Progressive News Network

It's Christmas today, and the GOP of White Christian Nationalism has delivered in various ways that would make the pagans of ancient Rome proud. Overnight, Texas Governor Greg Abbott continued to authorize sending buses of migrants to Washington D.C. to be ceremoniously dumped into the arctic temperatures, while dressed for a day at the beach. The fact that these migrants are people of color d...

This week on PNN, I am talking about the GOP defamation wars. The most recent target has been US Congresswoman Katie Porter. A republican colleague, Congressman Ronnie Jackson not only accused Porter of making excuses for pedophiles, but he accused all progressives of the same in a tweet. Jackson is joined by the equally infamous creator of the Libs of TikTok, Chaya Raichik. Keep in mind, neither...

This week's programming has changed. I am going to cover the ongoing criminalization of actual journalism, the ongoing quest to extradite Julian Assange, a an older bill which was renewed that would halt government prosecutions of journalists, for using their 1st amendment rights. But first, I will talk about another bill that would extend copyright claims to links. Journalistic giant Daniel E...

Donald Trump had dinner with noted anti-semite Kanye West (or 'Ye'), and noted Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes. After the fallout, Trump laughingly claimed he didn't know Fuentes. Now, Fuentes broadcasts from the very network that has been by Trump's side since 2017, namely "Right Side Broadcasting." It is hard to believe that Trump doesn't pay any attention to the grou...

This week's show is all about the resurgence of the White Christian Nationalist LYNCH MOB. The Club Q murders are the latest result of the non-stop incitement and defamation aimed at the LGBTQ communities by White Christian Nationalists.  After the Club Q murders, Trump team mouthpiece Jenna Ellis, has committed to further slandering the LGBTQ community under the auspices of Christian National...

This week on PNN, our founder Rick Spisak has another interview with Professor Wendy Lynne Lee of the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania. Professor Lee has made a special study of the impact right-wing groups have had on politics and academia, delivered with humor and wit.  I will discuss the dishonest judicial scam aka 'originalism.' I will cite the work of noted constitutional schol...

The GOP of Trump has taken control of both houses of Congress. They did so with an organized program of blatant voter suppression not seen since the height of Jim Crow. Georgia Governor Kemp actually deputized violent vigilantes to challenge the voting rights of some 149,000 people. In other states the GOP was caught instructing poll workers to "secretly break rules" as evidenced by leak...

This week is more of an editorial on the growing danger of GOP fascism in the USA. Vote blue like your life depends on it - because it does. Not since the Confederacy have we faced a party preaching hate, bigotry and what can only be called neo Nazism. These fascists have risen in part, due to the mass cowardice of corporate media, refusing to demand accountability from elected representatives. Ou...

Last week, my colleague Rick Spisak spoke about GOP plans to attack Social Security. This week, on our Halloween show, I will speak to real GOP terrorism as the 'Grand Ol' Party' works feverishly to dismantle Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Of course, the GOP has to lie about the program, but the lies began long with Ronald Reagan and continue to the present day with Donald Tru...

This week, I will discuss Florida Senator Rick Scott's plan to savage Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as part of the GOP assault on the average working person. The only reason Rick Scott wasn't incarcerated was due to the fact that he 'took the 5th,' and refused to answer questions regarding his role in a Medicare/Medicaid billing fraud. The company paid, and Rick Scott was...

Welcome to PNN's Corruption Report! This week, I will discuss why Donald Trump must be criminally prosecuted in order to save the republic. Not only did Trump break multiple federal laws, but set a precedent which will only encourage more illegal behavior from the extremists in the GOP. No president is above the law. Period. Furthermore, Trump has been aided by Judge Aileen Mercedes Cannon as...

A judge dropped the criminal case against 7 former officials in the Flint water crisis. The excuse involved a legal technicality which further demonstrates the ethical bankruptcy of our legal system. Instead of instructing the prosecutor to fix the error in the prosecution's case, Judge Elizabeth Kelly essentially dropped the case. The case for systemic corruption must be discussed and corrupt...

This week, the subject is legal equality for all persons. I called mutliple republican senators and congressmen, asking a simple question; do they support legal and political equality under the rule of law for ALL persons? Yes or no. I was repeatedly told by staffers that they hadn't spoken to the senator or congressman so they couldn't comment. This is not a difficult question and it shou...

Yesterday, President Biden gave a speech which was a call to reject the poison of white supremacy, of neo-Nazism. He spoke in Philadelphia, in front of Independence Hall. While calling out MAGA as the white supremacy it has always been, he refused to see what is obvious to communities of color, religious minorities, women, and LGBTQ persons, namely that the GOP of Trump has tolerated a steady marc...

More on the alleged 'permitting reforms' on the mining and transporting of fossil fuels, demanded by both democrats and republicans, is nothing but a big scam. It's a scam in terms of environmental concerns, in addition to violating the rights of communities where these pipelines and mining interest will situate their operations. This is about so much more than the Mountain Valley Pipe...

This week on PNN, I will talk about the passing of Queen Elizabeth, and the mythology surrounding the 'Royals.' Not once during her 70 year reign did she EVER apologize to the many indigenous peoples attacked and colonized by the British Empire. Not once during her 70 year reign did she EVER speak of reparations. The coverage of her passing and the coverage of the younger royals is vapid a...

This is a special broadcast today. It deals with the hypocrisy of our government as they have forgiven PPP loans to the 1% without hardly any payment offered, while information leaked out that the Biden administration has entered talks to privatize COVID vaccines and antiviral medicines which were largely subsidized by taxpayers. I published a piece which I will present today.  I will also offer a...

The Biden administration is discussing plans to shift the cost of COVID vaccines and treatment to patients. Discussions are taking place which could make the current state of medical care apartheid far worse than before. These discussions were reported by Kenny Stancil writing for Commondreams. Stancil's source? The Wall Street Journal. Hardly a lefty publication. If the Biden administration a...

We begin this week's show with an interview of Florida activist Susan Lee, conducted by our colleague and founder, Rick Spisak. This interview will shed light on the growing authoritarian abuses of Ron DeSantis.  Nex, as predicted, Donald Trump is whining that the FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago was 'politically' motivated, and as usual, Trump is undeniably WRONG. If Donald Trump had been an or...

The much heralded Manchin-Schumer Reconciliation bill is a SCAM. The tax reforms which originally included the eradication of the 'carried interest loophole' (which allows the rich to hide their true wealth), has been tossed thanks to Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Ironically, that's not the worst of this dirty dog of a deal. The 'alleged' environmental reforms, (which do include some...

Just this past week, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang (along with a bevy of corporate dems and republicans), announced the formation of a THIRD political party, aka the Forward Together Party. In a vapid op-ed, published in the Washington Post, they posted the political version of 'somewhere over the rainbow,' as neo-Nazis scream louder through the media. Yang and his bunch, (whic...

This Sunday, I will discuss the blatant growth of Nazism in conservative ranks. It is evidenced in the ranks of our military and police nationwide. We witness it on school boards and the governor's mansion. It is rampant throughout the GOP. This is not to say that all republicans are racists or Nazis. Unfortunately, those republicans who remain silent to this hostile takeover by actual NAZIS--...

This week, our Sunday show will discuss how anti-CRT (Critical Race Theory) laws constitute an unconstitutional attack on the 1st Amendment rights of students and teachers. I will feature a Texas school district that fired a beloved high school principal, who dared to discuss racism, the murder of George Floyd and similar issues with students and others who sought him out. Make no mistake, these a...

This week on PNN, our founder Rick Spisak crafted an essay that will run. It will be illuminating as always. Next, I will discuss how the conservatives on the SCOTUS (Supreme Court) are once again targeting our rights. This time the case is Moore v. Harper, and the bogus theory pushed by Neil Gorsuch is the Independent States Legislatures Doctrine, which essentially grants state legislatures the p...

Today, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in W. Virginia v. EPA, which limits the authority of the EPA to regulate environmental toxins and other forms of pollution. This same 'pro-life' SCOTUS, has handed down a death penalty to the planet. I will discuss the future ramifications of this decision. I will also discuss why Supreme Court justices must be forced to follow a code of ethi...