Tea Party

Alex Jones has an emergency alert to warn us that the elite are fighting the Tea Party. Why the elites want a world financial collapse. The one fact that Alex Jones nailed. Trump continues to dominate the Republican Primary and Sam called it when he Trump first jumped into the race and why Donald...
The largest day of airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, why the White House is waving its own rules on civilian casualties, the death toll in Iraq and Syria, who is profiting from the new Middle East war, Iraqi Army drops ammo and food for ISIS fighters by mistake, new stunning Secret Service failures, ...
Thad Cochran wins his Senate Republican Primary against Chris McDaniel, McDaniels refuses to concede, will the media go on another “Tea Party is dead” binge? What Thad Cochran owes African Americans, the epic Tea Party money scheme, Right Wing Mandela launches his own Tea Party group, Supreme Cou...
The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim explains why Eric Cantor may have been upset in his primary, why we shouldn’t underestimate the “jerk factor”, why Eric Cantor could not control the Tea Party beast, how Eric Cantor beat himself, what Cantor’s loss means for Republican leadership, why the next poss...
Slate political reporter Dave Weigel explains what happened in the Georgia Republican Senate primary, what is the actual distinction between the Tea Party and the Republican establishment, the Chamber of Commerce and the Tea Party, how the Tea Party is winning the long term game, why Common Core ...
Journalist Stephen Kinzer author of  The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, explains how the Dulles Brothers shaped American foreign policy, American backed coups across the globe, the Dulles legacy from Iran to Cuba and how their legacy lives on today.
The Roosevelt Institute’s Mike Konczal explains why the new Volcker Rule regulations are good, the three reasons the left does not have its own Tea Party, what is the Tea Party? How the Tea Party succeeds across the board at pushing policy to the right, how the Tea Party has pushed state politics...
Chris Savage the  Editor of Eclecta Blog explains the new federal ruling that could slash Detroit’s public pensions, Governor Rick Snyder’s radical austerity policies, who is Detroit’s Emergency Manager Kevin Orr? how the labor unions are working to protect pensions, how the big banks are brutall...
Author Isaac William Martin explains his new book Rich People’s Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent, the roots of the plutocratic backlash against taxation, the role of the income tax in reactionary politics, the connection between far right populism and plutocracy, how the c...
Journalist Max Blumenthal explains why he wrote his new book Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, understanding the key institutions of Israeli society, Israeli education, what drives Benjamin Netanyahu, the human rights crisis in Israel Palestine now, why so many Israeli’s live abroad, ...
Sam Seder explains, why republican “moderate” Devin Nunes is a coward, why the “Hastart Rule” is not a real rule, debated a former Libertarian presidential candidate on what society is, the real problem with the government shutdown, why Republican governors refusing Medicade has left millions of ...
Heather C. McGhee, the Vice President of Policy and Outreach at Demos, explained Demos’s new report on how economic inequality is eroding democracy, why dominance of wealth in politics is killing the recovery, why the austerity caucus is afraid of democracy and the future and how clean election l...
Cliff and Sam talked about the Senate’s rejection of the UN treaty on the disabled, Bob Costas speaks sanity on guns and right wing media hasa meltdown, Andrew Cuomo undermines Democratic and progressive power in New York, Mitch McConnell filibusters his own bill and hilarity ensues, and Sam and ...
On today’s show, Journalist Elizabeth Cline, revealed some of the many costs of our addiction to cheap fashion. Sam talked with BuzzFeed’s Rosie Gray about the inner workings of the Tea Party and from the Majority Report archives, Professor David Graeber, talked about debts, markets and Occupy.