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Starbucks, Amazon, Apple, Others ‘Egregiously’ Violating Labor Laws to Block Unionization: ‘BradCast’ 3/6/2023

Guest: Dr. Nelson Lichtenstein, UCSB labor historian; Also: Landmark U.N. deal to protect world oceans; Fighting (again) for permanent DST...

Biden FTC’s New Rule to Ban Wage-Depressing, Non-Compete Contracts: ‘BradCast’ 1/11/2023

Guest: Public Citizen's competition policy expert Matt Kent; Also: House GOP's dangerous debt default gambit may come sooner than expected...

AZ Election Super-Geniuses: ‘BradCast’ 12/2/2022

Cochise County ordered to certify results; Lake, Finchem attorneys sanctioned; Also: Warnock campaigner shot in GA; Boebert recount begins in CO; Dems avert rail strike, but about those paid sick days...

Good News: GA Breaking Early Voting Records! Bad News: GA Breaking Early Voting Records!: ‘BradCast’ 11/30/2022

Guest: GA election integrity expert, observer Jeanne Dufort; Also: Dems unite behind new House leadership; Bills passed to help avert rail strike; Meadows ordered to testify in GA...

‘Groundbreaking’ Victory for California’s Half-Million Fast-Food Workers: ‘BradCast’ 9/14/2022

Guest: The American Prospect's Harold Meyerson; Also: Rail worker strike looms; Noteworthy primary results from DE, RI, NH...

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It Ain’t the Supply Chain or War. It’s the Greed: ‘BradCast’ 5/11/2022

Guest: Omar Ocampo of Inequality.org: Also: NE, WV primary results and who cares what they mean for Trump?; Senate abortion vote; Federal court ruling on semi-automatic weapons sales to children in CA...

Not Everything Sucks. Organized Labor is Rising: ‘BradCast’ 5/5/2022

Guest: Jordan Zakarin of Progress Report and More Perfect Union; Also: The Obamas on SCOTUS scheme to gut Roe's Constitutional freedoms; Big Oil's record profits and wartime profiteering...

The ‘False Choice’ Between Diplomacy and War in Ukraine: ‘BradCast’ 4/29/2022

Guest: Political scientist, international relations Prof. Nicholas Grossman of Univ. of IL; Also: EU to embargo Russian oil; USPS sued to block new gas-guzzling truck contract; More bad news for Trump in NY...

Progressives in AZ Have a Plan to Push Back on the State GOP’s ‘Batshit Crazy Attack on Voters’: ‘BradCast’ 4/1/2022

Guest: Eric Kramer of Arizonans for Fair Elections; Also: Good news on the economy, unions, COVID and cannabis!; Plus: Annoy a Nazi!...

Can Fixing the U.S. Supply Chain Disaster Actually Unite Americans?: ‘BradCast’ 2/15/2022

Guest: The American Prospect's David Dayen on the magazine's ambitious Special Issue: Also: Gun-maker settles with Sandy Hook families; Prince Andrew settles sex-abuse case; Palin loses (again); Putin blinks?...

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Another Win for Labor Unions at Year’s End: ‘BradCast’ 12/23/2021

Guest: The Nation's John Nichols on that and other progressive wins and losses this year; Also: In the spirit of the season, lauding not one, but TWO Republicans (and one of them is Trump!)...

The Year Without a Sanity Clause: ‘BradCast’ 12/21/2021

Biden addresses nation on Omicron emergency plans, begs vaccine disinfo peddlers to 'stop'; Also: Trump got secretly boosted; Coal miners union wants thin-skinned, corrupt Manchin to reconsider BBB...

GA Voting Rights Leader Warns of ‘Total Takeover’ by GOP to ‘Control Outcomes of All Elections’: ‘BradCast’ 12/15/2021

Guest: Helen Butler of The People's Agenda, purged from the Morgan County, GA Board of Elections; Also: Listener mail!...

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