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Good News and Bad: At the Polls and From the Corrupted Supreme Court: ‘BradCast’ 6/26/2024

Noteworthy election results from NY, CO, UT, SC; SCOTUS opinions on public corruption, social media; More long-overdue pardons by Biden...

Interference Threats Loom Over November’s Presidential Election: ‘BradCast’ 6/18/2024

Also: Lake loses again in AZ; Trump loses again in NY; MD Guv pardons 175k for pot; Biden goes on offensive against 'liar and fraud' opponent...

A Few Hits of Dopamine for Your Listening Pleasure: ‘BradCast’ 4/30/2024

NY judge finds Trump in criminal contempt; A 'key' prediction for 2024; UAW wins again; Indicted AZ state Senator rewarded by RNC; Good news for trans people in WV, NC; Biden goes to pot...not a moment too soon...

More GOP Election Fraud and Long-Overdue Justice for Crystal Mason: ‘BradCast’ 4/2/2024

Also: AZ Repubs move to end early and mail-in voting; Trump coughs up $175M bond in NY, sees gag order expanded; FL Supremes approve abortion ban, allow abortion rights ballot measure in November...

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...

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...

Despite ‘Chokepoint Capitalism’, Creative Types Can Unite, Fight Back: ‘BradCast’ 10/7/2022

Guest Host Nicole Sandler with authors Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin...

Will Florida Voters Finally Hold Its GOP Leaders Accountable for Misleading on Climate Change?: ‘BradCast’ 10/6/2022

(If they are able to vote at all this year?) Also: Voter reg spikes among IDAHO women after 'Roe' overturned; Biden goes to pot before midterms...

Progressives in AZ Have a Plan to Push Back on the State GOP’s ‘Batshit Crazy Attack on Voters’: ‘BradCast’ 4/1/2022

Guest: Eric Kramer of Arizonans for Fair Elections; Also: Good news on the economy, unions, COVID and cannabis!; Plus: Annoy a Nazi!...

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...

U.S. EAC Sued to Restore Guidelines After Secret Meetings With E-Vote Vendors Allowed Modems: ‘BradCast’ 7/14/2021

Guest: Election security expert Susan Greenhalgh of plaintiff Free Speech for People; Also: Senate Dems announce deal for 'transformative' $3.5 trillion health care, climate, infrastructure package...

‘Barbaric’ SCOTUS Decision Blows Away Precedent on Juvenile Justice, Offers Very Dark Warning: ‘BradCast’ 4/23/2021

Guest: Slate legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern; Also: Biden soaring in polls, young voters hopeful again about the future...

‘The Art of the Possible’: ‘BradCast 3/25/2021

Biden's first presser and filibuster reform; Good economic numbers, maddening COVID numbers; Death penalty banned in VA; NY finally goes to pot; GA undermines democracy; Senate GOP pretends vote suppression doesn't exist; Also: Oil and plastic...

Meanwhile…In a Break (Mostly) from Impeachment News…: ‘BradCast’ 10/24/2019

CA fires, private utility blackouts; Wilbur Ross' private email scandal; Giuliani lawyers up; 'Obamacare' prices drop; MA's shameful vaping ban...

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More GOP Vote Rigging Underway. Hey, Maryland Dems! Time to Get Crackin’!: ‘BradCast’ 5/14/2026

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Do Dems Have the Courage Required to Restore and Reform American Democracy? (Do You?): ‘BradCast’ 5/13/2026

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