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Gadfly

A weekly History, Government and News podcast
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Hey, y'all! We are finally at the end of our Debs-a-thon and oooh lordy does it kind of sad. Join us as Eugene makes one last valiant attempt to bring Socialism to America only to be met with the most insurmountable odds possible.
Hey, y'all! Things sure haven't been easy for Gene Debs, huh? In this episode he is, yet again, forced to run for president, deal with theological splits in his own party, and become a repository for every old timey disease that doesn't kill pe
Hey, y'all! For part four of the Eugene Debs saga, Gene keeps doing the thing he is best at and the thing he desperately never wants to do again: starting a brand new union and running for president. Also, he gets to experience the joy of tryin
Hey, y'all! We are off onto part 3 of the Eugene Debs adventure. He's tried unionizing. He's tried having faith in the federal government. But what he hasn't done is create his own political party and get guilt tripped into running for presiden
Hey, y'all! We return to the tale of Eugene Debs, his fight to unite all the rail jobs under one union, and his battle against George Pullman.
Hey, yall! After months of teasing, it's finally here. We are kicking off our long series on the most famous of American socialists, Eugene V. Debs. In part one we cover Gene's childhood, his Millennial-esque adolescence, and his all encompassi
Hey, y'all! We kick off our newest season by diving deep into the philosophy and politics of living forever. Which also means we get to talk about Atlas Shrugged more than we would have liked.
The Democratic primaries and upon us, but what options are there for people not super excited to vote for Joe Biden, Marianne Williamson, or Dean Phillips? Well, lucky for you, there are four other candidates on quite a few state ballots that m
Hey, y'all! We are closing out the year with the most conspiracy laden episode to date, which is...saying something. When we last left Shiva he had lost his race for the Senate & ascended to peak Divorced Guy by suing any news outlet that didn'
Hey, y'all! We are closing out the near year with a dude we've wanted to talk about since episode one and has recently road a wave of social media semi-fame into sort of relevance. We are talking about the one and only Shiva Ayyadurai.
Hey, y'all! This week we discuss the national convention held by the Socialist Party USA. Mostly we talk quite a bit about the platform, a little about ASMR soybean harvesting, and a medium amount about the radness of VP nominee Stephanie Chole
Hey, y'all! This week is a somewhat part two of last week's episode where we cover a teenager that also sort of ran for Governor of Kansas in 2018. Aaron Coleman was one of the youngest state representatives in American history and to talk abou
Hey, y'all! This week we return to Kansas to talk about a myriad of stories. We talk about Kansas election law, memes, but ultimately, this is the story of all the teens that entered to mostly run for Governor.
Hey, y'all! This week we are diving back into the 2024 Presidential election. The Party of Socialism & Liberation (PSL) announced their presidential ticket via a very well produced video that took leftist Twitter by storm. But who are Claudia D
Hey, y'all! America is one of around a dozen countries to go all-in on the two-party system. But why? To figure this out, we are going international and looking at a few other nations that have found varying definitions of "success" rolling wit
Hey, y'all! It has been a rough month of topics so, this week, we are taking a turn for the adorable. We are going all the way back to 2012 to discuss the Senatorial run of Hank O'Leary-Roberts or, as he is more commonly known, Hank the Cat.
Hey, y'all! After the dismal attendance at the Rage Against the War Machine rally, the folks in charge went and did a sequel in Manhattan. Humanity for Peace was an anti-war rally held on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. It was also
Hey, y'all! We are back with part two on the 2023 American Solidarity Party National Convention. In this episode, we cover the five people who stepped forward to compete for the presidential nomination.
Hey, y'all! After a long hiatus, we are back. This week is the first episode of our two-parter on the American Solidarity Party's 2023 National Convention. In this episode, we cover Christian Democracy in general, the history of the ASP, and th
Hey, y'all! We return this week to part two of the Council Wars. In this episode, we talk about the first mayoral race of Harold Washington and the many mini-wars that followed.
Hey, y'all! Come join us around the campfire as we tell a true Chicago tale. In the '80s, the city would be gripped by the Council Wars. A time of dense corruption, third party growth, and overwhelming racism. But first, we have to talk about o
Hey, y'all! This week we celebrate the start of the 2024 presidential election season by covering the Prohibition Party's convention in Buffalo, New York. 
Hey, y'all! This week we turn from political campaigns & fun history to the big trend of this last April: anti-woke grifts. Join us as we discuss Conservative Dad's Ultra Right Beer, Bona Dea Cosmetics, and Mammoth Nation.NOTE: This episode con
Hey, y'all! This week we are covering the self-proclaimed Commander in Chief of the Muskogee & Seminole, attempted founder of an entirely new nation, and all around teenage dirt-bag William Augustus Bowles.
Hey, y'all! This week we are covering a man that the New Yorker dubbed, "the original George Santos," Congressman Douglas Stringfellow.
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