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b"On today's 'BradCast': Remember when overturning Citizens United with a Constitutional amendment used to be a huge thing among progressives? It still is. Some good news on that front today \\u2013 the state of New Hampshire became the 20th state in the union this week to vote to overturn Citizens United with a Constitutional Amendment. The vote was a symbolic landmark for proponents of overturning the disastrous SCOTUS ruling, as it represents what would now be just over half of the 38 states that would be required to ratify such an Amendment. Is it even possible to keep corporate PAC and other "dark money" out of our elections following the 2010 Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme court? Aquene Freechild, Co-director of Public Citizen's Democracy is For People initiative, explains the current state of the fight to overturn the Citizens' United Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates to corporate spending in our elections, the good news out of New Hampshire, and a complaint filed by Montana against the Treasury Department for changing federal disclosure rules that make "dark money" even darker. Also today:\\xa0 Biden flipped his position on the Hyde Amendment just hours after pressure from his 2020 rivals and the Democratic Party's base. U.S. carmakers have flip-flopped, as well \\u2013 first working with the Obama Administration in 2009 to set new standards for vehicle mileage and carbon emissions, then begging the Trump Administration to rollback those landmark standards, to now begging Trump to not go quite so far.\\xa0 The Democratic National Committee has rejected a request to hold a debate focused solely on climate change, and has threatened to sanction 2020 Presidential candidates who participate in such a forum on their own. Plus: listener feedback on House Democrats' internecine debate over whether to launch an impeachment inquiry against Trump..."