Woke AF Daily

We are living through a moment where it feels like everything is unraveling, and rather than trying to keep up with the madness, Danielle is working on creating a different pace. Because exhaustion and burnout is exactly what Republicans want to get from flooding the zone with constant disaster, doom and gloom.

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Mark Rank is back with a new book, The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape the World Around Us. While a lot of people tell themselves their success - or failure - is entirely due to their own actions, he discusses with Danielle how much of our lives come down to chance...and what chance really means.

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Jenn M. Jackson returns to celebrate the publication of their new book, Black Women Taught Us. Together with Danielle, they talk about recognizing "crooked rooms" and how love with no accountability is a form of abuse.

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OJ Simpson is dead, and Donald Trump is attempting to win Black voters by buying them Chick Fil A.

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Everything changes, and we need to have the courage to challenge our own narratives. Jonathan Metzl joins to discuss.

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Donald Trump is apparently pro choice now. And if you believe that, Danielle has earthquake insurance to sell you.

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ABORTION. The more we say it, the less it's stigmatized. Danielle Campoamor joined Danielle once again to discuss the state of reproductive rights at a crucial crossroads for our country.

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We continue to see the extremist Republican party abusing and undermining the ballot initiative process, further chipping away at our democracy. Chris Melody Fields Figueredo, BISC's Executive Director, talks with Danielle about the attacks on our democracy and what they are doing to fight back.

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How long will it be until the Biden administration, his campaign, and the mainstream media recognize Israel's repeated patterns of war crimes in Gaza?

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Dr. Jonathan Metzl returns to Woke AF Daily to discuss what he saw, heard, and learned on his tour promoting his new book What We've Become, as well as the breaking news of seven aid workers being killed in Gaza and José Andrés's response in the New York Times: "Let People Eat". 

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Since Trumpism broke through into the mainstream, our systems have not held - the holes in our system have only gotten wider. Democracy is going down, and if we don't plug the holes we will go down with the ship.

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Children are our future, and groups like the Children's Partnership are working to ensure their - and our - futures are healthy. Mayra Alvarez joined to talk about their important work.

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Welcome to season five of Woke AF Daily! On this commemorative episode, Danielle reflects on the last five years of Woke AF Daily and the many changes we have gone through together as Americans.

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Amidst the fallout from Diddy's unraveling, Danielle Moodie cannot help but compare it to the kid gloves used on Donald Trump. Danielle also discusses the quick exit of Ronna Romney McDaniel from NBC News and the mainstream media's continued embrace of the far right.

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Lark Lewis, co-host of the podcast Hearsay produced by the National Women's Law Center, spoke with Danielle about how mainstream media depictions of women reflect the social advances women have made over the last 50 years, but also how they can reflect false or unrealistic ideals.

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The mainstream media embraces MAGA world once again, while the justice system once again proves that it works just fine for the people it was intended to benefit: wealthy white men.

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Malia Lazu, author of From Intention to Impact, joined Danielle for a discussion against the history of whitelash in America and how it's manifesting in its current form as attacks against DEI programs.

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Krystale Littlejohn returned to Woke AF Daily to discuss the new book Fighting Mad and how we fight for reproductive rights after the fall of Roe v. Wade.

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On this Friday, Danielle reflects on stories from Alabama up to the Supreme Court, and shares a dream that can still become our reality.

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Where we were is not where we are, and where we are is not where we want to be. Danielle Moodie and Dr. Jonathan Metzl discuss our present moment.

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On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle Moodie feels that the window of opportunity is closing...not voting in 2024 isn't an option when Donald Trump and the Supreme Court are putting out a hit job on democracy.

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Susie Banikarim is an Emmy-award winning journalist and the co-host of the In Retrospect podcast. She joined Danielle to discuss the media's malpractice when it comes to reporting on Trump and whether any lessons have been learned in the 2024 election news cycle.

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Glenn Kirschner, legal analyst and Justice Matters host, returns to Woke AF Daily to discuss the numerous cases involving Donald Trump, the Supreme Court's intervention, and how likely it is that he will even see a criminal trial before the election.

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On this Friday, Danielle gives her take on special counsel Robert Hur's contradictory report and testimony - and Merrick Garland's continued failures as Attorney General - the hypocritical "Tik Tok ban" bill, and finally, the delicate topic of how America can back away from supporting Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu without Jewish Americans feeling unsupported.

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It has been four years of COVID-19, and four years of Danielle's conversations with Dr. Jonathan Metzl. They reflect on that milestone and how our perceptions as a society have been altered in that time.

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This week marks four years since the WHO declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. Today, Danielle examines the buried trauma that many Americans have experienced as well as her own story of what she experienced at the start of the outbreak.

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Patrick Gaspard, CEO of the Center For American Progress Action Fund, joined Danielle to discuss the dire need for Democrats and American liberals to have a counter to "Project 2025", the Trumpist authoritarian agenda.

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On the night of this year's State of the Union address, Joe Biden delivered when he needed to the most, while the Republican party continues to push its regressive propaganda. While they are working to send us back to the days of the nuclear family, there is also the issue of nuclear power - journalist Sarah Scoles, author of Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons joined Danielle to discuss.

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Recorded before this year's State of the Union address, Danielle gets frank about Joe Biden's prospects in the face of the party that wants to seat the first fascist president.

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Danielle talks with Dr. Jonathan Metzl about feeling a "sense of stuck" between a rock and a hard place as we approach the 2024 elections.

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The whole world is watching as American democracy collapses. Republicans are pushing for it and Democrats are not doing nearly enough to fight back.

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William He founded Dream For America when he was just sixteen years old and has been doing political work since the age of 11. Danielle spoke with him about his organization's work and the political issues that matter to his generation in this election cycle.

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Gina Ortiz Jones is the founder of the Find Out PAC, a Texas group targeting three state Supreme Court justices - Jimmy Blacklock, John Devine, and Jane Bland - who f*cked around with reproductive freedoms. Danielle talks with her about how they're going to make themfind out.

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On this Friday, Danielle calls out the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets for the media blackout and disinformation around the extreme protest of former serviceman Aaron Bushnell, who died from self-immolation while crying out for a free Palestine. We are our own last stand for truth and democracy. We have to fight.

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As Mitch McConnell announces he is stepping down from his position as Senate Minority Leader, Danielle Moodie reflects on his time in leadership and the many times Democrats chose to "compromise" rather than fight back. Jonathan Metzl returns to recap the discussions he's been having as he tours to promote his new book What We've Become.

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On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle takes on the media's intentionally irresponsible coverage of Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation to protest Israel's continued genocide in Gaza. She also directly compares Fanni Willis with Clarence Thomas, the man who continues to get away with political grift from the highest office in the country, and opines how the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling on IVF may end up hurting Republicans in this year's elections.

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Propaganda, host of Hood Politics with Prop, joined Danielle for a crossover conversation about the origins of their podcasts, the importance of letting people know that politics is connected with our everyday lives, and...why some Black men love Donald Trump.

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Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME - the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees - joined Danielle Moodie for a conversation about the rise of labor movements, their historical significance, and why we need to push even harder to reform labor laws in America.

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"It can't happen here." It can, it is, and it only will get worse if we allow Trumpism to win in 2024.

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Danielle was joined by Reverend Mark Thompson a few weeks ago to discuss the New York Times report on Black pastors urging President Biden to call for a cease-fire in Gaza. In the weeks since then, hundreds if not thousands more Palestinians have been killed, and the AME Church Bishops Council has called not just for a ceasefire but for an end of US aid to Israel. Is the Biden administration's continued support of Israel worth losing the support of Black voters in the 2024 election?

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On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle discusses the tragic story of the killing of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary high schooler in Oklahoma, and how tragedies like these underscore the importance of keeping Trump and Republicans out of government.

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Bishop Tonyia Rawls joined Danielle at the Creating Change Conference for a riveting conversation about how LGBTQ+ people and left-wing Americans in general cannot allow Republicans to claim religion and faith all for themselves.

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Gio Santiago is the founder of META Center, an organization supporting transgender youth in Ohio, a state where trans rights and personhood are under attack. He joined Danielle at the Creating Change Conference for a conversation about the importance of staying and fighting in the places where marginalized people are under attack.

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The cancer of guns is only deepening with every mass shooting that gets normalized in this country. Also being normalized? A presidential candidate with multiple indictments and more to come.

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Sarah Parker, Executive Director of Women's Voices of SW Florida, joined Danielle to talk about her experiences fighting for rights and freedom in a "red state" and why it's important for activists to stay and fight rather than abandoning states like Florida.

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The administration that we are counting on to save us is not interested in saving all of us.

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Continuing Woke AF's conversations from the Creating Change Conference, Danielle spoke with Andrea Montanez, the Senior Racial Equity, LGBTQ+, and Immigration Organizer at Hope CommUnity Center.

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Throughout the next few weeks, Danielle Moodie brings you conversations she had at the National LGBTQ Taskforce's Creating Change Conference in New Orleans. First up is Jen Scott from Equality Ohio, who discussed the importance of voting for a deeply imperfect Democrat like Joe Biden.

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On this Fuck It Friday, Danielle Moodie reflects on her feeling that, in many ways, Donald Trump has already won.

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On this special episode of Woke AF Daily, Danielle presents a conversation with herself and Dr. Jonathan Metzl recorded live at the launch of his new book What We've Become, followed by a live Q&A from the audience.

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On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle focuses in on some promising legal decisions that still require a lot of work ahead of us in the future.

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Psychologist Dr. Suzanne Lachmann returns to Woke AF Daily to explain what Danielle calls "Republican mush brain."

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Brendan Ballou is the author of Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America, and he joined Danielle to give her - and the Woke AF Nation - an introductory lesson into the world of private equity, with some real-world examples of impacts it has had on vulnerable members of our society. Of course Danielle asks the big question: is there anything our government can do to stop it?

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Nimarata Haley, Tom Cotton, and the other chicken-s*** Republicans are melting down as we enter 2024, while their voting base freaks out over Taylor Swift. This week, Danielle also asks: does anything in the United States work better than anywhere else? 

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Woke AF weekly contributor Jonathan Metzl's new book What We've Become is out now, and he spoke with Danielle Moodie about our widening political divide in a nation where some people see rampant gun violence as the cost of freedom. If the public health narrative won't save us from the gun epidemic, what will?

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As we enter 2024, Danielle Moodie reflects: is Joe Biden really up to the task? And if he's not, what are Democrats going to do to stave off the very real threat of conservative authoritarianism?

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New York Times best-selling author Keith Boykin is back with a new book entitled Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? He joined Danielle for a conversation about the different ways conservatives and liberals deploy that question, racial "boogeymen" that have been employed through the years, and among many other things, why Black men (still) support Donald Trump.

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Our current economic structure is not working, and more people seem to be realizing it with each passing year. Nick Romeo, New Yorker writer and UC Berkley professor, has a new book out now entitled The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy. Danielle spoke with him about what a "just economy" means, and the imagination and shared sense of responsibility it will take to accomplish it.

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From overseas in Gaza to here at home in the US, people are being treated as numbers. On this Friday, Danielle says "fuck it" to the dehumanizing conservative movement and its loudest cheerleaders, including Tim Scott and Nikki Haley.

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This is not a normal election. Dr. Jonathan Metzl joins to discuss how we ended up here and what the outlook is like for 2024.

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The Republican primaries are a race to the bottom, but America itself is also heading towards a low point with no signs of slowing down.

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Frankie Miranda, President and CEO of the Hispanic Federation, joined Danielle for an enlightening discussion about the diversity of opinions among Hispanic and Latinx voters, and the challenges Democrats face in 2024.

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Brooke Eden has been an active singer & songwriter for a decade, and came out in 2021 before getting engaged to her wife. She joined Danielle for a conversation about her experience being closeted in the country music industry and the discussions behind the scenes that led to her coming out publicly.

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We aren't voting FOR Joe Biden. We are voting for another chance at tomorrow.

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We don't have Morpheus or Neo to help us get out...we can only help ourselves. Today Danielle is joined by Dr. Jonathan Metzl for a difficult conversation about the realities facing Democrats ahead of the 2024 elections.

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America is on life support...2024 will decide whether or not it's terminal. Donald Trump is galloping to the White House, and Danielle asks what we are willing to do in response.

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Varun Nikore is the founding Executive Director of AAPI Victory Alliance, and he returned to Woke AF Daily to discuss the very real stakes for Asian American & Pacific Islander communities as we approach another monumental national election.

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Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward, returned to Woke AF Daily to look ahead to 2024 and the fight for our lives that lies in front of us.

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On this Fuck It Friday, Danielle sees 2024 as asking one crucial question: do you want democracy or not?

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Every week, Dying of Whiteness author Jonathan Metzl joins Danielle Moodie. As we enter the new year, they consider whether his title should be updated - we're all dying, from perhaps an even deeper disease than we once realized. Is there a cure and can we heal in time to save ourselves?

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On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle is struggling to rationalize the madness. As bad as things are...unfortunately, they can get even worse, and we only have ten months to decide if 2024 will be our last election.

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Stephanie Marudas and Emily Previti are the co-creators of Obscured by Kouvenda Media, their first series "From Words to Weapons" focuses on the survivors of trauma at the hands of law enforcement, an issue far too overlooked in the public discourse. They joined Danielle together for a discussion about the stories they covered and why policy matters.

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Ian L Haddock is the Founder and Executive Director of the Normal Anomaly Initiative, and they joined Danielle for a fascinating and timely conversation about changing the narrative.

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We are living in extraordinary times. On the first Feels Friday of the year, Danielle shares her methods for managing the madness.

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Danielle had the delight and honor of being joined by Commissioner Davante Lewis, elected in 2022 in Louisiana's 3rd district, for a critical discussion about the complexities of our identities and meeting people where they are.

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On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle Moodie presents something a little different: her conversation with Dr. Bella DePaulo, author of Single At Heart, in which they discuss the social - and legal - stigmas of single life, and the joy that can be found when embracing singleness if that is what you truly desire.

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Andy Norman is the author of Mental Immunity and co-founder & CEO of the Mental Immunity Project - he joined Danielle for a very timely discussion about identifying misinformation and disinformation.

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As we enter a new year, Jonathan Metzl joins Danielle to reflect on the year behind us and look ahead to an election year in which the stakes are exposed and everything is at risk.

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Glenn Kirschner, Justice Matters host and former US attorney, returns to Woke AF Daily for a look back on everything that happened in 2023, and why 2024 is do or die for democracy.

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Tony Morrison, senior director of communications for GLAAD, joins Danielle for a look back at LGBTQ+ media in 2023 and the importance of having the courage to tell the truth in difficult moments.

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LaPorsche Thomas, host of Up & Out With LaPorsche and big time Beyonce fan, joins Danielle Moodie for the first time to reflect on 2023's highs and lows and the experience of being a Black queer woman in media.

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Rev. Mark Thompson, host of Make It Plain, returns to Woke AF Daily for a reflective conversation on 2023 and guidance for the year to come.

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Danielle's Democracy-ish cohost Wajahat Ali joins to reflect on 2023 and give listeners a refresher - or introduction - to "fascism 101."

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2024 is going to be a difficult year. If we know this in advance, there are things we can do to prepare and protect ourselves.

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Mary Trump joins Danielle Moodie for a look back at 2023 and a look ahead to the crisis of democracy ahead in 2024.

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Donald Trump and the MAGA far right want to finish what they started in 2024. On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle Moodie once again sounds the alarm.

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Jared Yates Sexton returns to Woke AF Daily for a timely and urgent discussion about the issues ahead facing us in 2024 and the need for us to come together to resist fascism.

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The point of everything the far right has been doing is control: control of our bodies, control of power mechanisms. Jonathan Metzl joins to discuss how we can start to fight back.

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At this time of year, let's return to the sense of wonder and curiosity we used to share.

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With 2024 on the horizon, Kat Calvin - Founder and Executive Director of Spread The Vote + Project ID - returns to Woke AF Daily to discuss the urgency of activating voters amid the myriad of issues Democratic constituents are having with the current administration.

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"Genocide Joe" isn't going away any time soon if Danielle's comment sections on social media are any indication, and Biden certainly isn't making it easier to make the case for him in 2024...even though his opponent is openly declaring that he wants to be a dictator.

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Marcie Bianco is the author of Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom. She joined Danielle Moodie for a probing conversation about the shortcomings of binary feminism that focuses on "equality" with white men. 

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MAGA is the disease. 

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The Republican also-rans had yet another debate last night, but let's be real: Trump is their man, and he is an existential threat to America's future.

Check out former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's piece in The Guardian: Here’s what Trump 2.0 will bring: ignorance and vengeance in the US, chaos for world order.

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Raquel Willis is an activist and writer who has recently published her memoir, The Risk It Takes To Bloom. She spoke with Danielle about the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality, and writing about her own experiences as a Black trans woman.

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This show is called Woke AF Daily, and on this Woke Wednesday, Danielle Moodie reminds you of the urgency of getting woke and staying woke.

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Justin Lofton is a young bisexual Black man who just won election to office in...Mississippi! He joined Danielle Moodie for a conversation about excelling while existing at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities, and the importance of running - and voting - in local elections.

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Barack Obama's campaign and election in 2008 gave us hope, but the fight was unfortunately far from over. The rise in hate has been palpable and exponential for years, and as we unfortunately know all too well, hate begets violence. Dr. Jonathan Metzl joins Woke AF Daily once again to discuss the tragic shooting of three Palestinian college students in Vermont, and discusses with Danielle Moodie how the rise in gun violence is connected to the rise in hate across America and across the world.

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Henry Kissinger is dead. While some in the mainstream media want to valorize him in death, it is important to tell the entire story.

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