Talking Strategy, Making History

By Richard Flacks

Each episode will focus on a different aspect or example of the general theme. Our kick-off frame is the awkward position that progressives find themselves in. It seems obvious, at least to a signific... more

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March 15, 2021 #10 - Jonathan Smucker (pt 1) on lessons from organizing in the rustbelt
In which we speak with Jonathan Smucker, author of Hegemony How-to: A Roadmap for Radicals, on what we can learn from organizing victories in rural Pennsylvania.

Music Credit: Ryan Harvey - "Light in the Morning (feat. RAAST, Shireen & bell's roar)
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37min
March 01, 2021 #09 - Senator Monique Limon on why progressives struggle in office
Senator Monique Limon on why progressives struggle in office In which we discuss the promise, limits, and pragmatics of electing left and progressive representation. Music Credit: Keb Mo - "Put a Woman in Charge"
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47min
February 08, 2021 #08 - Jane Kleeb on connecting with rural America
In which we talk with Jane Kleeb chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party about the nitty gritty of making the party able to connect to rural America and some of the ways party transformation is happening. It turned out to be an exciting conversation with a rising progressive leader.

Music Credit: Neil Young - "Who's Gonna Stand Up (orchestral version)"
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44min
January 15, 2021 #07 - Working for a democratic Democratic Party
In which we talk about the change in the Party we think leftists and progressives have to work on. Music Credit: Tracy Chapman - "Talkin' Bout a Revolution" / Martin Lowak - "Chill Boy"
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57min
December 29, 2020 #06 - The Biden Prospect: a conversation with Robert Kuttner
In which we hear Bob Kuttner, editor of American Prospect, offering a detailed scorecard on the emerging Biden cabinet, and the potential for executive action and legislation that can offer hope — and that can focus grassroots activism.
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45min
December 08, 2020 #05 - The Biden Years: What to Do, Hope, and Work For
In which we talk soon after the 2020 election about what's to be done next.
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51min
December 01, 2020 #04 - The Left and 'The Democrats'
In which David Duhalde, former political director of Our Revolution and deputy director of DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), traces DSA’s varying efforts to define its relationship to the Democratic Party.
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34min
November 17, 2020 #03 - Getting Ready to Party
In which we challenge some of the ways leftists look at the Democratic Party and fantasize alternatives.
Music credit: John Lennon - "Working Class Hero"
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32min
November 01, 2020 Bonus Interview: Heather Booth
Heather Booth is a legendary progressive organizer with a half century of often astonishing achievement—a pioneer in the starting of feminist activism, key organizer in Illinois for the candidacies of insurgent African American candidates Harold Washington and Carol Mosely Braun, founder of the Midwest Academy which has trained thousands of organizers, in charge of national mobilizations for universal healthcare and financial reform to name a few of her efforts. We talked with Heather a few days after she became director of Progressive and Senior outreach for the Biden campaign. It was inspiring.
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22min
October 19, 2020 #02 - What do we mean when we talk about the Democratic Party?
In which we take something of a deep dive into the fluid morass of the DP, to encourage efforts to map the party in order to formulate strategies to remake it. And we start to identify potential targets for change in dialog with Mattias Lehman, one of the leaders of the Sunrise Movement.
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46min

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