This impeachment trial is very important, but what matters most is not whether Donald Trump is convicted. Elected officials should not be able to simply create alternative realities out of alternative facts, and then walk away from those consequences.

Author and journalist Eric Blanc discusses how we can take advantage of the high profile unionization drive at Amazon to win other gains for labor + Chicago teachers are organizing in response to pressure to return to school during a pandemic -- and the teachers are winning!

Later, Tucker Carlson takes fanning the flames of conspiracy theories to a disturbing new level,, and struggling New York City taxi workers now have the support of Sen. Chuck Schumer. How will Uber take this? Rep. Chris Rabb + Arun Chaudhary join the show to break it all down.

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Eric Blanc is the author of "Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics", a member of DSA in New York City, and was a national surrogate for the Bernie Sanders campaign. https://www.versobooks.com/books/2955-red-state-revolt

Chris Rabb has represented the 200th District (Philadelphia County) in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 2017. He is also a board member of Friends of the Wissahickon and Race Forward and has also been on the faculty of the Institute for Strategic Leadership at Drexel University's Bennett S. LeBow College of Business. Twitter: @chrisrabb

Arun Chaudhary was formerly the first official White House videographer and worked as creative director for Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign. He is a political filmmaker. Twitter: @ArunChaud

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Neera Tanden is finally being called out. This is an opportunity to hold her accountable. She cannot be confirmed as Joe Biden's budget office director.

Chris Smalls, former Amazon employee and founder of The Congress of Essential Workers, describes how he was quarantined as a silencing tactic, when he tried to get answers from management at Amazon.

Professor Deborah Levitt talks to Nomiki about what inspired her latest book The Animatic Apparatus: Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image, and how animation technology is a big contributor to what we see as “post-truth.”

Simon Narode and Jordan Zakarin join the show to look at Fox News' fantasy image of the Democratic Party, and Twitter's announcement that Donald Trump is PERMANENTLY banned from their platform, even if he were to become President again. But does get to the root of the problem?

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Chris Smalls is a former Amazon employee, and founder of The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW). Twitter: @Shut_downAmazon

Deborah Levitt is an Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at The New School. Her research focuses on “how the media­–old and new–transform both everyday experience and expanded global, political spheres.” She is the author of The Animatic Apparatus: Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image. She is currently working on other book projects, Rendering Words and ZoeTropes. She is a member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, as well as the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Links: https://www.deborahlevitt.com/

Jordan Zakarin runs ProgressivesEverywhere.org, “a political newsletter that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for progressive candidates and causes.” The Progressives Everywhere newsletter spotlights progressive candidates, campaigns, and causes. Twitter: @JordanZakarin Links: http://www.progressiveseverywhere.substack.com

Simon Narode is a socialist writer, and a former organizer for the Bernie Sanders campaign. Twitter: @SimonNarode Links: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/bernie-sanders-campaign-strateg

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It’s impeachment round two, and yes, we are exhausted! But this is about so much more than just Donald Trump. This impeachment trial is about democracy.

Then, Thom Hartmann joins for a discussion about oligarchy vs democracy, the political and historical importance of this impeachment, and the racist origins of the filibuster.

Later, Judd Legum and Akela Lacy look at Neera Tanden's OMB confirmation, and how Amazon workers are attempting to unionize, despite tremendous effort from the corporation to discourage labor organizing. If this works out, it could have a great ripple effect, as other warehouses unionize too.

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Thom Hartman is the author of The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class, the latest book in the “Hidden History” series from The New York Times. Twitter: @Thom_Hartmann Instagram: @Thom_Hartmann Links: https://www.thomhartmann.com/

Judd Legum is a journalist, lawyer, and political staffer. He writes “Popular Information,” a newsletter about politics and power. In 2005, he founded Think Progress and ran it for two years before leaving in 2007 to join Hillary Clinton’s campaign as research director. He returned to ThinkProgress in 2011 and became the site’s editor-in-chief in 2012. In 2018, he founded Popular Information, Subtrack’s first politically-focussed publication. Twitter: @JuddLegum Links: https://popular.info/

Akela Lacy is a politics reporter with The Intercept. She was previously The Intercept’s Inaugural Ady Barkan Reporting Fellow, and prior to that she was a politics fellow in the D.C. Bureau. She has also covered breaking news and immigration for Politico, produced Politico’s flagship newsletter, Playbook, and co-authored their afternoon newsletter, Playbook PM/ She has also worked in international reporting at the Pulitzer Center Twitter: @akela_lacy Instagram: @akelalacy

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Journalist and author Michael Isikoff joins Nomiki Konst for an in-depth preview of the second impeachment of Donald J. Trump.

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Michael Isikoff is the Chief investigative correspondent Yahoo News. Twitter: @Isikoff

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“Democrats, God put you on this earth to spend government money on the disadvantaged. Now, please go do it.”

I didn't say that. Someone I would rarely quote said it. David Brooks, that mushy middle, kumbaya singing columnist from the New York Times said it. When Brooks and Bernie Sanders agree on something it’s worth discussing why.

The response to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sharing her deeply personal experience with sexual trauma has been troubling. It comes from both the right and the left, and it reeks of misogyny. We need to call it out. Ana Kasparian, host of TYT and Jacobin's Weekends joins the show to discuss.

And later, The Bitchuation Room's Francesca Fiorentini breaks down the news of the day, including Joe Biden's plan to end all offensive support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, Cori Bush’s powerful speech on the floor of Congress, Ilhan Omar pushing for the abolishment of student loan debt, a new bill in Nevada that would allow tech companies to create governments(!), and Francesca gives her take on a certain part of the left that is building their platforms by attacking progressives like AOC.

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Ana Kasparian is the host and Executive Producer of The Young Turks, Host of “Weekends” from Jacobin. Twitter: @AnaKasparian Instagram: @anakasparianofficial Links: https://www.youtube.com/theyoungturks

Francesca Fiorentini is the host of the Bitchuation Room Podcast and Newsbroke on Al Jazeera. Twitter: @franifio Instagram: @franifio Links: https://www.francescafiorentini.com/

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Marjorie Taylor Green was low hanging fruit. She is just an illustration of our crisis: The House took a small step to fixing this by punishing Green. The Senate can take a big step, by convicting Donald Trump. This is not an impeachment trial to decide if President Trump incited a mob. This is a trial to judge whether we are okay having our leaders operate in a land of lies and bullshit

David Dayen explains the status of stimulus checks and why Biden and the Democrats are pushing to means-test the $1,400. “Politically, this is suicidal… The fact that there’s no economic case for it either is almost beside the point. The political case is just absolutely horrible.”

And later, Rep. Chris Rabb + Arun Chaudhary join the show to look at the pressure from within the Democratic party on Joe Biden to cancel student loan debt through executive order, and a conversation about the dire need for media literacy in the US.

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David Dayen is the Executive Editor of the American Prospect. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many others. He is the author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud, which won the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. His latest book, Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power was released in July 2020. Twitter: @ddayen

Chris Rabb has represented the 200th District (Philadelphia County) in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 2017. He is also a board member of Friends of the Wissahickon and Race Forward and has also been on the faculty of the Institute for Strategic Leadership at Drexel University's Bennett S. LeBow College of Business. Twitter: @chrisrabb

Arun Chaudhary was formerly the first official White House videographer and worked as creative director for Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign. He is a political filmmaker. Twitter: @ArunChaud

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Senator Joe Manchin, “Plunkitt of West Virginia,” is putting bipartisanship above meeting the needs of the American people. Nomiki talks to No Excuses PAC's Corbin Trent to discuss their new campaign to let fringe Democrats in the Senate like Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema that if they stand in the way of progress, the will be replaced. And later, Jordan Zakarin and Simon Narode join to look at the news stories of the day including MSNBC realizing that labor unions, which have been getting progressively weaker for decades, are actually becoming stronger during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Corbin Trent is the co-founder of the No Excuses PAC, a PAC specifically focussing on challenging Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. He is also the co-founder of Justice Democrats, which helped elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush, among others. He formerly worked as the Director of Communications for AOC, and was a national staffer on Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. Twitter: @corbintrent Instagram: @corbin.trent Links: http://noexcusespac.com/

Jordan Zakarin runs ProgressivesEverywhere, a newsletter spotlights progressive candidates, campaigns, and causes. Twitter: @JordanZakarin Instagram: @jordan_the_brand https://progressiveseverywhere.substack.com/

Simon Narode is a socialist writer, and a former organizer for the Bernie Sanders campaign. Twitter: @SimonNarode Instagram: @simonnarode

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We are falling back into one of those terrible confusions where a growing economy and a booming stock market obscure -- and are used to obscure -- the plight of real people. President Biden must hold the line on stimulus.

Journalist and author Sarah Jaffe describes what inspired her book Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone.

And later, Napoleon Da Legend and Joshua Kahn Russell join the show to look at how censorship and deplatforming has devolved into a space where right-wingers complain that they face consequences for their violent, white supremacist ideas online. Lastly, AOC opens up on Instagram Live about her traumatic experience of sexual assault. This opens up a conversation about what we can do to support the women in our lives, for whom this experience is far too common.

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Sarah Jaffe is an author, as well as a Type Media Center reporting fellow and an independent journalist covering the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The Atlantic, among many others. With Michelle Chen, she co-hosts Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast. Twitter: @sarahljaffe Instagram: @sarahljaffe » Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/work-wont-love-you-back/9781568589398/

Joshua Kahn Russell is the Executive Director of the Wildfire Project. Twitter: @joshkahnrussell Instagram: @joshuakahnrussell » Link: https://joshuakahnrussell.wordpress.com/about/

Napoleon Da Legend is an Afrobeat/Hip-Hop Artist activist who works regularly with youth, running hip-hop workshops in Brooklyn’s toughest schools and Rikers Island’s juvenile programs. Twitter: @TeamNDL Instagram: @teamndl » Link: https://www.napoleondalegend.com

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The GOP is not divided. It’s actually growing. The GOP is the party of Trump.

Then, New Mexico State Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez outlines some of the progressive policies she backs, and tells us how we can get involved to support her special election race to fill the seat of Biden Interior Secretary pick, Rep. Deb Haaland.

And later, Esperanza Fonseca and Piper Winkler take a look at the news that the number of nursing-home residents in New York who’ve died from COVID-19 is much higher than Gov Andrew Cuomo’s administration claims.

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Antoinette Sedillo Lopez is an American attorney, politician, and retired professor who has served as a member of the New Mexico Senate since 2019. Twitter: @ASL4Justice4all Links:https://www.sedillolopez.com

Esperanza Fonseca is a member of the transnational feminist organization AF3IRM. She has been a labor and policy organizer for about 7 years. Twitter: @endclasssociety Links:https://medium.com/@bfonseca.e/a-socialist-feminist-and-transgender-analysis-of-sex-work-b08aaf1ee4ab

Piper Winkler was a core organizer for Harvard for Bernie, now Harvard YDSA, where she is currently co-chair. She is a team member on The Nomiki Show. Her writing appears in Jacobin and the Harvard Political Review. Twitter: @piper_winks

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Ordinary working people -- many of them in fact people out of work in the pandemic -- took on a big wall street hedge fund and beat it at its own fancy financial games. GameStop indeed. Later, John Nichols explains why impeaching Trump is so important, and why the Democrats are so hesitant. Also, musician and political activist HEwas talks about how music helped get him involved in politics. And later Rep. Rabb and Arun Chaudhary take a closer look at AOC exposing the Republican party's inevitable evolution into a full-on white supremacist party. Perhaps it's always been one.

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John Nichols is the National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation, author of The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist. Links: https://www.thenation.com/authors/john-nichols/ » https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/impeach-25th-trump-insurrection/

HEwas is a musician and a progressive activist who “hopes his music can create an escape for listeners from these tumultuous times we find ourselves in.” He will be releasing an Anti-War track this month Twitter: @ComradeHEwas Instagram: @iamHEwas Link to Website HEwas’s Show (Youtube) Link to HEwas’s Spotify

Arun Chaudhary is a political filmmaker and was formerly the first official White House videographer. Arun also worked as creative director for Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign. » Twitter: @ArunChaud

Chris Rabb has represented the 200th District (Philadelphia County) in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 2017. He is also a board member of Friends of the Wissahickon and Race Forward and has also been on the faculty of the Institute for Strategic Leadership at Drexel University's Bennett S. LeBow College of Business. Links:https://www.rabbforthepeople.com/ » https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/574884/invisible-capital-by-chris-rabb/

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