GOP Vote Fraudsters Secretly Plot with Donors, Top State Election Officials to Suppress Voters: ‘BradCast’ 4/26/2023
Today on The BradCast: Their positions on actual issues are wildly unpopular. Their phony culture war issues are bombing. Is it any wonder the GOP’s best chance may now simply be to prevent their opponents from being able to cast a vote at all? On today’s program… MICKEY MOUSE GOVERNOR: The Walt Disney Co. sued […]
‘We Are in a Reverse Democracy Right Now”: ‘BradCast’ 1/19/2018
On today’s BradCast, we’re still fighting for the right to vote and to have that vote counted, 60 years after MLK’s “Give Us the Ballot” speech, 50 years after the passage of the hard-won Voting Rights Act, 4 years after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted it, and one day after what my guest today describes […]
Kobach’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission Facing Federal Lawsuits, Suppressing Votes: ‘BradCast’ 7/11/2017
On today’s BradCast, we’re still trying to keep our eye on the ball, as Trump and the Republicans work to take away both health and voting rights even as the nation is otherwise consumed with new breaking news in the ongoing criminal investigations of Team Trump. [Audio link to show is posted below.] First up […]
Sick Planet, Sick Country, a Few Rays of Hope: ‘BradCast’ 6/30/2017
Desi Doyen and I will be off from The BradCast next week. (Angie Coiro will be guest-hosting for us during our much-needed break.) But we sure are being sent away with a mess in this country — and in the world — before the July 4th holiday. Though we still manage to find a few […]
NH GOPer Decries Trump’s ‘Rigged’ Charges, But Denies Party Promoted ‘Voter Fraud Conspiracies’: ‘BradCast’ 10/17/2016
On today’s BradCast, a self-identified “establishment Republican” pushes back against Donald Trump’s claims that the election will be “rigged”, but goes on to deny that his own party has promoted the very “voter fraud” conspiracies that the Republican nominee is now exploiting. [Audio link to complete show is posted below.] Trump has been increasingly strident […]
‘Not Really Sure He Really Lost’: MO GOP State Senator on His Bill to End Touch-Screen Voting: ‘BradCast’ 5/3/2016
On today’s BradCast, as voters head to the polls for the big Presidential Primary in Indiana — where many of them will again cast 100% unverifiable votes on touch-screen voting systems — a Republican State Senator from Missouri joins us to explain his bill to do away with such systems in the Show-Me State. [Link […]
Gitmo. Still Open. Still a ‘Stain on the U.S.’: ‘BradCast’ 2/25/2016
Today on The BradCast, it’s back to fighting about Gitmo, fighting about SCOTUS and celebrating a delightful birthday. Seven years after his initial attempt to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, President Obama presented yet another plan to Congress in hopes of doing so on Tuesday. Investigative journalist and notorious “FOIA terrorist” (we explain on […]
Appellate Court Puts Newest GOP Voter Suppression Scheme in KS, AZ On Hold – For Now
Early last week, with little attention in the media, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeal applied the brakes, for now, to one of the newest voter suppression schemes on the bleeding front edge of the GOP’s ongoing War on Voting. The insidious new Republican scheme, if it manages to overcome continuing challenges in court, […]
Disgraced Former Members of Bush Justice Department Challenge Order Denying ‘True the Vote’ Intervention in Texas Photo ID Case
“True the Vote” (TTV), the Orwellian-named Republican “voter fraud” front group with a long and sordid history of deception and fraud won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. Release the hounds. The group has filed a formal notice of appeal [PDF] of U.S. District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos’ recent refusal to permit TTV to intervene […]
U.S. Government Opposes Motion By Right Wing ‘True the Vote’ to Intervene in TX Photo ID Case
[This article now cross-published by The Progressive…] The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a vigorous Opposition [PDF] to a Motion to Intervene [PDF] filed by the Republican “voter fraud” group calling itself “True the Vote.” In its motion, True the Vote seeks to become a party to the DoJ’s federal legal challenge to Texas’s […]
‘The Debate is Over’: FL’s ‘Non-Citizen’ Voter Purge Has Been a Spectacular, Disenfranchising Failure
A BRAD BLOG investigation by Ernest A. Canning & Brad Friedman Florida Governor Rick Scott’s attempted purge of “potential non-citizen” voters — a purge which Scott’s Republican predecessor Gov. Charlie Crist described last week as a “shameless,” “mean-spirited,” “insidious” and “sweeping” effort to gain partisan advantage “under the guise of removing non-U.S. citizens” — has […]
U.S. Senate Hearings on New GOP Voter Suppression Laws [Part 1 of 2] – Photo ID Restrictions and the Disastrous Return of Hans von Spakovsky
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning A nearly two-hour hearing in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights earlier this month (full video available here), carefully examined the partisan, multi-state effort by the billionaire Koch brothers-funded, Paul Weyrich co-founded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-fueled GOP effort to enact new […]
GOP Voter Suppression Shifts Into High Gear in State After State as ‘Tea Party’ Shell Game Exposed
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning “I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the billionaire-funded Heritage Foundation and the Moral Majority, said while addressing a right-wing Christian audience in 1980. “[O]ur leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populace goes down,” he added after he denigrated those who seek “good […]
DoJ IG Report Buried, Now Released, Finds Schlozman Broke the Law, Lied About it to Congress
I’ve had this picture in my mind lately, an editorial cartoon-like drawing, of a dam about to break and someone (Obama?) leaning hard up against it in futile hopes of keeping it from bursting forth. The dam and its contents, in my mind’s eye, are labeled “Bush Administration Crimes and Failures.” I’ve been pondering, over […]
AUDIO: Head-to-Head with the GOP’s Hans Von Spakovsky, Vote-Suppressor, Liar
Late last week I had the “pleasure” of appearing on Tavis Smiley’s public radio show, along with GOP “voter fraud” zealot and propagandist Hans von Spakovsky, about whom we’ve written quite a bit here over the years. The show was pre-taped last Thursday, ran over the weekend, and will continue to be available at Smiley’s […]