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‘A One-Way Ratchet’: Biden’s SCOTUS Commission Does GOP’s Bidding: ‘BradCast’ 10/20/2021

Guest: Legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern; Also: 'Contempt' for Bannon; Manchin, Sanders in talks; GOP Senate blocks voting rights again...

House Divided: Listeners Ring in on Whether Dems Should Now Gerrymander ‘Blue’ States: ‘BradCast’ 10/18/2021

Also: How the unvaxxed helped kill fully-vaxxed Colin Powell; And how Manchin is killing Biden's landmark plan to take on the climate crisis...

Why Dems Should Partisan Gerrymander the Hell Out of ‘Blue’ States (and Why They Shouldn’t): ‘BradCast’ 10/15/2021

Guest: Author, gerrymandering expert David Daley of Fair Vote; Also: Hope springs eternal for Freedom to Vote in the U.S. Senate; And GOP bathtub climate change physics in Virginia...

Never Mind Vaccines, ‘Red’ State Profs Fight for Classroom Masking at Colleges, Universities: ‘BradCast’ 10/13/2021

Guest: Dr. Matthew Boedy of the Univ. of North Georgia; Also: Shatner in space; Workers have had enough; Biden's big new off-shore wind plan...

Democracy Versus ‘Insurrectionists in Suits and Ties’ and Their ‘Relentless Assault on the Truth’: ‘BradCast’ 10/12/2021

Another busy day taking on America's rising GOP Authoritarian Front...

U.S. Media Still Downplaying Trump, GOP’s Clear and Present Threat to American Democracy:  ‘BradCast’ 10/8/2021

Guest: Media analyst Eric Boehlert; Also: Biden restores sacred lands to national monuments; House reveals Trump concealed losses, foreign money, 'preferential treatment' on loans at his failing D.C. hotel...

Trump Didn’t Try to ‘Subvert Results’, He Tried to STEAL the 2020 Election!: ‘BradCast’ 10/7/2021

Also: Pipeline co.'s leak tech failed in SoCal spill; Judge restores freedom of choice to TX women (for now); Media misreport GOP debt threat...

McConnell Blinks on Debt Default Threat; Manchin Holds Fast to Meanness of ‘Means Testing’: ‘BradCast’ 10/6/2021

Guest: Philly Inquirer's Will Bunch; Also: Idaho's Lt. Guv may be insane -- or maybe just a Republican...

Dem ‘Sausage Making’ Becomes ‘Logjam’: ‘BradCast’ 9/30/2021

Bill to keep U.S. government open (for two more months) gets passed, but the three more difficult and critical bills remain blocked by obstructionists with economic disaster and Biden agenda hanging in the balance...

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No, Police Reformers Are NOT to Blame for 2020’s Record Homicide Spike: ‘BradCast’ 9/29/2021

Guest: ACLU policing expert Carl Takei; Also: Sinema tanking Dems' Build Back Better agenda; Trumpworld circulates fake AZ 'audit' report...

‘A Time of Intensity’: ‘BradCast’ 9/28/2021

Biden and Congressional Dems face down a GOP hell-bent on chaos and a handful of 'moderate' Dems set on undermining the Build Back Better agenda; Also: Is the electric vehicle inflection point finally here?...

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‘The Whole Thing Was a Grift’: A Postmortem for Cyber Ninjas’ Spectacularly Failed AZ ‘Audit’: ‘BradCast’ 9/27/2021

Guest: Maricopa 'audit' insider and 'bamboo guy' John Brakey of AUDIT-USA; Also: Congressional GOP pushing the U.S. government toward default and global economic disaster...

NASA Climate Scientist: ‘Net Zero by 2050’ Not Nearly Enough: ‘BradCast’ 9/24/2021

Guest: Jet Propulsion Lab's Dr. Peter Kalmus on the need for 'climate emergency mode'; Also: Yesterday's 'BradCast' scoop on Cyber Ninjas' hilarious AZ 'audit' fail confirmed by rest of national media...

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