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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast and around the globe! NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK!

'BradCast' 7/24/2020 (GOP War on Voting Rights; 'Billionaire Bonanza 2020')

07-24-2020 (53.18 MB)

'BradCast' Recounted: On today's show, we've put together some of our important recent interviews that you may have missed. First up: Millions of Americans have been tossed into unemployment, but stock markets are booming. Billionaires are drunk with irrational exuberance and flush with decades of sweet GOP tax cut cash. What explains the obscene inequality between the billionaire oligarch class and the rest of us? And what can we do about it? The Institute of Policy Studies' CHUCK COLLINS, co-author of the new report, 'Billionaire Bonanza 2020,' explains how we got here, and how we can -- and must -- begin to fix these absurd, decades-long imbalances in our economy. Then: Several 2020 primary elections were disastrous for voters, forced to brave long lines at polling places or overcome huge hurdles to be allowed to safely vote via absentee ballot, to have their vote counted. Voting rights journalist and author ARI BERMAN discusses how the coronavirus handed the GOP new, insidious ways to squash the vote before the crucial November 3rd election, detailing the extraordinary measures that Republicans around the country are launching to suppress the vote in 2020. Berman warns that time is running out for all states to get ready for the crucial November election, with a crush of mail-in ballots and in-person voting during a pandemic and Republicans' escalating war on voters -- and what you can do to help protect the right to vote...