The following podcast is a project that I was required to do for my English 12 class. It is not meant to be continued, however I may depending on the feedback.
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Focusing on issues, not tweets, Joshua Holland talks politics and culture with newsmakers, journalists and academics.
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401(k) Specialist’s new biweekly podcast series “The 401(k) Specialist Pod(k)ast” provides retirement and 401(k) advisors with tips and strategies to optimize their business and outperform for their clients. High-profile pundits and personalities engage in smart discussions of relevant topics to educate, inform and entertain listeners.
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Exploring Retirement Income Strategies with Joshua Grass and Todd Levy
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The retirement landscape is undergoing a dramatic shift, characterized by unprecedented challenges such as increased longevity and unpredictable market conditions. Traditional retirement models centered solely on wealth accumulation are no longer sufficient. A more holistic approach is imperative to effectively manage risks, generate sustainable in…
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What's Behind a Remarkable 25-Year Milestone for Invesco's Kevin Holt
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It’s quite rare for one person to manage a large-cap mutual fund for a consecutive span of 25 years, but that’s just what Kevin C. Holt, CFA, chief investment officer, U.S. Value Equities at Invesco, is celebrating this summer. Holt and Devin Armstrong, who have been co-lead portfolio managers for the Invesco Comstock Fund since 2007, apply a uniqu…
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Making 401(k) Saving Hard to Avoid with Principal’s Marc Howell and Felix Okwaning
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No matter how easy plan sponsors try to make it for employees to participate in their company-sponsored 401(k) plan, too many workers still aren’t enrolling. Our guests on today have some ideas on dealing with this problem—centered on how instead of making it easy to participate, making it even harder to avoid enrolling in the plan in the first pla…
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Common HSA Mistakes (and Fixes) with ‘Mr. Retirement’ Jeremy Keil
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Despite offering unique tax advantages, lots of people remain unaware of health savings accounts (HSA)—and even many who are using them aren’t using them to anywhere near their full potential. Jeremy Keil, CFP, CFA, a retirement-focused financial advisor and host of both the Retirement Revealed Podcast and Mr. Retirement YouTube channel, joins the …
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Jerry Schlichter Preps Advisors for Fiduciary Rule Changes
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The DOL’s new fiduciary rule is scheduled to become effective in September, and retirement plan advisors and plan sponsors have plenty to do to prepare for the changes it will bring. Jerry Schlichter, founding and managing partner of Schlichter Bogard LLC and a well-known pioneer of retirement plan excessive fee litigation, visits the 401(k) Specia…
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Checking the Pulse of the HSA Market with Devenir’s Eric Remjeske
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Health Savings Accounts can be a very effective tool not only to pay for out-of-pocket medical expenses, but also to save for retirement thanks to a unique triple tax advantage. To check in on the pulse of the HSA market, we talk with the co-founder and president of Devenir Research Eric Remjeske, who is also a co-author of the semi-annual Devenir …
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Fred Reish Unpacks the DOL’s New Fiduciary Rule
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The Department of Labor released its final “Retirement Security Rule” recently, which aims to raise the legal bar for financial advisors, brokers, insurance agents and others who give retirement investment advice. Noted ERISA attorney Fred Reish Esquire, Partner at Faegre Drinker, shares his thoughts on some of the rule’s key focuses and changes, a…
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Exploring the 'Annuities in TDFs' Trend with Morningstar's Jason Kephart
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There’s a trend happening right now where asset managers are using a new strategy to help 401(k) plan participants manage their retirement spending: Target date funds featuring annuities. Morningstar recently did some really interesting research on this trend, and there are some compelling reasons to believe this type of solution could gain some se…
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How AI is Changing the Game with Financial Finesse’s Liz Davidson
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Artificial intelligence is a hot topic everywhere these days, including the financial services industry. We check in with artificial intelligence early adopter Liz Davidson, founder and CEO of Financial Finesse, who tells us about their award-winning AI-powered virtual financial coach named Aimee, and how AI really is turning into a game-changer fo…
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Previewing the 2024 NAPA 401(k) Summit with Nevin Adams and John Sullivan
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The workplace retirement plan industry’s premiere event is just days away, with top professionals set to descend upon Nashville April 7-9 for the 2024 NAPA 401(k) Summit. We get a preview of the big event from two of the key people in charge of putting it together in Nevin Adams and John Sullivan, the former and current Chief Content Officers for t…
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Defending the 401(k) with ICI's Sarah Holden
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The 401(k) has been under attack on multiple fronts lately. Between calls for eliminating their tax advantages to prop up Social Security to Bernie Sanders pining for a return to pension plans, and momentum seeming to build for the TSP-like “Retirement Savings for Americans Act” that many in the workplace retirement market believe would constitute …
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Unlocking the Door to Broader Adoption of Guaranteed Lifetime Income in 401(k)s: Matt Gray and Todd Levy Guaranteed lifetime income remains a hot topic in the workplace retirement plan market and there are plenty of factors at play these days that are helping these solutions gain traction—and more widespread adoption—in 401(k) plans. Matt Gray, Ass…
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Ohtani’s ‘Retirement’ Strategy, NQDC Plans and 2024 Stock Trends with ‘401(k) Lady’ Jeanne Sutton Baseball’s biggest star Shohei Ohtani made headlines recently by signing the largest individual contract in the history of sports when he inked a 10-year, $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Interestingly, he deferred $68 of the $70 million…
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Catching Up with 'Annuity Yoda' Tamiko Toland Guaranteed in-plan lifetime income solutions is a hot topic in the workplace retirement market these days, and we wanted to hear from one of the foremost experts on these products in “Annuity Yoda” Tamiko Toland. After stints at TIAA and CANNEX, the thought leader in retirement and annuities in the indi…
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The Year Ahead with John Hancock Retirement CEO Wayne Park As the new year opens, our first podcast of 2024 features a look at what to expect in the workplace retirement market from a high-level leader in John Hancock Retirement CEO Wayne Park. With oversight over all aspects of John Hancock Retirement’s business, Park is an ideal person to shed in…
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IBM sent shockwaves through the retirement industry recently when it was revealed that the tech and computing giant is halting its 5% 401(k) match in favor of a 5% contribution to a new, portable, immediate-vesting pension called a “Retirement Benefit Account.” Joining us to discuss this move and its wider implications within the retirement industr…
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2024 SECURE 2.0 Insights with Principal’s Lance Schoening As we head toward 2024, more and more provisions of the landmark SECURE 2.0 retirement reform legislation package are coming online, including some provisions that have lots of people in the industry really excited. One of those people is Lance Schoening, Director of Policy at Principal, the…
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IRI’s Jason Berkowitz: Why Biden’s Fiduciary Rule Gets it Wrong While the American Retirement Association is among those saying “fair” when it comes to the Department of Labor’s new proposed retirement security rule released last week that seeks to update the definition of an investment advice fiduciary under ERISA, many insurance-based organizatio…
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Talking DOL Retirement Saving Priorities with EBSA Head Lisa Gomez It’s been about a year since the Honorable Lisa M. Gomez was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary of Labor, and quite a busy year it’s been for the head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, which is responsible for administering, regulating and enforcing provisions of ER…
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When you want to gain insight about what’s going on in the retirement industry, you want to talk to someone who’s in the loop and immersed in the business. We can’t think of someone who fits that description better than Jania Stout. 401(k) Specialist’s “Top Advisor by Participant Outcomes” in 2020 is now the Senior Vice President, Retirement + Weal…
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Capitol Hill Retirement Reform Update with Invesco’s Jennifer Flitton With 2024 quickly approaching, it’s a good time to check in on the status of retirement reform efforts and progress in Washington D.C.—particularly as the industry prepares for a variety of SECURE 2.0 provisions scheduled to kick in come January. To learn where things stand on a …
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Andrew Biggs Explains Why There is Really Is No Retirement Crisis In an environment where Americans are repeatedly told by mainstream media that they are facing a serious retirement savings crisis because they aren’t saving enough, there’s one person who repeatedly stands up to refute these claims. Andrew Biggs, Senior Fellow at the American Enterp…
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Building Client Relationships with Advisor Derek Fiorenza Derek Fiorenza, C(K)P, CPFA, AIF, PPC, MSBA, is wired a little differently than the typical retirement plan advisor. He joins us to explain the somewhat unique approach he has to building client and participant relationships. Fiorenza, who serves as the Vice President, COO and CCO of Summit …
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Lifetime Income Solutions in 401(k)s Allianz Life’s Joe Hendrickson and AmericanTCS’ Brian Lenz Discuss Market Momentum In-plan guaranteed lifetime income solutions, such as annuities, have received plenty of attention in the wake of the SECURE Act of 2019 and 2022’s SECURE 2.0 legislation, which made it significantly easier to add these types of s…
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Fred Reish’s DOL Fiduciary Rule Update The retirement industry will be keeping a close eye on the Department of Labor in August in anticipation of proposed regulation regarding its fiduciary rule, and whether or not a retirement plan-to-IRA rollover recommendation made by an advisor who is a fiduciary to a plan or participant constitutes a fiduciar…
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Jared Holt: Republicans have disinformation researchers in their crosshairs
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This week, we are joined by Jared Holt, who researches domestic extremism at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, to talk about how Congressional Republicans are using their power and your tax dollars to harass and attempt to silence those who study and attempt to mitigate dangerous disinformation. Then Joshua Holland welcomes journalist Parker Mo…
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Retirement Advisor Marketing with Rebecca Hourihan We were curious to learn more about what 401(k)-focused advisors are doing with their 401(k) marketing efforts these days, and what kind of investments in time and resources they are making in efforts to grow their business. For answers, we checked in with Rebecca Hourihan, Founder and Chief Market…
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The devastating human toll of the neofascist attacks on LGBTQ+ people
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On this week's show, we are joined by journalist Evan Urquhart, who is transgender, to talk about a topic that's rarely covered by the legacy media: The psychological and emotional toll that the right's relentless assault on the LGBTQ community's rights--and in many cases, on their very existence--takes on queer people. It is hard to be the target …
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Marcy Wheeler: 'We should expect a Jan. 6 case against Trump'
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Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at how the GOP's performative approach to governing led them to stake out a position on the debt limit negotiations that will add hundreds of billions of dollars to federal budget deficits over the next decade. And then we're joined by legal analyst Marcy Wheeler to talk all about the historic f…
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No joke: Fox News says worrying about toxic air is woke
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Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at a... very busy news week marked by some manifestations of the climate emergency that were impossible to ignore in much of the country. Then we'll speak with The Hill's Saul Elbein about how polluters, the gun industry and private prison companies--among others--are desperately trying to make …
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Digby on the debt deal | Target caves to bigots
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Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at how Republicans always derail every effort to combat America's top terror threat: White supremacists and anti-government extremists. Then Heather "Digby" Parton joins us to talk about the deal Joe Biden cut with Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the country's borrowing limit and avert a catastr…
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David Pepper on how you can fight fascism in your own backyard
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Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show by violating his no-presidential-punditry-before-Thanksgiving rule with a look at the shambolic rollout of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's (ill-fated?) presidential campaign on Twitter. Then we're joined by author and analyst David Pepper to talk about his new book, Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Eve…
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Exploring the Mid-Cap Market with Invesco’s Justin Livengood Our guest today makes the argument for why mid-caps as an asset class belong in a properly diversified defined contribution plan investment menu, and explains why most 401(k) participants are probably not aware of just how overly exposed they are right now to just a handful of the biggest…
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Michael Kitces: Why Chat GPT Complements (Not Replaces) Advisors
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The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence and Chat GPT specifically has raised a bunch of fresh questions about the role it will play in financial advice, and how it will impact the work and role of financial advisors moving forward. High-profile advisor Michael Kitces—the “Chief Financial Planning Nerd” at Kitces.com, Head of Planning Strateg…
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Oliver Willis on John Durham's probe: 'This is a fail and we should enjoy it'
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Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at why the GOP is incapable of pivoting away from their most unpopular positions. Then we're joined by Oliver Willis from The American Independent to talk about the press and the majestic flop of Special Counsel John Durham's much-hyped report detailing various imaginary grievances against the F…
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CNN's Trump town hall debacle portends reckless 2024 election coverage
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Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at how Trump once again implicated himself in various criminal acts during his controversial CNN 'town hall' event. Then we are joined by John Stoehr, managing editor of The Editorial Board, to talk about some curious polling around the GOP's debt limit hostage-taking, containing autocratic red …
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Why Financial Advisors Need Personal Branding: Sheri Fitts Anyone who attends a retirement industry event knows there’s a pretty good chance Sheri Fitts is speaking at it. Today we’ve got the well-known branding consultant and founder of Sheri Fitts & Co. with us to talk about the need for and importance of personal branding among 401(k)-focused fi…
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Right-wing 'parents group' uses terror and harassment against its political foes
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The benign-sounding "Moms for Liberty" has largely flown under the radar, in large part because political reporters tend to portray it as a grassroots movement of conservative parents fighting for "parental choice." The reality, explains Vice's David Gilbert, is that Moms for Liberty is a dark money-funded organization with close ties to the GOP th…
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Media downplaying debt ceiling hostage-taking as a 'juicy political standoff'
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Cliff Schecter is joined by Dan Perry for the view on American politics from Israel. Then Matt Robison reflects on how traditional media have characterized debt ceiling negotiations as a "juice political standoff" instead of hostage-taking by Republicans. Cliff Schecter is a former ad writer for President Joe Biden, author of the bestselling book, …
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How Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene compete for QAnon followers
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The QAnon movement that emerged with the rise of Trumpism has been marked by a great fluidity, morphing as events dictate. It draws on old antisemitic conspiracy theories and more recent moral panics and has inspired quite a bit of deadly violence, but its inherent goofiness made many people slow to recognize the dangers it poses. This week, we are…
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Why Advisors Need to Consider Value Equities in DC Plan Investment Menus Now: Invesco’s Kevin Holt After underperforming growth for years, value equities finally had their time in the sun in 2022. While both value and growth stocks declined last year, growth stocks fell much further than value thanks in large part to rising interest rates. In this …
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Young red-state Dems are teaching their party to fight
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This week, we're joined by Amanda Litman, the co-founder of Run for Something, to talk about how a new generation of younger Democrats who have come to age in an era of right-wing extremism are getting national attention for standing up and fighting back--and offering a model for defending their values and their communities that their older colleag…
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EIG’s John Lettieri Refutes ARA Claims of Proposed Bill’s Challenge to Private Retirement Plan System When American Retirement Association CEO Brian Graff told attendees at the recent NAPA 401(k) Summit in San Diego that a new bill expected in Congress soon could mark the beginning of a “year’s long battle” over the future of America’s retirement s…
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Marcy Wheeler: Special counsel 'very close' to charging Trump
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Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at a new effort to pressure the Supreme Court to adopt a code of ethics—and a revelation of what appears to be some naked corruption by Clarence Thomas that drives home the need for some ethics rules. Then we're joined by legal analyst Marcy Wheeler to talk about the 34 felony charges filed this…
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Talking Guaranteed Lifetime Income Solutions with Allianz Life’s Michael De Feo Guaranteed lifetime income in retirement plans is a hot topic these days, with study after study revealing that Americans want to know more about it and view these products as a good fit to help them reach their financial objectives. While 401(k) plan sponsors are showi…
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Dave Karpf on how 'savvy' tech-bros blew up their favorite bank
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Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at a Florida lawmaker who may perfectly represent the modern GOP--he wrote the state's infamous 'Don't Say Gay' law while swindling tax-payers out of fraudulent covid relief funds. Then we're joined by Dave Karpf, a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University to talk ab…
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Violent right-wing 'groomers' are weaponizing young Americans
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This week, we spoke with two journalists about some of their recent reporting. First, we're joined by The Texas Observer's Josephine Lee to talk about how the campus culture wars, which are fueled by deep-pocketed conservative donors, have shifted from an emphasis on "free-market" economics to a violent form of Christian Nationalism. Then, Natasha …
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5 Big Issues with Small 401(k) Plans: Rebalance’s David Ranney Small-business 401(k) plans face a lot of specific issues and challenges that don’t necessarily impact larger retirement plans. This week we’re focusing squarely on some hot-button issues specifically related to small 401(k) plans, and to help us do that we’re joined by an expert in the…
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Will Ron DeSantis' culture warrior schtick play nationally?
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This week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a look at how election conspiracy theorists in Arizona have turned on some of the very Republicans who fed their fantasies about the 2020 election. Then we're joined by veteran journalist Judd Legum to take a good, hard look at Florida's pint-sized wannabe strongman, Ron DeSantis, who has become a d…
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You knew the United States was an outlier when it comes to gun violence but Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at a study that found truly eye-opening disparities. Then we're joined by AR Moxon to talk about Dilbert creator Scott Adams and other bigoted right-wingers who claim that they're being silenced when their real problem i…
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