Thom speaks with guest Greg Palast (Investigative Journalist, Filmmaker – The Best Democracy Money Can Buy) about the recent appearance of junk mail looking postcards requiring voters to mail them back to verify their registration and not get purged from rolls. Will your state be the next to do...
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Thom chats with a caller who brings up a “study” on minimum wage that’s been making the rounds recently, claiming all sorts of calamitous effects if it’s raised. But the study is poorly conducted and likely supported by right wing “think tanks” who want to maintain wealth and privilege for their mega rich...
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Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Forty-five states have now said that they won’t give sensitive voter data to Donald Trump’s “Election Integrity Commission.” Theoretically – at least – this is good news. The Election Integrity Commission is a sham. Led by the King of Crosscheck himself – former Secretary of State Kris Kobach – it’s a blatant attempt at a national voter suppression campaign. But according to my next guest – the bipartisan “resistance” we’re seeing in the states to the Commission’s data request isn’t what it...
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Thom talks about the current state of American politics. Are we headed towards an inevitable crisis...
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Alan Tonelson, RealityChek (blog)/The Race to the Bottom. Economists in the media are warning that Donald Trump’s plan to slap big tariffs on aluminum and steel could spark a trade war. Is that actually a good...
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