The Ron Show

I've hosted this show - for what is just six weeks shy of three years - on AmericaOne Radio. To let you behind the curtain a little, I and its owner wanted to be candid about its current and future. In essence, Jeremy reached out to me last week to tell me he was going to close up shop. AmericaOne has been a labor of love/passion for Jeremy and less about making money. In fact, it's cost him. For...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visiting the Centers for Disease Control campus ⁠while himself being a leading voice in the vaccine skepticism that poisoned the mind of the alleged assassin at the center of Friday's deadly assault aimed at CDC buildings is quite something. At least he's acknowledged it - unlike the President or the White House at all. While here, though, RFK Jr. could've swung by Emory Univ...

Friday afternoon in Atlanta became chaotic, with ambulances and emergency vehicles all screaming and racing their way to the campus of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Those personnel from multiple jurisdictions arriving to the scene of a⁠ lone, mentally unstable gunman carrying a grudge triggered by vaccine skepticism ⁠- the kind Trump's Health & Human Services Secretary⁠ Robert F. K...

I've said for a few days now that Donald Trump's goading of Texas to "find" five new safely GOP congressional seats in a highly unusual mid-decade gerrymander could spark something akin to a civil war. Perhaps not a literal "military" rift between red and blue states, but a fraying of the threads that keep them "united" as a nation. Well, it turns out I'm not the only one who thinks that. ⁠Bloombe...

Okay, cool; former Republican Lieutenant Governor⁠ Geoff Duncan is a Democrat⁠, and while he's (supposedly) ⁠"fielding calls" to run for office, he's not saying he has any interest in doing so⁠. To that I say "good." You just sat in the pew; no sense aiming to be a deacon just yet. If does decide to run, however, there are quite a few questions Democratic activists and voters sour on his role in t...

Last week, Georgia Recorder columnist Jay Bookman ⁠wrote a well-measured op/ed⁠ asking why Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial candidate Burt Jones looks to Florida and Tennessee for ideas on tax & economic policy when Georgia is already superior to them? Answer: t⁠o put an even greater tax burden on the working class by eliminating the state income tax⁠. He and I caught up to go over that, the...

Former college football coach and son of Georgia coaching legend Vince Dooley, Derek Dooley has ⁠put himself in "the game,"⁠ so to speak. He's among the three prominent names seeking the GOP nomination to try and unseat Senator Jon Ossoff in 2026. The delicate balance he's trying to seek - being Kemp-anointed but kowtowing to Trump fanatics simultaneously will be an interesting tightrope walk for...

Not in chronological order as you (I hope) listen along, but the LEAD story for this chapter is and should be this: New Georgia US Senate hopeful Mike Collins' chief-of-staff - the ⁠dog-kicking Brandon Phillips⁠ - also seems to have ⁠a nepotism problemL namely that he hired & paid his girlfriend for work she allagedly never did⁠. If that's not bad enough, he fired the whistleblower. On Collins' wa...

With word that ⁠Kamala Harris wouldn't be seeking the California governor's office in 2026⁠ came immediate speculation (⁠and derision⁠) she's eyeing a second go at the White House in 2028. Incidentally, 'Meet The Press' anchor Kirsten Welker (again) brought up this alleged, yet-to-be-proven cover-up inside the Biden White House to shield Americans from knowing the former President was .... old? Wh...

Oh look; another round of unneeded "⁠inactive voter purges" in Georgia⁠. Nevermind that they make mistakes. Often. I gave one anecdotal example. Investigative reporter Greg Palast gave more: "...Maj. Gamaliel Turner of Columbus, Georgia, because he filed a change-of-address to get his absentee ballot while assigned by the Pentagon to ⁠California⁠. He was one 4,000 who lost their vote to a challeng...

With Mike Collins making his move to take Jon Ossoff's Senate seat comes a wide-open Congressional seat in northeast Georgia. Republicans like state representative Houston Gaines and former Congressman Paul Broun are licking their chops, but as we here know, there's a plucky Democrat already on the road campaigning in that district: ⁠Lexy Doherty⁠. ⁠She was on this show about seven weeks ago.⁠ A w...

Georgia's 10th district Congressional representative, "MTG with a mullet" Mike Collins ⁠has thrown his trucker hat into the ring to seek the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate⁠ in 2026. He hopes, of course, to unseat Senator Jon Ossoff, and cast the Democrat (along with Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock) as working for "California crazies or New York nut jobs." He stepped in not long after Governor Bri...

Americans have not only become so hyper-partisan that they distrust the concept of "government" on the whole, they also distrust "the news," or "the media." Except for the "media" or "news" choices they make, of course. Since media consolidation and profit margins have weighed in so heavily on decisions made in news rooms with dwindling numbers of personnel, that "trust void" has left us wanting -...

So we now know what AG Pam Bondi has long known and then ⁠relayed to Donald Trump⁠: he's on "the list." Democrats in the House are eager to have that information coughed up so Speaker ⁠Mike Johnson shut the House down for five weeks.⁠ The White House kitchen is going to need more ketchup. Meanwhile, the first WSJ bombshell on this was that Trump allegedly drew a "bawdy" birthday card to Jeffrey Ep...

You almost knew when you heard the name "First Liberty" that the people running said business were aiming for a specific kind of client. It turns out that clientele was "easily duped conservative," as we learned last week that a Newnan, Georgia-based lender was hawking ⁠"patriot notes" to help fuel a movement of "America First patriots."⁠ You just know it's gross when the Securities and Exchange C...

With a 'jungle primary' in late August on the docket for Georgia's 21st state Senate district voters, the lone Democrat on the ballot - ⁠Debra Shigley⁠ - is not only imminently qualified for the job, she's also putting in the sweat equity in hopes that she can surprise in this red-leaning district. The special election, necessitated by Brandon Beach taking a Trump cabinet role, is an early baromet...

Dom Kelly, ⁠co-founder, President and CEO at New Disabled South⁠, penned a social media post days ago that caught my attention. In it, he connected the dots between recent Trump administration statements and policy changes that bear out this truism: if you're disabled, you'll *have* to work to receive Medicaid if you're "able-bodied," and they'll let your employer pay you a 'sub-minimum wage' simu...

Georgia Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones finally made it public: he's running to be the state's next governor, and did so with a ⁠well-produce, trope-riddle campaign video⁠ that checked off all the rudimentary Republican campaign ad must-haves: a truck, driving from a lovely exurban home, through the wandering highways of rural-esque Georgia, walking the grounds with the entire family in tow, chatti...

Georgia state House Rep. Ruwa Romman has been a busy little bee of late, speaking in Philadelphia at a massive "No Kings Day" protest and going door-to-door campaigning the Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdni in that city's primary election season. I caught up with her for a full show conversation about her ascendant profile, along with the intra-party tug-of-war between establishment and progressive...

I had to laugh when NBC News' Ryan Nobles' relayed Senator Rand Paul's reaction to Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski's caving directly to her face. Why? Well, for one, she had that "raccoon when the light comes on" look; for another, sh elicited a response so on-brand with "America First," MAGA and the kind of voter the GOP corrals on the regular ... the "I gots mine" crowd. That said, I opted to go t...

Former Georgia Lieutenant Governor, former Republican, Geoff Duncan, ⁠appeared on the Atlanta Journal Constitution's "Politically Georgia" podcast ⁠earlier this week to hawk his centrist overtures (again) to Democrats, only this time, he's hinted at receiving calls from 'folks across the state' (sure, dude) to run for governor - as a Democrat. "I've heard the rumor," he said. Sorry, if he has, he'...

Sorry I'm late to posting this week; I'd actually planned to take the four-day week into the three-day holiday weekend off, but "one big beautiful" legislative disaster has spawned this internal need to stay at it, this week. As did ⁠Thom Tillis' floor speech ⁠over the weekend, followed by his announcement he'd ⁠not seek re-election in 2026. ⁠Suddenly, Democrats have an opportunity in North Caroli...

Bernie Sanders idd what former VP Kamala Harris didn't - he ⁠went (back) on Joe Rogan's podcast⁠ last week, and it was illuminating to listen to the host - a prior Sanders supporter in 2016 - agree with the progressive Senator on a range of issues - most notably the ridiculousness of a still-$7.25 per hour minimum wage. Now, it wasn't all coziness; Rogan doesn't see an issue with unfettered sums o...

From elation to concern to outright hyperbolic right wing smear, reaction to Zohran Mamdani's win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary is all over the spectrum. Naturally, progressives are elated and believe the result portends a progressive-led blue wave for 2026 and beyond; establishment ⁠Democrats seem a little angst-riddled⁠, fearful an ascendent democratic socialist (eek! That word...

On this, the third anniversary of the Trump-packed Supreme Court's 'Dobbs' decision overturning 'Roe v Wade,' it's notable that abortion rates are actually up in states with and without abortion bans on the books, ⁠according to a recent study⁠. Still, pro-choice activists and ⁠Georgia Democrats⁠ made their case ⁠throughout the day⁠ that women deserve the right to bodily autonomy. On with me today...