April 28, 2026
Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams
A Democrat’s Guide to Challenging Trump on Iran, ICE, and Dollars (w/ Rep Ansari)
In This Episode
What can international pro-democracy activists teach us about taking on authoritarianism here in the US? Stacey opens the show with reflections from the Salzburg Global Forum Democracy Resilience Conference featuring reformers from Bolivia, to Hungary, to Nepal. Then she’s joined by Representative Yassamin Ansari, a freshman from Arizona and the only Iranian-American in Congress. She tells Stacey about her opposition to Trump’s war with Iran, the horrific conditions she’s seen firsthand when visiting ICE detention centers, and how we demand a practical response to the competing harms coming out of Washington.
Learn & Do More:
- Be Curious: Check out the Substack “The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook” by Scot Nakagawa, President of the 22nd Century Initiative.
- Solve Problems: Step Six in the “Ten Steps to Freedom and Power” is disruption. Visit Stacey’s Substack “Assembly Notes” to read her recent post about taking action.
- Do Good: Visit the nonprofit FreedomforImmigrants.org to donate to their commissary fund – proceeds are directly deposited into commissary accounts at detention centers across the country.
