This was the last week of The Agenda with Joe Solmonese on our home on XM Live. Starting next Monday, May 5, you’ll be hearing us on XM’s Take Five channel 155 still from 6 – 8 pm eastern every Monday. This week though we still brought you a great dose of politics and some previews of what’s to come with our channel shift.

Leading off the show was Marty Rouse, HRC’s national field director giving us an update on HRC’s activities in this critical presidential election year. From the top of the ticket down to local candidates and ballot measures, HRC is training and activating the GLBT community and our allies in unprecedented ways. Listen in.

Joining us on our new home on Take Five will be a new GLBT business show call “Focus Group.” Hosts John Nash and Tim Bennett are noted business experts and they were our guests to give a preview of their new show.

The Agenda also has a place on XM’s presidential election channel POTUS so we thought it would be fun to take a look at politics through two of their hosts. Joe Mathieu and Rebecca Roberts were our guests to assess what Sen. Clinton’s Pennsylvania win means and how the rest of the democratic race will play out.

We’ve been focusing a lot on the presidential race but there are critical Senate and House races that will decide the future of the Congress. Editor of the must-read political tip sheet The Hotline Amy Walter returned to The Agenda on Monday to give us a lay of the land and focused in on the hot races.
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All of this overview talk is great but why talk about candidates when you can talk with them? First we welcomed Betsy Markey, a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado. She’s running to unseat Rep. Marilyn Musgrave who is the lead sponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment which would enshrine discrimination against GLBT people in the constitution.
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Finally, one of the biggest races to watch this year is in New Hampshire. From the state that enacted civil unions for same sex couples last year, former Gov. Jean Shaheen is running to unseat Sen. John Sununu. Listen in.

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