Party of One Maffick Podcasts

Political debate -- remember when that was a thing? Characterized by intelligent, sophisticated argument, logic, and reasoning? Welp, not anymore. Especially if we’re talking about the US presidential debates. The Super Bowl of the US election cycle has become a train wreck: fewer moral maxims, more Mad Max-ims. What if we told you that wasn’t an accident?
Special thanks to guests Nancy Neuman, Vicky Harian Strella, and George Farah.
From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Ryan Wentz.
Notes:
https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/statement-nancy-m-neuman-president-league-women-voters
https://www.opendebates.org/
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213862/no-debate-by-george-farah/

What would happen if we stopped buying the line that asking for what we want is somehow bad? Republicans or Democrats not your thing? Then you’re a disruptive a*****e spoiling it for everybody else. Is it an accident that things are like this? You know better than that. Listen to find out who’s really spoiled by this system, and why how we vote really does make a difference, even if it’s not how you might think. 
Special thanks to guests Angela Walker, Aaron Hamlin, and Lee Drutman.
From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Charles Davis and Ryan Wentz.
Notes:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pennsylvania-supreme-court-rules-green-party-states-2020/story?id=73076666
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/two-party-system-broke-constitution/604213/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/green-party-republicans-hawkins.html
https://electionscience.org/
https://www.gp.org/oklahoma
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/spoiler-alert
https://people.howstuffworks.com/10-third-party-presidential-candidates.htm#pt6
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/green-party-howie-hawkins-2020-us-election-trump-biden-a9591151.html
https://people.howstuffworks.com/third-party-candidate.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGc9LzOySJs
https://truthout.org/articles/tv-networks-should-open-up-the-presidential-debates/
https://www.rankedchoicevoting.org/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8755513/Kanye-West-spent-3-million-gather-signatures-make-presidential-ballot-15-states.html

Try to imagine a world where corporations don't run Washington. We can't either.
Most Americans think money plays too big a role in US politics. So where's the bipartisan support for legislating a new path forward? And if the Dems and the GOP aren't going to fix this, how can we? When will cash take a back seat to real human voters? We’re dumpster diving deep into the pockets of one of the richest congresses in US history and finding out just how far both parties will go to ensure that sweet green speaks louder than you.
Special thanks to guests Peter Overby, Lawrence Lessig, and Ellen Moorhouse.
From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Ryan Wentz.
Notes:
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/05/682286587/house-democrats-introduce-anti-corruption-bill-as-symbolic-first-act
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/701248576/democrats-election-reform-bill-takes-aim-at-dark-money
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/embrace-irony
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/10/cost-of-2020-election-14billion-update/
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/ronna-mcdaniel/yes-aclu-has-criticized-hr-1-heres-why/
https://cha.house.gov/sites/democrats.cha.house.gov/files/documents/committee_docs/H.R.%201_Sarbanes_Section-by-Section_FINAL.pdf
https://act.represent.us/sign/money-politics-problem/
https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-letter-house-rules-committee-hr-1
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/08/most-americans-want-to-limit-campaign-spending-say-big-donors-have-greater-political-influence/
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:26%20section:9033%20edition:prelim)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hr1%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1#toc-H0C72CA940E684A0986583236950CC71E
https://truthout.org/articles/house-rejects-cori-bushs-amendment-on-voting-rights-for-incarcerated-people/
https://www.newsweek.com/which-countries-felons-vote-1405142
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:30116%20edition:prelim)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pelosi-s-hr1-bill-a-blatant-power-grab-for-democrats/ar-BB1ekEx0
https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A2Sec1.html
https://theintercept.com/2021/03/04/hr1-voting-reform-for-the-people-house/
https://www.gp.org/hr1
https://peoplesparty.org/response-hr1/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/activists-want-to-save-voting-rights-bill-by-killing-the-filibuster/ar-BB1eh6Zj
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30116
https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/contribution-limits/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everyone-knows-money-influences-politics-except-scientists/
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2013/10/25/lobbying-money-does-not-buy-policy/
https://ballotpedia.org/SpeechNOW.org_v._Federal_Election_Commission
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/07/720050070/democrats-want-to-end-dark-money-but-first-they-want-to-use-it
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/democrats-used-rail-against-dark-money-now-they-re-better-n1239830
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview

What’s the real difference between dissent and disloyalty? Why is “subversion” so subjective? And why does advocating for workers rights, affordable housing and racial equity make you a monster? We’re talking political persecution the American way, with a deep dive into one of our darkest chapters as a nation: The House Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC left a body count multiple generations long, all to protect an exclusive money scheme just starting to show how lucrative it could be. Find out why the FBI’s the FBI no matter who’s running shit in Washington.
Special thanks to guests Dan Bessie and Chip Gibbons. 
From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Frank Brody, Antonio Loya, and Ryan Wentz.
Notes:
https://archive.org/details/westernsectionof01unit/page/n9/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/westernsectionof03unit/page/n11/mode/2up
https://muckrack.com/chip-gibbons/articles
https://rightsanddissent.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Still-Spying-on-Dissent.pdf
https://www.rightsanddissent.org/2020-annual-report/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8452
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qv3vdElwKM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvah_Bessie
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alvah_Bessie
http://www.ep.tc/realist/51/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee#Standing_Committee_(1945%E2%80%931975)
https://www.gracepresbytery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Letter-from-a-Birmingham-Jail-King.pdf
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/2019-cato-institute-surveillance-conference-afternoon-flash-talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpYwX7cHk2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3tDZbilcI
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/365/431
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1946-1956/wilkerson.pdf
https://search.archives.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=national-archives&sort_by=&query=j+edgar+hoover+huac
https://guides.library.ucla.edu/c.php?g=746004&p=5350676
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/aug/08/fbi-huac-protests/
https://sites.google.com/site/ushproject123/chapter-13-huac
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/hoover.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMAE8iun_RU

War. What is it good for? Doesn’t really matter – because the wheels that keep the gears of the military industrial complex turning are spinning as furiously as ever. From comparing missile size to primal displays of brute force, the US has a big one, and we want (nay need) everyone to know it. Where’s the anti-war movement of our parents’ generation today? And why don’t our “progressive” members of Congress stand up to the hawks?
Endless war is just too profitable for shareholders to walk away, no matter the consequences, no matter the side of the aisle. And it goes beyond body count. It’s changed who we are as humans. 
Special thanks to guests Chris Hedges and Alice Slater.
From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by and Ryan Wentz.
 
Notes:
https://truthout.org/articles/military-metaphysics-how-militarism-mangles-the-mind/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWWycdsJOpQ
https://www.thenation.com/authors/alice-slater/
https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/tpnw/
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/09/time-negotiate-peace-space
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/2017/07/20170707%2003-42%20PM/Ch_XXVI_9.pdf
https://www.wagingpeace.org/about/people/associates/
http://www.nuclearban.us/staff/
https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=powellmemo
https://tomdispatch.com/demilitarizing-our-democracy/
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/democracy-breaks-out-at-the-un-as-122-nations-vote-to-ban-the-bomb/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPOpRdUFu44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIOOt2T8JZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xAiWLtxb4M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
https://www.codepink.org/bidensyria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIrHNuiQ6fQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/world/2021/02/25/us-military-budget-what-can-global-bases-do-vs-covid-cyber-attacks/6419013002/
https://worldbeyondwar.org/alice-slater/
https://www.wagingpeace.org/author/alice-slater/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_novels
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/global-arms-sales-captured-in-4-charts/

It’s the American Dream: “Available” to all, accessible by some, denied to many, indifferent to the consequences — just the way the good lord intended it to be! The productive forces have given us so much stuff, but the endless extraction, manufacture and commodification of planetary and human resources is leading us down a path we won’t be able to recover from. Just how close are we to the breaking point? And what happens next if we don’t rethink how we roll? 
Special thanks to guests Andrew Constantino, Kshama Sawant, and Vijay Prashad.
From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Eilís O’Neill and Ryan Wentz.
Notes:
https://independentmediainstitute.org/fellows/vijay-prashad/
https://www.seattle.gov/council/sawant
https://www.statista.com/chart/6949/the-us-cities-with-the-most-homeless-people/
https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-statistics/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_and_politics_of_Seattle
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/29/inequality-poverty-divide-republicans-more-than-democrats/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/spanberger-criticizes-democrats-strategy-in-caucus-call/2020/11/05/6ec2b368-258a-4061-9738-d83ee8971c3c_video.html
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/07/08/government-responsibility-homeless-partisan
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/unprecedented-spike-in-u-s-evictions-looming-as-ban-expires-1.1632958
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/jeff-bezos-and-elon-musk-increased-their-wealth-by-dollar217-billion-in-2020-for-this-amount-over-100-million-americans-could-get-dollar2000-checks/ar-BB1cq7c2
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/05/us/texas-election-results.html
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/report-shows-seattle-area-has-largest-rent-increase-nation-over-past-decade/3C4CAHGUYZFLZOOI4MRDZRG6UY/
https://www.feedingamerica.org/research
https://www.american.edu/cas/news/the-growing-hunger-crisis-in-america.cfm
https://dowbor.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0VFfv_Ku6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LbAuobvbEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IqCtSHbrxY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc6R1z5ih2w
https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-minimum-wage-rise-vote-amendment-15-tipped-employees-workers-2020-11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSPyocMRyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFNUvS7UioE