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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market This week on “”A Republic, If You Can Keep It” We are still 565 days away from the 2026 general election, but the field of candidates in Michigan is already filling out in what’s become the perpetual campaign…and assuming King … Continue reading Candidate Cornucopia
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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market This week on “”A Republic, If You Can Keep It” Thousands demonstrate against Trump’s destruction of the government and economy. Is this a replay of the movements that brought Civil Rights laws in the 1960’s, the end of the VietNam … Continue reading A Temporary Reprieve for the Penguins (Guest: Christina Hines)
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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market This week on “”A Republic, If You Can Keep It” Republicans everywhere are reassessing after stumbling in a couple of Florida special elections that should have been slam dunks, and losing a State Supreme Court election in a Wisconsin landslide … Continue reading Smoot-Hawley Great Depression Sequel (Guest: Senator Mallory McMorrow)
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The most unqualified national security team ever assembled demonstrates its total lack of competence…and defends itself by attacking Atlantic Magazine and Jeffrey Goldberg. Their fallback defense: no harm, no foul. The attack was successful so it’s no big whoop. Trump, who appears to be out of the loop on a lot of what’s happening inside … Continue reading Intimidation, Retribution and Extortion
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In the last week, we have learned that Any media outlet criticizing Trump is corrupt and should be in jail; Any DOJ lawyer or investigator looking into Trump’s many crimes is corrupt and will be fired; Any member of Congress investigating Trump’s many crimes should go to prison; Any non-white person whether in the country … Continue reading March Madness (Guest: Rick Pluta)
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Donald Trump inherited a booming economy from Barack Obama in 2017. It took him three years and one botched pandemic response to send it spiraling towards recession. He’s learned from his first-term mistakes. This time, he inherited an economy the Economist magazine called the envy of the world and has managed to tank it in … Continue reading The Dumbest Trade War in History (Guest: Congressional candidate Alex Hawkins)
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Donald Trump’s embarrassing DOGE assault on every corner of government continues to misfire. The strategy: set a target for cuts in each agency, immediately fire workers with no consideration of their contribution to making government work, backtrack when those cuts blow up. In the words of Elon Musk, “we’ll make mistakes will act quick to … Continue reading Ready, Fire, Aim 💣 (Guest: Jeff Padden)
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Waste, Fraud and Abuse: it is either the new right-wing code for trickle-down economics, or another sign of Trump’s dementia. Republicans want us to believe that a $4.5-TRILLION tax cut for rich folks and corporations can be covered without damaging services needed by the rest of us. Their “theory”: we can cover it by having … Continue reading Waste, Fraud and Abuse (Guests: Journalists John Lindstrom, Cindy Kyle)
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Trump isn’t even hiding it anymore. He is the self-proclaimed King of the United States and anyone who questions him will be banished to Gitmo. His Majesty and court jester Musk continue the flood of executive orders, most of them blatantly or borderline unconstitutional. We do a deep dive into the invasion of U.S. government … Continue reading God Save Us From the King (Guest: Political scientist Matt Grossman)
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“Big Balls” is 19-year-old high school graduate Edward Coristine, who now works as a “senior adviser” in the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology. That pretty much sums up President Elon Musk’s reign of terror running through the federal government, even as Trump’s Clown Cabinet gets virtually unanimous support from a spineless U.S. Senate. This … Continue reading Just Who Elected “Big Balls”? (Guests: Pollster Bernie Porn, Law Professor Sam Bagenstos)