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

September 28, 2025 48 mins
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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Bruce outlines the 26th Amendment as we near the end of his explanation of the Constitution, then dives deeper into Zohran Mamdani’s win in NYC, and finishes up with the ugly bill passing through Congress.
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Bruce talks about the 25th Amendment and dives into the Big Horrible Bill on this week’s show.
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This week Bruce highlights the 24th amendment, which abolished and forbids the federal and state governments from imposing taxes on voters during federal elections. Plus this week in Republican fascism and how the Senate version of the big horrible bill is even worse than the House version.
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This week host Bruce Klopfleisch explains the 23rd Amendment, then dives into what is going on with the fascist Republican takeover of Los Angeles.
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This week Bruce details the 22nd Amendment, warns us how the Big Beautiful Bill is another attempt to gut the ACA/”Obamacare”, and continues his feature “This Week in Republican Fascism.”
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