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The Ron Show
by Ron Roberts
Welcome to the Ron Show - Atlanta's only progressive audio platform airing five days a week on Georgia Now, M-F 4-6pm (replaying 8-10am the next weekday). Host Ron Roberts covers Atlanta, metro Atlanta, Georgia and national politics from a pretty unique lens ... he's just your run-of-the-mill Georgia-born gay progressive cat-dad realtor & talk show host. Dime a dozen, right?
Episodes
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Jilani: Jackson's 'rags to riches' message is a mis-direction
Atlanta-based freelance journalist Zaid Jilani penned an op-ed for the Atlanta Journal Constitution that works to dispel the 'rags to riches' mythos erected to prop up a facade of who GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson was and is. In that piece, Jilani opines that it sends the wrong message...
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Trump's GA visit puts GA GOP hopefuls in awkward spot
Donald Trump stumping in Georgia is something of a "double-edged sword" writes Patricia Murphy at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution or could be "an anchor" writes Georgia Recorder scribes Ross Williams, Ignacio Perez and Alander Rocha. Trump wants his base to vote as if he were on the ballot;...
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MAGA can't contain costs & a reminder: "Biden-flation" was Trump's fault, too
Plus, an important down-ballot race Democrats are poised to grasp in the Georgia legislature - why it's important they do. September's inflation data shows Donald Trump has failed (again) to reign in prices for goods & services - mostly because he keeps meddling in the fossil fuel business or...
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Focus on the Flippables: GA Senate 32 & Michael Hettig
If Georgia Democrats are going to flip the state Senate - and it's a daunting task given the gerrymandering - Democrats will need to win districts like SD 32. Democrat Michael Hettig is making a go of it in the Cherokee/Cobb-shared turf and I had the opportunity meet him for an extended…
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George Chidi: It "Feels Like 2018"
... though he also said in this episode that it feels like 2006, so ... He writes for The Guardian; he pens for his own Substack - The Atlanta Objective - and knows a lot of smart people to lean on for information on a whole host of issues globally to locally. He joined me Tuesday for a...
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GA Gubernatorial debate review, Part two
Still more to digest from the (likely only) Georgia gubernatorial debate broadcast across the state Tuesday night. There's (at least) nine lies or distortions from Rick Jackson's lips to dissect, and whether it's telling supporters Brian Kemp will use the National Guard at polling places (at a...
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GA Gubernatorial debate review, Part One
Healthcare CEO Rick Jackson and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms squared off in what may likely be their only televised (or otherwise) debate. On Wednesday, I dove into a healthy chunk of that spectacle that not many Georgians watched - especially with the Atlanta Braves on primetime TV…
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The un-Trumping of Rick Jackson | Keisha's law enforcement backers
... and America's biggest threat to democracy is America's President. Don't believe me; ask local & state election officials. Well that's odd; the same Rick Jackson who told primary voters he'd be Donald Trump's favorite governor and govern like Trump and be 'Trump with a southern accent' had his...
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Another GA mass (shrug) shooting | 'Buckhead Dems' need a "talkin' to"
Ho hum; another mass shooting in the US takes the lives of two (hopefully that'll be all) and inuring nearly three dozen more in rural Vienna, Georgia over the weekend. The existence of a block party didn't cause it. The town not having a police department didn't cause it. That 'everybody's...
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MAGA-packed state elections board's 11th hour schemes
PLUS: Rick Jackson's shadowy TX data center project is as shadowy as that PAC ad campaign he swears he wasn't tied to before he got into the GOP primary. The Georgia Elections Board thought now was the time to invite the Trump Department of Justice to intervene on the state's use of touchscreen...
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What does the MAGA DOJ need with your personal info?
Also, why are Georgians pessimistic about the future? Could it be that the GOP's created a miserable 'current' for the middle class? Thank goodness there's still remnants of sanity in our legal system despite the flood of Trump-appointed ne'er do-wells. The latest Trump administration judicial…
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Missouri's Schmitt-head & his media 'safe space' epitomize "MAGA"
PLUS: Where's Geoff, Mike and ... Stacey?Former Biden DOJ special prosecutor Jack Smith was made to testify under oath before a Senate Judiciary committee hearing, and Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt (R) "outed" Smith ... as a Caitlin Clark fan ... while trying to "gotcha" Jack into confessing he'd...
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Rick Jackson isn't as 'self-made' a man as his TV ads want you to believe
Georgia Humanities' President Mary McCartin Wearn wrote a salient op-ed for the Atlanta Journal Constitution that fills in a lot of gaps in Rick Jackson's made-for-TV (ads) autobiography. From Team Jackson, you'd believe, he singularly overcame his broken family, alcoholic mother, being a foster...
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We bought a TV ad? Plus, where's DOGE with all this 'non-citizen voter' & ICE waste?
If you're like many Americans who spend the weekend absorbing football games on Saturday and Sunday, it was awful hard to miss that spray-tanned, purse-lipped face that won't let us escape his orbit anytime soon. Between his appearing at half the Texas-Tennessee college game Saturday (wreaking...
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Will the 'glass ceiling' be shattered by black women in Georgia this cycle?
Upon review of my upbringing - between my Mom's almost all-black female staff of co-workers (who'd often babysit my sister and I) and some of my earliest educators in elementary school, to my college (and still) bestie Sonya - I've been influenced by African-American in ways that I have to…
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Jackson, like Trump, seeks to avoid the media & debating sharp women
It's a plan that worked for Donald Trump in 2024: when faced with the prospect of getting his debate clock cleaned by a more veteran politician (who I suppose just happens to be a black woman), Rick Jackson is making history in ditching debate after debate. Jackson said 'no' to WXIA-TV/Tegna, was…
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If Cathy Woolard's left Atlanta, do we have a problem IN & AROUND Atlanta?
Cathy Woolard is someone I've long admired - as a trailblazing out politician in Atlanta, one of the early believers in the Atlanta Beltline project and for just being a grounded and outspoken liberal in a sea of right wing nonsense (often appearing on FOX-5's "The Georgia Gang" having to smack...
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What Bottoms, Ossoff & Democrats can (or can't) do this cycle with Andrew Heaton
With less than 45 days to the midterm election, it was great catching up with metro Atlanta-based political consultant (Sagamore Hill Consulting) Andrew Heaton to talk Bottoms-Jackson, Collins-Ossoff, and down-ballot opportunities for Georgia Democrats, too.
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Ed owns up & progressives won't take the W & Rick Jackson suddenly likes diversity?
I'm a diehard 'Bernie Sanders' progressive and yet I often find myself at odds with 'litmus test-driven' progressives who - in my opinion - poison their movement (whichever one it might be) by being unforgiving or intransigent purists. I happen to think that's playing out now with the whole Ed...
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Why I'm 'team Macklemore' AND 'team Ed Sheeran'
Being a former pop music radio exec, I know a lot about both Macklemore and Ed Sheeran; enough to know their character and a good bit about the business side of what they do. I mention that because I've seen a lot of vilification of both: Macklemore by pro-Israeli people who think that nation's...
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Georgia polling & the wide gap (in money, not support) between Bottoms & Jackson
The latest Rasmussen poll on the Georgia gubernatorial race seems a bit of a Jackson-leaning outlier, but its there are some unmistakable truths: 1) the early lead Keisha Lance Bottoms seemed to enjoy in most polls has shrunk and 2) Rick Jackson's campaign, its allies and party have WAY more to...
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Did SCOTUS signal that the MAGA fever has broken?
The Supreme Court, this week, pulled the reins on the Trump administration's intent to use the United States Postal Service - to curb mail-in voting this cycle. Good! Does this mean we're at the precipice of swinging momentum away from the dark Trump chapter in American history? Leave nothing to...
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Will this swing GA House district think 'Cleveland rocks?'
Adam Cleveland, husband, father, UGA alum, handyman-turned-lawyer is now also a politician - the Democratic nominee for state House District 48. He joined me Tuesday to explain why he felt he had to upend his ideal life to step into the fray to defend democracy in trying to help flip the Georgia...
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Rick Jackson's Medicaid 'pathway' lacks details; will it also lack expansion?
Ariel Hart, writing for the Georgia Recorder and States' Newsrooms, covered the rollout of GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson's healthcare coverage initiative in a piece Ron reviewed. Details are lacking while bluster and proclamations were offered in abundance. He did say he'd be 'Trump…
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Assessing "us" 25 years after September 11, 2001
On the 25th anniversary of the horrific three-pronged terror attack on American soil, Ron assesses where the United States is, societally, diplomatically and politically. Are we any less Islamophobic a society? Ehh. As the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani gave remarks at Ground Zero…
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Trump keeps lying (about 9/11) | Islamophobic outrage at NYC mayor shows we've learned little since that day
Years and decades from now historians and psychoanalysts will dissect the Trump era and Donald's chronic need to lie about his accomplishments and whereabouts - never mind the narcissism and predatory behavior in so many facets of his life. That said, his predilection for perpetrating himself as…
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'Insight' polling - outlier or legit?
PLUS: Rick Jackson's effective ads vs Keisha Lance Bottoms' retail style - which will win? The Rick Jackson campaign has taken a two-pronged approach in the race to be Georgia's next governor: portray him in a softer, more human role with his past foster advocacy while also running those...
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This NW Georgia cattle farmer - and Congressional candidate - has beef with Trump's tariff policies
Shawn Harris, vying to unseat Republican Clay Fuller in Georgia's 14th Congressional district, is also a cattle farmer, and like many in the trade, is suffering mightily under Trump's looming beef import plan. Hear how it's literally impacting his and other farmers' wallets, and how Harris'…
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Ragsdale's rally rant & the aftermath: intimidating Cobb's teachers
At Cobb County's 'Back to School' faculty rally, superintendent (and Trump fan-boy) went off on a 12-plus minutes long political bender that sent dozens of Cobb educators heading for the aisles and exits, prompting scrutiny from the school system. On with me to discuss the event, the tone, the...
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Trump, the Supremes and Rick Jackson all work to suppress the vote
Donald Trump's March executive order aiming to curb mail-in voting (except for when he uses it, of course) drew swift legal action from dozens of states and voter rights organizations, and to hear the Supreme Court's conservative majority rationalize it, it's the swiftness to act that drew their...
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Are you aware how easy it is to find out how you voted in Georgia?
Marilyn Marks, executive director at the Coalition for Good Governance, has long warned that Georgia's physical set-up for voting at precincts - using illuminated touch screens - violates Georgia Constitutional law by denying one's right to privacy when voting. It turns out, that's not the only…
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Dickens is correct but also wrong in his DNC snub letter
PLUS: Alpharetta's aversion to icky renters & why would a Billy Linville crossover endorsement matter when Rick cant' get Burt on board? Earlier this week, the Democratic Party announced its finalists for the 2028 DNC convention and Atlanta didn't make the shortlist (Denver, Philadelphia and…
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Au delivers painful truth on GOP's Medicaid expansion stubbornness
Medicaid expansion, predatory lending (to hospitals from the likes of Rick Jackson's Jackson Healthcare), vaccine confusion, gun (and school) safety, and a post-primary vibe check ... all that in Thursday's conversation with Georgia House Rep. Dr. Michelle Au (HD 50).
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Josh McLaurin works to win the statewide race GA Dems really need
State Senator Josh McLaurin joined The Ron Show Wednesday to discuss the issues of importance in the 2026 midterm election cycle. He and Ron also pontificate on why winning the Lieutenant Governor's race is of vital importance with or without control of the House and/or Senate and why he's best...
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Rick Jackson benefit$ from states not expanding access to healthcare
Freelance journalist Alex Jobin joined me today to discuss his piece chronicling a struggling Montgomery, Alabama hospital and its biggest creditor - Jackson Healthcare - ready to profit off its bankruptcy at the expense of local and state taxpayers. Like Georgia, Alabama refuses to expand…
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Dispelling DSA tropes: my conversation with Ga Rep. Gabriel Sanchez
Georgia's elected Democratic Socialist, Georgia House Rep. Gabiel Sanchez (GA 42) is up for re-election and seems to be able to work well with the Democratic Party - as a Democrat and Democratic Socialist - winning over African American voters in his district and door-knocking for fellow…
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Talarico actually IS doing the work with Texas' black voters
Whether Donald Trump uses his Thursday night address to relitigate Georgia's 2020 election was yet to be seen as of the Tuesday prior, but what's apparent aside from that is this: Democrats seem to know how to snatch "defeat" from the jaws of "victory" all too often the last decade-plus. Between...
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Is a black-owned brunch spot "Toast" after cozying up to Rick Jackson?
That and was Atlanta the big winner in the FIFA World Cup aftermath? Those topics and more with Donnell Suggs, from The Atlanta Voice.
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Mike Collins' white supremacist (family) ties & more w/Debra Shigley
Mike Collins' son-in-law is a devout white supremacist, but also ... well, Mike Collins' son-in-law ... who until recently appeared all over Mike's campaign site. On to discuss that, the GOP's complex relationship with Israel, the evidence of antisemitism in our political discourse, and her...
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Addressing the address before the address because it's THAT predictable
Prior to Donald Trump's latest public hissy fit over election security, I (and the AJC's Patricia Murphy) had a pretty solid idea what would be covered - and that would a) not amount to much and/or b) actually benefit Democrats.
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ICE in summer: still killing innocent people
A recent spate of deaths at the hands of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) warrants further scrutiny of all the carnage caused by them in the second Trump presidency. Speaking od "the Donald," TV networks were positioning themselves to decide if (or not to) carry the President's Thursday...
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Is Donald coming for Georgia's legitimate Senators with illegitimate claims?
PLUS: the Graham "pleasure-givers" start speaking up & the subtleties of KLB's 'black' sales pitch Social media was abuzz last night and into the morning that a planned address to the nation Thursday by the President was going to include salacious allegations that the elections of both Senators…
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Why this out gay white southern man owes no respect to Lindsey Graham
As the world wondered where Mitch McConnell was, the grim reaper threw us all a curveball and came for South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham instead. The "decent" thing to do is to pay your respects to someone when they pass even if you disagreed with them ideologically, right? Sorry, but the…
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The many ways Trump & company are preparing to tinker with midterms
Notes to come ...
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Is Warnock grooming us for a 2028 Presidential run?
Hear me (and Greg Bluestein at the AJC) out ...
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The Trump-FIFA "perfect call" draws "red cards" from all over
Notes to come...
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Why are some Dems embracing 'status quo' when the energy is to its left?
Notes forthcoming.
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Rick Jackson forgot "TV commercial Rick Jackson" | Revisiting a thorny (Mary) Rose
Friend of the show, columnist Jay Bookman reminds us (and Rick Jackson) of the "Rick Jackson" Rick recalls himself being as a child: impoverished and in need. As Bookman opines, it's as if Jackson forgot that child version of himself on route to crafting the sort of policies he'd put in place if…
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Welcome to the Ron Show - Atlanta's only progressive audio platform airing five days a week on Georgia Now, M-F 4-6pm (replaying 8-10am the next weekday). Host Ron Roberts covers Atlanta, metro Atlanta, Georgia and national politics from a pretty unique lens ... he's just your run-of-the-mill Georgia-born gay progressive cat-dad realtor & talk show host. Dime a dozen, right?
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