My sister and I hit the streets Saturday, October 18th and talked with some people at our local No Kings protest. In this episode you hear us talk about what this protest is and what it is about and clips of the interviews with protesters.

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Media literacy is a very complicated thing. We are confronted with media every day and it is important to be able to understand what we are seeing and why we are seeing it. I talk about what media literacy is, how the news world runs and wrap up with giving you tips and tricks to being media literate.

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In the conclusion to the immigration conversation with my sister, we talk about the criminality of immigrants, ICE and their many controversies currently, due process and why immigrants receive so much hate.

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Welcome to Talking Politics with Sam! My sister joins me on this series where she brings me political topics that she is interested in learning about and I walk her through understanding what she is seeing on social media.

Today we kick off the series with talking about immigration and why it is such a hot topic. This is a longer episode because there is so much to talk about. Part II of this we will talk about ICE raids and the goal of targeting criminal activity from unauthorized immigrants.

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We find ourselves in a time of great political divide. I take a step back and look at the foundations of the conservative ideology and see where I can agree with the foundational goals. I want to demonstrate that even though there are different opinions about policies there can be moderation even in a time of deep polarization.

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Introducing Debates with Dad! My dad and I are on opposite sides of the political spectrum and have interesting conversations about various topics. To keep things balanced, my dad brings his perspective on the most recent episode of That's Politics.

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There is an ongoing debate on if President Trump wants to be a dictator. Let's take a look at these claims but to understand what we are talking about we need to understand the difference between autocracies (dictatorships) and democracies.

There are four main parts to this episode. Part one talks about characteristics of democracies. Part two details types of autocracies and characteristics of dictators. Part three analyzes claims of democratic backsliding in the U.S. with examples. The final part is my analysis on if President Trump will become a dictator.

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Last installment of this series we talked about academic freedom, this week we take it a step further and look at the role of education in democracy.

I talk with Vincent Russell, Ph.D., a communication professor at WCU. I had him as a professor for intercultural communication and have heard him stress the importance of education and wanted to share his perspective with you.

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