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Post-Surge: ‘We’re Screwing it Up All Over Again’: ‘BradCast’ 3/1/2021

Guest: Dr. Karl Krupp of U. of AZ's Zuckerman College of Public Health; Also: Former French Prez convicted, sentenced; Water out for two weeks in Jackson, MS; Biden's $1.9T COVID relief package heads to Senate...

SCOTUS Puts Both Trump and Future Elections in Serious Legal Peril: ‘BradCast’ 2/24/2021

Guest: Slate's legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern; Also: Virginia is no longer for death penalty lovers...

Merrick Garland, Cyrus Vance and the Road to Trump Accountability: ‘BradCast’ 2/23/2021

Guest: National Security blogger Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel; Also: SCOTUS rejects GOP challenge to PA's 2020 election results; GA Repubs move new vote suppression measures forward...

After the Storm, Seeking Environmental Justice in the ‘ALONE’ Star State: ‘BradCast’ 2/22/2021

Guest: Dr. Robert Bullard of TSU and Nat'l Black Environmental Justice Network; Also: COVID kills 500k in U.S.; SCOTUS denies Trump's last plea to protect his finance docs; Dominion's $1.7B suit against MyPillow CEO...

Cruz Deserts Texas, NASA Returns to Mars: ‘BradCast’ 2/18/2021

Guest: Margot Paez, formerly of 'BradCast' and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Also: TX crisis spikes oil, gas prices; Sparks int'l ire...

State GOP Lawmakers Respond to 2020 Loss With ‘Avalanche’ of New Vote Suppression Efforts: ‘BradCast’ 2/17/2021

Guest: Ari Berman of Mother Jones; Also: TX Repubs step on the gas to blame green energy for their own fossil fueled freeze failure; Radio propagandist Rush Limbaugh is dead, but his national poison lives on...

Accountability Amidst the Storms. All of Them.: ‘BradCast’ 2/16/2021

Guest: Constitutional law expert John Bonifaz of Free Speech for People; Also: Fossil fuel failure freezes out TX grid during deadly winter storm...

BIPARTISAN SENATE MAJORITY VOTES TRUMP GUILTY AS CHARGED, ACQUITTED ANYWAY: ‘BradCast’ 2/15/2021

Also: Brutal winter storm locks down TX, much of nation; Biden, Dems push ahead with progressive agenda; Callers ring in on Impeachment verdict and what must come next for disgraced former President...

‘This Sham Impeachment’: Trump Attorneys Tell Lie After Lie in Their Open and Shut Case: ‘BradCast’ 2/12/2021

Special Coverage of Day 4 with Salon's Heather Digby Parton...

‘If Inciting an Insurrection is Not Impeachable, Then What Is?’: ‘BradCast’ 2/11/2021

Special Coverage Day 3 of Trump's second Impeachment Trial as House Managers wrap up their damning case to Republicans who may fail to realize they could now take away his last remaining 'superpower'; Also: Disenchanted GOPers consider forming new national party...

‘Inciter-In-Chief’: Impeachment Managers Show Trump Laid Insurrection Groundwork for Months: ‘BradCast’ 2/10/2021

Special Coverage Day 2 with former Deputy Asst. AG Lisa Graves on the point-by-point case against Trump and how he might respond; Also: GA prosecutor opens criminal probe of Trump's attempted election theft...

Second Trump Impeach Trial Begins: ‘There is No ‘January Exception’ to the Impeachment Clause’: ‘BradCast’ 2/9/2021

Special Coverage of Day One; Also: U.S. Election Assistance Commission leaders quietly override cybersecurity experts to allow modems in new voting system standards...

Dobbs Doomed Himself (But We Helped); Trump’s Dumb Defense; Democrats Do Democracy: ‘BradCast’ 2/8/2021

Guest: Attorney Ernest A. Canning on the critical H.R.1, 'For the People Act'; Also: GOP Rep. dies with COVID; Another GOP Senator to retire; GA SoS opens probe of Trump's attempted election theft...

After U.S. Capitol Insurrection, a Rising Menace of Rightwing Domestic Terror: ‘BradCast’ 2/4/2021

Guest: Terrorism expert Colin P. Clarke of the Soufan Center; Also: Trump declines to testify at second Impeachment Trial; Smartmatic files $2.7 BILLION defamation suit against Fox 'News' for election theft lies...

With Trump Out, Congress Must ‘Get Back in the Game’ to Reform the National Emergencies Act: ‘BradCast’ 2/3/2021

Guest: NatSec expert Elizabeth Goitein of Brennan Center; Also: U.S. economy twice as good under Dem Presidents than Repubs for the past 90 years; MyPillow guy may not be sleeping well these days...

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Billionaires Spending Millions to Fight Against, Lie to Voters About CA’s Proposed, One-Time Billionaires Tax: ‘BradCast’ 5/4/2026

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