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The Ron Show
by Ron Roberts
This is the audio home of the Ron Show - airing weekdays 9-10ax& 5-6p on the AmericaOne Radio app and at americaoneradio.com, as well as at Progressive Voices on TuneIn.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025 - Future talk: this show & AmericaOne Radio + theft of future votes
I've hosted this show - for what is just six weeks shy of three years - on AmericaOne Radio. To let you behind the curtain a little, I and its owner wanted to be candid about its current and future. In essence, Jeremy reached out to me last week to tell me he was going to close up shop.…
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 - No love for RFK at CDC or Emory; Ruwa's ruminating & Duncan's deliberating
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visiting the Centers for Disease Control campus while himself being a leading voice in the vaccine skepticism that poisoned the mind of the alleged assassin at the center of Friday's deadly assault aimed at CDC buildings is quite something. At least he's acknowledged it -...
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Monday, August 11, 2025 - Antivax rhetoric triggers CDC shooting | Jason Esteves checks in
Friday afternoon in Atlanta became chaotic, with ambulances and emergency vehicles all screaming and racing their way to the campus of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Those personnel from multiple jurisdictions arriving to the scene of a lone, mentally unstable gunman carrying a...
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Friday, August 8, 2025 - Texas Dems hold the line to keep the nation from fraying under Trump
I've said for a few days now that Donald Trump's goading of Texas to "find" five new safely GOP congressional seats in a highly unusual mid-decade gerrymander could spark something akin to a civil war. Perhaps not a literal "military" rift between red and blue states, but a fraying of the threads...
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Thursday, August 7, 2025 - So what kind of Democrat IS Geoff Duncan? & why is Megyn Kelly coming for Beyonce?
Okay, cool; former Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan is a Democrat, and while he's (supposedly) "fielding calls" to run for office, he's not saying he has any interest in doing so. To that I say "good." You just sat in the pew; no sense aiming to be a deacon just yet. If does decide...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - Jay Bookman and I: on Thurmond, Burt, Stacey, Marge & more
Last week, Georgia Recorder columnist Jay Bookman wrote a well-measured op/ed asking why Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial candidate Burt Jones looks to Florida and Tennessee for ideas on tax & economic policy when Georgia is already superior to them? Answer: to put an even greater tax...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - Dooley's in the game and Duncan's in the party
Former college football coach and son of Georgia coaching legend Vince Dooley, Derek Dooley has put himself in "the game," so to speak. He's among the three prominent names seeking the GOP nomination to try and unseat Senator Jon Ossoff in 2026. The delicate balance he's trying to seek - being...
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Friday, August 1, 2025 - MAGA town suffers from Trump 2.0 & Collins' chief of staff is hot for nepotism
Not in chronological order as you (I hope) listen along, but the LEAD story for this chapter is and should be this: New Georgia US Senate hopeful Mike Collins' chief-of-staff - the dog-kicking Brandon Phillips - also seems to have a nepotism problemL namely that he hired & paid his girlfriend...
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Thursday, July 31, 2025 - Kammie's out;Stacey, too ... for now. Houston's in & Burt's big pitch gets ripped.
With word that Kamala Harris wouldn't be seeking the California governor's office in 2026 came immediate speculation (and derision) she's eyeing a second go at the White House in 2028. Incidentally, 'Meet The Press' anchor Kirsten Welker (again) brought up this alleged, yet-to-be-proven...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - Another 'purge,' MTG's second bow-out & Tulsi's troubling behavior
Oh look; another round of unneeded "inactive voter purges" in Georgia. Nevermind that they make mistakes. Often. I gave one anecdotal example. Investigative reporter Greg Palast gave more: "...Maj. Gamaliel Turner of Columbus, Georgia, because he filed a change-of-address to get his absentee...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - Georgia 10th revisited & what to make of the ugliness of religious extremism
With Mike Collins making his move to take Jon Ossoff's Senate seat comes a wide-open Congressional seat in northeast Georgia. Republicans like state representative Houston Gaines and former Congressman Paul Broun are licking their chops, but as we here know, there's a plucky Democrat already on…
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Monday, July 28, 2025 - MAGA Mike ("MTG with a mullet") Collins takes aim at Ossoff
Georgia's 10th district Congressional representative, "MTG with a mullet" Mike Collins has thrown his trucker hat into the ring to seek the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in 2026. He hopes, of course, to unseat Senator Jon Ossoff, and cast the Democrat (along with Reverend Senator Raphael...
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Friday, July 25, 2025 - Grassroots journalism is filling the 'trust void'
Americans have not only become so hyper-partisan that they distrust the concept of "government" on the whole, they also distrust "the news," or "the media." Except for the "media" or "news" choices they make, of course. Since media consolidation and profit margins have weighed in so heavily on...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - Repubs flee 'the list,' the case for WNBA players & Ossoff tees off
So we now know what AG Pam Bondi has long known and then relayed to Donald Trump: he's on "the list." Democrats in the House are eager to have that information coughed up so Speaker Mike Johnson shut the House down for five weeks. The White House kitchen is going to need more ketchup....
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025 - Georgia ponzi scheme dupes conservatives uses tried and true tactics
You almost knew when you heard the name "First Liberty" that the people running said business were aiming for a specific kind of client.It turns out that clientele was "easily duped conservative," as we learned last week that a Newnan, Georgia-based lender was hawking "patriot notes" to help…
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Monday July 21, 2025 - Can Debra Shigley snatch a red-leaning state Senate seat?
With a 'jungle primary' in late August on the docket for Georgia's 21st state Senate district voters, the lone Democrat on the ballot - Debra Shigley - is not only imminently qualified for the job, she's also putting in the sweat equity in hopes that she can surprise in this red-leaning…
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - American capitalism thrives on exploiting (some) people; even the disabled
Dom Kelly, co-founder, President and CEO at New Disabled South, penned a social media post days ago that caught my attention. In it, he connected the dots between recent Trump administration statements and policy changes that bear out this truism: if you're disabled, you'll *have* to work to...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - Burt 'bulldogs' his way onto the governor's race stage
Georgia Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones finally made it public: he's running to be the state's next governor, and did so with a well-produce, trope-riddle campaign video that checked off all the rudimentary Republican campaign ad must-haves: a truck, driving from a lovely exurban home, through…
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Monday, July 7, 2025 - Ruwa's home from "Mamdani duty"
Georgia state House Rep. Ruwa Romman has been a busy little bee of late, speaking in Philadelphia at a massive "No Kings Day" protest and going door-to-door campaigning the Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdni in that city's primary election season. I caught up with her for a full show conversation...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - Murkowski's selfish vote is "on-brand" MAGA, but about the good in the bill ...
I had to laugh when NBC News' Ryan Nobles' relayed Senator Rand Paul's reaction to Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski's caving directly to her face. Why? Well, for one, she had that "raccoon when the light comes on" look; for another, sh elicited a response so on-brand with "America First," MAGA and…
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - Dunkin' on Geoff eyeing a Democratic run; go save your own party
Former Georgia Lieutenant Governor, former Republican, Geoff Duncan, appeared on the Atlanta Journal Constitution's "Politically Georgia" podcast earlier this week to hawk his centrist overtures (again) to Democrats, only this time, he's hinted at receiving calls from 'folks across the state'...
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Monday, June 30, 2025 - In a long slog ... Thom Tillis just gave us a boost
Sorry I'm late to posting this week; I'd actually planned to take the four-day week into the three-day holiday weekend off, but "one big beautiful" legislative disaster has spawned this internal need to stay at it, this week. As did Thom Tillis' floor speech over the weekend, followed by his...
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Friday, June 27, 2025 - Bernie on Rogan & what happened to "vote blue no matter who?"
Bernie Sanders idd what former VP Kamala Harris didn't - he went (back) on Joe Rogan's podcast last week, and it was illuminating to listen to the host - a prior Sanders supporter in 2016 - agree with the progressive Senator on a range of issues - most notably the ridiculousness of a…
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - Reacting to Mamdani & is Dalton, Ga., an immigration barometer?
From elation to concern to outright hyperbolic right wing smear, reaction to Zohran Mamdani's win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary is all over the spectrum. Naturally, progressives are elated and believe the result portends a progressive-led blue wave for 2026 and beyond;...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 'Dobbs' at 3: nevertheless, pro-choice advocates persist | the disparate tactics on diplomacy
On this, the third anniversary of the Trump-packed Supreme Court's 'Dobbs' decision overturning 'Roe v Wade,' it's notable that abortion rates are actually up in states with and without abortion bans on the books, according to a recent study. Still, pro-choice activists and Georgia Democrats...
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Monday, June 23, 2025 - Iran vs. The U.S. of 'Amnesia:' Mal Hyman discusses the complexities
Retired Coker University sociology professor, author , historian and South Carolina Democratic Congressional candidate Mal Hyman joined me today for a deep-dive conversation on all the potential ramifications for the weekend's big headline: The U.S. bombed nuclear sites in Iran. Iran, today,...
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Friday, June 20, 2025 - My convo w/a 'Third Way' Dem: can progressives & centrists coexist in one party?
Jim Kessler, executive vice president for policy with Third Way Democrats, had given a data-laden presentation at the 2025 Ideas Summit in Atlanta last spring. His data? Strong. His takeaways? Ehh. Naturally this progressive has some different perspectives, but I reached out to Jim to come…
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Thursday, June 19, 2025 - Brian Recker on Cruz, Carlson & 'Hell Bent' American Evangelicals
Brian Recker, a former Marine, former evangelical pastor, current theologian, speaker and writer, has developed a healthy social media following and solid presence on Substack. His focus? Deconstructing his faith to find a more inclusive spirituality - which often runs afoul of today's...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2025 - 2026 'Blue Wave' candidate: Maura Keller + Dekalb's complicity with ICE is troubling
Maura Keller, a former Army lieutenant colonel with 26 years in service, is another Georgia Democrat (the third I've talked to on this show this month) who's taking another run at MAGA representation in Congress. Like Shawn Harris and Lexy Doherty, she, too, has a prodigious gap to close at...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 2026 'Blue wave' candidate: Lexy Doherty + teargas & bloodshed mar Saturday
In 2024, Lexy Doherty stepped up to walk into the MAGA buzzsaw and lost to Rep. Mike Collins by more than 26%. Undeterred, she's making another go of it in 2025, getting an early jump on fundraising and campaigning. Lexy joined me today to share her insights on how things can work in her favor…
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Monday, June 16, 2025 - 'No Kings,' some chaos & MAGA's race to mischaracterize a killer
So much to unwrap from Saturday, what with the thousands of 'No Kings Day' protests across the country - dozens just in Georgia - along with the Trump-coveted military parade and the shocking double-homicide in Minnesota. In Atlanta, estimates of 8,000 - 10,000 protestors descended on Liberty...
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Friday, June 13, 2025 - ''No King' protests + Trump's birthday parade = a tense weekend ahead
Thousands of protests (not protestors; protests, themselves) are planned across the United States and even in Europe, Saturday, with dozens just in the state of Georgia. The ACLU has 'protest ready' resources aplenty for demonstrators to be prepared for multiple contingencies - not the…
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Thursday, June 12, 2025 - Trump, Republicans reach for familiar tropes as poll numbers dive
With thousands of National Guardsmen and Marines descending on Los Angeles because (checks notes) someone set a car on fire, the narrative from the right is predictable in the face of growing public resentment to them: send in the hammers all in riot gear with tear gas canisters, flash bombs and...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - Military convos: the former Marine on the USMC in L.A. & the gubernatorial underdog
Quentin Pullen - aka "Coach Q" - has made a run at politics but currently hails as a fitness coach & movement therapist. I sense serving constituents isn't off the table for him, though, and he's spent a lot of time as an activist and organizer with the Georgia 50501 chapter. He joined me…
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - MAGA GOPers consistently fail at governing, to their own detriment
Marjorie Taylor Greene's revelation that she voted for something she's dead-set against is just another in a long line of self-inflicted face-plants by MAGA. The Trump-backed 'One Big Beautiful Bill' wouldn't have passed out ot the House were it not for her vote, so now she and other…
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Monday, June 9, 2025 - ensions boil, protests loom. It was this way last time, too.
I remember telling myself in the lead-up and the aftermath of the 2024 November elections that it was apparent way too many American voters had forgotten about the first Donald Trump presidency, wrought with chaos, unrest, division, tensions, protests and 'tough talk' and bluster from the White...
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Friday, June 6, 2025 - Charlie Bailey, Georgia Democrats' new 'bulldog'
A month after securing the seat, new Georgia Democratic Party chair Charlie Bailey sat down with me today at Condesa Coffee in Old Fourth Ward Atlanta to discuss the state of the party he inherited from Rep. Nikema Williams. I wanted to know what was 'right' about the party he took the reigns of…
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Thursday, June 5, 2025 - Evangelicals 'means to an end' fixation re: Israel & other missing Christian values
If you think the American evangelical fixation over Israel's well-being is simply about "doing the right thing," my hunch is you'd be wrong. As a southern-born kid who grew up in the baptist faith, there's a lot I came away with despite that fact I'm now a 51-year old atheist. i'm not saying I...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - King comes for Ossoff, but is way off on Afghanistan
Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King (R) is already looking to distinguish himself in the GOP Senate primary field by taking aim at Democratic Georgia Senators John Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock. The issue: communication with he and his staff in the run-up to the U.S. withdrawal from...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - BREAKING: Shawn Harris announces run at MTG on The Ron Show
Retired Marine sergeant and Army Brigadier General, Northwest Georgia cattle farmer Shawn Harris made a go at Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2024, outpacing the Harris/Walz campaign by 12% in Georgia's 14th Congressional district. It wasn't enough to win but it does show that Democrats focusing on…
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Monday, June 2, 2025 - Here's to a colorfully beige Pride!
The White House won't be recognizing Pride Month in 2025 (and we imagine the next three years as well), but there's also a lot of corporate hesitance to go "all out" this month with rainbow-adorned logos and dramatic proclamations on social media backing diversity, equity and inclusion, too....
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - Keisha's comeback bid & Geoff's unwelcome advice to Democrats
Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms ended all the speculation and announced her campaign for Georgia's governor's office early today. Greg Bluestein from the Atlanta Journal Constitution had a prolonged Q & A with Bottoms and it was somewhat revealing, actually. I'm still only lukewarm…
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Monday, May 19, 2025 - A brain-dead woman = "fetal incubator" in post-Roe Georgia
Atlanta's WXIA-TV, 11 Alive, broke the story late last week: a Georgia woman, brain-dead since February, has been kept alive for more than 90 days because Emory Hospital lawyers advised the hospital against ending life support because of an early pregnancy. Now, her family's gripped in...
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Friday, May 16, 2025 - KSU, Cobb Schools : the subtle messages to & about poor & black students
Kennesaw State University students and their supporters took to Atlanta - some 30 minutes (by car) south of their campus - Wednesday to protest KSU's announcement that they're eliminating black studies & philosophy majors outside the Georgia Board of Regents' offices. NAACP Georgia chapter...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025 - I mean ... so Pete's (already) running, isn't he?
When a prominent politician does a town hall in Iowa, it sort of defines the unofficial start to the upcoming presidential cycle and their campaign in earnest to win the office. That's just ... tradition. So when former South Bend, Indiana mayor and U.S. Transportation Pete Buttigieg hosted a…
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - Hidin' Biden: book reveals more about us & party minions than Joe
The book Washington insiders have been tongue-wagging about for days now - "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" - was leaked. It'll be a best-seller and have pundits and conservative snipers taking aim at a perceived "conspiracy" or...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - Trump's really good day (that really wasn't)
On the surface, you'd think yesterday was a banner day for the second Donald Trump administration: his staff negotiated an end to the trade war he launched, he signed an executive order to mandate steep price cuts for prescription drug prices in the U.S., and who wouldn't have a good if they were...
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Monday, May 12, 2025 - In, out, left (center), right ... Georgians need direction (and transit)
It dawned on me yesterday, while showing a house in Kennesaw for a mom sending her kids off to college not far away, that Georgia's political inhibitions towards rail transit continues to cost families like this one thousands per month for years, and unnecessarily. It's that sort of lack of…
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Thursday, May 8, 2025 - Acting, carpentry, politics & sewing: the ever-evolving Ethan Embry
I've followed Ethan Embry on Twitter/X (he's on Bluesky now) for years now, and have always been fascinated with how well-versed he is on political and social issues. Today, I finally got to sit down with the Atlanta-based California transplant best known for his acting in cult favorites like...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - What's not new from the 'New Deal Forum' Ideas Summit: a winning strategy
Were it not for reporting by Ross Williams at the Georgia Recorder, none of us might've even known a 'Third Way'-backed centrist Democrat 'Ideas Summit' even took place in Atlanta earlier this week. State Senator Jason Esteves - the lone notable Democratic gubernatorial candidate (sorry…
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