On today's show:
– Army Maj. Gen. Randy Manner (Ret.), former acting and deputy director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, former acting vice chair of the National Guard Bureau, and member of National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A)
– Majid Padellan, AKA Brooklyn Dad Defiant
– David Hochberg, vice president of lending for Team Hochberg at Homeside Financial

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On today's show:
– Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, candidate for U.S. Senate
– Mike Nellis, Democratic strategist and host of “Endless Urgency with Mike Nellis
– Joel Willett, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky
– Pete Dominick, news commentator, stand-up comic, and host of the “Stand Up! with Pete Dominick” podcast
– Rich Logis, founder and executive director of Leaving MAGA

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On today's show:
– Suzanne Chod, professor of political science at North Central College
– Jennifer Silverton, co-founder of Xceptional Heroes (XH) 

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On today's show:
– Daniel Biss, mayor of Evanston and candidate for Congress [Listen to the conversation]
– Ed Yohnka, director of communications and public policy at ACLU Illinois
– Joe Brancatelli of the joesentme.com business travel newsletter
– Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party
– Heartland Signal’s Rich Eberwein with three stories you might have missed from our digital newsroom

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On today's show:
– Aaron Kleinman, head of research at Heartland Signal
– Michael Dorf, Democratic lawyer, the Law Offices of Michael C. Dorf, LLC
– Brian Endless, senior lecturer and director of African Studies and the African Diaspora at Loyola University Chicago

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On today's show:
– John Bartman, fifth generation Illinois soybean farmer
– Bob Kustra, former Illinois lieutenant governor (under Gov. Jim Edgar)
– Eric Zorn, writer-publisher of The Picayune Sentinel

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On today's show:
– Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), candidate for U.S. Senate
– Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Teachers Union president and new president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers
– James Zirin, Washington Monthly contributor, author and legal analyst, and former federal prosecutor in New York’s Southern District. He also hosts the podcast “Conversations with Jim Zirin”
– Danielle Perry, Greater Chicago Food Depository

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On today's show:
– Army Maj. Gen. Randy Manner (Ret.), former acting and deputy director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and member of National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A)
– Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School
– Heartland Signal’s Rich Eberwein with three stories you might have missed from our digital newsroom
– Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of President Harry S Truman and star of “Give Em Hell Harry,” which is coming to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts Friday, November 7

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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
– David Layman, former Providence, Rhode Island, news anchor, managing editor, and political commentator for RIPBS
– Chris Bury, senior journalist-in-residence, DePaul University

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On today's show:
– Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune contributing columnist and ABC7 Chicago political analyst
– Ty Rushing,  co-founder and president of the Iowa Association of Black Journalists and chief political correspondent of Iowa Starting Line (Courier)
– William Campbell, host of "Here’s How: Ireland’s Political, Social and Current Affairs Podcast"

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