'BradCast' 4/8/2019 (ACLU Digital Organizing Director Phil Aroneanu)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 As anti-immigration hard-liners surge to greater power in the White House, President Trump is purging top officials from several key agencies: Dept. of Homeland Security Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen has been forced forced to resign, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director and top counsel were fired, the Secret Service Director has also been pushed out, and Trump's nominee to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement was withdrawn.\\xa0 Foreign policy hard-liners are also ascendant in the Trump White House -- Trump has designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, against the strong advice of top Pentagon and CIA officials, who fear blow-back to American troops and intelligence operatives abroad.\\xa0\\xa0 Amid the Administration's latest disturbing lurch to the hard-right, the American Civil Liberties Union is looking forward, with a new program to mobilize and engage voters in advance of the 2020 presidential election. The ACLU's new national RightsForAll.us campaign is devoting $30 million to help voters get 2020 candidates on the record on a number of important civil liberties issues -- including some that are quite thorny politically -- like reducing the U.S. prison population (and how they would go about it), and allowing incarcerated persons to vote, among many others. ACLU's Digital Organizing Strategy Director PHIL ARONEANU explains the initiative, its goals, and whether some of the "thorniest" questions for candidates might ultimately become a liability for those candidates. In an age when one of the greatest threats to civil liberties and constitutional rights is the man in the White House, Democratic candidates will have to defeat him first before being able to restore such rights. Callers weigh in on all of the above..."