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Living in the USA

Living in the USA

Talking about politics, thinking about the Left. Hosted by Jon Wiener, co-author of "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," contributing editor at The Nation, and broadcast live at KPFK 90.7FM in LA Thursdays at 4.

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46:12

Trump vs The rest of us: Harold Meyerson; grassroots...

Living in the USA ·

2025/02/08

The Democrats have become more active in trying to stop the worst of Trump - and Musk - Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect comments on Senate and House leaders - and on the recent administration attacks on the NLRB.Also: Trump’s strategy of flooding the zone with executive actions is intended to paralyze the opposition. But there’s lots of grassroots mobilization underway right now, and one of the biggest organizers of that mobilization is Indivisible.Leah Greenberg will explain the group’s

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57:08

Triumph over Trump: John Nichols; Paying Attention:...

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2025/02/01

This week's popular outrage over Trump's stopping funding of all social programs forced him to throw in the towel after just a few hours - demonstrating how weak he is, and how powerful the opposition can be. John Nichols comments.Also: The battle to get us to pay attention: Chris Hayes explains--His new book is "The Siren's Call."Plus: Your Minnesota Moment - Trump attacks small town sanctuaries for undocumented residents.

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58:15

How We Got Here: Harold Meyerson; The Undocumented:...

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2025/01/25

How did we get here, with Trump returning to the White House? Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect comments on the 93 million people who could have voted – but didn’t –and on Trump’s Day One executive orders.Also: Now that Trump is preparing to round up and deport undocumented residents, we want to thank them for everything they’ve done to make America good.Gustavo Arellano will explain – he’s a columnist for the LA Times whose father came to the US in the 1960s in the trunk of a Chevy.Plus:

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57:42

Getting Ready to Fight Trump, & to Help Trump's...

Living in the USA ·

2025/01/18

As we prepare for Trump to take office next week, we're getting ready to challenge him and his people in the upcoming elections later this year. But before that, we have an important election in the next few weeks: the Democratic National Committee will elect a new chair on February 1 to prepare for the battles and the campaigns to come – John Nichols comments.Also: Trump promises to deport millions of undocumented residents, while Republicans in Congress threaten a nationwide abortion ban

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58:28

Trump's Big Budget Bill: Harold Meyerson; Sanctuary...

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2025/01/11

Trump has come out in favor of combining many of his biggest priorities into one big budget reconciliation bill – because the budget reconciliation impacts the economy, this bill is not subject to filibuster by the Democrats; so, it could pass the Senate with 50 Republican votes. But some Republicans are likely to resist – Harold Meyerson comments. Also: Trump’s “dictatorship on day one” will feature executive orders to deport undocumented residents.Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center

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57:50

MAGA vs. DOGE: Harold Meyerson; Project 2025: Rick...

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2025/01/04

A fight has broken out between Elon Musk and the MAGA activists and base about immigration – specifically, over H-1B visas. But what exactly IS an H-1B visa; and why is there so much heat around the issue? Harold Meyerson comments.Also: Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s famous 900 page book, is partly “too dumb to accomplish anything at all”– the rest, can be read as a useful catalog of how we should focus our resistance – Rick Perlstein explains.Plus: The ever-elusive Bob Dylan seems an

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01:00:57

Best Books about Trump; Why Kamala Lost; Why Danes...

Living in the USA ·

2024/12/28

Donald Trump has been bad for America but good for American book publishers. Now that Trump is coming back we look at what the best of those books had to say about him, also, the worst:Also, Melania has published a memoir: “Melania,” where she revisits plagiarizing Michelle Obama for her 2016 RNC convention speech, and wearing that jacket that said “I don’t care, do U?” when she visited INS detention camps for children separated from their parents at the border. Amy Wilentz comments on her

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40:06

Disney Workers Win Big: Harold Meyerson; Bob Dylan's...

Living in the USA ·

2024/12/21

Disney unions won the biggest ever back pay settlement, and Amazon drivers in the Southland are going on strike this week - Harold Meyerson reports on the class struggle in Southern California.Also: Bob Dylan fans have been puzzled and troubled by his Christmas album ever since he released it in 2009. To help figure out what Dylan was doing, we turn to Sean Wilentz. He’s the official historian at BobDylan.com, and he also teaches history at Princeton. (Originally recorded in January, 2005.)

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41:03

Good news and bad news for workers: Harold Meyerson;...

Living in the USA ·

2024/12/14

Workers in Los Angeles and Wisconsin made major gains this week, while the NLRB is falling into Trump's hands, thanks to Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema -- Harold Meyerson reports.Also: a new episode of “The Children’s Hour,” Amy Wilentz reports on “Lives of the In-Laws”—Ivanka’s father-in-law, and Tiffany’s -- and comments also on the rise of Trump's daughter-in-law Lara, the wife of Eric.

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46:29

The GOP’s Tiny House Majority: Harold Meyerson; How...

Living in the USA ·

2024/12/07

The GOP majority in the House will be 217-to 215 Dems – for months, until special elections in April bring it up to 220.What are the odds odds that House Republicans will be 100% united when Trump sends them his key legislation? Harold Meyerson comments.Also: “Our worst enemy right now is not Trump himself, but fatalism about our ability to stop him.”That’s what David Cole says – he recently stepped down as National Legal Director of the ACLU, after 8 years and hundreds of lawsuits against the

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58:55

Learning from the Election: Harold Meyerson; Trumpers...

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2024/11/21

Trump's terrible cabinet picks – what if the Democrats use these remaining two months to hold their own confirmation hirings? Also, are Democrats out of touch with the American people? Harold Meyerson comments.Also: A lot of people who voted for abortion rights referenda this year also voted for Trump. What were they thinking? How do they understand politics? Amy Littlefield spent election day in Amarillo, Texas, trying to find out. Plus: From the archives: Bob Dylan in 1964, when he was 23; Sean

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58:16

Trump's Crazy Cabinet: Harold Meyerson; Hope in the...

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2024/11/15

Trump's initial nominees include Matt Gaetz for Attorney General – "the group that is probably most elated by this are his fellow Republican House members who hate his guts" – Harold Meyerson discusses Trump's crazy cabinet.Also: Hope does not mean saying ‘this is not bad,’ Rebecca Solnit argues; it just means we will not give up—because we know that what we do matters, and we also know we’ve been surprised by good things we never expected.Plus:Melania has been absent from Trump's side; and, is

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57:03

How Trump Won: Harold Meyerson and John Nichols;...

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2024/11/07

Big Picture: Trump won a landslide in the electoral college and control of the Senate; control of the House is unclear at this point. So much good work went into fighting Trump; but, a majority of voters know who Trump is and chose him. So, how did we get here? And, what do we do next? Harold Meyerson comments. Also: John Nichols looks at the elections results: For starters: Trump got fewer votes than 4 years ago; 55% of voters in the CNN exit poll said he was “too extreme.”Plus: Harriet Tubman

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53:40

Closing Arguments: Harold Meyerson; Melania's Memoir:...

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2024/10/31

If Harris wins Pennsylvania – a predominately working-class state – she probably wins the election; so, what could be the most effective closing argument to convince working-class voters there to vote for Harris? New research by The Center for Working-Class Politics tested messages and found that the strongest one singles out corporations for raising prices — Harold Meyerson comments.Also: Melania has published a memoir,Melania, where she revisits plagiarizing Michelle Obama for her 2016 RNC

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52:05

On the Ground in Nevada: Harold Meyerson; Voters of...

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2024/10/24

World famous gambling and entertainment hub Las Vegas, Nevada is also home to one of the "the most politically potent" unions in the United States, representing hotel casino workers there: Culinary Union Local 226 -- Harold Meyerson traveled to Las Vegas to find out what this powerful union is doing to help "push Kamala over the top".Also: Latino and Black voters in swing states, we are told by the New York Times, are “drifting away from the Democrats.” But how good is the evidence here? Steve

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53:32

Rick Perlstein: The Undecideds; Marc Cooper: Marie...

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2024/10/17

One in six voters, pollsters say, are “still unsure of their choice.”What do people mean when they say they are “undecided”?Rick Perlstein sayspolitical writers have failed to understand the undecideds—and what Kamala might do to win their votes. Also: Democrat Marie Gleusenkamp Perez won a House seat in a Trump district, pointing the way for others.Marc Cooper analyzes her current reelection campaign in southwestern Washington State, starting from the fact that she’s a working class woman in a

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51:45

Kamala's Media Blitz: Harold Meyerson; Polls and Us:...

Living in the USA ·

2024/10/10

Kamala has been showing up: from "Call Her Daddy" – a podcast popular among young woman, to "The Howard Stern Show" –popular among young men; to "The View" and "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" – Harold Meyerson comments on Kamala's media blitz.Also: The polls have had disastrous failures for decades, but people continue to focus on them; Rick Perlstein has a better idea: ‘don’t follow polls—organize.’Plus: From the archives: The great Gail Collins ofThe New York Timesop-ed page talks about the

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52:00

What Walz Won: Harold Meyerson; Travels in Trumpland:...

Living in the USA ·

2024/10/03

If the election were to happen today, polls point to 276 for Kamala; 262 for Trump. Also: The vice presidential debate – "Walz, who was plainly unaccustomed to dealing with such adept obfuscation, particularly when couched in Vance’s one-night-only dulcet tones" writes Harold Meyerson in The Prospect; so, what did Walz win? Harold Meyerson comments.Next: John Nichols has been driving to places in Middle America where Trump has gotten big majorities in the past: Iowa and Nebraska, central and

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56:34

Kamala in the Polls: Harold Meyerson; Cats, Dogs and...

Living in the USA ·

2024/09/26

The polls right now show Kamala would win the electoral college if the election were held today--Harold Meyerson comments. Also: Trump Media stock - it's sinking fast.Plus: Trump has canceled his plan to visit Springfield, Ohio, but his lie about Haitian immigrants there eating cats and dogs continues to ricochet around the American political world. Amy Wilentz comments.Also: The presidential election is the main political battle in America today, but Trump’s followers have also been fighting for

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58:24

The Trump Ground Game: Harold Meyerson; Jan. 6...

Living in the USA ·

2024/09/19

The Republican Party and the Trump Campaign have no field operations of their own doing door-to-door work - for the first time all of that has been outsourced to PACs with independent funding, and the largest, run by Elon Musk, has just fired the company doing its canvassing in Nevada and Arizona. Harold Meyerson comments.Also: Trump has made it clear he won't accept the results of the 2024 election if he loses, and Republicans are doing everything they can make it harder for Democrats to vote. But

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