It's the Democracy, Stupid Full Episodes

On this week's show:
– Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García (D-IL)  
– Samantha Tarazi, chief executive officer of Voting Rights Lab
– Radley Balko, award-winning journalist and publisher of “The Watch” on Substack
– Shaughnessy Naughton, president of 314 Action

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On this week's show:
– Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of six critically acclaimed books, including “Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World”
– Jen Bendery, senior politics reporter for HuffPost
– Jill Lawrence, award-winning journalist, opinion writer and author
– Will Stancil, lawyer and policy analyst based in Minneapolis

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Filling in for Edwin Eisendrath, Patti Vasquez is joined by:
– Dr. Kathy Tynus, internist at Alivio Health Services
– Vicci Rodgers, AFS Intercultural volunteer
– Warren Hawk Preis of Source Solar

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On this week's show:
– Lisa Graves, founder and executive director of True North Research, a national investigative watchdog group that works with journalists and other researchers to shine a bright light on the dark money fueling regressive agendas targeting vital institutions in our republic
– Michelle Regalado Deatrick, chair and founder,  DNC Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis
– Chris Geidner, author of the Law Dork Substack newsletter
– Joe Walsh, former Illinois congressman, former Republican candidate for president, and host of the podcast “The Social Contract With Joe Walsh” (recorded on Edwin's Substack the day before)
– Andrea Pitzer, journalist and author of "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps"  (rebroadcast from July 14)

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On this week's show:
– Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer national opinion columnist
– State Rep. Trey Martinez-Fischer (D-TX)
– Bill Scher, politics editor at The Washington Monthly
– Dean Baker, co-founder and senior economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research

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On this week's show:
– Samuel Bagenstos, the Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan; he specializes in civil rights, labor and employment law, health law, and governance
– Joe Walsh, former Illinois congressman, former Republican candidate for president, and host of the podcast “The Social Contract With Joe Walsh”
– Melissa Sanchez, Chicago-based immigration and labor reporter for ProPublica; her latest piece is a profile of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration who endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison
– Rob Shapiro,  Washington Monthly contributing writer, chairman of Sonecon, and a senior fellow at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He previously served as Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs under Bill Clinton and advised senior members of the Obama administration on economic policy.

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On this week's show Professors William Muck and Joel Ostrow fill in for Edwin and their guests are:
– Reed Bible, former supervisory special agent for U.S. Homeland Security
– Rima Ziuraitas, certified TACMED instructor and medic in Ukraine
– Kathy Tholin, chair, Indivisible Chicago

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On this week's show:
– Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible
– Mark Maxwell, political editor for KSDK-TV St. Louis
– Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic
– Jill Wine Banks, legal analyst, former general counsel of the U.S. Army, author of The Watergate Girl, and host of Just The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks

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On this week's show:
– Alison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School
– Anderson Clayton, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party
– David Nir, publisher of The Downballot
– Andrea Pitzer,  journalist and author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps

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On this week's show Turi Ryder fills in for Edwin and her guests are:
– Audrey Francis, artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre and director of Steppenwolf’s “You Will Get Sick,” playing through July 20
– Ron Gleason, former director of News and Programming at WBBM Radio
– Matt Cole, senior editor of Commercial Carrier Journal, talking about holiday thievery against commercial vehicles
– David Levine, professor at UC Law San Francisco

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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