by Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan, and Jacob Morrison | Nov 3, 2026 | labor, Podcast, police accountability, Policing, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, Unions, Working People
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Far from all the political bluster about police being “defunded,” six years after the earth-shaking George Floyd protests swept the US and public approval for law enforcement plummeted, police have never been more politically and monetarily supported than they are now. But when veteran labor reporters and union activists Hamilton Nolan and Jacob Morrison attended the 23rd Quadrennial Convention of the International Union of Police Associations in Las Vegas, Nevada, they found a different kind of union, and a different kind of convention, than they were expecting…
In this special episode of Working People, we speak with Nolan and Morrison about their August reporting trip to the IUPA Convention in Las Vegas.
Additional links/info:
Hamilton Nolan Substack (How Things Work) and Bluesky page
Jacob Morrison’s Twitter/X page
The Valley Labor Report website, YouTube channel, Facebook page, Bluesky page, and Twitter/X page
Hamilton Nolan & Jacob Morrison, The Real News Network, “Beards and loathing: A cop union convention comes to Las Vegas”
Hamilton Nolan, How Things Work, “We infiltrated a police union convention in Las Vegas”
Featured Music:
Jules Taylor, Working People Theme Song
Credits:
Audio Post-Production: Jules Taylor
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.
Jacob Morrison:
All right. Welcome everyone to Working People, a podcast about the lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles of the working class today. My name is not Maximillian Alvarez. It is Jacob Morrison, host of the Valley Labor Report, the largest union talk radio program in the South.
Hamilton Nolan:
And I’m Hamilton Nolan, a labor journalist based in New York City.
Jacob Morrison:
Hamilton and I marched on the boss and took Max’s microphone so we could introduce the special episode about the recent reporting
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by Joshua Davis | Nov 3, 2026 | Alex Pretti, Authoritarianism, Department of Justice, doj, House Judiciary Committee, ICE, immigration, Jim Jordan, Keith Ellison, Larry Krasner, Minneapolis, Minnesota, News, Operation Metro Surge, Project 2025, Prosecutors, Renee Nicole Good, Sanctuary Cities, Tim Walz, Trump Administration, Virginia
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