3646 - Trump is the GOP, When Democrats Used to Win the Heartland w/ Cory Haala
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
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Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland welcome Corey Haala, assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and author of "When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan" https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p089176
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to a free version of The Majority Report. |
| 0:04.1 | Support this show at join the Majority Report.com and get an extra hour of content daily. |
| 0:12.0 | The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:17.5 | It is Monday, May 18, 2006. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:29.7 | We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. |
| 0:40.3 | On the program today, assistant professor of history, the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, and author of when Democrats won the heartland, progressive populism in the age of Reagan. |
| 0:54.6 | Also on the program today, Trump claims the clock is ticking on an Iran deal as Iran starts a Bitcoin-backed insurance for shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:08.7 | Meanwhile, the Trump regime is planting seeds for an attack on Cuba. |
| 1:15.7 | And meanwhile, demanding Denmark allow more U.S. control of Greenland. |
| 1:23.8 | Supreme Court rejects the challenge to the Biden-era Medicare drug price negotiation power. |
| 1:32.3 | And Trump drops his IRS suit to facilitate a full-on embezzlement scheme from the U.S. government. |
| 1:46.1 | Driven by APEC, Thomas Massey's congressional primary is now the most expensive congressional primary in the history of this country, |
| 1:56.6 | just followed by Jamal Bowman and Corey Bushes. |
| 2:02.3 | What do these things have in common? |
| 2:05.9 | Tomorrow, primaries in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, |
| 2:10.1 | Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania. |
| 2:14.7 | Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy |
| 2:16.7 | fails to make a runoff in his primary. |
| 2:21.0 | FDA decides to open the floodgates for vaping products regardless of their safety. |
| 2:26.7 | Like literally, regardless of their safety. |
| 2:30.9 | Republicans struggling with the idea of a third reconciliation bill. |
| 2:36.2 | That's the second reconciliation bill. |
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