Patrick Gaspard, CEO of the Center For American Progress Action Fund , joined Danielle to discuss the dire need for Democrats and American liberals to have a counter to "Project 2025", the Trumpist authoritarian agenda. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 12, 2024•28 min•Season 4Ep. 262
On the night of this year's State of the Union address, Joe Biden delivered when he needed to the most, while the Republican party continues to push its regressive propaganda. While they are working to send us back to the days of the nuclear family, there is also the issue of nuclear power - journalist Sarah Scoles, author of Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons joined Danielle to discuss. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 11, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 261
Recorded before this year's State of the Union address, Danielle gets frank about Joe Biden's prospects in the face of the party that wants to seat the first fascist president. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 08, 2024•20 min•Season 4Ep. 260
Danielle talks with Dr. Jonathan Metzl about feeling a "sense of stuck" between a rock and a hard place as we approach the 2024 elections. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 07, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 259
The whole world is watching as American democracy collapses. Republicans are pushing for it and Democrats are not doing nearly enough to fight back. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 06, 2024•24 min•Season 4Ep. 258
William He founded Dream For America when he was just sixteen years old and has been doing political work since the age of 11. Danielle spoke with him about his organization's work and the political issues that matter to his generation in this election cycle. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 05, 2024•33 min•Season 4Ep. 257
Gina Ortiz Jones is the founder of the Find Out PAC , a Texas group targeting three state Supreme Court justices - Jimmy Blacklock, John Devine, and Jane Bland - who f*cked around with reproductive freedoms. Danielle talks with her about how they're going to make them find out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 04, 2024•24 min•Season 4Ep. 256
On this Friday, Danielle calls out the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets for the media blackout and disinformation around the extreme protest of former serviceman Aaron Bushnell, who died from self-immolation while crying out for a free Palestine. We are our own last stand for truth and democracy. We have to fight. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 01, 2024•21 min•Season 4Ep. 255
As Mitch McConnell announces he is stepping down from his position as Senate Minority Leader, Danielle Moodie reflects on his time in leadership and the many times Democrats chose to "compromise" rather than fight back. Jonathan Metzl returns to recap the discussions he's been having as he tours to promote his new book What We've Become . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 29, 2024•28 min•Season 4Ep. 254
On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle takes on the media's intentionally irresponsible coverage of Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation to protest Israel's continued genocide in Gaza. She also directly compares Fanni Willis with Clarence Thomas, the man who continues to get away with political grift from the highest office in the country, and opines how the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling on IVF may end up hurting Republicans in this year's elections. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 28, 2024•24 min•Season 4Ep. 253
Propaganda, host of Hood Politics with Prop , joined Danielle for a crossover conversation about the origins of their podcasts, the importance of letting people know that politics is connected with our everyday lives, and...why some Black men love Donald Trump. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 27, 2024•30 min•Season 4Ep. 252
Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME - the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees - joined Danielle Moodie for a conversation about the rise of labor movements, their historical significance, and why we need to push even harder to reform labor laws in America. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 26, 2024•24 min•Season 4Ep. 251
"It can't happen here." It can, it is, and it only will get worse if we allow Trumpism to win in 2024. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 23, 2024•21 min•Season 4Ep. 250
Danielle was joined by Reverend Mark Thompson a few weeks ago to discuss the New York Times report on Black pastors urging President Biden to call for a cease-fire in Gaza. In the weeks since then, hundreds if not thousands more Palestinians have been killed, and the AME Church Bishops Council has called not just for a ceasefire but for an end of US aid to Israel. Is the Biden administration's continued support of Israel worth losing the support of Black voters in the 2024 election? See omnystud...
Feb 22, 2024•44 min•Season 4Ep. 249
On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle discusses the tragic story of the killing of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary high schooler in Oklahoma, and how tragedies like these underscore the importance of keeping Trump and Republicans out of government. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 21, 2024•23 min•Season 4Ep. 248
Bishop Tonyia Rawls joined Danielle at the Creating Change Conference for a riveting conversation about how LGBTQ+ people and left-wing Americans in general cannot allow Republicans to claim religion and faith all for themselves. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 20, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 247
Gio Santiago is the founder of META Center , an organization supporting transgender youth in Ohio, a state where trans rights and personhood are under attack. He joined Danielle at the Creating Change Conference for a conversation about the importance of staying and fighting in the places where marginalized people are under attack. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 19, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 246
The cancer of guns is only deepening with every mass shooting that gets normalized in this country. Also being normalized? A presidential candidate with multiple indictments and more to come. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 16, 2024•20 min•Season 4Ep. 245
Sarah Parker, Executive Director of Women's Voices of SW Florida , joined Danielle to talk about her experiences fighting for rights and freedom in a "red state" and why it's important for activists to stay and fight rather than abandoning states like Florida. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 15, 2024•25 min•Season 4Ep. 244
The administration that we are counting on to save us is not interested in saving all of us. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 14, 2024•20 min•Season 4Ep. 243
Continuing Woke AF's conversations from the Creating Change Conference, Danielle spoke with Andrea Montanez, the Senior Racial Equity, LGBTQ+, and Immigration Organizer at Hope CommUnity Center . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 13, 2024•26 min•Season 4Ep. 242
Throughout the next few weeks, Danielle Moodie brings you conversations she had at the National LGBTQ Taskforce's Creating Change Conference in New Orleans. First up is Jen Scott from Equality Ohio, who discussed the importance of voting for a deeply imperfect Democrat like Joe Biden. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 12, 2024•22 min•Season 4Ep. 241
On this Fuck It Friday, Danielle Moodie reflects on her feeling that, in many ways, Donald Trump has already won. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 09, 2024•21 min•Season 4Ep. 240
On this special episode of Woke AF Daily, Danielle presents a conversation with herself and Dr. Jonathan Metzl recorded live at the launch of his new book What We've Become , followed by a live Q&A from the audience. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 08, 2024•48 min•Season 4Ep. 239
On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle focuses in on some promising legal decisions that still require a lot of work ahead of us in the future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 07, 2024•23 min•Season 4Ep. 238
Psychologist Dr. Suzanne Lachmann returns to Woke AF Daily to explain what Danielle calls "Republican mush brain." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 06, 2024•26 min•Season 4Ep. 237
Brendan Ballou is the author of Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America , and he joined Danielle to give her - and the Woke AF Nation - an introductory lesson into the world of private equity, with some real-world examples of impacts it has had on vulnerable members of our society. Of course Danielle asks the big question: is there anything our government can do to stop it? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 05, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 236
Nimarata Haley, Tom Cotton, and the other chicken-s*** Republicans are melting down as we enter 2024, while their voting base freaks out over Taylor Swift. This week, Danielle also asks: does anything in the United States work better than anywhere else? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 02, 2024•21 min•Season 4Ep. 235
Woke AF weekly contributor Jonathan Metzl's new book What We've Become is out now, and he spoke with Danielle Moodie about our widening political divide in a nation where some people see rampant gun violence as the cost of freedom. If the public health narrative won't save us from the gun epidemic, what will? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 01, 2024•29 min•Season 4Ep. 234
As we enter 2024, Danielle Moodie reflects: is Joe Biden really up to the task? And if he's not, what are Democrats going to do to stave off the very real threat of conservative authoritarianism? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 31, 2024•22 min•Season 4Ep. 233