Best Democracynow Podcasts (2025)

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#1706 Trump's Kafkaesque Deportation Nightmare is the Shame of the Nation 3:38:23

1d ago3:38:23

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Air Date 4/26/2025 For those of us who knew that Trump was lawless and deeply racist in his desire for mass deportations of brown people, we're getting exactly what we expected. For others, at least the lawlessness is coming as a bit of a surprise, and yet, here we are. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@Be…

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Introducing Live from SXSW - Outdoing Cancer Is A Team Sport from Science Will Win. Follow the show: Science Will Win While cancer deaths in the United States have declined in recent years, some populations are being left behind—facing complicated challenges to accessing the care they need. Intervening at the earliest stages of disease onset is cri…

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#1705 Threatened Social Safety Nets Are Foundational to Healthy Societies 3:06:26

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Air Date 4/22/2025 George W. Bush proposed privatizing Social Security and didn't succeed. But, as with appointing Justices that would eventually overturn Roe V. Wade, groundwork was being laid as part of a multi-decade effort that would, they hoped, pay off in the future. So don't be surprised when they come for your earned benefits programs just …

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#1704 Weaponization and Capitulation: Trump vs Immigrants, Universities, and Media 3:57:14

9d ago3:57:14

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Air Date 4/18/2025 Before the election, I heard interviews and statistics about Trump supporters responding to his stated desire to weaponize the government against his political enemies. Their response was that 1) they didn't want him to do that and 2) didn't think he would. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email …

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#1703 The Broligarchy and the Rise of Techno-Feudalism 2:54:05

9d ago2:54:05

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Air Date 4/14/2025 Everything, it turns out, is a double-edged sword. Democracy and freedom are great but it also contains the keys to its own destruction. Love is pretty good but it turns out that only love can break your heart. And technology, which has freed people from countless hours of menial labor also has the power to subsume our economy, o…

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#1254 Israeli right-wing politics has lead to some strange, fascist bedfellows (Throwback) 1:02:45

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Original Air Date: 3/5/2019 From 2019: Today we take a look at how the illiberalism of the Israeli government has alienated the vast majority of democratic nations and individuals who support human rights, leaving the country with some of the most far-right, fascist, white-supremacist, anti-Semitic people in the world as their only remaining allies…

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#1702 Destroying Education, Boosting Christian Nationalism: Rewriting the Past and Hamstringing the Future 3:06:00

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Air Date 4/5/2025 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. And with Trump in place, the Christian Nationalists are looking to rewrite history to their liking in order to create the dystopian future they desire. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email [email protected]…

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#1701 Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Installing the Backbone Democrats Need 3:14:05

25d ago3:14:05

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Air Date 4/2/2025 Love them or loathe them, the Democratic Party is the political institution available to the left to structurally take on Trumpism but we need a whole lot of new energy and new commitments to the fight to turn them into an opposition worthy of the moment we face. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or e…

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#1700 Dehumanizing Trans People is Always the First Step for Fascists 4:10:13

29d ago4:10:13

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Air Date 3/28/2025 You might not be trans yourself but that's just like how coal miners aren't canaries because when they saw that the canaries were under threat, they knew the danger was all around them. Fascists always start with those who are the easiest to dehumanize but they never stop there. ANNOUNCEMENT: Watch, like, subscribe & comment on o…

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#1479 Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights Throwback) 1:08:36

1M ago1:08:36

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Original Air Date: 3/29/2022 Today we take a look at the current iteration of the cynical culture wars being waged by conservative Republicans against LGBTQ kids for political gain. The current wave of anti-trans and anti-gay legislation sprouting across the country is not about protecting kids and is absolutely nothing new. Be part of the show! Le…

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SOLVED! #3 - Common Sense Is Not So Common 22:18

29d ago22:18

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Air Date: 3–24-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - Our new game Satire Showdown - The authoritarian takeover of the term common sense - How Americans actually feel about DEI initiatives - The right’s turn on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett - A deep dive on the theory of a multiracial Right and how Democrats should respond FOLLO…

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#1699 A Government Of the People, By the People, and Weaponized Against the People 3:04:48

1M ago3:04:48

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Air Date 3/21/2025 If you've been paying attention, the weaponization of the government against Trump's political and ideological enemies is exactly what you would have seen coming and now it's here. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email [email protected] Full Show Notes | Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support …

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Bonus Edition #341 - SOLVED! Like a Flame in the Night 25:33

1M ago25:33

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Air Date: 3–19-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - A special little ditty Jay put together - The legitimate problems that helped birth the damaging MAHA movement - Sherrod Brown’s OpEd on how the Democrats lost their way - What Jay learned from India’s railway engineers - An interview with Ro Khanna that sparked some hope FOLLOW US ON:…

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#1698 Resistance is Not Futile: Support the collective revolt against Trumpism (Special Podcasthon!) 3:04:54

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Air Date 3/18/2025 In this special Podcasthon episode, we're joining thousands of podcasts around the world in taking the opportunity this week to support a cause or organization that we believe in. In this time of fighting fascism, Best of the Left has chosen to support Indivisible, the grassroots organizing team that's working to resist Trumpism …

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#1697 The Trump World Order: Are we the Baddies? 3:33:24

1M ago3:33:24

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Air Date 3/15/2025 It always bears repeating that the progressive perspective on the state of the world is not that everything was going just fine before Trump showed up but there's a world of difference between the leftist desire to improve things and Trump's bull-in-a-china-shop foreign and economic policies. Allow us to list the ways. Be part of…

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#1696 Monthly Mix: Ethnic Cleansing Gaza, Mass Deportations, Deconstructing the State, Trump's Corruption 3:27:43

2M ago3:27:43

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Air Date 3/12/2025 The (Approximately) Monthly Mix is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we look at the future for Gaza, Trump's plans for mass deportations, the decline of the US on the international stage, the wrecking crew dismantling the federal government, RFK Jr. and the threat to public health, an…

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Bonus Edition #340 - SOLVED! Prophetic Voices from the Past and Hope for the Future 32:51

2M ago32:51

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Air Date: 3–9-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - The Founding Fathers’ prophetic concerns that we don’t ever talk about - FDR VP Harry Wallace’s op-ed on American fascism from 1944 - Philosopher Richard Rorty’s chilling predictions from 1998 - A few reasons - with caveats - why U.S. Democracy might make it through Trump 2.0 - Some hop…

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#1695 Trump's Corruption As A Matter Of Course and a Strategy to Hold Power 3:25:50

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Air Date 3/7/2025 Corruption, for those who indulge, isn't just a perk of power, it can also be a method of maintaining it. Trump is not bothering to hide the corruption he's working to facilitate or how it's geared toward supporting his desire for unchecked power. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfT…

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#1694 Unhealthy Discourse: RFK Jr. and the Anti-Science Movement Endangering Global Health 2:23:48

2M ago2:23:48

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Air Date 3/4/2025 An old proverb says that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and we're all about to see how dangerous as know-nothings and science skeptics take over the government agencies staffed by doctors and scientists with the goal of keeping the population healthy. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or emai…

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Bonus Edition #339 - SOLVED! The Power of Entrepreneurial Spirit Compels You! 19:19

2M ago19:19

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Air Date: 3-2-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - How “entrepreneurialism” has gained unearned adoration and disempowered labor organizing - The 100-year-old “New Thought” era and how it shaped our current culture of work - The social critic Theodore Roszak’s accurate predictions about the dark turn of tech and work - What Democrats sh…

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#1496 Home Is Where The Hardship Is (Housing Crisis Throwback) 1:07:48

2M ago1:07:48

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Original Air Date: 615/2022 The many reasons why we are experiencing a housing crisis in the US and beyond but it mostly comes down to treating housing as a commodity to be profited from rather than a basic human need or, if you're feeling radical, a basic human right. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@Bes…

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#1693 Empowering Ethnostates: Ethnically cleansing Gaza and Trump's South Africa fixation 3:00:42

2M ago3:00:42

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Air Date 2/25/2025 Racism is at the core of most of what Trump believes so it should be no surprise when he aligns himself and the country with explicitly supremacist projects like the perceived Jewish superiority over Palestinians and the assumed "reverse racism" against White South Africans Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-9…

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Bonus Edition #338 - SOLVED! Friends, Enemies, and Blood Chutes 21:29

2M ago21:29

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Air Date: 2-23-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - The heavy influence of a Nazi political theorist (propagandist) on the MAGA movement - How our disagreements on baseline reality lead us to devastatingly different conclusions - What many Trump supporters hoped for vs. what they got - How so-called Timeline apps may help us extricate o…

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#1692 Ethnically Cleansing America: Trump's racist whirlwind of deportation and criminalization of immigration 3:10:36

2M ago3:10:36

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Air Date 2/21/2025 There is nothing other than racism at the heart of Trump's immigration policy. He wants to deport as many brown people as possible, stop as many immigrants and refugees as possible unless they're White people from South Africa or the nearly 40 million Canadians he's inviting to enjoy immediate US citizenship. This is not complica…

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#1691 Democracy Emergency, Constitutional Crisis, Democratic Backsliding, Failing Guardrails 2:46:06

2M ago2:46:06

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Air Date 2/18/2025 Democracies slide into dictatorship in two ways, first slowly and then all of a sudden. We have been sliding in this direction for at least as long as I have been paying attention to politics and we're finally at the moment where that slow slide shifts into full speed. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-39…

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Bonus Edition #337 - SOLVED! Bullying the Biggest Losers 20:32

2M ago20:32

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Air Date: 2-16-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - Why we may be forced to bring back bullying - The impact of algorithms and what we can do about it - Democrats and the meaning of 'the medium is the message' - The unbelievable stupidity of techbro dweebs and their followers - The sociopathic reasons why Musk is doing this Not a member…

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#1706 Trump's Kafkaesque Deportation Nightmare is the Shame of the Nation 3:38:23

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#1705 Threatened Social Safety Nets Are Foundational to Healthy Societies 3:06:26

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#1704 Weaponization and Capitulation: Trump vs Immigrants, Universities, and Media 3:57:14

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#1703 The Broligarchy and the Rise of Techno-Feudalism 2:54:05

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#1254 Israeli right-wing politics has lead to some strange, fascist bedfellows (Throwback) 1:02:45

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#1702 Destroying Education, Boosting Christian Nationalism: Rewriting the Past and Hamstringing the Future 3:06:00

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#1701 Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Installing the Backbone Democrats Need 3:14:05

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#1700 Dehumanizing Trans People is Always the First Step for Fascists 4:10:13

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#1479 Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights Throwback) 1:08:36

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SOLVED! #3 - Common Sense Is Not So Common 22:18

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#1699 A Government Of the People, By the People, and Weaponized Against the People 3:04:48

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Bonus Edition #341 - SOLVED! Like a Flame in the Night 25:33

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#1698 Resistance is Not Futile: Support the collective revolt against Trumpism (Special Podcasthon!) 3:04:54

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#1697 The Trump World Order: Are we the Baddies? 3:33:24

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#1696 Monthly Mix: Ethnic Cleansing Gaza, Mass Deportations, Deconstructing the State, Trump's Corruption 3:27:43

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Bonus Edition #340 - SOLVED! Prophetic Voices from the Past and Hope for the Future 32:51

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#1695 Trump's Corruption As A Matter Of Course and a Strategy to Hold Power 3:25:50

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#1694 Unhealthy Discourse: RFK Jr. and the Anti-Science Movement Endangering Global Health 2:23:48

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Bonus Edition #339 - SOLVED! The Power of Entrepreneurial Spirit Compels You! 19:19

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#1496 Home Is Where The Hardship Is (Housing Crisis Throwback) 1:07:48

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#1693 Empowering Ethnostates: Ethnically cleansing Gaza and Trump's South Africa fixation 3:00:42

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Bonus Edition #338 - SOLVED! Friends, Enemies, and Blood Chutes 21:29

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#1692 Ethnically Cleansing America: Trump's racist whirlwind of deportation and criminalization of immigration 3:10:36

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#1691 Democracy Emergency, Constitutional Crisis, Democratic Backsliding, Failing Guardrails 2:46:06

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Bonus Edition #337 - SOLVED! Bullying the Biggest Losers 20:32