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2 weeks ago | bradblog.com | Brad Friedman |Patrick Byrne |Byron DeLear |Byron Donalds

By Brad Friedman on 4/10/2025, 7:03pm PT   Donald Trump's chaos coaster continues on today's BradCast. Our top on today's ride: Social Security. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]FIRST UP... As we warned yesterday amid "irrational exuberance" as the stock market briefly skyrocketed following Donald Trump's social media announcement that he was pausing his unilateral worldwide tariffs for 90 days, investors began to notice that it wasn't quite as good as it looked.

3 weeks ago | bradblog.com | Brad Friedman |Patrick Byrne |Byron DeLear |Byron Donalds

By Brad Friedman on 4/2/2025, 5:37pm PT   Tuesday was a very good day for Democrats. For a change. At ballot boxes in both Wisconsin and Florida, and in the U.S. Senate. We enjoy while we can on today's BradCast, while trying to make sense of everything else we have time for in the bargain. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.]Republicans won both U.S. House Special Elections for vacant seats in Florida's 1st and 6th Congressional Districts on Tuesday.

3 weeks ago | bradblog.com | Brad Friedman |Patrick Byrne |Byron DeLear |Byron Donalds

By Brad Friedman on 4/1/2025, 6:31pm PT   A legal fight for the integrity and public oversight of elections in the Peach State has been running in federal court for nearly eight years now. As we've reported over those years here on The BradCast, it began long before Trump and his Republican MAGA stooges dreamt up their imaginary 'Stop the Steal' scheme to pretend the 2020 election was stolen from them.

3 weeks ago | bradblog.com | Brad Friedman |Patrick Byrne |Byron DeLear |Byron Donalds

By Brad Friedman on 3/31/2025, 6:25pm PT   The amount of news we need to catch up with today before getting to some callers at the back end of the show is ridiculous, even by BradCast standards! [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.]Natural disasters, lots of court rulings and some important election news out of several states on today's program. Here are summaries and links to just some of those stories...

4 weeks ago | bradblog.com | Brad Friedman |Patrick Byrne |Byron DeLear |Byron Donalds

By Brad Friedman on 3/27/2025, 6:36pm PT   On today's BradCast: The Trump Administration may have chosen the wrong group of Americans to launch a "war" against, including taking jobs, benefits and health care from them. But that's just one of the reasons Republicans now seem to be running scared of their own voters in upcoming special elections. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]On Thursday, the Dept.