Special show this week featuring Cornel West!

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This is the audio version of a live broadcast from February 20, 2026. Catch the _Jacobin Show_ on YouTube every Friday at 10 AM ET: [https://www.youtube.com/@JacobinMag](https://www.youtube.com/@JacobinMag)

David and Matt take a look at how billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg try to subvert democracy and the planet. Then we are joined by Sasha Abramsky, Authoritarian Watch correspondent at The Nation Magazine, to talk about his new book American Carnage: How Trump, Musk, and DOGE Butchered the US Government. Rather than being a short blip in a chaotic administration, Elon Musk’s DOGE has reshaped the US, for the worse. Then Matt & David respond to recent attacks on Hasan Piker. It’s perfectly fine to not support Gavin Newsom.

Sasha’s book is available here: https://orbooks.com/catalog/american-carnage/

Order David’s book The Myth of Red Texas, available for 15% off: https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-myth-of-red-texas/

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This is the audio version of a live broadcast from February 13, 2026. Catch the Jacobin Show on YouTube every Friday at 10 AM ET: https://www.youtube.com/@JacobinMag

On this episode of the Jacobin Show David breaks down the growing momentum of organized labor, including the UAW’s breakthrough efforts in the South, and what it signals for the future of worker power in historically anti-union regions. We discuss why this moment matters, what made it possible, and what comes next for the broader labor movement.

Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley joins us to discuss the recent ICE activity in her city, how communities responded, and what lessons democratic socialists in other cities can take from Minneapolis.

Plus, Chip Gibbons on surveillance, blowback, and journalism under fire.

Read Chip Gibbons’s pieces:

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/harp-venezuela-free-speech-journalism

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/cia-blowback-afghanistan-terrorism-mujahideen

Check out David’s book The Myth of Red Texas: https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-myth-of-red-texas/

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This is the audio version of a live broadcast from February 6, 2026. Catch the Jacobin Show on YouTube every Friday at 10 AM ET: https://www.youtube.com/@JacobinMag