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Incorruptible Mass — 190 episodes
School Funding
Gun Violence Prevention
Prison
Health Care for All
The Evil Tax Cut Question
Stipend Reform
Data Privacy
State Energy Bill
Year-End Predictions
Election Results
What's Wrong With Our Economy?
Monopolization
No Kings Protest
Kimmel and the Media
Housing and Zoning
Homes for All
Local Housing Policy
The Missing Voters
Epstein and Inequality
Mamdani and Democracy
The Four-Day Week
MassBudget
US Economy
Brahmin Capitalism
ACLU: Fighting Trump for Immigrants
Tufts Student Abducted
Immigrants in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Primary Care Crisis
Medicare for All in New York
MassCare
HealthCare Now
End of Session
Ballot Q Results
Presidential Election Takeaways
Getting People to Vote
City Budgets
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
Ballot Questions
Primaries
Shelter
Tim Walz
Legislative Amendments
The Olympics
Passing Illegal Legislation
What Passed in 2024?
Funding Our Education
Community Land Trusts
Progressive Mass
Foul Play! Outside Interference and the Real Estate Transfer Fee.
Behind-the-Scenes Budget
Bring it to the Ballot! Ballot Questions and State Power
Earth Day - Sustainability IS Political
Supreme Court Corruption
Media Bias -- Hot Off The Press
The Governor's Council -- The Appendix of Massachusetts
Lawmakers Breaking the Law
For Whom The Gov Serves
DPU Decision: Done Doggedly Denying Climate Disaster
Joint Rule 10 Day: Arbitrary State Deadlines Not Even Followed
Cities vs The State: How Massachusetts Pre-empts Progressive Local Policy
Governor's Budget — What it means for You, Your Kids, and Your Pocketbook
Small Potatoes - Why We Lack Big Progress in Democrat-Majority Massachusetts
Public Banking - What It Is and How It Could Change Your Life
Budget Cuts -- How cutting the state budget hurts our futures
Homelessness -- Covid-19 and Homelessness: How Massachusetts Has Fallen Behind
Parole -- how does it work and why it needs to be improved in Massachusetts
Local election results! Boston, Worcester, Medford, Malden, Somerville, Everett, Revere & more
Local Elections -- Vote this Tuesday Nov 7th!
Halloween Special: Bills Graveyard! Nightmare on Beacon Street!
Healey's Housing Bond Bill - what's in it and why it's not enough
UAW, unions, and worker power
MBTA -- How can we fix our public transit in an equitable and sustainable way?
5.25 Cherish Act -- How we can support education and prevent student debt
Transparency -- MA is unique in being the only state where all 3 branches of govt are exempt from public records law.
The Thrive Act -- how all of our students can succeed and thrive
Ballot Proposals for 2024 are out!
Massachusetts budget update and the summer of climate change
Why has it taken over 23 years to update our sex ed curriculum?
Location Data Privacy with the ACLU: who is making money off of knowing where you are?
Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action, student debt
Housing: HDIP, transfer fee, right to counsel, rent control, TOPA, eviction sealing.
Tax Package: The Senate package is better, but why is no one talking about it?
Bostopia News with Evan George -- Boston politics, redistricting, media bias, TikTok
5.14 Youth Vote: Why won't the State House approve the expansion of democracy?
IM News 5-30-23: MA legislature least productive in 40 years; Native Americans help solve river drought; profiteering the driver of inflation...
How do we pay for Medicare for All here in Massachusetts?
IM News May 23, 2023: 1.5C global warming; Colorado river in danger; FL, NC and SC pass abortion and trans bans
How to answer the question, "Why Are You Running for Office?"
IM News May 9, 2023: Greenpeace win, 202 mass shootings, debt ceiling, MA revenues down $2.2B
The MA state budget: Everything you want to know but won't hear anywhere else
IM News May 2, 2023: LGBTQ, MA state budget, Climate battles in Brazil, Still protesting in France.
Manny Alvarado at Manny Jae Media: The voice of Black Brown & LGBTQ in Worcester
IM News April 26: Climate, National, International, State
Climate Change with the Sierra Club -- successful inside-outside strategy
IM News April 18: Climate, National and international, State, as well as Black Lives Matter
News Analysis: Trump indictment, climate law, democracy abroad, wins in Wisconsin & Chicago
IM News for for Wednesday, April 5th
The terrible horrible no good very bad tax package
IM News for Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Power - Only power can get policy passed, and it has to be used to be real.
Mythbusting -- 13 myths you might believe about politics.
Absolute Power: Why 3 out of 4 Speakers of the House go to jail
Why is Massachusetts Failing? If you think our state is doing fine, think again.
Why State? You -- yes you! -- should prioritize state level electoral work.
The Dream: The road to change starts with a vision of the world we want to create
58. Dreaming of a Better Massachusetts
57. What can we learn from the 2022 ballot questions?
56. Ballot Questions! How should you vote on ballot initiatives on November 8th?
55. What happened on September 6th? Election post-mortem
54. What happened to the prison moratorium?
53. End of Session! All the ways that good bills can fail to pass through the legislature.
52. Our Broken Democracy in Massachusetts: with Kathy Teahan and Jack Stanton
51. Which state rep candidates were endorsed by IM, Progressive Mass, and Mass Alliance?
50.5 Join us tomorrow in JP to meet 13 progressive candidates!
50. Timmy Sullivan, state rep candidate for the 21st Middlesex
49. Nichole Mossalam, state rep candidate for the 35th Middlesex
48 Raul Fernandez, state rep candidate for the 15th Norfolk...and Uber ballot measure is dead!
47. Campaign promises, expectations, and movement building.
46 Heather May, state rep candidate for the 9th Middlesex
45.5 Candidate Forum Thursday at 7:30pm!
45. Teresa English, state rep candidate for the 22nd Middlesex
44. Unemployment and how Massachusetts is messing it up
43. Vivian Birchall, state rep candidate for the 14th Middlesex
42. State Budget: What's in it versus what should be in it
41. Unionizing State Senate and State House Staff: More democracy in the workplace and in government
40. Strategy and Power: How can we pass policy nationally, and why is the Right beating us?
Come to our Candidate Forum on Thursday at 5pm!
39. We need people to run for State Rep! Share this episode!
38. Joint Rule 10 Day: Everything the State House should have passed but killed instead
37. Medicare for All now, and how our State House killed it in the past
36. Flipping power -- how do we take back our government?
35. Our democracy is in crisis. Why?
34. Reproductive rights: What happens if Roe v Wade is overturned?
33. Cannabis policy for people, not corporations!
32. Rent Control -- its history and why we need it now
31. Andrea James on why we do NOT need a new women's prison in MA
30. Happy Holidays! And why we're on the verge of an "eggmergency" in Massachusetts
29. No on Prop 22: Uber and other tech giants think they can bring their horrible policies to MA
28. What did the State House do this year??
27. Democracy in Decline: the Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts report on the State House
26. How Incarceration Diminishes our Democracy
25. Elections 2021: What wins and what doesn't
24: Home Rule Petitions: Massachusetts protects the powerful from democracy. With Ben Ewen-Campen
23. The Climate bill that passed, and the timelines we are missing
22. Disability rights: We need more funding for independent living, esp under COVID
21. Education: Our state fails to fund education despite already voting in favor
20. Hearings -- Bad at convincing legislators, but good for....
19. Policing. Have things improved since George Floyd?
18. Young people and the policies that support them
17. Redistricting. How does the census determine your representation?
16. Eviction Moratorium: Activist pressure on the President wins
15. Vacation: Why don't we have any?
14. Live Podcast from Boston Common, July 24, 2021
13. How can we fund everything? Progressive taxation is a no-brainer
Rules: The way the State House is run, and why it matters (with Act On Mass)
Join us for a live broadcast July 24!
11. Climate: MA could lead the country with a Green New Deal
10. Who does our government work for? The corporations, the uber-wealthy, or us?
9. Amendments: Proof that our State House is bonkers
8. Free Public College: How student debt is manufactured by our state legislature
7. How do you end up with incorruptible politicians?
6. No Agenda: How other states pass legislation with vision while MA falls behind
5. Taking the Red Pill: just how deep is group think at the State House?
4. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely - why Speakers of the MA State House often go to jail
3. The battle to 50 Senators: What can you do with a veto-proof super majority?
2. State Politics: Why YOU should get involved in the forgotten level of government.
1. Our Massachusetts: The ideal life we could have for seven million people
Solidarity LIVE! Life as a musician under COVID in the US vs Canada
Solidarity LIVE! National debt and MMT: Why we CAN afford social programs, with Fadhel Kaboub
Solidarity LIVE! Welcome Project (immigration), Tufts Mutual Aid, South Korea
Solidarity LIVE! Somerville Homeless Coalition, Medford doctor, Somerville Community Corp
Solidarity LIVE! Medford city councilor, expert on SNAP benefits, COVID, and incarceration
Solidarity LIVE! Mutual aid, a doctor's perspective, and Somerville paraprofessional teachers
Why run for State Rep? Anna Callahan
Solidarity Economy: Envisioning an economy that works for all of us
Public Banking: How our State House power structure kills no-brainer solutions
The Case for Medicare for All in Massachusetts -- Mass-Care and Healthcare Now
Sierra Club & 350 Mass: Can Massachusetts lead in climate policy?
Season two: What Issues Matter?
Representative Nika Elugardo: How to enact systemic change
Jonathan Cohn, Progressive Mass: Incremental change vs Tranformative change
Rep Denise Provost: What's a cross between a university and a royal court?
Representative Mike Connolly: Housing for All
Representative Tami Gouveia: Knock on doors, knock on doors, knock on doors
Act on Mass: How to hack Massachusetts state politics
Representative Maria Robinson: Why cosponsoring is not enough.
Representative Jonathan Hecht: Concentration of power in the State House.
Representative Lindsay Sabadosa, co-founder of Medicare for All caucus
Jordan Berg Powers, Mass Alliance: Why the MA State House is so broken
Uncovering the slimy underbelly of the State House: Listen first