• Rep. Kathy Manning, Adrienne Elrod + Gloria Johnson!
    Jun 5 2024

    Zerlina chats with Congresswoman Kathy Manning (NC-06), Biden 2024 Senior Advisor & Spokesperson Adrienne Elrod, & Tennessee State Representative and candidate for U.S. Senate Gloria Johnson!

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • Matt Duss + Ari Berman
    Jun 4 2024

    Zerlina speaks with Executive Vice President at the Center for International Policy Matt Duss about the ongoing situation in Gaza and Mother Jones voting rights correspondent Ari Berman about his new book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It.

    Guests

    Matt Duss

    Matthew Duss is Executive Vice-President at the Center for International Policy. Before joining CIP, Duss was a visiting scholar in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 2017-22, Duss was foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). From 2014-17, Duss was the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. From 2008-14 Duss was a National Security and International Policy analyst at the Center for American Progress.

    Duss’s work has been widely published, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, The American Prospect, and Foreign Policy.

    Duss has an MA in International Studies from the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School, and a BA in political science from the University of Washington.

    https://twitter.com/mattduss

    https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/

    Ari Berman

    Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He’s the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction) and Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post and Rolling Stone, and he is a frequent commentator on MSNBC and NPR. He's won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Prize for Magazine Journalism and an Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media. He lives in New Paltz, New York.

    https://www.aribermanauthor.com/

    BOOK: Minority Rule

    The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It

    “Voting rights journalist Ari Berman has been detailing threats to our democracy for years, and his new book Minority Rule is a timely and essential read. He expertly shows how Republicans are trying to rig our political system—and shares how we can fight back.” —Hillary Clinton on X

    A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their powerand the movement to stop them.

    The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. But this crisis didn’t begin or end with Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Ari Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America.

    “The will of the people,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1801, “is the only legitimate foundation of any government.” But that foundation is crumbling. Some counter-majoritarian measures were deliberately built into the Constitution, which was designed in part to benefit a small propertied upper class, but they have metastasized to a degree that the Founding Fathers could never have anticipated, undermining the very notion of “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Chilling and revelatory, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today—while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts.

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  • David Jolly + Kara Loewentheil
    Jun 3 2024

    Host Zerlina Maxwell speaks with Former Congressman turned political analyst David Jolly about Trump's conviction and the GOP's response, and "Mental Health Monday" with Kara Loewentheil, author of Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head and How to Get It Out. Plus listener calls!

    “Mornings with Zerlina.” / SiriusXM is an award-winning national radio show hosted by organizer, author, and TV & radio host Zerlina Maxwell (SiriusXM Progress Channel / 7-9amET Monday to Friday).

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • Felony Conviction Friday!
    May 31 2024

    Host Zerlina Maxwell talks about the Trump verdict with Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD-04), strategist Simon Rosenberg of Hopium Chronicles, and NBC legal analyst/our favorite defense attorney Danny Cevallos. Plus listeners call in to react to the big news!

    “Mornings with Zerlina.” / SiriusXM is an award-winning national radio show hosted by organizer, author, and TV & radio host Zerlina Maxwell (SiriusXM Progress Channel / 7-9amET Monday to Friday).

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • Rick Wilson + Nick Akerman
    May 30 2024

    Host Zerlina Maxwell interviews Lincoln Project founder, Rick Wilson, and former Watergate prosecutor, Nick Akerman, about the latest Trump trial developments. Plus listener calls about news of the day and more!

    “Mornings with Zerlina.” / SiriusXM is an award-winning national radio show hosted by organizer, author, and TV & radio host Zerlina Maxwell (SiriusXM Progress Channel / 7-9amET Monday to Friday).

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • Rep. Shontel Brown / Black Voters for Biden-Harris
    May 29 2024

    Highlighted interview: host Zerlina Maxwell speaks with Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH-11) about the launch of "Black Voters for Biden."

    “Mornings with Zerlina.” / SiriusXM is an award-winning national radio show hosted by organizer, author, and TV & radio host Zerlina Maxwell (SiriusXM Progress Channel / 7-9amET Monday to Friday).

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    11 mins
  • Recapping Trump Trials w/ Glenn Kirschner & Rep. Judy Chu!
    May 16 2024

    Listen as Zerlina recaps the Trump trials and more with former federal prosecutor & MSNBC/NBC News Legal Analyst Glenn Kirschner and U.S. Representative Judy Chu (CA-28)!

    Read more about our guests!

    Glenn Kirschner

    Glenn is a former federal prosecutor with 30 years of trial experience. He served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for 24 years, rising to the position of Chief of the Homicide Section. In that capacity, Glenn supervised 30 homicide prosecutors and oversaw all homicide grand jury investigations and prosecutions in Washington, DC.

    Prior to joining the DC U.S. Attorney’s Office, Glenn served more than six years on active duty as an Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) prosecutor, trying court-martial cases and handling criminal appeals, including espionage and death penalty cases.

    Glenn currently works as an NBC News/MSNBC on-air legal analyst and teaches criminal justice at George Washington University. He has a YouTube channel and Podcast, “Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner.”

    Glenn tried hundreds of cases in his three decades as a prosecutor, including more than 50 murder trials, multiple lengthy RICO trials and precedent-setting cases.

    His cases have been made into major motion pictures (murder conviction of a sophisticated con man who ran in elite DC circles, subject of “Georgetown”, a film starring Vanessa Redgrave, Christoph Waltz and Annette Bening) and TV documentaries, including the upcoming release of a multi-part documentary to air on Peacock streaming service, “Who Murdered Robert Wone?”

    https://twitter.com/glennkirschner2

    U.S. Representative Judy Chu (CA-28)

    Judy Chu was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in July 2009. She represents the 28th Congressional District, which includes Pasadena and the west San Gabriel Valley of southern California.

    Rep. Chu currently serves on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over legislation pertaining to taxes, revenues, Social Security, and Medicare. In that Committee, Rep. Chu is a member of the Subcommittees on Health, Worker and Family Support, and Oversight, giving her oversight over healthcare reform and crucial safety net programs.

    She also serves on the House Small Business Committee, which has oversight of the Small Business Administration.

    In 2011, Chu was elected Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, which advocates for the needs and concerns of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community across the nation. She helps lead the Tri-Caucus, a joint effort with the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

    Chu founded and co-chairs the Congressional Creative Rights Caucus, which advocates for the copyright protections of those in the creative industries, such as music, film and visual arts. She also serves in leadership of the House Democratic Caucus as a Member of the Steering and Policy Committee.

    Some of Rep. Chu’s proudest accomplishments in Congress include: introducing and passing a Congressional resolution of regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; working with President Obama to declare the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument; requiring the Department of Defense to address military hazing; helping entrepreneurs by establishing two new Small Business Development Centers in the San Gabriel Valley; and helping small businesses refinance old, expensive real estate loans by reviving the Small Business Administration’s 504 loan refinance program.

    Chu was first elected to the Board of Education for Garvey School District in 1985. From there, she was elected to the Monterey Park City Council, where she served as Mayor three times. She then was elected to the State Assembly and then California’s elected tax board, known as the State Board of Equalization. In 2009, she became the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress in history.

    Chu lives with her husband, Michael Eng, in the city of Monterey Park, where they have been residents for over 30 years.

    https://twitter.com/RepJudyChu

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    1 hr and 41 mins