{"podcast":{"title":"Good News for Lefties | Daily News for Democracy","slug":"good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465","podcast_index_feed_id":6982465,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6256627/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://GoodNewsForLefties.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/672afcb4f39d17cf54d4be4a2915a13e.jpg","author":"Two Squared Media Productions, LLC","episode_count":876,"summary":"Positive, progressive news for democracy daily! Democrats, Leftists, liberals, and democratic socialists welcome. A respite from troubling headlines in difficult times. Sure, read the bad news, but then listen to us! Send good news tips to beowulf@twosquaredmediaproductions.com or 202-656-6271 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy--6256627/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T14:22:27.318827+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465"},"episode":{"title":"PM News: Talarico's Rise in Texas and Illinois' Bold Abortion Legislation","slug":"pm-news-talarico-s-rise-in-texas-and-illinois-bold-abortion-legislation","published_at":"2026-06-01T21:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465/pm-news-talarico-s-rise-in-texas-and-illinois-bold-abortion-legislation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/pm-news-talarico-s-rise-in-texas-and-illinois-bold-abortion-legislation--72283242","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72283242/good_news_for_lefties_pm_060126_mixdown_1.mp3","summary":"An encouraging poll from Texas indicates that Democratic state lawmaker James Talarico is leading Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, and J.B Pritzker has passed two crucial bills in Illinois aimed at protecting reproductive health privacy and expanding access to birth control for minors. 'Paxton is cooked': Eyes widen as new polls add to GOP's worst fears in Texas - Raw Story Lawmakers pass bill to shield abortion information from digital medical records | News From The States Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy--6256627/support .","meta_description":"An encouraging poll from Texas indicates that Democratic state lawmaker James Talarico is leading Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, and J.B Pritzker…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":466,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465/episodes/pm-news-talarico-s-rise-in-texas-and-illinois-bold-abortion-legislation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465/pm-news-talarico-s-rise-in-texas-and-illinois-bold-abortion-legislation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}