Filling in for Edwin Eisendrath, Patti Vasquez is joined by:
– Dr. Kathy Tynus, internist at Alivio Health Services
– Vicci Rodgers, AFS Intercultural volunteer
– Warren Hawk Preis of Source Solar

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On this week's show:
– Lisa Graves, founder and executive director of True North Research, a national investigative watchdog group that works with journalists and other researchers to shine a bright light on the dark money fueling regressive agendas targeting vital institutions in our republic
– Michelle Regalado Deatrick, chair and founder,  DNC Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis
– Chris Geidner, author of the Law Dork Substack newsletter
– Joe Walsh, former Illinois congressman, former Republican candidate for president, and host of the podcast “The Social Contract With Joe Walsh” (recorded on Edwin's Substack the day before)
– Andrea Pitzer, journalist and author of "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps"  (rebroadcast from July 14)

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On this week's show:
– Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer national opinion columnist
– State Rep. Trey Martinez-Fischer (D-TX)
– Bill Scher, politics editor at The Washington Monthly
– Dean Baker, co-founder and senior economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research

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On this week's show:
– Samuel Bagenstos, the Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan; he specializes in civil rights, labor and employment law, health law, and governance
– Joe Walsh, former Illinois congressman, former Republican candidate for president, and host of the podcast “The Social Contract With Joe Walsh”
– Melissa Sanchez, Chicago-based immigration and labor reporter for ProPublica; her latest piece is a profile of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration who endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison
– Rob Shapiro,  Washington Monthly contributing writer, chairman of Sonecon, and a senior fellow at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He previously served as Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs under Bill Clinton and advised senior members of the Obama administration on economic policy.

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On this week's show Professors William Muck and Joel Ostrow fill in for Edwin and their guests are:
– Reed Bible, former supervisory special agent for U.S. Homeland Security
– Rima Ziuraitas, certified TACMED instructor and medic in Ukraine
– Kathy Tholin, chair, Indivisible Chicago

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On this week's show:
– Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible
– Mark Maxwell, political editor for KSDK-TV St. Louis
– Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic
– Jill Wine Banks, legal analyst, former general counsel of the U.S. Army, author of The Watergate Girl, and host of Just The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks

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On this week's show:
– Alison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School
– Anderson Clayton, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party
– David Nir, publisher of The Downballot
– Andrea Pitzer,  journalist and author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps

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On this week's show Turi Ryder fills in for Edwin and her guests are:
– Audrey Francis, artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre and director of Steppenwolf’s “You Will Get Sick,” playing through July 20
– Ron Gleason, former director of News and Programming at WBBM Radio
– Matt Cole, senior editor of Commercial Carrier Journal, talking about holiday thievery against commercial vehicles
– David Levine, professor at UC Law San Francisco

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On this week's show:
– Tomás Kloosterman, national political director at Swing Left
– David Pepper, lawyer, political activist, author (of fiction and nonfiction), and former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party
– John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation
– Tom Bonier, CEO of the TARA Group, and senior adviser for Target Smart, a Democratic political data and data services firm

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On today's show:
– Amanda Zurawski, reproductive rights activist, ahead of the Our Voices, Our Stories, Our Future: Free & Just Storyteller Summit, June 22-24
– Chris Geidner, author of The Law Dork newsletter on Substack
– Susan Demas, CEO and executive editor of Lincoln Square Media
– Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress

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