After GOP Tax Scam Passes, Will Dems Finally Leverage Popular Resentment of the Rich?: ‘BradCast’ 12/19/2017
On today’s BradCast: Is it time for Dems to run on soaking the rich? If the GOP’s tax legislation doesn’t reveal Republicans’ own continuing class warfare against the poor and middle-class, nothing will. But will Democrats be smart enough to take advantage of it? [Audio link to show follows below.] On Tuesday, House Republicans passed […]
Ignoring Gun Violence, Denying Climate Science, Pretending Tax Cuts ‘Pay for Themselves’: ‘BradCast’ 5/1/2017
On today’s BradCast: Republicans continue to pretend we don’t face a gun violence epidemic in the U.S., that human-caused climate change isn’t happening and that massive tax cuts help, rather harm, the economy and the middle class. They may need to pretend harder. [Audio link to full show is posted below.] First up today, a […]
Trump’s Tax Reform ‘Grand Delusion’: ‘BradCast’ 3/30/2017
Today on The BradCast: So, what now? What’s the next step for Donald Trump’s seemingly perpetually faltering Presidency? He and Congressional Republicans suggest they’ll go for Tax Reform next. But will that scheme be any more successful than the big promises that Trump has, so far, tried and failed to accomplish? [Audio link to show […]
‘Pixie Dust and Hope’ v. Coal Dust and Corruption: ‘BradCast’ 3/29/2017
On today’s BradCast, some accountability news for a happy change of pace! What are the odds? [Audio link to the show posted below.] Among the accountability stories covered on today’s show: 15 felony counts filed in CA against the rightwing activists who secretly video taped and then lied about Planned Parenthood; 28 federal criminal counts […]
Former Evangelical Explains How to Crack the ‘Faith’ of Trump Supporters: ‘BradCast’ 3/27/2017
On today’s BradCast, a former evangelical Christian who, after decades of participating in the political rightwing anti-abortion con has since seen the light, joins us to explain what Democrats need to do in order to encourage his “brainwashed” former followers to realize they’ve been scammed by Donald Trump. [Audio link to show at end of […]
How ‘Citizens United’ Gave Us Clarence Thomas, Climate Change Denial and Neil Gorsuch: ‘BradCast’ 3/22/2017
On today’s BradCast, with the consistent help of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), we connect some of the dots between the Citizens United ruling, the GOP theft of the U.S. Supreme Court and the undermining of climate change legislation. Yes, it’s all of a piece, and it begins well before the fateful SCOTUS ruling in 2010. […]
Get Ready for Hot GOP on GOP Budget Action!: ‘BradCast’ 3/9/2017
On today’s BradCast, Congressional GOP leadership continues to ram their “ObamaCare” repeal and replacement bill through House Committees, even as the future of their American Health Care Act remains uncertain with Republican opposition in both the House and Senate, not to mention growing opposition from health care advocacy groups. But that’s just one of the […]
‘There Is No Plan’: House GOP’s New Health Care Proposal Flops on Right: ‘BradCast’ 3/7/2017
On today’s BradCast, the GOP health care plan to “repeal and replace” Obamacare has landed with a thud among Democrats and, only somewhat more suprisingly, among so-called conservatives. And, as our guest argues today, that may have been the plan all along. [Audio link to show posted below.] House Republicans leadership introduced their long awaited […]
Appeals Court Upholds MD Ban on ‘Weapons of War’ and Other Encouraging News for a Change: ‘BradCast’ 2/22/2017
On today’s BradCast, as dark as yesterday’s show was, today is somewhat the opposite, with a whole bunch of encouraging news from the courts and the people across these United States. [Audio link to show follows below.] Attorney and legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern of Slate joins us to break down the full 4th Circuit […]
Reality Catches Up with Republicans (or Vice Versa); Plus: Larry Flynt vs. Trump and the Media: ‘BradCast’ 1/12/2017
On today’s BradCast, the GOP “dogs” having finally caught up with the “reality” bus on ObamaCare and Iran and more. So, what will they do now? Also, free speech icon Larry Flynt joins us to blame the U.S. media for Donald Trump and much more. [Audio link to show follows below.] First today, the DoJ […]
Imagine the US Without California. Plenty of Californians Are: ‘BradCast’ 12/30/2016
On today’s BradCast, I’m in for Brad again. We start by pick up where we left off yesterday, with another review of fake news – this time, contrasting it with lazy, bad, or mistaken news reports. And – about that reported book contract a flamboyant neo-Nazi is crowing about: why it’s way too early to […]
Record Dark, Corporate Spending on 2016 State Supreme Court Elections: ‘BradCast’ 10/28/2016
On today’s BradCast: While the national media is obsessed with Trump, a record amount of dark money from undisclosed corporate sources is being spent on judicial elections at state Supreme Courts. Also: A whole lotta other breaking news today, from a new development in the Hillary Clinton email probe, to some white, armed hooligan wingnuts […]
‘Political Jujitsu’: Utility Company Shill Caught Admitting to Shady Anti-Solar Measure in Florida: ‘BradCast’ 10/26/2016
On today’s BradCast, the scam behind Florida’s anti-solar Amendment 1 initiative is revealed and widespread voter suppression tactics are reported during early voting in Texas. [Audio link to show posted below.] Florida’s Amendment 1, a statewide constitutional ballot measure, is purposely deceptive, according to an anti-solar lobbyist revealed to be working closely with the state […]
The Trumpening: 2nd Presidential Debate Turns Very Dark in St. Louis, MO: ‘BradCast’ 10/10/2016
The insane 2016 Presidential campaign took a decidedly dark turn on Sunday night. We cover all of that darkness and more on today’s BradCast. [Link to audio posted below.] After a weekend of seeming implosion by the GOP nominee and the Republican Party on the heels of the release of a 2005 ‘hot mic’ video […]
‘The Most Audacious Political Heist of Our Time’: ‘BradCast’ 9/26/2016
Today on The BradCast: Where the Presidential race stands as we head into the debates and how an ingenious GOP scheme in 2010 may have served to undermine (small-d) democracy in the U.S. for a decade or more. [Audio link posted below.] As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump prepare to face off in their first […]