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Daily Take: Red State Hell: The GOP Plan to Keep You Desperate, Sick, and Too Damn Tired to Fight Back May 15, 2025

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Why Republicans love to create poverty, pain, and desperation — it keeps wages low and the billionaires happy…

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Could an Arrested Judge Go to Prison? May 14, 2025

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News...Chief Justice is concerned about the rule of law - but - he gave Trump immunity, Texas wants to shut down news they don't like, Could an arrested Judge go to prison? Plus more. Texas Republicans want to shut down people like me who write editorials they don't like. The judge arrested by ICE last week was just indicted by a federal grand jury and is now facing prison.

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Daily Take: Are We Still a Nation That Takes Care of Its Own—Or Just a Playground for Billionaires? May 14, 2025

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As Republicans slash Medicaid to fund tax breaks for the morbidly rich, America must decide: Do we honor our social contract or abandon it to greed?

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Trojan Horse One May 13, 2025

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Are Republicans ready to cheer for a president who's sold out to authoritarian Muslim leaders who put millions straight into his personal bank accounts?

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Daily Take: America’s Long Coup: How the GOP Rigged, Lied, and Stole Its Way Into the White House for Over 50 Years May 13, 2025

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The numbers are in. The evidence is overwhelming. And the silence is deadly. It’s time Democrats started calling this what it is: a decades-long criminal conspiracy to seize power by any means…

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Trump's Tariff Terror Negotiations May 12, 2025

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Deals are being cut, but will the tariff roller coaster benefit or only damage the American economy? What would a smart tariff policy look like?

Plus- when did the GOP become the Ministry of Propaganda?

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Daily Take: The Machines Are Learning — and They’re Learning to Be Fascists May 12, 2025

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AI is not just another tech revolution. It’s the perfect storm of surveillance, manipulation, and digital obedience — and the far right already has a head start…

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Will the Heartless Truly Kill Democracy? May 11, 2025

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A government without empathy is only a conspiracy to elevate the powerful over the weak. America's moral collapse is on a plane to Libya. It is in the living rooms of the disabled abandoned by our federal government- and in the corrupt financial plundering for the sake of the billionaires, all while cloaking itself in Republican dogma and lies.

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The Problem is Power Itself May 10, 2025

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Phill Ittner joins guest host Jeff Smith with the latest from V-E Day in Ukraine. Plus, listeners conspire with Jeff to get to the heart of the matter.

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Understanding the Tearing Down of America May 09, 2025

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Thanks to the Republicans the established faith in American norms is being eroded from the inside-out. Guest-host Jefferson Smith of The Democracy Nerd Podcast takes a deep dive, and brings his dad along for the ride!

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