What's The Plan? with Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin

How do you flip a red state in a blue wave? From Texas to Iowa to Kansas to Florida, a blue wave appears to be building this fall that could transform American politics for years to come. In this episode, we talk to one of the most prominent wave builders in the country. Angie Nixon was outspent 16-to-1 in Florida's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate this summer and won by more than 10 points. Now...

How do you stop an authoritarian with a mass movement? What strategies and tactics have actually worked, here in the U.S. and abroad? We ask one of the best teachers on the subject: Erica Chenoweth, the Harvard professor known for research on political violence and its alternatives. We get into the 3.5% rule, the next No Kings, and what we can achieve together. Then it's a classic What's the Plan...

Whether you think the AI apocalypse is imminent or the bubble is about to burst, the political impact of this technological acceleration is only going to grow. This is our first, and likely not our last, What's the Plan on the threat. Ezra and Leah discuss what the threat is, which villains are accelerating us toward disaster, and what role a mass movement plays in this moment. Then, live Q&A: ele...

They want to sabotage the midterm elections, and we're not going to let them. That's the point of No Kings on October 17th. On this week's What's the Plan, we talk about how we do that together. How is this one different from No Kings 1, 2, and 3? What can we hope to achieve? How does early voting contribute to election defense? What powerful, fun, and funny community events are people around the...

Now that we've won primaries all over the country with a new generation of Democratic fighters, how do we win over voters in enough battleground states to take the House and Senate in November? We do a deep dive on a new polling project with pollster extraordinaire Celinda Lake on what the data says and how we can use it to crush this corrupt regime in the midterms. In the live Q&A we talk about c...

The Supreme Court is not your friend, and it's no friend to our democracy. It is a friend to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. This week it handed Trump a partial victory in his attempt to undermine mail-in voting, the latest in a string of MAGA rulings on abortion, voting rights, campaign finance, and executive branch immunity. So what do we do about it? We talk with Elie Mystal, the brilliant...

Trump is doing what all fascist losers do in the lead-up to a catastrophic electoral wipeout: he's preparing to sabotage the election. And repression of civil society and activists is a key part of the playbook. In this episode, Leah and Ezra run through four real-world scenarios pro-democracy organizers may face in the coming months and explain what your rights are and how to exercise them. Then...

We're nearing the end of primary season with ten Senate and House wins under our belt. We're technically on vacation with our kids this week, but we couldn't wait to talk about our very last primary endorsement. So while the kids play with grandma and grandpa, we sit down with Patrick Roath, who is taking on a multi-decade do-nothing incumbent in a safe blue district, to discuss ICE accountability...

What makes up a pro-democracy media diet? We've got data straight from the Indivisible movement! Where does the movement get its facts, its breaking news, its analysis, its historical context, its action items...and its emotional regulation? We dig into all of it, then sit down for some emotional regulation of our own with the always incredible Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, Peggy Flanagan. She...

Most of us who aren't walking, talking embodiments of a corporate super PAC agree that campaign money is infecting and perverting our politics. But very few people actually do something about it. Today we talk with Hawaii State Senator Jarrett Keohokalole, lead author of a first-in-the-nation state campaign finance law — designed, passed, and enacted earlier this year — to constitutionally get mon...

Today we're joined by a modern-day political hero: Justin J. Pearson. An elected state representative from Tennessee, Justin has taken on the state's MAGA political leadership and Elon Musk's data centers, and is now wading into the fight against Trump's national gerrymandering by running for Congress to represent Memphis. Ezra and Leah give an update on the crypto corruption crisis in Congress, a...

Trump's Xenophobia Czar says Democrats need to shut their mouths or the bloodshed will continue. We're not going quiet. Trump's flailing is the act of a desperate, weakening authoritarian intent on causing as much harm as possible on his way down. Leah and Ezra talk about justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Guerrero, responding to the ICE escalation, and the biggest political co...

The biggest super PAC in the country isn't oil and gas, pharma, or big tobacco. It's crypto. The industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy politicians and ram through legislation nobody asked for. So today we're doing a deep dive: what crypto actually is, how it bought its way into Washington, and how we organize to beat it – with actor, author, and documentary filmmaker Ben McKe...

Welp, rehabilitating the Democratic Party was never going to make everybody happy. This week, we dig into what the Colorado primary results tell us about what the party voters actually want, why the establishment freakout is a feature and not a bug, and the latest damage from the MAGA Supreme Court. Then we take your questions on election sabotage, immigrant defense, and what the plan actually is....

Trump is going to try to sabotage the midterms and we're going to stop him. We start with major primary wins in New York - the latest chapter in our fight to rehabilitate the Democratic Party. Then we get into a meaty discussion about election sabotage and what we can do about it with Corey Dukes from Protect Democracy. To learn more and get involved with Indivisible, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠indivisible.org/wt...

The midterm election threatens Trump's power, and he knows it. So he's going after nonviolent anti-ICE organizers in the Twin Cities and voting rights organizers in Ohio – typical authoritarian escalation as the clock ticks down to Election Day. We break down what's happening, how to build solidarity, how to push electeds, and how to win campaigns while the repression ramps up. To learn more and g...

We start by celebrating Randy Villegas's triumph in the California primary — another step forward in the slow but steady transformation of the Democratic Party into a winning opposition. But as we notch wins in primaries, the fascists aren't slowing down. Republicans just created a massive slush fund for ICE and Border Patrol. We talk about how the fight got to this point and what to expect in the...

All authoritarian regimes succeed through divide and conquer. We win with a politics of solidarity – linking arms and treating an attack on one as an attack on all. Take inspiration from the protesters at Stonewall and Delaney Hall, celebrate major primary wins in California and New Jersey, and then live Q&A on election security, ICE funding in the reconciliation fight, No Kings and June 14th, and...

Darializa Avila Chevalier is taking on a thirty-year incumbent political machine in New York in one of the defining fights of this primary season. She joins us to discuss what it takes to run against the corporate-backed establishment and win. Then, in a live Q&A: election sabotage, counterprogramming Trump’s birthday White House UFC spectacle, the crisis at the Delaney Hall detention center, and...

That's a win. Jasmine Clark just crushed her congressional primary in the first major test of whether we can build real, unified opposition party. We break down the victory and what it means for the movement. Then we're joined by Brad Lander, insurgent congressional candidate and Indivisible fan favorite. Plus a live discussion on election sabotage, the $1.8 billion slush fund for January 6th insu...

If you've ever asked yourself what you would have been doing six decades ago when John Lewis, faith leaders, union members, and pro-democracy organizers marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to win the Voting Rights Act and secure representative democracy in this country - the answer is: whatever you're doing right now. We welcome Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown to talk about mass m...

What do you do when the national Democratic Party parachutes into a competitive congressional primary and puts its fist on the side of a candidate backed by AIPAC and Republican corporate PACs? We find out this week with Randy Villegas, the grassroots candidate the DCCC is trying to take out. Then in Q&A: the Callais decision and election sabotage, a May Day debrief, the DNC shakeup, and how we bu...

May Day is a distress signal - and on May 1, it becomes a nationwide tactical escalation for democracy. Trump is calling nonviolent No Kings protesters the KKK. The Supreme Court is gutting the Voting Rights Act. Republicans and their billionaire backers are already working to sabotage the midterms. We break down the strategic logic behind May Day, what we learned from No Kings, how this protects...

Trump's secret police force is pouring billions into purchasing warehouses and converting them into detention camps to hold our neighbors. The conditions are horrific, with well-documented human rights abuses and deaths every week – but we don't have to just sit back and accept this. Silky Shah, Executive Director of Detention Watch Network, joins us to go deep on the growing number of successful...

After 16 years of authoritarian rule, Hungary's pro-democracy opposition crushed Viktor Orban's party and won a supermajority in parliament. Leah and Ezra break down the early lessons — building a new opposition movement, driving massive turnout, and preparing for election sabotage. If they can do it, we can do it. Plus: a red-district Indivisible group in Colorado showing what effective grassroot...