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The Political Landscape as Dems Seek to Avoid the GOP’s Massive, Year-End Health Care Cliff: ‘BradCast’ 12/4/2025

Guest: Politico's Alice Miranda Ollstein; Also: J6 pipe bomber; IG slams Hegseth; Dems 'disturbed' by boat strike video; Grand Jury denies new James indictment; SCOTUS allows TX' racial gerrymander...

CO Election Clerks Block White House/MAGA Plot to Breach Voting Systems: ‘BradCast’ 7/17/2025

Failed scheme echoes Team Trump 2021 breach in GA; Also: WY's new vote suppression; GOP Senate cuts NPR/PBS funding; Dems walk out of Sen. Judiciary vote to make Trump defense lawyer a federal judge...

More Than 300,000 ‘Preventable’ Deaths Since Musk, Trump, DOGE Shutdown of USAID: ‘BradCast’ 6/4/2025

Guest: Dr. Brooke Nichols, Assoc. Prof of Global Health at Boston Univ.; Also: Admin attacks CBO as budget bill found to add trillions to deficit...

Bad Court and Election News for Trump is Good News for America: ‘BradCast’ 3/31/2025

Federal judges keep ruling against Admin; LA voters reject GOP Guv's amendments; Musk scrambles to buy WI, FL elections for Repubs; Also: U.S. nowhere to be found after Myanmar quake; Callers ring in...

Courts Largely Holding Against Rampant Trump, Musk Lawlessness. For Now: ‘BradCast’ 3/18/2025

Trump ignores immigration ruling, threatens judge; Federal workers return after two courts rule; USAID shutdown found deadly, 'unconstitutional'; Also: 'Dead' Social Security recipient fights for his benefits...

Trump Nixed Enforcement Actions Against Nearly 100 Favored Corporate Lawbreakers: ‘BradCast’ 3/12/2025

Guest: Rick Claypool of Public Citizen; Also: Senate Dems block GOP budget resolution (for now); DoJ guts Public Corruption unit; USAID ordered to shred, burn documents...

‘A Litany of Atrocities’: The Longest, Dullest, Most Lie-Filled ‘SOTU’ Ever: ‘BradCast’ 3/5/2025

Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast'; Also: SCOTUS narrowly rules against Trump on USAID funding...

Trump is Bad for Business… and Farmers… and National Parks… and… : ‘BradCast’ 3/4/2025

Also: More evidence 'DOGE' is clueless; 'GNR' turns 16!; Much more!...

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The Ongoing Waste, Fraud and Abuse by Trump, Musk and the DOGE Bros: ‘BradCast’ 2/26/2025

Billions in 'savings' quietly deleted; Elon awards himself huge new contract at FAA; Trump keeps losing in court (and defying orders); Also: Un-finding the EPA's landmark climate 'endangerment finding'...

Why Does Trump Want to Destroy the Federal Government? Seriously, What’s in it for Him?: ‘BradCast’ 2/24/2025

Lots of related news, and callers ring in with answers to that question...

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2024’s Last Unsettled Race: ‘BradCast’ 2/12/2025

Guest: Debra Dicks Maxwell of the NC NAACP; Also: Trump 'violates First Amendment' by shutting out AP, attacks free speech by firing another IG...

Some Trump/Musk ‘Shutdowns’, ‘Pauses’ and ‘Freezes’ You Haven’t Heard as Much About: ‘BradCast’ 2/6/2025

Guest: Author, financial journalist David Dayen on the CFPB, NLRB shutdowns; Also: Bird flu spreading amid CDC, USDA communications, research 'pause'; Racist Musk DOGE Bro at Treasury resigns...

‘Two-State Solution — State of Confusion and State of Chaos’: ‘BradCast’ 2/5/2025

Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast' on the disastrous, illegal, authoritarian state of play in Trump/Musk World, and its rising Opposition...

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