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Political debate -- remember when that was a thing? Characterized by intelligent, sophisticated argument, logic, and reasoning? Welp, not anymore. Especially if we’re talking about the US presidential debates. The Super Bowl of the US election cycle has become a train wreck: fewer moral maxims, more Mad Max-ims. What if we told you that wasn’t an accident? Special thanks to guests Nancy Neuman, Vicky Harian Strella, and George Farah. From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Ryan Wentz. Notes: https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/statement-nancy-m-neuman-president-league-women-voters https://www.opendebates.org/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213862/no-debate-by-george-farah/

What would happen if we stopped buying the line that asking for what we want is somehow bad? Republicans or Democrats not your thing? Then you’re a disruptive a*****e spoiling it for everybody else. Is it an accident that things are like this? You know better than that. Listen to find out who’s really spoiled by this system, and why how we vote really does make a difference, even if it’s not how you might think.  Special thanks to guests Angela Walker, Aaron Hamlin, and Lee Drutman. From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Charles Davis and Ryan Wentz. Notes: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pennsylvania-supreme-court-rules-green-party-states-2020/story?id=73076666 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/two-party-system-broke-constitution/604213/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/green-party-republicans-hawkins.html https://electionscience.org/ https://www.gp.org/oklahoma https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/spoiler-alert https://people.howstuffworks.com/10-third-party-presidential-candidates.htm#pt6 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/green-party-howie-hawkins-2020-us-election-trump-biden-a9591151.html https://people.howstuffworks.com/third-party-candidate.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGc9LzOySJs https://truthout.org/articles/tv-networks-should-open-up-the-presidential-debates/ https://www.rankedchoicevoting.org/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8755513/Kanye-West-spent-3-million-gather-signatures-make-presidential-ballot-15-states.html

Try to imagine a world where corporations don't run Washington. We can't either. Most Americans think money plays too big a role in US politics. So where's the bipartisan support for legislating a new path forward? And if the Dems and the GOP aren't going to fix this, how can we? When will cash take a back seat to real human voters? We’re dumpster diving deep into the pockets of one of the richest congresses in US history and finding out just how far both parties will go to ensure that sweet green speaks louder than you. Special thanks to guests Peter Overby, Lawrence Lessig, and Ellen Moorhouse. From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Ryan Wentz. Notes: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/05/682286587/house-democrats-introduce-anti-corruption-bill-as-symbolic-first-act https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/701248576/democrats-election-reform-bill-takes-aim-at-dark-money https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/embrace-irony https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/10/cost-of-2020-election-14billion-update/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/ronna-mcdaniel/yes-aclu-has-criticized-hr-1-heres-why/ https://cha.house.gov/sites/democrats.cha.house.gov/files/documents/committee_docs/H.R.%201_Sarbanes_Section-by-Section_FINAL.pdf https://act.represent.us/sign/money-politics-problem/ https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-letter-house-rules-committee-hr-1 https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/08/most-americans-want-to-limit-campaign-spending-say-big-donors-have-greater-political-influence/ https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:26%20section:9033%20edition:prelim) https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hr1%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1#toc-H0C72CA940E684A0986583236950CC71E https://truthout.org/articles/house-rejects-cori-bushs-amendment-on-voting-rights-for-incarcerated-people/ https://www.newsweek.com/which-countries-felons-vote-1405142 https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:30116%20edition:prelim) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pelosi-s-hr1-bill-a-blatant-power-grab-for-democrats/ar-BB1ekEx0 https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A2Sec1.html https://theintercept.com/2021/03/04/hr1-voting-reform-for-the-people-house/ https://www.gp.org/hr1 https://peoplesparty.org/response-hr1/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/activists-want-to-save-voting-rights-bill-by-killing-the-filibuster/ar-BB1eh6Zj https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30116 https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/contribution-limits/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everyone-knows-money-influences-politics-except-scientists/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2013/10/25/lobbying-money-does-not-buy-policy/ https://ballotpedia.org/SpeechNOW.org_v._Federal_Election_Commission https://www.npr.org/2019/05/07/720050070/democrats-want-to-end-dark-money-but-first-they-want-to-use-it https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/democrats-used-rail-against-dark-money-now-they-re-better-n1239830 https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview

What’s the real difference between dissent and disloyalty? Why is “subversion” so subjective? And why does advocating for workers rights, affordable housing and racial equity make you a monster? We’re talking political persecution the American way, with a deep dive into one of our darkest chapters as a nation: The House Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC left a body count multiple generations long, all to protect an exclusive money scheme just starting to show how lucrative it could be. Find out why the FBI’s the FBI no matter who’s running shit in Washington. Special thanks to guests Dan Bessie and Chip Gibbons.  From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Frank Brody, Antonio Loya, and Ryan Wentz. Notes: https://archive.org/details/westernsectionof01unit/page/n9/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/westernsectionof03unit/page/n11/mode/2up https://muckrack.com/chip-gibbons/articles https://rightsanddissent.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Still-Spying-on-Dissent.pdf https://www.rightsanddissent.org/2020-annual-report/ https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8452 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qv3vdElwKM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvah_Bessie https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alvah_Bessie http://www.ep.tc/realist/51/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee#Standing_Committee_(1945%E2%80%931975) https://www.gracepresbytery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Letter-from-a-Birmingham-Jail-King.pdf https://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/2019-cato-institute-surveillance-conference-afternoon-flash-talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpYwX7cHk2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3tDZbilcI https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/365/431 https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1946-1956/wilkerson.pdf https://search.archives.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=national-archives&sort_by=&query=j+edgar+hoover+huac https://guides.library.ucla.edu/c.php?g=746004&p=5350676 https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/aug/08/fbi-huac-protests/ https://sites.google.com/site/ushproject123/chapter-13-huac http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/hoover.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMAE8iun_RU

War. What is it good for? Doesn’t really matter – because the wheels that keep the gears of the military industrial complex turning are spinning as furiously as ever. From comparing missile size to primal displays of brute force, the US has a big one, and we want (nay need) everyone to know it. Where’s the anti-war movement of our parents’ generation today? And why don’t our “progressive” members of Congress stand up to the hawks? Endless war is just too profitable for shareholders to walk away, no matter the consequences, no matter the side of the aisle. And it goes beyond body count. It’s changed who we are as humans.  Special thanks to guests Chris Hedges and Alice Slater. From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by and Ryan Wentz.   Notes: https://truthout.org/articles/military-metaphysics-how-militarism-mangles-the-mind/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWWycdsJOpQ https://www.thenation.com/authors/alice-slater/ https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/tpnw/ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/09/time-negotiate-peace-space https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/2017/07/20170707%2003-42%20PM/Ch_XXVI_9.pdf https://www.wagingpeace.org/about/people/associates/ http://www.nuclearban.us/staff/ https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=powellmemo https://tomdispatch.com/demilitarizing-our-democracy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/democracy-breaks-out-at-the-un-as-122-nations-vote-to-ban-the-bomb/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPOpRdUFu44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIOOt2T8JZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xAiWLtxb4M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman https://www.codepink.org/bidensyria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIrHNuiQ6fQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/world/2021/02/25/us-military-budget-what-can-global-bases-do-vs-covid-cyber-attacks/6419013002/ https://worldbeyondwar.org/alice-slater/ https://www.wagingpeace.org/author/alice-slater/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_novels https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/global-arms-sales-captured-in-4-charts/

It’s the American Dream: “Available” to all, accessible by some, denied to many, indifferent to the consequences — just the way the good lord intended it to be! The productive forces have given us so much stuff, but the endless extraction, manufacture and commodification of planetary and human resources is leading us down a path we won’t be able to recover from. Just how close are we to the breaking point? And what happens next if we don’t rethink how we roll?  Special thanks to guests Andrew Constantino, Kshama Sawant, and Vijay Prashad. From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Eilís O’Neill and Ryan Wentz. Notes: https://independentmediainstitute.org/fellows/vijay-prashad/ https://www.seattle.gov/council/sawant https://www.statista.com/chart/6949/the-us-cities-with-the-most-homeless-people/ https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-statistics/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_and_politics_of_Seattle https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/29/inequality-poverty-divide-republicans-more-than-democrats/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/spanberger-criticizes-democrats-strategy-in-caucus-call/2020/11/05/6ec2b368-258a-4061-9738-d83ee8971c3c_video.html https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/07/08/government-responsibility-homeless-partisan https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/unprecedented-spike-in-u-s-evictions-looming-as-ban-expires-1.1632958 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/jeff-bezos-and-elon-musk-increased-their-wealth-by-dollar217-billion-in-2020-for-this-amount-over-100-million-americans-could-get-dollar2000-checks/ar-BB1cq7c2 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/05/us/texas-election-results.html https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/report-shows-seattle-area-has-largest-rent-increase-nation-over-past-decade/3C4CAHGUYZFLZOOI4MRDZRG6UY/ https://www.feedingamerica.org/research https://www.american.edu/cas/news/the-growing-hunger-crisis-in-america.cfm https://dowbor.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0VFfv_Ku6I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LbAuobvbEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IqCtSHbrxY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc6R1z5ih2w https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-minimum-wage-rise-vote-amendment-15-tipped-employees-workers-2020-11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSPyocMRyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFNUvS7UioE

Conservative, Liberal, Centrist: You gotta screw one, marry one, murder one. Introducing Party of One. What's the real difference between a Republican and a Democrat? Still believe the game's red vs. blue in Washington? Here's something new for your ears. Party of One pushes past the political posturing and ramped-up rhetoric of division, to uncover a much scarier reality: It's business that's booming, and we're the one's losing. And the stakes couldn't be higher. Tune in for conversations with real reformers like Lawrence Lessig, Chris Hedges, Kshama Sawant, Alice Slater, Aaron Hamlin and more. Party of One is a six-part series that’ll explode everything you thought you knew about American politics.  Coming July 4th with new episodes weekly. Happy Birthday, America.   From Maffick Podcasts. Produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock.