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The Trump guardrail is gone; so are those nutty election board rules

Back-to-back "bad days" in courtrooms for Georgia's MAGA-led state election board this week, with another superior court judge wiping out the board's "eleventh hour" rules-a-palooza onslaught. Fair High Action CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo joined me today to give reaction to that and the many and varied ways Republicans - the pro-Trump ilk and even just the 'good old fashioned voter suppression' kind - have sewn so much calamity around Georgia's process all on their own.

Meanwhile, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance has gone to "Big Lie" camp and gotten his merit badge. Yep; Vance is now a full-on election denier, meaning any hint of there being a 'guard rail' against Donald Trump's anti-democratic tendencies on the GOP ticket is now gone.

In the "trees for chainsaws" conversation, why there's even one Hispanic voter even considering a vote for Donald and J.D. is already beyond me, but Donald's Univision town hall was a bit of a disaster for their sales pitch to that voting bloc. There we learned January 6th was a "day of love" when he was pressed by a skeptical Republican voter, and he regurgitated (poor term?) the Haitian cat/dog-eating smear because "it was reported" to him. That's not at all unsettling - to know a former and would-be-again future president is so easily misinformed and would react so publicly to incorrect information.

In contrast, VP Kamala Harris went into the "Fox hole" with Fox personality (I dare not call him a journalist anymore) Bret Baier. It didn't go well; at least not for Baier's credibility or Fox's flimsy-already pretense it's a legitimate news source.

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Did SCOTUS signal that the MAGA fever has broken?

The Supreme Court, this week, pulled the reins on the Trump administration's intent to use the United States Postal Service - to curb mail-in voting this cycle. Good!Does this mean we're at the precip...

16 Syys 43min

Will this swing GA House district think 'Cleveland rocks?'

Adam Cleveland, husband, father, UGA alum, handyman-turned-lawyer is now also a politician - the Democratic nominee for state House District 48. He joined me Tuesday to explain why he felt he had to u...

16 Syys 43min

Rick Jackson's Medicaid 'pathway' lacks details; will it also lack expansion?

Ariel Hart, writing for the Georgia Recorder and States' Newsrooms, covered the rollout of GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson's healthcare coverage initiative in a piece Ron reviewed. Details ar...

15 Syys 44min

Assessing "us" 25 years after September 11, 2001

On the 25th anniversary of the horrific three-pronged terror attack on American soil, Ron assesses where the United States is, societally, diplomatically and politically. Are we any less Islamophobic ...

11 Syys 44min

Trump keeps lying (about 9/11) | Islamophobic outrage at NYC mayor shows we've learned little since that day

Years and decades from now historians and psychoanalysts will dissect the Trump era and Donald's chronic need to lie about his accomplishments and whereabouts - never mind the narcissism and predatory...

9 Syys 44min

'Insight' polling - outlier or legit?

PLUS: Rick Jackson's effective ads vs Keisha Lance Bottoms' retail style - which will win?The Rick Jackson campaign has taken a two-pronged approach in the race to be Georgia's next governor: portray ...

8 Syys 44min

This NW Georgia cattle farmer - and Congressional candidate - has beef with Trump's tariff policies

Shawn Harris, vying to unseat Republican Clay Fuller in Georgia's 14th Congressional district, is also a cattle farmer, and like many in the trade, is suffering mightily under Trump's looming beef imp...

1 Syys 44min

Ragsdale's rally rant & the aftermath: intimidating Cobb's teachers

At Cobb County's 'Back to School' faculty rally, superintendent (and Trump fan-boy) went off on a 12-plus minutes long political bender that sent dozens of Cobb educators heading for the aisles and ex...

1 Syys 44min