A Republic, If You Can Keep It

By Michigan Citizens for a Better Tomorrow

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Linda Pepper
 Jul 10, 2022
Excellent discussion of ballot issues and the Republican debate.

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Analysis and commentary on Michigan politics from former Democratic Party chair Mark Brewer and former Republican Party executive director Jeff Timmer.

Episode Date
Dead Ducks (Guest: Barbara McQuade)
Jun 25, 2026
Unconditional Surrender
Jun 19, 2026
I Love the Inflation (Guest: MIRS Editor Kyle Melinn)
Jun 12, 2026
War Is Boring. Swimming Pools Are Fun!
Jun 05, 2026
Stupid on Stilts
May 28, 2026
Trump’s Corruption Hat Trick
May 21, 2026
Lion Bear Giraffe Shark
May 15, 2026
$1,000,000,000 Ballroom
May 08, 2026
Re-Indicted, and It Feels So Good! (guest: Tiffany Muller, End Citizens United)
May 01, 2026
An Extraordinarily Brilliant Person (Guest: Eli Savit)
Apr 24, 2026
JD’s Very Bad Week
Apr 17, 2026
Another TACO Tuesday (Guest: Representative Ranjeev Puri)
Apr 10, 2026
It’s Not a War … It just looks like one (Guest: Jack Ebling)
Apr 02, 2026
Every Day is TACO Day (Guest: Todd Spangler – Detroit Free Press)
Mar 26, 2026
March Madness (Guest: Lauren Gibbons/Bridge Michigan)
Mar 20, 2026
A Little Excursion
Mar 14, 2026
Operation Epstein Diversion
Mar 06, 2026
State of Delusion (Guests: Trygve Olson, Erin Dobson – Democracy Investment Fund)
Feb 27, 2026
1984
Feb 21, 2026
Unredacted (Guest: Ambassador/Governor Jim Blanchard)
Feb 13, 2026
This Job Sucks!
Feb 07, 2026
World War Trump (Guest: Norm Ornstein)
Jan 30, 2026
Iceland, Greenland, Whatever… (Guest: UM Regent Jordan Acker)
Jan 23, 2026
Up Yours and FU🖕 (Guest: Senator Sam Singh)
Jan 16, 2026
The Minneapolis Coverup Begins (Guest: 4th District Congressional Candidate Sean McCann)
Jan 12, 2026
2025: Seemed like a Decade (Guest: Politico’s Adam Wren)
Dec 26, 2025
Blame It on Biden (Guest: Representative Debbie Dingell)
Dec 20, 2025
Raging Dementia …
Dec 11, 2025
I Could Shoot Somebody… (Guest: Jocelyn Benson)
Dec 05, 2025
You Can’t Handle the Truth!
Nov 26, 2025
Quiet, Piggy! (Guest: Mike Musheinesh, Detroit Axle Co.)
Nov 21, 2025
The Cave-In Caucus (Guest: Ben Solis – Michigan Advance)
Nov 14, 2025
Half a Loaf (Guest: Jennifer Palmieri)
Nov 07, 2025
A Perfect MRI
Oct 31, 2025
Pooping Pedophile President Pulverizes People’s Place (Guest: “Anonymous”)
Oct 24, 2025
The Resistance (Guest: Jennifer Taub)
Oct 17, 2025
Illegally Blondie Bondi (Guest: Media Monitor Jennifer Schulze)
Oct 10, 2025
The Enemy Within (Guests: Gen. William Enyart, Lauren Gibbons)
Oct 03, 2025
Trump’s Tylenol Headache
Sep 24, 2025
Death of Free Speech (Guest: MIRS Editor Kyle Melinn)
Sep 18, 2025
Ignorance is Bliss (Guest: Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber)
Sep 12, 2025
Donald’s Very Bad Week (Guest: Senator Debbie Stabenow)
Sep 05, 2025
A Cracker Barrel Week (Guest: Representative Jason Morgan)
Aug 29, 2025
Trump’s Nobel Booby Prize (Guest: Detroit Free Press Editorial Editor Nancy Kaffer)
Aug 22, 2025
Up is Down, Down is Up (Guest: Former Michigan GOP Chair Rusty Hills)
Aug 14, 2025
Tariff Terror (Guest: Texas State Representative Mihaela Plesa)
Aug 08, 2025
Another Day in Taco-land (Guest: Rick Wilson)
Aug 01, 2025
Pedophilia and Distractions (Guest: Tim Greimel)
Jul 25, 2025
A Parting Gift from Jeffrey Epstein
Jul 18, 2025
The Magical Disappearing Epstein List (Guest: Ambassador Bridget Brink)
Jul 11, 2025
Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and Deficit Spending Exploding Like Fireworks
Jul 04, 2025
Potty Mouth Potus
Jun 26, 2025
Arrested Developments
Jun 20, 2025
Les Miserables (Guest: Journalist Jordyn Hermani)
Jun 13, 2025
A Disgusting Abomination (Guest: MI Democratic Party Chairman Curtis Hertel)
Jun 06, 2025
Buh Bye “Big Balls” (Guest Law Professor/Author Leah Litman)
May 30, 2025
The Music of the Night (Guest: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed)
May 22, 2025
High Flying Bribe, With Extra Legroom – (Guest: Economist Justin Wolfers)
May 16, 2025
Five Pencils-Two Dolls-Thin Gruel for Kids, Billions for Trump and Friends (Guest: Journalist Susan Demas)
May 08, 2025
A Strong Letter from Chuck Schumer (Guest: U-M Law Professor Sam Bagenstos)
Apr 30, 2025
Underwater: Trump at 100 days
Apr 25, 2025
Candidate Cornucopia
Apr 17, 2025
A Temporary Reprieve for the Penguins (Guest: Christina Hines)
Apr 10, 2025
Smoot-Hawley Great Depression Sequel (Guest: Senator Mallory McMorrow)
Apr 03, 2025
Intimidation, Retribution and Extortion
Mar 27, 2025
March Madness (Guest: Rick Pluta)
Mar 21, 2025
The Dumbest Trade War in History (Guest: Congressional candidate Alex Hawkins)
Mar 13, 2025
Ready, Fire, Aim 💣 (Guest: Jeff Padden)
Mar 07, 2025
Waste, Fraud and Abuse (Guests: Journalists John Lindstrom, Cindy Kyle)
Feb 28, 2025
God Save Us From the King (Guest: Political scientist Matt Grossman)
Feb 21, 2025
Just Who Elected “Big Balls”? (Guests: Pollster Bernie Porn, Law Professor Sam Bagenstos)
Feb 14, 2025
Who Needs Congress When You’ve Got Elon? (Guest: Lauren Gibbons/Michigan Bridge)
Feb 07, 2025
Blame It on Biden (Guest: MIRS Politics Guru Kyle Melinn)
Jan 30, 2025
Perpetual Festivus (Guest: House Democratic Leader Ranjeev Puri)
Jan 25, 2025
A Tale of Two Speeches
Jan 16, 2025
Saint and Sinner (Guest: Emme Zanotti – Equality Michigan)
Jan 10, 2025
Return to Chaos
Jan 04, 2025
President-Elect Elon Musk
Dec 20, 2024
Reverse Mortgages Are Next
Dec 13, 2024
Pentagon Happy Hour
Dec 06, 2024
Pardon Me! (Guest: Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks)
Nov 27, 2024
The Clown-Car Cabinet
Nov 22, 2024
The WTF Cabinet
Nov 14, 2024
It’s the Economy, Stupid … and lots more
Nov 08, 2024
A Floating Island of Garbage (Guest: Pollster Bernie Porn)
Nov 01, 2024
Dementia Donald’s Dance Party (Guest: Gen. General William Enyart )
Oct 18, 2024
I Wish I Owned a TV Station (Guest: Senator Chris Coons)
Oct 10, 2024
Make Them Riot
Oct 04, 2024
Nude Africa (Guest: Journalist David Cay Johnston)
Sep 26, 2024
Tax Cuts for Everyone!
Sep 19, 2024
Dead Dogs and A Childless Cat Lady
Sep 13, 2024
The Weave (Guest: Author/Political Scientist Dr. Matt Grossman)
Sep 05, 2024
World War III (Guests: Bernie Porn, Jamie Lyons-Eddy)
Aug 30, 2024
It’s One of Those Black Jobs
Aug 22, 2024
Bear Hunting with Bobby (Guest: ProPublica’s Andy Kroll)
Aug 16, 2024
Presidential Campaign Reset (Guest: Clara Hendrickson)
Aug 09, 2024
Donald Trump Charm School (Guest: Representative Dan Kildee)
Aug 01, 2024
A New Ballgame (Guest: Pollster Bernie Porn)
Jul 26, 2024
America’s Hitler (Guest: Senator Dayna Polehanki)
Jul 19, 2024
“Fill in the Blank” for President
Jul 12, 2024
I Dissent (Guest: Oakland County Commission Chair David Woodward)
Jul 02, 2024
Lies, Sighs and Old Guys (Guest: Dr. Richard Cole)
Jun 28, 2024
Strippers and Gun Play (Guest: Political consultant/author Mike Madrid)
Jun 20, 2024
We Love Milwaukee!
Jun 14, 2024
The Greatest Generation (Guest: Kalamazoo County Clerk Meredith Place)
Jun 06, 2024
Donald Trump, Convicted Felon (Guest: Lauren Gibbons)
May 30, 2024
My Wife Did It!
May 23, 2024
Dedicated to the late, great Hannibal Lecter (Guest: Craig Mauger)
May 16, 2024
Benghazi is Back! (Guest – Ari Berman)
May 10, 2024
Catch and Kill
May 02, 2024
Unindicted Co-Conspirator #1
Apr 25, 2024
Nap Time for Sleepy Don
Apr 18, 2024
Trump Trials, Episode 1 (Guest: Mark Ludwig, MI Democratic Rural Caucus)
Apr 13, 2024
Let’s Nuke Gaza 💣!
Apr 05, 2024
Convicts and Conspiracy Theories (Guest: Stuart Stevens)
Mar 28, 2024
Mar-A-Lago Garage Sale (Guests: Authors of “White Rural Rage”)
Mar 22, 2024
Photographic Recall (Guest: House Ethics Chair Erin Byrnes)
Mar 14, 2024
Amped Up Joe’s State of the Union (Guest: Barbara McQuade)
Mar 08, 2024
Warning Signs (Guest: Lou Glazer)
Feb 29, 2024
“Sneaker Con” (Guest: Bernie Porn)
Feb 23, 2024
“Dumb, Shameful, Dangerous, Un-American” (Guest: Christina Hines)
Feb 16, 2024
Speaker Johnson’s Leadership Academy (Guest: Nick Dodge)
Feb 09, 2024
Taylor Swift Psy-Op! (Guest: Curtis Hertel, Jr.)
Feb 02, 2024
Losing While Winning: Chinks in Trump’s Armor Become More Visible
Jan 26, 2024
Non-Liquid Gold (and other Iowa tall tales)
Jan 20, 2024
License to Kill
Jan 12, 2024
Election Law 101 (Guest: John Bebow)
Jan 05, 2024
Happy Festivus! (Guest: Clara Hendrickson)
Dec 22, 2023
Gone Fishing (for Bidens)
Dec 14, 2023
Dictator for a Day (Guest: Tom Bonier)
Dec 08, 2023
Carpel Tunnel Syndrome
Nov 30, 2023
Polling Numbers Are a Concern, But…
Nov 22, 2023
Scum, Vermin, Smurfs and Smackdown
Nov 17, 2023
An Early Christmas!
Nov 10, 2023
“We Know Nothing”
Nov 03, 2023
They Call Them Flippers
Oct 28, 2023
Three Strikes? You’re Out!
Oct 23, 2023
Paralysis
Oct 12, 2023
Help Wanted! Contact Matt Gaetz for details.
Oct 06, 2023
DC Chaos and Two Appeals to Workers (Guest: Rep. Dan Kildee)
Sep 29, 2023
A Strike and a Shutdown
Sep 22, 2023
Elections Optional – The GOP vs. Democracy
Sep 14, 2023
Who’s Flipping Now? (Guest: Stuart Stevens)
Sep 07, 2023
Michigan Trifecta, Part II (Guest: Sen. Mallory McMorrow)
Aug 31, 2023
Mug Shots Week (Guest: Rep. Julie Brixie)
Aug 25, 2023
Arraignment Night in Georgia (Guest – Pollster Bernie Porn)
Aug 17, 2023
Not Guilty Not Guilty Not Guilty (Guest: Jonathan Oosting)
Aug 10, 2023
Crackpot Lawyers (Guest: Rick Wilson)
Aug 03, 2023
X – The Podcast
Jul 28, 2023
Indictments Week (Guest: Clara Hendrickson)
Jul 21, 2023
Courts, Ethics and Politics (Guest: Former Michigan Chief Justice Bridget McCormack)
Jul 14, 2023
Follow the Money
Jul 07, 2023
Top Secrets Go Better with Coke™
Jun 30, 2023
Supreme Court Travels – and Other Scandals (Guest: Craig Mauger)
Jun 22, 2023
Indictment Week Deux – (Archive interviews with George Conway and Michael Cohen
Jun 19, 2023
Cheaper by the Dozen (Guest: Kyle Melinn)
Jun 09, 2023
Don’t Play Poker with Joe Biden! (Guest: Rick Pluta)
Jun 02, 2023
Florida Presidential Cage Match (Guest: Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum)
May 25, 2023
Let’s Pay Our Bills! (Guest: Lou Glazer)
May 18, 2023
A Bad Week for GOP Liars (Guest: Chad Livengood)
May 12, 2023
Clarence Thomas’s GoFundMe (Guests: Nancy Wang, Debbie Mikula)
May 04, 2023
Finish the Job
Apr 27, 2023
Where Goeth Gen Z? (Guest: John Della Volpe)
Apr 20, 2023
The Attack on Transgender Americans (Guest: Equality Michigan’s Emme Zanotti)
Apr 15, 2023
34 Counts
Apr 05, 2023
More Thoughts, More Prayers – No Action (Guest: Pollster Celinda Lake)
Mar 29, 2023
Cyborg Politics (Guest: Dennis Kennedy)
Mar 21, 2023
Gun Fight
Mar 15, 2023
March Madness (Guest: Saul Anuzis)
Mar 09, 2023
2nd Anniversary Edition (Guest: Corey Dukes)
Mar 02, 2023
“RIP Michigan GOP” (Guest: Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet)
Feb 23, 2023
Welcome to the Nut House (Guest: AFL CIO President Ron Bieber)
Feb 15, 2023
Promoting the Vote (Guest: House Elections Chair Penelope Tsernoglou)
Feb 10, 2023
Follow the Money (Guests: Lisa Gilbert & Gabe Lezra)
Feb 02, 2023
#MichiganGrit (Guest: Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks)
Jan 26, 2023
MAGA Mania (Guest: Denver Riggleman)
Jan 19, 2023
The Domino Effect
Jan 12, 2023
The Stabenow Surprise
Jan 06, 2023
Holiday Special – Corruption Dejá Vu
Dec 28, 2022
Who Will Go to Jail?
Dec 23, 2022
And the (pointless) Recounts Keep on Coming!
Dec 16, 2022
Recount Tinfoil Hats and Other Insanities
Dec 09, 2022
Keep Building – Or Fail! (Guests: Amy Chapman, Jon Hoadley)
Dec 02, 2022
The People’s Lawyer (Guest: Attorney General Dana Nessel)
Nov 24, 2022
A New Hope (Guest: Sen. Jeremy Moss)
Nov 17, 2022
The End of the Beginning – Analyzing the 2022 Mid-term Election
Nov 10, 2022
The Final Days (guest: Chad Livengood)
Nov 03, 2022
A Peaceful Election Day? (Guest: Chris Thomas)
Oct 27, 2022
Flipping the Legislature (Guests: Sen. Jim Ananich and Rep. Angela Witwer)
Oct 19, 2022
The Battle for Michigan’s 10th (Guest: Carl Marlinga)
Oct 12, 2022
The Final Stretch (Guest: Rep. Elissa Slotkin)
Oct 04, 2022
And the Voting Begins (Guest: Tim Miller)
Sep 28, 2022
What Red Wave? (Guest: Lavora Barnes)
Sep 16, 2022
A One-sided Gubernatorial Campaign?
Sep 07, 2022
Into the Home Stretch (Guests: Bernie Porn, Craig Mauger)
Aug 30, 2022
Are Dems pulling even? (Guest: Governor Jim Blanchard)
Aug 24, 2022
BFD Week for Biden; More Problems for the GOP
Aug 17, 2022
Chips, IRA, Gun Safety and GOP Crimes (Guest: Rep. Dan Kildee)
Aug 10, 2022
So What Happened Part One (Guest: Lt. Gov. John Cherry)
Aug 03, 2022
The Stretch Drive (Guest: Zach Gorchow)
Jul 28, 2022
The GOP enters the home stretch (Guest: David Eggert)
Jul 19, 2022
Jeff’s Pants (Guest: John Lindstrom)
Jul 07, 2022
Reproductive Rights Takes Center Stage
Jun 30, 2022
Let’s Spend the Night Together (Guest: Ken Coleman)
Jun 22, 2022
Flipping the State House (Guest: Rep. Joe Tate)
Jun 16, 2022
Trump’s Coup, Michigan GOP Scandals and Patrick Lyoya
Jun 10, 2022
Polls, Petitions, Lawsuits & Debates (Guests: Emily Lawler, Bernie Porn)
Jun 03, 2022
Bye bye candidates! (Guests: Bernie Porn, Mike Murphy)
May 25, 2022
The GOP Goes Full-On MAGA
May 18, 2022
The Mooch and The Donald (Guest: Anthony Scaramucci)
May 13, 2022
Roe v Wade Flips the Political Equation (Guest: Bill Nowling)
May 04, 2022
So Who Will Survive Petitiongate? (Guest: Jonathan Oosting)
Apr 27, 2022
And then there were 10… (Guest: Buzz Thomas)
Apr 21, 2022
Flipping West Michigan (Guest: Hillary Scholten)
Apr 13, 2022
Taxes, Scandals and Campaigns (Guest: Sen. Curtis Hertel, Jr.)
Apr 06, 2022
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (Guest: John Sipher)
Mar 31, 2022
A Good/Great Week for Whitmer (Guest: Chad Livengood)
Mar 24, 2022
Putin’s War (Guest: Kremlinologist Olga Lautman)
Mar 16, 2022
Follow the Money (Guest: Craig Mauger)
Mar 10, 2022
State of the Campaign (Guest: PR maven Darci McConnell)
Mar 02, 2022
The Case Against Trump (Guest: Barbara McQuade)
Feb 25, 2022
Michigan’s Future (Guest: Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist)
Feb 17, 2022
The Next Generation of Voters (Guest: John Della Volpe)
Feb 09, 2022
What a week – Petitions, Investigations, Lawsuits!
Feb 05, 2022
PAC Man (Guest: Bob LaBrant)
Jan 27, 2022
Big Lie, Bigger Conspiracy (Guest: Jocelyn Benson)
Jan 21, 2022
What a Week!
Jan 10, 2022
A Look Back (2021 in Review)
Jan 04, 2022
The New Maps (Guest: Bill Ballenger)
Dec 30, 2021
Redistricting and More (Guest: Kyle Melinn)
Dec 21, 2021
The 21st Century Muckraker (Guest: Judd Legum)
Dec 14, 2021
Abe Would Be Proud (Guest: Reed Galen)
Dec 10, 2021
Slaying the Dragon (Guest: Walt Sorg)
Dec 03, 2021
The Progressive Agenda 2.0 (Guest: Rep. Rashida Tlaib)
Nov 23, 2021
Laboratories of Autocracy (Guest: David Pepper)
Nov 11, 2021
Here, Right Matters (Guests: Col. Alexander and Rachel Vindman)
Nov 03, 2021
Follow the Money (Guest: Simon Schuster)
Oct 26, 2021
Subverting Future Elections (Guest: Charlie Sykes)
Oct 21, 2021
The ONLY Issue – Saving Our Democracy (Guest: Max Boot)
Oct 13, 2021
Political Strategy Reimagined (Guest: Dr. Rachel Bitecofer)
Oct 06, 2021
By the Numbers (Guest: Pollster Celinda Lake)
Sep 29, 2021
Our Own Worst Enemy (guest: Dr. Tom Nichols)
Sep 22, 2021
Can the GOP Be Saved from Itself? (Guest: Joe Trippi)
Sep 15, 2021
The Politics of Abortion, Voter Suppression and School Boards
Sep 08, 2021
Voter Suppression and Redistricting (Guest: Katie Fahey)
Sep 01, 2021
By the Numbers (Guest: Pollster Bernie Porn)
Aug 25, 2021
Gaslighting Trump’s America (Guest: Amanda Carpenter)
Aug 18, 2021
A Bipartisan Victory … and More (Guest: Senator Gary Peters)
Aug 11, 2021
Stand Up for the Republic (Guest: Tara Setmayer)
Aug 04, 2021
Michigan and January 6th (Guest: House Dem Leader Donna Lasinski)
Jul 28, 2021
How Michigan Fits the Pattern (Guest: Tom Hamburger)
Jul 21, 2021
It’s Trump’s Party, Not Mine (Guest: George Conway)
Jul 14, 2021
The Congressional Maze (Guest: Representative Andy Levin)
Jul 07, 2021
Betsy D for Governor? (Guest: Matthew Dowd)
Jun 30, 2021
So What Is Ranked Choice Voting (Guest: Hugh McNichol IV)
Jun 23, 2021
It’s Not Just the Politicians…It’s Also Us (Guest: Ron Fournier)
Jun 09, 2021
Is Restoring the GOP Possible? (guest: Michael Steele)
Jun 02, 2021
Can’t We Just All Get Along? Apparently Not (Guest: Congressman Dan Kildee)
May 26, 2021
Fighting the Trumpublicans (Guest: Steve Schmidt)
May 20, 2021
Witness for the Prosecution (Guest: Michael Cohen)
May 12, 2021
We Need a Functional GOP – But It’s Not There (Guest: Abdul El-Sayed)
May 06, 2021
Ratf**cking, Voter Suppression & a “Sleazy” Petition Drive (Guest: David Daley)
Apr 28, 2021
The Happy Warriors of “The Meidas Touch”
Apr 21, 2021
1988 Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis
Apr 14, 2021
Whither Goest the GOP (Guest: Gov. John Kasich)
Apr 07, 2021
Stealing Elections, State by State (Guest: Rick Wilson)
Mar 31, 2021
Protecting the Right to Vote (Guest: Michael Li)
Mar 24, 2021
What the Polls Tell Us (Guest: Stan Greenberg)
Mar 17, 2021
Voter Suppression (Guest: Molly Ball)
Mar 10, 2021
C-PAC or C-PAP? (Guest: Bill Kristol)
Mar 03, 2021
Sneak Preview of “A Republic, If You Can Keep It”
Feb 24, 2021