Adam Kinzinger
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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If former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger could go back to the end of 2023, knowing everything that's happened since, what would he tell himself? He reflects on what America has become, why he believes it’s okay to change your mind (he now votes Democratic!), what still gives him hope, and why he understands that tomorrow isn't guaranteed for politicians or democracy itself.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | Hey, everyone. It's Sophia. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:18.9 | Welcome back to Work in Progress. |
| 0:25.8 | Friends, we are joined by an old friend of the podcast and someone who I absolutely love to talk to. Adam Kinzinger is back today. And we're diving into some of the big |
| 0:35.7 | questions that I think are plaguing many of us in |
| 0:38.3 | 2026. For him in particular, what happens when you risk everything to defend a principle, to do what's right? |
| 0:47.3 | And no matter how hard you fight, you watch the country move in the opposite direction from that rightness, from democracy itself. |
| 0:57.0 | It's something I know our friend Adam thinks about every day. |
| 1:00.1 | We last spoke with him on the show in December of 2023, and we talked about the cost of breaking |
| 1:05.9 | with your own political tribe, what it feels like to fight to protect democratic institutions, and why his belief |
| 1:13.7 | that saving democracy would require all of us across party lines to put our country over any |
| 1:19.7 | political loyalty. And in case you've been living under Iraq, unfortunately since then, |
| 1:26.4 | Donald Trump has returned to the presidency, |
| 1:28.8 | the criminals who were tried and convicted on January 6th, |
| 1:32.8 | who were tried and convicted because of their participation in the January 6th, |
| 1:37.7 | assault on the Capitol have all been pardoned. |
| 1:40.2 | Many of them have gone on to commit further heinous crimes. |
| 1:43.7 | And many of us are standing in our own country looking around wondering, what happened to accountability? |
| 1:50.7 | What happened to truth? |
| 1:52.3 | What's the future of all this? |
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