The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl)

  • 43 minutes 16 seconds
    BONUS EPISODE: Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal - episode 4

    Leigh guest reads in episode 4: part 2 of a fantastic and informative, limited series "Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal". Be sure to check out all episodes wherever you get your pods! xo- PG

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    This episode tells the fictional story of a middle school that opens its doors to unvaccinated students after a possible second -term President Trump eliminates Federal funding for schools with vaccine mandates. The story follows the school nurse, Stephanie Morris, as she navigates the influx of unvaccinated students and the resulting disease outbreaks that spread rapidly through the school and community. The narrative illustrates the real-world implications of the president's policy, with outbreaks of diseases like measles, whooping cough, and the flu causing hospitalizations and even deaths among vulnerable students and staff. The story highlights the challenges faced by the school nurse in trying to protect the health of all students, including her own daughter who has an autoimmune condition, without the backing of mandatory vaccination policies. Overall, the episode demonstrates how Donald Trump’s promise to defund schools with vaccine mandates could have devastating consequences for children's health and safety.


    We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode:

    Laurie Burke, Leigh McGowan who read the chapters & Audrey Hakes , Joe Walsh, & others who contributed character voices.  


    Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jonathan Moser. 

    Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal written by Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod.

    10 October 2024, 11:00 pm
  • 56 minutes 39 seconds
    What happened to the American Dream? A conversation with Thom Hartmann

    Our nation sits at crossroad. We either address our problems

    within our democracy and rule of law, or fail to address them by abandoning the

    very things that make us special in pursuit of something new. The 2024

    presidential ticket offers us two very different versions of America - what it

    is and who it’s for - and on November 5th we choose one. Join me and the

    brilliant author Thom Hartman as we discuss his new book The Hidden History of

    the American Dream and break down where we are right now. The American Dream

    might be broken, but we can fix it, and we know it’s possible because we’ve

    done it before.


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    The Hartmann Report: https://hartmannreport.com/

    Twitter: @Thom_Hartmann


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    8 October 2024, 7:00 am
  • 49 minutes 21 seconds
    Avoiding a Second Civil War: A Conversation with Vet Voice’s Janessa Goldbeck

    Today we’re talking with the CEO of Vet VoiceJanessa Goldbeck about the film War Game a documentary based on a real life wargame set on January 6, 2025 that imagines a nationwide insurrection, in whichmembers of the US military choose to defect in order to support the losing

    presidential candidate and what the current president and his team, would do. I’m talking about this film because the scenario addressed has a real possibility of playing out after the 2024 election, and the people at the Vet Voice Foundation, including 3 former Generals, and former senior officials from the last five presidential administrations wanted to be sure we were as

    prepared as possible for what happens if the candidate who loses the election refuses to concede, and if part of our military joins them.

     

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    https://wargamefilm.com/

    https://vvfnd.org/

    Twitter:     @WarGameFilm

                     @VetVoiceFound

     

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    1 October 2024, 7:00 am
  • 37 minutes 9 seconds
    Cheat to Win: A Conversation with Democracy Super Lawyer Marc Elias

    According to the brilliant Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket and now senior member of the Harris/Walz legal team, what the Republicans are planning for the 2024 election is not just unprecedented, but outrageous. There is a reason they’re not campaigning or trying to get out the vote. There’s a reason Trump is telling people he “doesn’t need votes”. It’s because their plan isn’t to win the election, it’s to subvert, suppress and refuse to certify the election if they don’t win. According to Elias, Trump’s ultimate goal is to be sworn in, and there is no line he won’t cross to reach that goal. So, what are the Democrats doing to counter these efforts, and are they prepared for the down & dirty fight ahead?


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    Democracy Docket signup link: https://www.democracydocket.com/pg-subscribe/


    https://www.democracydocket.com/


    https://www.elias.law/team/marc-elias


    Twitter: @marceelias

    @DemocracyDocket


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    24 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 1 second
    A Return to Common Sense: A Conversation with Jason Alexander

    My first book ‘A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow’ It drops today, so I’ve invited my friend, and beloved American actor and director, Jason Alexander to join us to guest host the episode. We talk, not only about getting us out of this mess we’re in, but how we can build the nation we tell the world we are. At the end of the day you can’t fix something you don’t understand, and I wrote a book to fix things.

     

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    Really? No Really? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/really-no-really/id1668887882

     

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004517/

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Alexander

     

    Twitter: @IJasonAlexander

    Insta: jalexander1959

     

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    17 September 2024, 8:46 am
  • 41 minutes 6 seconds
    Fed Up & Fired Up: A Conversation with Chamber of Mother’s Erin Erenberg

    The women of this nation hold the spending AND voting power so why are we so constantly marginalized? Tired of being overlooked, used as pawns, and ready to be taken seriously, we talk to Erin Erenberg, co-founder and CEO of the Chamber of Mothers, about the growing collective movement to advance maternal rights in America. The truth of the matter is: we’re hardly a country that should be forcing women to have babies, since the US is currently experiencing a maternal health crisis and we barely respect the role or what goes into it. It’s well past time our needs are better reflected and responded to by our government. It’s not just what’s best for mothers and their children, but what’s best for society as a whole.


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    10 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 44 minutes 57 seconds
    America: Built on Work - A Conversation Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su

    Happy Labor Day!!! Department of Labor’s Acting Secretary Julie Su reminds us that the Biden Administration has been focused on building what they call the “high road to the American dream”. That looking out for the American worker is not just about having enough work, it’s about those workers being paid properly, treated with respect, and at the end of the day, giving our citizens what President Biden calls “a little breathing room” to live our lives. How do we “pursue happiness” without that? On this Labor Day we dig into the Department of Labor and all the programs and agencies ready and willing to help the American people that most of us don’t even know about, and the importance of having a government that not only respects our workers but will fight for them.


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    US Department of Labor:

    https://www.dol.gov/


    Twitter: @ActSecJulieSu



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    3 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    Joyful Warriors: A Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson

    Coming right off the Democratic Convention, brilliant historian and writer Heather Cox

    Richardson gives her insights on where we are with the two parties and the upcoming

    election. She reminds us that democracy is not a given, and though we have to fight for

    it, we should find joy in that fight. That the Republicans are used to controlling the

    narrative, and holding the mantle of patriotic American, but the convention showed the

    world they aren’t the only ones who have the right to that title. The winds have

    shifted…what comes next is up to us.


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    Letters from an American:

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    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/

    Insta: @heathercoxrichardson

    Twitter: @HC_Richardson


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    27 August 2024, 7:00 am
  • 48 minutes 29 seconds
    Get Married and Stay There! A Conversation with Julie Kohler

    I’m in Chicago this week for the Democratic convention, and I hope you’ll follow along to get the information, but as we watch, what we hope will be the first female president take the convention stage, I thought we should discuss what the other side is offering when it comes to women, women’s rights, and womanhood. With that in mind, our guest today is acclaimed writer Julie Kohler, host of award winning White Picket Fence podcast to talk to us about the rising extremist movement gaining steam to squash women back into “traditional” roles, roll back no fault divorce, as well as efforts, described in project 2025, to restore the “American family” as they define through a very specific lens. This isn’t just a conservative fever dream, it’s going to be Republican policy.

     

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    Guest social:

     

    https://www.juliekkohler.com/

     

    Twitter:        @juliekkohler1

     

    Insta:    juliekohlerwrites

     

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    20 August 2024, 11:49 am
  • 53 minutes 20 seconds
    Shameless: A Conversation with Brian Tyler Cohen

    According to our guest, YouTube sensation and wildly successful political commentator, Brian Tyler Cohen, the modern Republican Party has laid out a long con. That, while the increasingly radical right gaslights the American public with its lies, artificial slogans and hollow catchphrases, there’s an ever widening gap between the essential Republican “brand” and their actual behavior. It’s such a marked phenomenon that Brian wrote a book, Shameless, to best explain where things went wrong and to highlight this all hands on deck moment where we, the public, choose to fight back. Spoiler: the media is part of the problem. 


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    Buy Shameless here: 

    https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/shameless


    https://briantylercohen.com/


    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/briantylercohen

    Insta: briantylercohen

    Twitter: @briantylercohen


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    13 August 2024, 7:00 am
  • 50 minutes 2 seconds
    The Right Side of History with historian Rutger Bregman

    As guest, historian and writer, Rutger Bregman, reminds us, MLK didn’t inspire the world with his “I have a nightmare…” speech. It was about a dream. Rutger believes there’s an antidote to this sense of emptiness so many of us feel and it’s what he calls moral ambition, or the will to make the world a better place. That humanity, no matter what we’ve been taught, is actually cooperative and benevolent, it’s how we got so far as a species. So we can’t get so caught in the news of today, that we lose our historical imaginations for tomorrow. We must remember that the impossible often become the inevitable when enough people stand on the right side of history.


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    https://www.rutgerbregman.com/


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    https://www.moralambition.eu/focus-areas


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    6 August 2024, 7:00 am
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