A wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Rachel Maddow, host of the popular Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC.

We’ll review the midterm elections, examine the significance of the surge in women elected to public office, and discuss how deep the changes in our nation’s soul truly run – and how permanent those changes might truly be.

Rick Smith Show - 12-15-2018 by Progressive Voices

Richard Fowler 12-15-2018 by Progressive Voices

Nurse Talk 12-15-2018 by Progressive Voices

Free Forum 12-16-2018 by Progressive Voices

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Mueller is closing in on the the world's most prolific liar - the traitor and con man, Donald Trump. Republicans don't care. After all, they have their priorities. Needlessly killing Americans by ensuring they die without health care is at the top of the list.

A Federal Judge in Texas rules the entire ACA "unconstitutional." The "general welfare" only factors in when billionaires need a more money siphoned into their pockets.

We discuss another week of Republican immorality, treason and madness.

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Leslie is joined by Kumar Rao, a civil and human rights lawyer based in New York City and a former criminal defense attorney. He is a Scholar at the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding and is presently Senior Counsel at the Center for Popular Democracy. He holds a JD cum laude from New York University School of Law and a BBA with Honors from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a co-author of ISPU's report, "Equal Treatment: Measuring the Legal and Media Responses to Ideologically Motivated Violence in the United States?"

The two discuss the aforementioned report, "Equal Treatment?" This is a sample from the executive summary of the report.

"Hate crime or terrorism? Lone wolf or extremist? These words are often used to describe ideologically motivated violence in the U.S., and their use by officers of the law and members of the media has impact on real cases.

Equal Treatment?: Measuring the Legal and Media Responses to Ideologically Motivated Violence in the United States examines cases in which perpetrators of similar crimes receive dramatically different legal and media responses. This empirical analysis compares media coverage, law enforcement tactics, charges, and eventual sentencing when the perpetrator of an act of ideologically motivated violence is perceived to be Muslim and acting in the name of Islam vs. not perceived to be Muslim and motivated by another ideology, such as white supremacy.

In this apples-to-apples study, ISPU’s research reveals perceived Muslim perpetrators of violence are subject to more severe legal charges, up to three times the prison sentence, and more than seven times the media coverage compared to non-Muslim perpetrators. Perpetrators perceived as Muslim are also much more likely to be targeted for undercover law enforcement operations providing them with weapons or fake explosives."

You can read the full report for free at the following link: https://www.ispu.org/public-policy/equal-treatment/

The website for the ISPU is www.ISPU.org and their Twitter handle is @TheISPU. Kumar Rao's handle is @KumarRaoNYC.

Backgrouond Briefing 12-14-2018 by Progressive Voices

Green Under Pressure News Brief 12-14-2018 by Progressive Voices

Our guest host today is Juanita Tolliver. She is the Director of Campaigns at the Center for American Progress. (On Twitter: @JuanitaTolliver)

Juanita is joined by two expert guests on two different topics.

Topic #1: The NC-09 Congressional race between Democrat Dan McCready and Republican Mark Harris, where a new election is likely after someone working for Harris' campaign appears to have engaged in serious election fraud

Guest: Gerrick Brenner, Executive Director of Progress North Carolina

Tweets: @ProgressNC_GB

Topic #2: The latest information on guilty pleas by Maria Butina, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen

Guest: Lia Parada, Associate Director for Anti-Corruption and Illicit Finances at the Center for American Progress

Tweets: @moscow_project

The website for the Center for American Progress is www.americanprogress.org and their Twitter handle is @amprog.