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OH House Speaker Arrested in ‘Largest Bribery, Money Laundering Scheme’ In State History: ‘BradCast’ 7/21/2020

GOP lawmaker, 4 co-conspirators face racketeering charges for billion dollar nuke plant bailout conspiracy; Also: 31 states smash COVID records; MO Guv okay with school kids getting infected...

‘Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble’: Fighting for Voting Rights and Fair Elections — Even in CA: ‘BradCast’ 7/20/2020

Guest: Ray Lutz of Citizens' Oversight; Also: Rest in Power, John Lewis...

Constitutional Experts File Motion to Argue Trump’s Stone Commutation is Unconstitutional: ‘BradCast’ 7/17/2020

Guest: Constitutional attorney Ben Clements of Free Speech for People; Also: New COVID records; Woolery deletes his Twitter account; RBG battling cancer again; Bowman declared 'winner' in NY...

Democracy Wars Intensify Amid Pandemic: ‘BradCast’ 7/16/2020

SCOTUS blocks 1.4M potential new voters in FL; Tough choice for TX voters diagnosed with COVID; Absentee ballots returned to Dallas voters; MI court blocks counting of tens of thousands of mail-in ballots...

Charles Koch’s 50-Year Effort to Privatize the U.S. Postal Service May Be on the Brink of Success: ‘BradCast’ 7/15/2020

Guest: Longtime Koch researcher Lisa Graves; Also: Biden, Obama, Gates Twitter accounts hacked, but Nov. voting should be fine; KS Repub Congressman indicted on four voter fraud counts! Trump should be next...

High School Kids’ Startup Outpaces FEMA on Delivery of Protective Face Shields in Georgia: ‘BradCast’ 7/14/2020

Guest: High School senior Shourya Seth, COO of Project Paralink; Also: Admin's top-to-bottom failures in managing COVID crisis continue; Biden proposes 100% carbon-free power by 2035, millions of jobs with it...

Twisted Trump Admin Still Demanding Schools Reopen as COVID Cases Explode Across Nation: ‘BradCast’ 7/13/2020

Record surges in FL, TX, elsewhere; CA Guv re-closes bars, restaurants, churches, gyms, salons; Callers ring in on Trump's 'genocide'...

‘A Danger In Our System’: Former Senator on How Trump Could Lose, But ‘Legally’ Stay in Office: ‘BradCast’ 7/10/2020

Guest: Sen. Timothy Wirth; Also: Following infection and hospitalization spikes, COVID-19 deaths now surging, as predicted, in GOP-run states...

SCOTUS Gives Trump a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ (For Now) Card on His Taxes and He Whines Anyway: ‘BradCast’ 7/9/2020

Guest: Slate's Mark Joseph Stern explains today's rulings; Also: Two conditions on Biden's debates with Trump?; Continuing COVID-19 havoc...

The Truth About Trump, Barr’s Fraudulent Claims About Absentee Ballot Fraud: ‘BradCast’ 7/8/2020

Guest: Eddie Perez of OSET Institute; Also: Trump's coronavirus Death March continues; SCOTUS allows religious groups to discriminate...

Faithless Judiciary: SCOTUS, Appeals Courts Block Voting Rights Expansion Efforts Amid Pandemic: ‘BradCast’ 7/7/2020

Guest: Mark Joseph Stern on new Court opinions on 'faithless electors', Obamacare and the GOP's ongoing (and now deadly) war on voting...

Trump’s July 4th ‘Declaration of War Against Fellow Americans’: ‘BradCast’ 7/6/2020

Guest: Salon's Heather Digby Parton; Also: Non-U.S nations getting COVID-19 under control; SCOTUS rules on robocalls, 'faithless electors'...

GOP Fistfight in WY; Dem Senate Primary Called in KY; Trump v. Democracy Everywhere: ‘BradCast’ 6/30/2020

Also: Carl Reiner, RIP...

Despite Three Recent Surprise Rulings, No, John Roberts Has Not Become a Liberal Squish: ‘BradCast’ 6/29/2020

Guest: Slate's SCOTUS reporter Mark Joseph Stern on the 'canny legal' maneuverings of the Chief Justice; Also: MS votes to dump Confederate flag; Trump Campaign removed social distancing stickers before Tulsa Death Rally; COVID-19 now ravaging all but two states...

Do IN’s Sec. of State Emails ‘Expose Vulnerability to Terror Attack’? A State Judge Wants to Know: ‘BradCast’ 6/26/2020

Guest: Attorney Ron Fein of Free Speech for People; Also: Court nixes Trump 'national emergency' wall funding; TX, FL forced to re-close businesses as COVID spikes, Trump, Pence continuing lying about it...

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