The Trouble With Trillionaires (and Billionaires): ‘BradCast’ 6/17/2026

We are all over the map on today’s BradCast, . Literally. [Audio for today’s show follows this summary.] FIRST UP… The terms of what appears to be little short of a complete loss for Donald Trump and a multi-level win for Iran in a “Memorandum of Understanding”, is read to reporters during a conference call. […]

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Georgia Republicans Pull Abrupt 180 on Redistricting in Blow to Trump

Georgia Republicans have decided not to redistrict their state after all.

The decision came Wednesday after Governor Brian Kemp called the legislature into a special session to do so ahead of the 2028 election. But Peach State lawmakers flouted Kemp’s demands, arguing that the executive had not given them enough time to shift the state’s voting maps.

“When the House learned that it was placed…

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High-potency cannabis fuels state debates over psychosis and addiction risks

When her son was a teenager, Connecticut mom Amy Wadsworth said, he was the type of kid parents rarely worry about. He played sports, cared about his health and stayed away from drugs. In 2018, when he left West Hartford to start his freshman year at American University in Washington, D.C., she expected his biggest […]

More GOP Vote Rigging Underway. Hey, Maryland Dems! Time to Get Crackin’!: ‘BradCast’ 5/14/2026

Today on The BradCast: The horrible, racist, un-Constitutional SCOTUS-aided GOP Gerrymandering Wars are not over yet. And while the jury is still out for the moment, a few key Democrats, in one state at least, are already proving they may not have what it takes to answer the call of Jim Crow history today. [Audio […]

Alex Vindman joins Rick Scott in calling for suspension of federal gas tax

President Trump says he wants to suspend the federal tax on gasoline to aid Americans contending with fuel price increases caused by the war in Iran, now in its third month. However, that would require a vote from Congress. The federal tax is set at 18.4 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon […]

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Southern Republicans Are Already Deleting Black Districts

Throughout the American South is an archipelago of majority-Black congressional districts that provide some measure of Black representation in Congress. These districts owe their existence to a combination of basic electoral math, federal court orders, and legislative compromises. If Republicans have their way, all or nearly all of them will be gone in the next few months.

The Supreme Court’s…

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Supreme Court voting rights ruling set to reshape local power from statehouses to school boards

The U.S. Supreme Court’s new decision gutting a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act clears the way for state officials to drastically reshape not only Congress but also state legislatures, county commissions, city councils and even local school boards. The ruling, released last week in a case called Louisiana v. Callais, dismantled some […]

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