In this Shades of Jade round table, host Sam is joined by filmmaker Sara Alessandrini (This Is What New Yorkers Say) and World Ablaze host George Fontes for a conversation that starts with the 25th anniversary of September 11—what it felt like then, how younger generations encounter the story now, and how the “war on terror” narrative has been rewritten. They talk about living near Newark Airport and the PATH under Ground Zero, Flight 93, conspiracy culture, Hasan Piker, and what it means when people who reject American institutions win city hall. The discussion then turns to the Democratic Party’s split among DSA voters, Trump-derangement voters, traditional Democrats, and the politically homeless, including John Fetterman’s break with the party line, why local races shouldn’t be run as anti-Trump ads, and whether midterms will bring a wave or just more fragmentation.

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In this episode, I cover news related to 9/11 25th-anniversary commemorations, the RNC Midterm Convention in Dallas, Persian Gulf naval operations, Marco Rubio's Latin American security tour, North American trade, fraud crackdowns, national infrastructure restoration, and noteworthy tidbits. 

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In this episode, host Sam welcomes back Sadie Holzmeyer, organizing director for the Digital Democracy Project—a nonpartisan nonprofit that lets verified voters cast advisory votes on the same bills as their legislators, then publishes side-by-side scorecards showing how closely elected officials match the people they represent. Sadie explains how the platform has grown from Florida to additional states and to federal bills, how photo-ID verification through partner Votes keeps results from being gamed, and how candidates and sitting lawmakers use the data to hear from real constituents, defend cross-party votes, and face voters at election time. They also cover plain-language bill summaries, how amendments get buried in unrelated bills, and why issue-based voting often looks different from party-line elections.

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In this Shades of Jade round table, host Sam is joined by author Sidney Pines and longtime podcaster Billy Dees. Sidney, whose books Awakening, a Patriot’s Diary of American Deception and Golden Age Rising document recent years from an everyday American’s point of view, and Billy, host of the Billy Dees Podcast, talk about why people are leaving legacy media for independent shows—and the risk that podcasts become just as unserious. The conversation turns to the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the surge of public support for the accused, forgotten victims, jury harassment, and what they see as selective use of “hormones” and mental-health arguments. They also discuss American readiness for real crisis, midterms and governor’s races in Ohio, Iowa, and Illinois, and how quickly attention moved on from the Epstein files.

Billy Dees’ Info: 

• Substack: https://billydees.substack.com 
• X: @BillyDees 

Sidney Pines’ Info:  

• Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Sidney-Pines/author/B0H8FF65FR?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true 
• X: @Sidney1776 

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In this episode, I cover news related to Iran, Venezuela, immigration, Letitia James’ witch hunt, election integrity, DC renovations, and noteworthy tidbits. 

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In this episode, I cover news related to the Venezuela oil deal, Iran, U.S.-Canada relations, the Pennsylvania measles scandal, an investigation into Abbey Gate, NASA news, and noteworthy tidbits. 

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In this episode, host Sam talks with Larry Schechter—retired financial-services entrepreneur, longtime fantasy-sports player, and author of Winning Fantasy Baseball and The History of Fantasy Sports and the Stories of the People Who Made It Happen. Schechter explains how a hobby that began with mailed reports in the early 1990s became a multi-billion-dollar industry spanning more than fifty sports, including 200 million fantasy-cricket players in India. He traces the first 1963 Oakland fantasy-football league, bar owner and World War II hero Andy Mousalimas’s role in spreading the game, the real origin of fantasy baseball (not a sudden idea on an airplane), and how the Monica Lewinsky scandal helped stall a bill that nearly classified fantasy sports as illegal gambling. Along the way they cover fantasy Congress, high-stakes Vegas drafts, family and workplace leagues, and why the book is as much about people and culture as it is about sports.

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In the official launch of a regular Shades of Jade political round table, host Sam sits down with retired Army officer and War 102 podcaster Paul Darling and attorney-author Dennis A. Brennan for a wide-ranging conversation on current events. They start with the national debt topping $40 trillion—how the U.S. left the gold standard, what quantitative easing and Fed-held bonds actually mean, whether America can “outgrow” the debt, and why spending, not revenue, is the core problem. The discussion then turns to immigration and refugee costs, tribal politics and the WNBA, the DSA’s appeal to some voters, and an FBI announcement that a 1.81-million-sample DNA fingerprint backlog has been cleared. Paul Darling’s Info: - ⁠https://Realplasticheroes.com⁠- ⁠[email protected]⁠ - ⁠Amazon.com: Taliban Safari: One Day in the Surkhagan Valley: 9780700627844: Darling, Paul: Books⁠ Dennis A. Brennan’s Info:  - ⁠https://DennisABrennan.com⁠ - X: @DennisBrennan61  - Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000484043048⁠ Shades of Jade Info:- To find all my deals, visit: ⁠https://mydeals.page/7fu7⁠ - Want to be a guest on Shades of Jade Podcast? Send Samantha Jade Wooldrik a message on PodMatch, here: ⁠https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/shadesofjadepod⁠ - Music created on Suno and licensed through Soundstripe. Code: R0BVPTVFWJFYIWC9

In this episode, I cover news related to Iran, Deep State declassifications, DC renovations, the Department of War, immigration, and noteworthy tidbits. 

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