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Last Week Today with OG Bloggers: ‘BradCast’ 4/1/2024

Guests: 'Driftglass' and Frances Langum of 'The Pro Left' podcast on (almost) everything we missed last week, and why it matters this week...

Happy New Year: Wisconsin Supremes Overturn GOP-Gerrymandered State Legislative Maps

Next election may end GOP entrenchment in WI Assembly, though GOP entrenchment in Senate unlikely to be fully eradicated before 2026...

UPDATE 1/15/24: Court denies GOP motion to reconsider. UPDATE 2/19/29: Gov. Evers approves new map, likely ending litigation...

‘Beginning of End’ for Fossil Fuels, ‘The End’ for Rudy Giuliani (We Hope): ‘BradCast’ 12/14/2023

U.N. climate conference wraps in Dubai; Bad news for Trump in three courts; Heartbreaking testimony as Giuliani heads for world of hurt...

You Forgot Poland!: ‘BradCast’ 12/12/2023

COP28 in 'overtime'; Democracy rises in Poland; New U.S. House maps for NY; More good economic news; Trump at SCOTUS; Rudy defames amid defamation trial; Johnson lies about WI's fake electors...

Last Month’s Touchscreen Voting Debacle in Northampton County, PA a Dire Warning for 2024: ‘BradCast’ 12/4/2023

Guest: Election technology expert Kevin Skoglund on why ES&S Ballot Marking Devices printed out the OPPOSITE of some voters' votes...

‘Democracy on a Knife’s Edge’: ‘BradCast’ 11/28/2023

Warning from a top conservative federal judge; Far-right electoral victories in Argentina, Netherlands; Trump threatens use of Insurrection Act; Biden invokes DPA to save climate...

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Off-Year Elections Prove Another Huge Victory for Democracy, Democrats, Reproductive Freedoms: ‘BradCast’ 11/8/2023

Results from OH, KY, MS, PA, VA, elsewhere; Guest: 'Handbook for a Post-Roe America' author Robin Marty of the West Alabama Women's Center...

Election Day Voting Disasters in Parts of PA, OH: ‘BradCast’ 11/7/2023

Huge ES&S touchscreen fail in PA county; Missing VBM ballots at OSU; Also: WI GOP advances impeachment against state Election Director; Meadows sued by own book publisher for lying about 2020 election...

ES&S Touchscreen Voting Systems Fail During Off-Year Elections in Northampton County, PA. Again.

In 2019, same machines recorded ZERO votes for some candidates

NOW UPDATED WITH MORE DETAILS...

A Heads Up for Tuesday’s ‘Bellwether’ Elections!: ‘BradCast’ 11/6/2023

Reproductive freedoms and vote purges in VA, OH; Upset Gubernatorial races on deck in KY, MS?; Election denialism threatens vote counting in northern CA county; Also: Listener calls and other news of the day...

‘Indigo Nation’ Bellwether Elections Next Week Across the U.S.: ‘BradCast’ 10/31/2023

Guest: Former Delegate Mark Levine on VA Assembly, Youngkin's future up for grabs; Also: OH GOP lying about abortion rights ballot initiative...

One Big Step Forward, Three Steps Back in Weekend Elections: ‘BradCast’ 10/17/2023

Also: One step forward, two steps back in Gaza; No steps forward in GOP House Speaker debacle...

Game On, Wisconsin!

Newly liberal state Supreme Court majority decides to hear challenge to the Badger State's wildly gerrymandered legislative maps in time for 2024 elections, even as unprecedented impeachment threat looms...

UPDATE, 10/12/23: Governor Evers files motion to intervene...

How American Newsrooms Can and Must Stand Up for Democracy in 2024: ‘BradCast’ 9/20/2023

Guest: Dan Froomkin of Press Watch; Also: Dems win, outperform in PA, NH special elections; PA Guv begins automatic voter registration...

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Virginia Supremes Void Special Election on Redistricting Referendum in Huge Gift to Vote Rigging GOP: ‘BradCast’ 5/11/2026

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