Speaking Up with Miles Taylor

As politics gets grimmer, Michael Slaby — former Chief Innovation Officer & CTO on Barack Obama's two presidential campaigns — answers the question: where have all the good guys gone? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Lucy Caldwell — political commentator and former presidential campaign manager — weighs in on whether America will “wake up” to the attempted coup in the capital, and how we can get ourselves out of our current political mess. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Can we make room for a third party in the United States? “There already is,” Libertarians would say. Join us for a discussion with Whitney Bilyeu, national chair of the Libertarian Party — on the issues of the day … the future of America … and why third-party politics is changing so rapidly. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

This week, several political extremists lost primary elections while others got a major boost. Political strategist Craig Snyder joins us to break it all down — and explain why the place American democracy was born (Pennsylvania) could be the place that it dies. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

As the head of Freedom House, Michael Abramowitz monitors democracy's vital signs every day — and the threat of authoritarianism. Now he's sounding alarm bells and joins us to discuss: Has the dictator disease spread too far to stop? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Rob Mahoney, joins us to talk about the threats reporters are facing in Ukraine and beyond. From the war's frontlines to America's own city streets, the free press is being targeted. Is sanity in sight? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Rick Stengel, former Managing Editor of TIME Magazine and Obama's Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, sounds off about the conflict in Ukraine, the resurgence of Russia, and the alarming takeaways from his recent travels to the region. Is the West barreling toward Cold War II — or are we already deep in it? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Startup Co-Founder Luke Anderson is disrupting the beverage industry with a cannabis-infused social tonic (CANN). Tune in to hear how he plans to make low-dose weed drinks mainstream. Will it replace alcohol — and how high can CANN go? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Best-selling author Lee Drutman (Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop) weighs in on breaking news that Democrats are getting behind independent Evan McMullin in Utah in hopes of ousting GOP Senator Mike Lee — and why the race could change U.S. politics forever. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Ken Kwapis knows your workplace is a mess. Why? Because he's been making Hollywood's funniest workplace comedies for years. The award-winning filmmaker has directed The Office, Space Force, and even Parks & Recreation — and has unique insight about office dysfunction, human folly, and how we can work better together in a time of turmoil. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Michael Cohen was the ultimate Trump insider — until he defected to the outside. Now he's on a quest to keep is ex-boss from returning to power and has a chilling warning about what might happen if he fails. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Spooks aren't supposed to speak up. They stay in the shadows. Not Congresswoman Abby Spanberger. She left the CIA and ran for Congress to call out the craziness in our political system. Tune in to find out why this former spy became a crusader for reform — and the unexpected danger to our country that really keeps her up at night. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Ken Harbaugh, a former naval aviator and outspoken democracy leader, breaks down why January 6 might have just been “practice”— and how anti-democracy militia groups are trying to brainwash America's veterans Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Amy McGrath, former fighter pilot and U.S. Senate candidate, talks about how 2020 wasn't the end of the fight to protect democracy from political extremists — but the beginning. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Jake Hunsaker is a self-styled rational Republican running for Congress, fighting an uphill battle against the menace haunting the GOP: a populist cult of personality. Can he win a Congressional seat — and the struggle? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Congressman Eric Swalwell talks about democracy's enemies — at home and abroad — and how recent events have reshaped the fight for America's future. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom joins us to talk about speaking up from the major leagues on major human rights issues, in China and beyond. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Clint Smith — an independent running against a pro-Trump GOP congressman who tried to overturn the 2020 election — tells us what it's like on the frontlines of the fight against political extremists. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang joins us to talk about his efforts to disrupt a broken two-party political system — and how we can innovate to improve democracy. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Former Congressman Denver Riggleman — who is currently advising the Jan. 6 Select Committee in Congress — joins us to talk about what can be done to counter anti-democratic forces in our society. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Former Congresswoman Barbara Comstock talks about threats to American democracy – – and the future of the GOP. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Miles speaks with former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh about whether the Republican Party can be repaired — and whether the time has come for a major third party in the United States. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Former White House administration national security official Peter Feaver covers the latest on Ukraine — and talks about what this means for Europe, America, and the free world. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com