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Matt and David celebrate Lula's victory over Bolsonaro.Then, journalist Hamilton Nolan and Jacob Morrison of @TheValleyLaborReport join David to discuss infiltrating a police union conference and the contradictions in including cops in the labor movement.

Read the article here: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-infiltrated-a-police-union-convention

Watch on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/IbOzLvCWEeA

support the show and get the weekly members' only Sunday Show at patreon.com/leftreckoning.Emma Vigeland of the Majority Report rejoins Left Reckoning to discuss the state of the primaries and how moderates are dealing with an electoral existential crisis.

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Matt and David discuss the terminally conspiracy-brained Republicans as a lie about Talarico blows up in their faces. Also, will Tucker apologize for smearing Ilhan Omar now that ICE investigators have raided her DC home.

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Matt and David discuss the recent elections in Brazil, which saw the country turn to the right, and the upcoming runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro's son. Then, Mike Beggs joins us to discuss his new book with Bhaskar Sunkara and Ben Burgis, The Blueprint.Check out The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World athttps://www.versobooks.com/products/2843-the-blueprint

support the show and get our Sunday Shows at patreon.com/leftreckoning.ATX City Council Candidate Misael Ramos joins us to talk about his campaign as well as his recent arrested for protesting ICE.Then, current DSA City Council member joins David to discuss socialism at the city level.

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Read and share Connor's on the investigation: "How to Steal a Hemisphere: Fernando Cerimedo and the Heist of Latin American Democracy"

https://reactionary.international/investigations/how-to-steal-a-hemisphere/en/

https://progressive.international/

And check out Chip Gibbons' article, "The State’s War on the Left Didn’t Begin With Trump — But He’s Escalating It" https://truthout.org/articles/the-states-war-on-the-left-didnt-begin-with-trump-but-hes-escalating-it/

https://www.rightsanddissent.org/

watch here: https://youtu.be/yGNMAwuAIHA

Support Left Reckoning and get our weekly Sunday Show at patreon.com/leftreckoningEtienne Rosas joins LR once again to talk about Elon Musk's SpaceX takeover down in Brownsville, Texas and how it plays into the rising anger against tech elites.Also, Doug Burgum and the brainlessness of a country led by "businessmen."

Support the show and get the members' only Sunday Show at patreon.com/leftreckoningMike Rogers history of supporting Israel's Iran War make-a-wish, James Talarico sits down with Mark Cuban and Sam Russek (@SamRussek) joins us to talk about his piece on Houston mayor John Whitmire in the Texas Observer:https://www.texasobserver.org/john-whitmire-houston-mayor-state-city-government/

support LR and get the weekly Sunday Show at patreon.com/leftreckoningBeto O'Rourke joins Left Reckoning for a broad discussion on Texas politics and his outreach to low-propensity voters at poweredxpeople.org

support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning to get the weekly members' only Sunday Show.Matt and David briefly discuss UK politics, specifically Binface and Burnham before talking about how the Third Way is gonna spend $15 to hire anti-DSA goons, Ken Paxton running away from a THC question, and an update on Big Bend vandalism by the US government

Support the show and get the weekly member's-only Sunday Show at patreon.com/leftreckoningMatt is joined by Jostein Hauge, political economist and Associate Professor in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, to discuss the current balance of power in the world economy and the degree to which western leaders are asleep at the wheel as China's model makes strides previously thought unlikely.Check out more from Jostein here: https://www.josteinhauge.com/

support the show and get the Sunday Show at patreon.com/leftreckoningDavid and Matt break down Vivek Ramaswamy's appearance in front of a bunch of 20 year old klan runts goes horribly and Bill Maher is trying to make everyone as afraid of a DSA caucus as he is.

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Youtube's RM Brown joins us once again, this time to react to Elon Musk's car crash interview with the EIC of The Economist.

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https://www.youtube.com/@rmbrown5736

Get the Sunday Show and keep Left Reckoning going:patreon.com/leftreckoningMatt and David discuss a big fat cynical identity politics gift being delivered for the Texas GOP by Jasmine Crockett and her dead-enders.Also, Bhaskar Sunkara joined Ross Douthat to discuss socialism in America. Also, we look back at some timely Michael Brooks wisdom.

On today's Left Reckoning, Shawn Fain fights back against an inappropriately Zionist fed monitor that's harassing the UAW after they joined calls for a ceasefire in gaza.

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Ishmael Johnson (@IshmaelRJohnson) of the Dallas Morning News joins us to discuss his series on the costs and affordability of youth sports.

Read here:

https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/soccer/article/financial-hurdles-youth-sports-highlighted-d-fw-s-22286275.php

Then, Sam Karas of the Big Bend Sentinel joins us to talk about the idiocy of the push to build a border wall in Big Bend.

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Note: Spotify copyright censored the Haley Stevens clip around 38 minutes in so it has been truncated here.

Support the show and get the weekly members' only Sunday Show at patreon.com/leftreckoningThe Majority Report's Emma Vigeland joins LR once again to break down the state of the Maine and Michigan senate races.

support the show and get the weekly members' only Sunday Show at patreon.com/leftreckoningThe Majority Report's Emma Vigeland joins LR once again to break down the state of the Maine and Michigan senate races.

Get the Sunday Shows at patreon.com/leftreckoningMatt and David watch the Sunday Show appearance by Zohran Mamdani responding to a familiar foreign policy question as well as a Problem Solver Manifesto.Them, David talks to Juan David Rojas about his piece "A second Milei rises in Colombia"Read Juan David Rojas piece in Unherd here: https://unherd.com/2026/06/a-second-milei-rises-in-colombia/?edition=us

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Jasmine Crockett is getting petty in the run up to the Texas Senate race.But first, Devin Thomas O'Shea returns to the program to discuss his excellent new book "The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis"https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-the-veiled-prophet

Trump turned the White House South Lawn into a UFC cage for his 80th birthday — a gladiator spectacle dubbed Freedom 250, with $1.5 million ringside seats and a crowd he handpicked himself. David sits down with Ben Case — writer, organizer, and former pro Muay Thai fighter — to get at what the fights are really about: private equity, tech billionaires, and the Saudi government quietly consolidating control over all of combat sports, with Trump as the would-be emperor cashing in (he even bought TKO stock first).Plus, up top: the Texas GOP convention, where delegates told lifelong Muslim Republicans to convert to Christianity or leave the country, an elephant marched for "Don't Sharia Our Texas," and the lunatic fringe finished becoming the party.And lastly, David sits down with working-class candidate Eon Huntley, who is running a democratic socialist campaign in NYC!Ben Case: https://jacobin.com/2026/06/ufc-freedom-trump-white-saudisEon Huntley Campaign: https://eonforassembly.com/Support Left Reckoning and get the Sunday shows: patreon.com/leftreckoningNew here? Subscribe and hit the bell — it genuinely helps us keep doing this.Twitter: @LeftReckoning / @davidgriscom / @MattLech