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Trump’s America Is Exhausting Us — And That May Be the Point It feels like America barely has time to process one crisis before the next one arrives. On today’s The Karel Cast, Karel takes on the relentless political and cultural news cycle—from the Trump administration’s latest moves affecting LGBTQ rights and Title IX, to rising prices, continuing war, climate threats and a country increasingly...

The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.  First, Brad speaks with world renowned Economist Dr. Robert Shapi...

'BradCast' 9/28/2026: The Fraudulent Ballots of Ken Paxton and Other Not-Fake News Regarding GOP Vote Suppressors by Progressive Voices

What Do You Do When Trump Decides You're Not A Citizen? My sister was born in Massachusetts in 1957 and has the birth certificate to prove it. But not according to Donald Trump's America. She is in Arizona and receives state aid. She just received a letter she is being cut off. Why? It says the SAVE System, the system the Supreme Court said Trump can use to verify citizenship, a system that was ne...

'BradCast' 9/24/2026: 40 Days Out -- Chaos Reigns, Hope Looms, with guests Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast' by Progressive Voices

Green News Report 9/24/2026 by Progressive Voices

"This Gay Week: Progress and Panic, All in 7 Days" It's This Gay Week on The Karel Cast — and this week proves LGBTQ rights are moving in every direction at once, sometimes in the same breath. Turkey just arrested 241 people in an anti-trans sweep so severe that human rights groups are now demanding the EU freeze its accession bid entirely. Indonesia has officially classified "LGBTQ culture" as a...

'BradCast' 9/23/2026: Arch Nemesis; Guest: Charles Birnbaum of The Cultural Landscape Foundation on Trump's 'triumphal arch' by Progressive Voices

Your Health Is Your Most Valuable Asset — Are You Actually Protecting It? Your health determines almost everything about the life you get to live — yet how much time do we actually spend protecting it? Today on The Karel Cast, we look at what you can do every day to improve your odds of living a longer, healthier life: exercise, diet, daily habits, preventive care and the medical advances changing...

This time on CodeWACK! Imagine learning your baby has a brain tumor that’s causing seizures and disrupting her development, then having your insurer repeatedly deny the treatment her specialists recommend. In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we’re revisiting this powerful 2024 conversation with Eunice Stallman, MD, a psychiatrist in Idaho and mother of Zoey. Stallman explains how genetic...

'BradCast' 9/22/2026: Senate Midterm 'Blue' Wave Rising; Repubs turning on Trump by Progressive Voices

Green News Report 9/22/26 by Progressive Voices

Trump, Hollywood & Streaming: Is Entertainment Taking Over Politics?** Politics has become entertainment — and entertainment has become political. Donald Trump came to the presidency after decades as a celebrity and reality-TV star. His administration has included people with backgrounds in television, podcasting and other media. Meanwhile, Hollywood is facing another wave of consolidation, stream...

The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.  Brad is first joined by PoliticusUSA's Sarah Jones to discuss the...

'BradCast' 9/21/2026: Merging and 'Murdering' the Media; Guest: Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films by Progressive Voices

Why Hate Is the Only Thing Uniting America Right Now America doesn't have one shared value left — except hate. Not division, not gun violence, not high prices. Just hate. And it's everywhere: from the Ed Sheeran pile-on after he simply called out the catastrophe in Gaza, to Trump banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House for daring to tell the truth. We feel it at the gas pump, in line...

'BradCast' 9/17/2026: A Simple Solution to the AI Apocalypse Panic?; Guest: David Dayen of 'The Prospect' by Progressive Voices

Green News Report 9/17/2026 by Progressive Voices

160 Arrested for Being Gay — Why Is the World Silent? Over 160 people arrested in Turkey — for being LGBTQ. This is one of the most alarming crackdowns on gay rights in recent memory, and almost nobody's talking about it. This Gay Week, after an Ukraine check-in, Scott Jacobsen joins Karel to break down what's happening in Turkey: why it's happening now, who's behind it, and how the rest of the wo...

'BradCast' 9/16/2026: The Unthinkable -- The Federal Seizure of Midterm Ballots, with election fraud investigator Richard Hayes Phillips by Progressive Voices

Why Can't We Criticize Israel? Ed Sheeran's Band Just QUIT Ed Sheeran's band walked. Every opening act pulled out. AOC says she'd turn off the radio if he came on. And the thing nobody will name out loud is the reason why. In today's world it seems there's exactly one country immune to criticism — Israel. Meanwhile Trump agrees to sell $2.8 billion in weapons we don't have to spare, for a war we s...

This time on Code WACK! Labor unions have spent decades fighting for strong health benefits for their members. So why would workers want to trade those hard-won benefits for an entirely different system? In Part 2 of our conversation with longtime labor organizer Mark Dudzic, chair and co-founder of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare, we look at why organized labor could be essential t...

'BradCast' 9/15/2026: A Midterm Bullet Dodged (For Now). Can't Say Same for the Climate by Progressive Voices

Green News Report 9/15/2026 by Progressive Voices

The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.  Brad is first joined by CNN Military Analyst Col. Cedric Leighton...