Dear friends,The Good Fight is officially on hold.This may not be news to you, given that the last new episode came out in July. But I wanted to fill you in on what’s been happening on my end.A little more than a year ago, on a thrilling Feb

Sen. Gillibrand, sexual assault, and the fight to fix military justice (Rerun from #5)

Aug 6th, 2015 28m 5s

Women and men who serve in uniform often face an enemy within their own ranks: sexual assault. In this story, newly remastered from The Good Fight's 5th episode in December 2013, we tell the story of survivor Trina McDonald as she went from enl

44: How Al Franken beat Comcast and saved the Internet

Jun 27th, 2015 26m 43s

One monopoly to rule them all: Comcast's attempt to gobble up Time Warner threatened the very Internet as we know it. But one senator fought back.

43: Using the ocean without using it up

May 9th, 2015 37m 49s

Marine biologist Ayana Johnson has a plan to bring back the fish, one island at a time. To do it, she'll have to drink a lot of beer. http://tgf.fm/43

42: Coal, you're going to lose. You too, ALEC.

Apr 14th, 2015 31m 7s

Spring is finally here. Daffodils dancing int he breeze, pollen collecting on car roofs, and the symphony of coughs filling the air. It's not just allergies that are making it hard to breathe. It's also coal. Ending coal fired power is the best

41: We're back! Had a baby. Got Kickstarted. And talked to three heroes.

Mar 25th, 2015 35m 23s

So much glory: Kickstarter triumph, new baby, and encore visits from three beloved guests. Sister Simone gets back on the nun bus; Shannon Watts faces down the NRA; and Garlin Gilchrist makes us all want to move to Detroit. http://tgf.fm/41

40: Why #BlackLivesMatter

Feb 4th, 2015 35m 41s

Co-founder Alicia Garza shares the story of how #BlackLivesMatter began—and how it became the rallying cry for a movement, ignited by tragedy, that is fighting for survival. http://tgf.fm/40 And back the show by Feb 5 here: http://tgf.fm/ks

VIDEO: Kickstarter for Good Fight, Year Two. Featuring Al Franken.

Jan 29th, 2015 4m 30s

Want more Good Fight magic in the world? This is the moment to help, at tgf.fm/ks. We're running a Kickstarter campaign to raise $100,000 for our second year of shows, and we're already halfway there—but if we don't raise $50,000 more in the ne

39: ALEC: Match.com for evil

Dec 17th, 2014 28m 54s

For decades, corporations have found Republicans ready to do their bidding thanks to a shadowy outfit known as ALEC. But Nick Rathod, a preacher's son, has a plan to fight back. http://tgf.fm/39

38: How the kid with two moms saved the Boy Scouts

Dec 3rd, 2014 42m 16s

Zach Wahls, as a teenage Eagle Scout, gave a speech that changed the nation. If you ever clicked the headline "Two lesbians had a baby, and this is what they got," that speech was what you got—a speech that shifted the way millions of people th

37: What $10 million buys you in U.S. politics

Nov 17th, 2014 29m 41s

Mayday SuperPAC, Lawrence Lessig's anti-corruption moonshot, lost nearly all of its races in the 2014 midterms. Does that mean it failed? Or does the shadow of money in politics extend beyond mere wins and losses? Professor Lessig and the Progr

36: Turn Out For What

Oct 29th, 2014 21m 1s

2014 was the election that young people were supposed to ignore. But then came the voting anthem nobody can stop humming. Today on The Good Fight, the inside story of Turn Out For What—as recounted by Rock The Vote's Ashley Spillane and Dan McS

35: The progressive secret weapon

Oct 24th, 2014 26m 31s

Conservatives might have money, but progressives have something even more powerful: science. That's right: gigantic, statistically valid, scientifically rigorous experiments about the best way to win elections. If that's a surprise to you, the

34: Fed up with the economy?

Oct 16th, 2014 33m 26s

Why haven't wages risen in 40 years? It's not just bad luck. The mostly invisible, ultra-powerful folks who run at the Federal Reserve have gone to great lengths to keep it that way. When too many people get jobs, when pay starts going up... wh

33: Inside the ginormous, huge-tastic climate march

Sep 26th, 2014 24m 18s

They promised the biggest climate march in world history. But when the big morning arrived, the Weather app showed a thundercloud. Hear what happened next—and feel the (renewable) energy of a giant, urgent movement hitting the streets together

32: Will police body cameras prevent the next Ferguson?

Sep 15th, 2014 24m 30s

The killing of Michael Brown, and the military-style police crackdown that followed, exposed millions of Americans to the wide-open Pandora's Box that is the American way of law enforcement. In the weeks since, as the nation wrestled with funda

31: Mayday Super PAC Strikes Back

Aug 26th, 2014 18m 45s

Lawrence Lessig's Mayday Super PAC stunned the political world by raising $7 million to fight corruption. Now comes the hard part: using money in politics to kick money out of politics. Lessig returns to the show to bring us inside the battle.

30: Garlin Gilchrist II: Detroit, diaspora, and destiny

Aug 13th, 2014 46m 53s

Before the Win Report, before MoveOn.org, Garlin Gilchrist II was exactly the person Detroit couldn't afford to lose: a brilliant, entrepreneurial computer engineer and civic patriot. He left. But now he's back. Here's his story. http://tgf.fm/

29: Live from Netroots

Jul 20th, 2014 52m 16s

The soon-to-be legendary live taping of The Good Fight from Netroots Nation 2014! Hear amazing stories from NARAL president Ilyse Hogue and newly-elected NEA president Lily Eskelsen Garcia, thrill to a live Win Report with Garlin Gilchrist II,

28: Cory Booker and Rand Paul: partners on crime

Jul 16th, 2014 28m 48s

For decades, criminal justice reform was political Kryptonite. But Cory Booker isn't from Krypton. Booker joins us to explain why he's tackling this fight—and how, in a Festivus miracle of bipartisanship, he teamed up with Rand Paul. http://tgf

27: War on women? Meet the resistance

Jul 11th, 2014 35m 38s

UltraViolet co-founder Nita Chaudhary takes us behind the scenes in the insurgent, devastatingly effective campaign to make the anti-feminist backlash backfire. The strategy: using cutting-edge online advocacy to put a political and economic pr

Win Report: Hobby Lobby, Hillary, and the Beyonce voters

Jul 3rd, 2014 14m 3s

In this week's Win Report, the Supreme Court rules on Hobby Lobby blocking birth control and home-care workers' rights. Good news and bad news on climate change. Plus, marriage equality in Kentucky, a gay police chief in South Carolina, and

26: Pulitzer winner. Undocumented. American.

Jul 1st, 2014 41m 30s

When Jose Antonio Vargas was 16, he discovered his green card was fake. At 26, he won journalism’s biggest prize. At 30, he outed himself as undocumented.Vargas’s powerful new film, #Documented, tells his story—and it will change the way you t

25: Lawrence Lessig, Aaron Swartz, and the Super PAC to end Super PACs

Jun 24th, 2014 34m 12s

What if you’re doing the wrong thing with your life? That’s what 20-year-old Aaron Swartz asked Lawrence Lessig. In response, Lessig transformed his career. Today, he’s got an insanely audacious plan to kick billionaires out of politics… with h

Win Report: Rick Perry said what?!

Jun 20th, 2014 9m 17s

A stand-alone Win Report! The latest victories and defeats in progressive fights throughout the country, including Gov. Rick Perry's stupid comment about homosexuality and Obama's recent and awesome executive orders. http://tgf.fm/WR0620