• Episode 357: Kill Bills!
    Oct 4 2024
    Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCA Show Notes:Chattel slavery: formal apology.New California law bans Native American mascots at K-12 schoolsCalifornia is first state to banish Froot Loops from school cafeteriasGov. Newsom Signs Legislation Protecting Workers From Forced Political and Religious MessagingIs your closet full of old clothes? A new California law will require the fashion industry to take them back for freeBill To End Legacy & Donor-Preferred Admissions To CA Colleges Signed Into Law By Gov. NewsomBill separating new California warehouses from neighborhoods signed into lawGavin Newsom signs bill to expand IVF coverage in California, an election-year swipe at GOPResurrected bill forces insurers to fund IVF treatments for same-sex couples and singlesBan on local voter IDGavin Newsom’s homeless accountability vetoSenator Wiener Responds To Governor Newsom Vetoing Landmark AI BillCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill requiring speeding alerts in new carsGov. Newsom vetoes bill to help farmworkers who are working in extreme heat. Here’s whyGov. Newsom vetoes bill to make undocumented immigrants eligible for home loans
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Episode 356: Kamala Harris Loves Small Businesses to Death
    Sep 30 2024

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    Show Notes

    A’s fans chant 'Sell the Team,' take home Coliseum dirt and seats during final games

    Before the Oakland Coliseum there was Wrigley Field LA, opening Sept 29, 1925

    Remarks by Vice President Harris in a Moderated Conversation with Oprah Winfrey at a Unite for America 2024 Event

    California firefighters will soon have a 66-hour work week. Why Cal Fire will make the change

    Faculty accuse UC campuses of labor violations over pro-Palestinian protest crackdowns

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs plastic grocery bag ban

    Newsom vetoes bill to study reparations for families displaced at Chavez Ravine

    Newsom vetoes 2nd bill to help undocumented immigrants, this one about hiring UC, CSU students

    This California law could break your kid’s social media addiction

    Elementary students in Elk Grove Unified need parental permission to participate in extracurriculars

    Breed has dodged scandals before. This one might actually stick

    The Dream Keeper project

    Steven Greenhut on the history of Chavez Ravine

    Abuse Of Power: How The Government Misuses Eminent Domain

    Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story

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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Episode 355: Prop-O-Rama!
    Sep 26 2024
    Will and Cal Policy government affairs director Lance Christensen discuss the ten propositions on California's November ballot. Music by Metalachi.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Episode 354: Giving California Workers the Boot
    Sep 19 2024

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    Show Notes:

    • California Legislature quietly spends millions on Italian stonework for Capitol Annex Project
    • Trump’s threat to withhold firefighting aid to California is blasted by firefighters union
    • Behind the scenes of Trump’s Rancho Palos Verdes meeting with the city’s mayor
    • My Kid Has a Firm Reason Not to Vote for Kamala Harris. I’m Not Sure How to Respond.
    • How Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up
    • Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor’
    • The Blue State Family Exodus: Families are migrating to red and purple states
    • This California beach city just barred people from smoking in their own apartments, condos
    • Santa Ana benches a teacher for too much transparency
    • Harry Angell on Substack
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Episode 353: Lights Out!
    Sep 12 2024

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    Show Notes:

    • Lights out in La La Land
    • Bahnsen on X: “Kamala Harris completely derailed him by pushing his ego buttons.”
    • Julie Su brought Calif. corruption to the White House — and Harris will keep her there
    • California state senator’s former staffer sues lawmaker for alleged sexual harassment
    • Once again, California beats every other state when it comes to poverty
    • Exclusive: California’s homeless population grew again this year, especially in these counties
    • Column: They say Democrats are to blame for all California’s problems. But GOP is MIA
    • Oakland paid $450M in 2023 for pension costs and above-inflation wage increases
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Episode 352: Bill-O-Rama 2024
    Sep 9 2024

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 351: Is This the End of Gavin Newsom?
    Sep 5 2024

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    Show Notes:

    • Harris and Walz’s exclusive joint interview with CNN
    • A town’s name recalls the massacre of Indigenous people. Will changing it bring healing?
    • ‘White supremacy, patriarchy and colonialism’: Behind S.F.’s $3 million plan to cull its monuments
    • Opinion: We’re living under a flawed Constitution. Let’s start fresh and rewrite it
    • Is this curtains for Gavin Newsom? CA Senate Pro Tem refuses to convene special session called by guv
    • Get well soon, Ricky Pearsall, to play for 49ers and not be a political football
    • Feds raid homes of OC Supervisor Andrew Do, Judge Cheri Pham and their daughter

    John Hood on Freedom Conservatism

    • Freedom Conservatives will keep America great
    • America needs freedom conservatives
    • FreeCon: Year One
    • Roots of American freedom run deep
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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Episode 350: The Californication of America
    Aug 27 2024

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    Show Notes:

    • “The Plot Thickens: The Araner” podcast with Ben Manckiewicz
    • DNC Day 1: The Union Makes Us Strong!
    • Gavin Newsom navigates new role behind Kamala Harris
    • A Newsom gaffe-fest
    • California Dems want to help undocumented immigrants buy homes – during presidential race
    • Deal reached in feud between California news outlets and Google: $250 million to support journalism but no new law
    • California says it lost $2 billion in state income taxes from earners leaving
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    55 mins