Universal Health Care in California? Maybe Soon. (w/Guest Wendell Potter)
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Thom talks with Wendell Potter about the fight currently in the California legislature to enact single payer health care for the whole state.
Wendell Potter [[former health insurance industry executive, Author - "Deadly Spin" and "Nation on the Take")
The Republican Tax Scam We've All Been Falling For
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Thom talks about the web of lies republicans spread about the effects of taxes to get the American people to go along with their plan to redistribute all wealth upwards to the mega-rich.
Theodore Roosevelt Is the President Trump WISHES He Was
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Thom talks about some of the characteristics that made our 26th so well regarded, and how Trump tries to emulate the appearance of these without any of the substance to back them up.
Are Immigrants Getting Deported for Sending Their Kids to Public School?
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Thom talks about some new details from the Department of Homeland Security on immigration enforcement policy going forward.
Is Trump Anxiety Disorder the Newest Public Health Threat?
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Thom talks about people's stress over the Trump administration, and chats with callers about their responses and how they are coping.
Caller: "Democracy Is Our Job, Not God's"
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Thom continues the conversation on Trump Anxiety Disorder with a couple of callers, including whether or not religion is a possible solution, or part of the problem.
Caller: "Are Black People Really Americans?"
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Thom talks with a caller about what it means to be black in America and the difficult discussions and choices we need to make as a nation, on the 52nd anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X.
Illegal Immigration: Who's to Blame? (w/Guest: Tom Tancredo)
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Thom debates what works and what doesn't regarding immigration enforcement policy with former Congressman Tom Tancredo [[R-CO, 6th District). Should we be going after undocumented workers or the rich companies who hire them?
What Will Republicans Do to Achieve Their Unrealistic Goals? (w/Guest: Charles Sauer)
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Thom talks with guest, economist Charles Sauer [[President, The Market Institute) about the Republicans' economic plans for the next 4 years, the pie-in-the-sky-numbers they're built on, and what we should really be looking at.
Will Your New Cell Phone Give You Cancer (w/Kevin Mottus and Dr. David Carpenter)
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Thom talks about the dangers posed by increasing radiation from cell signals as we prepare to move from 4G to 5G.
Getting An ID to Vote Is Not as Easy as Republicans Say It Is
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Thom talks with a caller about the very real difficulties many average Americans face in procuring a photo ID to be able to vote. Exactly as republicans want it!
Trump Only Watches Fox News and It's Mostly Fake News and "Alternative Facts" (Lies)
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Thom talks with a caller about Trump's dangerous adherence to Fox as his only source of information. Meanwhile, studies show that Fox viewers are not only misinformed or uninformed, but actually malinformed and believe things which are completely untrue.
Republican Snowflakes Facing Tough Time at Town Halls, When They Show Up
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Thom covers Senator Tom Cotton's [[R-AR) disastrous recent town hall, where the only things missing were pitchforks and torches in the hands of his irate constituents. Callers comment on their own town hall experience with their republican reps [[or lack thereof).
Trump Is Here to Protect Programs, Really?
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Thom talks about the perception that Trump is going to "save" federal programs that people support. Meanwhile his entire cabinet is hell-bent on dismantling their respective agencies. So what's the real truth?
Send Chicken Feed to Your Chicken Republican Congressman?
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Thom talks to a caller with an ingenious plan for getting the message across to cowardly politicians that they need to be "brave" and face their constituents and the very real concerns they have.
War: James Madison Dire Warning to Republican Playbook
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Thom reads from James Madison's comments in 1795 on the nature of war and its effect on a nation in terms of power structure, resources, and more and the dangers that can come of it. Meanwhile, republicans use war to consolidate and expand power and wealth.
Getting Kids Involved In Politics Early?
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Thom talks with a caller who took his 13 year old daughter to a protest march in their area, and her reaction to it and what she's doing now to become an activist.
The Prevalence and Peculiarity of American Gun Culture (w/Guest: Howard Epstein)
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Thom chats with Howard Epstein [[British Historian, Attorney, and Author of "Guns, Trauma, and Exceptionalism: American in the Twenty First Century") about some of the underlying reasons for America's very unique gun violence problem, and some of the solutions we could try to solve it.
New Poll Shows Even Republican Voters Don't Like What Republican Politicians Do
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Thom covers a new Quinnipiac poll that shows a majority of Americans, including many republicans do not support republican policies and recent actions. So why do so many people keep voting for them?
We've Got to Just Wake Up America and Get People Involved!
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Thom talks with a caller about stopping the republican party and how more people need to get informed by various media sources and get involved in their communities and beyond!
Steve Bannon Literally Wants to Destroy the US Government!
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Thom covers Bannon's recent comments on the "deconstruction of the administrative state", in other words, the mechanism that actually makes government work. Clean air and water, public schools? Nope. More profits for billionaires? Absolutely.
Could California Create Its Own State Bank and Blow Off the Fed?
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Thom talks with a caller about the possibility of the Golden State creating its own bank, and using the money to fund projects like the high speed rail recently torpedoed by the Trump administration.
The Republican War on the Working Class, Death of 1000 Cuts?
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Thom talks about a few of the ways republicans are trying to sap the power of the resistance against them, redistribute wealth upwards, and also their double standard on protests.
Attention: Your Health Care Will Be Replaced with Huge Giveaways to the Rich
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Thom discusses republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with policies that would funnel money to insurance companies and the rich. But "Obamacare" is only broken because the republicans broke it!
Tom Perez Selected as DNC and What That Will Mean for the Democratic Party
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Thom talks with a caller about the election of Tom Perez as DNC chair, Obama's involvement in the results, and how best to react to the party's intention to stay entrenched in corporate donations.