It's the Democracy, Stupid Full Episodes

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
– Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones
– Katherine Dailey, state government and policy reporter for Michigan Advance
– Jill Lawrence, opinion writer for The Bulwark and author of the History Keeps Happening Substack newsletter 

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On this week's show
– Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Youngman of The Alt Media
– J. Patrick Coolican, editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Reformer
– Pat Kreitlow, founder and editor of Up North News, ahead of next Tuesday’s primary election in Wisconsin
– Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University; he recently wrote a New York Times guest essay entitled “The Obvious Step That Could Mean Fewer Fraternity Sexual Assaults“

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On this week's show
– 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”
– David Nir, publisher of The Downballot
– Juliet Jeske, founder of Decoding Fox News, a crowd-funded media project
– Jay Kuo, two-time Tony-winning co-producer and composer; CEO and founder of The Social Edge (a social media and digital publishing company based in New York City); author of The Status Kuo Substack newsletter; and member of the board of directors for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

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On this week's show
– Jonathan Larsen, veteran journalist, TV news producer, and Substack content creator offering “adversarial journalism and commentary”
– Zack Mooney, voter contact director at Swing Left
– Greg Sargent, staff writer at The New Republic, host of the podcast "The Daily Blast," and author of "An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics"
– James Brooks, state reporter for the Alaska Beacon

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On this week's show
– Mark Jacob, author of the Stop the Presses newsletter on Substack, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at the Sun-Times, co-author of several books on history and photography
– Nora Benavidez, senior counsel and general director of digital justice and civil rights at the media nonprofit Free Press
– Chicago Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd Ward)
– Will Craft, U.S. data editor for the Guardian

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On this week's show
– Aisha Down, global technology reporter for the Guardian; her latest article is “Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’“
– Russ Carnahan, chair of the Missouri Democratic Party and former member of the U.S. House and the Missouri House
– Clay Wirestone, editor of Kansas Reflector
– Andrea Hailey, CEO of Vote.org

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On this week's show
– Laura Belin, publisher, editor, and reporter for Bleeding Heartland, a community website focused on Iowa politics
– Chioma Chukwu, the executive director of American Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog organization that advances accountability and democracy by enforcing the public’s right to government records
– Eric Garcia, Washington bureau chief at The Independent
– Dean Baker, distinguished senior fellow and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research

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On this week's show
– David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal editor-in-chief and opinion columnist
– David Smith, Washington bureau chief for the Guardian
– Kendall Scudder, chair of the Texas Democratic Party
– Will Bunch, national opinion columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer

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On this week's show
– Michael Mann, climatologist, geophysicist, and author of “Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World”
– Perla Trevizo, reporter with the ProPublica/Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative
– Gregory Royal Pratt, investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune; he is one of the Tribune reporters recently awarded, as Staff of the Chicago Tribune, the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting
– Dr. Debra Houry, senior fellow at Yale School of Public Health, adjunct professor at Emory University, former chief medical officer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and principal at DH Leadership and Strategy Solutions, through which she is advising California on their PHNIX initiative

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On this week's show
– Adam Klasfeld, founder and editor-in-chief of All Rise News
– Nicholas Grossman, teaching assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
– Daniel Nichanian, founder and editor-in-chief of Bolts
– Rev. Earle J. Fisher, Ph.D., senior pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church, founder of  #UPTheVote901, and author of "The Rev. Albert Cleage Jr., and the Black Prophetic Tradition: A Reintroduction of The Black Messiah"

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