Alexis Bartley Paulson is a nurse practitioner, Maryam’s “ride or die” at Rise & Shine as well as during her campaign for Congress in 2024. Their three part conversation convers the Israel / Iran conflict from Summer 2025, how that Congressional campaign was run and Paulson’s recent move to California.
James Dehart – tradesman, father, husband – voted for Trump and joins Maryam to talk DOGE, the administration an if the President got anything wrong.
We talk with Bethany Torino, a Republican and non profit head, about the federal funding freeze and how it’s impacting her work.
Khalil Ekulona joins for a lively discussion about why there’s no such thing as the Black vote, why folks are looking for something else than the two parties were/are offering, and how our political conversation is actually a conversation about existing.
Maryam speaks with national voucher expert, Josh Cowen and TN Sate Senator Heidi Campbell on the problematic shift from public to private schools.
