Not Safe For Wonks

Can you give a natural feature a bill of rights? You sure can! Nancy Larson is a retired social worker and community activist running for Ohio State House of Representatives in the 47th District. We sat down for a passionate, fun, and informative hour with Nancy and her campaign manager, Quinn Albright, that you won't want to miss. Topics include:

• The Lake Erie Bill of Rights
• Making Compelling Pro-Choice Arguments
• Protecting Our Rights to Vote and Participate in Democracy
• Flipping a Narrow Red Distrct
• How Medicare4All Can Save Everyone Money

Get Involved with Nancy's Campaign:https://www.nancyfor.ushttps://twitter.com/NancyForOhiohttps://secure.actblue.com/donate/nancyforus

We really planned on punishing our editor with this one, but he was out so OH WELL. The team at Psychic Dolphin Garage pops by for a VERY long awaited collab, and a discussion of Things Millennials Killed in the 2010’s just explodes into a weird, hilarious thrill ride.

• info warrior rides
• racism and other bad fandoms
• leia’s plan to “decentralize the culture”
• the worst chapo
• sexy cereal mascots
• adam sandler’s career resurgence
• bernie’s weird reparations plan

And... seriously so much more. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll lose some brain cells.

What will it take to have a government we truly feel we can hold accountable? Melanie D'arrigo is an activist, organizer, and candidate for New York's 3rd district and she has some big ideas about transparent elections and getting the dark money out of politics, as well as many other topics, such as:

• Giving Power to Abusers like Brett Kavanaugh
• Organizing Around Important Issues in Your Community
• The Policies that Will Never Get Passed without Women in Politics
• Collective Bargaining (or maybe Collective Unioning... is that a thing? it is now!)
• The Influence of Having a Family on Melanie's Fiery Stances

Get On Board With Melanie's Campaign: https://www.darrigo2020.com

And Follow Her Twitter: https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie

An hour with a real one.

Hey, as you're all freaking out about US primary infighting, try and remember that the United States lied about a war for literally TWENTY years and nobody's set anything on fire.

Author and activist Sorcha W. Flynn shares the hard details of the Afghanistan Papers inside. Funny & horrifying, have a drink with this one.

It's proof that voting blue doesn't solve *all* your problems - Oregon has the most spending on elections per capita, and now their state legislature is slashing employee pensions.

Paige Kriesman is working to change that. Landlords, developers, fossil fuels, Comcast, and Nike are spending nationally leading amounts of money to keep her out of office.

Why there's SO much corporate money going into a state legislature?

• Surviving a state with unlimited corporate money
• Why cis people need to think so much bigger than the trans military ban.
• Paige's heartbreaking experiences as an infantrywoman and how it shaped her politics.
• Fighting the military industrial complex at home and abroad.
• How to organize anywhere (including deep red areas)
• Creating a green economy that centers and benefits working people.
• How to get around the state legislature and remove corporate money from Oregon politics.

meet paige here: https://www.paige2020.com/

or visit her twitter: https://twitter.com/PaigeKreisman

Lauren Ashcraft has gone on an incredible journey to become a candidate for New York's 12th district. Once you've spent an hour with her, you might want that journey to go one step further.

• How campaign finance sets the stage for war.
• Changing campaign finance to keep all money from corporate PACs out of elections.
• Creating a national public transportation system.
• Lauren's journey to socialism.
• What she can say to people considering Joe Biden.
• How a Lauren/Bernie team can help an intersectional women's rights movement.
• Andrew Yang's karaoke fundraiser, and how to get Lauren to sing the Hamilton soundtrack for YOU.

All that and a LOT more - you gotta listen and good. ==>https://laurenashcraft.com/==>http://twitter.com/VoteAshcraft==>http://patreon.com/notsafe

Harnessing clout for political purposes: we finally get to hang out with Sarah Marilyn former brain scientist turned professional memer. We analyze he political world and give lessons to grassroots activists looking to build an audience from nothing.

• How much should political candidates "lean into the meme" and when are they trying too hard.
• Why nobody should be scared of getting "dunked on" and screwing up.
• Are millenials are becoming outdated online?
• Candidates that have a GREAT meme game and what you can learn from them.
• Can you win an election on Twitter? Sarah says yes.

Learn about "underpriced attention", content syndication, and a lot more.

Janos Marton is a decarceration activist - and for his campaign, that means freeing 80% of the people in jail in Manhattan. Who are these 80%, and does setting them free keep us safe?

We talk about his vision for criminal justice here.

Sincereposting, you hate to see it. Probably our most intensely "personal" episode since uh, the early days. Serious talk about the clout game and pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps, and the people that helped us when they really had no reason to.

We also talk about our visions for 2020, what we think the future will look like for Our Guy and just as importantly, the people who will get a chance to implement progressive policy on a local level.

Leia is SO fucking drunk, sorry about that y'all.

Asher Nuckolls is a candidate for Georgia's 11th congressional district, creating a new perception in peoples' minds about what politics can do for them.We talk:Rural Georgia and the people who live thereWorking with voters who think all politics is corrupt as a progressiveHealthcare and the byzantine ways it screws peopleWhy Welfare policies are actually pretty good and work most places

...and more!Support Asher's Campaign:https://twitter.com/VoteNuckollshttps://www.ashernuckolls.com