The Ron Show

Maura Keller, a former Army lieutenant colonel with 26 years in service, is another Georgia Democrat (the third I've talked to on this show this month) who's taking another run at MAGA representation in Congress. Like Shawn Harris and Lexy Doherty, she, too, has a prodigious gap to close at the ballot box in her district (Georgia's 3rd). Wednesday, we discussed the ways to do that, the issues that matter most to her dis...

In 2024, Lexy Doherty stepped up to walk into the MAGA buzzsaw and lost to Rep. Mike Collins by more than 26%. Undeterred, she's making another go of it in 2025, getting an early jump on fundraising and campaigning. Lexy joined me today to share her insights on how things can work in her favor in seventeen months.

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Lost in all the antics from Saturday was this: there's a trend, locally and nationally, to protests becom...

So much to unwrap from Saturday, what with the thousands of 'No Kings Day' protests across the country - dozens just in Georgia - along with the Trump-coveted military parade and the shocking double-homicide in Minnesota.

In Atlanta, estimates of 8,000 - 10,000 protestors descended on Liberty Square near the state capitol where activists listened to impassioned speeches and brought their "a-game" in signage. As was...

Thousands of protests (not protestors; protests, themselves) are planned across the United States and even in Europe, Saturday, with dozens just in the state of Georgia. The ACLU has 'protest ready' resources aplenty for demonstrators to be prepared for multiple contingencies - not the least of which include addressing interlopers who wish to escalate the situation for ill-intent.

It's going to be an interesting day, no...

With thousands of National Guardsmen and Marines descending on Los Angeles because (checks notes) someone set a car on fire, the narrative from the right is predictable in the face of growing public resentment to them: send in the hammers all in riot gear with tear gas canisters, flash bombs and dressed in riot gear and foment chaos to create a spectacle for their base.

It's a trope as old (older, actually) than this 51-year ol...

Quentin Pullen - aka "Coach Q" - has made a run at politics but currently hails as a fitness coach & movement therapist. I sense serving constituents isn't off the table for him, though, and he's spent a lot of time as an activist and organizer with the Georgia 50501 chapter. He joined me today to provide his perspective - as a former Marine and Californian - on all that's going on in Los Angeles - with Ma...

Marjorie Taylor Greene's revelation that she voted for something she's dead-set against is just another in a long line of self-inflicted face-plants by MAGA. The Trump-backed 'One Big Beautiful Bill' wouldn't have passed out ot the House were it not for her vote, so now she and other Republicans and Democrats against a ten-year moratorium on state A.I. regulations are scrambling to try and undo that damage.

But ...

I remember telling myself in the lead-up and the aftermath of the 2024 November elections that it was apparent way too many American voters had forgotten about the first Donald Trump presidency, wrought with chaos, unrest, division, tensions, protests and 'tough talk' and bluster from the White House in the face of it, complete with threats of military use on domestic streets to respond.

That was all before the pandemic, whi...

A month after securing the seat, new Georgia Democratic Party chair Charlie Bailey sat down with me today at Condesa Coffee in Old Fourth Ward Atlanta to discuss the state of the party he inherited from Rep. Nikema Williams.

I wanted to know what was 'right' about the party he took the reigns of on day one, the biggest glaring need for the party, then, too, and covered a lot of ground on candidate recruitment, support of th...

If you think the American evangelical fixation over Israel's well-being is simply about "doing the right thing," my hunch is you'd be wrong. As a southern-born kid who grew up in the baptist faith, there's a lot I came away with despite that fact I'm now a 51-year old atheist. i'm not saying I didn't come away with some good values from that exposure to organized religion, but I'd like to think...

Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King (R) is already looking to distinguish himself in the GOP Senate primary field by taking aim at Democratic Georgia Senators John Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock. The issue: communication with he and his staff in the run-up to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The problem? He left out some key details - like his own office's praise for the communication between his staff and the two Sen...

Retired Marine sergeant and Army Brigadier General, Northwest Georgia cattle farmer Shawn Harris made a go at Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2024, outpacing the Harris/Walz campaign by 12% in Georgia's 14th Congressional district.

It wasn't enough to win but it does show that Democrats focusing on local races by being where voters are can sway elections up the ballot.

Well today, Shawn joined me to announce his campaign for the ...

The White House won't be recognizing Pride Month in 2025 (and we imagine the next three years as well), but there's also a lot of corporate hesitance to go "all out" this month with rainbow-adorned logos and dramatic proclamations on social media backing diversity, equity and inclusion, too.

Because under the Trump regime, embracing D.E.I. could land you under investigation. Totally not fascist, though.

Fear not, t...

Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms ended all the speculation and announced her campaign for Georgia's governor's office early today. Greg Bluestein from the Atlanta Journal Constitution had a prolonged Q & A with Bottoms and it was somewhat revealing, actually.

I'm still only lukewarm to the prospects of her being the Democratic party's nominee, but it's hard to ignore her introduction being an effect...

Atlanta's WXIA-TV, 11 Alive, broke the story late last week: a Georgia woman, brain-dead since February, has been kept alive for more than 90 days because Emory Hospital lawyers advised the hospital against ending life support because of an early pregnancy. Now, her family's gripped in perpetual mourning while also awaiting the birth of what could likely be a child with immense medial woes of its own.

It leaves Georgia politicians,...

Kennesaw State University students and their supporters took to Atlanta - some 30 minutes (by car) south of their campus - Wednesday to protest KSU's announcement that they're eliminating black studies & philosophy majors outside the Georgia Board of Regents' offices. NAACP Georgia chapter president Gerald Griggs joined me to provide background & tell me what's next in the process & continued protest of this decision.

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When a prominent politician does a town hall in Iowa, it sort of defines the unofficial start to the upcoming presidential cycle and their campaign in earnest to win the office. That's just ... tradition.

So when former South Bend, Indiana mayor and U.S. Transportation Pete Buttigieg hosted a town hall with VoteVets Wednesday night, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a full 1,272 days before Election Day, November 7, 2028, it's as if w...

The book Washington insiders have been tongue-wagging about for days now - "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" - was leaked. It'll be a best-seller and have pundits and conservative snipers taking aim at a perceived "conspiracy" or "cover-up" in the Biden White House, but how much meat is even on this bone?

All I've read (so far) is a l...

On the surface, you'd think yesterday was a banner day for the second Donald Trump administration: his staff negotiated an end to the trade war he launched, he signed an executive order to mandate steep price cuts for prescription drug prices in the U.S., and who wouldn't have a good if they were given a $400 million luxury plane? Jon Stewart at 'The Daily Show' even confessed to having long-coveted the drug deal. A...