64. The Joy of Resistance
Thank you to the patrons who make this possible! patreon.com/montemaderWhen everything feels impossible (and lately at times it has) when power concentrates, institutions bend, and the news is a daily...
22 Jun 1h 31min
63. Why The 'L' is First
A couple years ago I learned that there is a reason that the 'L' comes first in LGBTQ+ and I want to share that with you.Through much of the 20th century, "gay" served as an umbrella term, and early a...
15 Jun 55min
62. Holy War
In March 2026, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stood before a Pentagon worship service and prayed for "overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy", calling for the eternal da...
8 Jun 1h 20min
61. “The Civil Rights Movement Part 2: Freedom Summer”
My entire life I heard my Dad say "Freedom isn't free" and perhaps the best application of that is the Civil Rights Movement. It's easy from a place of comfort to not fully understand the risk and sac...
1 Jun 1h 6min
60. The Civil Rights Movement Part 1- Rights are Never Given
Apologies for the lateness of the post, our dashboard encountered a technical difficulty that showed my podcasts didn't exist and had to be fixed before an upload could happen. Thanks for your patienc...
27 Mai 1h 3min
59. Ronald Reagan Part 2: Reaganomics
We met the carefully curated Ronald Reagan in part 1. We saw the Hollywood grin, the borrowed cowboy myth, the astrologer in the basement, the informant and the corporate lackey. In Part 2, we follow ...
18 Mai 1h 32min
58. Ronald Reagan Part 1: The Marriage
Three decades before the White House, Ronald Reagan was being assembled in plain sight. This episode traces the apprenticeship most highlight reels skip: the New Deal Democrat who became FBI informant...
11 Mai 1h 20min
57. Where Do We Go From Here? With Crystal Dawn
In this deeply personal episode, Crystal Dawn opens up about the slow, often invisible process of religious deconstruction. Raised inside a tight-knit faith community where belief wasn't just a doctri...
4 Mai 1h 15min
