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1. True or False: The 1 year aniv of the January 6th attacks will actually be the start of something positive as Americans come together to commemorate and reject the attackers

1. Yeah… NO - Continued chicken little sky is falling coverage of Biden

1. Dire end to Biden’s first year as Manchin says no on signature bill - the guardian

2. Biden can change it himself, use the bully pulpit?

1. https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1476618089273905158?s=20

1. Buy or Sell: Shit is about to get very real with Russia

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-putin-ukraine-phone-call/

2. 2022 Races That Interest Us

House:

Georgia: Marcus Flowers is running to replace that Paleo diet in human form Marjorie Taylor Green

Kansas: Sharice Davids (redistricting--Sean?--and she crushed her 2020 opponent by a whopping 10 points)

Senate

Iowa: Abby Finkenauer (against Grassley who is a walking statement about why the GOP can’t accuse the Dems of not forcing lawmakers to retire when they should); we’ve asked her team to schedule some time on the POD and we really hope they follow through with that. We’d love to sit down with her. She has history of holding office, etc.

Missouri: I’m calling it now. Hartzler is going to DC as a Senator in 2022.

Governor’s Races:

Kansas: Laura Kelly’s COVID moves may look shady AF if you live on the coast or in a city, but she’s clearly doing what she thinks she has to do to appeal to anti-Biden swing voters in Kansas (aka nearly everyone)

Texas: Beto, duh. Probably tied for first for the most watched governor’s race in history (with GA naturally)

Alabama: I hate Kay Ivy (I just want to say that)

Senate + Governor: Pennsylvania. Maybe the most fascinating races to watch right now.

Gov. Races

• Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin

Senate

• Missouri

House

• MO 2nd, Mo 4th

• Current Illinois 16th which is Kinzingers seat

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Adam Sommer lays out a reality of the Second Amendment Preservation Act in Missouri - and revisits the chat with Author Betty Jane Frizzell about the real life story of abuse, drugs, mental illness, and a murder in the home, with a gun.

Domestic Violence Help:

https://www.thehotline.org/support-others/

https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=546

https://everytownresearch.org/report/guns-and-violence-against-women-americas-uniquely-lethal-intimate-partner-violence-problem/

Info on SAPA:

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Rachel Parker and Adam Sommer look back on the year that was and some of their favorite things, personal, political, and podcast related. Join us as we close out 2021, a year of amazing growth for the POD, and our hosts.

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Elad Gross, a Missouri public interest attorney and former candidate for Attorney General joins Adam Sommer to discuss the way current Missouri AG has misinterpreted a recent court ruling on health regulations in Missouri and the resulting fallouts and attacks on schools.

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Liz’s funny tweet

https://twitter.com/soshimshi/status/1472636044357087240?s=21

True or False: The Senate will deal with voting rights in response to the continued push of the big lie

GOP HAS SOLD THE BIG LIE - Now they have to service the product

• Literally the entire issue is fake

• Many gop members say it’s fake

• Yet huge numbers of gop politicians are still using the big lie as part of their campaign

• Election laws stacked against voting

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/14/us-election-lawyers-voting-rights

Yeah… NO: Liz Cheney’s text messages, Don Jr. somehow trying to defuse the bomb he helped build

• Fox News hosts urged Trump to call them off

• Donald JR allegedly texts meadows to call them off

• Never forget, the President WAS NOT EVACUATED during this attack

• From hearing: Full @RepLizCheney statement on holding Mark Meadows in contempt, including texts from Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade and others:

• "These text messages leave no doubt...multiple Fox News hosts knew the president needed to act immediately. They texted Mr. Meadows."

• More texts of interest from a Jan 6th leader and Mo Brooks(R) of AL plays dumb

• https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/politics/ali-alexander-january-6-investigation-gop-lawmakers/index.html

Buy or Sell: Mitch McConnell giving his public blessing will actually improve the ability of Jan 6th committee to get answers

• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-says-jan-6-committee-s-findings-are-something-public-n1286194

General Talk:

Rachel’s twitter thread: https://twitter.com/RaitchetP/status/1470452052245549069?s=20

Details in a story with link to the power point

https://www.newsandguts.com/meadows-texts-reveal-depth-of-january-6th-plot-coverup/

New Straka info?

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/trump-ally-brandon-straka-information-525272

• Trump legit getting indicted? https://twitter.com/tristansnell/status/1472353744591409155?s=21

https://www.thebulwark.com/fox-hosts-begged-trump-to-stop-the-january-6-attack-on-the-capitol/

Wikipedia summary (it’s pretty good)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_charges_in_the_2021_United_States_Capitol_attack

Meadows referred for contempt prosecution

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/13/mark-meadows-capitol-attack-committee-vote-prosecution

Social media posts during sentencing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/13/judges-weigh-social-media-posts-criminal-sentences-us-capitol-attack

Sleep walking into the Coup - Part 2

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/13/america-witnessed-a-coup-attempt-now-its-sleep-walking-into-another-disaster

Details:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/dec/14/capitol-attack-panel-mark-meadows-donald-trump-joe-biden-us-politics-lates-news

Holiday Wish: In the spirit of Steve Martin in the spirit of the season, or very own holiday wish.

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EXTREME WEATHER

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quad-state-tornado-may-be-longest-lasting-ever/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/15/biden-to-tour-tornado-ravaged-us-state-of-kentucky-offer-aid

AMAZON COLLAPSE BRINGS NEW LOOK AT BUILDINGS IN CLIMATE CRISIS

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/13/business/amazon-warehouse-workers-deaths-tornado-osha/index.html

STL MARIJUANA REPEAL

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/marijuana/mayor-jones-bill-repealing-city-marijuana-laws/63-61b36024-edeb-45e8-ad86-a983f6135cb2

THE MISSOURI 4TH CONGRESSIONAL RACE UPDATE

https://themissouritimes.com/former-missouri-gop-chair-doug-russell-joins-taylor-burks-campaign/

https://themissouritimes.com/brattin-endorsed-by-freedomworks-for-america/

LIGHTNING ROUND:

OHIO AIRPORTS FLY HIGH

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/12/ohio-airports-including-cleveland-hopkins-will-fly-high-on-money-from-infrastructure-deal.html

IOWA REPUBLICAN PRAISES COVID-19

https://iowastartingline.com/2021/12/15/iowa-gop-candidate-says-covid-was-the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-our-country/

MO MARIJUANA, GET IT… MO?

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH… WINDS DISRUPT DENVER

MEAT PACKERS PACK AWAY THE CASH

https://www.reuters.com/business/meat-packers-profit-margins-jumped-300-during-pandemic-white-house-economics-2021-12-10/

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Part 2 of the chat with Adam Sommer and Scott Faughn, publisher of the Missouri Times.

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How does your own anatomy complicate the way your brain is able to handle conflict with those we disagree with during the holidays? And how does breathing really help us to keep our calm during those inevitable political discussions?

Nicholas and Tim pause for a moment from decorating the great family room for the holidays to discuss.

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Adam Sommer sits down with Scott Faugh, publisher of The Missouri Times, and host of "This Week In Missouri Politics. Faughn has been publishing since 2013, and is one of the most well known media personalities in Missouri politics. In part one Adam & Scott get into the origin of Scott as a media member, and the Missouri 2022 Senate race.

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On today’s Heartland POD for December 13, 2021

Housekeeping Items - 1min to 5 min

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Adam’s Opening Statement - The Role Of Government - 5 min - 9:45 min

Talkin’ Politics - 9:45 min

1. 14 min 30 sec – True or False: BBB passes before Christmas

2. 18 min – Yeah, No… Chris Christie’s book tour and attempt at relevance, now blaming Trump for giving him Covid but he still says he would have voted for Trump again

1. Reportedly sold about 3,000 copies the first week

2. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/fans-buy-out-trumps-new-book-sales-30x-chris-christies

3. Trump fans bought Trump’s new book just to beat Christie’s, so now they are owning the libs and whatever the hell Chris Christie is these days

3. 22 min 30 sec – Buy or Sell: Missouri will legalize recreational MJ soon?

https://missouriindependent.com/2021/12/06/missouri-lawmakers-must-take-action-to-legalize-marijuana-opinion/

1. 30 min – MO 2022 senate race: Eric Schmitt threatens schools and asks parents to take nonconsensual pictures and videos of minors - with proper lighting and horizontal orientation please, to report to his office

1. county heath shutting down on Covid tracking https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article256483746.html

2. Many schools pushing back (Lee’s Summit letter)

• https://lstribune.net/index.php/2021/12/10/lsr7-legal-counsel-responds-to-attorney-general/

• Schmitt’s interpretation: It is a direct misrepresentation of the case that was decided, Elad Gross has done a good job of laying that out

1. Case was about administrative rule making, and does NOT preclude school districts from doing as they have done

2. On Dem side appears that Kunce is a very likely winner, he’s almost gone full Beto at this point with his national media tour

3. Sifton still has lots of state Dem support but what does that really mean in terms of votes?

4. Spencer Toder is doing good things but isn’t raising money, doesn’t matter how much good he can do or what policies he would champion if he can’t get coverage, did see he had a piece in the Springfield News leader which was nice

5. The rest of the field appears to simply have not enough name ID and money to matter

• I will say I think the Dem slate is full of really decent and well intentioned folks and I hope every one of them keeps working for Missouri

5. National: Way too early look at 2024

• Biden’s numbers are bad, really bad if you go look at Fox reporting, but does it mean he’s already toast for 2024?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/06/tune-out-those-2024-presidential-race-predictions/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3574da3%2F61ae47f99d2fdab56bb6bc12%2F5ef9f9c6ade4e276b323df8c%2F17%2F72%2F61ae47f99d2fdab56bb6bc12

538 average: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/?ex_cid=rrpromo

– Flavor of the week was to write a think piece about how Biden’s polling numbers, or even VP Harris, are looking bad

• Polling realities

• Headlines this week

• A new poll finds major warning signs for Biden and fellow Democrats - NPR

• Biden approval hits new low as economic discontent rises, Post-ABC Poll finds - WAshington Post

• President Biden’s job approval sinking on inflation, crime and covid: POLL - ABC

• RACHEL - Headlines/copy editing

• SEAN - the reality of reading polling

• ADAM - the synthesis as a trial presentation

• Will it be Biden/Harris again?

• If Biden doesn’t run, will they give it to Harris?

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