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From the grass roots to the ballot box, we are witnessing an explosion of progressive political energy. New candidates are running for offices high and low—and they’re winning. "Next Left" is your front-row seat to this political upheaval: On this new podcast from The Nation magazine, Natio...
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27: New from The Nation: More Than Enough
New for Next Left listeners, the latest podcast from The Nation, featuring conversations about guaranteed income, deservedness, and the country Americ...
26: How Bernie Sanders Is Making the Next Left Possible
The roots of the Next Left podcast go back almost exactly a year—energized by the wave of progressive activism sweeping the country, we wanted to take...
25: Barbara Lee Is Proud to be the Progressive OG
Next Left has this year highlighted political newcomers, rising stars, and challengers to the status quo. But as we spoke with first-time candidates a...
24: No More Blue Dog Democrats!
Jessica Cisneros is having a moment. She's 26-year-old lawyer from Laredo, Texas, is making her first bid for office in a district that stretches alon...
23: The Politician Amazon Is Dead Set on Defeating
When Kshama Sawant was elected to the Seattle City Council in 2013, her local victory made international news. An immigrant from India and an academic...
22: Chesa Boudin Wants to Bring Restorative Justice to San Francisco
Chesa Boudin is part of something: a national movement to change the way that district attorneys operate within the criminal justice system. He wants...
21: Fear Is Changing Sides in Puerto Rico
Manuel Natal Albelo is, at age 33, one of the most dynamic and popular political figures in Puerto Rico. He is breaking the old boundaries of politics...
20: How a Black, Socialist City Councilman Won His Seat in the Heart of the South
South Fulton, Georgia Councilman khalid kamau prefers to be introduced simply as "Councilman khalid." He wants to dispense with the formalities, and w...
19: Katherine Clark Has Been Calling for Impeachment for Months
Most members of Congress don't begin as members of Congress. They start in their hometowns, with campaigns for the city council or a county post or th...
18: Chokwe Antar Lumumba: Being a Radical Means Getting to the Root Causes of Injustice
Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has a vision that distinguishes him from most elected officials in the United States, even from most p...
17: Ruth Buffalo is changing politics in North Dakota
The records of the State Historical Society of North Dakota contain a bland notation of an infrastructure project from almost seventy years ago. They...
16: Meet the Only Member of Congress Who Has Been a FARC Captive
The US Congress has historically been defined by a seniority system that has too frequently rewarded members for the length of their tenures rather th...
15: Tiffany Cabán Has Only Begun to Fight
Tiffany Cabán started 2019 as a 31-year-old public defender in her native New York City. She knew that the criminal justice system wasn’t working for...
14: A Blue Texas Is Not Enough. We Need a Progressive Texas.
The smarter politics that is emerging in America recognizes that every elected position has the potential to serve as a platform for transformational...
Rashida Tlaib Speaks Truth to Power, and Donald Trump Hates That (Rebroadcast)
Donald Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to diminish, disempower and smear Rashida Tlaib. The President has been ranting and raving about the De...
13: Want to Change Your City? Start In Your Community
You may have seen Philadelphia City Council Member Helen Gym rallying recently with Senator Bernie Sanders to save Philadelphia’s Hahnemann Hospital f...
12: No Native American Women Had Ever Been Elected to Congress—Until Last Year
Congresswoman Deb Haaland has some ideas about what it means when President Trump tells newly-elected congresswomen to go back where they came from.
11: When It Comes to Tech, Politicians Are Doing a Terrible Job
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10: State Treasurer Is the Most Exciting Political Office You Never Pay Attention To
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9: Pramila Jayapal Is Not Backing Down
When Women Disobey activists sat in at the Senate Hart Office Building in the summer of 2018, Pramila Japayal was asked to address the protest against...
8: The 29-Year-Old Politician Taking on the NRA in Florida
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7: Franklin Bynum Is a Texas Judge Who Wants to Abolish Prisons
Franklin Bynum is a judge. Sometimes, he even wears the black robes associated with the job. But the title and the robes don't begin to tell his story...
6: It Took Losing an Election to Really Crystalize Ro Khanna’s Vision
California Congressman Ro Khanna took on a Democratic incumbent in a 2016 primary because he said Democrats needed to fight harder for economic and so...
5: Sara Innamorato: "Creating an Economy Where Everyone can Live a Life of Dignity"
This week on Next Left, the Pennsylvania state legislator “fighting the right fights” for working class people.
What draws...
4: Rashida Tlaib: There’s a "Real Human Impact of Doing Nothing"
This week on Next Left, the outspoken representative who is holding Trump accountable.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is a vet...
3: Lee Carter: "Your Elected Representative Is Part of the Problem"
This week’s podcast takes us to Virginia, where we talk to Lee Carter, Marine Corps veteran, Democratic Socialist, Lyft driver, and member of the Virg...
2: Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez: "I Was Scared, But I Did It Anyways"
This week we're in Chicago, city of big dreams and big politics. Historically, Chicago was a machine town. Democratic bosses prevented reformers and r...
1: Ilhan Omar: “There’s a Reason That I Got Elected to Be in Congress and it has Nothing to do with the Fact that I’m a Refugee”
From the grass roots to the ballot box, we are witnessing an explosion of progressive political energy. New candidates are running for offices high an...
1: Next Left, Coming May 21
From the grass roots to the ballot box, we are witnessing an explosion of progressive political energy. New candidates are running for offices high an...