The Political Dynamics of Climate Action and Leadership

Saikat Chakrabarti, co-founder of Justice Democrats and former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, joins Nathan J. Robinson to discuss his 2026 congressional campaign to unseat Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Party’s failure to respond to genocide in Gaza, and how decades of complacent leadership have left the party morally bankrupt and politically adrift.

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0:00–5:30 Gaza 

5:30–19:27 The Democratic Party 

19:27–21:41 Nancy Pelosi 

24:00–29:00 Zohran Mamdani 

29:00–36:14 Saikat's Policy Agenda 

36:14–42:27 Campaigning in a Hopeless Moment 

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