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1) Donald Trump Pursues Aggressive White Supremacist Agenda in Second Term

Amanda Hollowell, Chief of Campaigns with the group Color of Change, talks about her group's 20 years of critical work advocating for racial justice, and assesses the Trump administration's aggressive attack on America's long struggle to achieve a multi-racial democracy and implementation of discriminatory federal policies, underscored by President Trump's personal racism and bigotry that he regularly publicly displays in his speeches and on social media.

2) Trump Regime's Massive Buildout of Immigrant Concentration Camps Meets Resistance

Journalist Andrea Pitzer, author of the book, "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps," examines Donald Trump's current violent mass deportation campaign, and the haunting similarities to Germany's rounding up, brutalizing and imprisoning immigrants, Jews and other minority groups - in concentration camps in the 1930s.

3) States Push for New Taxes on Rich to Replace Trump-GOP Budget Cuts to Vital Social Safety Net Programs

Kamolika Das, Local Policy Director with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, talks about a current nationwide effort to raise revenue in states to replace billions of dollars in vital local and state funding for social safety net programs that were lost in last year's Trump-GOP budget mega-bill that dramatically cut social programs while giving away huge tax cuts for profitable corporations and the rich.

4) Student Stage National Anti-Ice Walkout, Launch 'Spring Surge to Melt Ice'

Lily, a Connecticut activist with National Student Walkout Against ICE, talks about anti-ICE school protests that took place across the U.S. on Friday, Feb. 13th -- and the organizing going on now among national student groups for the 'Spring Surge to Melt Ice' campaign.