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Zerlina Maxwell is Senior Director of Progressive Programming for SiriusXM. She is host of Mornings With Zerlina. on SiriusXM as well as MSNBC’s Zerlina. on PeacockTV. She is also the author of The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide (Hachette, July 2020). Maxwell is an MSNBC Political Analyst, a speaker, and writer whose work has appeared in numerous national publications. Her writing focuses on national politics, candidates, and specific policy and culture issues including race, feminism, domestic violence, sexual assault, victim blaming, and gender inequality. She has a law degree from Rutgers Law School (Newark) and a BA in International Relations from Tufts University.

National morning drive talk radio star Stephanie Miller is a wildly popular performer with a huge and fervently devoted audience. Stephanie was featured in LA Weekly as “The Voice of The Resistance.” Director and activist Rob Reiner says of Miller, “There’s no bulls***. She doesn't mince words and she doesn’t throw out lies.” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow declared on her show that Miller is “the high priestess of excellent liberal talk.” Comedy legend Carol Burnett declared that Miller is “the Carol Burnett of radio.” 

Talkers Magazine has ranked Thom Hartmann as the #1 progressive talk show host in America (#8 overall) for more than a decade. His show airs live nationwide on SiriusXM daily M–F, 12 pm–3 pm ET. He’s also a four-time Project Censored-award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of more than 30 books in print in 17 languages. Hartmann has co-written and been featured in six climate-related documentaries with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, about the end of the age of oil and climate change, is an international bestseller and used as a textbook in many schools and colleges. A former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, Hartmann and his wife Louise live in Portland, Oregon with a small menagerie of cats, dogs, ducks, and geese.

Michelangelo Signorile is an author, journalist and commentator, and writes a popular newsletter, The Signorile Report (signorile.substack.com). He is the host of The Michelangelo Signorile Show. Signorile has been profiled by CBS’ 60 Minutes, and has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, and other shows. He has also appeared in many film and television documentaries. 

Dean Obeidallah is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program The Dean Obeidallah Show, making him the first Muslim American to host a national radio show. A lawyer turned writer and award-winning comedian, Obeidallah has been using his skills to both entertain and educate people for years. He writes regularly for CNN.com’s opinion page, The Daily Beast, and Salon.com. He has also written articles for various other publications, including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and NBCNews.com, as well as appearing on everything from ABC’s Good Morning America to Comedy Central. He is frequently on CNN and MSNBC. 

John Fugelsang has been murdered on CSI and picketed by Westboro Baptist Church; he once interviewed George Harrison and Mitt Romney in different continents in the same week; he’s played for the troops overseas, including the humanitarian mission to Haiti; and has been a regular on MSNBC, CNN, and FOX. Fugelang is the child of an ex-nun and ex-Franciscan brother. His off-Broadway solo show Guilt: A Love Story was nominated for the Drama League’s Distinguished Performance award. His PBS film Dream On won the NY Independent Film Festival award for Best Documentary, and he’s even in Coyote Ugly.