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The Secretary on accomplishments six months since the signing of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Rev. Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner on the recent Faith United to Save Democracy (FUSD) clergy meeting with the Pennsylvania Secretary of State and similar upcoming meetings in other states to ensure voter protections.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Buffalo activists Rev. Denise Walden-Glenn of Live Free's Voice Buffalo and Rana Ryan of Life Camp discuss the community's reaction to Saturday's hate crime.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons with the latest on the lawsuit for reparations & justice on behalf of survivors and descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Recently, a Tulsa County District Judge ruled the lawsuit can proceed. Lessie Benningfield Randle, 107, Viola Fletcher, 107, and Hughes Van Ellis, 101, are the three known living survivors. Please visit JusticeForGreenwood.orgAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's Thursday Kos, Daily Kos's Mark Sumner shares the latest on Russia's inept military strategy against Ukraine, and Putin's persistence despite failure.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The economist and member of the WH Council of Economic Advisers describes the causes of inflation and what the WH aims to do about it.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Movement for Black Lives' Policy and Research Coordinator, Dr. Amara Enyia on how the drug war sustains mass incarceration and over-policing.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Center on Budget's Chief Economist Chad Stone on the April Jobs Report. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While the world prepares to watch the Kentucky Derby tomorrow, Emily Bingham discusses why we need to discard the Derby's and the state's racist anthem in her new book, My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life And Reckoning Of An Iconic American Song.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In today's episode of Thursday Kos, Markos Moulitsas on how opposition parties usually gain in midterm elections, but the GOP's war on Roe has made Democrats the opposition party. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Research Director of the 2.5 million member organization weighs in on the leaked SCOTUS draft decision to reverse Roe. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The President of the National Organization of Women reacts to the leaked draft of the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Black Eagle on his new memoir, Radio Active: A Memoir of Advocacy in Action, on the Air and in the Streets.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The DNC Chair on how Democrats are meeting the challenges they face in the midterms.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This Thursday Kos, Markos discusses the peril Biden finds himself in with the youth electorate as evidenced by the latest Civiqs poll. And he also offers the latest insight on Putin's war.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The mobilization tour for the June 18 Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls made its latest stop in Philadelphia this week.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Rosalea Hamilton of the Advocates Network on Jamaica's demand for reparations in the context of William and Kate's recent offensive royal charm offensive in the Caribbean. Dr. Hamilton also discusses removing the Queen as Head-Of-State and the CARICOM dispute over the Head of the Commonwealth.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Niambi Hall Campbell Dean of the Advocates Network on the Bahamas demand for reparations in the context of William and Kate's recent offensive royal charm offensive in the Caribbean.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Independent journalist Brian Dolinar discusses his latest piece on states using pandemic aid to fund law enforcement and the carceral system.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's Thursday Kos, Daily Kos and Civiqs Founder Markos Moultisas on increased WH aid to the Ukraine and midterm Democratic messaging..or lack thereof. State Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-MI) serves as a model teacher for Democratic messaging.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy