• it's the Democracy, Stupid Feb. 28 2026
    Mar 1 2026

    On the February 28 show
    – Adam Klasfeld, founder and editor-in-chief of All Rise News
    – Ian Gary, executive director of the FACT Coalition
    – Mark Jacob, publisher of the Stop the Presses Substack
    – Mica Rosenberg, investigative reporter on ProPublica’s national desk focusing on immigration

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    2 hrs and 46 mins
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Feb. 21, 2026
    Feb 22 2026

    On today's show
    – Nicholas Grossman, professor of International Relations at the University of Illinois, editor of Arc Digital, and the author of “Drones and Terrorism”
    – Jen Bendery, senior politics reporter for HuffPost
    – Jill Lawrence, opinion writer for The Bulwark and other publications, including the “History Keeps Happening” Substack newsletter
    – Dr. John P. Holdren, professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, former science adviser to President Obama, and Senate-confirmed director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during both Obama terms

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    2 hrs and 46 mins
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Feb. 14, 2026
    Feb 15 2026

    On today's show
    – David Roberts of the Volts newsletter and podcast, which focus on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization
    – Mike Nellis, Democratic strategist and host of “Endless Urgency with Mike Nellis
    – Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic; his latest articles are “The Sickening Image That Will Haunt Pam Bondi the Rest of Her Life” and “What the Democrats Need to Do Now”
    – Jill Wine-Banks, legal analyst, former general counsel of the U.S. Army, author of “The Watergate Girl,” co-host of #SistersInLaw and host of Just The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).

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    2 hrs and 41 mins
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Feb. 7, 2026
    Feb 9 2026

    On today's show:
    – Joan Esposito, host of "Live, Local & Progressive," weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT
    – J. Patrick Coolican, editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Reformer
    – Holly McCall, editor of Tennessee Lookout, a news outlet covering Tennessee politics and government
    – Bill Scher is the politics editor of the Washington Monthly; his latest article is "Three Takeaways from the Taylor Rehmet Texas Shocker"

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    2 hrs and 39 mins
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Jan. 31, 2026
    Jan 31 2026

    On this week's show:
    – George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic and author; his latest piece for The Atlantic is “What Should Americans Do Now?” and his latest book is “The Emergency: A Novel”
    – James Santelle, former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (2010 to 2015), and a 30-year veteran of the Department of Justice
    – Steve Held, co-publisher of Unraveled Press
    – Betsy Hodges, former mayor of Minneapolis (2014-2018) and member of the Minneapolis City Council (2006-2014)

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    2 hrs and 47 mins
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Jan. 24, 2026
    Jan 25 2026

    On this week's show:
    – Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer national opinion columnist
    – Abraham L. Newman, professor and John Powers Chair in International Business Diplomacy, and director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies
    – Elizaveta Gaufman, assistant professor of Russian Discourse and Politics at the University of Groningen (in The Netherlands), and author of the 2023 book “Everyday Foreign Policy: Performing and Consuming the Russian Nation”
    – David Nir, publisher of The Downballot

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).

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    2 hrs and 42 mins
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Jan. 17, 2026
    Jan 18 2026

    On this week's show:
    – Laura Jedeed, investigative and features journalist who focuses on the American conservative movement and far right; Slate recently published her article “You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof”
    – David Pepper, lawyer, political activist, author (of fiction and nonfiction), and former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, and 2026 candidate for lieutenant governor of Ohio
    – J. Patrick Coolican, editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Reformer
    – Joe Walsh, former Republican congressman from Illinois and host of The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).

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    2 hrs and 43 mins
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Jan. 10, 2026
    Jan 10 2026

    On this week's show:
    – Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emerita of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a founding member of the public health advocacy group Defend Public Health
    – Jill Lawrence, opinion writer for The Bulwark and author of the History Keeps Happening Substack newsletter
    – Don Moynihan, professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy
    – Matt Caffrey, Swing Left‘s director of Grassroots Organizing

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).

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    2 hrs and 48 mins