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TARABUSTER with Tara Devlin
by Tara Devlin
Kicking ass for the working class. Unapologetic Liberal Talk on the right side of history, decency, dignity and democracy. Comedian, activist, Democratic Socialist, AKA: Real Democrat, Real Patriot looks at current events through an unapologetically liberal lens. Hear her "Tarabuster" at http://ProgressiveVoices.com and https://www.politicalvoicesnetwork.com/Become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/taradevlin or click the support link above.Let’s vent, strategize and commiserate about those usurpers of the dreams of a functioning democracy, that greed-centered death cult otherwise known as the Republican Party.We won't rest until the United States middle class is restored to its former greatness as seen during the time of progressive policies known as "The Great Prosperity.""We stick together, we win!"
Episodes
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MAGA’s Meritocracy Comes With a Lot of Excuses - featuring Andrea Brower
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin - featuring Andrea Brower — Associate Producer, The Hal Sparks Show & Tarabuster 10/16/26 🎙️ Andrea Brower, associate producer of The Hal Sparks Show and Tarabuster, joins us on the other side of the mic tonight to unpack the latest MAGA chaos, billionaire…
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Hillary was Wrong. It’s Not Just “Half” — ALL MAGA are Deplorable
Tarabuster Thursday with Tara Devlin. Oct 15, 2026 🐅 Trump turns a man’s horrific death into social-media content, and the White House helps spread it. How much cruelty will Republicans excuse before they admit their leader is unfit? 💸 Republicans promise prosperity, then hand working Americans...
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Trump’s Midterm Meltdown Is Everybody’s Problem - featuring Brad Bannon
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Oct 13, 2026 🎙️ Brad Bannon joins Tara Devlin to break down Democrats’ chances in the coming midterms—and what it will take to turn voter anger into a check on Trump’s power. Can Democrats reclaim Congress and start taking our country back from the grifters,...
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Medals for Musk, Bills for Us - Featuring Shawn "Smith" Peirce
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin - featuring Shawn “Smith” Peirce from "The Politics Bar" 10/09/26 🎙️ Shawn “Smith” Peirce joins Tarabuster: The Politics Bar co-host and longtime political-radio producer joins Tara Devlin to unpack the week’s headlines and the machinery of political media. The...
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Billionaires Are Revolting over a Proposed tax — In Every Sense
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Oct 06, 2026 💰 California’s proposed one-time 5% billionaire tax has triggered a $187 million fundraising effort by opponents and allied campaigns backing measures that could block it. Tonight: the billionaire tax tantrum, the fight over healthcare funding,...
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Republicans: From “I’m Not a Crook” to “So What If I Am?”
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 10/02/26 🕵️ Trump’s DOJ tries to rehabilitate Richard Nixon: More than 50 years after Watergate exposed Nixon’s criminal cover-up, Trump’s Justice Department is entertaining claims that Nixon and his henchmen were somehow the victims. We break down Watergate...
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Pulling the Covers Off the MAGA Grievance Machine - featuring Lee Papa, The Rude Pundit
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Oct 01, 2026 🎙️ LEE PAPA / THE RUDE PUNDIT — The legendary political satirist, writer, and unapologetic liberal truth-teller joins Tarabuster to take on Trump’s retribution machine, Jeanine Pirro’s DOJ embarrassment, Pete Hegseth’s MAGA bully culture, and…
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What Truly Makes a President Great? - featuring Dr. Allan Lichtman
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Sept 29, 2026 📚 Historian Allan Lichtman joins Tarabuster to discuss his new book, Great American Presidents: The Twelve Who Transformed the Nation—a provocative look at the leaders who reshaped America and the real standards of presidential greatness. 🇺🇸...
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Sorry, Trump. America Will NEVER "Love" a Dictator
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 09/25/26 📺 Trump’s “Love Me” ad: The White House is airing a taxpayer-funded, campaign-style ad glorifying Donald Trump ahead of the midterms—because apparently your tax dollars now have to pay for the Dear Leader’s emotional-support montage. 🗳️ SCOTUS and…
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Trump’s Anti-American, Authoritarian Press Ban Is Here
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Sept 22, 2026 🎙️ Brad Bannon joins Tarabuster: Deadline DC’s Brad Bannon joins Tara to break down Trump’s escalating war on the free press, the White House’s propaganda push, and the authoritarian rot Republicans are trying to normalize. 🗞️ Trump’s war on…
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Traitor Trump Versus the Constitution
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 09/18/26 📰 Trump tries to ban the free press: Trump says he is barring CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House for reporting coverage he calls “fake news,” escalating his effort to turn public access into a loyalty test. 🌍 Trump’s ecological-collapse...
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How Many More Chances Do Republicans Get?
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Sept 17, 2026 🥴 JD Vance begs America to “give us another chance”: After months of MAGA chaos, broken promises, and nonstop scapegoating, Vance’s plea sounds less like confidence and more like an admission that voters see the damage. And no—Biden did not…
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Being Anti-Fascist is a Patriotic Imperative - with Ron Placone
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Sept 15, 2026 🍝 Ron Placone at Edinburgh Fringe: Ron joins us to talk about Anti-Fascist Pasta Night, his Edinburgh Fringe stand-up show about politics, culture, travel, relationships, and surviving the insanity of the moment without completely losing it.…
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“Cheat Like Hell” — Trump’s MAGA Assault on Truth, Voting & Democracy
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 09/11/26 🗽 MAGA’s 9/11 smear campaign: Right-wing outlets and online MAGA accounts pushed a false claim that AOC and Zohran Mamdani were laughing during the Ground Zero commemoration—until a lifelong Republican eyewitness, Michael Ragusa, publicly called the…
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Another Day, Another Impeachable Act From America’s Worst President
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Sept 8, 2026 🏒 Trump’s AI-Slop Canada Humiliation: Trump posts a childish hockey cartoon attacking Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney while escalating a trade conflict with one of America’s closest allies—because bullying democratic partners is apparently...
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Trump’s Arch is Just One More Thing to Tear Down
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 09/04/26 🛠️ Labor Day: On this Labor Day, we honor the workers whose labor keeps the country moving—and confront the ongoing Republican war on unions, wages, workplace safety, and the dignity of working people. ⚖️ Trump’s arch: The Supreme Court has cleared…
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Does Trump’s Coin Prove he's Confused about America?
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Sept 3, 2026 🪙 Trump Coins Prove Trump Hates America: Trump’s latest branded-coin grift is a perfect symbol of his politics: turn patriotism into merchandise, fleece his own supporters, and treat the country like a personal cash register. 🌑 JD Vance,...
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FAFO: MAGA has Regrets
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Sept 1, 2026 📞 Even Republican callers are reaching their breaking point: One C-SPAN caller says Trump seems “oblivious” to the economic pain facing ordinary Americans, calling out a presidency devoid of compassion while families and small businesses…
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Chew’s Views on The Trump Maladministration’s War on America - with Richard Chew
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin - featuring Richard Chew 08/28/26 🎙️ Richard Chew joins Tarabuster: Richard Chew—host of Chew’s Views on Chicago’s progressive WCPT 820 and Heartland Signal—joins us to cut through the chaos and talk about Trump’s corrupt maladministration, the Supreme Court,...
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Dolly Was the Best of Us—And MAGA Is the Worst
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 27, 2026 💖 Dolly Parton: The Anti-Trump: As the world celebrates Dolly Parton’s legacy of generosity, compassion, and inclusion, her life stands as a living rebuke to the cruelty, greed, and bullying that define Trumpism. ⚓ Hegseth’s “Hardcore” Cruelty:...
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Hakeem Jeffries Looking Ways to Collaborate With Jared Kushner Should Terrify Every Democrat
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 25, 2026 Today on Tarabuster: Brad Bannon of Deadline D.C. joins us to break down the latest assaults on democracy, public health, and basic accountability.| Subscribe to Brad Bannon's Substack: https://bradbannon.substack.com/ 🤝 Hakeem Jeffries meets…
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Monetizing Nazis, Pardoning Grifters, Targeting Teachers: Another Day in MAGA AmerIca
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 08/21/26 📱 Meta’s Rage-Bait Payday: Facebook’s parent company reportedly monetized accounts connected to white-nationalist and neo-Nazi-linked networks—because hate, outrage, and division are apparently good for business. Meanwhile, progressive voices face...
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The Truth is Out There: But You Won't Find it in the Mainstream Media
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 20, 2026 🎙️ Dr. Steve Macek from Project Censored joins Tarabuster to examine the state of independent journalism, media criticism, censorship, and the stories powerful institutions would prefer the public never see. Dr. Macek is a communication…
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Money in Politics is Why we Can’t Have Nice Things
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 18, 2026 🩺 Hakeem Jeffries abandons Medicare for All—after cashing insurance checks Jeffries once co‑sponsored Medicare for All but now says he opposes it while taking more health‑insurance PAC cash than any other member of Congress—a reminder that...
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Stock trades and Cyanide Bombs— Trump’s America Is a Crime Scene
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 08/14/26 📞 Scott Jennings says he spoke to Mitch McConnell—so why are Kentucky voters still being kept in the dark? And now the CNN MAGA mouthpiece may be headed for the White House press podium. 🤡 Elon Musk’s Austin Powers-style AI vanity video is peak...
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The Party of “Family Values” Keeps Failing America’s Families
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 13, 2026 🚨 Lauren Boebert’s son faces child‑exploitation charges Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested on five felony counts—including three related to alleged sexual exploitation of a child—stemming from a video authorities say he recorded with a 17‑year‑old…
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Is America Wired for Authoritarianism? (featuring Charles Derber)
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 11, 2026 🚨 Today on Tarabuster, Tara Devlin welcomes sociologist and author Charles Derber to discuss his urgent new book, Wired for Authoritarianism: American Oligarchies and How to Re-Wire America for the People. 📚 Derber argues that Trump didn’t…
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Tarabuster Fridays: She Survived the Kent State Massacre (featuring Dr. Chic Canfora)
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 08/07/26 Follow Dr. Chic's Substack: (The Crisis Papers) https://chiccanfora.substack.com/ 🎓 Tonight on Tarabuster, Tara Devlin welcomes Dr. Roseann “Chic” Canfora—Kent State survivor, journalist, educator, activist, and Ph.D.—to confront the MAGA madness and...
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Tarabuster Tuesdays: Reflecting on Republican Corruption
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. Aug 3, 2026 ⚖️ Cornyn and Tillis bend the knee to Todd Blanche After Todd Blanche rescinded Trump’s grotesque $1.8 billion “anti‑weaponization” slush fund, Cornyn and Tillis declared themselves satisfied and freed up his attorney‑general vote—despite Trump...
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Tarabuster Thursdays: Republicans Further Debase Themselves Attacking American Hero Dr. Fauci
Tarabuster Thursday with Tara Devlin. July 30, 2026 🩺 Republicans smear American hero Dr. Fauci In a new round of Senate “hearings,” GOP Senators led by Rand Paul are using subpoenas and bad‑faith questions to taunt Fauci as a liar and criminal, trying to rewrite history so the guy who spent…
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Tarabuster Tuesdays: GOP - From Deplorable to Intolerable (featuring Brad Bannon)
Brad Bannon from Deadline D.C. joins to discuss the madness 🧨 DSA National Chair hands Republicans a talking‑point bonanza The DSA’s new “Workers Deserve More” platform—defended by National Co‑Chair Megan Romer—calls for abolishing the Senate, prisons, ICE, and even borders while drafting a new...
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Tarabuster Fridays: Is MAGA a Mental Illness and a Moral Rot? (Featuring Dr. Adam James)
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 07/24/26 Subscribe to Doc Adam James' Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCeKACwqI4XigwUr_W90z1jg and TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@epistemiccrisis5 🧠 Dr. Adam James joins to dissect the MAGA madness Dr. Adam James is back on Tarabuster to break down the...
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Tarabuster Thursdays: Sorry MAGA, You Voted for This
Tarabuster Thursdays with Tara Devlin. July 23, 2026 ⚠️ MAGA wants warning labels on queer people Trump’s FCC and Republican allies are pushing to slap “LGBTQ content” warning labels on kids’ shows, treating queer characters like biohazards even as civil rights groups flood the agency with…
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Tarabuster: Real Men Don’t Worship Strongmen—MAGA, Masculinity & Mental Health (with Nick Paro)
Tarabuster Thursdays with Tara Devlin. July 21, 2026 ♿ Trump’s assault on the disabled From policy rollbacks to rhetoric that dehumanizes vulnerable Americans, Trump’s agenda continues to target people with disabilities—undermining protections, dignity, and basic human rights. 💪 Toxic…
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Tarabuster Fridays: President Big Lie Man Baby Sets the Stage for his Second Coup Attempt
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 07/17/26 Topics for Tarabuster: ⚠️ Trump’s “Big Lie” speech is a rehearsal for his next coup In his primetime address on “election security,” Trump once again peddled debunked fraud claims and demanded the SAVE America Act, laying rhetorical groundwork to…
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Tarabuster Tuesdays: Lindsey Graham Left the World Worse than He Found it
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. July 14, 2026 ⚰️ Lindsey Graham is dead – and his legacy is rot Lindsey Graham spent decades helping turn the GOP into a Trump cult, backing endless wars and right‑wing court stacking, and history will remember him as a craven opportunist who made the world...
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Tarabuster Fridays: MAGA’s Lies vs.Real People’s Lives
Tarabuster Friday with Tara Devlin. 07/10/26 Topics for Tarabuster ✝️ MAGA pastor melts down over a “gay Jesus” A Trump‑loving pastor is raging that any depiction of Jesus as queer is “blasphemy,” insisting on a repressed, closet‑case savior that looks a lot more like his own internalized…
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Tarabuster Thursdays: How Much Longer Will We Let Dementia Donnie Drag Us Through His Madness
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. July 9, 2026 🌍 Trump’s NATO trip makes the world hate us even more At the NATO summit, Trump again demanded that the U.S. “control” Greenland, trashed European allies over Iran, and even dangled pulling troops out of Europe—turning alliance diplomacy into a...
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Tarabuster Tuesdays: Trump’s Streak of Destroying Everything he Touches Remains Unbroken
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. July 7, 2026 🧊 Trump drags his Greenland obsession to NATO (after calling Putin) At the NATO summit, Trump is once again demanding that the U.S. “control” Greenland and even threatening to pull troops out of Europe—days after a nearly 90‑minute Fourth of…
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Tarabuster Fridays: (Not-So) Happy Birthday America
Tarabuster Fridays with Tara Devlin. July 3, 2026 🎤 Trump's destroys America's birthday by stealing from us and making it all about him. 🎤 Mamdani gives the speech a president should make 🎤 Traitor Trump wants to chop down D.C.'s cherry blossom trees to make more room for his tacky golf…
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Tarabuster Thursdays: Trump is NO Teddy Roosevelt
Tarabuster Thursdays with Tara Devlin. July 2, 2026 🕰️ Trump chats with a Teddy Roosevelt hologram instead of real history At the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, Trump spent his time talking to an AI hologram about the Panama Canal and “greatness,” turning one of America’s most...
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Tarabuster Tuesdays: Trump's Great American Sh*t Show
Tarabuster Thursdays with Tara Devlin. June 30, 2026 Trump's state fair is a flop. The corrupt and illegitimate Supreme Court must be legally and peacefully nullified. "Freedom Trucks" are right wing propaganda. And more! Buckle up. It's a lot. As usual. Subscribe to @Infotainmentwars ! Support…
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Tarabuster Fridays: Worse Than Watergate — by A LOT! (Featuring Jody Hamilton)
Tarabuster Fridays with Tara Devlin. June 26, 2026 Jody Hamilton of the Politics Bar joined Tara for a wide-ranging, casual conversation about life, compassion, community and yes... politics. And more! Buckle up. It's a lot. As usual. 💥 Subscribe to The Politics Bar...
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Tarabuster Thursdays: Republicans Make Screaming Matches Great Again
Tarabuster Thursdays with Tara Devlin. June 25, 2026 🍽️ Trump screams at Republicans—and they cave In a furious closed‑door meeting over Iran and voter ID, Trump reportedly berated GOP senators, called Bill Cassidy a “lunatic,” and threatened to tank their housing bill unless they pushed his…
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Tarabuster Tuesdays: Trump is Not Healthy for Ducks and Other Living Things
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. June 23, 2026 🦆 Trump is not healthy for ducks—or anything living Trump’s crew dumped huge amounts of chemicals into the freshly repaired Reflecting Pool, killing dozens of ducks, while Trump falsely blames “vandals,” perfectly capturing how his…
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Tarabuster Fridays: Trump is the Swamp
Tarabuster Fridays with Tara Devlin. June 19, 2026 ✊🏾 Juneteenth: freedom delayed, justice denied Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Texas finally learned they were free—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation—and today Republicans still try to downplay it…
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Tarabuster Thursdays: Make Presidents Competent Again
Tarabuster Thursdays with Tara Devlin. June 18, 2026 🇺🇸 Obamas show what “great again” actually looks like The Obamas keep doing real public service—boosting voting rights, civic engagement, and basic decency—while MAGA screams on Fox News, reminding everyone what competent, sane leadership…
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Tarabuster Thursdays: Deplorable America (featuring Brad Bannon)
Tarabuster Tuesdays with Tara Devlin. June 16, 2026 Brad Bannon from Deadline D.C. joins to break down Trump’s chaos, GOP cruelty, and Democratic attempts to hold the line on democracy. 🥊 Trump’s UFC “cage match” spectacle is a disgrace Trump turned the White House into a pay‑per‑view clown…
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Tarabuster Fridays: Removing the Trump Stain (w/ Andrea Brower)
Tarabuster Fridays with Tara Devlin. June 12, 2026 🎤 Trump has a full meltdown over Kennedy Center loss A federal judge ordered Trump's name be taken off the Kennedy Center and nixed his plot to shut it down. So, Trump is rage-posting like an unhinged brat. 🎤 The world does not need…
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Tarabuster Thursdays: Republicans use the Situation Room to Strategize Over the “Epstein Hoax”
Tarabuster Thursdays with Tara Devlin. June 11, 2026 🚨 Republicans’ “secret plan” to slash Social Security — Leaked rhetoric and budget schemes show the GOP still working to raise the retirement age and cut benefits for millions while pretending they’re “saving” the program. 🕳️ Inside the Trump...
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Kicking ass for the working class. Unapologetic Liberal Talk on the right side of history, decency, dignity and democracy. Comedian, activist, Democratic Socialist, AKA: Real Democrat, Real Patriot looks at current events through an unapologetically liberal lens. Hear her "Tarabuster" at http://ProgressiveVoices.com and https://www.politicalvoicesnetwork.com/Become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/taradevlin or click the support link above.Let’s vent, strategize and commiserate about those usurpers of the dreams of a functioning democracy, that greed-centered death cult otherwise known as the Republican Party.We won't rest until the United States middle class is restored to its former greatness as seen during the time of progressive policies known as "The Great Prosperity.""We stick together, we win!"
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