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Democrats just took back the House and the Senate in one of the most lopsided midterm routs in modern history. Talarico flipped Texas, and El-Sayed beat Rogers in Michigan despite Haley Stevens’s betrayal. Francesca is joined by Breaking Points co-host Krystal Ball to ask: with this historic win, will the feckless Democratic establishment FINALLY rise to the moment?
We get into Chuck Schumer, whether Democrats should work with Trump, and why the party has to break with Israel.
Then, the American Prospect’s executive editor David Dayen joins to talk about the new wave of representatives in swing states, who aren’t actually moderates as much as populists! And we look into whether the blue wave can finally mean the end of the Electoral College, and why California has somehow kept itself as a neoliberal hell.
Featuring:
Krystal Ball, co-host of Breaking Points
https://x.com/krystalball
David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/author/david-dayen/

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Lula crushed Bolsonaro’s son in Brazil by doing everything Democratic consultants say never works, Barack Obama compares Trump’s White House redecoration to “Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory,” and Trump’s DOJ is openly trying to cover for Orange Man’s disgusting sex pest behavior.
Francesca is on the final-week-before-the-midterms beat with Justice Democrats communications director Usamah Andrabi, who explains how AIPAC is hiding its money in pop-up super PACs to save Doris Matsui from Mai Vang, why Haley Stevens still won’t campaign for Abdul El-Sayed, and why feckless Democratic leaders want to “go small” if they take power.
Then, TargetSmart’s Tom Bonier joins to break down the fake pollsters flooding the zone with bunk data, and what the 33 million—and counting!—early votes already tell us. We get into Justin Pearson’s fierce campaign, Texas Latino turnout surpassing 2024 presidential levels, and the young Black voters across the Deep South marching miles to the polls after the Voting Rights Act gutting.
Featuring:
Usamah Andrabi, communications director at Justice Democrats,
https://x.com/usamahandrabi
https://justicedemocrats.com
Tom Bonier, CEO of The TARA Group and senior advisor at TargetSmart,
https://x.com/tbonier
https://tombonier.substack.com
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This is a portion of Francesca’s interview with journalist David Dayen. To get access to the full interview by becoming a member by joining the Patreon.
David Dayen has a really good brain. He's been tracking and unpacking how corporations have used our government as a door mat for years. In this discussion he, joins Francesca to explains how favoritism and bribery have replaced regulation during Trump 2.0, and how the regime fits the textbook definition of fascism, i.e., corporate control and government authoritarianism.
He also explains the state of antitrust cases under Trump, assesses what could have been done under Biden, and mulls over whether progressives should have pushed further under Biden—and what worked under his administration, until it didn't.
They discuss the serious real-world impacts on the defunding of Medicare, SNAP and WIC and how the 'vengeance budgeting' of the Trump administration has disproportionately defunded blue states. Dayen breaks down what the Zohran Mamdani administration is doing right, and how interventions like city-run grocery stores 'utterly disrupt' the late-stage capitalist hell we find ourselves in.
Featuring:
David Dayen, Executive Editor, The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/
Read Francesca’s columns from The American Prospect
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JD Vance is on an absolute epic run of terrible campaign speeches, recently comparing the U.S. economy to the Titanic and insulting an Iran war widower. Meanwhile Bernie Sanders campaigns in Florida for Angie Nixon, and Abdul El-Sayed beats back the Islamophobic plants in Michigan. Francesca is solo discussing the state of the midterms race, James Carville’s revelatory rant on The Bulwark--an outlet no one should listen to--and the recent white nationalist line when it comes to protests in France.
Then, we’re joined Lily Greenberg Call, the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden administration over Gaza, to talk about the lessons the Biden Administration isn't learning from supporting a genocide and the olive harvest violence in the West Bank. Greenberg Call is ready for Kamala to start apologizing for enabling genocide—but that still won't mean she wants Harris ‘28.
Featuring:
Lily Greenberg Call, former Biden administration appointee and first Jewish-American political appointee to resign over Gaza.
https://www.instagram.com/lilygreenbergcall/
voteforpeace.info
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The latest blonde press secretary has come and gone but we press on. Francesca and Matt Lieb were in Philadelphia, bitching about how much those cheesesteaks just sit in your stomach, huh? Joined by organizer and activist Nelini Stamp and labor journalist Kim Kelly, much hay was made over an American Idol going full Karen on a local art store in Brooklyn. Then a little Shane Gillis shade and why the Amish are spreading a disease that was eradicated in the year 2000.
Plus, Trump is fully in his gay period while the GOP continues to parrot anti-trans insanity. And the media can’t let go of the idea of having a Muslim Senator in Abdul El-Sayed by virtue of their raging Islamophobia.
And what do we need to keep in mind as leftists as Democrats appear poised to at least take the House come 2027? Kim Kelly and Nelini discuss their wishlist for democracy in the years ahead. Finally a Matt Lieb-produced round of "Two News and a Lie: Netanyahu Edition".
Featuring:
Kim Kelly, journalist and author
https://www.kim-kelly.com/
Nelini Stamp, organizer of fandoms & formerly WFP
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Matt Lieb, Bad Hasbara Podcast
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