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Independent media that won't reinforce tribalism. We have one Planet; nobody's leaving, so let’s reason together!! Darrell McClain is a Military veteran with an abnormal interest in politics, economics, religion, philosophy, science, and literature. He's the author of Faith and the Ballot: A Christian's Guide to Voting, Unity, and Witness in Divided Times. Darrell is a certified Counselor. He focuses primarily on relationships, grief, addiction, and PTSD. He was born and raised in Jacksonville, FL, and went to Edward H white High School, where he wrestled under Coach Jermy Smith and The Late Brian Gilbert. He was a team wrestling captain, District champion, and an NHSCA All-American in freestyle Wrestling. He received a wrestling scholarship from Waldorf University in Forest City, Iowa. After a short period, he decided he no longer wanted to cut weight, effectively ending his college wrestling journey. Darrell McClain is an Ordained Pastor under the Universal Life Church and remains in good standing, as well as a Minister with American Marriage Ministries. He's a Believer in The Doctrines of Grace, Also Known as Calvinism. He joined the United States Navy in 2008 and was A Master at Arms (military police officer). He was awarded several medals while on active duty, including an Expeditionary Combat Medal, a Global War on Terror Medal, a National Defense Medal, a Korean Defense Medal, and multiple Navy Achievement Medals. While in the Navy, he also served as the assistant wrestling coach at Robert E. Lee High School. He's a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under 6th-degree black belt Gustavo Machado. Darrell Trains At Gustavo Machado Norfolk under the 4th-degree black belt and Former Marine Professor Mark Sausser. He studied psychology at American Military University and criminal justice at ECPI University.
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Send us a text A listener asked a blunt question we couldn’t ignore: what happens if Congress lets the enhanced ACA subsidies expire—and how likely is it they’ll do nothing? We walk through what those subsidies actually did for real families, what vanishes when they lapse, and why “gridlock” isn’t a neutral accident but a choice with a body count. Expect straight talk about premium shocks, ballooning deductibles, and the knock-on costs that hit hospitals, states, and anyone one medical bill a...
Send us a text A single week can redraw moral boundaries. When New York and Illinois announced support for “Medical Aid in Dying,” the language sounded compassionate, but the shift was seismic: freedom recast as control over life’s endpoint, medicine repositioned to facilitate death, and “autonomy” installed as the supreme value. We trace what that framing means in practice, why euphemisms matter, and how policy teaches culture what to accept as normal. We unpack the promised safeguards—adul...
Send us a text The distance between us and harm feels like it’s vanished. We open with three shocks—a father slain by his son, a campus shooting at Brown, and an antisemitic attack in Austria—and follow the thread that ties them together: when formation collapses, pressure finds a way out. Family should be the last shelter, so language breaks when violence comes from within. We talk plainly about mental illness and addiction as explanations, not erasers, and argue that structure, treatment, a...
Send us a text What if our problem isn’t that we disagree—but that we’ve forgotten how? Robert Reich joins us at a 50th reunion event hosted by the Center on Civility and Democratic Engagement to map the terrain of modern incivility and show a clearer path forward. We explore why trust in institutions fell from a broad majority in the 1960s to a small minority today, how geographic tribalism narrows our circles, and why the most honest political conversations often start with work, wages, and...
Send us a text Accountability costs more than a press conference, and that’s exactly why our politics keeps choosing words over work. We open with the Caribbean boat strikes and map the legal gray zone where overlapping agencies, temporary guidance, and classified memos substitute for clear law. When Congress refuses to define roles and rules of engagement, the executive fills the vacuum, and the public gets euphemisms instead of answers. Action would assign ownership; chatter only spreads th...
Send us a text A listener asks a sharp question: can a president really mail out $2,000 “tariff dividends”? We break the promise down to its bolts—tariffs as taxes that raise consumer prices, Congress’s exclusive power of the purse, and a pending Supreme Court ruling that could fence off unilateral tariff moves until mid-2026. The math looks simple onstage, but it falls apart under constitutional law, budget rules, and basic economics. From there, we widen the lens to a country that feels ex...
Send us a text Think missing Miranda warnings make cases vanish? Let’s test that belief against the law, the courtroom, and the consequences the public rarely sees. We break down what Miranda actually protects, why custody and interrogation are the hinge, and how a judge thinks about suppression versus dismissal. From the first contact to the first question, we map the narrow legal doorway where rights attach and show how a single procedural misstep can shake credibility without deleting real...
Send us a text A headline said the quiet part wrong: a former Navy combat pilot and astronaut under investigation for “serious misconduct” because he affirmed the most basic military truth—refuse unlawful orders. We zoom out from the hot takes and lay down the actual hierarchy every recruit learns: Constitution, law, mission, order. When number four violates one through three, refusal isn’t insubordination. It’s duty. We walk through the law that backs it—Article 92 of the UCMJ, the legacy o...
Send us a text A microphone at the Capitol, survivors at the front, and a rare bipartisan agreement to force sunlight on a scandal many believed would stay buried. We walk through the House push to advance the Epstein Transparency Act, unpack the tactics that made a discharge petition work, and spotlight the survivors whose persistence moved Congress after years of delay. The energy is raw, and the demand is simple: release the files without loopholes, carve-outs, or procedural tricks. As th...
Send us a text Some rules sound perfect until they meet real life. Zero tolerance promises order and fairness at work, but what happens when a punch lands, security is minutes away, and your kids still need you home tonight? We pull this apart with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and military veteran whose day job straddles IT, investigations, and loss prevention. Together we stress-test the policy from both sides: the case for clear rules that protect non-fighters, and the case for proporti...
Send us a text The ground shifted under America’s political feet, and you can feel the rumble from City Hall to Capitol Square. New York—long the altar of finance—just elected a socialist mayor on a platform of affordability, transit access, and universal childcare. Virginia flipped every top office behind a former CIA officer who campaigned on paychecks, federal jobs, and dignity at work. Two wins, two styles, one unmistakable signal: voters are rewarding leaders who meet real life where it ...
Send us a text Sirens, hymns, and a hard choice at the curb outside a detention center: that’s where our story begins. We trace the line from candlelit vigils at “Alligator Alcatraz” to pulpits blessing immigration raids, and ask what Christian faith actually demands when families are torn apart at 2 a.m. Some clergy call ICE agents to repentance and take pepper balls for their trouble; others preach a “theology of borders” that imagines Jesus smiling at a van packed with migrants. History is...
Send us a text A farm-town promise met a ledger full of losses. We open with the hard math of tariffs and trade wars: higher equipment costs for growers, soybean sales to China evaporating overnight, and a puzzling turn to importing Argentinian beef just as America’s cattle herd hits historic lows. Add four packers controlling most of the beef market and record profits at the top, and it’s fair to ask whether “America First” ever reached the people it named. Then we step onto the hardwood, w...
Send us a text A mayoral debate that felt like a prize fight. A White House wing torn down for a 9,000-square-foot ballroom. Sanctions that squeeze Russia’s oil lifeline while summits dissolve overnight. And a healthcare shock that sends families scrambling to schedule surgery before premiums explode. We pull these threads together to show how spectacle keeps crowding out strategy—and how that choice lands on everyday people. First, we take you ringside at New York City’s final debate: Cuomo...
Send us a text A seven-year sentence becomes 84 days, and the country learns a lesson it won’t soon forget: when loyalty becomes currency, justice gets priced. We break down George Santos’s commutation, why it happened, and what it signals about how power is exercised and rewarded. The receipts are not in dispute—wire fraud, identity theft, donor deception—but the outcome reframes the rules of accountability. We talk through the GOP’s split response, the electoral math in Long Island swing di...
Send us a text Missed paychecks, spiking premiums, and a Capitol gone quiet—this conversation pulls back the curtain on a shutdown with life-or-death stakes. We walk through why a quick “reopen first” deal won’t cut it, why a one-year ACA fix is a political mirage, and what ink-on-paper protections are needed to stop millions from losing coverage and middle-class families from seeing premiums explode. We get into the mechanics of power: a Senate that needs 60 votes, a House leadership that w...
Send us a text A hawk who preached secrecy now stands accused of mishandling it. We open with the Bolton indictment—18 counts, thousands of pages, and a century-old Espionage Act stretched to fit modern data—and ask a hard question: can selective prosecution and real accountability coexist? We walk through the legal thresholds, the political optics, and the five flashpoints likely to define the case, from pre-trial classification fights to the quiet calculus of a plea. From there, we pivot t...
Send us a text Cameras love a finish line. Real peace rarely offers one. We open with a bold victory lap and press on the brakes, examining what a signed deal in Gaza can and can’t do while weapons remain, hostages return in tears and coffins, and leaders pull in opposite directions. I walk through Netanyahu’s conspicuous absence, Abbas’s calculated presence, and Trump’s push to scale the Abraham Accords into something bigger—maybe even stretching toward Tehran—then ground it in the only thin...
Send us a text One line lit the fuse: leaked texts from a statewide nominee invoked “three people, two bullets,” forcing Virginia’s race into a referendum on responsibility, tone, and what leaders are willing to condemn—and what they’re not. We walk you into the Norfolk clash where Abigail Spanberger stayed steady and Winsome Earle-Sears swung for the knockout, then map how that posture war—calm competency versus disruptive force—plays with early votes already in the bank. From abortion frami...
Send us a text The cameras were hot, the questions were sharp, and the answers—when they came—raised more doubts than certainty. We walk you through the pivotal moments of a combative Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi, from the still-murky $50,000 cash handoff to the whiplash over an “Epstein client list.” Beyond the viral clips, we unpack what real oversight should look like, why carefully chosen words matter, and how deflection corrodes public trust faster than any...
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