Podcasts about Democracy Alliance

The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET. Brad is first joined by Dr. Robert Shapiro, Chairman of Sonecon, an economic advisory firm and a Senior Fellow of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. The pair examines the troubled and turbulent Trump tariff and tax policies, as well as their negative effect on the economy. Then, Mike Lux, Co-Founder of Democracy Partners, talks with Brad on how Democrats would be best served to counter Trump and his lock-step Republican party. Dr. Shapiro brings broad knowledge and experience in economics and politics based on his government service and decades of conducting analysis and providing advice to U.S. presidents, senators, representatives and governors, as well as foreign leaders and senior executives at numerous Fortune 100 companies. His website is www.Sonecon.com. Mike Lux is a co-founder of Democracy Partners, an innovative, full-service national consulting firm launched in 2011; and has been the CEO of his own consulting firm, Mike Lux Media, since 1999. Clients have included many of the most important institutions in the progressive community, including the League of Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood, Moveon.org, the NAACP Voter Fund, Center for Community Change, DailyKos, and Democracy Alliance. His website is www.democracypartners.com and his handle on BlueSky is @mikeluxmedia.bsky.social. Brad writes a political column every Sunday for 'The Hill.'  He's on the National Journal's panel of political insiders and is a national political analyst for WGN TV and Radio in Chicago and KNX Radio in Los Angeles. You can read Brad's columns at www.MuckRack.com/Brad-Bannon. His handle on BlueSky is @bradbannon.bsky.social. 

Glenn Beck Special. SABOTAGE: The Organized Resistance to Trump's Second Term SABOTAGE: The Organized Resistance to Trump's Second Term Glenn Beck 1.38M subscribers 100,673 views Premiered Dec 12, 2024 #organized #glennbeck #sabotage Donald Trump may have won the battle for the presidency, but a fight against a resistance more powerful than the Democrat Party has begun. In this episode of Glenn TV, Glenn Beck reveals the deep-state blueprints and the players working to oppose the mandate voters handed Trump in November. It's a shadow cabinet comprised of federal judges, state governments, the ACLU, the Tides Foundation, Soros, and Democracy Alliance. This new resistance even has origins linked to the U.K. While Trump's impeachment over Ukraine tipped us off to a rogue state during his first term, Glenn explains how the Hunter Biden saga exposed just how deep the corruption really goes — and why the deep state will do anything to stop Trump. Chapters View all Exposing the 'Shadow Cabinet' being assembled Who's ACTUALLY Running the Deep State? What Hunter' Biden's pardon was REALLY about How the Deep State is using YOUR money to undermine you   ► Click HERE to subscribe to Glenn Beck on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2UVLqhL ► Click HERE to subscribe to BlazeTV: get.blazetv.com/glenn ► Click HERE to subscribe to BlazeTV YouTube:     / @blazetv   ► Click HERE to sign up to Glenn's newsletter: https://www.glennbeck.com/st/Morning_... 0:00 Exposing the 'Shadow Cabinet' being assembled 18:32 Who's ACTUALLY Running the Deep State? 34:35 What Hunter' Biden's pardon was REALLY about 41:52 How the Deep State is using YOUR money to undermine you Connect with Glenn on Social Media:    / glennbeck      / glennbeck      / glennbeck   #glennbeck #glenntv #theblaze #blazemedia #blazenews #sabotage #organized #resistence #trump #secondterm   Glenn Beck 1.38M subscribers

Gabby Seay, co-director for Battleground New York, joined the show to discuss how the coalition of labor and activist groups is working toward Democratic wins in New York's swing U.S. House of Representatives districts, key electoral dynamics in those districts, and more. Battleground New York launched in 2023 and includes coalition members such as 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the Communications Workers of America, Indivisible, Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts, the Working Families Party, AFSCME, 32BJ SEIU, the NYS Nurses Association, and the Democracy Alliance. (Ep 466) Release date: 17 October 2024

David Callahan is a prolific creator and thinker within Democratic politics. He helped start the progressive think tank Demos in the late 90s, founded the media outlet Inside Philanthropy as a Consumer Reports of sorts into the world of charitable giving, and more recently created Blue Tent - an advisory group to help progressive donors get the most bang for their buck. In this conversation, David talks his early days in politics focused on foreign policy, his next stint as a think-tanker trying to pull the Democratic Party left, and why he's more recently been focused on the world of political giving. David is one of the most informed people on the planet on all facets of the political donor world and provides a tour de force on both the current state of play and future trends to better understand how our politics are funded.IN THIS EPISODEGrowing up in New York as the child of academics...An early experience that showed David he was not cut out to be an activist...A formative year spent at the liberal magazine, The American Prospect...David talks getting his PhD and his recommendations for those considering academia...David helps found the progressive think tank Demos and talks the role of think tanks in American politics...What led David to start Inside Philanthropy, a media outlet dedicated to understanding political fundraising...The disturbing trend in political giving that led David to start Blue Tent, a resource for progressive donors...How David and Blue Tent determine where donors will get the most bang for their buck...Why David is an advocate of giving to organizations instead of candidates...David on the phenomenon of "rage giving"...Are donors pulling Democratic candidates to the left?Has Democratic giving fallen off this cycle?David's concern about too many advocacy groups and donor fragmentation on the left compared to more unanimity on the right...David de-mystifies the world of big "donor advisors"...David on the Soros factor on the left...The rough balance of spending from the right vs. spending from the left...The types of operatives who succeed in the donor advising space...The political novel David wrote in the late 90s that eerily predicted elements of both the 9/11 attacks and the rise of a Donald Trump-like politician...AND AOC, Stacey Abrams, Miriam Adelson, The American Enterprise Institute, The American Liberties Project, The American Prospect Magazine, Arabella Advisors, Joe Biden, bioethics, Michael Bloomberg, bureaucratic machinations, the Cato Institute, the Center for Voter Information, Bill Clinton, The Committee on States, credential firepower, the DLC, The Democracy Alliance, Michael Dukakis, The Economic Policy Institute, effective altruism, Federalist Society, Marcus Flowers, Focus for Democracy, Fredrick Forsyth, Forward Montana, Give Well, giving circles, Al Gore, Lindsey Graham, Stanley Greenberg, Jamie Harrison, Hastings-on-Hudson, the Heritage Foundation, Hezbollah, Indian Point Power Plant, Indivisible, the Koch Brothers, LUCHA, Mitch McConnell, Amy McGrath, Michigan United, Mind the Gap, Dustin Moskovitz, Movement Voter Project, neoliberal mindsets, The New America Foundation, Paul Nitze, NYPIRG, Beto O'Rourke, Open Markets, RCTs, Ronald Reagan, The Roosevelt Institute, Run for Something, saber-rattling, Sandinistas, Adam Schiff, Star Wars, the States Project, Swing Left, Marjorie Taylor Greene, transactional donors, Way to Win, Working America & more!

“I used to have this dream where I would be laying down, looking up, about to die - I used to make all my decisions -  how I dress, how I presented myself to be opposite of that because I didn't want that to happen for me.” Kris Stith is a DC native who has won awards in photography, painting, and podcasting. He is now freelancing as an Art Director / Creative Director in Los Angeles. Previously, he was an Art Director at AFSCME, and creative consultant for NAACP. He has always been a twin (double the trouble, double the flavor). In addition, Kris is the co-hosts of Beyond Hood and Evil, a comedic podcast about the Black experience exploring the themes of community, responsibility, professionalism and ethics as it relates to making it out the hood.Creatively, Kris aspires to deliver quality solutions for even the most nebulous asks. Using tangibility, transparency, and traction as his foundational principles Kris has been able to engage and activate audiences for some of America's most trusted institutions and emerging brands. Kris' Clients and collaborators include: NAACP, NFLPA, AFL-CIO, the Biden Campaign, the Clinton Campaign, Intuit, JP Morgan Chase, AFSCME, the Democracy Alliance, Color of Change, International Association for the Study of Pain, UNAC, NUHHCE, the Mussar Institute, American University, Mimconnect, Fighting for Our Vote, ONE / OFF, the Dap Project, the Pinkline Project among others. LEARN ABOUT KRIS stithworks.com behance.net/KStithWorks instagram.com/Kris.Stith beyondhoodandevil.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's show, 1:06 pm CT, 2:06 pm ET: Election 2024: Fox slashes ad prices for second debate as Repub primary debates turn into ‘snoozers' - The Republican debate elephant that's never in the room (hint: it's not Trump) - Hillary Clinton resurrects fears about Russian election interference ahead of possible Democratic loss in 2024 - Secretive Dem donor network moves to aid Biden by kneecapping 2024 third-party efforts, The Democracy Alliance has set its sights on No Labels - a Minnesota law that now "criminalizes core political speech." heads to court - FBI buries documents on possible nationwide vote fraud, claims information part of ongoing investigation - we'll explore. All In The Family: Majority of voters consistently say Joe Biden was Involved in family business - BHR Partners' bank wires list Joe Biden's Delaware home as beneficiary address - Investigative journalist unleashes Biden bribery bombshell, cites federal law stating if 'family' got paid, 'it's still bribery' - Comer previews first Biden impeachment-inquiry hearing, announces 3 key witnesses for first impeachment inquiry hearing - we'll analyze. Plus, Run For The Border: Elon Musk to visit southern border ‘later this week' to see ‘severe' migrant crisis for himself - Poll shows record bipartisan opposition to Biden's "Open Border". And, Mystery: 1,000 children vanish from one state this year alone! https://www.spreaker.com/show/christian-talk-that-rocks https://christiantalkthatrocks.net or http://christiantalkthatrocks.com

Greg Speed is President of America Votes, the infrastructure hub of the progressive community - which coordinates 400+ organizations nationally and in 20+ states. In this conversation, Greg talks how the anti-apartheid movement piqued his political interest, diving into campaigns at the University of Wisconsin, lessons learned on Capitol Hill, and 16+ years as, first-E.D. and now, President at America Votes. In addition to demystifying the origin and operation of AV, Greg gives his analysis on the '22 midterms and the dueling turnout vs. persuasion post-election narratives.(To donate to support The Pro Politics Podcast, you may use this venmo link or inquire by email at mccrary.zachary@gmail.com)IN THIS EPISODEThe issue that first engaged Greg's interest in politics…Greg sinks his teeth in the 1992 President election while at UW-Madison…Why Greg gravitated to the communications role in politics…and then away from it…Lessons learned from his Hill boss, Congressman Martin Frost…Greg on the 2003-04 origin story of America Votes…The concrete role America Votes plays in politics and campaigns…Greg uses Minnesota as an example of how America Votes operates at the state level…Greg talks both building consensus and avoiding groupthink…Are there corollaries to America Votes on the right?Greg gives his analysis on the 2022 elections…Greg weighs in on the 2022 turnout vs. persuasion narratives…                     Greg talks the latest research on effective messaging and tactics to turn out voters…Greg talks how he's become a more effective manager over the years at America Votes…Greg's professional tips to young people in politics…AND the Alliance for a Better Minnesota, Americans Coming Together, Matt Angle, Apartheid, Les Aspin, Peter Barca, the Big Ten, Stephen Biko, The Blue Surge, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, James Carville, Catalist, Chicagoland, circus tents, Bill Clinton, Nate Cohn, the coin of the realm, Deerfield, Tom Delay, The Democracy Alliance, the Dobbs Decision, Rahm Emanuel, embarrassing wide shots, John Fetterman, the Finger Lakes, Joan Fitz-Gerald, hitching posts, hopium, intentional lists, Joan of Arc, the Koch Brothers, MAGA, Bob Matsui, McCain-Feingold, The Media Fund, mental erogenous zones, messaging oracles, Mother Theresa, nerve nets, neutral convening infrastructures, no brainers, Ronald Reagan, Nicole Roe, Steve Rosenthal, Sara Schreiber, social pressure, George Soros, Donald Trump, the University of Wisconsin, vote tripling, The War Room, Joe Wineke, Yankee Republicans & more!

Hour 1 * Guest: Dr. Scott Bradley – To Preserve The Nation – FreedomsRisingSun.com * Biden: ‘Everybody Should Be Concerned' About Monkeypox – Public health officials believe case numbers will soon increase. Though only occasionally fatal, the speed at which the monkeypox virus is spreading has raised fears of another pandemic. The CDC says there is ‘no proven, safe treatment' for monkeypox. * The World Economic Forum is pleased to announce that it will hold its Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, from Sunday 22 to Thursday 26 May. Under the theme, Working Together. * The small ski town of Davos, high in the Swiss alps, has heightened security measure in place during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, when armed guards perch on hotel rooftops while world leaders and business executives sip champagne below. * For the past half century, Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, has extolled the virtues of an interconnected world, one where the free flow of goods, services, people and ideas would lead to shared prosperity and peace. It was an idealistic vision that endured in spite of global unrest, and it found adherents in the corridors of power from Palo Alto, Calif., to Washington, D.C., and from Brussels to Singapore and beyond. * 3 Things on The Table in Davos: Climate Change, Russia-Ukraine War, Cryptocurrencies. Hour 2 * Guest: Chris Carlson – Without God, we can never win, With God, we can never lose, The Battle for Freedom is the Lord's, but we need to be engaged in the fight! * Book Review: Behind the Curtain, Inside the Network of Progressive Billionaires and Their Campaign to Undermine Democracy – Jeff Reynolds. * “These donors and foundations operate by a different set of rules. When you have a pliable morality, the ends justify the means. More than anything else, that's the lesson of this book. Whatever it takes to push the agenda forward. Morality in this case means achieving those policy goals no matter what.” (Jeff Reynolds) * Have you heard of the ‘Billionaire's Club'? What about the “Giving Pledge,”? * David Brock is a life-long Democratic operative. He is also the founder of Democracy Alliance, an umbrella group for many other subversive organizations. * Another David Brock umbrella 501C3 non-profit organization is Media Matters for America. * Chinese influence: More than 330 thousand Chinese students attend college in the United States. The Chinese government funds and coordinates activities for dozens of branches of the Chinese Student and Scholarship Association (CSSA) in America. The Chinese Communist Party pays these students to attend certain activities for example when Xi Jinping visits America. * Whittaker Chambers: “In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are communists.” * Ezra Taft Benson stated: We have consistently warned our people against the insidious nature of communism, which debases the individual, robs him of his agency, and makes him an enslaved tool of the state to which he must look for sustenance and religion. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

Hour 1 * Guest: Chris Carlson – Without God, we can never win, With God, we can never lose, The Battle for Freedom is the Lord's, but we need to be engaged in the fight! * Book Review: Behind the Curtain, Inside the Network of Progressive Billionaires and Their Campaign to Undermine Democracy – Jeff Reynolds. * “These donors and foundations operate by a different set of rules. When you have a pliable morality, the ends justify the means. More than anything else, that's the lesson of this book. Whatever it takes to push the agenda forward. Morality in this case means achieving those policy goals no matter what.” (Jeff Reynolds) * Have you heard of the ‘Billionaire's Club'? What about the “Giving Pledge,”? * David Brock is a life-long Democratic operative. He is also the founder of Democracy Alliance, an umbrella group for many other subversive organizations. * Another David Brock umbrella 501C3 non-profit organization is Media Matters for America. * Chinese influence: More than 330 thousand Chinese students attend college in the United States. The Chinese government funds and coordinates activities for dozens of branches of the Chinese Student and Scholarship Association (CSSA) in America. The Chinese Communist Party pays these students to attend certain activities for example when Xi Jinping visits America. * Whittaker Chambers: “In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are communists.” * Ezra Taft Benson stated: We have consistently warned our people against the insidious nature of communism, which debases the individual, robs him of his agency, and makes him an enslaved tool of the state to which he must look for sustenance and religion. Hour 2 * Ammon Bundy for Idaho Governor Update: Idaho Primary Aftermath! * Living With The Far-Right Insurgency In Idaho – A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty. Some wonder: Is it time to leave? – Kim Raff, Huffpost. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

* Guest: Chris Carlson - Without God, we can never win, With God, we can never lose, The Battle for Freedom is the Lord's, but we need to be engaged in the fight! * Book Review: Behind the Curtain, Inside the Network of Progressive Billionaires and Their Campaign to Undermine Democracy - Jeff Reynolds. * “These donors and foundations operate by a different set of rules. When you have a pliable morality, the ends justify the means. More than anything else, that's the lesson of this book. Whatever it takes to push the agenda forward. Morality in this case means achieving those policy goals no matter what.” (Jeff Reynolds) * Have you heard of the ‘Billionaire's Club'? What about the “Giving Pledge,”? * David Brock is a life-long Democratic operative. He is also the founder of Democracy Alliance, an umbrella group for many other subversive organizations. * Another David Brock umbrella 501C3 non-profit organization is Media Matters for America. * Chinese influence: More than 330 thousand Chinese students attend college in the United States. The Chinese government funds and coordinates activities for dozens of branches of the Chinese Student and Scholarship Association (CSSA) in America. The Chinese Communist Party pays these students to attend certain activities for example when Xi Jinping visits America. * Whittaker Chambers: “In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are communists.” * Ezra Taft Benson stated: We have consistently warned our people against the insidious nature of communism, which debases the individual, robs him of his agency, and makes him an enslaved tool of the state to which he must look for sustenance and religion.

Jeremy Ben-Ami was born into a family among whom politics was very personal – and became active in politics himself at a young age, interning for the 1976 Carter campaign at 14. From there, he worked for numerous politicians from Ed Koch and David Dinkins and Mark Green to Bill Clinton and Howard Dean. Jeremy talks his life in campaign politics, working in the White House, what led to the creation of J Street, and how J Street has grown to become an influential voice that's changed the debate on American policy toward Israel. IN THIS EPISODEThe first campaigns that caught Jeremy's attention at a young age…Jeremy's measures of iconic NYC political figures like Ed Koch and David Dinkins…The surprising presidential candidate for whom Jeremy served on the ballot as an “elector”…The issue that led Jeremy to switch from local NYC politics to national politics…What happened when Jeremy “just shows up” in Little Rock to seek work in the 1992 Clinton campaign…Jeremy talks about the Bill Clinton he saw up close and personal…Jeremy gives a glimpse into what it's like working in the White House…Jeremy tells the story of managing Democrat Mark Green's NYC mayoral race that was interrupted and defined by 9/11…The best practices for campaign managers Jeremy has seen over the years…Jeremy's time as Research Director on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign and how Dean caught fire (temporarily)…How his time on the Dean campaign led to the formation of J Street…The first steps Jeremy took to get J Street off the ground…Jeremy cites the key moments early in the J Street experience that showed it was getting traction…Jeremy talks through some of the criticisms he and J Street have received from within the Jewish community…Jeremy gives his 101 on Jewish communal politics…Jeremy talks the rising threat of anti-Semitism and how it's intertwined with the attacks on democracy…Jeremy's thoughts on why the issue of settlements has become an important flashpoint in the Israeli / Palestinian debates…Jeremy weighs in on the impact of Benjamin Netanyahu…Why Jeremy wants to expunge the term “peace process” from the discussions of Israel and Palestine…How Jeremy thinks of one day passing the torch as President of J Street…Jeremy's “strangest work habit”…AND…the 3 Ps, Mahmoud Abbas, the ADL, AIPAC, alphabet soup, John Anderson, asterisks in the polls, Michael Bloomberg, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, chopped salads, creeping annexation, the “Dean scream”, the Democracy Alliance, “dog and pony shows”, the first rule of holes, founder syndrome, Rudy Giuliani, hanging from the rafters, imprimaturs of seriousness, Martin Indyk, institutional infrastructure, invitations from Hogwarts, Dan Kurtzer, the Man from Hope, meetups, Aaron Miller, the NYC groove, the New York Times magazine, Barack Obama, Ehud Olmert, the Oval Office, the Palestinian Authority, panic attacks, Nancy Pelosi, Ronald Reagan, silent majorities, Rob Stein, talks about talks, a vocal left, Paul Wellstone, The West Wing, & more!

New Zealand is forced back into panic and despair as Jacinda hits the red light for Omicron. Record inflation is starting to do permanent damage in both Australia and NZ. Join Tim Wilms and Dieuwe de Boer. Not only has Jacinda Ardern put the whole of NZ back into red light restrictions but introduced a new phased change to testing and isolation protocols as the Omicron outbreak progresses. Speaker of the Parliament Trevor Mallard has continued to incite panic buying in NZ describing his weekly shop in a bare shelved supermarket. Jacinda's Omicron response has got the endorsement of her number one Australian fan Project co-host Lisa Wilkinson who describes Australia's Omicron response as a binfire. Australia Day 2022 saw Tennis player and disability advocate Dylan Alcott named Australian of the Year. He replaces outgoing Australian of the Year Grace Tame who pulled a sour face when she met Scott Morrison at an official function. The Federal Government said it had bought the copyright to the Aboriginal Flag from its creator Harold Thomas but Flagworld still has the exclusive manufacturing rights. Director-General of Public Health NZ Dr Ashley Bloomfield has denied the government is "requisitioning" RATs from private supplies but "consolidating" their own supplies. Scott Morrison has stated reports that the Federal Government has been requisitioning RATS are not true. The NSW and Victorian Governments have been engaged in what's been described as a military-style operation sending RATs to every school for the start of Term 1 next week. With many people obtaining natural immunity from recent infection booster uptake in Australia has been slow. Dan Andrews has stated he hopes the definition of fully vaccinated will change to three doses so he can mandate the booster. Victorian hospitals continue to operate under a code brown which is seeing elective surgery that could be performed still banned. Mainstream media websites have reset their vaccine bars to include the third dose rate. NSW has extended its mask mandate, QR codes, and singing and dancing ban for another month. WA's hard border continues with Mark McGowan this afternoon unveiling his own Omicron close contact and testing rules. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's government is involved in an integrity scandal with three of her anti-corruption and integrity officers State Archivist, Mike Summerell, Integrity Commissioner, Nikola Stepanov and CCC Chair Alan MacSporran all resigning. This new scrutiny stems from the fact that Palaszczuk wasn't investigated when she pulled a Hillary Clinton and used a private email server for official government business. In the sports report, Tennis Australia has backflipped on their ban on Where's Peng Shuai t-shirts. Members of Drew Pavlou's Democracy Alliance still plan to hand out 1000 of the t-shirts for the finals weekend. The atmosphere of the Australian Open has turned around after the Novak Djokovic deportation with Australian Ash Barty in the women's final and an all-Aussie men's doubles final. AFLW Muslim player Haneen Zreika won't play in the competition's LGBT Pride Round on religious grounds, an Instagram post said she respects and accepts everyone. She hasn't received the same hate that Christian Rugby player Israel Folau did. The Melbourne Victory A-League club has been fined $5000 for alleged homophobic abuse their fans directed at gay A-League player Josh Cavallo. Inflation in NZ is at a 30-year high of 5.9%.  Jacinda "absolutely refutes" that high government spending has led to high inflation. In Australia, inflation is at 3.5% unemployment continues to fall now at 4.2% The Unshackled Links: Website: https://www.theunshackled.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TUnshackled Twitter: https://twitter.com/Un_shackled Gab: https://gab.com/theunshackled Minds: https://www.minds.com/The_Unshackled/ Telegram: https://t.me/theunshackled MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/theunshackled Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_unshackled Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/theunshackled/ Free eBook: http://theunshackledbattlefield.net/ Unshackled Productions: WilmsFront: http://www.timwilms.com Trad Tasman Talk: https://www.theunshackled.net/ttt/ The Report from Tiger Mountain: http://reportfromtigermountain.com/ Support Our Work:  Membership: http://www.theunshackled.net/membership Donate: https://www.theunshackled.net/donate/ Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/TheUnshackled Store: https://www.theunshackled.net/store/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Check out the Entire ArticleIn recent years, NEA has also contributed money to a wide variety of leftwing advocacy groups, including: ACORN, the AFL-CIO, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, Campaign for America's Future, the Center for Community Change, the Children's Defense Fund, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Democracy Alliance, the Economic Policy Institute, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, the Human Rights Campaign, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, the National Partnership for Women & Families, the National Urban League, the National Women's Law Center, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the Service Employees International Union, the Sierra Club, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, USAction, the Voter Participation Center (formerly called Women's Voices-Women's Vote), and the WAND Education Fund.In the 2008 and 2010 election-campaign seasons, the NEA gave a combined total of more than $15.3 million in Support the show (https://www.parentsrightsined.com/support-the-cause.html)

New progressive social movements are driving a huge boom of new talent. But leadership development efforts don't have the funding or scale to keep up. Our guests today are trying to working to change that. In episode 2 of our second season, we're thrilled to talk with two powerful leaders, Deepak Bhargava and Gara LaMarche, who seek to build a new leadership center for young are building a new leadership center, housed within the City University of New York (CUNY), to support young activists — particularly those from communities of color and working-class backgrounds. Deepak comes from the progressive community organizing field, where he is best known for running the Center for Community Change (now known as Community Change). Gara comes from the progressive philanthropy field, where he has held executive leadership roles in the Democracy Alliance, Atlantic Philanthropies, and the Open Society Foundations. We discuss their career journeys, their new research, and their current endeavor. And we discuss why there is so little infrastructure to support the progressive nonprofit workforce, including the lack of investment from organized philanthropy.

Over the past quarter-century, Gara LaMarche has had a super interesting career in philanthropy and progressive politics. For nearly a decade, starting in the mid-1990s, he worked for George Soros helping Soros figure out how to give away hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States. During that time, the Open Society Foundations would emerge as a key early funder of causes like criminal justice reform and marriage equality. LaMarche then went to work for another top mega-donor, Chuck Feeney, and led Atlantic Philanthropies, where he was once again in charge of giving away huge piles of money. After that, he became head of the Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy donors that collectively moves tens of millions of dollars a year to progressive causes. Along the way, LaMarche has worked with just about every important organization and leader on the left. LaMarche has been a practitioner of big philanthropy, but also a thoughtful critic. Host David Callahan spoke with LaMarche not long before he announced that he would be stepping down as president of the Democracy Alliance. Inside Change is produced by David Callahan and Kayan Tara.

Our podcast today is titled Confronting Evil: The Trump Voter’s Moral Duty to Defend Liberty. I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this podcast is a production of the Citizens Liberty Party News Network, for December 16, 2020. Our intent of this article is to persuade Trump voters that they have a personal, moral duty, to restore American liberty. We begin by noting the odd circumstance of being both in agreement with Victor Davis Hanson’s analysis of the chronology of the Democrat’s deep state “slow-moving coup,” and in disagreement with his interpretation of the implications of the coup for the future of liberty. We define a coup d'etat as an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power, conducted by an enemy of the existing government. The initial planning to unleash the American coup began on November 14, 2016, just two weeks after the election. According to Joe Schoffstall, writing in the Washington Free Beacon, Soros gathered with top Democrats in D.C to plot the coup. Schoffstall writes,   “Liberal billionaire George Soros is meeting behind closed doors with top         Democrats to plot a resistance strategy against President-elect Donald Trump and         Republicans. The three-day conference began Sunday at the Mandarin Oriental   hotel in Washington, D.C., and is sponsored by deep-pocketed liberal members        of the dark money Democracy Alliance donor network. The group will seek to       pick up the pieces from the 2016 election, plot its strategy for upcoming      elections, and map out a game plan to battle Trump during his first 100 days in     office.” Obama implemented the elements of the Soros plan, in Obama’s office, with Joe Biden, on January 5, 2017. In contrast to Hanson’s term of a “slow-moving coup,” our term for the Soros Democrat coup is sedition. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, Obama's Deployment of the FBI As A Political Weapon, https://bit.ly/37YXC5u, December 14, 2017). We link the Democrat election fraud of 2020 as a part of the on-going Soros coup of 2016. Unlike Hanson’s interpretation of the coup, we argue that the consequence of the election fraud is the end of Madison’s representative republic, with the installation of an illegitimate leader, also known as an unelected dictator. Like Maduro in Venezuela, Biden has seized power without the consent of the governed. His seizure of illegitimate authority is more than just the end of the Republic, it is the end of the American principle of individual liberty. Like Maduro, Biden seeks to impose socialism against the will of the majority of citizens. Biden fulfills one of Madison’s fears that the framework of government could end with a dominant faction over ruling a defenseless faction. In Biden’s case, it is not Madison’s fear that the majority of common citizens would dominate the minority natural aristocracy. Rather, Biden seeks to impose a minority ideology of Marxist slavery on the majority of middle and working class citizens. We allege that the coup’s last act of election fraud, in 2020, constitutes a premeditated evil act to deprive Trump voters of their God-given natural rights of liberty and self-government. We claim that the Democrat’s destruction of natural rights obligates Trump voters to confront the evil in order to restore their natural rights. The moral duty of Trump voters is obedience to Locke’s definition of the natural law. In other words, the Trump voter’s duty to confront Democrat evil is obedience to God’s natural law because it restores God-given natural rights. Hanson was one of the first national observers to label the Democrat’s activity as a coup. Beginning with his first column, in February 2017, Hanson has written a compelling series of articles describing how the coup was conducted. Hanson wrote his first article about the coup one week after Rush Limbaugh first wrote about the coup (The Barack Obama Shadow Government Coup Against Trump, February 15, 2017).       Limbaugh had written,           “The deep state, the embedded bureaucracy where the Obama shadow           government is doing everything it can to overthrow the Trump presidency... our    country today is not functioning as a representative republic.” In his February 21, 2017 article, titled, Seven Days in February, Hanson expanded on Limbaugh’s analysis that the nation was not functioning as a representative republic. Hanson wrote,   “Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the Ukraine whistleblower, boasted in two         recently discovered tweets of ongoing efforts to stage a coup to remove Trump…           the political and media opponents of Donald Trump are seeking to subvert his       presidency in a manner unprecedented in the recent history of American   politics…The question, then, arises: Why were former Obama-administration          appointees or careerist officials tapping the phone calls of an incoming Trump        designate (and Trump himself?) and then leaking the tapes to their pets in the        press? For what purpose?.. ending Trump one way or another is apparently the   tortured pathway his critics are taking to exit their self-created labyrinth of    irrelevance.” In his October 31, 2017, article, The Advantages of Liberal Insurance, Hanson suggests that the ruling class would suffer the humiliation of being exposed as illiberal, if the intent of their coup was uncovered. Hanson writes,           “The more fervently progressives seek to redistribute income, or use diversity quotas      to ensure proportional representation in hiring and           admissions, or suspend    constitutional free speech and due process to suppress individualism, the more likely         that socialist elites will risk being exposed or convicted as illiberal.” In his July 31, 2018, National Review article, The Origins of Our Second Civil War, Hanson shifts the consequences for the elites, from being exposed as illiberal and irrelevant, to precipitating a civil war. Hanson cites two major causes underlying the cause of the second civil war. He writes,           “How, when, and why has the United States now arrived at the brink of a veritable       civil war?           Globalization          Globalization had an unfortunate effect of undermining national unity. It created                   new iconic billionaires in high tech and finance, and their subsidiaries of coastal      elites, while hollowing out the muscular jobs largely in the American interior.           Illegal Immigration          Immigration was recalibrated hand-in-glove by progressives who wanted a new           demographic to vote for leftist politicians and by Chamber of Commerce   conservatives who wished an unlimited pool of cheap unskilled labor. The result was        waves of illegal, non-diverse immigrants who arrived at precisely the moment when    the old melting pot was under cultural assault.”   Several months later, Hanson sounded the “all clear” that the coup, and threat of civil war, was over. He wrote, with a sigh of relief, (February 17, 2019), in Autopsy of a Dead Coup, that the ruling class elites had been soundly driven back from the brink of civil war.           “The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton         campaign’s use of funds to create, and disseminate among court media, and then salt         among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier    has failed. So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump     presidency failed.” We disagree with Hanson that the coup had failed in 2018, because we assert that the coup of January 5, 2017, did not end in 2018. The coup ended in victory for the Democrats on November 3, 2020. We disagree with Hanson that the coup was the pre-cursor of a civil war. A civil war ends with one side subjugating the losing side to the winner’s ideology, and continuing as one nation. The Obama-Soros coup is a pre-cursor to the second American revolution, where Trump voters seek an absolute civil dissolution of the existing nation, and start over with a democratic republic. We agree with Hanson’s assessment that the coup established a political precedent in American politics that is permanent. Our argument is that the precedent of the coup means that Madison’s constitution is irreparably damaged, and cannot be rehabilitated. Hanson wrote on November 12, 2019,   “10) Precedent. The indiscriminate efforts to remove Trump over the       past three years, when coupled with the latest impeachment gambit, have now set a precedent in which the out party can use impeachment as a tool to embarrass, threaten or seek to remove a sitting president and reverse an election.” And, while Hanson’s careful 4-year analysis of the chronology of the coup is correct, he reaches the wrong conclusion about the significance and consequence of the election fraud in November of 2020. Like so many other skeptics of the evidence of the Democrat’s election fraud, Hanson continues to cling to the false belief that there is something of credibility and value in rehabilitating Madison’s flawed document. As long as Trump voters continue to be swayed by Hanson’s logic, those voters will also cling to the false belief that their liberties were not stolen, along with Trump’s victory, and that the United States can return to normal. In his National Review article, Trump Faces a Critical Choice About His Political Future, (November 26, 2020),  Hanson writes,   “But so far none of these advocates (of voter fraud) have produced the       requisite whistleblowers, computer data, or forensic evidence to prove         their astounding charges. If they do not produce evidence in a few days, then the   pilloried Republicans may well lose the Senate races in Georgia… What       matters now are the interests of the country first and Trump’s constituents   second.” We disagree. What matters now is restoring the liberties of Trump voters, because the United States constitutional government ceased to exist, after the election of 2020. We argue that Hanson has his priorities reversed. Without citizen liberty, there is no American nation, because liberty is the foundation of voluntary obedience to the rule of law. In other words, without liberty, the voluntary obedience to the rule of law is replaced by the socialist police state enforcement of the rule of law. We agree with the conclusion of Angelo Codevilla, that America, as you knew it, prior to November 3, 2020, is over. Codevilla writes, “This election (2020) is about whether the Democratic Party, the   ruling class’s          enforcer, will impose its tastes more strongly and arbitrarily than ever, or      whether constituencies (Trump voters) opposed to that rule will get some ill-    defined chance to strike back. Regardless of the election’s outcome, the        republic established by America’s Founders is probably gone… The (Marxist)       revolution long since destroyed the original American republic in the minds,   hearts, and habits of a critical mass of citizens. Loudly, (the Marxists) declare      that the rest of us are racists, etc., unworthy of self-     government. No one can undo   that (precedent).” In his article, Revolution 2020, written 5 weeks before the 2020 election, Codevilla explains why the transformation of the nation is beyond redemption. His explanation centers on the Marxist revolution in government principles that undermined Madison’s constitution. Codevilla writes,           “The ruling class was able to transform America’s constitutional regime because its   collective partisanship bridged the divisions between the federal government’s parts,         the states, as well as between public and private power…the ruling class effectively      repealed the Constitution and the laws of the United States.” Codevilla is correct that the mission of the ruling class revolution was not simply and solely about getting rid of Trump. Codevilla writes, “Let there be no doubt: the ruling class’s focus on Donald Trump has been incidental. America’s elites do not fear one pudgy orange-haired septuagenarian. They fear the (majority) millions of Americans whom they loathe, who voted for Trump, who gave his party control of House and Senate, and who will surely vote for folks these elites really should fear… For the ruling class, crushing Donald Trump is only incidentally its objective—that of crushing the spirit of independence in America’s “deplorable” population is its essential objective.” We agree with Codevilla that the ruling class intent is to crush individual liberty, in order to establish totalitarian, one-party global rule by the elites, which we call the global crony capitalist class. We argue that it is the moral duty of Trump voters to defend liberty, and that the defense of liberty means engaging the Democrats, and the crony capitalist class, in a second American revolution. As we explained in our earlier article on the moral justification of revolution, the second revolution can either take the path of a peaceful civil dissolution of the Former United States of America (FUSA), or it can easily devolve into a bloody violent revolution, the end of which ushers onto the field of battle, the second enemy of American freedom, the Chinese Communist Party. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, The Moral Justification for the Second American Revolution. The Citizens Liberty Party News Network, November 17, 2020, https://bit.ly/3lXpz2R). Our podcast today is the introduction of a much longer article, available for free at clpnewsnetwork.com The other sections of the longer article are: Section 1. The Moral Duty of Trump Voters to Defend Natural Rights of Liberty and Self-Government. Section 2. The Trump Voter’s Duty To Confront Evil. Section 3. The Trump Voter’s Strategy of Confrontation With Democrat Marxists. Conclusion: The Restoration of Liberty.   I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this podcast is a production of the Citizens Liberty Party News Network.

Kat Stafford, AP national race and ethnicity reporter, and Julie Kohler, fellow in residence at the National Women's Law Center, a senior advisor to the Democracy Alliance, a progressive donor network, and host of the podcast White Picket Fence, talk about how women voted and the effect of having a woman on the ticket as vice president. 

For the first woman elected to the Vice Presidency, Kamala Harris's support among women, and specifically white women, is lacking. What political, racial and gender dynamics are at play? On Today's Show:Kat Stafford, AP national race and ethnicity reporter, and Julie Kohler, fellow in residence at the National Women's Law Center, a senior advisor to the Democracy Alliance, a progressive donor network, and host of the podcast White Picket Fence, talk about how women voted and the effect of having a woman on the ticket as vice president. 

Sociologist Julie Kohler is a senior advisor at The Democracy Alliance. She joins us to talk about where the idea that every (nuclear) family should fend for themselves even came from, and what the pandemic tells us about the need to find a new model. Read her story "The End of Family Values," in Boston Review: http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/julie-kohler-end-family-values Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sociologist Julie Kohler is a senior advisor at The Democracy Alliance. She joins us to talk about where the idea that every (nuclear) family should fend for themselves even came from, and what the pandemic tells us about the need to find a new model. Read her story "The End of Family Values," in Boston Review: http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/julie-kohler-end-family-values Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eddy Morales has an amazing story to tell and he wants it to be your call to action. The last of 9 children and the first born in the United States to a single mother from Mexico, he faced hardship first hand. He was influenced by his mother’s fearlessness and compassion, values that guide him now. In college, he made the connection between his childhood and systemic injustices that oppress people of color. In his next chapter, he was recruited to Washington DC to lead the US Student Association, where he mobilized young people to exercise their collective power. And in successive roles at the Center for Community Change, Voto Latino and Democracy Alliance, Eddy honed his skills as a trainer, political organizer and adviser to foundations on investing in Latinx nonprofits. After the crushing election results of 2016, life took another turn when he returned to Gresham, Oregon. That is the chapter you will hear today. It is about the deliberative and rewarding process of building power, from a PAC to a slate of political candidates, from the ground up. Eddy is making change in real time. Bonus points for creating a template for us all.    

Colleyville, Texas, Mayor Richard Newton joins to clear up the misinformation after he announced he won’t force residents to wear masks. Dr. Voddie Baucham weighs in on calls to remove "white Jesus" depictions and what "anti-racism" actually means to the Marxists. Another George Soros-funded organization with connections to BLM, Democracy Alliance, has given a lot of money to Democrats. Glenn breaks down where that money could be coming from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

About This Episode In 2018, Americans gave away $428 billion dollars, with 30% of it coming from the top half of the 1% of earners. More than $142 billion went to causes dictated by only a small number of Americans–a power that some consider undemocratic in a democracy. Now, envision a world with philanthropy that is structured radically differently – or perhaps doesn't exist at all. The question stands: how can we disrupt hierarchies that currently exist and who is already doing so? What successful practices can we lift up? Where should the field of philanthropy go from here? In this podcast, we explore these questions with Gara LaMarche, President of the Democracy Alliance and long-time advisor to and critic of traditional philanthropy, and Holly Fetter, a member of Resource Generation, an organization of young people with access to wealth who are pushing for those with wealth and class privilege to be more accountable to communities experiencing oppression and inequality. This podcast was brought to you by Liz Weingartner, Karl Kumodzi, Sophie Dover, and Barbara Bush. The music was created by Charles Copley. An enormous thank you to Gara LaMarche and Holly Fetter for their participation and to Professor Megan Ming Francis for her thought-provoking scholarship and class. Hosts Liz Weingartneris a graduating MPA/MBA candidate at Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan who is passionate about creating a future full of high-quality education for all children from birth. Karl Kumodziis an MPP candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School, and is a social movement organizer currently working at Blackbird. Sophie Dovera graduating MPP candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School, has sought to build partnerships and accountability structures between communities and power brokers in her work in community health and affordable housing. She is passionate about racial justice and wealth redistribution.  Barbara Bushan MPA candidate at Harvard Kennedy School, has worked to advance global health equity for the past 15 years, most recently as co-founder and CEO of Global Health Corps, an organization devoted to building the next generation of global health leaders.  Learn More To learn more about the topics covered in this podcast, visit: http://garalamarche.com/ (Gara LaMarche's personal website) http://www.hollyfetter.com/ (Holly Fetter's personal website) https://resourcegeneration.org/ (Resource Generation) http://web.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/wordpress/publications/ (Rob Reich, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society) To get further involved with Resource Generation's campaign for wealth redistribution, particularly during COVID-19, check out Resource Generation's https://www.sharemycheck.org/ (#sharemycheck) campaign.

Felicia Wong, President/CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, discusses "The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy," and potential solutions to address the barriers with host, Vernon Oakes. Dr. Wong illustrates the interrelationships of occupational segregation, school segregation and the racial wealth gap. She also suggest that she feels that cooperatives can be a part of addressing some of those ills. Felicia Wong is the President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, a New York-based think tank and campus network that promotes a bold economic and political vision capable of bringing the ideals of Franklin and Eleanor into the 21st century. She helps lead the Roosevelt Institute's work on a rewriting the rules agenda, a comprehensive economic program and narrative that has become increasingly influential. She is the co-author of The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and the Boston Review. Felicia came to the Institute from the Democracy Alliance, and previously ran operations and product development at a venture-funded education services company. Her public service includes a White House Fellowship in the Office of the Attorney General and a political appointment in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral dissertation on the role of race and framing in K-12 public education politics received the 2000 American Political Science Association award in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.

When Eddy Morales first moved back to Gresham, Oregon from Washington, DC, he did not plan to run for elected office. He expected to continue his business as a political campaign adviser and reconnect with family and community. Years in DC working with Voto Latino and Democracy Alliance had sharpened his considerable talents as a national policy advocate, and he wanted to engage civically at the local level. But when he watched the 2016 election returns with his nieces and nephews, intending to celebrate the election of the nation’s first women president, his heart sank. The election of Donald trump as president and the implications for his immigrant family members and their partners, some of whom were not citizens, motivated him to act. He advocated to the City Council for Gresham to assume Sanctuary City status and challenged the intrusion of ICE into community life. When responses ranged from indifference to hostility, he took stock of the political landscape and determined that transforming the status quo meant getting involved at more structural level. People of color and the LGBTQ community felt invisible in Gresham and as their numbers and contributions grew, Eddy knew that it was time to step into the policy making arena. He formed East County Rising and mobilized the community to get involved. The story of the door-knocking, trust building and winning campaigns to follow are a revelation. And hopefully, a playbook for the next city to step up.      

Julie Kohler, author of the Washington Post article "How Calls to 'Love Your Enemies' Enforce the Status-Quo," joins Ciaran and John for a back and forth about her own past critiques of Better Angels, the proper place of empathy in political life, and the importance of depolarization to preserving the possibility for political progress in the long run.  Julie is a senior advisor for the Democracy Alliance, a progressive donor network. She has a Ph.D. in family social science and writes frequently on women and politics. You can find her on Twitter @juliekkohler1. Follow the BAP at: John Wood, Jr. Twitter: @johnrwoodjr Facebook: @transcendingpolitics Ciaran O'Connor Twitter: @ciaranjustice Music by Josh Lim: www.joshjameslim.com/

It is widely understood that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won’t be truly complete until it is applied more broadly—to everything associated with the words “human,” “culture,” and “policy.” Wilson took Town Hall’s stage for a conversation with political activist Nick Hanauer. Together they explored the ways an evolutionary worldview can provide a practical toolkit for understanding not only genetic evolution but also the fast-paced changes that are having an impact on our world and ourselves. Wilson offered us a series of engaging and insightful examples—from the breeding of hens to the timing of cataract surgeries to the organization of an automobile plant. Join Wilson and Hanauer to learn how we can become wise managers of evolutionary processes to solve the problems of our age at all scales—from the efficacy of our groups to our well-being as individuals to our stewardship of the planet. David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist with a special interest in human biocultural evolution. He is the SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. Wilson is the author of Evolution for Everyone, The Neighborhood Project, Does Altruism Exist?, and Darwin’s Cathedral. He is the president of the Evolution Institute and editor in chief of the institute’s magazine, This View of Life. Nick Hanauer is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and the founder of Civic Ventures, a Seattle-based public policy incubator. He has worked with over 30 companies as a founder, manager or financier since 1982, and serves on the boards of many public and private institutions. He has served as a director for the Democracy Alliance, and hosts his own podcast Pitchfork Economics. Recorded live at The Forum at Town Hall Seattle on May 20, 2019.

The Left furthers is downward spiral into insanity and "Democratic Socialism". They call for to abolish the only bureaucracy that is necessary - ICE. The polling shows the majority of Americans support good immigration enforcement. But that doesn't stop the Progressives from doubling down on it. Never fear, from his D.C. office, Obama is helping oversee the Resistance, by decentralized management of violent Antifa protests and with that shadowy "Legion Of Doom" organization of the left - Democracy Alliance. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adrianslade/support

The Left furthers is downward spiral into insanity and "Democratic Socialism". They call for to abolish the only bureaucracy that is necessary - ICE. The polling shows the majority of Americans support good immigration enforcement. But that doesn't stop the Progressives from doubling down on it. Never fear, from his D.C. office, Obama is helping oversee the Resistance, by decentralized management of violent Antifa protests and with that shadowy "Legion Of Doom" organization of the left - Democracy Alliance. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adrianslade/support

Stories for you today: A great article by Kevin Williamson over at National Review about the left’s excuse factory when it comes to dealing with Bill Clinton’s victims; a follow-on to yesterday’s story about the Democracy Alliance, this time it’s all about the progressive movement’s dirty laundry when it comes to sexual abuse; and the story of the murdered border patrol agent. Plus, a bonus story and the question of the day: How do you deal with “that person” who makes your Thanksgiving meal unbearable by talking politics?

My guest in this episode is Gara LaMarche who is one of the world’s leading voices on funding and philanthropy for social justice. Originally from Rhode island, Gara was the first in his family to go to college and he became the youngest person ever to serve on an ACLU policy committee. During his college years at Colombia he says he was a reluctant student and spent much of his time teaching at a nursery school in Harlem which he credits as being one of the most formative experiences of his distinguished career. As a former CEO of the Atlantic Philanthropies, a former director of U.S programs for the Open Society Institute, and now the President of the Democracy Alliance, Gara has overseen the investment of tens of millions of dollars into social justice programs around the world. He has also worked with Pen America and Human Rights Watch, and is currently the chair of StoryCorps. I first met Gara several years ago when he was visiting Dublin as part of his work with Atlantic Philanthropies and it was great to catch-up with him again during my recent trip to New York where I interviewed him in the StoryCorp offices in Brooklyn. ........ ........... About the podcast The Love and Courage podcast features interviews with inspirational people who are making a real difference in the world today. Guests are typically people passionate about social justice, and who have demonstrated courage and conviction in their lives. Host Ruairí McKiernan is leading Irish social innovator, campaigner, writer and public speaker. He is the founder of the pioneering SpunOut.ie youth organization, and helped set-up the Uplift and the A Lust For Life non-profits. In 2012 the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins appointed Ruairí to the Council of State, a national constitutional advisory body whose members include all current and former leaders of the country. Ruairí is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright fellowship, and he contributes regularly to the media on youth, health, community and social justice issues. ................. Subscribe, download, rate and review via iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, YouTube and please spread the word. If you are new to podcasts and have an iPhone, simply use the podcast app on your phone. On Android phones, using the Google Play App download an podcast app such as Podcast Republic and search for 'Love and Courage' and then click subscribe. Download each episode individually, subscribe for updates and sign-up for email announcements about new guests and episodes.   ................. Web:         www.loveandcourage.org Twitter:     @loveandcourage  Facebook:  www.facebook.com/hopehitching Instagram: ww.instagram.com/ruairimc/ Linkedin:    www.linkedin.com/in/ruairimckiernanDonate:     https://www.ifundraise.ie/998_ruairi-mckiernan---social-innovations.html Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/loveandcourage Youtube:     https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gCuceQXG7rmwRY9PAzBgg   ................. Join the Love and Courage community This is independent community supported media. Once off and monthly patron support is hugely appreciated. Donate https://www.ifundraise.ie/998_ruairi-mckiernan---social-innovations.html. Funds help pay for production, post-production, transcribing, hosting, equipment upgrades, publicity, venue rental, and support for Ruairí's ongoing community, campaign and youth mentoring work. ​ Once off supporters of €10 or over get names on the website and a Love and Courage badge. ​(Anonymous support is also possible).  Once off supporters of €50 or more (or at least €5 per month) will get a Love and Courage t-shirt and badge, discounts on workshops and events, your photo and special credits online and on the podcast.  Monthly patrons of €20 per month or more will get the above as well as a mention on the podcast credits (if you want). Patrons of €40 per month or more will get all of the above as well as quarterly phone call updates and invitations to special community gatherings.   Bigger sponsorship opportunities may also be available. Monthly patrons also get extra info and personal email updates with behind the scenes news and insights. Questions: podcast@loveandcourage.org   ..................   Web:         www.loveandcourage.org Twitter:     @loveandcourage  Facebook:  www.facebook.com/hopehitching Instagram: ww.instagram.com/ruairimc/ Linkedin:    www.linkedin.com/in/ruairimckiernanDonate:     https://www.ifundraise.ie/998_ruairi-mckiernan---social-innovations.html Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/loveandcourage Youtube:     https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gCuceQXG7rmwRY9PAzBgg    

Ashindi is an independent strategist and donor advisor in democracy reform, social and racial justice. She has developed funding strategies informing more than $100 million in investments from some of the largest foundations and individual donors in the United States  - including the Democracy Alliance, the Ford Foundation, The Women Donors Network, the Sandler Family Foundation, and PowerPAC. Ashindi co-founded the Emergent Fund, a post 2016 election rapid response fund supporting organizing in the most impacted communities where Muslim, Black, immigrant, Latino, Asian, women, and LGBTQ leaders took the lead in decision-making and were the primary recipients of over $1 million raised in the first 100 days of the new Administration. In May of 2016 she also co-authored, with Urvashi Vaid, the first comprehensive report on high net worth donors of color titled, “The Apparitional Donor: Understanding and Engaging High Net Worth Donors of Color”. She also piloted voter engagement projects geared at Asian American voting, voter registration in community health clinics and ran a witness search and data collection effort which proved to be pivotal in overturning the Pennsylvania voter ID law in 2012.  Prior to all of this, Ashindi worked in education. She was the principal of an elementary arts charter school, a Spanish bilingual fifth grade teacher, and a policy fellow to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Education. She was also a Fulbright Scholar to the Dominican Republic where she published the first national study on race consciousness in Dominican children. In addition to her work in philanthropy, Ashindi has served as the National Policy Director of the NAACP and the National Director of Political Partnerships for SEIU International. Ashindi serves on the boards of the Texas Organizing Project and Free Speech TV. She has been listed three times to Washington Magazine’s “Young and the Guest List” of forty and under geniuses, visionaries, crusaders and innovators shaping Washington's future” in addition to the “NAACP Power 40” list of most influential African-Americans under forty. Ms. Maxton is a graduate of Vassar College and has a Masters degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. It's hard to think of someone more accomplished in her field.  So grateful that she carved out time for us today.  Enjoy the show!

George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton are gathering in Washington for a three-day, closed door meeting to retool the big-money left to fight back against Donald Trump. The conference, which kicked off Sunday night at Washingtonâ??s pricey Mandarin Oriental hotel, is sponsored by the influential Democracy Alliance donor club, and will include appearances by leaders of most leading unions and liberal groups, as well as darlings of the left such as House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairman Keith Ellison, according to an agenda and other documents obtained by POLITICO. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/democrats-soros-trump-231313

ARTICLE: George Soros and his fellow liberal mega-donors are currently readying the post-Hillary Clinton Democratic party to oppose President-Elect Donald Trump. According to Politico, Soros and other key members of the so-called â??Democracy Allianceâ?? met in Washington, DC at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Sunday for the first day of the groupâ??s three-day investment conference. http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/14/soros-prepares-for-trump-war/

Nick Hanauer is co-founder and partner in Seattle-based venture capital firm, Second Avenue Partners. He has managed, founded and financed over thirty companies, creating aggregate market value of tens of billions of dollars. For example, he co-founded aQuantive, which sold to Microsoft for $6.4 billion, and was the first non-family investor in Amazon. He also serves as a Director for The Democracy Alliance and as a board advisor to the policy journal Democracy. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Washington, is married with two children and lives in Seattle, Washington. At O’Reilly’s Next:Economy conference in San Francisco, the venture capitalist talks about the value of studying philosophy, his investment strategy and how to think independently. Link to it now. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Gun Seller deemed "high risk" dumped by bank,SBSD gets proactive on Tues 5 days after they needed to be, The Democracy Alliance joins Bloomberg in the gun control cause,Stop blaming the 2nd Amendment for madmen,The American gun owner could be the most formidable force on the planet with the right attitude,The Bloomberg minions are singing,As they fight the ATF Ares Armor is still doing business and intends to continue fighting-CEO Dimitri Karras spells out the plan.

1st hour: Neil McCabe, editor of the Human Events "Guns & Patriots" e-letter, joins Chuck Morse in a discussion of the activities of the "Democracy Alliance" and the liberal/left top 1% millionaires and billionaires. Link: http://www.humanevents.com/author/neil-w-mccabe/ 2nd hour: Deborah Mitchell, author of Growing Up Godless: A Parent's Guide to Raising Kids Without Religion joins Chuck in a discussion of atheism and faith. Link: http://amzn.com/1454910984

Quoting “several Democratic sources,” the Huffington Post reports that billionaire George Soros may be encouraging his fellow progressives to funnel their money away from President Barack Obama — that is, unless Obama can deliver for their cause.

Quoting “several Democratic sources,” the Huffington Post reports that billionaire George Soros may be encouraging his fellow progressives to funnel their money away from President Barack Obama — that is, unless Obama can deliver for their cause.