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On this Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson took a few days before responding to an article in The Economist entitled "American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits" and subtitled "An enormous rise in disability payments may complicate debt-reduction efforts." Andrew talks through the nomenclature that is being misused, like the differences in "100% disabled", the good, bad, and often very indifferen...

On this Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson talks post-election politics on Capitol Hill with senior Washington Correspondent at the Independent Eric Garcia, who takes us behind the scenes and into the halls of congress to discuss the incomiing 119th congress is going to look a whole lot like the 118th congress, changing leadership in the US Senate as the GOP takes the majority and elects new leadership, how Majority Leader Thune and ...

On this Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson talks about Veterans Day and the cost of service, both the broad perspective of how the Department of Veterans Affairs is one of the largest parts of our government just to care for those that serve, and also the personal perspective of what those that servce pay in personal terms.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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On this Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson talks the aftermath of the 2024 election and talks the coalition that won it for the GOP and what Democrats need to do to rebuild theirs, looking ahead to how Trump administartion 2.0 success runs through a slim GOP House of Represenatives that hasn't shown itself to be particularly effective, and how the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential races are already underway.

All that and more on...

On this Heard Tell Special Edition host Andrew Donaldson reacts to the 2024 elections results as former President Donald Trump becomes the president-elect, breaks down why Kamala Harris lost running as a psuedo-incumbent, where both political parties go from here, and what it all means for an electorate that is showing signs of real change.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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On this Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson explains that while content must be created, analysts must analyze, and talking heads must talk, there really is nothing happening and nobody knows anything between now and whenever we find out who wins the 2024 election.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the numbers about who is paying attention to the election and how. No, not poll numbers regarding the candidates, but new Pew research on who is paying attention to election year news media, how they consume it, and the trends in the last few elections that reveal how news media is changing a...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the spectacle that was the Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. Host Andrew Donaldson covers the reaction to Donald Trump’at MSG, why folks are responding so strong stronly to it, what was the Trump campaigns real intent in staging it, and what it all means a week from election day 20...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the data and reality of presidential polls and how we are using them wrong with economist Dr. Stephen Popick, as we talk data vs vibes and fact vs rhetoric as the election approaches.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson goes through all the news media, social media, political, and cultural hot mess surrounding the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), what it is supposed to to, what some folks think they ought to be doing, and how to discern context from content when suffering folks are a huge ...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson goes through the week that was covering the state of the 2024 presidential race, why we should get rid of the term "low information voters," the Mark Robinson hot mess, why the latest Continuing Resolution shows why congressional dysfunction is at the heart of our political ch...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson takes the news that the House of Representatives will once again push through a short-term Continuing Resolution, or CR for short, with the help of the US Senate to avert a government shutdown, and explains not only how congress has become a dysfunctional mess, but who is ultimately t...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson talks endorsements in the presidential race, do they still matter, and some examples from the past as well as what to watch for in current ones.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson explains where the term “low information voters” came from, why we shouldn’t use it, and what using such nomenclature tells us what politicians and pundits really think about the very voters they are supposed to be trying to convince.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson give the background to the headlines about North Carolina Lt. Governor and GOP nominee for Governor Mark Robinson's latest batch of scandals, how the sequence of events leading up to the airing of Robinson's online dirty deeds tells its own story, and a teachable moment on how...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times as host Andrew Donaldson does a quick recap of where the 2024 presidential election is at, how we got here, what to watch for going forward, Trump's ceiling, is Harris underperforming? swing states that will decide it and more.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking to our friend Alex Muresianu from The Tax Foundation to explain "no tax on tips" and why there is bipartisan political agreement for it, and bipartisan agreement in policy circles it is a bad idea. Plus, Alex gives us some useful guidelines to use when we hear terms like "tax cut" &...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking with our friend, writer, podcaster, and pastor from the great state of Minnesota Dennis Sanders about Rust Belt politics, the changing electorate of the midwest, history and economic factors that drive voters, and sorting out political assumptions and buzzwords from the people that are living and v...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about VP Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are both pitching "no tax on tips" which is bringing bipartisan agreement among lawmakers to do it bipartisan agreement among policy wonks it is a bad idea. We go to the Olympics and talk about how Snoop Dogg being the unofficial offi...