For those who still don’t think Citizens United is having a profound effect on our democracy – consider this: 78% of the $465 million in outside spending so far this election was only made possible by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

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Hour One: Romney & Obama's big ideas... / Plus, Taking Our Country Back - Col. Wayne Powell running against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor

Hour Two: Voter ID...how the GOP wins elections - Judson Phillips, TheTeaParty.net & Tea Party Nation

More than 1,000 religious leaders across the nation have decided to take a wrecking ball to the wall separating church and state. The Conservative group “Alliance Defending Freedom” has scheduled what they are calling “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” for October 7th, when church leaders across America will devote their sermons to the election and campaign on behalf of a political candidate.

That’s the conclusion of a new study by the Center for American Progress looking at data from the Pew Research Center. The study looked at unionization rates within states and found that states with the highest percentage of unionized workers also have the highest rates of economic mobility – as in, the chances that someone born into the middle class can work their way into the upper class.

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Hour One: Progressives fight for Social Security - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) / Plus, Police join OWS & stand up for free speech! Detective Brian Austin, Madison Professional Police Officers Association (MPPOA)

Now is about the time for Republican Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Darrell Issa, to offer an apology to Attorney General Eric Holder. Back in June, House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt after Congressman Darrell Issa held a series of witch hunt hearings trying to implicate Holder in the non-existent Fast and Furious conspiracy.

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Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day...

Hour One: Romneyhood...steal from the poor & give to the rich - Mark Williams / Plus, pirates, global warming and the Flying Spaghetti Monster...oh my!

Hour Two: Impeach Scalia!

The Mitt Romney campaign is still in crisis after a leaked video showed Romney deriding 47% of Americans who he claims are victims who don’t pay taxes, and who are dependent upon government for everything. Romney argued that he doesn’t need to worry about these people – and they represent the President’s base.

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Hour One: GOP...misery for all but the top 1% / Plus, "Taking Our Country Back"... Thom talks with congressional candidate Jim Graves (D-MN) challenging Michelle Bachman

Hour Two: Why trickle down economics only creates a nation of peons - Peter Ferrara, The Carleson Center for Public Policy

And so is police repression of the movement. Yesterday, Occupy celebrated its one-year anniversary with demonstrations in New York City and more than 30 other cities nationwide. But in New York, the police were in full force to crackdown on the movement. More than 180 people were arrested by the NYPD on Monday – including some journalists – mostly for disorderly conduct or behavior that used to be allowed under the 1st Amen

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Happy birthday to the Occupy Movement...

Hour One: How the rich screwed the middle class / Plus, WI judge rules FOR collective bargaining - John Nichols, The Nation / And, an update on the Chicago Teacher's Union strike

Hour Two: How NYC's soda ban could save lives - Carrie Lukas, Independent Womens Forum

Today marks the one-year anniversary since Americans began highlighting Wall Street's crimes by occupying Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan and eventually hundreds of other cities across the nation. Events and rallies are underway in New York City and elsewhere around the nation to commemorate the occasion, and already there are several reports of more than 70 demonstrators arrested in lower Manhattan.

The fallout from an anti-Islam film made here in the United States continues, as anti-western protests sweep across the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa – including Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Iraq. More than a dozen nations have now seen protests against Western diplomatic buildings – including British and German embassies. Reuters is reporting this morning that an angry mob has breached the walls and rushed the Amer

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Hour One: Egypt...the revolution and the aftermath

Hour Two: Progressive transformation happens in inches

Hour Three: Media ignores Romney lies in favor of politicization - Tommy Christopher, Mediaite / Plus, democracy under fire in Michigan - Pastor D. Alexander Bullock, Rainbow Push-Detroit

Unrest spread to Yemen today – as an angry mob stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa – tearing down the American flag, burning it, pelting the building with rocks, and smashing windows. So far reports indicate that no one inside the embassy was injured. Just like the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Egypt and U.S.