David Dayen

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449 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Sep

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder · 3700 - Sam Seder Returns! Haley Stevens Loses it; Franchise Scams w/ David Dayen · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

So, you know, I'm probably not going to get a chance to do a tricentennial issue, so we wanted to make this one count.

Even though we're a little late, you know, I mean, July 4th was earlier, but we're still within the month.

We did this thing called Prospect Patriots, and the idea was—

During this time, when you sort of take a step back and look through American history, you get a lot of people imposing their own sort of vision on telling the American story.

And I think it was important to us to tell the story from our perspective that change is made when people really get together and challenge power from the bottom up.

And we wanted to look at representatives of that throughout history.

These aren't the 10 best people in American history.

These aren't the 10 people that made the most change in American history.

I don't think history actually works like that.

But these are 10 people who are representative of this idea of challenging power, taking on risks and thriving.

And we did 10 profiles, but we also have 40 other people mentioned throughout these things.

If you go to the issue at prospect.org slash subscribe, you will see sort of in the margins of these profiles that there are these other people recognized and honored.

But, yeah, we had a rule, no elected officials.

So none of the 50 that we mentioned are elected officials.

Some of them are close to power, but most of them are trying to influence power from the bottom up.

And I thought it was a really interesting exercise and a learning experience, given the time that we're in now, a time of oligarchy, a time of extreme corruption, authoritarianism at the top, to understand how

how history reflects the changes in American life through this structure of really people without institutional power taking it on.

So that was the goal of the series.

So I did the piece on Louis Brandeis as an attorney, as a reformer, as an aide who basically wrote and inspired the agenda that eventually became the New Deal.

What he wrote was with

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