On this episode, we’re going to say … see ya? Keep on keeping on? Peace out?  We are taking our progressive activism in some new directions and that means that we’ll be putting the podcast on hiatus for a while.  But before we share our personal progressive next steps, let's have one last round of good news. 

In this episode, we talk about this simple idea: We Can Have Nice Things.  The corporate lobbyists and politicians owned by corporate lobbyists – cough Manchin, cough Sinema – want us to think we live in a world of scarcity. What does that mean? Well, in a world of scarcity, if you have a tiny little crumb, that means I don’t have that tiny little crumb, and there’s only one crumb so we have to fight over it. But that’s really the wrong way to look at it. The fact is, if everyone in the country – the richest country in the world, by the way – if everyone just paid their fair share in taxes, we could rebuild the middle class, dramatically reduce poverty, and close the racial wealth gap, not to mention the racial health gap and the racial housing gap.

Last week we talked about the Texas abortion ban, and how it is, among other things, sure to drive up maternal mortality rates, disproportionately affecting women of color in the state. This week, we talk about what the Democrats in Congress are doing to ensure women’s access to the full range of reproductive health services, including abortion and birth control, specifically what they are doing to address the crisis-level maternal mortality rates among Black women and other women of color.