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Bellying up to 'The Politics Bar' for a celebratory toast
Bellying up to 'The Politics Bar' for a celebratory toast
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Welcome to the Ron Show - Atlanta's only progressive audio platform airing five days a week on Georgia Now, M-F 4-6pm (replaying 8-10am the next weekday).
Host Ron Roberts covers Atlanta, metro Atlanta, Georgia and national politics from a pretty unique lens ... he's just your run-of-the-mill Georgia-born gay progressive cat-dad realtor & talk show host. Dime a dozen, right?
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- Bellying up to 'The Politics Bar' for a celebratory toast · 45 minOne of the benefits of the 'blue tsunami' was signaling to current Georgia governor Brian Kemp - who clearly has 2028 in mind for himself - that if he wants to win Georgia then…
- The 'blue-nami,' black women ascend & the blame game begins · 45 minWith Tuesday's resounding "blue tsunami," both in Georgia and throughout the U.S., it's hard not to stop and appreciate the 25-plus years of effort that has gone into that…
- Will 'Charlie Brown' kick that ball or will 'Lucy' yank it away (again)? · 44 minGoing into Tuesday's historic midterm election day, it was hard not to feel like 'Charlie Brown,' eyeing the football firmly planted on the ground, held by the nefarious 'Lucy…
- What Haley Stevens' pivot says about Islamophobia in our ranks · 44 minRep. Ruwa Romman joined me to discuss the El Sayed / Stevens rift & the 'surprising' reaction by Democrats near and far. PLUS: journalist Eric Michael Garcia on what early voter…
- Kamala's visit with Ossoff: who's feelin' who out for 2028? · 44 minFormer Vice President (and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate) Kamala Harris made two Georgia stops Thursday - on behalf of Senator Jon Ossoff and in support of former…
- The Obama comedic effect, the Audi argument & Keisha's closing pitch · 44 minPresident Barack Obama can still draw a (packed arena) crowd, as he did in the closing days of the midterm cycle in Morrow, just south of Atlanta. What may actually work best in…
- Another state Senate candidate eyeing a swing for GA Democrats: meet Laura Murtvartian · 45 minThe Atlanta Journal Constitution spotlighted five key state Senate races that could provide an opportunity for Georgia Democrats to draw even or even take the state's upper…
- Has Jackson been 'fostering' a gubernatorial run all along? · 44 minBecause he's spent more than $115 million in a marketing campaign to catapult himself from 'relative unknown super-rich guy' to 'the former foster child who wants you to believe…
- Hello, Atlanta radio audience! This is "The Ron Show" · 44 minIt was a little more than four years ago "The Ron Show" launched, then on AmericaOne Radio (now "Georgia NOW") and your plucky host reached out to a small handful of pundits…
- Which Georgians do GA voters prefer running for President in '28? It's complicated · 44 minPLUS: the unconventional Midwest Democratic gubernatorial candidate who isn't DSA/progressive but is bucking establishment consultant-driven norms. We all have those friends…
- Who's voting (and where they live) - what it may be telling us already · 45 minPLUS: debunking the right wing hyperbole: no, Atlanta didn't "burn" in 2020. Early midterm voting in Georgia is providing some details - including where turnout is strongest so…
- The "number one state for business" is one of nine losing jobs · 44 minPLUS: AJC/UGA polling shows Ossoff comfortably ahead, but not at or above 50% Georgia Republicans keep telling us Georgia's "the number one state to do business in" and yet it's…
- I'm sorry Rick Jackson (wooo!), polls show his money hasn't bought the race (yet) · 45 minWith apologies to Outkast, Rick Jackson can't be enthused that his tens of millions in personal funds haven't sewn up the Georgia gubernatorial race just yet, and with his…
- Jilani: Jackson's 'rags to riches' message is a mis-direction · 44 minAtlanta-based freelance journalist Zaid Jilani penned an op-ed for the Atlanta Journal Constitution that works to dispel the 'rags to riches' mythos erected to prop up a facade…
- Trump's GA visit puts GA GOP hopefuls in awkward spot · 45 minDonald Trump stumping in Georgia is something of a "double-edged sword" writes Patricia Murphy at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution or could be "an anchor" writes Georgia Recorder…
- MAGA can't contain costs & a reminder: "Biden-flation" was Trump's fault, too · 44 minPlus, an important down-ballot race Democrats are poised to grasp in the Georgia legislature - why it's important they do. September's inflation data shows Donald Trump has…
- Focus on the Flippables: GA Senate 32 & Michael Hettig · 45 minIf Georgia Democrats are going to flip the state Senate - and it's a daunting task given the gerrymandering - Democrats will need to win districts like SD 32. Democrat Michael…
- George Chidi: It "Feels Like 2018" · 44 min... though he also said in this episode that it feels like 2006, so ... He writes for The Guardian; he pens for his own Substack - The Atlanta Objective - and knows a lot of…
- GA Gubernatorial debate review, Part two · 45 minStill more to digest from the (likely only) Georgia gubernatorial debate broadcast across the state Tuesday night. There's (at least) nine lies or distortions from Rick Jackson's…
- GA Gubernatorial debate review, Part One · 45 minHealthcare CEO Rick Jackson and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms squared off in what may likely be their only televised (or otherwise) debate. On Wednesday, I dove into…
- The un-Trumping of Rick Jackson | Keisha's law enforcement backers · 45 min... and America's biggest threat to democracy is America's President. Don't believe me; ask local & state election officials. Well that's odd; the same Rick Jackson who told…
- Another GA mass (shrug) shooting | 'Buckhead Dems' need a "talkin' to" · 45 minHo hum; another mass shooting in the US takes the lives of two (hopefully that'll be all) and inuring nearly three dozen more in rural Vienna, Georgia over the weekend. The…
- MAGA-packed state elections board's 11th hour schemes · 45 minPLUS: Rick Jackson's shadowy TX data center project is as shadowy as that PAC ad campaign he swears he wasn't tied to before he got into the GOP primary. The Georgia Elections…
- What does the MAGA DOJ need with your personal info? · 45 minAlso, why are Georgians pessimistic about the future? Could it be that the GOP's created a miserable 'current' for the middle class? Thank goodness there's still remnants of…
- Missouri's Schmitt-head & his media 'safe space' epitomize "MAGA" · 44 minPLUS: Where's Geoff, Mike and ... Stacey?Former Biden DOJ special prosecutor Jack Smith was made to testify under oath before a Senate Judiciary committee hearing, and Missouri…
- Rick Jackson isn't as 'self-made' a man as his TV ads want you to believe · 44 minGeorgia Humanities' President Mary McCartin Wearn wrote a salient op-ed for the Atlanta Journal Constitution that fills in a lot of gaps in Rick Jackson's made-for-TV (ads)…
- We bought a TV ad? Plus, where's DOGE with all this 'non-citizen voter' & ICE waste? · 44 minIf you're like many Americans who spend the weekend absorbing football games on Saturday and Sunday, it was awful hard to miss that spray-tanned, purse-lipped face that won't let…
- Will the 'glass ceiling' be shattered by black women in Georgia this cycle? · 44 minUpon review of my upbringing - between my Mom's almost all-black female staff of co-workers (who'd often babysit my sister and I) and some of my earliest educators in elementary…
- Jackson, like Trump, seeks to avoid the media & debating sharp women · 44 minIt's a plan that worked for Donald Trump in 2024: when faced with the prospect of getting his debate clock cleaned by a more veteran politician (who I suppose just happens to be…
- If Cathy Woolard's left Atlanta, do we have a problem IN & AROUND Atlanta? · 45 minCathy Woolard is someone I've long admired - as a trailblazing out politician in Atlanta, one of the early believers in the Atlanta Beltline project and for just being a grounded…
- What Bottoms, Ossoff & Democrats can (or can't) do this cycle with Andrew Heaton · 44 minWith less than 45 days to the midterm election, it was great catching up with metro Atlanta-based political consultant (Sagamore Hill Consulting) Andrew Heaton to talk…
- Ed owns up & progressives won't take the W & Rick Jackson suddenly likes diversity? · 44 minI'm a diehard 'Bernie Sanders' progressive and yet I often find myself at odds with 'litmus test-driven' progressives who - in my opinion - poison their movement (whichever one…
- Why I'm 'team Macklemore' AND 'team Ed Sheeran' · 44 minBeing a former pop music radio exec, I know a lot about both Macklemore and Ed Sheeran; enough to know their character and a good bit about the business side of what they do. I…
- Georgia polling & the wide gap (in money, not support) between Bottoms & Jackson · 43 minThe latest Rasmussen poll on the Georgia gubernatorial race seems a bit of a Jackson-leaning outlier, but its there are some unmistakable truths: 1) the early lead Keisha Lance…
- Did SCOTUS signal that the MAGA fever has broken? · 43 minThe Supreme Court, this week, pulled the reins on the Trump administration's intent to use the United States Postal Service - to curb mail-in voting this cycle. Good! Does this…
- Will this swing GA House district think 'Cleveland rocks?' · 43 minAdam Cleveland, husband, father, UGA alum, handyman-turned-lawyer is now also a politician - the Democratic nominee for state House District 48. He joined me Tuesday to explain…
- Rick Jackson's Medicaid 'pathway' lacks details; will it also lack expansion? · 44 minAriel Hart, writing for the Georgia Recorder and States' Newsrooms, covered the rollout of GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson's healthcare coverage initiative in a piece…
- Assessing "us" 25 years after September 11, 2001 · 44 minOn the 25th anniversary of the horrific three-pronged terror attack on American soil, Ron assesses where the United States is, societally, diplomatically and politically. Are we…
- Trump keeps lying (about 9/11) | Islamophobic outrage at NYC mayor shows we've learned little since that day · 45 minYears and decades from now historians and psychoanalysts will dissect the Trump era and Donald's chronic need to lie about his accomplishments and whereabouts - never mind the…
- 'Insight' polling - outlier or legit? · 44 minPLUS: Rick Jackson's effective ads vs Keisha Lance Bottoms' retail style - which will win? The Rick Jackson campaign has taken a two-pronged approach in the race to be Georgia's…
- This NW Georgia cattle farmer - and Congressional candidate - has beef with Trump's tariff policies · 45 minShawn Harris, vying to unseat Republican Clay Fuller in Georgia's 14th Congressional district, is also a cattle farmer, and like many in the trade, is suffering mightily under…
- Ragsdale's rally rant & the aftermath: intimidating Cobb's teachers · 44 minAt Cobb County's 'Back to School' faculty rally, superintendent (and Trump fan-boy) went off on a 12-plus minutes long political bender that sent dozens of Cobb educators heading…
- Trump, the Supremes and Rick Jackson all work to suppress the vote · 45 minDonald Trump's March executive order aiming to curb mail-in voting (except for when he uses it, of course) drew swift legal action from dozens of states and voter rights…
- Are you aware how easy it is to find out how you voted in Georgia? · 44 minMarilyn Marks, executive director at the Coalition for Good Governance, has long warned that Georgia's physical set-up for voting at precincts - using illuminated touch screens…
- Dickens is correct but also wrong in his DNC snub letter · 44 minPLUS: Alpharetta's aversion to icky renters & why would a Billy Linville crossover endorsement matter when Rick cant' get Burt on board? Earlier this week, the Democratic Party…
- Au delivers painful truth on GOP's Medicaid expansion stubbornness · 44 minMedicaid expansion, predatory lending (to hospitals from the likes of Rick Jackson's Jackson Healthcare), vaccine confusion, gun (and school) safety, and a post-primary vibe…
- Josh McLaurin works to win the statewide race GA Dems really need · 44 minState Senator Josh McLaurin joined The Ron Show Wednesday to discuss the issues of importance in the 2026 midterm election cycle. He and Ron also pontificate on why winning the…
- Rick Jackson benefit$ from states not expanding access to healthcare · 44 minFreelance journalist Alex Jobin joined me today to discuss his piece chronicling a struggling Montgomery, Alabama hospital and its biggest creditor - Jackson Healthcare - ready…
- Dispelling DSA tropes: my conversation with Ga Rep. Gabriel Sanchez · 44 minGeorgia's elected Democratic Socialist, Georgia House Rep. Gabiel Sanchez (GA 42) is up for re-election and seems to be able to work well with the Democratic Party - as a…
- Talarico actually IS doing the work with Texas' black voters · 43 minWhether Donald Trump uses his Thursday night address to relitigate Georgia's 2020 election was yet to be seen as of the Tuesday prior, but what's apparent aside from that is…
