Trump’s Day 1 Assault on America: ‘BradCast’ 1/21/2025
On Day 2 of the second corrupt Trump Presidency, we catch up on today’s BradCast with the destruction he wrought (or attempted to) on Day 1, just hours after he became the first convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and adjudicated insurrectionist to be sworn in as President of the United States. And it all just happens […]
Republican Federal Courts Taking Aim at Section 2 of Voting Rights Act: ‘BradCast’ 1/14/2023
What a way to “celebrate” Martin Luther King Day this year on The BradCast. Fifty-eight years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act and 10 years since the rightwingers on the U.S. Supreme Court gutted one of its central provisions, our even farther rightwing courts now appear to be gunning for much of the […]
As COVID Continues, Reagan’s Gift to Big Pharma is Still Endangering Global Health
We should be both relieved and outraged! Relieved that, earlier this month, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new round of booster shots specifically re-designed to address new variants of the deadly COVID virus. Outraged because, despite the expenditure of tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars […]
At a Moment of National Peril, Warnock’s ‘Voting Rights Speech for the Ages’
“A republic,” Ben Franklin famously said, “if you can keep it.” After more than 230 years, the great American experiment — constitutional democracy — has arrived at a moment of grave national peril, once again testing Franklin’s warning. Like the Confederates who fired on Fort Sumter at the outset of a bloody Civil War, a […]
Nothin’ But News, Mostly Out Of Congress, Much of It Insane: ‘BradCast’ 10/28/2019
With the avalanche of news over the weekend and right up until airtime, we’ve got nothing but news on today’s show. Most of it emanates out of Congress in one way or another, though we take a short side-journey to debunk a major lie over the weekend by Donald Trump. Even that, however, is ultimately […]
‘First Genuinely Good Election Night for Wisconsin Progressives’ in Years: ‘BradCast’ 4/4/2018
On today’s BradCast: It was a huge night in Wisconsin on Tuesday, as a progressive candidate for the state Supreme Court trounced a so-called ‘conservative’ who was backed by another full court press by state and national GOP groups. [Audio link to show follows below.] It was the first such victory for a progressive vying […]
‘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 […]
Coretta’s Letter, Warren’s Rebuke and Sessions’ ‘Voter Fraud’ Prosecution of Civil Rights Activists: ‘BradCast’ 2/8/2017
On today’s BradCast: The full letter and the full story behind the letter from Martin Luther King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, that resulted in Senate Republicans voting to force Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to sit down and shut up for the duration of debate over Donald Trump’s objectionable nominee for Attorney General, Sen. Jefferson Beauregard […]
Voting Rights Act 50th Anniversary: Special ‘BradCast’ Coverage, 8/6/2015
Today on The BradCast, special coverage in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the crowning jewel legislation of the civil rights movement, written with the blood and tears of thousands, and now under fire today as it has never been since its passage helped lift the nation out […]
Obama Calls for Restoration of Voting Rights Act at 50th Anniv. of ‘Bloody Sunday’ March in Selma
President Barack Obama offered a stirring speech this afternoon at the entrance to the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Bloody Sunday March in Selma, Alabama in 1965. The brutal police violence brought against courageous, peaceful marchers that day, and the subsequent peaceful marches that followed it, led directly to the […]
MLK Day Irony Accomplished
Ernie Canning dropped me an email this morning linking to this article in today’s LA Times… The 85 richest people on Earth have the same amount of wealth as the bottom half of the population, according to a new report that highlights growing income inequality as political and business leaders gather for the annual World […]
KPFK ‘BradCast’: ‘March on Washington’ 50th Anniversary Special Coverage
What was the one, most important takeaway from today and Saturday’s 50th Anniversary commemoration of MLK’s “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom”? The one issue that seemed to make it into the remarks of just about everyone who spoke? That’s what we discussed during the first part of today’s KPFK/Pacifica Radio BradCast, along with […]
Photo of the Moment: The March Continues
92-year-old William Allison at today's march with the same sign he used in 1963! –> pic via: @TheObamaDiary #MOW50 pic.twitter.com/Hwg8cJqdjh — Eric Wolfson (@ericwolfson) August 24, 2013
Arrest of the Moment: Seriously, North Carolina?
So this is what it’s come to, North Carolina? Really?… [Hat-tips @utbrp and @enmarshall.] * * * UPDATE 7/29/13: The arrestee seen above has now been identified, as 83-year old Robert Plummer, Jr. of Carthage NC. He is, according to We Act Radio, “a Korean War Vet who was one of the first African-American Navy […]
92-Year Old Viviette White Fighting for Right to Vote Under PA GOP’s New Photo ID Restriction
Last week, The BRAD BLOG’s legal analyst Ernest Canning reported on the lawsuit filed by the League of Women Voters, the NAACP and the ACLU in Pennsylvania, together with the Homeless Advocacy Project and the Advancement Project, against the state Republicans’ new polling place Photo ID restriction passed into law in March. The law, unless […]