On the Ground w Esther Iverem

Recent Episodes

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR SEPTEMBER 5, 2025: Will DC Streets Ever Be Rid of Armed Soldiers and Federal Police?… Epstein and Maxwell Survivors Speak on Capitol Hill… Gerald Horne on India and Venezuela… Plus More Headlines

Posted September 5, 2025 • 00:59:40

During the final days of Trump’s so-called crime emergency declared in DC, residents and lawmakers tell Congress that they want armed soldiers, masked...

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 29, 2025: DC Resists Trump in Massive Labor March… An ‘Outrage Vigil’ for More Slain Journalists in Gaza… Major Meeting for the Global South in China… And Much More…

Posted August 29, 2025 • 00:56:27

Here in the nation’s capital, we refuse to normalize National Guard soldiers with automatic weapons on the Metro, or racist checkpoints where Uber...

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 15, 2025: DC: Trump’s Testing Ground for Fascism… When Human Rights Are Under Attack…. Plus Headlines

Posted August 15, 2025 • 00:58:40

For this month’s episode of The F-Word, historian Gerald Horne discusses DC as a laboratory for an American brand of fascism. And with revolutionary...

Voting Rights in Crisis…Pro-Palestine Encampment Protests Outside Corporate Media DC Offices… Plus Headlines

Posted August 8, 2025 • 00:55:08

To thwart a redistricting scheme that will disenfranchise Black and Latinx voters in Texas, state Democratic lawmakers have fled the state to deny Republicans...

‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR AUGUST 1, 2025: $1Billion in Taxpayer Funds for an NFL Stadium?… While Cutting Public Services, DC Set to Give Billionaire NFL Owner 22 Acres for $1 Rent… Plus Headlines On Freedom for Chris Smalls and More

Posted August 1, 2025 • 00:58:40

The DC Council is set to vote on a controversial plan to spend one billion dollars in taxpayer funding toward a new NFL stadium for the Washington Commanders....