On this week's show:
– Tara McGowan, founder and publisher of COURIER Newsroom
– Chris Gaba, health care data analyst, blogger and founder of ACASignups.net
– Nissa Rhee, co-founder and executive director of Borderless Magazine, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet covering immigration and immigrant communities in Chicago
– Michael Mann, climatologist, geophysicist, and author of “Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World”

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On this week's show:
–Jill Wine-Banks, legal analyst, former general counsel of the U.S. Army, author of The Watergate Girl, co-host of#SistersInLaw and host ofJust The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks
– Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune investigative reporter and author of the Lori Lightfoot biography “The City is Up for Grabs”
– David Nir, publisher of The Downballot
– Jen Bendery, senior politics reporter for HuffPost

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On this week's show:
– Jaime Harrison, former chair of the Democratic Party
– David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal editor-in-chief and opinion columnist
– Tim Dickinson, senior writer and editor for The Contrarian
– Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward

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Edwin Eisendrath talks about changing the name of "The Big Picture" to "It's the Democracy, Stupid."

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On this week's show:
– Chris Armitage, author of The Existentialist Republic newsletter on Substack
– Eric Garcia, Washington bureau chief at The Independent
– Deb Houry, former Chief Medical Officer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who resigned in protest last August
– Devin Remiker, new chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

Catch “The Big Picture with Edwin Eisendrath” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/the-big-picture).

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On this week's show:
– Charlotte Clymer, activist and the writer of Charlotte’s Web Thoughts, a bestselling Substack blog on politics, religion, foreign policy, and culture
– Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL)
– Rita Hart, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party
– Robert Weiner, Voting Rights Project director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

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On this week's show:
– Clara Jeffery, editor-in-chief of Mother Jones
– Curtis Hertel, chair of the Michigan Democratic Party
– G. Elliott Morris, data-driven journalist, pollster, author of the Substack newsletter “Strength In Numbers” and the book “Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them”
– Amy Maxmen, national public health reporter at KFF Health News

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On this week's show:
– Dave Roberts, publisher of Volts, a newsletter about clean energy and politics
– Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic; his latest piece is “The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay”
– Kiera Butler, national correspondent at Mother Jones; her latest piece is Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation
– Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy and Research

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On this week's show:
– Matt Caffrey, senior director of Grassroots Community Organizing at Swing Left
– Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council
– Richard Tofel, former president of ProPublica and author of the Second Rough Draft newsletter on Substack
– Lisa Graves, award-winning investigative researcher, author of “Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights,” founder and executive director of True North Research, and author of Grave Injustice on Substack

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On this week's show:
– Ellen L. Weintraub, commissioner and four-time chair of the U.S. Federal Election Commission (2002-2025), currently a senior fellow at End Citizens United
– Bobby Kogan, senior director of Federal Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress
– Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL)
– Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emerita of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a founding member of the advocacy group Defend Public Health

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