Podcasts about american crossroads

We're just shy of a month out from the 2022 midterm elections, a race that promises the GOP at least a leading edge in the House, if not a tsunami. And perhaps even a Senate win. But there remain critical unknowns: What will happen with the cohort of Trump-endorsed nominees, none of whom seem the best and the brightest their state has to offer?  Trump cost the GOP the Senate once before; will that happen again, and will he pay for it this time? And then, the million-dollar question: depending on how this race goes, what will 2024 look like?  All these questions and more on today's episode with Karl Rove. Rove is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He is the co-founder (with former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie) of American Crossroads, a major Republican 527. He is also the author of https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-William-McKinley-Election-Matters/dp/1476752966 (The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters.) Download the transcript https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Episode-170-Final-Transcript.docx (here).

Thomas Maier discusses the upcoming GMAC basketball weekend, the upcoming football bowl game vs Truman, upcoming volleyball NCAA DII Tournament, and women's basketball finally winning.

Very few people have had more impact on US House races over the past decade than Ali Lapp. After years in campaigns and as a Hill Chief of Staff, she created House Majority PAC from scratch in 2011. With Ali at the helm, HMP has established itself as a vital presence on the political landscape - raising and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to elect Democrats to the House. In this episode, Ali talks her early days in politics in Washington state, her time on the Hill as a Chief, how and why she started HMP, and what she's learned from a decade in the trenches in House races.Podcast WebsiteTwitter: @ProPoliticsPodTwitter: @ZacMcCraryFacebook: The Pro Politics PodcastIN THIS EPISODEAli's first political memory…Ali looks back on the pendulum swinging back and forth in Washington state as she grows up…How volunteering for a legislative campaign in college leads to Ali becoming a House Chief of Staff in DC…Ali talks the Hill in the 90s…Ali runs John Kerry's caucus campaign in 2004…Ali joins the famed Rahm Emanuel-led DCCC team of the 2006 cycle…Ali's front-row seat at the creation of the “modern-day independent expenditure” …What motivated Ali to start House Majority PAC after 2010…The nuts and bolts of starting HMP from scratch…Ali's “most depressing moment” in the first year of HMP…What Ali's learned about fundraising after a decade of raising money…Ali's take on what mistakes she sees campaigns making…Ali's favorite example of a “high impact" HMP tactic…The House districts that have most frustrated Ali over the years…The 2006 House race that informs how Ali thinks about going negative in races…Ali's tips on hiring and managing…AND… Sheldon Adelson, American Crossroads, airplane banners over the Jersey Shore, John Barrow, Melissa Bean, Jeff Bjornstad, Leonard Boswell, Bill Burton, the Christian Coalition, the Congressional Airport Caucus, Howard Dean, Norm Dicks, Brad Ellsworth, Rahm Emanuel, EMILYs LIST, Sarah Feinberg, Geraldine Ferraro, flight attendant school, Tom Foley, Scott Garrett, Josh Gottheimer, Bruce Kieloch, John Lapp, LCV, Warren Magnuson, the MCU, Microsoft, Jen O'Malley, Jen Psaki, Ralph Reed, Christina Reynolds, Karl Rove, Nicole Runge, Adam Smith, Randy Tate, Ellen Tauscher, The University of Puget Sound, David Valadao, Brian Wolff, and MORE!Podcast WebsiteTwitter: @ProPoliticsPodTwitter: @ZacMcCraryFacebook: The Pro Politics Podcast

'Set Before America is Life & Prosperity or Death & Destruction' ~ The Above-Ground Underground Podcast Ep25 on EA Truth RadioThis is Dr. Steven Clark Bradley's LIVE show from Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Our Hosts' viewpoints don't always reflect what EA TRUTH Media believes as a whole! Thank you for tuning in! Please join us chatting on social media about our shows using hashtag #EATruthRadioAmerica is facing an ultimate and amazingly dangerous crossroad. We are now at the point where we are ready to lose all that we have ever stood for and everything that has ever defined, who America is and what America is about today. We are faced with The disaster of socialism and with leaders that, we ourselves have chosen and put in power to rule over us and to take away our freedom to take away our Liberty and to make us totally controlled vassals and a totalitarian Society. *** Visit our Media Site at www.EternalAffairsMedia.com & Please Consider Planting A SEED IN OUR MINISTRY! Sign up and become a Monthly Patron for EXCLUSIVE PERKS! & stand for your Christian, Conservative values with every call you make with www.PatriotMobile.com (tell them Curtis R Bizelli sent you) Grab Your FREE MONTH of Virtual Shield VPN!!! You can also send Bitcoin to: 3MrcjvjkVUyP5dDmELDZkqD5JT5TTYyQHnTHE TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL ~ WE ARE THE STORM! Our Independent Media Operation & End Times Ministry has been online for 10 years now since Curtis "Ray Biselliano" Bizelli FOUNDED EternalAffairsMedia.com in 2010 as a simple survivalist site after he woke up and became a pioneer preaching the truth powered by The TRUTH!!! We are on the frontlines leading the fight against the Fake News Mockingbird Media! Check out our Online Store and get some COOL GEAR! If there is anything you'd like to see that isn't there, message us! We wish to hear from you! The SILENT MAJORITY isn't going back to sleep! Corrupt, Sleepy, Pedo Joe & The Hoe STOLE this election! He will NEVER be our President! He's an enemy to the People! People are waking up! This is THE GREAT AWAKENING! God bless you & your loved ones! GOD BLESS THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA! Support the show (https://donate.eamedia.online)

A lot of people believe our politics are broken.  Dr. Norman Ornstein says the fault lies squarely with one political party—and will likely shape the course of the Biden administration. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies politics, elections, and the U.S. Congress.  He is a cohost of AEI’s “Election Watch” series, a contributing editor and columnist for National Journal and The Atlantic, a BBC News election analyst, and the chairman of the Campaign Legal Center.  He previously served as codirector of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission.  A longtime observer and analyst of American politics and the U.S. Congress, he has been involved in political reform for decades, particularly campaign finance reform and the reform of Senate committees. He has also played a part in creating the Congressional Office of Compliance and the House Office of Congressional Ethics.  Ornstein was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.  He is the author of “One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported,” with E. J. Dionne and Thomas E. Mann, “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism;” “The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track,” with Thomas E. Mann and “The Permanent Campaign and Its Future.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Billionaires in the News: Trump has COVID. We have been imprisoned for 6 months by a reactionary minority political faction in the United States. I’m losing my grip on reality. The pharma billionaire Sackler family may get off and get to keep their money. More Americans died of opiate overdoses since 1999 than died in all of WWII. Billionaire #1: Robert Rowling, 7/10 on the DKMALI (10:00) Joe introduces us to Robert Rowling, owner of TRT Holding Co., who owns (among other things), Gold’s Gym. Heir to an oil and gas fortune. Rowling is a big-time donor to Karl Rove’s ghoulish super PAC American Crossroads (coincidentally, so is this week’s Billionaire #2). American Crossroads was very well funded, but ultimately not that good at promoting winning candidates. Billionaire #2: B. Wayne Hughes, 8/10 on the DKMALI (31:45) B. Wayne Hughes got rich in self-storage. He also owns American Homes 4 Rent. We talk a little about self-storage, late capitalism, and desire. We get an intimate glimpse of Joe’s childhood in the middle of a bit on Herbert Marcuse. I think we come up with a solid theory about how self storage fits into the moral universe of American hyperconsumerism. Hughes also has a decades-long friendship with O.J. Simpson and was closely involved in the trial and its aftermath. Links! Rowling: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rove-rides-again-193291/ Hughes: Great bio of Hughes: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-05/usc-secret-donor-billionaire-wayne-hughes American Homes 4 Rent exposé: https://www.cbs46.com/investigations/complaints-soar-against-american-homes-4-rent/article_23cf78a8-eefd-11e9-abea-5ff0decbb1c5.html Jon Ronson interview: https://www.gq.com/story/amber-waves-of-green-jon-ronson-gq-july-2012

 We’re seeing law abiding citizens punished for defending their home and lives while lawless mobs are given a pass.We permit endless protests that disrupt business and traffic but clamp down on any free speech that goes against the narrative.It’s called an American Crossroads, my friends. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Episode 38 December 13, 2019 CLP topic. Vichy Republican Collaborators America After Trump? Introduction. Our podcast today extends Angelo Codevilla's recent analysis about the future of America, after the 2020 election. We use Codevilla's analysis to examine the future of America from the perspective of what happens to the establishment Republican Party, what happens to the Trump conservative movement, and what happens to America, as a nation. Codevilla asks, “The instant after the 2020 elections… the real question is: What will become of us? What can we, what must we, do for ourselves?...Not even winning a bloody civil war against the ruling class could accomplish such a thing as returning the nation to its founding principles.” Codevilla argues that restoring the country to its founding vision is “out of the question.” He says, “Constitutional conservatism on behalf of a country, a large part of which rejects common citizenship, is impossible.” Codevilla cites the work of F. H. Buckley, in his book, American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup, to argue that the framework of state sovereignty federalism, in the Articles of Confederation, offered a better pathway for protecting the natural rights of citizens than Madison's centralized representative republic. Our podcast argues that Codevilla's analysis of the impossibility of returning to the founding principles is correct. He argues that the deep state, which Codevilla calls, the “ruling elite class,” are too far entrenched in the existing government to ever return to a government based upon the consent of the governed. The establishment Republicans, represented by Karl Rove, are the administrative organization of the deep state, and the State Department bureaucrats who showed up in the impeachment hearings to testify against Trump, are directed by the global ruling class leaders of the deep state. To paraphrase V. O. Key, in Southern Politics in State and Nation, the agents of the deep state do the bidding of the global elite, without prompting, because they both share a deep ideological commitment to advancing global socialism. According to the Democrat's interpretation of impeachment, Trump abused his power by not obeying the agents of the deep state. In her recent book about Trump, Nikki Haley identifies Tillerson and Kelly as members of the deep state governing apparatus. She explains that Tillerson and Kelly attempted to recruit her in the attempted deep state coup against Trump. Rush Limbaugh sees Haley as the possible leader of the Trump conservative movement, after 2024. He thinks that the Republican Party is actually the Trump conservative movement, and that Haley has been converted as a Trump protégé. Limbaugh writes, “Now, I actually believe that the Republican Party doesn't know it yet, but it is Trump's party.” Limbaugh believes that Haley is not willing to have the Republican institutional establishment returned to Karl Rove after the 2020 election. In his article, “Nikki Haley fires the first shot in the GOP's post-Trump war,” J.T. Young, states that, “Haley has signaled that she will not side with those desiring to return the party to its establishment. Establishment Republicans believe Trump to be just a momentary break in their political and policy continuum. After Trump, they will both purge the Trump interlopers and regularly beat a vulnerable Democratic Party now hostage to its left wing.” Neither the establishment Republican Party of Karl Rove, nor Nikki Haley, as the leader of the Trump conservative movement, can overcome the irreconcilable differences between the socialist Democrats and natural rights conservatives. Karl Rove's American Crossroads and American Action Network are the defacto Republican establishment political front groups that use the Republican organizational apparatus to promote the interests of America's wealthiest families and global corporations. Rove, and his groups, are best seen as  Republican Vichy Collaborators, with the socialists, to implement a new world order. Rove is a political operative of the deep state, and takes his orders from the global ruling class. Trump's conservative political movement does not have a coherent political ideology of individualism, and Haley's recent book about Trump does not address Codevilla's argument about the entrenched power of the ruling elite class. Unlike the establishment Republicans of Rove, the socialist Democrats have a coherent anti-American ideology, based upon grievance and victimization. After 2020, the Democrats will continue to advocate the transformation of America into a global socialist nation, ruled by the deep state elites.   The socialists are driven by their ideology that socialism is better than individualism, and they will never stop undermining America until they implement a totalitarian socialist regime. There is no other side to the war over the future of America because Rove's establishment Republicans do not have an ideology of individual freedom. This podcast concludes that Codevilla and Young are correct in their assessment that America is over. The obvious competitor ideology to socialism, after 2020, is to return to the revolutionary Spirit of '76, and the restoration of the American Democratic Impulse. The only peaceful, non-violent strategy for solving the irreconcilable differences is a civil dissolution of the nation, based upon a vote in each legislature to either join the new Democratic Republic of America, or cast their lot with the new Socialists States of America.

GPPR Interview Editors Peter Nouhan and Ben Huber chatted with Spring 2018 Fellow Steven Law, President and CEO of American Crossroads. During this chat, they talked about the 2018 election, our theme of uncertainty, the role of money in politics and more.

Steven Law, President and CEO of American Crossroads, joins us on the pod this week to offer a unique perspective on money in politics. From his long career as a Senate aide to Mitch McConnell, to head of the Senate Leadership Fund, hear how PACs work, a debrief on the 2016 Senate election push, and the GOP's plans for the 2018 midterms!

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Paul Blackthorne drops by to discuss his role in The River, a chilling new series on ABC, and his other acting experience in movies, TV and on stage as well as his work as director of This American Journey, an upcoming documentary.

Paul Blackthorne, handsome Brititsh star of The River, was booked for an interview on this episode but had to re-schedule for Thursday, February 9. So instead host Betty Jo Tucker shared her reviews of War Horse and The Artist, two Oscar nominees for Best Picture of 2011. She also gave an update of How To Write a Joe Schermann Song, an the independent film musical by Gary King.  Blackthorne' s film credits include playing a key role in the Academy Award nominated movie Lagaan as well as directing, writing and producing American Crossroads, a provocative documentary.  Blackthorne's other TV credits include starring in The Dresden Files  and appearing in such popular series as 24, The Gates, Lipstick Jungle, Leverage and White Collar.