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Peter Montgomery: Democracy Itself at Stake in Defeating the Republican Culture War; Christina See: Extinction Rebellion Uses Nonviolent Resistance to Demand Urgent Action on the Climate Crisis; Nora Benavidez: Billionaire Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter Another Symptom of Social Media’s Failure; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

Unlike standard media, a new website engages the attack on "critical race theory" more productively, by using critical race theory as a prism to explore the current range of threats to multi-racial democracy and our ability to fight for it. The site’s called The Forum; we talk with editor-in-chief Chris Lehmann. Also on the show: Between Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk, who would you prefer preside over what information you can access? It’s kind of like being offered a choice between a poke in one eye or the other. We talk about a better model with Mike Rispoli of the group Free Press; he’s been working with the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium—a new way of thinking about and meeting local communities’ need for news.

Besides AIPAC, ADL, and their brethren, there is another powerful lobby that is pressing the Israeli Zionist narrative in American Society and that is the Christian Zionist movement. It has enormous numbers, and serious political clout. We do not pay enough attention to it. Today we feature Reverend Don Wagner, an openly recovering Christian Zionist, who will lead us through an historic analysis of Christian Zionism in a presentation he gave at the recent conference sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs at the Washington Press Club.