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Trump-Vance's Project 2025, with quotes and citations, on: Abortion and reproductive rights. Mass immigrant detention and deportation. Medicaid and Medicare. Ending DEI, CRT. Schedule F and an Executive Office power grab. Ending Head Start. A sledgehammer to climate change. Access to birth control. On the viral post on the only valid family where women are stay-at-home mothers. End of the Dept of Ed. Outlawing porn. And more. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S3 | Ep 50

Part IV and the long-awaited conclusion to this series: Abigail Spanberger looks to oust the incumbent Trump ally Brat in Virginia's 2018 election. The Pelosi Tactic and the (only) debate - but first an awkward chicken festival encounter. Also: getting pissed off, some of the double-standards when women run, one aspect of 2018's Blue Wave tallied, remember when Beto O'Rourke went viral when debating Cruz?, being (not) a superhero, not having visceral reactions when ridiculous things are spoken, climbing the mountain, and more. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. (Had to focus on caregiving and work for a long while, which is why this pod is so intermittent - the steady streams are greatly appreciated!) S3 | Ep 49

Part 3 of 4: Abigail Spanberger faces Dan Ward in the Virginia 7th CD Primary. Plus: Edith Childs and Obama, EMERGE origins, MVP, HRC, AOC, spellcasting, and more. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S3 | Ep 48

Part 2 of 4 on Abigail Spanberger: Virginia's 7th district (VA07) transforms from rural to suburban to (grassroots) political activism by 2017. Women explore candidacies at unseen levels. Money greases the political machine, like it or not, Spanberger finds a way to keep crowds engaged with her CIA experience as the grueling Primary whittles down to two opponents, and much more. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S3 | Ep 47

Abigail Spanberger's run for CD VA-07 can offer some key insight for today, be sure to catch all of this 4-part series. Part 1 covers the wake of the 2016 Election, how that time was a regrouping moment for Democrats, Spanberger's decision to run, and much more. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S3 | Ep 46

ChatGPT is the focus today. Kedro prompts ChatGPT to write poetry about this dawn of AI - from an introduction to exploring the difficult-to-quantify optimism and most extreme concerns within the AI itself, ChatGPT explains itself to non-tech folks by comparing itself to C3P0 from Star Wars, teachers and students grapple with ChatGPT, naturally this all leads towards Singularity questions, the Multiverse Paragon is back!, and much more. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S2 | Ep 44

Best of 2022: Parts 4-6 of the John Lewis / Voting Rights Movement series from earlier this year. This event, published over the summer, is a landmark for the show.

Best of 2022: Parts 1-3 of the John Lewis / Voting Rights Movement series from earlier this year. This event, published over the summer, is a landmark for the show.

The many angles and myths of the quite entertaining 1919 Black Sox Scandal with Kedro and Johan. The rise of baseball amidst the backdrop of World War I and a new American sense of individualism, gamblers and opportunistic Champions, Arnold Rothstein, carrying $200k in cash at all times, fictitious hitmen, connections to current events, crispy bills?, and much more. Apologies for the audio hiccup, it's fixed going forward - been learning as I go as you know. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S2 | Ep 40

With friend of the show JOHAN, the history whiz. A mixed bag of good times. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S2 | Ep 39

Part 4 and the conclusion to this special series: Jonestown and Jackie with KEDRO AND JOHAN! **graphic content warning** The last day. Several Jonestown members are discussed. Plus, the White Nights, selections from many recordings, and much more. Thank you to the Jonestown Institute, a crucial resource for this series.

Jonestown and Jackie Part 3 of 4 with KEDRO AND JOHAN! The night before and the morning of. Rep Ryan and Jackie Speier finally get to Jonestown as Jim Jones begins to lose it, creeping ever-closer to initiating his doomsday.

Part 2 of 4: Jonestown and Jackie with KEDRO AND JOHAN. The early life of Jim Jones and his obsession with life and death. The social work that established him as a community leader and the rainbow Jones family. Jones moves his operation from Indiana to Ukiah and then on to San Francisco - where he develops real tentacles that reached deep into the SF political and cultural scenes. Elements of a cult keep popping up more and more. The Peoples Temple officially arrives. It gets weird fast and only accelerates from there with a burning building, the New Year's Eve poison test - a precursor to the White Nights, an article exposing everything, the phone call that pushes the Peoples Temple over the edge to South America, boxing match punishments, and much more.

It's Part 1 of a special 4-part series on Jonestown, Jim Jones, and Rep's Jackie Speier and Leo Ryan. KEDRO AND JOHAN ARE BACK! In this episode - Jackie Speier's roots and family in SF, where some of her activism theories were first learned, Leo Ryan goes undercover at Folsom Prison and gets a toothpaste and toilet paper chess set as a gift, an open discussion about Jim Jones and his charlatan ways, Mr. Muggs, and much more.

Repost for the 21st 9/11 Anniversary. Original Airdate: 03.01.21. An interview with John Feal, known as a 9/11 first responder, activist, organizer, and more. This was so real, had so many one-liners, and so much good information: (0:00) The Feal Good Foundation, how it is an extension of himself, and his mother's lasting influence. (4:45) Reveals he knows President Joe Biden. (7:00) The 20 year anniversary of 9/11. (8:25) The 9/11 Victim's Compensation Fund, and John's journey with his team through Congress. (22:00) Ray Pfeifer's coat turns Jon Stewart into jelly; Luis Alvarez's shield given to Mitch McConnell in a handshake deal with John Feal that was also a promise kept to Luis. (33:35) The 9/11 Memorial Museum; John's jacket, the Man with the Red Bandana - Welles Crowther and the Man Who Saw it Coming - Rick Rescorla. (42:28) Everyone asks John to run for office. (50:35) The World Trade Center Health Program and John's recovery. (56:00) A great John Lewis story. (58:50) Spike Lee. (1:01:30) Jon Stewart. (1:06:19) A wild 4-way kidney donation. (1:13:15) Demolitions expertise, military service, and his job experience. (1:16:00) The best thing to happen to John Feal after 9/11, and so much more. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S2 | bonus episode

With friend of the show RICK ROSNER. A mixed bag of good times. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S2 | Ep 33

Discovery and debunking - the strange world and history of American UFOlogy is explored as we cover UFO Investigator Chuck Zukowski. How does belief and conspiracy consume a person? In this case, it's a man's wonderful journey deeper into his obsession across the backdrop of a gruesome crime scene spanning much of the nation. The Roswell Crash Site, Snippy the first widely reported (UFOlogy-related) animal mutilation, Senators and the FBI get involved, Chuck takes the investigation on himself, has his own UFO experience, and much more. This story is also Aliens University: Strange History 101 if you want to know what MUFON researchers and alien enthusiasts are digging into as they watch the skies. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S2 | Ep 32

With friend of the show RICK ROSNER. A mixed bag of good times. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S2 | Ep 31

A mixed bag of good times. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S2 | Ep 30

A mixed bag of good times. From Blue Arcs Media / VotingInfoHQ.com: your unconventional hub for Democrats and Blue voters. Thanks for listening, be good to yourself. S2 | Ep 29