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1) Campaign Prepares for Trump's Invocation of the Insurrection Act

Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor, an organizer with the Climate Disobedience Center, discusses her group's recent "Call to Courage" campaign -- amid concern that the Trump regime may be getting ready to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, which would give the president power to deploy US military on domestic U.S. soil to enforce mass deportation of immigrants and/or unconstitutionally target protesters and quash dissent.

2) Effective Resistance to Trump's War on Democracy

People For the American Way President Svante Myrick discusses the escalating constitutional as the Trump regime defies or ignores court orders -- and the growing concern that the president may invoke emergency powers, such as the Insurrection Act of 1807, to eliminate all remaining checks on executive power, and establish a brutal and violent police state to crush all dissent.

3) Assessing Corporate Media's Coverage of Trump 2.0

Ari Paul, a New York City-based journalist and lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs who has covered politics and labor for the Nation, the Guardian, Dissent, Al Jazeera, the Forward, discusses his recent article, "Failing to Rise to the Constitutional Crisis," about the deficiencies of corporate media's coverage of the Trump regime's authoritarian coup, and the growing importance of independent, non-commercial progressive media outlets.

4) Groups Petition Democrats to Call an Emergency Meeting to Design Response to Trump's Authoritarian Coup

Sam Rosenthal, political director of RootsAction.org discusses his group and Progressive Democrats for America's petition calling for the Democratic National Committee to convene an emergency meeting, declaring that "business as usual must give way to truly bold action that mobilizes against the autocracy that Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their cronies are further entrenching every day." He'll also talk about what actions petitioners are asking the Democratic Party to take in response to the current constitutional crisis.