KPFK - BradCast w/ Brad Friedman

Guest: Simon Rosenberg, President, NDN/New Policy Institute

It's a rough week for Fox 'News'. The judge in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit sanctioned the network for withholding evidence and lying. Fox was forced to settle with an individual falsely named by the network when it knowingly aired baseless claims that the 2020 was 'stolen,' and much more. Political strategist SIMON ROSENBERG explains his new project, 'Get to 55,' to expand the coalition of pro-democracy voters and engage and mobilize young voters, and why doing so is critical to ensure the survival of democracy over autocracy.

In Tennessee, white Republican state lawmakers' expulsion of two young black legislators is backfiring, galvanizing the public while bringing new, negative scrutiny to the TN GOP. Court halts TN GOP attempt to monkey-wrench Nashville city council. Anchorage, AK voters elect Democrats to nearly all open city council seats. MI repeals anti-labor 'right to work' law thanks to new, fair maps ending GOP gerrymandering in the state. Chipotle forced to pay workers illegally fired in Maine for trying to form a union. Hotel workers in New York win new contract that is forcing non-union hotel owners to raise wages, too. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'

Guest: Kassie Siegal, Center for Biological Diversity; Ernest Canning, BradBlog legal analyst

The Director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute, KASSIE SIEGAL, explains California's landmark new law establishing provisions to hold Big Oil accountable for price gouging consumers in the state. BradBlog.com legal analyst ERNEST A. CANNING dismantles the radical ruling by a Trump-appointed judge in Texas that nullifies the FDA's 20-year old approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, and explains a new lawsuit challenging Idaho's radical ban on abortion that violates numerous provisions in the U.S. Constitution.

Guest: Russ Baker, Editor in Chief, WhoWhatWhy.org

Investigative journalist RUSS BAKER explains stunning new evidence revealed in the NY Times that Ronald Reagan's campaign operatives struck a secret deal with Iran to prevent the release of American hostages until after the 1980 election. Baker discusses the evidence, why it matters, the corporate media's complicity, the long-lasting repercussions of Reagan's "traitorous" deal, and more. Deadly tornadoes wreak destruction in Mississippi. New mass school shooting in Nashville, and some choice words for Fox 'News'. Original air-date 3-27-2023.

Stunning new reporting from Pro Publica reveals how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recieved undisclosed donations in the form of luxury vacations around the world from major Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow. Justice Thomas' failure to report these trips is not only unethical, it is also illegal. The new revelations add to previous reporting on multiple ethical violations and corruption by Thomas and his wife, Ginni. Some thoughts on the 'uncharted waters' of Donald Trump's indictment in Manhattan. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'

Guest: John Nichols, The Nation

Big election news - progressive Brandon Johnson won the Chicago mayor's race. In Wisconsin, liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz won a seat on Wisconsin's state supreme court by a landslide, flipping the court away from hard-right control. JOHN NICHOLS explains why Tuesday's elections were a big win for abortion rights, voting rights, labor rights, free and fair elections, and the 2024 Presidential election, and what they mean for the nation going forward. Also today: GOP-controlled states are doubling down on authoritarianism, from Tennessee to Texas to Florida.

Guest: Heather Digby Parton, Salon; 'Driftglass', Professional Left Podcast

Criminal accountability for a U.S. president finally begins. Special coverage of disgraced former president Donald Trump's arrest and indictment on 34 counts of falsifying business records 'in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election,' according to Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg. Award-winning Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton and 'Driftglass' of the Professional Left Podcast discuss the facts and context of the criminal charges, what it all means, and what comes next. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'

No one knows what will be revealed when the indictments against disgraced former President Donald Trump are unsealed at his arrest and arraignment on Tuesday in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's criminal probe. But that hasn't stopped Fox 'News' and the Republican Party from lying profusely about it. Fox 'News' is not a news outlet -- they are Republican activists and propagandists. In the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox 'News', a federal judge found Fox 'News' knowingly lied to its viewers about baseless claims that that the 2020 election was 'stolen' from Trump. Callers ring in...

Guest: John Nichols, The Nation

Journalist and Wisconsin native John Nichols discusses the critical WI state Supreme Court election, now underway, that may finally flip control of the state's high court to liberals for the first time in 15 years, and its vital importance to abortion rights, labor rights, free and fair elections, and to the nation ahead of the 2024 presidential election. An appeals court ordered Trump's attorney to testify in Special Counsel Jack Smith's criminal federal grand jury probe of Trump's theft of classified documents from the White House, while the unprecedented nature of the emergency order unleashed a flurry of speculation. Original air-date: 3-22-2023.

Late-breaking news mid-show -- disgraced former Pres. Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, reportedly in connection to his hush-money payoff of a porn star before the 2016 election. New unredacted documents released in Dominion Voting System's defamation case against corrupt Fox 'News' reveals hard evidence that the network knowingly broadcast lies falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen. Disney hilariously out-foxes GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis in his attempt to weaponize the government against them in retaliation for criticizing his 'Don't Say Gay' law. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'