Akinyele Umoja, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University and founding member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the New Afrikan People's Organization, joins us for the Brand New Congress-Millennial Politics joint podcast series on Venezuela to discuss the history of Blackness in Venezuela, Afro-Venezuelan support for the Bolivarian Revolution, the racialization of Hugo Chávez, and more.

36-year-old activist Lorena Garcia is running against Republican Cory Gardner in Colorado and could become the first openly queer woman of color ever elected to the U.S. Senate.

In this episode of our joint podcast series with Brand New Congress on Venezuela, Jordan Valerie Allen speaks with Daniel Kovalik, human rights and labor lawyer, former Senior Associate General Counsel of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO, author of The Plot to Control the World: How the U.S. Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World, and observer of the 2013 and 2018 Venezuelan presidential elections to discuss oil, the Venezuelan electoral process, the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America, and more.

Data for Progress Housing Fellow Henry Kraemer joins us on the podcast to make the case for housing as a human right and analyze the housing policy of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.

Dr. Tim Gill, author of "The State and Civil Society in Socialist Venezuela," joins us for the Brand New Congress-Millennial Politics joint podcast series on Venezuela.

Professor Alexander Aviña joins us for the Brand New Congress-Millennial Politics podcast series on Venezuela to discuss the history of U.S. imperialism in Latin America.

Ryan Watts, Democratic candidate for North Carolina's 6th Congressional District, joins Nathan Rubin to breakdown his decision to run, the day-to-day of running for Congress, and what life is like after election day.

Decrim NY is a coalition fighting to decriminalize sex work in New York through "policy building, community organizing, and advocacy work."

Professor Margaret Power, author of "Right-Wing Women in Chile," contextualizes what's happening in Venezuela by examining the 1973 U.S.-sponsored right-wing coup in Chile.

Means Media, the socialist team behind Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's viral 2018 campaign ad, is now launching Means TV, a post-capitalist streaming platform.