PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Meet the Con Artist Leading Trump’s Inauguration Prayer” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian ☮

Trump’s Inauguration guest list has some pretty interesting characters on it including a shady televangelist who has been investigated by the IRS and Senate. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks discuss Paula White, the TV preacher leading Trump’s Inauguration prayer.

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Sam Stein: Democratic Party ‘Decimated’ Under Obama” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮

Huffington Post senior politics editor Sam Stein argued on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday morning that President Barack Obama shoulders much of the blame for his party’s historic losses during his eight years in the White House.

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “How the News Really Works” / The Thom Hartmann Show / Alex Lawson ☮

Guest host Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, explains how news networks get stories and why they don’t talk about important issues that millions of Americans care deeply about.

TYT INTERVIEWS: “Sean Stone Interview with Wes Clark Jr.” / The Young Turks ☮

Wes Clark Jr. of The Young Turks interviews TV host, actor, producer and documentary filmmaker Sean Stone. In addition to co-hosting Watching the Hawks on RT America, Sean has acted in dozens of films, including Any Given Sunday, Nixon and Natural Born Killers. Sean has a new documentary film, A Century of War, which highlights the incredible toll the last hundred years of war-making has taken on the American Republic and the world — and what we can do to alter course for a more promising future.

NEOLIBERALISM: “How Trump Could Bring on the Crash of 2016” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann, and Richard Wolff ☮

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom discusses Trump’s economic and trade policies with economist and professor Dr. Richard Wolff. If Trump cuts taxes and ramps up defense spending, the U.S. could be looking at a shift back to Reagan-era economics.

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Professor Caught Mocking White Nationalist Cucks” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian ☮

A Drexel University Professor is facing some backlash after he put out a tweet mocking white nationalists who are constantly complaining about being victims of a “White Genocide.”