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The US government continues to separate children who cross the border from their families and warehouse them at secretive child detention centers run by private, for-profit companies. Miami area resisters are holding a daily witness at the biggest such facility in the United States, in Homestead, Florida. Andrea Hildebran Smith interviews Kathy Hersh of the Miami Quaker Meeting, and Charlie, one of the people witnessing at the camp on a daily basis.

With the court stacked with right-wing justices ready to overturn Roe v Wade, advocates and abortion providers look to technological and medical advances as the path forward for women needing abortions. Amy Weintraub of Progress Florida talks with us about the safe abortion medication that women can self-manage if abortion care providers are made illegal. We discuss which groups are picking up the work connecting people with new avenues for care and which are preparing for the deluge of criminal charges against women for their abortions and miscarriages.

If the abortion bans in 8 states have you freaking out, tune in to our four-part series, The Abortion Nexus. In the first episode: Citizenship, Andrea Hildebran Smith interviews Ashleigh McGuire of Planned Parenthood about how their activists defeated this ban in Florida this year. As the pressure builds already toward 2020, the work starts now to hold the line against abortion bans here and across the country.

What would you do if you knew that America's voting machines either had a, easy ways to get hacked, b, were built by hard-right Republican donors, c, provide zero mechanism for auditing an election result that's in question, or d, were so faulty that they're a major cause of long lines and lost votes on election day? At a time when our deeply divided nation choses its government by razor-thin margins, advocates are raising the alarm about the equipment we use for voting. Election security researcher and advocate Jennifer Cohn speaks with ResistanceMom about why experts are increasingly advocating hand-marked, hand-counted paper ballots.

For Mother's Day 2019, meet ResistanceMom Elyse Haley. She shares the values of St Pete, Florida's most progressive church with their youngest members. Elyse's work as a mom, a teacher, and organizer make her our first profile for Mom of the Month.

With the release of the redacted Mueller report, Trump's control over the messaging regarding Russian collusion begins to come apart. The obvious falsehoods in Attorney General Barr's summary letter to Congress begin to shred his credibility as the conversations about impeachment start in earnest. How and when the Democrats move on impeachment is the subject of my interview with Erin Conroy, a national leader of the StandOnEveryCorner movement.

As the reality of climate destruction hits home with the California wildfires and flooded Midwest, young people in the United States are joining their European counterparts in holding strikes from school to demand immediate investment in Green New Deal legislation.

Andrea Hildebran Smith interviews Anna Grace Hottinger of MNCantWait, US Climate Strikes, and I Matter about the movement that is building a generation of organizers.

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Moms Demand, formed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting, is breaking the lock the NRA has on our country's legislators for more than a generation.

Andrea Hildebran Smith interviews Kelly Moore of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America about the activists who are winning state and federal fights for gun safety measures. Building support networks for survivors of gun violence, Moms Demand shares their all-too-common stories with lawmakers in statehouse after statehouse.

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The hazards for kids online used to be evenly matched with standard parental worries about their interest in sex and their vulnerability to strangers. But the pervasiveness of violent pornography and political disinformation campaigns means the internet pose challenges for adults and children alike, beyond what any parent can counter on their own.

This week on ResistanceMom, Andrea Hildebran Smith explores internet safety with author Nathan Fisk, whose book, Framing Internet Safety, critiques early attempts at regulating online speech.

How do we help our kids make sense of the attacks on our democracy? Can the work of resisting racism and defending democracy be something we can do side by side with our kids? Andrea Hildebran Smith talks with author and family therapist Rebecca Thompson Hitt about making sure we show our kids how to move through trauma to action.