The PoliticsGirl Podcast

Today’s guest Sherrilyn Ifill reminds us that nothing we do to help our country right now is wasted. It’s time we really decided who we are and who we want to be. We are drowning in moral decay in America right now and it’s demoralizing. The weakness and willingness for so many of our fellow citizens to choose the path of least resistance has led us to a place where this upcomin...

With the election coming up, fascism expert Jason Stanley, tells us not to think of our vote as midterm vote, but as an existential one. That changing the course of the world is actually in the American voter’s grasp. That if we turn out to vote against this Global elite of billionaires who will take everybody down just to have more for themselves, we can kickstart the reversal ...

Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg reminds us that the powers that be want us to just give up. That they have done everything they can to disrupt the process of voting. To scare or discourage people out of voting. To make voting itself feel so uncertain that we forget we are still the ones with the power, and our power comes from our numbers. No Kings itself is a manifestation of thos...

In the past week, along with the horrendous Cornell 7, the news included: A man who jacked off to the woman next to him on a plane and United Airlines refused to deal with it, and made her go back to her seat. We discovered an LSU football player was found responsible for raping a girl, but the university lowered his accountability from suspension to probation in order to let hi...

As today’s guest, Ami Fields Meyer, reminds us in order to take back our future in this era of authoritarianism we need to get in league with a lot of different people. We are in a period of real trauma, but if we can put our differences aside and get past our own fear, the day of accounting will come. As Ahmi says, “They’re not going to get away with this shit. So whether we’re...