Sitting in for Thom Hartmann is guest-host Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, and convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition. All wealth comes from the people. We have all the tools we need to build the world we want to live in- even if the struggle takes one step back for every two forward.

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• Who's cashing in on America's birthday?
• Follow the money from a shell company
• A crashing meme coin
• MAGA call basic heat-wave advice a Marxist plot

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The founders threw out the Redcoats. So why does America's 250th birthday feel like they're back in charge?

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• Trump’s spies get drafted into an election-fraud fantasy
• Corporate cash floods democracy
• Kushner may sink Albania
• A poisoned pool full of dead ducks

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Sitting in for Thom Hartmann is guest-host Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works. Alex talks with MacKenzie Wilson, Director of External Affairs at Blue Rose Research, whose image is inspired by the famous “lady of the lamp” Florence Nightingale’s Rose Diagram. A novel visualization created by the pioneering statistician. Listen in to this episode to determine what you need to know to strengthen Social Security and how the Republicans are scheming to destroy it.

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• Police checkpoints for ICE snare travelers
• premiums double as coverage collapses
• Jane Doe 4 fears retaliation
• LGBTQ Americans reflect at 250
• Workouts fight dementia

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From Caesar's denarius to Trump's meme coin, the message is always the same: "I am the state and you damn well better both fear me and pay me tribute!"

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Radio show host Rick Smith joins guest host Alex Lawson- Will the Supreme Court rulings further empower an imperial president, or are we taking more steps forward than we are backwards?

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