It’s March MADNESS: From Basketball to Ballots

<p><strong>It&rsquo;s March MADNESS on episode 124 of Native Land Pod, hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers are joined by friend-of-the-show, Cari Champion!</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Cari Champion is a broadcast journalist, co-host of Flagrant and Funny with Jemele Hill, and host of NAKED with Cari Champion on Black Effect.</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>FOR YOUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS:</strong></p> <p><br /><strong>1. Trump admonishes Congress to pass the SAVE Act, &ldquo;Do it for Jesus.&rdquo;&nbsp;</strong><br /><strong>2. Breonna Taylor&rsquo;s mom criticizes DOJ&rsquo;s request to dismiss charges against officers</strong><br /><strong>3. Afroman wins defamation lawsuit.&nbsp;</strong><br /><strong>4. Syracuse loses to UConn, Syracuse Head Coach Complains.</strong><br /><strong>5. United Airlines Announces a new ticket-level for &ldquo;relax row&rdquo; (it sucks)</strong><br /><strong>6. Delta Airlines suspends perks for members of Congress over airport delays</strong></p> <p><strong>There is a connection between the manufactured chaos at our airports, Project 2025, and Trump&rsquo;s efforts to manipulate the midterm elections. Far-right strategist and conspiracy-podcast host, Steph Bannon, has said the quiet part out loud: ICE is being groomed to police the polls. The viral propaganda that Bannon pushes has empowered folks like CA Sheriff Chad Bianco to pursue phony election investigations; he&rsquo;s confiscated hundreds of thousands of ballots that will be used to produce more conspiracy content, and boost the sheriff&rsquo;s gubernatorial campaign.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Meanwhile, Republicans struggle to pass the SAVE Act, which would curtail millions of Americans' right to vote, and the Supreme Court seems ready to put restrictions on mail-in ballots. If voting weren&rsquo;t important, they wouldn&rsquo;t be trying so hard to keep you from doing it!&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>The show ends on a lighter note, our hosts share their brackets for March Madness, college basketball.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><br /><br /></p> <p><strong>The full text of Project 2025: </strong><a href="https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf"><strong>https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf</strong></a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>If you&rsquo;d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: </strong><a href="http://www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/"><strong>http://www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/</strong></a><strong> and send to @nativelandpod.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>We are 222 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y&rsquo;all!&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>&mdash;---------</strong></p> <p><strong>We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nativelandpod/"><strong>Instagram</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/nativelandpod"><strong>X/Twitter</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555252803861"><strong>Facebook</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://nativelandpod.com"><strong>NativeLandPod.com</strong></a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@NativeLandPod"><strong>YouTube</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p><br /><br /></p> <p><strong>Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media.</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Thank you to the Native Land Pod team:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks&nbsp; to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><br /><strong>Theme music created by</strong><a href="https://www.daniellaurent.com/"><strong> </strong><strong>Daniel Laurent</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>