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The Heartland POD – Mid Map Media LLC

American politics from a Heartland perspective. Focusing on facts and fundamental fairness, but not afraid to embrace the funny where it exists. Dedicated to the quiet heroes of America’s Heartland who are making a difference every day.
Monday: The Heartland POD with host Adam Sommer’s opening statement & Talkin’ Politics with co-hosts Rachel Parker & Sean Diller. Wednesday: a rotation of High Country, a report from the Mountain West with Sean Diller, and The Delta with science teacher Nicholas Linke and spouse Kristina Linke, an ASL interpreter and mother, bringing their experience and midwest family life to the issues of the day. Friday: The Flyover View for news & views from the Heartland with host, Kevin Smith.
On most Tuesdays and Thursdays catch an interview show called “Let’s Have A Chat” with politicians, authors, musicians, and folks across the country.
Hosts: Adam Sommer, Sean Diller, Rachel Parker, Nicholas Linke, & Kevin Smith (All opinions shared are those of the speaker, and are not necessarily the adopted organizational views of Mid Map Media, LLC.)

Copyright: © 2022

Latest Episodes:

The Flyover View, November 12, 2021 - Heartland News & Views Nov 12, 2021

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Kansas GOP forces special session on Pres Biden vaccine mandates | Austin Texas Congressional candidates declare | Western U.S. looking to reuse wastewater | Infrastructure Law will fund EV charging on Reservations | Missouri GOP-aligned PAC operative in hot water over finance filings | Federal Judge throws out Texas Gov Abbott's anti-mask order

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Twitter: @TheHeartlandPOD

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The Delta, E12 - COVID Sitcoms: Is School Babysitting? Nov 10, 2021

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Hidden Curriculum 1:
Nicholas is joined by Kristina to draw a parallel between their son binge-watching shows during quarantine and public education being compared to babysitting. If the pandemic affects attendance, which affects performance, then how many seasons of the COVID Sitcom can public education provide?

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Twitter: @TheHeartlandPOD

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The Road To Referendum Goes Through Virginia, Josh Hawley's Masculinity, & Looking Forward to 2022 w/Guest C.W. Gardner "Gardner For Missourah" Nov 08, 2021

Show notes

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Opening Statement - 3min 30 sec

Chat - 7 min 40 sec

C.W. Gardner - Senate “Candidate” Missouri -R

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/cwg18?s=20

Talkin’ Politics - 56 min

True or False: Pelosi gets more credit than Biden for the BP Infrastructure passing

Yeah, no… Josh Hawley’s Masculinity

https://www.axios.com/josh-hawley-masculinity-porn-video-games-c32d4575-13de-4f28-b26b-99aa21bcdae7.html

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1457488072220807169?s=21

Buy or Sell: Last week’s GOP wins were a roadmap to the referendum on Biden’s Presidency and a roadmap to how the GOP will win in 2022

Twitter poll results

https://twitter.com/TheHeartlandPOD/status/1456419488455438339?s=20

Way more races than VA Governor’s race

Dems seem split on being more of a progressive party or relying on the more neoliberal centrist portions to court the illusive swing voters - is there a clear answer here? Impacts of BP infrastructure- BBB Status?

Vote on the BP infrastructure bill

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/budget/580370-lawmakers-who-bucked-their-parties-on-the-1t-infrastructure-bill

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/05/house-democrats-infrastructure-vote-wait-megabill-519731

DEM NOS:6

Bush

Bowman

Ocasio-Cortez

Omar

PRESSLEY

Talib

GOP YES: 13

Bacon

Gonzalez

Garbarino

Fitzpatrick

Katko

Kinzinger

Malliotakis

McKinley

REED

Chris smith

Upton

Van Drew

Young

Important differentiation here: WOKE politics v. progressive politics - we can talk until we are blue in the face about pronoun usage but for most voters those issues DO NOT drive turnout, DO NOT change their vote, and DO NOT make the list of things they care about in politics

Interesting point: White college educated women came out and voted STRONGLY Democratic in Virginia, but Rural women, non college, swung hard to the right

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/27/rising-shares-of-u-s-adults-know-someone-who-is-transgender-or-goes-by-gender-neutral-pronouns/

Cori Bush tweet: We win elections when we legislate change that people can feel. President Biden can deliver that right now by picking up his pen and using his executive power to cancel student debt.

Bush votes NO on the BP Infrastructure

Prof. Harvey J. Kaye - @harveyjkaye on twitter - good follow - Dems are losing VA… Lesson? Stop nominating Clintonites and start embracing progressives and social democracy!

Final Thoughts

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The Flyover View, November 5, 2021 - Heartland News & Views Nov 05, 2021

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Biden Admin set to fine certain businesses for noncompliance on COVID measures | Democrats lurch towards a deal on spending legislation | MO Senate Democratic hopefuls face off | Austin TX Voters reject police funding mandate | MO Gov Parson continues attacks on reporter | Farm to School funds in Pennsylvania | Denver CO area school board elections | Jan 6 Capitol Rioter is sentenced

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The Delta, E11 - A COVID Zebra & The Price of Freedom Nov 03, 2021

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Nicholas is joined by Kristina to share a personal story on their own daughter contracting Covid and the rare complications that arose from it a month later.

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Twitter: @TheHeartlandPOD

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Build Back Bet... Well... At Least Some w/ Trish Gunby (D) MO 2nd District Nov 01, 2021

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Talkin’ Politics

Opening Statement - 7 min 30 sec

Chat w/ Trish Gunby - 9min 50 sec

Talkin' Politics - 41 min

True OR False

Cutting paid family leave will cost Dems the support of their own voters for 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/oct/27/joe-biden-spending-package-democrats-manchin-climate-us-politics-live
https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1453518971945242626?s=20

Progressive caucus ready to jump ship

Yeah, No…

Iowa Gov Kim Reynolds turned down $95 million in funding for COVID relief but just signed a bill to give unemployment benefits to people who lose their job for refusing to get a Covid vaccine - this is real

https://twitter.com/idaveprice/status/1454606186087686147?s=21

Buy or Sell - Kristen Sinema is just misunderstood & Is Outsmarting All of Us

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/27/kyrsten-sinema-ambition-loyalty-517224

It’s Snowing In Texas - Texas GOP member wants to ban books

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-lawmaker-says-850-books-ranging-race-sexuality-cause-discomfort-rcna3953?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
Serious question: Have these people read the bible? Have they really? You want to talk about a book full of things that could make a kid uncomfortable...

BBB Plan Final Version? - Is it enough? Will it matter?

https://kansasreflector.com/2021/10/28/biden-pitches-new-1-75-trillion-spending-blueprint-to-dems-that-drops-paid-family-leave/
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/whats-in-the-democrats-1point85-trillion-dollar-build-back-better-plan.html

No paid family leave
Medicaid dental & vision out
No special billionaire tax - which was possibly illegal any way, just BTW

Mo 4th Race

https://themissouritimes.com/who-is-running-for-cd-4-in-missouri-to-replace-hartzler/
Reality is that this is a Republican seat at this point, the race is the primary - We saw two good people, and good candidates in this race the last two cycles, and it was still not a close race. Don’t expect that to change this cycle, but never say never
Dems known: JD Leathers, looks like he’s been a farmer and worked with several governments in various capacities, certainly relevant experience for the job which is nice - also Anthony Osborne is listed on Ballotpedia but I couldn’t find anything on him

https://www.krmsradio.com/democrat-jd-leathers-announces-run-for-4th-congressional-seat/

Names NOT in the Missouri Times piece: Caleb Rowden from Columbia, Denny Hoskins from Warrensburg, both current State legislators in Missouri

Climate Change Crisis - Day NO. I’ve Lost Track

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/28/world-failing-make-changes-avoid-climate-breakdown-report?utm_term=176ce9ef4e20f7dd49625fc0812472d1&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
Real question - When does this issue become so unavoidable that its actual existence is no longer a political litmus test?

It’s The Economny, Stupid!

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/28/1049611566/economy-gdp-third-quarter-delta-supply-chain?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20211028&utm_term=5917187&utm_campaign=breaking-news&utm_id=5743135&orgid=60&utm_att1=
Inflation - if some of the wild items are removed, is actually pretty normal
Labor realizing it’s own power seems to be a driver here too
People simply making life changes and withdrawing from the “rat race”

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The Flyover View, October 29, 2021 - Heartland News & Views Oct 29, 2021

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ex-MO Governor Eric Greitens faces FEC complaint | President Biden's reconciliation bill contains $500 Billion for Climate Action | What's in and What's out of BBB | Oklahoma sees raft of new state laws take effect | Kansas students in schools with no mask requirements 4x more likely to get COVID | Arm-barns of the future

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High Country - October 27, 2021 - Politics from the American West Oct 27, 2021

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Colorado State Sen Chris Hansen wants to triple property taxes on Airbnbs | Colorado Governor Jared Polis voting against Dem party line on ballot initiative

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What A Month Of A Week It's Been Oct 25, 2021

Show notes

5 min 20 sec - Opening Statement - The Nature of Progress

10 min 15 sec - Talkin' Politics

Yeah, NO…

Facebook Failing and Trump starts a media company
Zuck was hands on with Cambridge Analytica
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/business/media/trump-spac-social-media-venture.html
New names for Facebook?

The Boomer Meme Machine
The Metaverse
Just straight up “The Matrix”

True or False: Bannon In Contempt

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/577894-the-9-republicans-who-voted-to-hold-bannon-in-contempt-of-congress

Filibuster Parfait Strikes Again - Biden entertains changes during his “Town Hall” on CNN

filibuster on voting rights
Nuke it, or at least make it speaking style
https://trib.al/eNyDOI6

Joe Manchin The Type Of Dude that…

Adam Takes a Reluctant Victory Lap on Bipartisan plan v BBB plan
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/senator-joe-manchin-democratic-party-exit-plan-biden-infrastructure-deal-exclusive/
Manchin says he’s not leaving

(50 Min) CHARTER SCHOOLS LOSE SPONSOR - The school choice folks continue to push this fake narrative

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/arch-community-charter-school-in-north-st-louis-loses-its-sponsor-could-close/article_6763928c-0181-56bb-a0bb-a2706335757e.html?recip_id=5763890#tncms-source=login
New “study” from Show Me Institute

https://moschoolrankings.org/
Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy.
https://ballotpedia.org/Show-Me_Institute#:~:text=The%20Show%2DMe%20Institute%20(SMI,state%20and%20local%20policy%20issues.%22

(1 hr 11 min) - Missouri Democrats raising major questions on Lucas Kunce

https://twitter.com/LynzforCongress/status/1452124251847335939?s=20
https://twitter.com/HafnerMO/status/1451676116113055751?s=20
https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/19/top-fundraiser-in-missouri-senate-race-last-quarter-was-democrat-lucas-kunce/
While the attention in the race for MO's U.S. Senate seat has been on the GOP primary, Democrat @LucasKunceMO quietly out-raised the field last quarter.
But he still trails in cash on hand, with Rep. @VickyHartzlerMO w/ $1.6M.

Obama stumps in VA - polling shows folks on the left are not as excited as folks on the right - Dems waiting for perfection? The perfect bill?

Dems in love - Shepherd mentioned this last week - Dems and folks on the left need to think like food - is a perfectly cooked steak for a meat eater perfect? Yeah, but ya know what, sometimes I gotta eat a bowl of soup because that’s what works for that day and the goal is to eat food, which either way I’ve accomplished
https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1452049583593246728?s=21

Final thoughts:

Adam - Colin Powell legacy

Sean - Local elections, get out there!

Rachel - Tragic death on film set

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Twitter: @TheHeartlandPOD

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The Flyover View, October 22, 2021 - Heartland News & Views Oct 22, 2021

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EVs and Fleet Sustainability in Wisconsin | First Responders in Austin TX worry about impact of Prop A | Iowa State Auditor slams privatized Medicaid contractors | Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex is only making things worse | AZ Senator Kyrsten Sinema bleeding supporters by not backing Biden | TX Universities expand free tuition programs | Ohio Senate passes one of the dumber gun rights bills in the country | Missourians can finally apply for Medicaid | Trump Social poops the bed

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Twitter: @TheHeartlandPOD

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