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Forward Nation Radio was created for those who demand a show that tells it like it is. Host Professor David Leventhal combines humor and a raw delivery to break it all down in ways that anyone can easily understand.You'll gain amazing insight and learn how today's policies directly affect you –without the confusing doublespeak. The result? -A new no-holds barred progressive political talk show that is as fact-driven as it is informative, accurate, and entertaining. Stay updated by subscribing to our YouTube channel!
Episodes
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Ep. 6.2.21: Celebrating Memorial Day
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We look at how our leaders are celebrating Memorial Day. One political party commemorates our fallen soldiers by trying to build and preserve what they gave their lives for; the other political party continues its efforts to tear it all...
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Ep. 5.23.31: Leading from [the] Behind
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The Republican party demonstrates anew that it has no leaders; the dog is completely led by the woeful tail it has created over the past four decades. So who, exactly, is it that Democrats are supposed to be working with? The question of…
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Ep. 5.9.21: Eulogy for Reality
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The republican party and the events of the last weeks prompts Dave to begin preparing his eulogy for reality, which is already dead to tens of millions in this country. The big remaining question is whether a eulogy will soon need to be...
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Ep. 4.25.21: Retire the Pledge of Allegiance!
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We address the big story of some justice for George Floyd; the conviction of the police murderer of George Floyd is a watershed event in America. But it, the reaction to it, and other big events from the week continue to demonstrate how…
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Ep. 4.12.21: The Myth of Compromise
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Democratic Senator Joe Manchin says Biden should work to compromise with Republicans. Maybe if he agrees to give up his job they will let him keep his head! But Biden goes through the motions with his infrastructure plan. We discuss this...
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Ep. 4.4.21: Biden's New New Deal
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Perhaps the two most crucial things this country needs to do is fix our broken democracy and fix our broken country. We talked about Biden's and the Democrats' efforts to address voting rights last week and this week we discuss Biden's…
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Ep 3.26.21: Fighting for Our Lives
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The US has a real President proposing great things for America. Lest we get too hopeful from that, we are being reminded that he is fighting on our behalf against almost half of our own country. This country is involved in several races…
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Ep 3.9.21: A Big F*@king Deal!
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The Senate passes President Biden's Covid Relief Bill, which figures to imminently become law. In what is being hailed as the most ambitious anti-poverty legislation in decades, the Democrats signal that they can unite behind truly...
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Ep. 2.27.21: Conservatism in Flames
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Reality has never been kind to conservative doctrine, but these last few weeks would have put a stake into its heart...if it ever had one. We look at some of the big events of the week through the lens of failed conservative economic...
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Ep 2.18.21: America Under Assault Again! By Clean Energy!
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Winter storms that are the product of climate change devastate Texas and much of the US. Republicans finally agree that the US is under assault; not by angry mobs, not by climate change, but by renewable energy. Seriously. donald trump...
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Ep. 2.8.21: Right-Wing Lie Machine
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Corporate America will act only for its own benefit, without regard to its impact on society; the McKinsey settlement reminds us of that. A functioning society, has the ability to rein-in its behavior and protect itself. Right-wing media...
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Ep. 1.31.21: Back to the Future; It's still Trump's Criminal Org
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: In our second show of the Biden era, we try to maintain our hopefulness, but it is already really hard to do. Dave talks about how Biden is trying to do the right thing, and his executive orders so far have been inspiring. But the...
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Ep. 1.23.21: "Democracy Has Prevailed"; President Joe Biden Inaugurated
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Our long national nightmare is over, for now, but the threat lives on. What it means when a presidential inaugural has to point out that "democracy has prevailed", and when those words present too rosy a picture. Democracy may have…
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Ep. 1.15.21: Impeachment: The Sequel
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Donald Trump becomes the first President in US history to be impeached. He still seems as likely to survive his term as the US does, but this time he may not avoid accountability. Dave discusses the impeachment, which now gives trump half…
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Ep. 1.7.21: America Under Attack
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: On a day on which the Democrats take over the US Senate and Joe Biden's election is to be certified, the only story is the attack on America...instigated by the President of the United States and the Republican criminal organization. The...
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Ep.12.31.20: Good Riddance, 2020
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave reviews the year 2020, a year we will be happy to have behind us. But does 2021 promise to be so much better? Where we stand regarding the two plagues of 2020: COVID and Trumpism. Tragically, we do not appear to be getting rid of…
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Ep. 12.23.20: Immoral Hazard
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We continue our conversation of moral hazard, or how the rich avoid the consequences of their own bad actions, in the context of the latest efforts by Trump to sabotage America. Dave discusses moral hazard and market externalities…
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Ep. 12.15.20: Salvation is...nowhere near; despite the Electoral College vote and a COVID vaccine
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The Electoral College vote gives Joe Biden the presidency, after the Supreme Court refused to give it to trump. It's now official, even Moscow Mitch says so, but does anybody think this is over? Never overestimate the republican party or...
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Ep. 12.5.20: Dems Play the Weed Card!
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dems seek to give us legal weed as the GOP continues to seek to give us more reasons to need it. The Democratic House bill to legalize weed is a great political move to boost their odds of retaking the Senate, but it also happens to be…
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Ep. 11.29.20: FNR Founder Damian Hardeen
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We devote a special episode this week to an interview with FNR founder Damian Hardeen. This is our way of celebrating the holiday (the impending end of the trump nightmare), since Damian created FNR as a counterweight to trump's lies and…
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Ep. 11.25.20: Let the Healing Begin!
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with enthusiasm, as we finally breathe easier that the next President of the United States will be the guy Americans actually voted for a few weeks ago. The transition to the incoming Biden...
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Ep. 11.17.20: America Under Attack
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Lest we be inclined to celebrate our stay of execution, Biden's win, America finds itself under assault from two enemies. The first is Covid, the second is the President of the United States and his criminal political party. Dave looks at...
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Ep. 11.9.20: WE SURVIVE! (For Now.) The 2020 Election
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The country has elected Joe Biden...barely. We celebrate our survival, and try to forget for a few moments that we remain on life support. Dave discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly of this presidential election result. There is much…
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Ep. 11.2.20: Not Much at Stake...other than the fate of Civilization
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: One day before the most fateful election in US history, and perhaps in world history, Dave opines on what is at stake. Including Covid, of course. *Also available on Spotify, iTunes, and Stitcher...and now Audible!-Please SUBSCRIBE THE…
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Ep. 10.23.20: Civil Cold War
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave looks to add substance to another presidential debate that had precious little on its own. A debate that has value only to those awakening from a years-long slumber who are blissfully unaware of the disgrace that is the US President.…
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Ep.10.15.20: Flies Drawn to Shit
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave discusses the VP debate, ramming through a Supreme Court apparatchik, the latest in COVID, and, through it all, the inability of decent people to grasp how profound is the evil of the republican criminal organization. The main…
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Ep 10.6.20: Humiliation! Part 2: Death but no Trump Taxes
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The momentous week of Trump humiliations continues. Dave updates the conversation regarding Trump's COVID diagnosis and its aftermath. Having repeatedly downplayed the disease to the result of tens of thousands of unnecessary American...
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Ep. 10.3.20: Humiliation! (Part 1: Trump gets COVID and "shut up, man!")
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: It was a momentous week in news, as Trump repeatedly (again) humiliated himself and the US. Too much to explore in one episode, today Dave talks about how Trump gets the COVID he thought he had only been inflicting on others, right after…
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Ep. 9.23.20: R.I.P. RBG
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Death and life are in the news this week as iconic Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away, official US COVID death passes 200,000, and evidence of extraterrestrial life may be discovered around Venus. We discuss how trump…
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Ep. 9.13.20: Murder, not Incompetence; Trump talks to Bob Woodward
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: President Trump takes his case for greatest all-time mass murderer of Americans to another level by admitting intent to Bob Woodward. In another example of explosive yet completely unsurprising revelations about our President, Trump...
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Ep. 9.8.20: Trump Murders Tom Terrific
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: President Trump burnishes his case for greatest mass murderer of Americans by killing baseball legend Tom Seaver...now among the tens of thousands of COVID victims attributable to Killer Trump. We also mourn baseball legend Lou Brock, but…
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Ep. 8.29.20: Crooks, Charlatans and Rubes: The GOP Shows Its Contempt for its Base
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The Republican National Convention shows again how much contempt Donald Trump and the GOP have for their own base. While the narrative maintains that Democrats do not respect GOP voters, it is their own party that needs to keep them…
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Ep. 8.20.20: Un-Conventional: The Great Divide Part 2
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: An unconventional Democratic convention surpasses expectations, despite being all about unity. So Dems are all about unity, while the Republicans continue to be all about dividing (and wrecking). Dave continues his discussion on the great...
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Ep. 8.13.20: Grand Canyon Divide (part 1)
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as his Vice-Presidential running mate. Dave comments on the choice and uses it to explore how recent events continue to reflect the stark divide in this country between a political party and our governing...
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Ep. 8.9.20: Courting Disaster
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave discusses the end-of-term US Supreme Court decisions, along with some other momentous federal court decisions. Despite some near misses and a couple of decisions worthy of celebration, this term is a tragic reminder of how extremist…
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Ep. 7.29.20: A Very Stable Fascist
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Trump says he passed a very difficult cognitive test, possibly demonstrating he is not excessively brain damaged, and thus is his argument for remaining President. Then he goes about unleashing his Gestapo on American cities, and thus is…
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Ep. 7.21.20: Extremism and Dvisiveness
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The death of civil rights icon and long-time US Congressman John Lewis gives us chance anew to discuss what it means to be extremist in America today. Republicans further embarrassed themselves when two GOP Senators tweeted pictures of...
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Ep. 7.16.20: Dave Solves the COVID Crisis
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: To get even trump supporters on board with beating COVID, Dave suggests doing the unimaginable; making republicans accountable! Let's make people who don't follow guidelines personally liable for the injuries that result. (in fact, let's...
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Ep. 7.8.20: July 4: Trump's celebration of secession
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Happy July 4 everybody! For most of us, a celebration of US independence; for our president, a celebration of secession and the US Civil War. In a bitterly racist and divisive speech at Mount Rushmore on a day of national unity, Trump...
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Ep. 7.1.20: The Undisputed Champion of Killing Americans!
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave switches gears a bit from our prior show on hope to talk about how Republicans elevate the interests of those who kill humans above the interest of actual humans. We take a few minutes to reflect on corporate America's role as...
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Ep. 6.25.20: A Crazy Little Thing Called Hope
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave talks about how recent events have given him something he has had little cause to feel over the waking nightmare of the Trump years: reason for hope. Like for someone seeing light at the end of a very dark tunnel, these are…
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Ep. 6.17.20: Hooray for Supreme Court Road Kill! The Supreme Court fails to get in the way of LGBTQ rights.
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We discuss a great way to celebrate Pride Month, as the US Supreme Court issues a shocking and dramatic decision that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender. Don't get your...
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Ep. 6.9.20: Breaking Down the Blue Wall; mass protests start to crack police supremacy...and possibly Trump's cult
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Peaceful worldwide pro-justice protests continue. Could this be different from protests past and lead to real systemic change? There are reasons to hope. Protests begin to force change, but need to break down the blue wall that puts police...
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Ep. 5.31.20: The Civil War Begins? worldwide protests against White Supremacy mark the battle lines of 2020
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Protests erupt around the world following the police killing of George Floyd, just the latest (or is it?) unjustified police killing of a black person. Even as ultraconservatives infiltrate the ranks of the protesters to try to discredit...
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Ep 5.24.20: Hydochloroquine Rots the Brain: And Trump Shows Us The Proof
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Trump uses hydrochloroquine, which might lead us to conclude it rots the brain. Further contravening his own administration, he won't wear masks; no need to listen to experts when you don't care how you hurt others. And more on Trump's...
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Ep. 5.17.20: Above The Law; trump follows the totalitarian playbook
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Moving further down the totalitarian road, Trump indicates the law is not something he needs to be burdened by. The Justice Department throws in the towel in a game it has already won, by seeking to drop its criminal case against Michael...
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Ep. 5.5.20: Injecting the Clorox (for cultists who don't like Kool-Aid)
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We discuss that the "leader of the free world" suggested injecting disinfectants as a possible solution to a deadly global pandemic. (Then we discuss the fact that we really had to write that sentence.) We note some of the latest Trump…
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Ep. 4.25.20: Adding Insult to Injury; Watching corporate coronavirus-themed ads is like watching a Trump press briefing
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Adding insult to injury, corporations start running coronavirus-themed ads. Hearing bullshit from selfish, greedy entities with no concern for the welfare of anyone but themselves and who, in many cases, are responsible for exacerbating…
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Ep 4.13.20: The War on Democracy; the GOP response to Coronavirus, voting, and other threats to America.
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We continue our discussions of what the coronavirus and our pathetic response to it should teach us about the issues that will be at stake in the 2020 election. The first is all about the wisdom of reelecting a narcissistic, ignorant,...
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Ep. 4.9.20: Bernie's Presidential Bid Ends; His Movement Lives On
THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We talk about the impact Bernie Sanders has had on the Democratic party and the need to fight to keep the movement going. Sanders showed it is possible to inspire people and a political movement by taking on the establishment and actually...
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Forward Nation Radio was created for those who demand a show that tells it like it is. Host Professor David Leventhal combines humor and a raw delivery to break it all down in ways that anyone can easily understand.You'll gain amazing insight and learn how today's policies directly affect you –without the confusing doublespeak. The result? -A new no-holds barred progressive political talk show that is as fact-driven as it is informative, accurate, and entertaining. Stay updated by subscribing to our YouTube channel!
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