What's The Plan? with Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin

How to Feel Optimism Under Authoritarianism

Authoritarians win by spreading fear and confusion. Sure, there’s plenty to worry about when we’ve got a fascist in the White House threatening his opponents and promisin

How Trump Is Trying to Fearmonger His Way to a Win

The Trump regime is trying to fearmonger its way to an electoral win. Our challenge is to take the threat seriously and act with confidence, without handing the regime po

How a red state flips in a blue wave w/ Angie Nixon

How do you flip a red state in a blue wave? From Texas to Iowa to Kansas to Florida, a blue wave appears to be building this fall that could transform American politics f

How a movement can check an authoritarian, w/ Erica Chenoweth

How do you stop an authoritarian with a mass movement? What strategies and tactics have actually worked, here in the U.S. and abroad? We ask one of the best teachers on t

How social movements can stop the AI robot overlords

Whether you think the AI apocalypse is imminent or the bubble is about to burst, the political impact of this technological acceleration is only going to grow. This is ou

How the Next No Kings Will Fight Election Sabotage

They want to sabotage the midterm elections, and we're not going to let them. That's the point of No Kings on October 17th. On this week's What's the Plan, we talk about

How to Message in Battleground States w/ Celinda Lake

Now that we've won primaries all over the country with a new generation of Democratic fighters, how do we win over voters in enough battleground states to take the House

How to Fix This MAGA Supreme Court w/ Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court is not your friend, and it's no friend to our democracy. It is a friend to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. This week it handed Trump a partial victo

How to Understand Your Rights as This Regime Flails

Trump is doing what all fascist losers do in the lead-up to a catastrophic electoral wipeout: he's preparing to sabotage the election. And repression of civil society and

How to Dislodge an Entitled Do-Nothing Incumbent w/ Patrick Roath

We're nearing the end of primary season with ten Senate and House wins under our belt. We're technically on vacation with our kids this week, but we couldn't wait to talk

How to Build a Pro-Democracy Media Diet (plus Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan!)

What makes up a pro-democracy media diet? We've got data straight from the Indivisible movement! Where does the movement get its facts, its breaking news, its analysis, i

How to Actually End Citizens United w/ Jarrett Keohokalole

Most of us who aren't walking, talking embodiments of a corporate super PAC agree that campaign money is infecting and perverting our politics. But very few people actual

How to defeat the neo-confederacy w/ Justin J. Pearson

Today we're joined by a modern-day political hero: Justin J. Pearson. An elected state representative from Tennessee, Justin has taken on the state's MAGA political leade

How to respond to Trump's secret police escalation

Trump's Xenophobia Czar says Democrats need to shut their mouths or the bloodshed will continue. We're not going quiet. Trump's flailing is the act of a desperate, weaken

How to Fight the Biggest SuperPAC in Politics w/ Ben McKenzie

The biggest super PAC in the country isn't oil and gas, pharma, or big tobacco. It's crypto. The industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy politicians a

How to Build a Big Tent (Without It Collapsing on You)

Welp, rehabilitating the Democratic Party was never going to make everybody happy. This week, we dig into what the Colorado primary results tell us about what the party v

How to Get into Election Protection Formation

Trump is going to try to sabotage the midterms and we're going to stop him. We start with major primary wins in New York - the latest chapter in our fight to rehabilitate

How to Make Repression Backfire

The midterm election threatens Trump's power, and he knows it. So he's going after nonviolent anti-ICE organizers in the Twin Cities and voting rights organizers in Ohio

Trump got billions more for his goon squad. How do we make it backfire?

We start by celebrating Randy Villegas's triumph in the California primary — another step forward in the slow but steady transformation of the Democratic Party into a win

Happy Pride! Let’s Talk Solidarity.

All authoritarian regimes succeed through divide and conquer. We win with a politics of solidarity – linking arms and treating an attack on one as an attack on all. Take