Free Speech at Work, Cassidy in Third, and QR Code Inspection Stickers

Stay connected with us at americangroundradio.com, on Facebook, and Instagram.You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for April 10, 2026. We kick things off with a bill that has every free speech and religious liberty advocate in Louisiana paying attention — House Bill 1137 would prohibit private employers from firing or disciplining employees who refuse to use pronouns that don't match a colleague's biological sex. We dig into what this bill actually does, why the language of the debate matters as much as the debate itself, and why no employer in Louisiana should ever be able to fire someone for telling the truth.Then we walk you through all five constitutional amendments on the May 16th ballot so you know exactly what you're voting on before you walk into the booth. We break down the $2,250 teacher pay raise funded by constitutional trust funds, the proposal to raise the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 75, the St. George Community School System amendment that would finally give parents in East Baton Rouge Parish control over their own kids' education, the civil service reform amendment that would give state agencies more flexibility to manage poor performers, and the inventory tax amendment that could make Louisiana significantly more competitive for business recruitment. We give you our take on all five. In our Digging Deep segment, three new polls drop in the Louisiana U.S. Senate race and the results are striking — two of the three show Bill Cassidy in third place and potentially not even making the runoff. We break down what Letlow's polls show, what Fleming's poll shows, why the fact that Cassidy's team hasn't released their own poll may be the most telling data point of all, and what the whisper campaign to get Democrats to switch their registration and vote in the Republican primary could mean for the outcome. Plus — even if Cassidy makes the runoff, we explain why his own numbers suggest he loses by double digits every single time.We also get into the QR code inspection sticker debate that's moving through the Louisiana legislature. We make the case that everything the QR code is supposed to do can already be done with a license plate — and we prove it with the story of a Destrehan man who built an elaborate pulley system powered by a car battery to steal copper wiring from the Esplanade Mall, only to get caught because the mall's cameras read his license plate while he was on his lunch break.And we wrap up with the growing national trend of Democrats switching their party registration to Republican so they can influence Republican primaries in red states — it's happening in Ohio, Virginia, and right here in Louisiana. We ask the question: what does it say about a party when its own members have to pretend to be something they're not just to have a seat at the table?Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, visit AmericanGroundRadio.com, and join the conversation at 866-AGR-1776!