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GOP Election Denialist Candidate Arrested After Dem Shooting Spree in NM: ‘BradCast’ 1/17/2023

What did you THINK would happen?; Also: House GOP plans to crash economy over debt limit. We should believe them on that too...

Biden FTC’s New Rule to Ban Wage-Depressing, Non-Compete Contracts: ‘BradCast’ 1/11/2023

Guest: Public Citizen's competition policy expert Matt Kent; Also: House GOP's dangerous debt default gambit may come sooner than expected...

McCarthy’s Concessions as New Congress Begins With Attacks on Democracy, Law Enforcement: ‘BradCast’ 1/9/2023

Also: Evacuations, flooding in CA; Brazil's MAGA-style coup; Prosecutors in GA, MI move closer to Trump/2020 accountability; Callers ring in...

GOP Threat to Democracy Continues, Two Years After Capitol Insurrection: ‘BradCast’ 1/6/2023

Guest: Philly Inquirer's Will Bunch; Also: Repubs fail to elect Speaker on 13th ballot; Biden awards cops who defended Capitol, election officials who defended democracy...

U.S. House GOP Breaks 100-Year Record for Failing to Elect a Speaker: ‘BradCast’ 1/5/2023

Also: Dems outmaneuver Repubs to elect state House Speakers in PA and OH; And, our first 'Green News Report' of the new year...

The Fake GOP ‘Red Wave’ and Real Cost of 2022’s Skewed Partisan Polling: ‘BradCast’ 1/4/2023

Guest: Data researcher Tom Bonier of TargetSmart; Also: Hilarious Republican failure to select a House Speaker continues into Day 2...

REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY: ‘BradCast’ 1/3/2023

GOP-majority House adjourns after failing to elect Speaker; Also: AZ's A.G. recount ends, Dems take statewide office in previously 'red' state...

‘Inmates Take Over the Asylum’ at Year’s End on Twitter and in the U.S. House as of 2023: ‘BradCast’ 12/20/2022

Guest: Salon's Heather Digby Parton joins us for our final show of 2022...

Good News: GA Breaking Early Voting Records! Bad News: GA Breaking Early Voting Records!: ‘BradCast’ 11/30/2022

Guest: GA election integrity expert, observer Jeanne Dufort; Also: Dems unite behind new House leadership; Bills passed to help avert rail strike; Meadows ordered to testify in GA...

Now Back to the Quest for Trump Accountability, Still in Progress: ‘BradCast’ 11/17/2022

Guest: Dr. Allison Gill of 'Mueller, She Wrote'; Also: Pelosi leaves Dem leadership; GOP secures House majority; Bass wins L.A. Mayor...

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...

Seeking Accountability for Attempted Stolen Election, Stolen Documents, and Yes, Murder: ‘BradCast’ 5/12/2022

J6 Comm subpoenas McCarthy, four other Reps; Fed grand jury probes Trump handling of classified docs; Eastman advised how to steal PA's 2020 election; House finds meatpackers colluded with Trump Admin for deadly COVID Exec Order; DeSantis' FL gerrymander nixed by judge...

‘Denazification’? Russian Bombs Reportedly Fall on Ukraine Holocaust Memorial: ‘BradCast’ 3/1/2022

And other troubling war news; Also: GOP Congressmembers speak at pro-Putin White Supremacist rally; Huge percentage of TX mid-term ballots rejected under new GOP absentee ballot restrictions...

SCOTUS Blocks OSHA Experts from ‘Protecting General Welfare’ of Workers Amid Pandemic: ‘BradCast’ 1/13/2022

Also: Oath Keepers founder charged with 'seditious conspiracy' for Capitol attack; Bernstein says Jan 6. 'cover-up in excess of Watergate'...

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