“I think the Republican Party... can see that our message of, in its most basic form, economic populism is actually resonating with voters,” says Colorado congressional candidate @MelatKirosCO.bsky.social. “If Democrats are actually interested in winning again, then they would heed those words.”

Colorado congressional nominee @MelatKirosCO.bsky.social calls for accountability for the Trump administration and the Democratic Party. “The fact of the matter is we have Donald Trump as president for a second time because we didn't hold him accountable the first time thoroughly enough."

Colorado Democratic congressional candidate @MelatKirosco says socialism—not capitalism—best delivers on America's founding promises. Margaret Hoover isn’t convinced.

“President Eisenhower in his farewell address made it abundantly clear that we were on the precipice of our foreign policy being hijacked by the military industrial complex,” says @melatkirosco.bsky.social. “And we are seeing the height of it right now.” Follow on Apple: bit.ly/45FlSb3

"I'm a socialist," says @MelatKirosCO.bsky.social, "because I believe all of the evidence shows that when you have a profit motive in industries where we're talking about our most basic needs... the profit motive will always end up exploiting the most vulnerable people." Spotify: bit.ly/4hJVhAV

Democratic House candidate @melatkirosco.bsky.social has advocated for a one-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. She acknowledges there are "valid" security concerns for Jews if they become a minority but argues "the concern doesn't justify allowing the status quo to continue."

"If you have a government that is not operating efficiently or effectively to the means that the voters have asked for in their elections, then that's a failure," says @MelatKirosCO.bsky.social. "And it's our responsibility to fix that." Follow on Apple: bit.ly/45FlSb3

A defense of democratic socialism from House candidate Melat Kiros

Podcast Episode · Firing Line with Margaret Hoover · August 1 · 52m

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After her upset primary win in Colorado, democratic socialist @melatkirosco.bsky.social reveals what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social told her when they spoke. “...to remember why I got into this in the first place. It's about delivering for the people…I really appreciated that piece of advice."

"Voters are taking back that power and saying, this isn't working for us anymore," says @MelatKirosCO.bsky.social. "And I think democratic socialists have presented a kind of vision that's actually in line with the values of the voters." FULL EPISODE: bit.ly/4wJFPcP

"There is no rally that is commanding tens of thousands of people to show up to talk about moderation," says @melatkirosco.bsky.social. "Bernie Sanders and @aoc.bsky.social came to Denver... and got 35,000 people to show up to talk about fighting the oligarchy." Follow on Spotify: bit.ly/4hJVhAV

Colorado congressional nominee @melatkirosco.bsky.social says the lack of progressive vision for Israel and Palestine is leaving a "vacuum" for “people like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who are raging antisemites and white supremacists and Christian nationalists.”

Why is democratic socialism gaining momentum? Democratic House candidate @melatkirosco.bsky.social tells Margaret Hoover why she believes socialism is resonating with voters and responds to "red scare tactics" from the right. TONIGHT 8:30 pm ET @pbs.org listings: to.pbs.org/39hI6Tf

“When we talk about democratic socialism, we are up against decades of misinformation, of mischaracterizing what democratic socialism even is. And frankly a lot of red scare tactics,” says congressional nominee @melatkirosco.bsky.social. “Democratic socialism is first and foremost about democracy.”

"It's clear as day to every voter of all parties and of all persuasions that government right now is not working for working people." Democratic socialist @melatkirosco.bsky.social responds to the movement's Republican and Democratic critics. FRIDAY @pbs.org Local listings: to.pbs.org/39hI6Tf

"What we're hoping to convey to kids is, life's not easy. It's going to be hard," says Justice Neil Gorsuch. "Realizing the Declaration's promises in your own time is going to be your job soon. The torch is passing to your hands. Don't drop it, please." bit.ly/3Reqq4X

"To young people, I think they're the luckiest people in the history of the planet," says Justice Neil Gorsuch. "Where else would you rather be born and what other time in history would you have more opportunities?...You've been given a great gift." Follow on Apple: bit.ly/3Reqq4X

Justice Neil Gorsuch on the heroes of 1776 and the future of American democracy

Podcast Episode · Firing Line with Margaret Hoover · July 25 · 23m

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"I do think young people, when they're exposed to these ideas, when they're exposed to these heroes in our past, will find inspiration from them." Justice Neil Gorsuch discusses "Heroes of 1776" and preserving America's founding ideals. FULL EPISODE: bit.ly/4fjxNRL

"Madison knew men are not angels...," says Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. "You don't want to give anybody the power to do whatever he wants to realize those ideals. You have to balance power." Follow on Spotify: bit.ly/3RcoJVG

Justice Neil Gorsuch says American ideals “will sustain us” through the rise of artificial intelligence. “I don’t think you can aim a country toward any other ideals that are better,” says Gorsuch. “I think anything that you'd change in those three ideas would be a retreat, not an advance.”

Conservatives like JD Vance and Kevin Roberts have recently asserted America was founded as a Christian nation. Justice Neil Gorsuch disagrees. “I just don't see it that way,” says Gorsuch. “We have a First Amendment for crying out loud. No established religion.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch hopes the next generation of Americans will look to the founders for inspiration “to figure out the Declaration's next chapter.” “It's up to them.”

“I'm often accused of being an optimist. And I am,” says Justice Neil Gorsuch. “Yes, we're going to disagree. But that's the way the whole system works. And if you look over 250 years, what we've achieved, I don't know why you wouldn't be optimistic about America.”

“The reason why I really got into this is I've been concerned about the state of civic education,” says Justice Neil Gorsuch of writing books like "Heroes of 1776." “13% of eighth-graders are proficient at grade level on American history... 22%on civics. Adults aren't much better."

Justice Neil Gorsuch is not sure which side of the American Revolution he would have been on. “We will never know what we would've done,” says Gorsuch. “I know who I'd like to think whose side I would've been on… I would've liked to have been a patriot. Of course.”

"There are real superheroes in our history that we have a lot to learn from," says Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch of America's founders. "And if we take the time to open the pages, they have a lot to say to us." FRIDAY @pbs.org Local listings: to.pbs.org/39hI6Tf

On a 1973 #FiringLine, Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton asked William F. Buckley Jr. whose side he would have taken in the American Revolution. Find out Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's answer to that question on this week's episode, premiering Friday on @pbs.org.

Stanley McChrystal makes the case for a mandatory national service program. "if you are an actual investor in something, you care more about it. If you're invested in the nation, you take more interest in it...And we have a lot of Americans who never have the opportunity to have contributed."

"There's a duality to Gettysburg. On the one hand, the battlefield is now beautiful and there are monuments to heroism..." says Stanley McChrystal. "We should use the other half of it as a cautionary tale that war, even civil war, is never as far away as we like to believe." bit.ly/4w4Z2W0

"I think we need to protect the rights of every other citizen just as jealously as we would protect ours," says retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal. "Because as soon as they lose their rights, all of our rights are in danger."

“When you get in the dirt, when you're doing the mission, it becomes a great equalizer,” says retired General Stanley McChyrstal about the military. “And over time you start to understand the really biggest difference between us is the life journey."