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Global Health Menace Becomes U.S. Health Chief; Also: DOJ’s Thursday Afternoon Massacre: ‘BradCast’ 2/13/2025

Repubs confirm RFK, Jr. to HHS; Six top DoJ officials (so far) resign in defiance of order to drop charges against NYC Mayor; MUCH MORE...

Subsequent Wednesday: Results, Problems, Fallout From Super Tuesday: ‘BradCast’ 3/6/2024

Biden, Trump (mostly) sweep; Haley drops out; McConnell endorses; Protests haunt Dem victories in MN, CA; Few (though some noteworthy) Election Day voting system failures...

Journalist Doxxed, Threatened After Reports on Teen Neo-Nazi Recruiters: ‘BradCast’ 2/28/2024

Guest host Nicole Sandler with Raw Story reporter Jordan Green; Also: MI Primary results; McConnell to resign from Leadership role in November...

Failed Banks, ‘Woke’ Banks and GOP Banking on ‘Woke’ to Win in 2024: ‘BradCast’ 3/14/2023

Also: McConnell checks into rehab; DeSantis flip-flops on Ukraine; NM expands right to vote...

ELECTION 2022/2024: GOP Political Fallout, Blame, Circus Begins: ‘BradCast’ 11/16/2022

Guest: Salon's Heather Digby Parton; Trump's running again; House, Senate GOP leadership chaos; MS moves to hand-marked paper ballots...

GOP Plans ‘Catastrophic’ Debt Ceiling ‘Hostage-Taking’ if They Win House or Senate Majorities: ‘BradCast’ 10/19/2022

Guest: Congressional historian, political scientist Norm Ornstein; Also: Leahy's Iraq War spy story...

Critical Elections, Catastrophic Storm Bear Down: ‘BradCast’ 9/27/2022

Poll workers needed!; Ian threatens FL; Scofflaw TX A.G. flees process server; Congress nears Electoral Count Act update; Listener mail...

GA Dem Rep. Seeks to ‘Unpack’ SCOTUS, Hold ‘Ethically Bankrupt’ Justice Thomas Accountable: ‘BradCast’ 8/4/2022

Guest: Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-4), on his bills to expand the Court, impose term limits and ethics rules for 'unaccountable', 'corrupt' Justices; Also: TN's Thursday primaries and unverifiable voting systems...

Leaked: FL Power Co. Secretly Took Over ‘News’ Site, Ran Fake Candidates, Targeted Critics: ‘BradCast’ 7/29/2022

Guest: Alissa Jean Schafer of Energy and Policy Inst.; Also: OAN deathwatch; Trump's CNN 'Big Lie' threat; Stewart slams GOP Senators...

Establishment Pressure Haunted Manchin Into Major Deal on Taxes, Healthcare and Climate: ‘BradCast’ 7/28/2022

Even more amazing: Schumer outfoxed McConnell to do it! Also: Deadly flash flooding in KY; More signs of UNconventional November elections...

Can We Finally Expand the Supreme Court NOW?: ‘BradCast’ 7/21/2022

Guest: Sarah Lipton-Lubet of Take Back the Court; Also: Biden positive for COVID; Report finds Newsmax lying even more than Fox 'News' about J6...

SUPREME CORRUPTION: ‘BradCast’ 6/24/2022

Packed Court of radical, activist GOP Justices invent imaginary 'historical' reasons to cancel reproductive freedoms, personal privacy rights, gun safety laws; Also: Many more well-established Constitutional rights now in peril; Biden, Pelosi respond; Voting remains the answer...

GOP’s Packed and Stolen SCOTUS Set to Insert Big Government Between a Woman and Her Doctor: ‘BradCast’ 5/3/2022

Guest: Attorney Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewired News Group on leaked Court opinion to end reproductive freedom by overturning 'Roe v. Wade'...

Top Elected Dems Push Back Against ‘Packed’, ‘Stolen’, ‘Corrupt’ SCOTUS: ‘BradCast’ 12/16/2021

Also: 'A lot of people are about to get sick' due to 'explosive' Omicron...

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...

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