Rob Doar is the Political Director of the MN Gun Owners Caucus. If you’re in MN and want to fight for the right to keep and bear arms, they are the group doing the heavy lifting,
Beth Baumann contributes to Armed American News. Here’s the thread on the “Bipartisan Safe Communities Act” – AKA the “Civil Rights Lawyer Full Employment Act”.
And here’s today’s song list!
Tad Jude is running for Hennepin County Attorney. He’ll need your vote in the primary on August 8.
And here’s today’s playlist:
Shawn Holster is running for the MN Senate in SD63.
Jerry Silver is seeking the GOP nomination to run against Betty McCollum in CD4.
And here’s the music list:
Here’s the article by Joel Kotkin that Mr. D. linked, and that I quoted from on the air.
And here’s today’s music.
Shawn Towle is pushing legislation to help house homeless vets. He’s the proprietor of Checks and Balances.
Shukri Abdirahman is running for the GOP nomination to run against Ilhan Omar.
Peggy Benicke is from the Robbinsdale Women’s Clinic.
And here’s our song list for today’s show.
Mike Murphy is running for the GOP nomination to run against Govenor Klink,
Dennis Smith is running for the nod to run for Attorney General against Keith Ellison.
And today’s music:
2022 will mark this blog‘s 20th anniversary.
I’m kind of excited!
But first let’s talk about the weekend.
Tonight – New Year’s Eve – my band “Elephant in the Room” is playing at the American Legion in Fridley. We will be starting at 8:30 PM, and ringing in the new year. The Legion has those cool edge of the metro food and drink prices, without actually being outside the metro, which is kind of cool. Hope you can make it out there.
Tomorrow on the show? I will be talking with Rebecca Brannon about her run in with the Hennepin county machine over her reporting on Sheriff Hutchinson‘s DUI.
And tomorrow night, we will be playing at Neisen‘s Sports Bar and Grill, in Savage. I love our bars, but Nissans has a stage that makes you feel kind of like a rockstar, and a sound system that makes us sound like one. No cover.
I hope we run into each other, literally or figuratively, during any or all of the above!
Kim Crockett is with American Majority and the MN Voters Alliance.
We also talked with Rescue Public Education, and the initiative to try to defeat the levy (aka the wealth transfer to the teachers union and administrators association) in the Stillwater School District, where academic performance has been in free fall.
And of course, today’s playlist:
Dr. Scott Jensen is running for Governor.
Kim Crockett’s piece on HR4 – which would instutionalize the stealing of elections. Also – sign up for the “Organizing Citizens” event here.
Today’s music list:
Please tune in to AM1280 this afternoon from 4-6PM for a special broadcast about Critical Race Theory in Minnesota, and what you and I can do about it.
It’ll feature:
We’ll be having the actual conversation that the CRT crowd plays lip service to.
I’ll be moderating the discussion.
Hope you can listen in!
Here’s the article on how narcissists and sociopaths dominate their families and social circles – and, let’s be honest, societies.
Michael Totten’s piece on the decline and fall of Portland.
Angus Fox’s series, “When Sons become Daughters“, on Quillette. It’s a seven part read, and not always easy, but very worth it.
Also – Genspect is amplifying the voices of parents of gender-questioning children against the bullying and gaslighting of modern society.
Mike Bloomberg and the Rockefeller Foundation bought themselves a couple of lawyers in the Minnesota Attorney General’s office. Progressive plutocrats with deep pockets buying candidates and elections is one thing. Buying executive branch power?
C’mon, man .
Also – Midwest Swamp Watch is coming to a town near you.
Also – today’s playlist:
Speaking Proudly – an oratory contest for high school girls – is coming up October 23. Deadline for applications is between August 1 and September 11.
And here’s the song list:
Today’s set list:
Re my interview with Angus Fox – here’s the introductory essay to the series, Part 2, and Part 3.
The series, as noted in the interview, is open-ended.
And, back by popular demand, today’s music setlist!
It was 20 years ago today that AM1280 The Patriot – the station that I’ve been on for the last 17 years – changed to its current, conservative talk format.
For starters, if you’ve followed the history of AM radio in the Twin Cities (as one does), that’s a pretty amazing number. The 1280 kHz frequency was one of the first ever assigned in the Twin Cities – but in the decade and a half between my moving to the Twin Cities and March 19, 2001, probably changed formats, and often owners, at least annually. Business (several times), R&B (a couple), Classic Rock, Oldies (at least one), and even Dance music (in the early ’90s, almost as a “pirate” operation – the 1280 frequency seemed to be a metaphor for the ongoing collapse of the AM radio band
Then Salem – which had been running Christian-format radio for some time – bought the 1280 (and its sister station, AM980, which went through almost as many gyrations as the 1280 over the previous couple of decades), and converted it over to what was a new format for them, conservative talk.
And two weeks shy of three years later, they took perhaps an even bigger flyer – putting a bunch of local bloggers, only one of whom had ever done commercial radio (and one other, student radio) on the air to do a weekly weekend show. That’s where I come in.
So it’s an unbelievable story nested inside another unbelievable story – a bunch of guys doing a grass-roots talk show on a station that managed to stake out a piece of wan, forgotten turf in a crowded radio landscape, with both managing to hack out an enduring piece of Twin Cities media mindshare.
To celebrate, we’ll be doing a special (deep breath) four hour NARN tomorrow, featuing just about everyone that’s ever been on the show: John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson, King Banaian, Ed Morrissey, King Banaian, Briand “Saint Paul” Ward, “Chad the Elder” and Brad Carlson, along with a few of our former producers (Tommy Huynh, Jon Osburne and The Consigliere).
Hope you can tune in! It’s going to be just as mad and chaotic as those first couple years of shows were!
See you then, 1-5PM tomorrow!
Today’s music playlist:
Death by Powerpoint, Gov. Klink style.
And – not only back, but better than ever, by popular demand – it’s the weekly playlist!
Details on American Commitment and the Pelosi Drug plan.
Dave Osmek is running for MN Senate in SD33.
Doug Willetts is running for MN Senate in SD51.
Today on the Northern Alliance Radio Network:
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