Jamie and Braden tell a transit story and try to celebrate some housing headlines. Then Jamie sits down with Nashville native Pastor David Tucker (29:00). We talk police accountability, why the Metro Arts saga is indicative of larger issues, emboldened Nazis and the racial nature of policy in Nashville.

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Jamie and Braden welcome Tennessee Lookout's Holly McCall to break down Election results, Gov. Bill Lee, the implications on the state level and look ahead to November. The Metro Council will stay at 40 members for now but is that the right thing for our city and what is sure to happen next? The deck has been cleared for the transit referendum but what about the campaign?

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By early 1958, the FBI gave the Nashville police a promising lead in the Hattie Cotton School bombing: a letter from a guy whose friend had confessed to the bombing. The Nashville police… well… they weren’t moved to action.

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Pictures of the aftermath of the bombing: Desegregation of Nashville schools included a bombing, great bravery (tennessean.com)

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In the wake of the Hattie Cotton School bombing, the Nashville police arrested a handful of guys. They were not the perpetrators and here’s how we know.

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The Civil Rights Collection at the Nashville Public Library Civil Rights Collection | Nashville Public Library

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On September 10, 1957, Hattie Cotton Elementary School blew up. The FBI immediately went into action hiding witnesses from the Nashville police and backdating memos so that it appeared the FBI had told the police about the plan before the bombing. They had not.

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In August, 1957, Nashville was on edge, waiting to see if city schools would desegregate in September. Segregationists from all over the South descended on the city and a plan was hatched to bomb a school.

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Rachel’s book A Most Tolerant Little Town | Book by Rachel Louise Martin | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster (simonandschuster.com)

More on Harry T. Moore PBS - Freedom Never Dies: The Story of Harry T. Moore

More on Asa Carter Unmasking the Klansman (ugapress.org)

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Jamie is back with Braden trying to understand the most bizarre and actually unprecedented two weeks in politics. What is the Tennessee law on nominees, how has Tennessee responded and how should we be thinking about November.

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Braden Gall sits down with community activist and Explorer of Social Change Jerome Moore. Why are Nazi groups targeting and demonstrating in Nashville? What is the latest with Police Oversight and the transit referendum? Where is Nashville going?

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Jamie Hollin and Braden Gall talk Nashville news and politics. Our guest this week is Meribah Knight. The NPR reporter was embedded with the Covenant Moms and the rest of the Tennessee General Assembly during 2023. The Tennessee Three expulsion, the polarization of Tennessee politics, moderation, cynicism and much more.

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Jamie Hollin and Braden Gall talk Nashville news and politics. The city is tense as a lack of transparency and trust headline multiple major stories with the Police, criminal courts, Judges and the Covenant investigation.

We are joined by USA Today's White House correspondent and former Nashvillian Joey Garrison. We break down the Presidential Debate, the DC decision making, the relationship between local and national politics and even the Tennessee Titans.

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