We are back from Netroots Nation 2018 held in the Crescent City of New Orleans Louisiana!

Today on the show, New York Attorney General Candidate, Zephyr Teachout on using the office as a tool to stop anti-trust and corruption.

Shaunna Thomas from Ultraviolet on creating a cost for sexism in the work place.

Sayu Bhojwani, from New American Leaders, on the importance of electing 1st and 2nd generation immigrants into government.

Stephen Miles, Director of Win Without War, will discuss the struggle of getting the anti-war message in to the mainstream media.

Mark Jablownowski will explain the extent you can be targeted online with political ads, using your voter files.

David Neiwart will talk about his new book Alt- America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump

We will also have interviews from Jehmu Greene from Vote Run Lead and Faith Winter who’s hoping to turn the Colorado State Senate, blue, in one of the most important races coming up in November.

And finally, the Connecticut Secretary of State, Denise Merrill will discuss voter suppression and why the Kobach Commission was a complete fraud.

Welcome to Ring of Fire Radio, I’m Sam Seder.

This is a special edition of the podcast, while we travel to New Orleans for this year’s Netroots Nation. We will be bringing you special interviews from the conference on next weeks show. Today you’ll hear interviews from my recent trip to the American Federation of Teacher’s Conference held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I sat down with national and local union leaders to speak about the state of teacher unions due to recent rulings by the Supreme Court and why strong teacher unions are the key to better education in our country.

Suzanne Mettler, author of the new book, “The Government-Citizen Disconnect,” will join us to discuss the Trump Administrations plan to rebrand social programs as “welfare.”

Heather “Digby” Parton and I will discuss all the major headlines from this week.

David Dayen, will join us to discuss his new piece detailing employee abuses at one of the largest banks in the world.

Heather “Digby” Parton and I will discuss all the major headlines from this week.

Karl Frisch, from Allied Progress, will be here to explain how private equity firms have a new way of monetizing poor people.

Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon will be here to breakdown all the headlines from the week.

And Harvard Professor, Khalil Gibran Muhammed, will join us to discuss how the Alt-Right is using social science to make racism seem respectable.

And Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon will be here to run down all the big news stories of the week