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A lot going on today in the news and on our program.

Congressman Pokeann will be with us in just a second for our national progressive town hall meeting.

Professor Richard Wolf will also be with us about what's the deal with the debt ceiling and the

treasury and trillion dollar coins and all kinds of stuff.

And the breaking news right now is that there is a school shooting in the Texas high school.

Amy Vanderpool over at her Shiro newsletter notes last week there were 12 separate mass shootings

in the United States. Nine people killed 51 injured in Seattle, Oakland, Chicago, Manhattan,

Minneapolis, Chicago, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Washington, D.C., and Aurora, Colorado.

This is another one.

So all that said, it is time for Congressman Mark Pokeann.

Our old buddy from the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a former co-chair of that caucus,

and in fact a member and he's also on the appropriations, education, and labor committees,

and the House of Representatives.

He represents the Second District, Wisconsin, and the U.S. House Pokeann.

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