America Faces the Legacy of the January 6th Insurrection, featuring Sounds Like Hate's "Red Flags Everywhere"

Our Body Politic

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🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Host Farai Chideya introduces ‘Our Body Politic Presents’ - a whole month of audio docs and interviews from our friends and allies in the podcast world. This week, the podcast ‘Sounds Like Hate’ from the Southern Poverty Law Center presents their special episode ‘Red Flags Everywhere’. They look at the ‘red flags’ in 2020 as the hate and extremism movement reached a boiling point in the lead up to Jan. 6, 2021. Our roundtable Sippin' the Political Tea features guests Major General Linda Singh, who helped lead the security review of the Capitol; and Karen Attiah of the Washington Post.

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0:00.0	Hi, folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politics.
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0:35.9	We are here for you, with you, and because of you. Thank you.
0:43.3	This is our body politic. I'm Fari Chidea. So we made it to 2022, huh? Well, last year was quite a wild
0:53.0	ride. We were already months into the pandemic. And then on
0:56.9	January 6th, 2021, there was the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, looking at how that impacted
1:03.1	American politics in life and what lies ahead is the theme of our show today. But first, I wanted to
1:09.4	take some time to tell you where we are and where we're
1:11.8	going as a show. Our Body Politics launched in September of 2020. I saw women of color holding up
1:18.7	the sky as essential workers, parents, and elected leaders, and being among those most impacted by
1:25.0	the pandemic, labor market instability, caregiving responsibilities,
1:29.5	and political battles over issues, including voting rights. We didn't rest on our laurels. We kept
1:35.7	updating the show's format as the pandemic change shape, and so did American politics. And now we
1:41.5	are growing and evolving again. First, this is a midterm election year.
1:46.0	It's going to be hot, contentious, and critical.
1:49.0	Our body politic also has a new home.
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