Are Putin’s Days Numbered?
We begin with the possibility that Putin’s days are numbered as he is forced to scale back next Saturday’s Victory Day celebration while shutting down the internet and Telegramm as the Russian people become more aware that the war is going badly and is getting close to home with a highrise in an upscale Moscow suburb struck by Ukraine along with oil infrastructure deep inside Russia. Joining us to discuss what Russia’s official and unofficial media is saying is Michael Gorham, Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of multiple award-winning books on language, culture and politics: Including After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin and his latest book is, Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Digital Age.
Six Right Wing Activists in Robes Killed the VRA to Make Sure Republicans Win Elections Regardless of the Majority Vote
Then we look into the country’s most effective Republican operatives, the six right wing activists on the Supreme Court, who just tipped their hand in killing off the Voting Rights Act to expose their main agenda which is to make sure Republicans win elections regardless of how the majority intends to vote against them. Joining us is Lisa Graves, one of the nation’s foremost experts on the right-wing influence on the US Supreme Court and other levers of power. She leads True North Research and co-hosts Legal AF and has served as a senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department, as Chief Counsel for Nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a Deputy Chief of the article 3 judges division for the U.S. Courts. She is the author of the new book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.
Why the Democrats Lost Not Just the Vote, But the Voter in 2024
Then finally, as Democrats appear poised to win big in November, we explore how and why they lost in 2024, not just the election but the American voter, and how they can win them back. Joining us is Scott Ferson who has watched and worked in politics for forty years, as a press secretary to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, a chief strategist for the insurgent congressional campaign of Seth Moulton and advisor to dozens of candidates for office at the local and state level. He is the President/CEO of the strategic communications shop, the Liberty Square Group, and runs a political incubator, the Blue Lab that trains young people how to run campaigns. He is a professor of Political Science at Stonehill College and we discuss his new book, just out, How the Democrats Lost America: Making Sense of the 2024 Election and the Future of American Politics.