Season 3

Send us a text We break down a forty-day shutdown that ended with a surrender on health care subsidies, higher costs for families, and lower trust in party leadership. We also talk about why leverage matters, and how insider ...

Send us a text We challenge fourth-quarter autopilot and lay out a practical plan to withhold discretionary spending as a form of power. From the bystander effect to weekly steps, we explain how small choices can shake corpor...

Send the Session a Message We recap the week’s biggest stories through one lens: people pay when systems wobble and leaders dodge accountability. From shutdown fallout and sanctions to climate shocks, media gaps, and AI bias, we connect policies to real lives and ask who gets protected and who gets…

Send the Session a Message News you likely didn’t see or didn’t get in full: a deadly South Carolina shooting with thin reporting, courtroom tug-of-war over National Guard deployments, Insurrection Act signals, a shutdown “fi...

Send the Session a Message We trace day eight of the shutdown, how power rewrites rules in real time, and why workers are being used as bargaining chips. We unpack reclassifications, the back pay reversal, Guard deployments, ...