Bro joins Yochi and guest host Maunica to talk about the spread of online bigotry, why President Trump is making it even worse, and how to prevent hate crimes from becoming the grim new normal.

Conservatives of all stripes work together to advance a far-right agenda. Vanita Gupta, the head of the country’s largest coalition of civil rights groups, tells Elliot and Yochi that  progressives need to get serious about building alliances of their own.

Alphonso David, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, joins Elliot and Yochi to talk about why he believes President Trump is the most anti-LGBTQ president in American history, why transgender rights are the newest civil rights battleground, and the importance of progressive coalition building in an age of conservative political dominance. 

Sen. Chris Murphy’s life changed after the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012 devastated his home state of Connecticut and made him a national leader of the gun control movement. In a special episode of For The Win, Yochi heads to Capitol Hill to talk to Sen. Murphy about how Democrats can beat the NRA and why guns will be a key issue in the 2020 race.

The founders of Indivisible talk about reverse-engineering the Tea Party playbook, reminding progressives that all politics is truly local, and pushing Democrats to get serious about eliminating the filibuster, revamping the Electoral College, expanding the Supreme Court, and making Washington, D.C., a state.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joined Elliot and Yochi days before announcing his candidacy for the presidency to talk about why voters from both parties are right to feel like the system is broken, why progressives should consider a new Constitutional amendment, and the dangers of political absolutism.

On the premiere of For The Win, former Attorney General Eric Holder joins Yochi, Elliot and Maunica to talk about his fight to reverse decades of Republican gerrymandering and voter suppression, why Democrats were slow to recognize the threat, and how his party could win the popular vote again in 2020 but still lose to Donald Trump.

For The Win is your roadmap to notching policy wins in Trump Era and beyond.

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