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My fellow Americans...
 
The state of our union is strong, but it could be so much stronger. Over the past year, we've continued to see how our politicians are bought off by Big Oil tycoons, Wall Street billionaires, and giant transnational corporations. And that's the first challenge facing America right now.
 
Our Conservative-controlled Supreme Court has said that spending money to buy politicians is protected by the First Amendment. Thanks to the disastrous Citizen's United decision, the Conservatives in the Supreme Court chambers have made it easy for billionaires to flood our democracy with the corporate cash which is slowly destroying the democratic principles that our founding fathers fought and died for.
 
In the 2014 midterm elections, we saw yet again how America truly has the best politicians money can buy. Estimates suggest that nearly $4 billion was spent during the midterms to elect the politicians the rich folks want in Washington DC and statehouses around the country. Just imagine how much stronger our nation would be if we were to get money out of politics, and thus prevent corporations and billionaires from corrupting our democracy.
 
The second problem our nation is facing is at the core of why we have a government in the first place. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson said that, "governments are instituted among Men" to "secure" the "unalienable" rights of "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
 
So, why do we have government? To provide life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
 
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- Dr. Day Gardner, Project 21 / National Black Pro-Life Union / The Day Report  Twitter  Twitter
 
Screwed: Citizen's United...5 years later
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Hour One: How expensive is it to be poor?
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Article: "How Expensive It Is to Be Poor" by Charles M. Blow.
Article: "Americans tested on taxing the rich" by Megan Murphy.
Article: "Corn Laws" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.
Article: "Mergers and acquisitions" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Big Ideas Project" by Progressive Change Institute.
 
Article: "Report on the Subject of Manufactures" by Alexander Hamilton.
Book: A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren.

Hour Two: Is it child abuse to let your kids walk home alone?
Article: "Advice From 'America's Worst Mom'" by Jane E. Brody.
Book: "Beware Dangerism!" by Gever Tulley.
 
The very, very ugly: State Sen. C.B. Embry Jr. (R) "Lawmaker Wants To Pay Students $2,500 If They See A Transgender Person In The 'Wrong' Bathroom" by Zack Ford.
 
Talk Radio News Segment:
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Article: "TRNS News Notes - 1/20" by Victoria Jones.
Article: "Most popular password of 2014 was '123456'" by Matthew Sparkes.
Article: "Yemen's President 'has no control' as Houthi rebels storm palace" by Josh Levs, Nick Paton Walsh, and Laura Smith-Spark.
Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Hour Three: State Of The Union...what do you want to hear?
Article: "Murder of Adam Walsh" by Wikipedia.
TV: "America's Most Wanted" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) by EFF.
Article: "To Catch a Predator" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Paris mayor: We intend to sue Fox News" by Gregory Wallace and Brian Stelter.
Article: "Disappearance of Etan Patz" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Oakland County Child Killer" by Wikipedia.
 
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