KPFK - BradCast w/ Brad Friedman

U.S. became more corrupt after the 2016 election, according to new international report on 180 countries. Biden economy is booming, growing at fastest pace since 1984, but good luck finding corporate news media coverage of it. VA GOP Gov. Youngkin sets up tipline for parents to report teachers. TN school board bans Pulitzer-prize winning book 'MAUS' about the Holocaust, just as Nazis banned books. Corrupt rightwing media outlet fabricates and spreads new lies about the 2020 election in WI. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'

Guest: Amanda Litman, Run For Something.net

US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire, giving President Biden an opportunity to fulfill his pledge to nominate the first Black female Supreme Court justice while Democrats still hold the Senate majority. Federal judge upholds the authority of the House Jan. 6 Committee to review the emails of John Eastman of the infamous 'Eastman Memo' detailing steps to steal the 2020 election. Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run For Something, explains their comprehensive non-partisan campaign to help average Americans run to protect the integrity of elections and more by filling thousands of roles in election administration, school boards and city councils in all 50 states.

Good news for voting rights: appellate court overturns WI judge's ban on secure ballot dropboxes. Federal judge panel strikes down Alabama's GOP-drawn congressional district maps as an illegal racial gerrymander. Ukrainian officials ask the world to please calm down, but keep sending weapons. Wingnut Alex Jones and 'Eastman Memo' author John Eastman both plead the 5th in testimony to House Jan. 6 Committee investigating the Capitol Insurrection. VA Dems to block installation of notorious Trump EPA chief to state's top environmental office. Plus Desi Doyen has our 1200th 'Green News Report'.

Guest: Marilyn Marks, Coalition for Good Governance

Tensions ratchet up between Russia, Ukraine, and the West. Fulton Co., GA District Attorney to form special grand jury in probe of Trump's efforts to pressure election officials. Supreme Court to hear cases challenging constitutionality of affirmative action in college admissions. Election security expert Marilyn Marks explains and debunks a chilling draft Executive Order that falsely cited her long-standing election security lawsuit in Georgia as a pretext for directing the military to seize the nation's voting machines to keep Trump in power.

Guest: Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect

Stunning new documents reveal just how close the nation came to an actual military coup ordered by Trump, in a draft Executive Order directing the Defense Dept. to seize the nation's voting machines and launch investigations to keep the loser Trump in power. The draft EO is peppered with lies, errors and outright fabrications about a GA lawsuit regarding electronic voting systems, about which 'The BradCast' has reported extensively. The American Prospect's Harold Meyerson discusses how Biden and Democrats can salvage the transformative Build Back Better agenda and save democracy. Plus: Shell Oil carbon capture facility emits more greenhouse gases than it captures.

Two Senate Democrats joined American history's hall of shame, siding with segregationists and fifty Republican authoritarians to block critical legislation protecting voting rights and American democracy. House Jan. 6 Committee is now receiving Trump White House documents that the disgraced former president tried to keep secret, and has requested voluntary testimony from Ivanka Trump. Fulton Co., Georgia District Attorney requests a special grand jury in her probe of alleged election interference by Trump and cronies in the 2020 election. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'

Guest: Eric Boehlert, media analyst, Press Run

Biden is one year into his presidency, Trump is one year out of office. Have the media figured out how to properly cover either of them? Media analyst Eric Boehlert dissects the corporate media's reporting on Biden vs. Trump and Republicans' assault on voting rights. Supreme Court denies Trump bid to keep White House documents secret from bipartisan House Jan. 6 Committee. Court documents detail evidence of bank, tax, and insurance fraud in NY Attorney General's probe of Trump Organization. Historian delivers hilarious response to Fox 'News' conspiracy theory questioning the identity of Abraham Lincoln's assassin.

Guest: Michael Li, Brennan Center's Democracy Program

Michael Li, senior counsel for the non-partisan Brennan Center, explains how the wave of new voter suppression laws in GOP-controlled states also include new, heavily gerrymandered legislative district maps that allow Republicans to cheat voters, particularly voters of color, out of representation, and actions that could help protect voting rights and ballot access. Senate Democrats push voting rights reform legislation that would also ban partisan gerrymandering and more. House Jan. 6 Committee subpoenas Trump allies Giuliani and others.

Guest: Marcy Wheeler, national security journalist

The fight for free and fair elections moves to the states and the courts, with crucial voting rights legislation expected to fail in the Senate next week thanks to anti-democracy Republicans and obstructionist Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) and Joe Manchin (WV). WI Republican judge, without evidence, rules longtime secure methods of absentee voting are now unlawful. Ohio state Supreme Court strikes down egregiously gerrymandered redistricting maps. National security journalist Marcy Wheeler explains the serious new charges of 'seditious conspiracy' against the Oath Keepers, as the Justice Department moves up the chain of command in their investigation of the Jan.

LA County warned the public to avoid non-essential public gatherings for a few more weeks, to ease pressure on hospitals until the Omicron COVID surge subsides. Rightwing majority on U.S. Supreme Court struck down one of two Biden Admin. vaccine mandates in an absurd opinion that has disturbing implications for the future of environmental standards. Rightwing 'Oath Keepers' founder and 10 others charged with seditious conspiracy in Trump-incited Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'