Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

How Civics, Politics and Law Affect You: Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch educates listeners about how civics, politics, law (and some economics), affect you in everyday life and why the survival of our democracy depends on active citizen participation in our government. Can you name the 3 branches of government? Do you know what the supremacy clause is and how it works? Do you wonder why politicians “can’t just get along” and do their jobs? Join Bruce Sundays at 5 PM on AM950 to understand how our democracy works and doesn’t work, learn why politics matters to you, and how you can be an informed citizen, even if you don’t like politics!

Episodes

November 2, 2025 47 mins
Bruce covers the ongoing federal government shutdown, another court just ignoring the law for Trump’s benefit, and that Trump admitted to war crimes with the unprovoked bombings of boats in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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This week, Bruce dissects the ongoing government shutdown, explores the political calculations behind the Republican refusal to negotiate, and shares polling data showing the public is largely blaming Republicans. Bruce also raises the alarm about the Department of Justice’s descent into a political hit squad and covers a Supreme Court ruling that could end conversion…
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Bruce talks about the Supreme Court poised to further gut the Voting Rights Act, as well as how Republicans are at fault for the ongoing shutdown.
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This week Bruce highlights Gavin Newsom’s response to a Trump demand about California colleges, how Republicans in Minnesota can’t stop attacking transgender students and how James Comey could beat his criminal charges.
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This week Bruce talks about why Republicans shut down the federal government and how the US Supreme Court gave Donald Trump the power to ignore budget laws passed by Congress.
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Bruce discusses the suspension and reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel, how we can fight fascism at home, and wonders why Democrats aren’t fighting back.
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In this week’s episode Bruce talks about Trump’s takeover of the media, Trump ordering attacks on Venezuelan boats, and Bruce discusses the possibility of a government shutdown.
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This week Bruce talks about the MAGA Supreme Court ignoring its own precedent, plus more bad economic news and asks if a recession is looming.
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This week Bruce talks about the MAGA Supreme Court ignoring its own precedent, plys more bad economic news and asks if a recession is looming.
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This week Bruce talks about guns and the Republican Party, why you should go to protests and another way fascism is getting worse in America.
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This week Bruce continues highlighting America’s fall into fascism and why we need to resist it. Plus news on an upset Democratic victory in an Iowa Sate Senate seat.
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This week Bruce highlights some bad economic news under Trump’s economy. Plus more on America’s descent into fascism.
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This week Bruce highlights some bad economic news under Trump’s economy. Plus more on America’s descent into fascism.
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This week we talk about how America has already fallen into fascism with 12 examples. Bruce then poses the question, “does this sound like a Democracy to you?”
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On this week’s show Bruce discusses Republican gerrymandering, how DOGE is costing us billions of dollars and the terrible July jobs report.
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On this week’s show Bruce talks about the double standards the media holds Democrats to, bad polling numbers for Trump and wants to know in one sentence, why are you a Democrat?
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Bruce talks through the economic impacts from the big horrible bill, and then finishes with a discussion of the cuts to public media.
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This week we talk about the Equal Rights Amendment, which is not an official amendment to the US constitution, how the Supreme Court gave Trump another gift and some bad economic news coming our way.
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Bruce finishes his discussion of the Constitution with the 27th and currently final amendment, then devotes the rest of the show to the big horrible bill.
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Bruce finishes his overview of the Constitution with the 27th and currently final amendment, then does an extended dive into the horrors of the big ugly bill.
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