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On this edition of Your Call, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin joins us to take your questions about his record and June 7th recall election.

In 2019, Boudin's campaign focused on reforming the legal system and ending mass incarceration and cash bail. What does his record show so far? Recall supporters say he is "failing to keep San Franciscans safe." The majority of the $6 million in recall money has come from wealthy donors, according to reports. What questions do you have for Chesa Boudin?

On this edition of Your Call's One Planet series, we're discussing the West's water crisis. Maps from the US Drought Monitor show nearly all of the West is experiencing a drought, and 95 percent of California is suffering severe or extreme drought.

Californians emerged from the driest January, February and March on record with the biggest jump in water use since the drought began: a nearly 19 percent increase in March compared to two years earlier.

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we discuss the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s eight-month investigation into Nicaragua’s deforestation crisis.

Nicaragua is home to the second largest rainforest in the Americas after the Amazon, but according to the United Nations, the country is losing its forests at a faster rate than any other country in the world. Nicaragua’s forests could be virtually gone in just a few decades if deforestation continues at current rates.

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss Tuesday's primaries and the role of money in elections.

Dark money is pouring into races, but the vast majority is not being disclosed to the Federal Election Commission, according to OpenSecret's new analysis. The 2022 election cycle has already attracted more than $115 million in contributions by 501(c) groups reported to the commission.

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss coverage of CPAC Hungary 2022.

This week, far-right groups and personalities from the US and other countries gathered in Hungary for a two-day conference. What is the relationship between the Republican Party, the American hard-right and Hungary's far-right nationalist regime?

On this edition of Your Call, we'll find out why top US conservatives are having their latest Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) conference in Budapest, which kicked off today.

This morning's keynote speaker was Hungary's authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said conservatives in Europe and the US must fight together to "reconquer" institutions in Washington and Brussels from liberals who threaten Western civilization, according to Reuters.

In a speech earlier his week, Orban embraced the racist "great replacement" ideology, called the spread of LGBTQ+ rights "gender madness," and said the West is "committing suicide" through immigration. What does this say about the direction the hard-right is headed in the US?

On this edition of Your Call, we'll discuss the ongoing gun violence epidemic in the US.

The 18-year-old Buffalo shooter legally bought a semiautomatic rifle in New York and illegally modified it with a high-capacity magazine, according to officials.

So far this year, there have been 201 shootings in which four or more people were injured or killed, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The majority support stricter gun control laws, but Senator Dick Durbin told NBC that Democrats don't have 60 votes for any kind of gun safety legislation. Republicans refuse to budge on this issue. What else can be done?

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the rise of racist extremism on the far right and the growth of white supremacist hate speech online, which is fueling deadly incidents like Saturday's mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 people dead and three wounded. All 10 victims were Black.

According to a document written by the 18-year-old white shooter, he researched a zip code with a high percentage of Black residents. How should society deal with this?

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we speak with Amy Westervelt, an award winning climate journalist and host of Drilled, a true crime podcast investigating the obstacles to action on climate change. For years, Amy Westervelt has documented how polluting industries mobilized to block climate action.

We'll also speak with Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastic, about California Attorney General Rob Bonta's investigation into ExxonMobil and others for their role in causing the plastic pollution crisis.

On this week's media roundtable, we discuss the death of the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

On Wednesday, the Israeli military shot and killed her while she was reporting on an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses and the Palestinian health ministry.

Abu Akleh was wearing a press vest and was standing with other journalists when she was killed. She joined Al Jazeera in 1997 as one of the network’s first field correspondents.

According to the network, Abu Akleh, 51, was a respected and familiar face in the Middle East, known for her coverage on the harsh realities of the Israeli occupation.