Thus far, Republican’s in Congress have been unwilling to remove the Senate filibuster in order to help advance their legislative agenda. Despite swiftly removing the filibuster for nominations in order to push through Trump’s Supreme Court nomination, Neil Gorsuch, and calls from Trump to use the ‘nuclear option’. As Matt […]
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Elizabeth Vos of Disobedient Media is our guest on today’s show. Disobedient media have been doing a lot of fantastic coverage of the DNC hack, the DNC lawsuit, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz in general, so we highly recommend checking out their page if you want to read more from them! Below […]
Over the past year, there has been a group of Bernie Sander’s supporters fighting a class action lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), alleging that the DNC had committed fraud by taking donations in a “rigged” primary battle. Part of the lawsuit claimed that the DNC illegally favored Democratic […]
Welcome to another episode of Chatter, an interview podcast from The Jist with Josh Hamilton. On today’s show, we are talking to Denis Campbell, editor of UK Progressive and one of the hosts of The Three Muckrakers podcast. He is here to discuss Theresa May’s fate, the potential US-UK trade deal, […]
The GOP are reaching the pinnacle of the decades-long plan to take control of US government and its institutions. Having successfully taken over the federal legislature through a combination of gerrymandering, alleged voter suppression, and the leveraging of partisan politics, the Republican party have captured 32 state legislatures and (as […]
Hello and welcome to Chatter a podcast from thejist.co.uk. Today on the show we are talking to American documentary maker Jen Senko. We cover a whole load of topics including Trump’s use of Twitter, Fox News and the right wing media, her documentary “the brainwashing of my dad”, and safe […]