The Ron Show

Wednesday night, from the Oval Office, we were told "the left" is the source of all that's poisonous in our political discourse, ironically by one of the most venomous vitriolic pursed lips in American political history. Fast-forward to today when we awaken to those lips flapping on 'Fox & Friends' to reveal that "we have him," the shooting suspect in the Charli...

Charlie Kirk was a lightning rod ... of energy for the conservative base at the younger demographic the GOP sorely needed help with ... of controversy for those he targeted with his rhetoric ... and now, his assassination has exposed deep rifts within our society, empathetically, morally, politically and religiously. I, myself, didn't have a cogent response to share with anyone - for hours Wed...

CNN's Victor Blackwell hosted a panel last week to discuss the canary in the coal mine - a notable rise in unemployment among not only black Americans, but black women. On that panel: Black Voters Matter Fund co-founder LaTosha Brown, former GOP Georgia Senate candidate Stephanie Donegan, and Capital B national editor Dalila Paul. First, let's applaud that CNN fielded an all-black and fema...

All the work (to his credit!) that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has done to make Georgia a green energy and electric vehicle manufacturing hub are slowly being undone by Trump 2.0 white nationalist tendencies. The recent Hyundai raid in southeast Georgia performed by ICE was launched to snag Latin American migrant workers but also - oops - ensnared Korean and Japanese visa waiver employees, putting...

Atlanta's Sunday TV talk diet includes one local program - WAGA-TV/ Fox 's "The Georgia Gang." I watch it occasionally and happened to have some time Sunday to catch the most recent episode , and I'm furious but glad I caught it. Two pundits - Phil Kent and Martha Zoller - notably the right-wing participants, spewed anti-trans swipes, which I suppose should be unsurprising. T...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was summoned to a Senate finance subcommittee hearing and was met with bipartisan skewering . The most notable moments being RFK being cornered into explaining his anti-vax actions as head of HHS while also glomming on about his boss' (Donald Trump) "Operation Warp Speed" by GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, and Rev. Senator Raphael Warnock flatly stating that he is &qu...

She out-performed Kamala Harris by 13 points and the last candidate to try to win her state Senate district in November by ten percentage points, too. That could be a harbinger of things to come in 2026 ( quick, Donald; get on the phone to Kemp to work on those maps! ) but it also speaks to candidate quality as voters came out for Debra Shigley in the special election to fill the 21st Senate distr...

How WILD is it that Fulton County's elected commissioners are being compelled - by force - to vote a certain way (why do they have a role at all if merely ceremonial?) in seating election-deniers to that county's elections board? Well, that's what a Brian Kemp-appointed judge decided earlier this week. Here we are, with Fulton County Republican clowns offering up only two appointees -...

In Iowa, ⁠ Democrats flipped a second legislative seat to wrest a supermajority from the GOP ⁠ , last night, and in Georgia, Democrat Debra Shigley paced 13 points better than Kamala Harris and ten points better than the last state Senate candidate in her district in ⁠ earning a spot in the late September run-off ⁠ to fill Brandon Beach's vacated seat. On today to discuss those eye-popping ret...

Today in Georgia, a state Senate vacated when Brandon Beach took a Treasury job with the Trump administration was up for grabs in a "jungle primary" election. In this scenario, there were six Republicans and one lone Democrat vying for the seat. Naturally if one standalone candidate were to have secured 50%-plus turnout, the seat would go to them. Could that lone Democrat - Debra Shigley...

An anonymous AI-skilled cartoonist (allegedly) sent a Cobb County defense attorney this 16-page comic - depicting newly elected district attorney Sonya Allen as a clown. That elicited a response from Cobb County Democratic Party chair Essence Johnson, labeling the comic "Jim Crow–era propaganda once used to diminish Black leadership." For some reason, the Cobb GOP chair, Mary Clarice Hat...

We're at the "elected local officials could be jailed for their votes" portion of the slow-roll to full-on MAGA authoritarianism in the United States. Fulton County Democrats are refusing to seat two election denier Republican nominees to its election board, with the county and state GOP now seeking legal recourse which could include fines and jail time for commissioners who keep vot...

Earlier this week, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga) addressed the Georgia Chamber of Commerce while many of the GOP hopefuls seeking to oust him in 2026 were working the room. Also working the room - Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who hasn't said what office (if any) he'll be running for soon . But he was in the room schmoozing, so of course he's running for something. The questi...

Listen, I'm all for prospective students and parents having some insight into a college course syllabus but the general public? The University System of Georgia is arming MAGA's "anti-D.E.I." and "anti-woke" cult with access to professors' course outlines , and those professors believe they'll face harassment - or worse - because of it. Even worse, the USG is le...

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 h...

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...

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...

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...

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 the...

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: t o 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, th...

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 tig...

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 Co...

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 Presiden...

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 vot...

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 wort...