Joan Esposito (Full Episodes)

On today's show
– Chris Fitzsimon, host of the Stories from the States podcast
– “Out Chicago” host Scott Duff and film critic Rebecca Ford with their monthly look at TV, movies, theater and more

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On today's show
– Ron Roberts, host of “The Ron Show,” a political talk show now airing on Heartland Signal station WMLB Atlanta
– Melissa Bean, Democratic candidate for Congress in the 8th District of Illinois
– Ian Karbal and Peter Hall, state government reporters for the Pennsylvania Capital-Star
– Andrew Grunwald, vice president of Political Strategy at The States Project, and Melissa Walker, principal strategist, Giving Circles, at The States Project
– Heartland Signal reporters Elinor Epperson and Kori Skillman

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On today's show
– Dr. Elicia John, behavioral scientist and assistant professor of marketing at American University in Washington, D.C., and Dr. Lez Trujillo Torres, consumer researcher and assistant professor of marketing at University of Illinois Chicago; together they have authored a recent study on the U.S. census
– George D. Strickland, recently retired Lake County associate judge for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Lake County
– U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, Democrat of Illinois
– U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson, Democrat of Illinois
– Zev Shalev, founder of Narativ.org, a bestselling news Substack

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On today's show
– Christopher Armitage, author, veteran, former law enforcement officer, activist, policy adviser, and publisher of The Existentialist Republic on Substack; his latest piece is "Would the U.S. Be Better Off as a European Union-Style 'Country of Countries'?"
– Professor Steven D. Schwinn of the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
– Terry Savage, syndicated personal finance columnist and author

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On today's show
– Bill Scher, politics editor at Washington Monthly; his latest articles are “Meet the Democratic Senate Candidates Who Are Overperforming. And Underperforming” and “Kansas? Montana? Mississippi? Where Will the Blue Wave Crest?“
– Nicole Foy, immigration reporter for ProPublica; she recently authored the investigative article, “We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days“
– Pat Kreitlow, founder and editor of Up North News

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On today's show
– Chris Fitzsimon, host of the Stories from the States podcast; a radio version of the podcast now airs on WCPT Sundays at 6:00 p.m. Central
– Bruce Rheins, former CBS Los Angeles deputy bureau chief

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On today's show Rickey Hendon fills in for Joan and his guests are
– Willie Wilson, 2027 candidate for Chicago mayor
– Pennie McCoach, president and business agent of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 308, which represents rail workers for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
– William Muck, professor of political science at North Central College

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On today's show Carolyn Fiddler fills in for Joan and her guests are
– Ben Jacobs, reporter
– Chris Mann, Democratic candidate for attorney general of Kansas
– Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC)
– Minnesota Attorney General Keith Elllison, 2026 candidate for re-election
– Tevin Davis, multidisciplinary artist and digital creator whose work spans theater, television, film, comedy, music, political satire, and digital media

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On today's show Mike Nellis fills in for Joan and his guests are
– Aaron Kleinman, Heartland Signal‘s senior political analyst and author of the “Radio Free America” newsletter
– Melissa Toufanian, former State Department deputy assistant secretary who served on the communications team for the original Iran nuclear deal under President Obama, and now serves as managing director at Navigator Research
– Richard Chew, host of “Chew’s Views,” weekday mornings from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. Central on WCPT, AM 950 The Progressive Voice of Minnesota, KFNN 1510 AM Phoenix, and Atlanta's WMLB AM 1690; the show also airs on WARR in Warren County, North Carolina
– Matthew Botvinick, world-renowned AI researcher and neuroscientist who is senior fellow at Yale Law School, a member of the technical staff at Anthropic, and author of "AI and Political Freedom: The Risk to Democracy and How to Respond" (2026)

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On today's show
– Amanda Zahorak, Democratic candidate for Illinois House District 48
– Paul Lisnek, multi-Emmy Award-winning TV host who served as political and legal analyst at WGN for 18 years; he is also the author of 15 books and host of “Curtain Call Chicago” and “Paul On Politics“
– Robert Pape, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs, and author of The Escalation Trap on Substack; his new book, “Our Own Worst Enemies: America in the Age of Violent Populism,” came out last month

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