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Virtual (Still Stolen) SCOTUS and ‘Freedom To’ vs. ‘Freedom From’: ‘BradCast’ 5/8/2020

Guest: Slate's legal and justice reporter Dahlia Lithwick; Also: Pence Press Sec., Stephen Miller's wife, tests positive for coronavirus...

Trust Busting Big Ag to Save Meatpackers and the U.S. Food Supply: ‘BradCast’ 5/1/2020

Guest: Iowa U.S. House candidate J.D. Scholten; Also: The fight for safe, verifiable elections is now a state-by-state, county-by-county battle...

Maybe Now That Margaret Sullivan Has Said It, Someone in Corporate Media Will Listen

'Journalists aren't paying enough attention to this huge story...Instead, news organizations are obsessed, as always, with horse-race coverage'...

Courts Block GOP Vote Suppression Efforts in FL, NC, AZ, MO. For Now.: ‘BradCast’ 2/28/2020

Guest: Slate's Mark Joseph Stern; Also: Coronavirus tanking markets, wingnuts lie about it; Buttigieg 'wins' Iowa!...

Dem Battle Rages After Iowa Mess Despite Candidate Calls for Unity: ‘BradCast’ 2/10/2020

Caucus errors lead to unsupported charges of 'rigging'; Sanders seeks 'partial recanvass'; Unattended L.A. Vote-by-Mail drop-box removed thanks to public oversight; More Trump disasters and lies...

GOP’s Convicted 2002 NH Phone-Jammer Rings In on 2020’s IA Caucus Phone-Jamming Scheme: ‘BradCast’ 2/7/2020

Guest: Former operative Allen Raymond suggests plot to tie up Iowa Dem results hotline may involve more than just online 'Trump trolls'

Also: Sanders wins Iowa (but so does Buttigieg) as NH Primary looms; Record heat melts Antarctica; Vindictive Trump fires impeachment witnesses...

Why Iowa’s ‘Chaos’ Should be Good News for Voters (Other Than the GOP Phone-Jam Scheme): ‘BradCast’ 2/6/2020

Also: CBS-LA runs investigative report (featuring Brad) on L.A.'s new unverifiable touchscreen voting system; And a word or two about Romney's courage and Trump's ugly everlasting shame...

WATCH CBS-LA’s REPORT: ‘How Much Confidence Should Voters Have in L.A.’s New Voting System?’ ‘None’

Story details (some of) my concerns about the new $300 million unverifiable touchscreen system in the nation's largest jurisdiction

NOW UPDATED WITH FOLLOW-UP REPORT...

Special Coverage: Shredding the SOTU; Acquitting a Guilty Trump; Iowa Omens: ‘BradCast’ 2/5/2020

Guests: Heather Digby Parton and Tom Sullivan of Digby's Hullabaloo...

Iowa Fiasco: New, Secretly Developed Tech for a Mission Critical Election? What Could Go Wrong?!: ‘BradCast’ 2/4/2020

And who could have warned about such things in ADVANCE?! Also, The Nation's John Nichols joins us, just back from the IA Caucus meltdown...

The Last Firewall: ‘BradCast’ 2/3/2020

Now that Repubs have rigged Impeachment, the 2020 election stands as America's last defense against full-on authoritarianism...

‘Danger!’: GOP Impeachment Fix in Disarray; Cyber-Concerns Ahead as 2020 Voting Begins: ‘BradCast’ 1/28/2020

Trump team wraps up, Bolton reverberates, GOP lacks votes to block him; Smartphone app at Iowa Caucus; Internet election underway in Seattle...

A Statistical Response to the Charge That Bernie Sanders is ‘Unelectable’

Analysis of 2016 primary election numbers in three key battleground states appears to counter the allegation...

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Special Coverage: Dems Debate in IA; Impeach-ment Transmitted, New Evidence Revealed: ‘BradCast’ 1/15/2020

Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon; 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast'...

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