EPISODE · Jul 6, 2026 · 1H 30M
Guests - Joel Strabala, Betsy Smith, Charles Heller, Dave Smith. Gary Benoit
from Winn Tucson · host Kathleen Winn
Guests - Joel Strabala, Betsy Smith, Charles Heller, Dave Smith. Gary Benoit Joel Strabala opens the week with a ballot emergency alert — thousands of voters purged from rolls, Green Valley stripped of 10 polling places while the mobile voting center skips right past it, and a July 10th deadline to fix registration problems before it's too late. Betsy Brantner Smith returns from vacation to cover the Charlie Kirk murder preliminary hearing, a violent teen takeover in Raleigh that left nine people shot, and a Tucson Police Department memo ordering officers to disarm before voting — a policy she says her law enforcement contacts across the country simply can't believe is real. Charles Heller recaps the 21st annual Declaration reading at Udall Park and makes the case for turning it into a replicable national tradition. Dave Smith connects socialism's rise to a culture of envy, a media blackout, and Republicans who don't read enough. And Gary Benoit closes with a Cato Institute poll that should alarm everyone: 46% of Americans — and 61% of Gen Z — don't know what the nation's 250th anniversary even commemorates.
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Guests - Joel Strabala, Betsy Smith, Charles Heller, Dave Smith. Gary Benoit Joel Strabala opens the week with a ballot emergency alert — thousands of voters purged from rolls, Green Valley stripped of 10 polling places while the mobile voting center skips right past it, and a July 10th deadline to fix registration problems before it's too late. Betsy Brantner Smith returns from vacation to cover the Charlie Kirk murder preliminary hearing, a violent teen takeover in Raleigh that left nine people shot, and a Tucson Police Department memo ordering officers to disarm before voting — a policy she says her law enforcement contacts across the country simply can't believe is real. Charles Heller recaps the 21st annual Declaration reading at Udall Park and makes the case for turning it into a replicable national tradition. Dave Smith connects socialism's rise to a culture of envy, a media blackout, and Republicans who don't read enough. And Gary Benoit closes with a Cato Institute poll that should alarm everyone: 46% of Americans — and 61% of Gen Z — don't know what the nation's 250th anniversary even commemorates.
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Guests - Joel Strabala, Betsy Smith, Charles Heller, Dave Smith. Gary Benoit
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