Episode Blog

December 18, 2025 Holiday Survival Guide: How To Talk With MAGA Relatives Using Facts, Not Fury I’m doing something a little different. This episode is for anyone who is walking into a holiday or family gathering with that familiar knot in their… Read post →

December 11, 2025 Two Courtroom Showdowns That Reveal The State Of American Democracy With Richard Wilson In Podcast 153, Richard Wilson and Jackalyn Rainosek, PhD take listeners into two legal battles that—on the surface—seem unrelated: the dismissal of a federal indictment against… Read post →

December 4, 2025 Stuffing, Soot, And Sedition — A Thanksgiving Of Resistance In Trump’s America Thanksgiving 2025 feels heavier than usual. In Trump’s America, a holiday meant for gratitude now sits against rising hunger, weakened public health protections, environmental rollbacks, and… Read post →

November 27, 2025 Power Over People: Trump’s War On The Vulnerable Are we watching the collapse of America’s moral center in real-time? In this urgent and consequential episode, Jackalyn Rainosek, PhD exposes a core pattern of cruelty… Read post →

November 20, 2025 Truth, Leadership, And The Photo-Op Presidency It’s time to cut through the political noise and face a harsh reality: we are led by spectacle, not strategy. President Trump’s focus on ego and… Read post →

November 13, 2025 107 Days — The Woman Who Could Have Changed Everything What if the future of American democracy hinged on just 107 days? This episode dives into Kamala Harris’s book, 107 Days, using her story as a… Read post →

November 6, 2025 The Republic In Ruins: No Kings, No Compassion, And The Battle To Rebuild American Democracy The Republic is in ruins. What happens when “no kings” means no compassion? This is the story of the battle to rebuild American democracy from the… Read post →

October 30, 2025 Justice On Trial: The Callais Case, Aging Judges, And The Future Of Fair Courts With Richard Wilson Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek and Richard Wilson take a deep dive into two pivotal issues redefining America’s courts: the Supreme Court case Louisiana v. Callais and the… Read post →

October 23, 2025 Our Best Chance To Save Democracy–Featuring Heather Cox Richardson Every once in a while, a voice emerges that helps us see clearly through the fog of confusion and fear. Historian Heather Cox Richardson, professor at… Read post →