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1) GOP Hearing Launches Latest Effort to Cut Social Security Benefits

Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, talks about a U.S. House Budget Committee field hearing held on September 21st at a Dallas property owned by billionaire Harlan Crow, which focused on establishing a fast-track commission, which senior advocates view as a GOP strategy to cut Social Security benefits behind closed doors.

2) Former Senior Military, Security Officials Urge State Attorneys General to Block Federal Armed Interference in Midterm Election

Dan Schwartz, Legal Affairs Lead with National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) discusses his group's recent call on state attorneys general to prepare to block armed federal interference in the midterm election, and other issues related to President Trump's threat to interfere with and manipulate the outcome of the midterm Congressional election that the Republican Party is predicted to lose.

3) In Germany’s Recent Elections Left Rising Alongside Far Right

Cas Mudde, Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor of International Affairs and Distinguished Research Professor, School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia discusses his recent Guardian column, "Look again – there’s more to Europe’s election trends than far-right success," and shares his views on the outcome of recent elections in Germany and the rise of the far right across Europe.

4) 13 Years After the New Haven Advocate's Demise, the Alternative Weekly Newspaper is Reborn into a Quarterly

Tom Smith, writer, editor, drummer, and author of, "The Crescent City Lynchings," who served as an Associate writer and columnist with the New Haven Advocate newspaper from 1978 to 1987, talks about the recent relaunch of the New Haven Advocate as a quarterly alternative newspaper more than 50 years after the publication’s first printing, featuring news, commentary and humor. Smith, along with Colleen Van Tassell, and writer and illustrator John Guillemette, serve as the revived newspaper’s editors.