By Chris Savage & MoReno Taylor II
Turning words into votes
Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @SeanMcBreartyMI Clean Water Action Michigan on Twitter: @CleanWaterMI Water and Oil Don't Mix on Twitter: @OilWaterDntMix Clean Water Action's website: CleanWater.org/states/michigan Water and Oil Don't Mix's website: OilAndWaterDontMix.org Enbridge, the...
Kim Knackstedt on Twitter: @kiknack The Century Foundation on Twitter: @TCFdotorg The Disability Economic Justice Collaborative on Twitter: @DEJCollab The Century Foundation's website is at TCF.org The Disability Economic Justice Collaborative's website is at DEJC.org Kim Knackstedt's bio can be found HERE. Kim Knackstedt and Rebeccas...
Ghida Dagher on Twitter: @GhidaDagher New American Leadership on Twitter: @NewAmericanLd New American Leadership Action Fund on Twitter: @NALActionFund New American Leadership's website: NewAmericanLeaders.org New American Leadership Fund's website: NALAF.org Learn more about New American Leadership's training program HERE. Paul Egan at the Detroit Free Press:...
Natalie Price on Twitter: @VoteNPrice Natalie Price at the Michigan House Democrats' website: HouseDems.com/Natalie-Price Erika Geiss on Twitter: @SenErikaGeiss Erika Geiss at the Michigan Senate Democrats' website: SenateDems.com/Geiss Follow the Michigan Democrats and their legislative agenda at Legislature.MI.gov Anna Gustafson at Michigan Advance: After years...
Mike Grunwald on Twitter: @MikeGrunwald Listen to the Climavores podcast HERE. Buy Michael Grunwald's book The New New Deal in paperback HERE and for Kindle HERE. Buy Michael Grunwald's book The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise HERE. Mike Grunwald at...
Ken Coleman on Twitter: @HistoryLivesDet Ken Coleman is on Facebook HERE. Ken Coleman's work at Michigan Advance can be found HERE. BOOKS MENTIONED DURING THE POD: The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas Sugrue The Truly Disadvantaged: The...
Lavora Barnes on Twitter: @LavoraBarnes Lavora's bio is HERE. Michigan Democratic Party on Twitter: @MichiganDems Michigan Democratic Party's website: MichiganDems.com Meet the MDP staff including all of the Project 83 organizers HERE. Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog. MoReno Taylor II can be...
Susan Demas on Twitter: @SJDemas Susan Demas' work Michigan Advance is HERE. Michigan Advance can be found HERE. Michigan Advance on Twitter: @MichiganAdvance Senator Mike Shirkey's bizarre farewell speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NDZRM_RK00 Arpan Lobo at the Detroit Free Press: Judge dismisses charges against Rick Snyder related to Flint...
Mitchell Robinson on Twitter: @mrobmused Mitchell Robinson at MSU: Mitchell Robinson - Associate Professor of Music Education Mitchell Robinson's campaign website: MitchellRobinsonForStateSchoolBoard.org Mitchell Robinson at Eclectablog: Please stop with the “heartwarming” teacher stories: this is no way to treat professionals Craig Mauger at The...
Shanay Watson-Whittaker on Twitter: @LaFemme_Negrita Reproductive Freedom for All's website: MIReproFreedom.org Michigan's Prop 3 on Twitter: @MIReproFreedom Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog. MoReno Taylor II can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_Man. Support the pod by becoming a Patreon donor HERE! Give...
Marie Fielder online: Donate to Marie's campaign HERE. Campaign website: MarieFielder.com Twitter: @EasternSkyWoman Facebook: Facebook.com/FielderforMI106 Instagram: Instagram.com/fielder4nemi Mark Zacharda online: Donate to Mark's campaign HERE. Campaign website: VoteMarkZ.com Twitter: @VoteMarkZ Facebook: Facebook.com/VoteMarkZ Instagram: Instagram.com/VoteMarkZ/ Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog. MoReno Taylor II can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_Man. Support...
Erica Peresman, Voter Protection Director for the Michigan Democratic Party, on Twitter: @Erica_Peresman Learn more about Erica Peresman and her advocacy HERE. Heidi Przybyla at Politico: ‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections Veronica Ortega at WZZM13:...
Justin Johnson on Twitter: @RivershoreAgent https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1532477466442358787 Jennifer Elias & Amelia Lucas at CNBC: Employees everywhere are organizing. Here’s why it’s happening now Faiz Shakir at The New Republic: America Is in the Midst of a Dramatic Labor Resurgence Chris Savage can be found on...
Dr. Michele Bratcher Goodwin on Twitter: @MicheleBGoodwin Dr. Michele Bratcher Goodwin's website: MicheleBGoodwin.com Dr. Michele Bratcher Goodwin's bio at UCI Law is HERE. Dr. Goodwin's podcast On the Issues with Michele Goodwin at Ms. Magazine can be found HERE. Dr. Michele Goodwin at The...
Stephen Pontoni on Twitter: @StevePontoni Michigan Association for Justice on Twitter: @MI_Justice Michigan Association for Justice's website: MichiganJustice.org https://twitter.com/MalloryMcMorrow/status/1516453738403143681 Miles Parks at NPR: Michigan GOP moves forward with 2020 election-denying secretary of state and AG Michael Krafcik at WWMT: Grand Rapids police officer shoots Patrick...
David Atkins on Twitter: @DavidOAtkins David Atkins' work at Washington Monthly can be found HERE. David's remarkable Twitter thread that inspired this episode is here (read the whole thing including the CODA): https://twitter.com/DavidOAtkins/status/1509642650051178500 Kelly House and Jonathan Oosting at Bridge Michigan: Sister-in-law: Ex-MI House...
Joyce McIntosh on Twitter: @jmclibrarian Freedom to Read Foundation: FTRF.org The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom: ALA.org/OIF Information on reporting censorship of books, etc. to the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom is HERE. Hannah Natanson at The Washington Post: Schools...
Lizz Winstead on Twitter: @LizzWinstead Abortion Access Front's website is at AAFront.org. Listen to the Feminist Buzzkills LIVE! podcast HERE. Lizz Winstead and Renee Bracey Sherman at NBC News: Patriot Front's anti-abortion advocacy at March for Life sends a clear message https://twitter.com/lizzwinstead/status/1502645000223563776 Michigan Republican House...
Jeff Timmer on Twitter: @JeffTimmer Two Rivers Public Affairs website: TwoRiversPublicAffairs.com The A Republic, If You Can Keep It podcast can be found HERE. Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog. MoReno Taylor II can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_Man. Support the...
Amanda Litman on Twitter: @AmandaLitman Run for Something on Twitter: @RunForSomething Run For Something can be found online at RunForSomething.net Want to run for something and you're a Millennial or a Gen-Zer? Go to RunForWhat.net and get started! https://twitter.com/ratemyskyperoom/status/1493783375752011785 Denzel McCampbell on Twitter: @DenzMcCampbell Learn more...
Simon D. Schuster on Twitter: @Simon_Schuster Michigan Campaign Finance Network on Twitter: @MichiganCFN Michigan Campaign Finance Network's website is at MCFN.org. Sergio Martínez & Simon D. Schuster at the Michigan Campaign Finance Network: Lee Chatfield Raised Millions and Traveled Often. Michigan Law Means...
Susan Demas on Twitter: @SJDemas Susan Demas' work Michigan Advance is HERE. Michigan Advance can be found HERE. Michigan Advance on Twitter: @MichiganAdvance Allison Donahue at Michigan Advance: I tried to interview Sen. Peter Lucido. He told me a group of schoolboys ‘could have...
Adrian Hemond on Twitter: @AdrianHemond Grassroots Midwest on Twitter: @Grassroots_MW Grassroots Midwest's website: GrassRootsMidwest.com Michigan's new state House districts are HERE. Michigan's new state Senate districts are HERE. Michigan's new Congressional districts are HERE. Chris Savage can be found on Twitter at @Eclectablog. MoReno Taylor II can...
Melissa Nann Burke at The Detroit News: Michigan's new congressional map features 4 races that could decide U.S. House majority 150 Prominent Republicans and Independents Release 'A Call for American Renewal' Charting New Path Brittany Gibson at Politico: They stormed the Capitol....
Tim Ossman, Jr. on Instagram: @black_man_beyond Tim Ossman, Jr.'s bio can be found HERE. Randi Weingarten on Twitter: @RWeingarten Randi Weingarten's bio can be found HERE. Learn more about AFT's Reading Opens the World initiative HERE. Read more about AFT's many other initiatives HERE. Chris Savage...
Brandon Jessup on Twitter: @ItsBJessup Brandon Jessup's bio is HERE and HERE. State Voices website: StateVoices.org Michigan Forward's website: UPXMichigan.com Michigan Forward on Facebook is HERE. Karin Brulliard, Kim Bellware, Meryl Kornfield, María Luisa Paúl, John Woodrow Cox and Paulina Firozi at The Washington Post:...
Rattle the Windows on Twitter: @RattleWindows The Rattle the Windows website is RattleTheWindows.com. Listen to Amy Jo's interview on the Off-Kilter with Rebecca Vallas podcast HERE. The Congressional testimony that started it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-q584bITIk Learn more about poverty in America at PovertyUSA.org/facts. Contact your U.S. Senator...
Krystle DuPree can be found on Facebook at Facebook.com/TrusteeDuPree. Krystle DuPree at Eclectablog: Pervasive and Perverse Poverty Porn Krystle DuPree at Eclectablog: Childcare is critical infrastructure and for families of color, it’s even MORE critical COVID-19 in Michigan: COVID-19 in Washtenaw County, Michigan: Information about...
Barb Byrum on Twitter: @BarbByrum Barb Byrum at Eclectablog: BE AFRAID: Spooky Season is here for election officials and democracy itself, too https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1458521438269366283 Hannah Knowles and Hannah Natanson at The Washington Post: Backlash to school books centering on race, sex and LGBTQ people...
https://twitter.com/MIWolverine92/status/1455893363463438345 Judd Legum at Popular Information: One thought about Tuesday's election Laina G. Stebbins at Michigan Advance: House Dems roll out bills expanding voting rights Allison R. Donahue at Michigan Advance: Rep. Bolden details great-grandfather’s lynching during ‘critical race theory’ debate Jordan Zakarin on...
On today's pod, we introduce the new co-host for The GOTMFV Show podcast, MoReno Taylor II. MoReno can be found on Twitter at @MI_MADE_man. Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin Jordan Zakarin at Progressives Everywhere: The 22-year-old suing Ron DeSantis for strangling democracy Madeline Montgomery...
David Dayen on Twitter: @DDayen The American Prospect on Twitter: @TheProspect David Dayen at The American Prospect: Infrastructure Summer: Joe Manchin’s Symphony of Disingenuousness The American Prospect Executive Action Tracker is HERE. Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin Jordan Zakarin at Progressives Everywhere: Rana Abdelhamid grew...
Jon Bauman on Twitter: @JonBowzerBauman Social Security Works' website: SocialSecurityWorks.org https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/1428091298666455042 Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin Support progressive Florida Congressional candidate Omari Hardy by clicking HERE. Progressives Everywhere's website: ProgressiveseEverywhere.substack.com Sign up for the Progressives Everywhere newsletter HERE. Support Progressives Everywhere by becoming a Patreon donor HERE. Give...
Imani Gandy on Twitter: @AngryBlackLady Rewire News Group on Twitter: @RewireNewsGroup Rewire News Group's website is at RewireNewsGroup.com. Listen to the Boom! Lawyered podcast HERE. Sign up for the Rewired newsletter HERE. https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1433960506193289217 Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin https://twitter.com/jordanzakarin/status/1433405082868060163 Jordan Zakarin at Progressives Everywhere: How to protect women...
Julie Oliver on Twitter: @JulieOliverTX Mike Siegel on Twitter: @SiegelForTexas Ground Game Texas on Twitter: @GroundGameTX Ground Game Texas website: GroundGameTexas.org Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin https://twitter.com/jordanzakarin/status/1432451095578742789 Jordan Zakarin at Progressives Everywhere: Rep. Mondaire Jones lifts the veil on the filibuster and Democratic inaction Progressives Everywhere's website:...
Stephen Miles on Twitter: @SPMiles42 Win Without War on Twitter: @WinWithoutWar Win Without War's website: WinWithoutWar.org https://twitter.com/SPMiles42/status/1427660233984380939 Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin Progressives Everywhere's website: ProgressiveseEerywhere.substack.com Sign up for the Progressives Everywhere newsletter HERE. Support Progressives Everywhere by becoming a Patreon donor HERE. Give us a five-star review...
Alexis Goldstein on Twitter: @AlexisGoldstein Alexis Goldstein's weekly newsletter: Markets Weekly Via Open Markets: Fact Sheet: Cryptocurrency Tax Evasion and National Security Threats https://twitter.com/Omri_Marian/status/1424116657350275072 https://twitter.com/toddntucker/status/1425111201747542018 Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin Progressives Everywhere's website: ProgressiveseEerywhere.substack.com Jordan Zakarin at Progressives Everywhere: Can we win back Trump country? https://twitter.com/jordanzakarin/status/1426248698724499460 Sign up for...
Seth Hanlon on Twitter: @SethHanlon Seth Hanlon's bio is HERE. https://twitter.com/SethHanlon/status/1423426188828160003 https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein/status/1423342310478290945 Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin Progressives Everywhere's website: ProgressiveseEerywhere.substack.com Jordan Zakarin at Progressives Everywhere: Can we win back Trump country? Make a donation to support the fine work of RuralVote.org by clicking HERE. Support Equal Ground,...
Marcy Wheeler on Twitter: @emptywheel Marcy Wheeler's website: EmptyWheel.net Marcy Wheeler at EmptyWheel.net: DOJ unimpressed by Mo Brooks' kickass conspiracy defense Marcy Wheeler at EmptyWheel.net: Like all his co-conspirators, Donald Trump would be charged for obstruction, not incitement Marcy Wheeler at EmptyWheel.net: The available...
Rebecca Vallas on Twitter: @RebeccaVallas Tell your members of Congress: "We can't afford to leave SSI for disabled & older Americans behind in #BuildBackBetter." 202-224-3121 Text SSINOW to 50409 https://twitter.com/rebeccavallas/status/1418319519794225158 Rebecca Vallas and Matt Cortland at The Hill: The safety net program Congress...
Lilliana Mason on Twitter: @LilyMasonPhD Lilliana Mason, Julie Wronski, and John V. Kane at Cambridge University Press: Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support https://twitter.com/LilyMasonPhD/status/1411053651054010378 Purchase Lillian Mason's book Uncivil Agreement HERE. Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin Progressives Everywhere's website: ProgressiveseEerywhere.substack.com Sign up for...
Matthew Cortland on Twitter: @mattbc Use ResistBot to make your voice heard on the issue of overhauling and improving SSI HERE. Or text PSLOAE to 50409! Or text SSINOW to 50409! Or call 202-224-3121! Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) writes about the critical need to improve SSI...
Adam Jentleson on Twitter: @AJentleson Purchase Adam Jentleson's book Kill Switch - The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy HERE. Adam Jentleson at The Atlantic: How to Stop the Minority-Rule Doom Loop Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin Jordan Zakarin...
Hakeem Jefferson on Twitter: @hakeemjefferson Read the letter regarding the moment of crisis for American democracy we are currently in and how critical it is that we pass the For the People Act, co-written by Hakeem Jefferson and signed by over...
Jocelyn Benson on Twitter: @JocelynBenson Purchase Jocelyn Benson's book State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process HERE. Samuel Robinson at Mlive.com: Michigan Senate passes controversial election bills that put emphasis on ID requirements Heritage Action for America: Heritage Action Launches Election...
Ian Haney-López on Twitter: @IanHaneyLopez Ian Haney-López's website: IanHaneyLopez.com Purchase Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America HERE. Purchase Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked the Middle Class HERE. The Race-Class Narrative Academy can...
Sarah Kendzior on Twitter: @SarahKendzior Sarah Kendzior's website: SarahKendzior.com The Gaslit Nation podcast on Twitter: @gaslitnation The Gaslit Nation podcast's website: GaslitNationPod.com Support Sarah's work by becoming a Patreon HERE. Buy Sarah Kendzior's book The View from Flyover Country HERE. Buy Sarah Kendzior's book Hiding in...
Marcy Wheeler on Twitter: @emptywheel Marcy Wheeler's website: EmptyWheel.net Marcy Wheeler at EmptyWheel.net: Republicans filibuster keeping the Capitol Safe Marcy Wheeler at EmptyWheel.net: In [legal] defense of the Nazi Marcy Wheeler at EmptyWheel.net: Bill Barr issued prosecution declinations for three crimes in progress Jordan Zakarin...
Abraham Gutman on Twitter: @ABGutman Abraham Gutman's pieces at The Philadelphia Inquirer can be found HERE. https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1392533111490191363 Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin Jordan Zakarin at Progressives Everywhere: Surprising Stories in the Most and Least Progressive States READ: ESSENTIAL WAGES -- An analysis of New York...
David M. Perry on Twitter: @Lollardfish David M. Perry's website: DavidMPerry.com Prepurchase David M. Perry's forthcoming book The Bright Ages HERE. David M. Perry at CNN: Yes, it's a good idea to bribe people to get vaccinated David M. Perry at CNN: Covid protesters...
