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This week, we discuss the extremely disappointing results of the 2024 election and what we can expect in 2025. Also, this will be our last episode for the year as we are taking a year-end break. We will see you all in 2025!

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With the 2024 election a week away, we took a look at the current state of the presidential, House, and Senate races that everyone should be paying attention to.

MAKE SURE YOU GO VOTE!!!

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• E. coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders
• McDonald's Donald Trump Worked at Failed Last Health Inspection
• Former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly Publicly Calls Trump a Fascist
• Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’
• Elon Musk is holding a potentially illegal sweepstakes right before the presidential election
• DOJ warns Elon Musk pro-Trump PAC that $1 million voter contest may be illegal
• Musk's super PAC defies DOJ warning, announces $1M giveaway winners
• LeagleEagle Video on Musk’s Sweepstakes
• Rudy Giuliani ordered to turn over NYC apartment, 26 watches to Georgia election workers within 7 days

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We continue our two-parter on why Donald Trump should never become president again. This week, we walk down memory lane of all the chaos and horrible things that was Trump's presidency. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Minocqua Brewing Company owner arrested for “criminal defamation”
• Man arrested over alleged violent threat against Fema staff in North Carolina
• Trump has a woman voter problem. Did his all-female town hall help?
• Trump's bizarre music session reignites questions about his mental acuity
• Man With Loaded Gun Arrested Near Trump’s Coachella Rally
• Jared Kushner defends controversial $2bn Saudi investment
• Trump's Response to Covid
• In Context: Donald Trump’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ remarks (transcript)
• Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years
• Trump’s tax plan: These middle-class households could pay more
• Trump ran up national debt twice as much as Biden: new analysis
• How Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Will Be Remembered
• Watchdog: Pompeo spent $65,000 on taxpayer-funded ‘Madison Dinners’
• EPA head Scott Pruitt denies that carbon dioxide causes global warming
• EPA head Scott Pruitt says global warming may help 'humans flourish'
• Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol | Visual Investigations

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We begin are two-parter on why exactly Donald Trump should not be president again. This week, we discuss all of his personal scumminess outside of the White House that many people seemed to have forgotten about. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• ‘Easy money’: Trump backer Elon Musk claims PAC will pay $47 for swing state voter information
• Musk joined Trump at Rally in Pennsylvania
• Trump secretly sent Putin COVID-19 tests during pandemic shortage, a new book reports
• Why voters won’t hear directly from Donald Trump in the 60 minutes election special
• Trump’s complaints about ’60 Minutes’ put a spotlight on editing at the nation’s top newsmagazine
• MAGA candidate says drag queens ruin the military in bizarre rant about soldiers eating intestines
• Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump
• 1973 Housing Discrimination Lawsuit
• Document: Consent Order (June 10, 1975)
• Here’s Another Time a Trump Company Was Sued for Discriminating Against Black People
• 2002 profile of Jeffrey Epstein for New York Magazine
• Epstein Flight Logs
• Virginia Giuffre testified that she had been recruited by Maxwell while working as a 17 year old spa attendant at Mar-A-Lago 
• A Fifth Teen Beauty Queen Says Trump Visited Dressing Room
• Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations
• Judge fines Trump $2 million for misusing charity foundation
• Trump Organization found guilty on all charges in tax fraud trial in New York
• Trump loses New York fraud case

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This week, we discuss the recent vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance. We also talk about how Republicans are lying about Hurricane Helene to score weird political points, increasing tensions in the Middle East, and more. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Trump using hurricane Helene to spread more lies
• Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border
• Marjorie Taylor Greene Appears to Say Democrats Can 'Control the Weather'
• Hurricane Helene Rumor Response page
• Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him, ex-aide says
• Conflict is escalating between Israel and Iran
• How Mike Johnson is using faith to shield his racist colleague from accountability
• CBS made the worst decision on fact-checking
• China is the largest producer of Fentanyl internationally, followed by Mexico and India
• Who won the VP debate? Here's what debate watchers said in CBS News poll
  
  

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This week, we try to make the argument why progressives should vote FOR Kamala Harris and not against Donald Trump. We also discuss the latest attacks in Lebanon, the GOP trying to rig the rules again, and Eric Adams' indictment. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• What we know about the Hezbollah device explosions
• John Fetterman on pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah: 'I love it'
• The GOP attempt to change Nebraska’s Electoral College votes hits a snag
• GOP governor halts push to prevent Trump from losing one of Nebraska's electoral votes
• New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted, sources say
• Read the Eric Adams indictment
• If Books Could Kill: Eric Adams
• Donald Trump and JD Vance named in criminal lawsuit over lies about Haitian immigrants in Ohio
• Chappell Roan isn’t endorsing Kamala Harris. She’s taking a stand for critical thinking instead
• Chappell Roan Issues Video Statement Defending Not Endorsing a Presidential Candidate, Reiterates There Are ‘Problems on Both Sides’
• Chappell Roan TikTok Video
• Harris-Walz Campaign Website
• New Childcare Data Shows Prices Are Untenable for Families
• Kamala Harris tells WPR she supports eliminating the filibuster to restore abortion rights
• Manchin won’t endorse Harris over vow to gut filibuster to codify abortion rights: ‘Shame on her’
• WATCH: Harris gives speech on her economic vision in Pittsburgh
• Harris' plan to fight price gouging: what is the legal framework?
• Harris promises labor reform in Houston speech

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This week, we discuss Project 2025's secret training videos uncovered by ProPublica. We also discuss the latest Trump assassination attempt, Vance defending is comments about Haitians eating cats and dogs, and some insane updates on the North Carolina gubernatorial race. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Republicans and Conservatives Immediately Blame Democrats for Assassination Attempt
• Vance Defends False Claims About Immigrants Eating Cats: Wanted To 'Create' Media Attention
• How the Trump Campaign Ran With Rumors About Pet-Eating Migrants—After Being Told They Weren’t True
• Republicans continue to seethe and cope over presidential debate
• NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum
• Ex-Porn Shop Employees Say Mark Robinson Was A Regular. He Denies It.
• The Lt. Governor Owes Me Money
• Trumpy Trout (real ad running on Newsmax)
• Project 2025 shakes up leadership after criticism from Democrats and Trump, but says work goes on
• Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos
• Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy

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This week, we break down the latest presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump... and all the Republican chaos that followed. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Origin of pet eating accusations
• The Real Story Behind Viral Pic
• Fact check: Ohio woman accused of eating cat is from Canton, not from Springfield
• Lindsay Graham says Trump’s debate team should be fired
• Trump says he won’t debate Harris again
  
  
  

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WE'RE BACK! This week, we catch up on a ton of things we missed while we were gone and look forward to the big presidential debate. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Four killed in Georgia school shooting
• Nearly 50 people have been killed, injured in K-12 school shootings across the US in 2024
• Right-Wing Influencer Network Tenet Media Allegedly Spread Russian Disinformation
• Wired did an analysis on the transcripts of the videos that Tenet posted to their YouTube channel
• Judge delays Donald Trump’s sentencing in hush money case until after November election
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sawed the Head Off a Whale and Drove It Home, Daughter Says
• RFK Jr. admits to dumping a dead bear in Central Park, solving a decade-old mystery
• Trump adds RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to his transition team
• Trump’s Arlington National Cemetery Controversy
• September YouGov Poll

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We have a special episode this week. Jason has COVID! So, instead of simply cancelling for another week, Jason will bring you some headlines from Wisconsin and Trump's really... really bad week. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Wisconsin August primary approaches (August 13th)
• Donald Trump and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
• Elie Mystal article in The Nation
• The panel began about an hour behind schedule, partly due to an alleged argument about allowing live fact checking.