And What It Means in the Age of Trump
Tom Dispatch
By Aaron Scott, Liz Theoharis and Moses Hernandez McGavin
June 3, 2025
This year, Pride Month arrives at an especially dire moment for the LGBTQ+ community. Under the second Trump administration, homophobic vitriol and violence are on the rise. On Elon Musk’s X platform, a “deepfake” video of Donald Trump canceling Pride Month has gone viral.
Anti-poverty activism has provided a model for transformational power, based on four strategic principles
The Guardian
by Rev Dr Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back
June 1, 2025
For tens of millions of people, Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a grotesque nightmare. The proposed legislative cuts, including historic attacks on Medicaid and Snap, come at a time when 60% of Americans already cannot make ends meet.
A Better World radio show on WPVM FM
With McNair Ezzard
May 25, 2025
Asheville, North Carolina
Millions of people know that a world of injustice, poverty and oppression are no longer sustainable. Groups across America are working to change this type of world. One such powerful group is the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice in New York. For the last twenty years, Kairos has grown into a national network of grassroots, community and religious leaders and organizations on the front lines of struggles against systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and militarism.
Poverty Unpacked podcast
April 26, 2025
Ending poverty requires mass movements. Charitable actions by individuals can make an important difference but are ultimately a drop in the bucket. Real change only happens when people come together and stand up against the injustice of poverty. Indeed, there is a long history of organising with notable successes for current day activists to learn from and feel encouraged by.
KGNU Connections
Joel Edelstein
April 18, 2025
The Power of the Poor in Trump’s America
Tom Dispatch
by Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back
April 15, 2025
The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world — including nine Americans — expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in recorded history. Since then, an unholy marriage of billionaire investors, tech bros, Christian nationalists, and, of course, Donald Trump has staged an oligarchic assault on our democracy.
Revolutionary Optimism Podcast
Dr. Paul Zeitz
April 14, 2025
Is America at a breaking point—or at the cusp of a breakthrough? In this episode, Dr. Zeitz sits down with Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice. A lifelong theologian and anti-poverty organizer, Rev. Dr. Liz shares why we are living in a Kairos moment—a time of both crisis and profound possibility.
Nonprofit Quarterly
Damaly Gonzalez
March 27, 2025
“I think the reality of life for poor and unhoused people is these folks are basically the canary in the coal mine of the rest of society, showing the way that we’re headed,” the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, tells NPQ.
A Battle of Theologies in the Age of Trump
Tom Dispatch
By Liz Theoharis
March 2, 2025
“There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana lawmaker and president of the Family Research Council, about freedom of religion and the actions of the second Trump administration.
Teri McDowell Ott speaks with Presbyterian Pastor Liz Theoharis on uniting and organizing poor and low-income people into a powerful force.
The Presbyterian Outlook
by The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis & Teri McDowell Ott
February 14, 2025
I was raised in a movement family. My father is a historian, democracy defender, and civil libertarian who helped expose the abuses of the FBI. My mother is the daughter of Armenian genocide survivors and a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church who organized her life around the fight for human rights, inter-religious understanding, and the abolition of poverty, racism and war.
