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The Good Fight, with Ben Wikler

A show about people changing the world. Including you.Learn more at TheGoodFight.fm. Powered by MoveOn.org.

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10: More leaders like this, please

10: More leaders like this, please

When Heather McGhee's new job was announced, Elizabeth Warren called her "a champion," the head of the AFL-CIO said he w... Read more

28 Jan 2014

36mins

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40: Why #BlackLivesMatter

40: Why #BlackLivesMatter

Co-founder Alicia Garza shares the story of how #BlackLivesMatter began—and how it became the rallying cry for a movemen... Read more

4 Feb 2015

35mins

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22: You've got to hear this preacher

22: You've got to hear this preacher

Rev. Jim Wallis left evangelical Christianity to fight for social justice—and then found his vocation by mixing them tog... Read more

16 May 2014

34mins

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28: Cory Booker and Rand Paul: partners on crime

28: Cory Booker and Rand Paul: partners on crime

For decades, criminal justice reform was political Kryptonite. But Cory Booker isn't from Krypton. Booker joins us to ex... Read more

16 Jul 2014

28mins

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25: Lawrence Lessig, Aaron Swartz, and the Super PAC to end Super PACs

25: Lawrence Lessig, Aaron Swartz, and the Super PAC to end Super PACs

What if you’re doing the wrong thing with your life? That’s what 20-year-old Aaron Swartz asked Lawrence Lessig. In resp... Read more

24 Jun 2014

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5: Gillibrand. Rape in the military. NSA World of Warcraft.

5: Gillibrand. Rape in the military. NSA World of Warcraft.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand brings us inside her fight against military sexual assault. She's joined by Navy veteran Trin... Read more

12 Dec 2013

53mins

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14: This interview is illegal in Uganda

14: This interview is illegal in Uganda

In Uganda, under the new anti-gay law, you—you reading this now—would almost certainly be a criminal. Know gay people, b... Read more

14 Mar 2014

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26: Pulitzer winner. Undocumented. American.

26: Pulitzer winner. Undocumented. American.

When Jose Antonio Vargas was 16, he discovered his green card was fake. At 26, he won journalism’s biggest prize. At 30,... Read more

1 Jul 2014

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13: Social Security cuts: the clearest explanation anywhere

13: Social Security cuts: the clearest explanation anywhere

A year ago, President Obama did something jaw-dropping, and not in a good way: He proposed, in his budget, cuts to Socia... Read more

7 Mar 2014

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21: Beating the Koch brothers

21: Beating the Koch brothers

The documentary Citizen Koch was almost crushed by the Koch brothers' power. But filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal fou... Read more

6 May 2014

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23: The plot to bring democracy to America

23: The plot to bring democracy to America

The National Popular Vote campaign is on track to do the impossible: fix the broken, crazy, undemocratic way the USA pic... Read more

28 May 2014

44mins

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27: War on women? Meet the resistance

27: War on women? Meet the resistance

UltraViolet co-founder Nita Chaudhary takes us behind the scenes in the insurgent, devastatingly effective campaign to m... Read more

11 Jul 2014

35mins

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9: This prison is weird

9: This prison is weird

A guy commits some crimes, gets caught, goes to prison. And then everything gets weird. Plus, before that: 2014's first ... Read more

24 Jan 2014

38mins

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2: Obamacare. DREAMers. Escaping the fever swamp.

2: Obamacare. DREAMers. Escaping the fever swamp.

As seen by denizens of the far-right fever swamps of American politics, Obamacare is a terrifying nightmare—a nightmare ... Read more

22 Nov 2013

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20: Minimum wage myths, busted

20: Minimum wage myths, busted

Opponents of raising the minimum wage like to claim that economists are on their side. They're wrong. In this episode: t... Read more

24 Apr 2014

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11: Utah? Gay marriage in Utah?

11: Utah? Gay marriage in Utah?

The story of Utah's same-sex marriage movement starts with chutzpah and ends with a ridiculously, touchingly exuberant s... Read more

7 Feb 2014

42mins

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12: Did we just prevent a war with Iran?

12: Did we just prevent a war with Iran?

The Iran sanctions bill was the kind of measure that usually passes Congress unanimously. And, as always, dozens of Sena... Read more

25 Feb 2014

49mins

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17: The Nanny Uprising

17: The Nanny Uprising

Big Oil. Bankers. Global mega-corporations. Those are the powerful. But sometimes, the powerless win too—and this episod... Read more

4 Apr 2014

40mins

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15: The really dumb reason 5 million people are uninsured

15: The really dumb reason 5 million people are uninsured

For 5 million unlucky Americans, health care reform currently means... zilch. But as Ron Pollack, the country's leading ... Read more

20 Mar 2014

38mins

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16 Guns in libraries, Hobby Lobby birth control, happy dolphins

16 Guns in libraries, Hobby Lobby birth control, happy dolphins

An all-Win Report episode! The latest victories and defeats—plus a special Winportunity report from MSNBC's Irin Carmon,... Read more

27 Mar 2014

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