‘The Government Is Not Going to Save Us. WE Are Going to Save Us.’: ‘BradCast’ 8/2/2018
On today’s BradCast, if you’re waiting for the government to save us by protecting elections — or anything else — that’s not going to happen. But you can save us, as I explain today. [Audio link to show follows below.] First up today, voters in Tennessee head to the polls for their midterm primaries (yes, […]
While We Were Out: Record Heat, Pruitt Dumped, and Things Get Still Worse: ‘BradCast’ 7/9/2018
A whole lotta stuff happened over the long holiday weekend, much of which the Trump Administration hopes you don’t notice at all. We try help you notice them on today’s BradCast. [Audio link to full show is posted below.] But we start with some of the very few bits of good news we could find, […]
Death and Taxes at SCOTUS: ‘BradCast’ 6/21/2018
On today’s BradCast, we have not one, but two important and separate warnings for Donald Trump and the Republican Party, as pulled from the deep audio archives of 1988. Both of which — on two separate topics from two separate people — they seem to be completely ignoring, even as one of those warnings comes […]
Judge Strikes Down Kansas ‘Proof of Citizenship’ Voting Law, Slaps Humiliating Sanction on Kobach: ‘BradCast’ 6/19/2018
On today’s BradCast: GOPers in D.C. try to overcome Trump’s wildly unpopular new border policy and Kansas’ Secretary of State loses again in court and faces what may be his most humiliating moment to date. But that’s very good news for voters! [Audio link to program is posted below.] First up, the panic for Republicans […]
‘Very Fine People on Both Sides’?: Neo-Nazi Found Guilty in 2017 Charlottesville Rally Beating: ‘BradCast’ 5/2/2018
On today’s BradCast: Finally, thanks in no small part to our guest today, some accountability for a white nationalist who beat a black man nearly to death following their “Unite the Rally” which turned violent in Charlottesville, Virginia last August. Meanwhile, the nation’s top elected Republicans — from the White House to Kansas — continue […]
Legal Lightning Round: GOP Gerrymandering, Trump Travel Ban, Kobach ‘Voter Fraud’, More!: ‘BradCast’ 4/24/2018
On today’s BradCast: After a months-long drought of one of our favorite guests, legal journalist MARK JOSEPH STERN of Slate returns today! And we make up for the deficit with a legal lightning round on a number of big cases being heard this and in recent weeks at the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as […]
White Privileged Election Fraud, Mass Shootings and More: ‘BradCast’ 4/23/2018
We’ve got a lot of news to cover from over the weekend, and breaking today on today’s BradCast, even as we try to focus on the continued undermining of our electoral system, and the lack of accountability for certain lawbreakers versus others. [Audio link to full show is posted below.] Among the stories we cover […]
Senate Confirms Climate Science Denier as NASA Chief: ‘BradCast’ 4/19/2018
Several stories — pretty much all of them — on today’s BradCast, serve as trenchant reminders of the importance of elections, particularly with majority control of the U.S. Senate now hanging in the balance in this November’s mid-terms. [Audio link to show follows below.] Among the stories both covered and elucidated upon today… Former prosecutor […]
‘Dark Lord of Coal Country’ Rising, GOP Panicking Before U.S. Senate Primary in West Virginia: ‘BradCast’ 4/18/2018
Yes, my guest argues on today’s BradCast, West Virginia Republicans may very well nominate a man just out of jail on charges related to the deaths of 29 coal miners to be their nominee for the U.S. Senate this year. [Audio link to show is posted below below.] But, before we head down to Coal […]
Why Sinclair Broadcasting ‘Is Extremely Dangerous To Our Democracy’: ‘BradCast’ 4/3/2018
On today’s BradCast: Good news for voters in two separate federal court cases concerning the National Voter Registration Act, and bad news for democracy, as a rightwing media outlet is using trusted local television anchors — and our public airwaves — to deceptively promote the Trump Agenda. [Audio link to show follows below.] First up, […]
Democracy Denied and Other Solid Gold Reminders of GOP Rule in the Trump Era: ‘BradCast’ 1/26/2018
After yet another exhausting and harrowing week in Donald Trump’s America, as the Doomsday Clock inches closer to midnight, we try to lighten things up a bit, at least comparatively, on today’s BradCast — even if it’s not always easy. [Audio link to show follows below.] Among the many stories covered on today’s program… A […]
‘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 […]
Trump is a Symptom, Not the Disease: ‘BradCast’ 1/12/2018
On today’s BradCast: Buckle up, and maybe take a few pre-emptive antibiotics just for safety. [Audio link to show follows below.] We begin with a few responses to the racist President of the United States Donald Trump’s reported description of Haiti, El Salvador and Africa nations as “shithole countries”. As a measure of just how […]
Control of VA House Decided by Lot (For Now); Trump ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission Disbanded: ‘BradCast’ 1/4/2018
On today’s BradCast: The wheels seem to be coming off everywhere. That’s both good and bad news. [Audio link to show follows below.] We start here: After a two month back and forth since the November 2017 off-year elections in Virginia, it appears that Republicans will retain — if just barely — their majority control […]
The GOP’s Long Presidential Protection Racket: ‘BradCast’ 12/27/2017
On today’s BradCast, the GOP has made an industry out of protecting their power and their Presidents, from Richard Nixon right up through Donald Trump. And neither the Democrats nor the corporate media seem to have figured out how to counter the Right’s radical transformation of the American political landscape over the past 40+ years. […]