We Decide: America at the Crossroads 2024 - from WBAI and the Pacifica Radio Network hosted by Jenna Flanagan broadcast live from New York Dec. 9, 2024— 41 days until former President Trump drops the former and just becomes President Trump once again on Inauguration Day, which in 2025, just happens to coincide with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King holiday.
Last week, the House race for California’s 13th district, the last outstanding race from the November election, Democratic Party challenger Adam Gray upended incumbent Republican John Duarte by less than 200 votes. That leaves control of the House in GOP hands with 220 seats to the Democrats 215. For Dems that’s a pick-up of one seat in the House where the party lost control of the White House and the Senate where Republicans now hold 53 out of 100 seats.
As it turns out, the Republican legislature of North Carolina, may have ensured that GOP speaker Mike Johnson retained his gavel and control of the house through partisan gerrymandering of the state.
In the A Block we go down to North Carolina to see just what activists working with the Rev. Dr. William Barber and the Moral Monday movement are doing to bring more transparency to what they contend is an ongoing anti-democratic power grab by the state GOP.
In our B Block we’ll continue to explore the disconnect between the way Beltway Democrats and campaign consultants saw the U.S. economy and actual voters with James Parrott, a senior advisor fellow at the Center for New York City at The New School. If President Biden was pro-labor, why did millions of low wage and low wealth reject Vice President Harris and embrace President-Elect Trump.
Also, we’ll get a LIVE update from UAW members from Local 21-79, who went on strike at the world famous Strand Book Store in Lower Manhattan.
Pacifica Affiliate Manager and correspondent Ursula Ruedenberg brings us the uplifting story of how one Iowa County voted to raise taxes on itself to fund long term land conservation efforts.
In the D Block we held our panel discussion about how the 2024 election played out with Native Americans and rural America. We spoke with John Kane, Mohawk and Native American Broadcaster and activist whose show airs on Pacifica. He spoke to us from his home on the Seneca Nation territory in upstate New York. He was joined by Teresa Purcell, a long time progressive political consultant specializing in mobilizing rural communities and founder and CEO of the Rural Strong Network. She is based in Washington State and got up very early for us.
