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On today's 'BradCast': The GOP's only black U.S. House member, Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, announced he will not seek re-election in 2020, the latest in a long and growing string of Republicans leaving Congress. Donald Trump abruptly withdrew his nomination of Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe to be the next Director of National Intelligence, amid backlash over Ratcliffe's lack of experience (required by statute for the DNI role), and revelations that he lied about his past claims to have prosecuted terrorists.\xa0 More bad news for Trump: a majority of House Democratic caucus now publicly call for opening an official impeachment inquiry, but it remains to be seen if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will change her current position focusing only for investigation and litigation, and no more. Another crazy, jaw-dropping twist erupts in North Carolina in the citizen-led fight for publicly overseeable elections and hand-marked paper ballots, as a wildly inappropriate joke told by the chairman of the state election board could potentially tip the balance in whether or not NC voters in the key swing state will have verifiable elections for the crucial 2020 presidential election. In Georgia, court testimony this week revealed disturbing new details in a federal lawsuit seeking to ban the state's 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems in favor of hand-marked paper ballots. The testimony exposed how the GA Sec. of State's office deeply misled the federal court and voters about its shockingly lax security before and during the 2018 election \u2013 like outsourcing the entire state's voting machines to three private contractors working on unsecured home wifi, and coverups of failed security tests. Plus: grim news out of the Arctic, where Greenland is undergoing an extraordinary melt event, with record high temperatures -- 10 to 30 degrees above the normal average...