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Joshua Holland is joined by one reporter who has been covering QAnon since its inception, Will Sommer from The Daily Beast.

Joshua Holland is joined by Amanda Litman, the co-founder of Run for Something, to talk about how a new generation of younger Democrats who have come to age in an era of right-wing extremism are getting national attention. Then Sabrina Talukder, Director of the Women’s Initiative at the Center for American Progress, helps us understand how an activist Trump judge hand-picked by a religious-right litigation group has seized the power to regulate abortion drugs from the FDA.

Joshua Holland is joined by legal analyst Marcy Wheeler to talk about the 34 felony charges filed this week against Donald Trump and get her view of the likely status of three other criminal probes working their way toward the former president.

Joshua Holland is joined by Dave Karpf, a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University to talk about how Elon Musk is steering Twitter straight toward bankruptcy, the saga surrounding the Silicon Valley Bank and the pitfalls of covering the right's endless moral panics.

Joshua Holland is joined by The Texas Observer's Josephine Lee to talk about how the campus culture wars, which are fueled by deep-pocketed conservative donors, have shifted from an emphasis on "free-market" economics to a violent form of Christian Nationalism. Then, Natasha Lennard shares her reporting for The Intercept on the movement to stop the "Cop City" project in Atlanta.

Joshua Holland is joined by veteran journalist Judd Legum to take a good, hard look at Florida's pint-sized wannabe strongman, Ron DeSantis.

AR Moxon joins Joshua Holland to talk about Dilbert creator Scott Adams and other bigoted right-wingers who claim that they're being silenced. And then we speak to Parker Molloy about the challenges of criticizing the often slanted reporting from legacy media outlets like the NYT from the left.

Joshua Holland is joined by Washington Post data journalist Andrew Van Dam to talk about why people in the Southern states have significantly worse credit scores. And then Jennifer Mercieca, a professor of communications and journalism at Texas A&M, helps us understand how fascist movements use control of the language to normalize their extreme ideology.

Joshua Holland speaks with Dan Froomkin about how normalcy bias and both-sideism makes America's political press an enabler for an energized far-right movement that threatens our democratic tradition. And then we're joined by The American Prospect's Jarod Facundo to talk about the right's relatively new propaganda about "critical race theory" and "wokeness" in our schools.

Joshua Holland is joined by Crooks and Liars managing editor Karoli Kuns to recap Joe Biden's State of the Union Speech. Then New York Magazine's Eric Levitz tells us why Republicans are so eager to avoid laying out any concrete demands as they take the full faith and credit of the United States hostage.