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Playing Offense for Democracy: Steve Phillips

Future Hindsight

Mila Atmos

May 28, 2026

Show Notes

We discuss the case for SWAMP audits, how we can truly build a multiracial democracy, and why we're going to have to fight for it.

Steve's civic action toolkit recommendations are:

  1. Find your Minimum Viable Community and engage

  2. Do a SWAMP audit!

Steve Phillips is the founder of Democracy in Color, a political media organization dedicated to race, politics, and the multicultural progressive New American Majority. His new book is Are White Men Smarter Than Everybody Else?: Playing Offense in the Fight for Racial Justice in America.

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Credits:

Host: Mila Atmos

Guests: Steve Phillips

Executive Producer: Zack Travis

Executive Editor: Mila Atmos

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