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The U.K. government on Friday formally approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face espionage charges, a decision that human rights groups condemned as a dire threat to journalism worldwide.

Assange, who has been detained in a high-security London prison since 2019, is expected to appeal the move by U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel, whose office insisted that the publisher's extradition to the U.S. would not be "incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression." The first amendment and freedom of the press are at risk. Credit to Rational National

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Allen Ellison switches his campaign from going against Rubio in the Senate Race to running for Congress, and posts a fantastic video about Money in Politics. TJ Johnson gives us an update on what's up in pop culture, Anna and Hass break down Greg Kelly and Newsmax's racist video on Juneteenth, and we look at a good video by Politics Girl from Meidas Touch, but wonder why they are so late to the party... The Texas GOP loses touch with reality, and Lourin Hubbard has an announcement...

Lauren Boebert accused of hypocrisy by Muckrakers PAC, AOC unfairly criticized for being divisive, Halo is under fire for a Juneteenth promotion, and we discuss gay marriage, interracial marriage, including the case of Loving vs Virginia, and the history of marriage as a social construct in general. 

We talk with Francine Ly, an Asian American immigrant running for the Texas State Senate in District 12. Francine has committed to not taking any money from oil PACs and is an advocate for common sense gun regulations.  

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Birds Aren't Real is a satirical conspiracy theory which posits that birds are actually drones operated by the United States government to spy on American citizens. In 2018, journalist Rachel Roberts described Birds Aren't Real as "a joke that thousands of people are in on.

Plus Tim Bristol from Speaking from the Center and The Bin Podcast joins to do the Dig and talk inflation.  Is it Joe Biden's fault? 

We feature another progressive running against a corporate Democrat as we talk to Jason Call, a candidate in Washington State's 2nd congressional district. Jason is running against incumbent Rick Larsen. Follow Jason's campaign below:

https://www.callforcongress.com/

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Attorney Anna shows us her chops as we discuss the origins of Supreme Court and discuss the Marbury vs Madison case.  Perhaps the most important case in the history of the court. Plus we discuss Moses Ingram blowback on Star Wars Kenobi. 

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Judd Larkin is running to unseat Joe Wilson in South Carolina's 2nd district. We also discuss the Tulsa shooting at a hospital coming on the heels of Buffalo and Uvalde. 

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We look at how Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan's Young Guns strategy married the rise of the Tea Party, despite having some different views and strategy, especially on social issues.  How did they coalesce and eventually collide?

The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party. Members of the movement called for lower taxes and for a reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit through decreased government spending. The movement supported small-government principles and opposed government-sponsored universal healthcare. The Tea Party movement has been described as a popular constitutional movement composed of a mixture of libertarian, right-wing populist, and conservative activism. It has sponsored multiple protests and supported various political candidates since 2009. According to the American Enterprise Institute, various polls in 2013 estimated that slightly over 10 percent of Americans identified as part of the movement

Ira Shapiro's new book The Betrayal is a look at the McConnell senate and turns his gaze to how the Senate responded to the challenges posed by the Trump administration and its prospects under President Biden. We discuss the book as well as ask our own questions about arguably the most important body in US government.

Get the book here: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Betrayal.html?id=7qleEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description

In two previous highly regarded books on the U.S. Senate, Ira Shapiro chronicled the institution from its apogee in the 1970s through its decline in the decades since. Now, Shapiro turns his gaze to how the Senate responded to the challenges posed by the Trump administration and its prospects under President Biden. The Founding Fathers gave the US Senate many functions, but it had one fundamental responsibility—its raison d’etre: to provide the check against a dangerous president who threatened our democracy. Two hundred and thirty years later, when Donald Trump, a potential authoritarian, finally reached the White House, the Senate should have served as both America’s first and last lines of defense. Instead, we had the nightmare scenario: today’s Senate, reduced through a long period of decline to a hyper-partisan, gridlocked shadow of its former self, was unable to meet its fundamental responsibility. Shapiro documents the pivotal challenges facing the Senate during the Trump administration, arguing that the body’s failure to provide leadership represents the most catastrophic failure of government in American history. The last section covers the Senate’s performance during President Biden’s first year in office and looks forward to the 2022 Senate elections and beyond.