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Our Body Politic

Our Political Remix 2: Covering, Questioning and Re-Imagining U.S. Government

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8658 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re offering another political remix of some of our most enlightening political conversations to provide context ahead of the 2022 Midterms. We bring back Farai’s interview with Tara Setmayer CNN political commentator and contributor to ABC News on why she chose to break her loyalty with the Republican party. Then, Farai speaks to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton about the fight for D.C. Statehood and Yamiche Alcindor, anchor and moderator of Washington Week on PBS and Washington Correspondent for NBC News on lessons from covering the Trump era. And on the weekly segment Sippin’ the Political Tea, Farai is joined by Errin Haines, founder and editor-at-large for The 19th and April Ryan, political analyst and The Grio’s White House correspondent to process the guilty verdict for former officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, police reform, and the early days of the Biden-Harris administration.

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0:00.0

Hi, folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politics. If you have time,

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It helps other listeners find us and we read them for your feedback. We'd also love you to join in

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slash donate. We're here for you, with you, and because of you. Thank you.

0:44.3

This is Our Body Politic. I'm Farai Chidea. In advance of the 2022 midterm elections, this week we're looking back at some of our best political segments,

0:55.8

giving context to this critical moment in history. The upcoming election marks two years of

1:01.6

President Biden's administration. While women of color made historic strides like gaining a seat

1:06.8

on the Supreme Court with Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, the fight against racism,

1:12.2

xenophobia, and discrimination continues across the country on and off Capitol Hill.

1:17.9

And it should go without saying that people of all races and genders, like our listeners,

1:22.8

have a choice about how to engage in these battles.

1:26.2

Today we revisit conversations from around the

1:28.8

100-day mark of the Biden-Harris administration. As President Biden took office, the nation had been

1:34.4

roiled by the January 6th insurrection and the false allegations that victory had been stolen from

1:40.0

former President Donald Trump. This even fueled divisions within the GOP, which continue to play out

1:46.0

in midterm races like the Maryland gubernatorial race and the Georgia race for Senate. Let's revisit

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my conversation with someone fighting far-right extremism and misinformation from within the

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conservative ranks. Teresette Meyer is senior advisor for the Lincoln Project and a resident scholar at the University

2:04.1

of Virginia Center for Politics. She's a former CNN political commentator and GOP communications

2:09.9

director on Capitol Hill. After publicly leaving the Republican Party when former President

2:16.0

Trump refused to concede the 2020

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