'BradCast' 12/22/2016: (Guest: Daniel Nichanian on how Democrats and progressive can expand voting rights across the country right now!)
On today's 'BradCast': What Democrats and progressives can do RIGHT NOW, in states all over the country, to expand voting rights and opportunities to vote rather than waiting until voting rights are attacked by Republicans and then hoping to defend against them. Daniel Nichanian, election expert and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, joins us to discuss his 'Voting Rights Manifesto', as recently published in Vox.com's 'Big Ideas' series. He explains where and how Democrats can expand the franchise, even during the Trump years. We also hold a bunch of those Dems accountable for NOT having done so to date!\xa0 Also today, Democrats in North Carolina end up playing Charlie Brown to the state Republicans' Lucy -- again. And Desi Doyen joins us for our year-end 'Green News Report', as Obama bans off-shore oil drilling in large parts of the Atlantic and Arctic on his way out the door, and not a moment too soon. The Arctic has turned freakishly warm over the past two months of what is likely to be the warmest year ever recorded on the planet (for the third year in a row). She also has some good news as the year wraps up: A new poll finds that Trump's voters actually support regulations on the burning of carbon that causes global warming. Plus, something that even Trump can't change: solar power is now the world's cheapest form of new energy. Take that, Big Oil, Big Coal and 2016!...