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

Episode 60 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

August 31, 2025 • 48 mins
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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Episode 59 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

August 25, 2025 • 48 mins
This week Bruce highlights some bad economic news under Trump’s economy. Plus more on America’s descent into fascism.
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Episode 59 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

August 25, 2025 • 48 mins
This week Bruce highlights some bad economic news under Trump’s economy. Plus more on America’s descent into fascism.
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Episode 58 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

August 18, 2025 • 48 mins
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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Episode 57 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

August 11, 2025 • 48 mins
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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Episode 55 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

August 3, 2025 • 47 mins
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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Episode 55 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

July 27, 2025 • 50 mins
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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Episode 54 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

July 21, 2025 • 48 mins
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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Episode 53 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

July 14, 2025 • 48 mins
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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Episode 53 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

July 13, 2025 • 48 mins
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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Episode 52 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

July 7, 2025 • 48 mins
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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Episode 51 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

June 30, 2025 • 67 mins
Bruce talks about the 25th Amendment and dives into the Big Horrible Bill on this week’s show.
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Episode 50 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

June 23, 2025 • 47 mins
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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Episode 49 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

June 16, 2025 • 48 mins
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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Episode 48 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

June 9, 2025 • 47 mins
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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Episode 48 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

June 8, 2025 • 47 mins
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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Episode 47 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

June 2, 2025 • 47 mins
This week we cover the 21st amendment to the constitution that repealed the 18th Amendment, which had established nationwide prohibition. Also we continue discussing cuts to Medicaid and start a new series on Republican fascism.
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Episode 46 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

May 26, 2025 • 36 mins
This week we cover the 20th amendment to the constitution, which primarily addresses the timing of presidential and congressional terms, as well as the succession process in cases where a president-elect or vice president-elect dies or is incapacitated. Plus why the “big, beautiful” bill will hurt lots of Americans.
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Episode 45 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

May 19, 2025 • 50 mins
This week Bruce talks about the 19th amendment that granted women the right to vote, discuss the birthright citizenship case at the US Supreme Court, and go through some of the draconian cuts in the Republican budget.
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Episode 44 of Politics Matters with Bruce Klopfleisch

May 12, 2025 • 48 mins
This week we question what the Democratic Party is doing to prepare the 2026 midterm elections. And we also highlight two federal cases where judges are showing some courage in stopping Trump from deporting undocumented immigrants.
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