bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/20353124 Gable Pacheco and I talk to Thomas Frank at a live taping of the Katie Halper Show. Frank, the author of "What's the Matter with Kansas" and "Listen Liberal," whose writing appears in The Guardian and Harpers has just come out with "Rendezvous with Oblivion," a collection of essays. Thomas talks to us about how Hillary Clinton could have won, what turned him from Republican to Democrat, what turns him off about the Democrats, and what turned him from academic to journalist.

Bonus: Ro Khanna on dual endorsing Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Crowley and Julia Salazar and Matt Stoller on the significance of Ocasio-Cortez's victory https://www.patreon.com/posts/20176305.

I talk to Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-D) about how we can block the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. As a fellow Yale law grad, Khanna "knows the type" of person Kavanaugh is: "he's a partisan hack, careerist, who sucks up to people in power. it's the worst kind of elitism." We also talk about the disgusting deputy DA who called Maxine Waters a "loud-mother c*** and said, "you would think someone would have shot this bitch by now." Then I talk to Councilman Jumaane Williams who got arrested at Trump Tower protesting Kavanaugh about why he's running for Lieutenant Governor of New York and the racist hypocrisy and cowardice of the #McResistance.

Bonus on Catalan independence & dating a professional Spanish soccer player: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nando-vila-on-on-19868254 Gabe Pacheco and I talk about reformist self-care and what happens when you can't pronounce the Spanish ñ (spoiler alert: you may say anus instead of year). Then I talk to Nando Vila, host of the World Cup podcast We Came to Win and the show Soccer Gods about world cup history and politics, fascism and partisans.

Virgil Texas, Alex Press, Sean McElwee, Jabari Brisport, Emma Vigeland, Jake Flores and even Thomas Frank (for 10 seconds) on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez win and some fo the worst take aways on it. Hear more from Thomas Frank tonight! http://caveat.nyc/event/the-katie-halper-show-with-gabe-pacheco-special-guest-thomas-frank/ Hear my interview with Ocasio-Cortez (which I did BEFORE she won) here https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/primary-challenger-ocasio-cortez-vs-old-boy-network! Watch my interview with her here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTY8k6hesr8

I talk to Phoenix Calida and William Jackson, co-hosts of The Black Podcast about sex why they don't celebrate pride and how SESTA and FOSTA is killing sex workers, Check out #BlackPodcast https://twitter.com/uppittynegress & https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-black-podcast-with-wine-cellar-media/id581644025

Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/19613514

I talk to Christine Ahn Founder & International Coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, an organization of women mobilizing for peace in Korea about the North Korea Summit, what it means, and what the media is getting wrong about it. Then I talk to Emma Vigeland about Trump's immigration policy, how it's similar to and different from Obama's legacy and tender age shelters. And we talk about Israel and the Trump administration's withdrawal from the UN's Human Rights Council.

On this breaking news-ish campaign free bonus ep, I talk to Ben Spielberg about the very important Initiative 77, which requires employers in Washington DC to pay their workers the full minimum wage PLUS TIPS. As of now, tipped workers don't get the minimum wage that non-tipped workers get.

Bonus chat: https://www.patreon.com/posts/19476905

I talk to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about why she's running for Congress, how her personal story as a child of Puerto Rican parents influenced her politics, what she's running for and why her opponent, who writes op-eds about his Irish America pride, accuses her of making the election "about race." Plus she talks about the amazing candidates being supported and recruited by Justice Democrats, Brand New Congress, and Democratic Socialists of America. Gabe & and I talk about Anthony Bourdain, his hatred of Henry Kissinger, and his commitment to social justice and human rights not just for "Americans" but for... wait for it... Palestinians. And Gabe and I talk about another tragic suicide: Marco Antonio Muñoz who died in a Texas jail after being separated from his wife and three-year-old son. The family had fled Honduras after the wife's brother had been killed. The apparent suicide (though it's not clear he wasn't killed) sheds light on the new zero tolerance policy around immigration. How much of a departure is Trump from other presidents on immigration, though? Alexandria and I discuss this in the bonus episode.

https://zephyrforny.com/ Legal scholar, activist, and Berniecrat Zephyr Teachout shocked the NY and the country when she came close to defeating Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for governor of New York. Now she's running for Attorney General. And she plans to sue Donald Trump over his conflict of interest as a business man. Zephyr also talks about neoliberalism, why the Dems need to be on offense, not defense, and why "it's time for a new 21st century trust-busting."

Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/aaron-mate-on-19418558 Aaron Maté talks to me about Trump's collusion... with Israel, why there isn't an #IsraelGate, why everything you thought you knew about #Russiagate is wrong, how the Russiagate narrative emboldens Trump, undermines #TheTheResistance and protects the privileges of the political elites. Plus what's the deal with Robert Mueller's suits and Democrats being as hawkish as John Bolton?