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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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00:46:30

Kendrick, whiteness, anti-blackness & whitewashing...

The Ron Show ·

2025/02/11

Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance has certainly sparked a conversation, and honestly the timing couldn't be better considering conservatives' breathless zeal for suppressing a true reckoning on race and its role in our nation's history. Surely you understand that's why the white nationalist-in-chief wants todismantle the federal Department of Education so MAGA states can get back to lettingpro-Confederacy groups write your kids' history books.So last weekend, I

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00:44:29

Mainstream Marge & other 2026 name(s) to watch & GA's...

The Ron Show ·

2025/02/10

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a MAGA radical, but there appears to be an effort to 'mainstream' her, anyway. She did a live taping for WABE-FM's "Politically Georgia" podcast with Atlanta Journal Constitution reporters Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell and Patricia Murphy last week and waffled on her "America First" hardlining (when it equivocates on Gaza but less so on Ukraine), gave her "business" spin on government efficiency and was asked about future statewide

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00:44:29

Fewer green jobs, more anti-trans policy & other...

The Ron Show ·

2025/02/08

Pardon me while I close a few "open tabs" on the laptop heading into the weekend.A ruby-red, Trump-adoring Georgia county"found out" about 700 "green energy" jobs planned for at a new battery plant south of Newnan aren't coming, after all. While the Norwegian company spoke ofinflation and costs, it's hard not to connect the "drill baby, drill" dots.The Georgia Senatepassed SB-1, banning trans girls & women from scholastic & collegiate sports

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00:44:30

Trump takes aim at 15 trans girls & an accurate...

The Ron Show ·

2025/02/06

Good news, y'all; I have it on good authority (a mid-market conservative talk radio parrot) that Donald Trump''s rhetoric whereby the U.S. would "take over" Gaza were "sidebar remarks were casual and not intended as anything other than speculative inquiries." Oh good; for a minute there I thought the press briefing on a dais with the Israeli Prime Minister beside POTUS - both behind podiums and one with the Presidential seal on it meant "this is a serious occasion." The "Trump whisperers" have some

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00:44:30

Closed primaries = open assault on democracy

The Ron Show ·

2025/02/05

Sometimes when I launch into a topic I have no idea where the stream of consciousness is going to take me, but damned if this isn't a good one, y'all, if I do say so myself. Georgia Republicans want to make Georgia a "closed primary" state, and that's (spoiler alert) bad for democracy. If Republicans are for something, when it comes to elections, you can be sure it's "bad for democracy." Now, listen, fellow Democrats ... we have to accept that our issues in 2016

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00:44:30

Finding the humor in the longest 'day one' dictatorship

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2025/02/04

Sometimes you just have to laugh; credit to Senator Josh McLaurin (D-14) for taking his time on the floor at the state Senate to review all the nuttiness from the Trump administration's takeover in Washington. His xompatriot Senator Nikki Merritt took another tact yesterday, invoking Black History Month to remind folks to "walk carefully.." She noted the military trying to bury the story of the Tuskegee Airmen (briefly) last weekend as proof that vigilance is more necessary than

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00:43:31

Does Medicaid have a shot in Georgia? Do Kemp's...

The Ron Show ·

2025/02/03

Super grateful that GA-6 Senator Jason Esteves joined me today to share some optimism (and some stark reality, too) on the likelihood some form of full Medicaid expansion is even a possibility this legislative session. There's at least a glimmer of hope with four rural Republican lawmakers joining with Democrats on the idea, anyway. Meanwhile, as Donald Trump keeps imperiling our economy with tariff threats, his executive actions attepting to roll back clean energy initiatives. Here in Georgia,

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00:44:22

Re: D.E.I.; what about homogeny, inequality &...

The Ron Show ·

2025/02/02

In the aftermath of the deadly plane/army helicopter crash, President Donald Trump almost immediately cited "D.E.I." as a factor - without evidence. Listen as USC law professor Jody Armour weigh in on Trump's missed opportunity to unite the nation after such a tragedy and his "incongruous" rationalization that D.E.I. has to have played a role. Why? Is he kneejerk reacting to deflect culpability on his gutting the FAA and a key aviation security committee? Former Transportation Secretary Pete

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00:45:01

The Rev v RFK, immigrants saved our cities & the DEI...

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2025/01/30

Rev. Senator Raphael Warnock was among those who got to pepper DHHS secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., yesterday, and he zeroed in on comparisons RFK of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Nazi camps and Catholic child sex abuse. Senator Ron Wyden also cornered RFK on his role in the deadly Samoean measles outbreak and Hawaii Governor Josh Green later dubbed RFK a liar. Just another day where a head-scratching Trump Cabinet appointee - having no business being there - gets

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00:44:30

The illegal freeze & the voices on the left throwing...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/30

The White House federal funding "freeze" mandate on Monday through a lot of the nation for a loop - just another chaotic day in a Trump presidency - before a federal judge put the brakes on it. I'm trying to figure out why Republicans in Congress are just rolling over and ceding the legislative branch's equal power to this particular President. They're just ... letting him do as he wishes, even at the expense of Congressional authority. Locally, Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens

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00:42:34

"There is a window of potential impunity for violence"

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/28

Dr. Anthony (Tony) Lemieux is a professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta and an investigator with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START). He joined me today to discuss the very real, very stark dangers that exist in the aftermath of the sweeping pardons of violent insurrectionists -fomented via the rhetoric of President Donald Trump - by Trump himself.Insightful and sobering conversation today.

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00:44:31

Two-party pardon rebukes + home insurance reacts to...

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2025/01/28

The avalanche of Trump-related egregious acts are seemingy too numerous to keep tabs on, but there seems to be bipartisan agreement on his pardoning J6ers ... that it was a bridge too far. Don't get it twisted - Republicans won't actually do anything about it, but they do seem to agree it sends an awful message. On Sunday's 'Meet The Press,' Senators Adam Schiff (D) and Lindsey Graham (R) vocalized that much. Even The Daily Show's Ronny Chieng noted not only the wrongess but

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00:44:30

Abrams' "bad timing" & other Jay Bookman musings

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/24

Jay Bookman is a gem of a journalist and opinion writer, and Georgia Recorder is lucky to have him - as am I, on occasion and today is such an occasion.He joined me to discuss his latest - "Stacey Abrams’ political aspirations bookended by bad timing" - to discuss the 2026 Georgia gubernatorial field as it may (or may not) shape up to look like, along with a few other topics - like Donald Trump's aversion for calling on the Department of Justice to investigate that 2020 election his

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00:43:59

A Bishop's homily to deaf ears & pardons provoking...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/22

By now many have seen the "two-minutes" version of Bishop Mariann Budde's fourteen-plus minute homily at Washington's National Cathedral yesterday. You know, the one where she spoke directly to President Donald Trump, pleading for mercy towards the LGBTQIA+ and the undocumented immigrant. She later explained further the intent to CNN's Erin Burnett. First, there's the audacity of a godless man even showing up a day after he failed to even put his hand on the Bible when

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1,459 more days to go

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/21

The second Donald Trump term began as the made-for-TV event you know the former reality TV star sought it out to be, and while "reality TV" is largely fictitious scripting, Trump's inauguration day was very real - with real-life consequences for justice, law & order and both undocumented and DACA status immigrants. To help e understand how real (or not) a threat Trump's focused executive orders are for current and future immigrants, I spoke with immigration attorney/CEO Kate

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00:44:31

On Cornelius, Carter, King ... and Trump

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/21

What a confluence of events to dwell on today, of all days. Late last week, as Atlanta prepped for the influx of visitors for tonight's College Football Playoff Championship game, a ⁠homeless Atlanta man was crushed to death ⁠by a bulldozer clearing an encampment. I spoke with Sylvia Broome, a program lead/instructor with⁠ Remerge⁠, who knew Cornelius personally, to ⁠learn more about him⁠ and his plight, his future and how this could have gone so horribly wrong. On this, the Martin Luther King

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00:46:31

Colton's conniption, Kemp's tort mania & Democrats...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/18

It's easy to not notice the routine 'state of the state' address Georgia Governor Brian Kemp gave, and the response from state Democrats'- by Senate minority leader Harold Jones Jr., when a MAGA hissy goes down in the hallway just outside the House chamber before the joint session.Naturally, that tantrum - and subsequent arrest - of state Senator Colton Moore got all the media oxygen and social media buzz. I mean, who doesn't love seeing a MAGA peacock get knocked down a peg or

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00:44:30

Biden's farewell & GA and TX data says immigrants...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/16

President Joe Biden's final address from the Oval Office was - of coruse - bittersweet, but also came with warnings similar to Dwight D. Eisenhower's "industrial complex" foreshadowing, only for Biden, it was attached to oligarchs and "big tech." Doing a little "open tab" cleanup, I realized I hadn't gotten around to sharing this (too late now) narrative buster: as is the case in Texas, in Georgia, migrants are committing fewer crimes than Americans. Even

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00:44:30

Weathering the storm: Georgia's trans community &...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/16

With just five days before the inauguration of a second Donald Trump term, the trans community in Georgia (and throughout the U.S.) has had to weather a storm of antir-trans sentiment; some of it put to use by the Trump campaign. We check in with Jeff Graham, executive director for Georgia Equality, to get a sense what their activism can accomplish with a decidely-conservative state legislature and GOP governor likely angling to solidify his conservative bonafides ahead of a potential Senate or

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00:44:31

Why do Repubs bully trans people? "It works." /...

The Ron Show ·

2025/01/14

Jay Bookman wrote a blistering-yet-sobering piece last week for the Georgia Recorder where he spells it out plainly: Republicans pick on the trans community because 'it works," writing "Because transgender Americans are an unpopular, powerless and almost friendless subgroup, which makes them the perfect target for politicians willing to leverage that unpopularity into votes." See, legislating for all Americans to ensure diversity & inclusion is really hard, whereas throughout American history,

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