On today's show:
– Mike Nellis, Democratic strategist and host of “Endless Urgency with Mike Nellis
– Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL)
– Marjorie Hershey, professor emeritus, political science at Indiana University Bloomington

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On today's show:
– Army Maj. Gen. Randy Manner (Ret.), former acting vice chair of the National Guard Bureau, and member of National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A)
– Texas State Rep. Trey Martinez-Fischer (D)
– David Hochberg, vice president of lending for Team Hochberg at Homeside Financial

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On today's show Turi Ryder fills in for Joan and her guests are:
– Car Guy Tom Appel, host of the Consumer Guide Car Stuff podcast
– Wendy Lobel, producer-director of “Anxiety Club,” a “heartfelt and humorous exploration of anxiety through the lens of some of today’s most brilliant comedians”
– Eleanor Ray, founder and executive director of The WasteShed, a nonprofit creative reuse organization dedicated to giving new life to art supplies and promoting sustainability
– Robert Held, Chicago attorney recently detained by ICE but not charged with a crime; he is traveling to New Orleans to protest ICE actions in that city
– Samuel Cole, chief immigration litigation counsel at ACLU of Illinois 

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On today's show:
– Dr. Anthony Douglas, trauma surgeon at University of Chicago Hospital, and one of the lead organizers behind the Responsibility in Firearm Legislation Act, or RIFL Act in Illinois
– Virginia Canter, ethics and anti-corruption chief counsel and director, Democracy Defenders Fund
– Pat Kreitlow, founder and editor of Up North News (Courier)
– Heartland Signal’s Rich Eberwein with three stories you might have missed from our digital newsroom

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On today's show:
– Tod Maffin, online content creator and author of “From Far and Wide with Tod Maffin" 
– Lisa Stark, former ABC News reporter who recently penned a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger calling on him to defend free press and protect ABC journalists from political pressure
– Mark Jacob and Jennifer Schulze with our regular media segment

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On today's show:
– Wayne Steger, professor of political science at DePaul
– Elisha Brown, Reproductive Rights Today newsletter author at States Newsroom
– Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf, Th.D., pastor-activist-theologian, senior minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston
– Dr. Kristin Lyerly, OB/GYN, 2024 candidate for Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District, plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s pre-Civil War abortion law, and host of “The Kristin Lyerly Show” on Civic Media — the show makes it WCPT debut Saturday at 5:00 p.m. Central!

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On today's show:
– Tamar Jacoby, contributor to Washington Monthly and the Kyiv-based director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project and the author of “Displaced: The Ukrainian Refugee Experience.” Her latest article for Washington Monthly is “
Three Lessons From Trump’s Latest Plan for Ukraine.”
– Melissa Bean, Democratic candidate for Congress in the 8th District of Illinois
– Terry Cosgrove, senior adviser to Project 50 and former president and CEO of Personal PAC
– Dr. Roger Mitchell, president of the National Medical Association, the nation’s oldest and largest organization representing Black physicians and their patients
– Stacy Kess, founder and chief of editorial at Equal Access Public Media

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On today's show:
– Margaret Donovan, attorney at Koskoff Koskoff and Bieder, visiting clinical lecturer in law at Yale Law School, former assistant United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, Army veteran and former captain in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps
– Jane Kirtley, professor of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota and former executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
– Dan Schaefer, member of Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus, which presents “A Holly Dolly Christmas” December 5-7

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On today's show:
– George D. Strickland, recently retired Lake County associate judge for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Lake County
– Laura Leslie, editor of NC Newsline
– Chef Lisa Counts of The Chopping Block
– Chicago Ald. Matt O’Shea

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On today's show:
– Camaron Stevenson, national correspondent in Washington, D.C. for Courier
– Jill Wine-Banks, legal analyst, former general counsel of the U.S. Army, author of “The Watergate Girl,” co-host of #SistersInLaw and host of Just The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks
– Joe Walsh, former Republican congressman from Illinois and host of The Social Contract with Joe Walsh
– Gabrielle Oliveira, author of “Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life”

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