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Making Sense of the Midterms
I'm generally not one for hot takes. And this week's midterm election results are so vast that I've been taking stock of responses from colleagues, analysts…
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Satirical Comic Book Skewers the Rich
FEATURING TIM DISNEY - If you’ve ever wondered why the world’s billionaires are fueling a climate crisis that imperils us all, including…
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What Paid Leave Would Mean for American Families
FEATURING DAWN HUCKELBRIDGE - The United States is one of the only nations in the world without a federally guaranteed paid family and medical leave. As…
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Election Protection in an Age of Fascism
FEATURING KATIE GOLDSTEIN - On Tuesday November 3, millions of voters gathered at polling places or dropped off ballots for the midterm elections where control…
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Rising Up For Black Youth Justice
FEATURING DR. JENN JACKSON - Our nation and our world are overrun by billionaires and bigots, but they are few and we are many. On this series, exclusive to…
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And That's a Wrap... (On my Book Tour)
The final leg of my book tour for Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism was a wonderful success! To all my new subscribers who…
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Rising Up to Undo Mass Incarceration Through Research
FEATURING WANDA BERTRAM - Our nation and our world are overrun by billionaires and bigots, but they are few and we are many. On this series, exclusive to…
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Here Come the Midterms!
Midterm elections are around the corner. Please vote! And also, please do more - much, much more. My oldest child started her freshman year of college this…
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A Critical Look at California’s New Balcony Solar Bill
FEATURING BERNADETTE DEL CHIARO - Gavin Newsom is wrapping up his tenure as California’s governor by signing a spate of bills into law, among them, a…
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India Rocked By Protests Once More – Over Voting Rights
FEATURING VIVEK MONTEIRO - Barely three months since the world’s largest democracy was rocked by student-led protests under the satirical name of the…
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Activists Demand Museum of Tolerance Acknowledge Israeli Genocide of Gaza
FEATURING RICK CHERTOFF - On Sunday October 18, dozens of pro-Palestinian activists, including Jewish Americans, marched in front of the Simon…
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Young People Rising Up for Reproductive & Gender Equity
FEATURING KIMBERLY INEZ-MCGUIRE - Our nation and our world are overrun by billionaires and bigots, but they are few and we are many. On this series, exclusive…
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Want to Save Democracy? Start with Saving Journalism.
Real journalists are losing their jobs while money flows into pay-for-play social media. We need a publicly funded alternative. Journalism is experiencing one…
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How the Nation Built and Broke the Voting Rights Act
FEATURING MICHAEL G. MILLER - While the Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution gave Black people in the US the right to vote, it was another hundred years…
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Seattle Fights ICE Detention and Flights
FEATURING JOSEFINA MORA-CHEUNG - When the Trump administration in 2025 began sending ICE agents to cities around the United States to terrorize, round up, and…
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Rising Up For Dignity and Justice for Black People
FEATURING NADINE SMITH - Our nation and our world are overrun by billionaires and bigots, but they are few and we are many. On this series, exclusive to…
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An Abolitionist Vision for the World We Want
I've been thinking a lot about storytelling in these dark, dystopian times, and how the far right's expertise in crafting narratives about scarcity and…
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Are “the Streets” Centers of Philosophical Wisdom?
FEATURING DARIEN POLLOCK - Western philosophy is associated with ivory towers and purity of wisdom. But, my guest Darien Pollock maintains that Socrates is…
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Trump Decimated Student Civil Rights. Here's How States Can Step Up.
FEATURING SABRINA BERNADEL - The Trump administration has decimated the civil rights protections of students in schools around the country, undoing decades of…
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A 100-Mile Pilgrimage To Protest Immigrant Detention
FEATURING REV. JENNIFER GUTIERREZ - In late September, a group of faith leaders, immigrant rights activists, and others, set off on a nearly 100-mile journey…
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Rising Up for Workers With Organized Power in Numbers
This week on Rising Up for Justice, my guest is Lynn Hứa, Director of Digital-Distributed Organizing at Organized Power In Numbers.
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Conversations with Local Immigrant Rights Organizers
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🔥 How NOT to Transition to a Green Energy Future
In his new book, Bad Energy, Joshua Frank warns against transitioning to renewable energy for the sake of profits alone.
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Rising Up for Action on Race and the Economy
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Saqib Bhatti joins us. He is the co-Founder and executive director of ACRE, the Action Center on Race & the Economy and the…
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AI Doesn’t Have to Scare Us: How We Can Push Back
Days after Jacob Coxson, an AI researcher quit his job at Anthropic, warning that the technology has the power and potential to destroy humanity, tech…
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Resistance and Solidarity in an Age of Fascism and Genocide
On September 15, 2026, my new book Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism was published by Seven Stories Press, a collection of…
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Happy Pub Day to BREAKING ICE!
Today is OFFICIAL publication day for Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism, just about 8 months after the book was first…
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Rising Up For Media Justice
This week on Rising Up for Justice, we’ll turn to Eteng Ettah, the Narrative and Communications Director at MediaJustice, a national organization that builds…
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Faux Liberal, Ted Rall, Laughs Off Calls for My Deportation
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Flock “Donated” Cameras to Altadena After the Fires. Now, Residents Want them gone
A majority of Altadena residents oppose the use of AI surveillance technology, in line with mass public opposition across the country where Flock cameras are…
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📨 Can US Democracy Survive Attacks on Vote-by-Mail?
An anonymous USPS whistle blower has filed a report warning of a high risk of “catastrophic failure” of the midterm elections if the White House’s plan were to…
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Can Nepal Disaster Spur Global Action on Climate Change?
Days after Nepal’s disaster struck, the UN Environment Programme published a report claiming that global temperatures had already pushed past the 1.5 degree…
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Rising Up to Demand Progress
This week on Rising Up for Justice, I’m joined by Eric Naing, communications director for Demand Progress, an organization that works to secure progressive…
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Solidarity Schools & More...
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Solidarity Schools Aim to Protect Black Voters and Immigrants
Aimée-Josiane Twagirumukiza (they/them) is Director of Training at Midwest Academy, a training institute for progressive organizers.
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Civil Rights Advocate Responds to Federal Lawsuit Claiming She Influenced School Kids
A well-known civil rights leader in San Francisco has found herself as part of a federal lawsuit filed by parents of school children who visited a mosque.
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Why Are Nurses Protesting AI Surveillance Company, Palantir?
Unionized nurses across the United States led protests in late August against the AI company Palantir.
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Interfaith Communities Rising Up for Justice and Peace
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Stephen Rohde, a founder and current chair of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace joins me.
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Presidents don't have the power to change how we vote...& other stories.
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Medicare-For-All Would Render Medicaid Work Requirements Unnecessary
As millions of Medicaid recipients brace themselves for Trump's onerous work requirements, worried they'll lose healthcare, what if we had Medicare-for-All?
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New Americans Are Gearing Up to Protect Their Vote
Advocacy groups worried about voter intimidation against people of color have launched a new campaign to protect and exercise their rights.
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Did SCOTUS Enable Trump's Attack on Mail-In Voting?
The US Supreme Court on Monday issued a 6-3 ruling allowing the Trump administration to restrict mail-in voting.
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Rising Up Against AI and Big Tech’s Injustices
This week on Rising Up for Justice, we feature Kevin De Liban, Founder and President of TechTonic Justice, a nonprofit using legal advocacy, education, and…
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🙋🏽♀️ Why Parents Should Care About Mega Meta Lawsuits. Plus, a Mass Convergence in MN, the Economics of GLP-1s & More...
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GLP1s Reveal Trump and Big Pharma’s Plan for Medical Caste System
The real story is about GLP-1 drugs is how Trump and major pharmaceutical companies are creating a healthcare “caste system.”
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National Gathering To Protect US Democracy in MN
Daniel Hunter is the Director of Freedom Trainers, a group that's trained across the country about Trump's authoritarian threat and how to stop it.
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Lawsuits Take Meta to Task Over Children’s Wellbeing
Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, faces its biggest challenges in major lawsuits over children's privacy and safety.
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Breaking ICE: Pre-Order a Signed Copy, PLUS Book Tour, Reviews & Press Coverage!
Here's everything you need to know about Sonali Kolhatkar's new book, Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism.
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Rising Up For Solutions to End Mass Incarceration
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Ellen Flenniken, Chief Advocacy Officer at the Vera Institute of Justice and Director of Vera Action joins me.
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Todd Blanche's Trumpism, Beating Data Centers & How Missouri Workers Mobilized PLUS "Earth Guardians"
The latest news stories from Rising Up With Sonali.
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How Missouri’s Grassroots Mobilized to Defeat GOP Governor’s Agenda
A massive grassroots effort swung into motion to defeat Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe’s regressive agenda.
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How a Powerful Coalition is Pushing Back Against Data Centers
Push back from the public, from organizers, and even from the Pope, against data centers has been fierce.
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What to Expect from Todd Blanche’s Justice Department?
According to the Constitutional Accountability Center, the “vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General might be a win for Donald Trump and Todd Blanche…
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Rising Up In Defense of Earth
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Emmy Scott, Executive Director of Earth Guardians is our guest.
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A Change to Rising Up - Latest stories, articles & more
Starting next week, I'll be publishing my interviews only to my website, and every Friday, all subscribers will get one email distilling all the content I…
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Mumia Abu Jamal Takes His Fight for Freedom to the UN
After nearly a half century spent battling the US criminal justice system, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal is taking his fight for freedom to the United…
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Trump Stripped Legal Right to Representation for Immigrant Kids. What Now?
Children as young as a few years old, will be expected to make their case for why they should be allowed to remain in the United States, or risk deportation.
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Rising Up For the Law for Black Lives
This week on Rising Up for Justice, Christian Snow, Executive Director of Law For Black Lives joins us.
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A Blueprint to Fix America’s Broken Democracy
A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies, Forging a Democracy that Works For All, hones in on billionaire power as a central focus.