Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) Dan Vicuña, National Redistricting Manger with Common Cause discusses the Moore v. Harper case from North Carolina that will be heard by the US Supreme Court this fall, that could result in the court's conservative majority affirming the debunked "independent state legislature theory,” throwing elections into chaos and further eroding our democracy.

2) Matthew Cunningham-Cook, a researcher and writer with the investigative news outlet Lever News, discusses his important new article, "How Wall Street Is Funding The Culture War," which investigates the Wall Street billionaires who are funding Chris Rufo, the leader of the Republican Party's culture war campaign that is suppressing public schools attempting to teach race and sexuality. These same billionaires profited handsomely from the 2008 financial crisis that threw 8.6 million people out of work, 7.8 million people out of their homes, and drove thousands of excess suicides.

3) Emma Fisher, deputy director with the group Climate Cabinet discusses her group's recent report: "17 States Pass Anti-Protest Laws to Suppress Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Opposition." These laws which may charge protesters with felonies for disrupting “critical infrastructure,” are clearly aimed at suppressing Indigenous and environmental activists’ opposition to oil and gas projects.

4) Melinda Tuhus, WPKN journalist and Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine producer talks about the September 8th protest in Washington, D.C. where climate activists descended on Capitol Hill to lobby their elected officials and hold a rally opposing the fracked gas Mountain Valley pipeline. Activists oppose the deal made between West Virginia’s conservative Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and party that secured his his vote for the Inflation Reduction Act in exchange for an agreement to finish the pipeline and weaken bedrock environmental protections.

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