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CD178: Election Insecurity Since the 2016 election, our country has been questioning whether our elections are secure, fair, and accurate.

Letter to Congress about Family Separation

I’m writing today because I’m deeply disturbed by recent news reports about immigrant parents being separated from their children when they illegally cross the U.S. southern border.

I understand that the Trump administration has chosen to prosecute all illegal border crossers as criminals and there is little you can do about that. However, Congress does have the power to authorize the hiring of…

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CD177: Immigrant Family Separations A new policy change by the Trump administration on May 7th has resulted in thousands of children being separated from their want-to-be-immigrant parents who crossed the U.S.

CD176: Target Venezuela: Regime Change in Progress

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Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves, is a country that has…

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CD175: State of War

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The State Department is known as the agency that solves conflicts with words…

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CD152: Air Traffic Control Privatization

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Air traffic controllers in the United States are a part of the Federal…

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CD174: Bank Lobbyist Act

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The Bank Lobbyist Act was just signed into law and, as the nickname suggests,…

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CD173: War & Prairie Chickens

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The law that funded the government for 2018 is 2,232 pages and Jen has…

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CD172: The Illegal Bombing of Syria

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On Friday the 13th of April, President Trump bombed the government of Syria?…

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CD171: 2,232 Pages

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H.R. 2810: National Defense Authorization for Fiscal Year 2018 Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations Title I: Procurement Sec. 111: Authorizes the expedited purchase of up to 7,000 rifles designed to pierce body armor and "increase soldier lethality" Sec. 122: Authorizes the purchase of one polar-class heavy icebreaker Sec. 123: Authorizes the purchase of 15 Arleigh Burke class Flight…

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CD149: Fossil Fuel Foxes

Exxon Mobil’s CEO is now the Secretary of State. The Koch Brothers’ Congressman is the CIA Director. We’ve already seen signs that the Trump Administration and the fossil fuel industry are merging. In this episode, hear the highlights of the confirmation hearings of the two men now most responsible for environmental law enforcement in the United States: Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and…

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CD143: Trump's Law Enforcers

CD143: Trump’s Law Enforcers

The Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security are the most powerful domestic law enforcement officers in the United States government. In this episode, hear critical highlights from the confirmation hearings of President Trump's nominees for those jobs: Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General and General John Kelly for Secretary of DHS. Please support…

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#115th Congress #Amy Klobuchar #Ben Sasse #Chris Coons #Chuck Grassley #Department of Homeland Security #Diane Feinstein #Dick Durbin #Jeff Sessions #John Kelly #John Kennedy #Justice Department #Kamala Harris #Lindsey Graham #Mike Lee #Orrin Hatch #Patrick Leahy #Rand Paul #Sheldon Whitehouse

CD142: Unethical Rules

The 115th Congress has begun! In this episode, we take a quick look a that government funding law that sets up an April funding crisis for this new Congress and we take a closer look at the shady new rules governing the 115th House of Representatives. (more…)

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#115th Congress #James Mattis #Pete Sessions #Steny Hoyer

CD141: Terrorist Gifts & The Ministry of Propaganda (2017 NDAA)

The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act grants permission for next year’s wars. In this episode, we look at how the new law, in partnership with a reckless Executive Order, will provide weapons to terrorists and legalize American wars fought with foreign humans. Also in this episode, learn about the new Ministry of Propaganda (the “Global Engagement Center”) that the United States will open…

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#114th Congress #Adam Kinzinger #Anne Patterson #Arms Trade Treaty #Azerbaijan #Bashar al-Assad #Georgia #Global Engagment Center #Jack Keane #John Kerry #MANPADs #NDAA #President Obama #propaganda #Rob Portman #Russia #Syria #Ukraine #War on Terror

CD140: The War Mongers' Plan

CD140: The War Mongers’ Plan

No one really knows what Donald Trump plans to do as US Commander in Chief, but the United States' most influential war mongers have a plan. In this episode, hear the highlights from a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing – a hearing that was kept off of C-SPAN and had no one in attendance – and get some insight into the advice our next President will be given to direct our nation at war.…

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CD139: Inside Congress

Chip Lake is a member of the Congressional Dish community and the former Chief of Staff to retiring Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia's 3rd district. In this enlightening episode, Chip provides valuable insight on how Congressional offices operate, which committees are the most powerful, what candidates buy with their "campaign contributions", and much more. (more…)

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#Chip Lake #Lynn Westmorland

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