One year ago today, The Agenda with Joe Solmonese premiered on XM Satellite Radio, so it was a big anniversary show for us last night with some looks back and some great guests to help us celebrate.

We started off the show with an update from Capitol Hill where the Senate is set to vote on the Matthew Shepard Act as early as this week. Sens. Ted Kennedy and Gordon Smith filed the hate crimes measure as an amendment to the Department of Defense authorization bill last week, and the Human Rights Campaign’s legislative director, Allison Herwitt, filled us in on its status.

Then we were thrilled to welcome Angela Robinson to The Agenda. She’s a writer, producer and director for the must-see Showtime drama The L Word and you may also know her as the director of D.E.B.S. She filled us in on all of The L Word gossip and an exciting new project called Girltrash. Listen in here.

It wouldn’t be an anniversary show without a proper retrospective so I put together a compilation of some of the best Agenda moments from the past 52 shows. Hear clips from our biggest guests and some of our less-than-scripted moments here.

Continuing our series of “In Their Own Words” segments, we heard from Elizabeth Edwards who spoke at HRC’s San Francisco gala dinner on Saturday night. Turning back to celebration, we welcomed XM’s executive vice president for programming, Eric Logan. He’s a veteran radio guy and consistently ranked as one of the top movers and shakers in the digital media world.

On one of our first shows last summer we were joined by TV writer Carol Leifer who told us about her big birthday. We decided to bring her back last night to hear how the year went for her and find out about some new TV projects in which she’s involved.

Finally, we wrapped up with politics with another return guest — Amy Walter, now editor of The Hotline. Get the scoop on presidential politics here.

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