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Mar 7, 2024 • 26min

Everything is at Stake in 2024

With Super Tuesday behind us, and Nikki Haley ending her campaign, Republicans make it clear the 4Xs indicted, 91 felony counts, rapist and grifter Donald Trump is their choice. While the names on the 2024 presidential ballot may be the same but the stakes are much higher. Danielle and Wajahat dig into all you need to know about election 2024!Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP Entertainment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 29, 2024 • 40min

Committed to a Real Democracy

The podcast discusses the Michigan primaries and protest votes from Muslim Americans against Biden's stance on Israel. It also covers Aaron Bushnell's extreme protest and an investigative series on Imam Jamil Al-Amin and FBI's cointelpro.
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Feb 22, 2024 • 29min

Steps to Getting Sane

Dr. Kirk Schneider author of the book: Life Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World, joins Danielle and Wajahat on this week's #democracyish to discuss how we can all learn to move through our anxiety, pause, reflect and respond rather than react. An important episode for managing our emotions during these challenging times.Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP Entertainment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 15, 2024 • 27min

The Media's Black Boogeyman

Columnist/Associate Editor, Adrian Walker, at the Boston Globe has been covering "The Murder in Boston" for 3 decades. A white married couple with a baby on the way ends up shot on the "wrong side of town", a black man is blamed and then the story takes flight from there. We get into a conversation on race, media and policing on this episode of democracyishHosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP Entertainment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 8, 2024 • 30min

Nikki Haley vs. None of These

[Democracy-ish] is sponsored by BetterHelp.Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DEMOCRACY and get on your way to being your best self.How can you lose against no one?!? Ask Nikki Haley who was recently gobsmacked by "None of These Candidates" in the Nevada Republican primary and it was truly breathtaking. Meanwhile Trump is headed to the SCOTUS to convince them the presidency isn't an officer of the country and therefore he can be on ballots even though he incited an insurrection. Waj and Danielle discuss this and so much more!Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP Entertainment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 1, 2024 • 27min

Biden, We Have a Problem

Whether it's Gen Z organizing on college campuses and in the streets or the Muslim community in Michigan telling Biden not to come or Black Pastors saying they're having trouble aligning their parishioners with Biden on genocide in Gaza--every critical constituency of the Democratic Party is ringing a 5-alarm bell--and on this week's episode Waj and Danielle ask, is anyone in Biden world listening?!?Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP Entertainment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 25, 2024 • 28min

Wartime on White Supremacy

Discussion on the promotion of white supremacy by MAGA supremacists and the threat they pose to progress. Analysis of attempts to hinder marginalized communities' rights. Insights on price cuts and ad-free listening while expressing disagreement with a statement about white women and white supremacy. Expressing frustration with white women upholding white supremacy and the importance of Democrats taking a stronger stance.
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Jan 18, 2024 • 34min

The Winter of Cruelty

CEO of JP Morgan Chase, Jamie Dimon told CNBC that "Democrats should stop bashing MAGA" and be nice. He also said that "Trump was right about some things". On this week's democracyish Danielle and Wajahat breakdown all the ways that Dimon's statement is not only wrong but telling about how white billionaires will do anything and say anything to protect their ass(ets) and why this statement should be a major red flag for anyone paying attention to who has Trump's back.  Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP Entertainment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 11, 2024 • 33min

How Can Progressives Unite During Israel/Gaza?

Rabbi Sharon Brous, #1 most influential rabbi in the US, discusses finding solidarity and healing among Jewish American and progressive communities of color in the wake of Israel's war in Gaza. Topics include overcoming trauma, uniting against bigotry, and imagining new possibilities.
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Jan 4, 2024 • 30min

Can We Humanize Immigration?

Danielle and Wajahat are joined by Waj's former professor Bill Ong Hing to discuss his latest book: Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform our Racist and Unjust System. We talk Trump "poisoning the blood" comments and more on this week's episode of democracyish!Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP Entertainment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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