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The Ron Show

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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00:45:02

A tort primer from the plaintiff's counsel & MAGA's...

The Ron Show ·

2025/03/20

Governor Brian Kemp got what he (and his 'dark money' donors) sought: legislation to try and limit lawsuits and suppress massive jury verdicts (rare as they actually are, actually) . On today to discuss the kinds of impact this bill will have on everyday Georgians and particularly plaintiffs seeking damages, my good friend Nick Utley with Utley Law Firm took my call. ------Columnist Jay Bookman likened the Trump Administration's stripping away of federal agencies' workforce to a

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00:44:00

Tort talk with Nabila Islam Parkes & Dickens is a Dem...

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2025/03/20

Senator Nabila Islam Parkes joined me today to talk 'tort reform' with me, and actually has personal background.on the matter. While she was in high school, her mother was injured at a warehouse job. She saw, firsthand, the failures of both the American healthcare system and the challenges in getting justice in the legal system when taking on 'big business.'We discussed Governor Brian Kemp's fixation on tort reform and where SB 68 stands now. Also, dueling op/eds dropped today,

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00:45:00

'60 Minutes' lets the music play - in defiance of...

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2025/03/19

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth carried out President Donald Trump's will to end "the tyranny of so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies " one initiative in particular - a planned two-day workshop nd performance with gifted high school musicians of color and the U.S. Marine Corps Band - got whacked. The workshop & concert was salvaged, somewhat, thanks in large part to the same CBS News and '60 Minutes' in the Trump FCC crosshairs. [See the full

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00:43:30

Democrats hit an all-time low (for now); where should...

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2025/03/18

Yesterday's 'Meet the Press' was DE-pressing for "D" party folks. When Steve Kornacki rolled out the latest NBC News poll, it showed the party with a meager 27% approval rating. It's a three-decades long low, and after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rallied enough Democrat Senate votes to pass a continuing resolution to keep the federal government (somewhat) churning, there's every likelihood a poll number like that could go lower.Lower than an all-time low.If

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00:44:30

Beltline transit: detoured or derailed by Dickens?

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2025/03/15

Mayor Andre Dickens surprised (sort of) many when he and his staffers announced a change in priority for the Atlanta Beltline's transit future. They made this news at Thursday's MARTA board meeting and reaction was swift. Among the sharpest critics, the Beltline rail advocates at Beltline Rail Now! Matthew Raoe, chair of BRN, joined me today at Condesa Coffee in Old Fourth Ward for a spirited discussion panning the mayor's decision.

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00:43:30

So now we're deporting protestors + ATL's mayor...

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2025/03/14

The chilling detainment of green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian national and recent Columbia graduate, raises a lot of questions about the rights of permanent residents, most notably freedom of speech. To answer the sort of questions that came to my mind, immigration specialist Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, managing partner at Lincoln-Goldfinch Law in Austin, TX, graciously took the call. We also delved a little into some "great replacement theory" conversation, on the heels of news that

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00:44:31

Is MAGA banning books at Presidential libraries? Sure...

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2025/03/12

Always a joy to have Melita Easters - executive director at the Georgia WIN List - on the show, and today was no exception. As of this episode posting she's interviewing author Elaine Weiss, whose latest book, "Spell Freedom," looks back at the underground schools that built the civil rights movement, The discussion is one previously scheduled at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. Jennifer Schuessler first reported on this and two otther book event cancellations in late February

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00:44:28

Why is only one Democrat (of eight) catching flak for...

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2025/03/11

The Zoom call dust-up between state Senator Elena Parent and the mother of a trans child continues to catch the attention of local media and the political consultant class; the latest to chime in being the Atlanta Journal Constitution's Bill Torpy, who zeroed in on an angle: that Parent is one of four Democrats who voted for a GOP-led bill (four others skipped the vote altogether) to limit taxpayer-funded gender-affirming care for trans convicts while in prison, and of those four, (eight if you

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00:46:02

Is Andre Dickens positioned to transform Atlanta ......

The Ron Show ·

2025/03/07

Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens gave his "state of the city" address in a typically "Atlanta Way" ... a flashy high society pep rally of sorts, with civic leaders and local music icons both in the wings and on the stage, too. While he touched on (of course) all his perceived high marks (and there are enough, for sure), leave it to me to douse a little reality on the feting, too.Oddly enough, though, his second-term fortunes could be transformational for both the city and metro area

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00:44:31

The (Elena) Paren Trap II - Upon Further Review

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2025/03/05

The now-infamous (somewhat) personal Zoom Q&A state senator Elena Parent (D) and one of her constituents - Lena Kotler - got a lot of attention because of but a few minutes of the dialogue. Like most people, I heard it and focused just on that portion because of the mushy messaging Senator Parent exhibited with regards to the rights of the imprisoned who are trans. It's a party problem more than a "Parent problem," dating as far back as last summer. That's when Trump campaign

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00:44:30

The (Elena) Parent Trap / 'Third Way' Dems plot...

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2025/03/04

State Senator Elena Parent - someone who's been on this show on two occasions; someone I'm awful fond of, politically - didn't have her best moment on a live Instagram Q&A with a trans parent and constituent recently.With me to discuss, another trans parent and activist, Clare Schexnyder., founder/CEO of Oh Baby! Fitness. It's not that I don't get what Sen. Parent is saying - that the party's defending of trans rights' issues at every turn is unpopular and thus, they

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00:44:29

Amerika and the Russian ASSets that rule it

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2025/03/04

Back from my week-long Puerto Rican birthday vacation only to step back into the booth and have to tee off on arguably one of the most shocking and embarrassing displays of foreign diplomacy in American history. You can't tell me my eyes didn't see what they saw and ears heard what they did: Donald Trump and JD Vance are Russian assets. There's no other explanation for their revolting pivot on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his war-ravaged country. I suppose it's also

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00:44:31

How propaganda "hacked" American minds; can it be...

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2025/02/21

Author (and physical therapist) Michelle Stiles wrote a book a few years ago that seemed worthy of review now, more than ever. "One Idea To Rule Them All: Reverse Engineering American Propaganda" isn't strictly a political book, per se, but it does offer a lot of clues leading us to realizing why we're in the political state we're in currently. Oner particular excerpt caught my at the start of chapter ten ("Planet Vulnerable") under the first subhead "Tyranny in

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00:59:59

"The Constitution is Already Burning" - my convo with...

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2025/02/20

Tad Stoermer is a public history lecturer in the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies program at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Film and Digital Media Editor of The Public Historian. He caught my eye on Instagram with a 9-plus minute diatribe insisting we're not "approaching" a Constitutional crisis; we're already in one and have been for awhile. Can it be fixed? Is there hope in midterms or even in an upcoming special House race? Who’s the demagogue to rally behind for

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00:44:29

SSA BS and a DOGE B-M that smells + GA Repubs work to...

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2025/02/19

MAGA may not care that their heroes, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, keep getting caught in lies, but for the sake of history, the rest of us will just have to keep chronicling it, anyway.The latest: claims that 150+ year old people are getting Social Security checks; well, that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is sending check to people born that long ago (and longer) who are obviously not alive. I mean, someone produced a table and put it on a meme so to MAGA, it must be true, yeah?Well, no. I

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00:44:30

Safe school zones or a cash grab? | Do Dems have a...

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2025/02/18

Another Republican-backed bill to get rid of school zone speeding ticket-generating cameras is having a better go of it in the Georgia General Assembly this session, and as someone who's been the recipient of one of their tickets, I'm not not so sure I'm for or against this ban. On the one hand, I definitely support safety for pedestrian kids near schools (and anywhere), but there've been a lot of bogus charges and cities are raking in money hand-over-fist year after year, which

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00:44:30

NO J.D.; the actual "threat from within" is Elon Musk

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2025/02/17

Hearing J.D. Vance have the audacity to go not just to Europe but to Munich, GERMANY to finger-wag about a "threat from within" was just too stunning to let glide by.Today I started with my disdain (I was actually outraged upon first glance) for a social media post by a longtime radio friend taking delight in a purported spike in home listings in the DC metro - along with a pretty wicked comment from another (and mutual) friend of ours ("like roaches twhen the lights come on")

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00:49:59

Prioritizing Gun Love in Georgia | On Bolton, RFK &...

The Ron Show ·

2025/02/16

I've been tough on Georgia Democrats not doing better waging a proper offensive in the war for information over disinformation, but they've gotten way better at it in recent months. Between Sen. Jason Esteves and Sen. Elena Parent, House Rep. Anne Allen Westbrook, the messaging is organic and yet still well-produced - and that's a big pivot from the recent past. And it's more necessary than ever, with Georgia Republicans breathlessly racing to pass a sales tax holiday for gun and gun

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00:44:30

Going easy on real "illegals" (employers) proves...

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2025/02/13

I've long said Republicans were unserious about addressing shortcomings in our immigration situation because they spend way more time seeking to demonize migrant (you know, "illegals") and not the real "illegals" (employers & human traffickers) menacing (in some cases abusing, exploiting, threatning and even killing) well-meaning migrant laborers.A recent sentencing of a human trafficking kingpin (queen pin?) shows the American judicial system is unserious about the very serious crimes

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00:44:30

'Fractured' Democrats actually win on issues but lose...

The Ron Show ·

2025/02/13

Greg Bluestein's reporting thatDemocrats are "fracturing" over Trump's "hardline" immigration agenda (literally the headline) included a nugget that - to me -wasthe story."...a poll published this month by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution showed that roughly 60% believe there should be a way for most people who have come to the U.S. unlawfully to “stay in the country legally if certain requirements are met.”As DonaldTrump's polling begins to take the predictable

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