The Katie Halper Show

This was supposed to be a bonus episode, but it's too good to not be available for all! We talk to the Trillbillies Workers' Party about their podcast, one of the top ten Left podcasts to come out of Appalachia. Based out of Whitesburg, KY, Trillbillies Tanya Turner, Tom Sexton, and Tarence Ray blow J.D. Vance and his "Hillbillies Elegy" book out of the... coal mine... We talk to t...

On this episode, we talk to khalid kamau, the 1st ever #BlackLivesMatter organizer elected to office! A member of DSA(Democratic Socialists of America), kamau worked for the Bernie Sanders campaign and was endorsed by Sanders and Our Revolution. Councilman kamau (South Fulton, Georgia City Council District 6)talks to us about the walk out he organized as a 12-year-old, Hillary Clinton's hot sa...

We talk to Angela Nagle about her forthcoming book "Kill All Normies: Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right" about how liberals kinda sorta emboldened the Alt Right by being so grating. OK. My words, not Angela's. She's smarter and more nuanced, of course. Make sure you look out for the RIchard Spencer Corky St. Clair mashup. They may or may not be th...

We talk to Rashad Robinson, the executive director of Color of Change about how they got Bill O'Reilly fired (finally!). Rashad also talks about organizing under Trump and finds the perfect movie analogy for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. But first Gabe and I talk about abortion, the death penalty and everything in between. We also bring some bad news to the people pushing the Bernie Bro my...

I talk to Rania Khalek the day before she heads back to the Middle East to report from Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. Rania talks about what nobody wants to say about Syria, the efforts to ban her from speaking, and the claim that she has a "generic Druze position," which she uses trickery to conceal. We also talk to Ben Norton about the 5 best (or worst) hype men for the Syrian War (a bunch are...

Dating While Socialist Bonus Ep https://www.patreon.com/posts/8888812 On this episode, Gabe Pacheco and I talk to Erin Neff of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) about how Bernie Sanders AND Trump helped socialism grow: "Bernie planted the seeds and then Trump sh*t on them." Plus, how woke is Trump? How political is The Wizard of Oz? How helpful are dogs to homeless people? Then Erin a...

Subscribe to Patreon for bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/posts/8635065 DOCTOR Adam Gaffney (MD!!)explains why single payer health care is, in fact, doable, feasible, affordable and the only option. We talk to Adam about his pieces (from this week) in The Guardian and Jacobin, the difference between Trumpcare and Obamacare, the most persistent myths used against single payer, and the two typ...

Bonus: extra interview with Allegra Love https://www.patreon.com/posts/8554342 On this episode we talk to immigration lawyer Allegra Love about what undocumented workers can do and what we can do to support them. Then we talk to Christine Henderson of Equal Justice USA, about Rick Scott's unprecedented removal of a state attorney who won't be seeking the penalty. She happens to be the firs...

I make guest co-host Jesse Myerson very uncomfortable through my analysis of the film Get Out. Then guest Matt Bruenig talks about why liberals are like conservatives but without the coherence. Also, check out our bonus ep with Nando Vila in which we talk about the #BernieAllIn Town Hall with coal miners in Kentucky & #MaddowGate https://www.patreon.com/posts/8465126 Advertising Inquiries: htt...

Tithi Bhattacharya & Kate D Griffiths talk about what inspired the #womenstrike & respond to think pieces written by privileged white women criticizing the strike for being only for privileged white women without bothering to talk to anyone striking or organizing it. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this episode Gabe and i talk to Jane F. McAlevey who has been an organizer in the environmental and labor movements for over 20 years. She A Post Doctoral Fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the author "Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement." We talk to Jane about her latest book, "No Short cuts: organizing...

Guest host Jesse Myerson and I talk to Becky Bond about concrete ways to organize against Trump, what big organizing means and why the Revolution will be neither staffed nor exploitative. We also go over the role of podcast hosts and whether I can some how subsidize good organizations fighting against Trump by fighting with shills on Twitter. And then we talk about the #DNCchair race and how it re...

On this episode, we talk to former State Senator Nina Turner on why the Democrats need to apologize and confess their sins and how Democrats can actually win elections. She also tells us how the #DNCChair race will be a litmus test for whether the party want the reform it so desperately needs. Then we talk to former Sanders digital organizer Melissa Byrne on why she's running for DNC chair. Ad...

We talk to Nelini Stamp, organizer of #ResistTrumpTuesdays & Working Families Party national membership director and Sarah Jaffe, writer, journalist and author of "Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt." Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this very exciting episode of the Katie Halper Show, Gabe Pacheco and I talk about the Trump administration's decision to omit the words "Jews" and"antisemitism" from its Holocaust Memorial Day statement. While the administration seriously pretends they did so because they have an intersectional understand of the Holocaust and want to honor all victims, we're pretty sure...

On this episode of the Katie Halper, we talk Chelsea Manning, the fate of the planet, Judith Miller's tweets and sex with Bears (oh my!) We speak to journalist Ben Adler about what Trump can and can't do to ruin the planet and what states can do to try to save it. Ben and I get into a debate over Chelsea Manning being a litmus test for political orientation, which is funny because Ben does...

Our latest episode, which is a great one, is coming ASAP! Sorry for delay. Got distracted by the whole Trump becoming president thing. But, speaking of the devil, pun maybe intended?, we have a great bonus ep about the Trump-inspired Women's March and we're making it available for errrbody, even if you're not a Patreon subscriber. We wanted to make sure you could hear it and also thoug...

We talk to Abby Martin and Mike Prysner, the host and producer of the Empire Files, about why the DNI intelligence report named Martin as responsible for helping Russia Putin hack the elections. Spoiler alert: she didn't. And we go over Trump's presser, the headlines, why the intelligence community needs better interns and more. We also bring up Nando Vila of Fusion and Sam Alcoff of Democ...

In this really, really good ep, if I do say so myself, Doug Henwood and go over the refusal of the DNC & the Clinton campaign to acknowledge or learn from their mistakes, even when their mistakes helped bring us Trump. Henwood points out that if you care about the people who will most suffer under Trump, you can't shield Clinton or the DNC. You have to actually look at what happened so it...

Drexel professor George Ciccariello-Maher caused quite the controversy and white supremacist melt down when he tweeted on Christmas Eve, "all I want for Christmas is White Genocide," a satirical reference to a concept that Ciccariello-Maher describes as a "figment of the racist imagination." To clarify, to white supremacists, white genocide consists of things like interracial datin...

For the full extended interview, join our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-why-didnt-7564559 We talk to award winning journalist Suzi Weissman and historian Robert Brenner, the Beyonce & Jay Z of the left, about Hillary Clinton running against herself, why Bernie Sanders is the story of the century and why the media is so out of touch, it blames Trump's victory on the fight for...

In this live show show we talk to Zaid Jilani (The Intercept), Karina Moreno (LIU, Brooklyn), and Kazembe Balagun (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung NYC) about how neoliberal centrists hide behind identity politics to push their awful agenda which, of course, hurts the very marginalized people they claim to be concerned with. Make sure you sign up as a patreon member so you can hear the full discussion and...

Outspoken pro-choice advocate Lucy Flores, who still faces death threats for revealing having had an abortion at the age of 16, was backed by the influential pro-choice PAC "Emily's List," the two times she ran for Nevada State Assembly. But when Flores ran for Congress this year, they decided to back her primary opponent. Why? Spoiler alert/ hint: she didn't back Clinton & isn...