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Edwin Eisendrath

Edwin Eisendrath

Former Member of the Chicago City CouncilWikipedia

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Oct 16, 2026

Richard ChuHOST
1:14
[chuckles] Follow me on all the socials under Choose Views, and catch all of our shows by subscribing to our WCPT podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and of course, iHeartRadio.
Richard ChuHOST
1:29
That's where you can get all of the, the Choose Views featured interviews, Joan Esposito, Live Local and Progressive, Driving It Home with Patty Vasquez, and It's Democracy, Stupid, with Edwin Eisendrath.
Richard ChuHOST
1:40
Ha.
Richard ChuHOST
1:40
Out Chicago, our other great shows and interviews, and, and the evenings are...

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Richard ChuHOST
21:22
Hey, on Monday, Simon Glazer, pu- public school teacher and union leader running for state senate in Minnesota's District 24 will be joining me.
Richard ChuHOST
21:31
Margaret Donovan, attorney and visiting lecturer and, at Yale Law School will be with us, as well as Mike Nellis, Democratic strategist and host of Endless Urgency with Mike Nellis.
Richard ChuHOST
21:41
And make sure you guys are tuning in to It's the Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath.
Richard ChuHOST
21:46
His guest tomorrow will be G. Elliott Morris, data-driven journalist, pollster, and author of the Substack newsletter, Strength in Numbers.
Richard ChuHOST
1:24
That is where you can get Choose Views' featured interviews, Jonah Esposito, Live Local and Progressive, Driving it Home with Patty Vasquez.
Richard ChuHOST
1:32
It's a Democracy, Stupid, with Edwin Eisendrath, Out Chicago, and our other shows and interviews.
Richard ChuHOST
1:38
And of course, in the evenings...
Richard ChuHOST
1:39
Oh, by-- The Politics Bar is gonna be with us tomorrow, but catch them in the evenings as well, uh, Matt McNeil Show and The Gailey Show.
Richard ChuHOST
1:07
As always, you can catch those on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.
Richard ChuHOST
1:13
That's where you also can get Chu's Views featured interviews, Joan Esposito Live Local and Progressive, Driving It Home with Patty Vasquez, It's the Democracy Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath, Out Chicago, and our other great shows and interviews.
Richard ChuHOST
1:28
Politics Bar guys, don't let your evenings run away from you.
Richard ChuHOST
1:32
Check out the Politics Bar, "The Matt McNeil Show" and "The Gailey Show." And in that process, make your way over to heartlandsignal.com.
Richard ChuHOST
1:08
Catch all of our shows by subscribing to our WCPT podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.
Richard ChuHOST
1:17
That is where you can get Joan Esposito, Live Local and Progressive, Choose Views featured interviews, Patty Vasquez driving it home, It's a Democracy Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath, Out Chicago, and our other great shows and interviews and programs.
Richard ChuHOST
1:33
The evenings are filled with just as much great stuff for you.
Richard ChuHOST
1:36
The Politics Bar, The Matt McNeil Show, and The Gailey Show are all part of our evening programming.
Richard ChuHOST
1:26
Patty Vasquez, Driving It Home.
Richard ChuHOST
1:27
It's a Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath.
Richard ChuHOST
1:31
Out Chicago on our other great shows in the evenings.
Richard ChuHOST
1:33
Of course, the Politics Bar, the Matt McNeil Show, the Gailey Show.
speaker_0NARRATOR
0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to Edwin Eisendrath's It's the Democracy, Stupid, a set of conversations about our government, our politics, and the kind of country we aspire to be.
speaker_0NARRATOR
0:11
And now, here's your host, Edwin Eisendrath, on WCPT 820, Chicago's progressive talk.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
0:17
[upbeat music] Hello, everybody.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
0:20
Happy Saturday.

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Edwin EisendrathHOST
56:22
Bye.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
56:22
[upbeat music]
speaker_0NARRATOR
56:24
You're listening to Edwin Eisendrath's It's the Democracy, Stupid on WCPT 820.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
56:32
All right, everybody.
Richard ChuHOST
1:20
The great Patty Vasquez driving it home.
Richard ChuHOST
1:22
It's the Democracy Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath.
Richard ChuHOST
1:25
Out Chicago and all of our other great shows and interviews.
Richard ChuHOST
1:28
In the evenings, if you're bored and you don't, you're just tired of doom-scrolling, Medi-B, they should go to the politics bar and check out Jody and Sean, who will be with us in a couple of weeks.
Richard ChuHOST
1:38
But email me at richard@wcpt820.com and follow me on all the socials under Chu's Views, and catch all of our shows by subscribing to our WCPT podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.
Richard ChuHOST
1:52
That's where you get him, the featured interviews, Joan Esposito, Live, Local, and Progressive, Driving It Home with Patty Vasquez, It's the Democracy Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath, Out Chicago, and our other great shows and interviews.
Richard ChuHOST
2:06
Evenings are filled with The Politics Bar, The Matt McNeil Show, and The Gailey Show.
Richard ChuHOST
2:11
And over at heartlandsignal.com, we've got a couple of really great pieces that you wanna check out.
Richard ChuHOST
1:06
Catch all of our shows by subscribing to our WCPT podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.
Richard ChuHOST
1:16
And there you can get Choose Views and our featured interviews, Joan Esposito's live local and progressive, Driving at Home with Patty Vasquez, It's the Democracy Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath, Out Chicago, and our other great shows and interviews, as always.
Richard ChuHOST
1:29
The evenings are where you have some other great programming and things to do other than doom-scrolling the politics bar uh the matt mcneil show and the gailey show and of course our digital newsroom news platform which is also known as heartland signal.com making your way over there is always a good thing to do so let me tell you a couple quick items that are there for your liking um We failed in the social media age and we're going to do better in the AI age.
Richard ChuHOST
2:01
California Assembly Dems talk about this and they joined Patty in a conversation around California's landmark legislation protecting kids from AI-driven harms like addiction and self-harm content.
speaker_0NARRATOR
0:00
Welcome to Edwin Eisendrath's It's the Democracy, Stupid, a set of conversations about our government, our politics, and the kind of country we aspire to be.
speaker_0NARRATOR
0:10
And now, here's your host, Edwin Eisendrath, on WCPT 820, Chicago's progressive talk.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
0:19
Well, hello everybody.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
0:20
Um, uh, it's good to be back.

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Edwin EisendrathHOST
8:45
Um, but in the break before my first interview, go to vote.gov and check to be sure your voter registration hasn't purged.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
8:52
See you in a couple minutes.
speaker_0NARRATOR
8:53
[upbeat music] You're listening to Edwin Eisendrath's It's the Democracy, Stupid, on WCPT 820.
Edwin EisendrathHOST
9:06
He was, uh, uh, you know, editor at both of Chicago's major daily newspapers when we had major daily newspapers.

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