On this episode of Start Making Sense, Indivisible's Leah Greenberg talks about next steps, and labor strategist Ai-jen Poo talks about the summer’s big political campaign.
Thousands of protesters gather in Grand Park by City Hall during the nationwide No Kings protest in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 14, 2025.(Benjamin Hanson / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
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Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protests, with 5 million people at 2100 events, was the largest single day of protest in American history. Leah Greenberg of Indivisible will talk about how the event was organized, and what comes next.
Also: The Medicaid cuts provide a lifetime opportunity for us to reach the 70 million people who did not vote and the 60 per cent of Trump voters who are not MAGA — that's what Ai-jen Poo says. She's director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and President of Care in Action, and a key labor organizer and strategist.
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Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, with an estimated 5 million people turning out to 2,100 events, seem to have been the largest single day of protests in American history. Leah Greenberg of Indivisible will talk about how the event was organized and what comes next.Also: The Medicaid cuts provide a lifetime opportunity for us to reach the 70 million people who did not vote and the 60% of Trump voters who are not MAGA—that’s what Ai-jen Poo says. She’s director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and President of Care in Action, and a key labor organizer and strategist.
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Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
On this episode of Start Making Sense, John Nichols analyzes this week’s primary results in California and elsewhere, and, from the archives, Elmore Leonard talks about where his characters and plots came from.
California’s jungle primary on Tuesday set the stage for the next Democratic governor of the state, and primaries in Iowa, New Jersey and elsewhere tested the strength of progressives in the party. John Nichols has our analysis.
Also: from the archives: Elmore Leonard, who died in 2013 at age 87, was unpretentious about his massive accomplishments: 45 novels, more than a dozen turned into movies, and a reputation as one of the great writers of dialogue. When we spoke in 2000, he had just published Pagan Babies, and his movies Get Shorty, Jackie Brown, and Out of Sight had been hits.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.