Rep. Justin Pearson, John Nichols, Elizabeth Wilkins, Darrick Hamilton, and Edward Ahmed Mitchell

John Nichols, executive editor of The Nation magazine, shares his thoughts about what's next for progressives in Maine where Graham Platner faces calls to withdraw from the U.S. Senate campaign. Elizabeth Wilkins, President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, talks about the Institute's The Good Life report and the impact of President Donald Trump's landmark legislation, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed one year ago. State Rep. Justin Pearson (D-TN), who's running for Congress in Tennessee's newly redrawn 7th district, discusses his campaign, his policy priorities, and climate justice, as data centers pop up across the state. Darrick Hamilton, professor, economist, and founding director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Power, and Political Economy at the New School, breaks down how President Trump's "booming" economy is pointing to a Black recession. Edward Ahmed Mitchell, National Deputy Director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is back to explain how Health and Human Services Secreatary Robert F. Kennedy is "baselessly" targeting CAIR's partnership with the state of California in providing crucial legal services to recently arrived Afghans.