House GOP’s ‘One-Two Punch to Shut Down Office of Congressional Ethics’: ‘BradCast’ 1/18/2023
On today’s BradCast: With so many referrals of Republican members of Congress to House ethics investigators of late, is it any wonder the GOP and Kevin McCarthy just voted to gut the critical Office of Congressional Ethics (or OCE) as part of their new rules package for taking over the majority in the 118th Congress? […]
ELECTION 2022: Worst Red Wave Ever! (or, BEST Red Wave Ever?): ‘BradCast’ 11/9/2022
Republicans and corporate media appeared to be shocked on Tuesday night. But it looks like we had it right all along on BradCast regarding this year’s midterm elections. And, once again, the corporate media didn’t. But, good news for them! As usual, they’ll pay no price for being wrong, no matter how many times they […]
UNconventional Times: Power of Abortion Rights (and Danger of Election Deniers) on the Ballot: ‘BradCast’ 8/3/2022
Look at the faces in that photo. Those are the faces of people grappling to understand a profound truth that they simply had no idea about prior to Tuesday night. Those faces should serve as inspiration for every Democrat and/or progressive on the ballot in every race in all 50 states between today and November […]
H.R.1: Ambitious Democratic Measure Tackles Vote Suppression, Enhances Election Security
As their first official bills in each chamber of Congress — H.R.1 in the House and S.1 in the Senate — Democrats are proposing a remarkably ambitious election, campaign and ethics reform measure which would go a long way towards enhancing our system of democracy. At least one important rewrite is needed, however, in order […]
The Stolen, Packed, Rightwing U.S. Supreme Court Not Terrible for Several Days in a Row: ‘BradCast’ 12/15/2020
On today’s BradCast: While the GOP’s packed and stolen 6 to 3 U.S. Supreme Court did the right thing last Friday in unanimously rejecting [PDF] indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to steal the 2020 election (and receive a Presidential Pardon for his thanks), there remains the question of accountability for those who signed […]
‘Do Not Let Them Take Away Your Democracy’: ‘BradCast’ 8/20/2020
Today’s BradCast, I suspect, largely speaks for itself. [Audio link to full show is below.] Among the news covered on today’s program… Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s third 2016 campaign chief and former CEO of the rightwing propaganda outlet Brietbart, becomes the third to be arrested and charged with crimes. He now faces federal felony fraud […]
Progressive Victories (and Some Losses) in MO, MI, AZ, WA, KS State Primaries: ‘BradCast’ 8/5/2020
On today’s BradCast: It was a big day for progressives on Tuesday in a number of state primaries held in Missouri, Michigan, Arizona, Washington state and Kansas. [Audio link to show is posted below summary.] Surprisingly, among the biggest victories for progressives, believe it or not, came in the otherwise “red” state of Missouri, where […]
Trump’s Executive Memo on Congressional Apportionment is ‘Patently Unconstitutional’: ‘BradCast’ 7/22/2020
On today’s BradCast: the COVID crisis continues to get worse, Americans wise up on reopening schools, potential hope for Kansas, and Donald Trump becomes a laughing stock. Again. [Audio link to full show is posted below summary.] Last week, during his rambling, wildly political Rose Garden “press conference” (it was really a political rally), Trump […]
Charles Koch’s 50-Year Effort to Privatize the U.S. Postal Service May Be on the Brink of Success: ‘BradCast’ 7/15/2020
On today’s BradCast: New insight on the nearly 50-year long effort to abolish and/or privatize one of the nation’s most-beloved, 250-year old institutions. Just another disaster waiting to happen under the Presidency of Donald J. Trump. [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.] First, however, today’s show is once again shaken up […]
Amash Getting In? Economy Tapping Out. Much More Election News of Note: ‘BradCast’ 4/29/2020
We’ve got a boatload of news today (for a change) on The BradCast. And yes, we still need a much bigger boat. [Audio link to full show is posted below.] Among the many stories covered on today’s program… Democrat Kweisi Mfume surprises nobody by winning back his old seat in the U.S. House in Maryland‘s […]
U.S. Financial System ‘Whistling Past a Climate Graveyard’: ‘BradCast’ 12/6/2019
On today’s BradCast: While many continue to insist the American economy is on a very strong footing, a few others are quietly warning that our climate emergency could break not only the U.S. bank, but the entire world economy — again — with a climate-fueled collapse that could make the 2008 Great Recession look like […]
Trump’s Unlawful Border Orders; And on Pressing 2020 Candidates for Answers: ‘BradCast’ 4/9/2019
On today’s BradCast: It’s not enough that Trump has fired just about everyone in his failed Administration (or they quit), and has failed to fill the vacancies left behind, and that he has personally violated an unprecedented number of laws both before and after taking office, or that he’s purging most of his top officials […]
Court News (Good and Bad) on Gerrymandering, Voting, Guns, and Abortion: ‘BradCast’ 3/18/2019
We’re happy to have the long-overdue return of great legal journalist MARK JOSEPH STERN of Slate on today’s BradCast! As usual, we cover a whole bunch of important topics at lightning speed [Audio link to today’s show is posted at end of article.] But first, some quick news headlines on the record flooding of the […]
Trump DoJ Ignored NC’s GOP Absentee Ballot Fraud in 2016, So It Happened Again in 2018: ‘BradCast’ 1/23/2019
Donald Trump was busy ‘making American great again’ today by extending the longest federal government shutdown in the nation’s history, intimidating and threatening federal criminal witnesses and their families, lying about Democrats and calling the U.S. House Speaker silly names. And — oh, yeah — continuing to do nothing about a very clear case of […]
DEMS TAKE HOUSE, GOVERNORSHIPS; GOP Holds Senate; Questions About Some Reported Results: ‘BradCast’ 11/7/2018
On today’s BradCast: Some brakes — some — may now finally be applied to our ongoing Trump-induced national emergency, in the wake of his election two exhausting years ago. [Audio link to show is posted below.] Despite shameful obstacles placed in front of voters across the country during Tuesday’s midterms, Democrats managed to wrestle back […]