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CO Election Clerks Block White House/MAGA Plot to Breach Voting Systems: ‘BradCast’ 7/17/2025

Failed scheme echoes Team Trump 2021 breach in GA; Also: WY's new vote suppression; GOP Senate cuts NPR/PBS funding; Dems walk out of Sen. Judiciary vote to make Trump defense lawyer a federal judge...

Hot Indictment Summer (And What it All May Mean for Next Year): ‘BradCast’ 8/16/2023

Guests: Salon's Heather Digby Parton, Daily Kos' Keith Barber...

Don’t Boo(-Hoo)! Vote!: ‘BradCast’ 10/18/2022

UT's Sen. Lee in dead heat; Biden Admin begins student loan forgiveness; Biden vows to codify 'Roe' if Dems hold House, increase Senate majority; Also: Trump/Barr's dumb Special Counsel Durham loses another case...

Tell the FCC To Protect Our Public Airwaves From Dangerous, Convicted Hoaxster Alex Jones: ‘BradCast’ 10/17/2022

Guest: Sue Wilson of Media Action Center; Also: DoJ recommend six months for Bannon; Rightwing '2000 Mules' fraudsters face FBI, IRS referrals from AZ's GOP A.G.; And, Could Grassley actually lose in IA?!...

What the House Jan. 6 Committee Must Do (and Why Dems Should be Wary of Liz Cheney): ‘BradCast’ 6/8/2022

Guest: The Nation's John Nichols on that and midterm primary lessons; Also: Noteworthy results from primaries in IA, MS, MT, NJ, NM, SD, CA...

Ending Traffic Enforcement by Police Makes Sense, Would Saves Lives: ‘BradCast’ 4/20/2021

Guest: Jordan Blair Woods of Univ. of Arkansas School of Law; Also: CHAUVIN 'GUILTY' ON ALL COUNTS; MT's new vote suppression laws...

Good News, Bad News From Trump, Biden and Trump’s Election Denial Clown Show Continues: ‘BradCast’ 11/17/2020

Also: 87-year old Grassley tests positive for COVID; Graham reportedly attempts unlawful interference in GA's vote count...

Law Prof: Dems May Have Just One Chance to Fix Our Broken Democracy by Expanding SCOTUS: ‘BradCast’ 9/22/2020

Guest: Harvard Law School legal historian Michael Klarman; Also: 200,000+ Americans killed (so far) by COVID; GOP's Supreme hypocrisy...

Judiciary Dem, Citing Impeachment Jurisdiction, Explains New Request for Kavanaugh Docs: ‘BradCast’ 8/7/2019

Guest: Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) 'hopes' newest SCOTUS Justice was 'completely forthright with U.S. Senate during confirmation', says House Judiciary 'proceeding in the nature of an Impeachment Inquiry' on Trump; Also: Prez uses visits to Dayton, El Paso to attack Dems...

Trump’s Never-Ending Mendacity; NC GOP’s Never-Ending Corruption: ‘BradCast’ 4/4/2019

The truth behind the President's latest lies on North Korea, Mueller, the border, the military, healthcare and wind power; NC GOP Chair indicted...

Matter of Conscience? Kavanaugh Dominoes Fall: ‘BradCast’ 9/28/2018

Guest-host Angie Coiro's audio documentation of a harrowing day in the U.S. Senate as Jeff Flake confronts history; Also: Counseling for assault survivors in wake of hearings with guest Dr. Lashanda Nalls...

Ford Pain, Kavanaugh Fury: ‘BradCast’ 9/27/2018

Guest-host Angie Coiro with Jodi Jacobson on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford 'on trial' and Brett Kavanaugh's Senate Judiciary Committee rebuttal; Also: The Kochs, and immigrants choosing between deportation and hunger...

Kavanaugh’s Desperation, NYTimes’ Failure; Trump’s U.N. Humiliation: ‘BradCast’ 9/25/2018

Guest: Media critic Eric Boehlert; Also: National Voter Registration Day!...

Defining ‘Disaster’ One Year After Maria and One Week After Florence: ‘BradCast’ 9/20/2018

Guest: Disaster historian Scott Knowles; Also: Kavanaugh's accuser is willing to testify next week under certain conditions...

The GOP Panic to Confirm Kavanaugh ‘ASAP’: ‘BradCast’ 9/19/2018

Also: Toxic environmental disaster begins after Florence; AL SoS sued for Twitter blocking; Bad news for 'dark money', good news for voters...

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