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Chad Law 176 Episodes Oct 13, 2026

Common Sense with Chad Law is a political commentary podcast that breaks down American politics, media narratives, and public policy in plain English. Each episode analyzes the biggest stories in politics and current events, offering clear analysis of government decisions and media coverage. The show focuses on facts and real-world consequences rather than partisan talking points. Hosted by political commentator Chad Law, it combines political analysis, news commentary, media criticism, and occasional satire.

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San Francisco's Comeback Exposes Portland's Leadership Failure | Tuesday Special Oct 13, 2026 3020 Text the show! 🌉 San Francisco is making a comeback. Portland is heading in the opposite direction. Two progressive cities. Two Democratic mayors. Two promises to turn things around. So why are the results so different?In this Tuesday Special of Common Sense with Chad Law, we're examining San Francisco's surprising recovery under Mayor Daniel Lurie and Portland's continuing struggle

21 Days to Save an Election: Fire Your Consultants | Monologue Monday Oct 12, 2026 2295 Text the show! With just 21 days to save their campaigns, why are so many Republicans and Democrats struggling in races that should be easy? Political consultants are spending millions on attack ads, polling, and messaging while missing the one thing voters actually want: results.In this Monologue Monday episode of Common Sense with Chad Law, I put my former marketing executive hat back on and do

The One Mistake Costing Both Parties Their Voters | Sequel Sunday Oct 11, 2026 2922 Text the show! Why are Republicans and Democrats losing voters in races they should be winning? Why are independent voters reaching record levels? And why are democratic socialists gaining ground in places where their politics should be a nonstarter?These aren't three separate political stories. They're symptoms of the same mistake.🇺🇸 In this Sequel Sunday episode of Common Sense with Ch

The Secret Deal That Ended Red Waves and Blue Waves | Satire Saturday Oct 10, 2026 645 Text the show! 🌊 WHERE DID ALL THE RED WAVES AND BLUE WAVES GO?The New York Times says Democrats may have found the recipe for flipping red-state Senate seats. Chad Law has another theory: the political consultants found the recipe for billing all the way through November.Welcome to Satire Saturday on Common Sense with Chad Law, where our entirely fictional investigative team uncovers the secret b

The Primary Trap: Why America Keeps Getting Bad Candidates | Freedom Friday Oct 9, 2026 2975 Text the show! America keeps asking why we end up with such terrible choices in November. But what if the problem isn't the candidates? What if it's the system that picks them?On this Freedom Friday, Chad Law takes on America's broken primary system — the closed-door process that excludes independent voters, rewards ideological purity, burns through campaign money, and produces cand

Close Governor Races: What Does a Real Builder Look Like? | Thursday Specia Oct 8, 2026 2823 Text the show! Oregon’s governor race between Tina Kotek and Christine Drazan raises a bigger question: What does a real builder look like in politics? And why do we keep hiring politicians based on who we like instead of what they've actually accomplished?After hundreds of thousands watched Chad Law's original breakdown of Oregon's governor race, one question kept coming back: If n

🇺🇸 IS THIS REALLY THE BEST REPUBLICANS CAN DO? | WACKY WEDNESDAY Oct 7, 2026 2723 Text the show! 🎪 BAD CANDIDATES. BAD CAMPAIGNS.🇺🇸 America, have you watched the campaign ads this fall and wondered, is this really the best they could do?Because I have. And this time, I'm asking about my own side.From California and Oregon to Ohio, Texas, and Iowa, voters are frustrated with the people running their states. They're looking for something different. The political marketp

The Conservative Case Against the Death Penalty | Monologue Monday Oct 6, 2026 2546 Text the show! I supported the death penalty for most of my life. Then I started asking what we were buying—and whether it was working.The Christa Pike case in Tennessee brings that question into focus. But this conversation goes beyond one inmate or one execution. It’s about capital punishment, government accountability, innocent lives, victims’ families, taxpayer dollars, and a life sentence tha

The Convenience Economy Is Making You Poorer | Sequel Sunday Oct 5, 2026 2065 Text the show! Too Much Month at the End of the Money: How the Convenience Economy Is Draining Your PaycheckAre you tired of having too much month left at the end of the money? You're not imagining it. Housing, insurance and groceries really are more expensive, and those are real structural problems. But that's not what you feel every day. What you feel every day is your money disappeari

Democratic Socialism Is Just Having Rich Parents | Satire Saturday Oct 3, 2026 617 Text the show! America, congratulations. You’ve been adopted. 🇺🇸💳I finally figured out democratic socialism—and I owe the DSA an apology. It’s having rich parents.Rent? Dad. College? Dad. Healthcare? Dad. And if Daddy runs out of money, that’s okay. Daddy has a printing press.On this Satire Saturday edition of Common Sense with Chad Law, I take the Democratic Socialists of America’s “Workers Deser

Europe’s Energy and Immigration Mistakes Are America’s Warning | Freedom Friday Oct 2, 2026 2241 Text the show! Europe’s energy and immigration mistakes are America’s warning. From refinery closures and foreign fuel dependence to national identity and immigration without an integration plan, Europe has already shown us the consequences. America still has a choice.🇺🇸 On this Freedom Friday, we’re asking a common-sense question: Can we learn from somebody else’s mistakes before we pay for them

The Worst GOP Congress Ever! They’ve Got Nobody Left to Blame. | Wacky Wednesday Sep 30, 2026 2344 Text the show! Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. They’ve got every key to Washington—and nobody left to blame. So what did they actually deliver?🇺🇸 Tonight on Common Sense with Chad Law, it’s Wacky Wednesday: the worst GOP Congress I’ve ever seen.We’re comparing what they promised at the podium with what they put on the docket. Daylight saving time. Local beef process

They Block the Power. You Pay the Bill. | Tech Tuesday Sep 29, 2026 2200 Text the show! We’re not out of power. We’re out of permission.America’s innovators are building solar farms, gas plants, batteries, and new ways to harness geothermal energy. Meanwhile, projects wait years to connect—and the companies sending your electric bill keep asking for higher rates.Tonight on Common Sense with Chad Law: the bureaucratic bottleneck behind America’s electricity debate, the

Washington Brought Back Wolves. Ranchers Got the Bill. | Monologue Monday Sep 28, 2026 1847 Text the show! Washington wiped wolves out of the West. Then it brought them back and left ranchers to carry the cost.In Oregon, wolf losses look tiny in a statewide statistic. On the ranches where those losses land, the bill includes missing calves, stressed herds, lighter weights, extra fencing, and nights spent riding instead of sleeping. Colorado shows what happens when voters approve wolf rei

The Homelessness System Pays for Nights, Not Exits | Sequel Sunday Sep 27, 2026 2374 Text the show! Portland can tow and crush a lived-in RV, then pay nearly $2,900 a month for its former occupant to sleep in a temporary shelter pod. Who gets paid when she stays—and who measures whether she ever gets out?Tonight on Sequel Sunday, we follow Methany, a composite, through the homelessness system’s own map. She starts with an RV she owns. Then come the tow truck, the shelter cot, the

Justice for Hee-Haw: Why Cops Keep Shooting Pets | Wacky Wednesday Sep 23, 2026 2589 Text the show! A COP SHOT A MINIATURE DONKEY IN HIS OWN PASTURE.His name was Hee-Haw. He was bottle-raised and worked with children at petting zoos. When officers entered his pasture during a search for a missing child, he ran toward them. One officer shot him.Then I found the other stories. A K-9 handler shot his own dog. An LAPD officer shot a dog wearing a Knicks jersey during a welfare check.

Everything the Data Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know | Tech Tuesday Sep 22, 2026 2538 Text the show! Your data doesn’t disappear after you click “I agree.” It enters an industry built to collect it, combine it, sell it, and increasingly use it to determine what you pay.I spent years on the buying side of this business. Tonight, I’m breaking down how the data industry actually works—from device IDs and real-time advertising auctions to data brokers, government purchases, Flock camer

The War on Beautiful Women Backfired | Monologue Monday Sep 21, 2026 2259 Text the show! America didn’t run out of beautiful women. We stopped allowing them to become icons.For decades, every generation produced a bombshell America could recognize from a silhouette: Marilyn Monroe, Farrah Fawcett, Cindy Crawford, Pamela Anderson and Angelina Jolie. Today, Sydney Sweeney may be the only contender—and every time she uses her beauty, the cultural referees question whether

America Needs a Mom: The Case for Sarah Huckabee Sanders | Thursday Special Sep 17, 2026 2377 Text the show! Republicans spent four days in Dallas asking who should inherit Donald Trump’s movement. They discussed JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz—but almost nobody mentioned Sarah Huckabee Sanders.That may be the biggest oversight in the Republican Party’s search for its next leader.In this Thursday Special, Chad Law makes the case that America doesn’t need another political

Flock Cameras, Fetterman and Firefighting Goats | Wacky Wednesday Sep 16, 2026 2195 Text the show! A Senate candidate shoots a Flock surveillance camera for a campaign ad. John Fetterman spends the weekend at Rupert Murdoch’s Montana retreat. Diesel reaches a record $6.27 per gallon. Twenty-two states sue over a new green-card rule. And the government finally discovers that goats are surprisingly good at fighting wildfires.Welcome to Wacky Wednesday, where Chad Law digs through t

The People Warning You About AI Are Already Using It | Tech Tuesday Sep 15, 2026 2275 Text the show! Who told Americans to be afraid of artificial intelligence—and what are those people protecting?Washington, Hollywood, and the news media publicly warn Americans about AI while quietly using it themselves. Congressional offices use it to summarize legislation. Movie studios are hiring AI specialists. Journalists increasingly use it for news gathering.The people selling the fear have

You Don't Hate Capitalism. You Hate This. | Monologue Monday Sep 14, 2026 2641 Text the show! Americans still overwhelmingly like free enterprise. So why are they rapidly souring on capitalism?Chad argues that the anger behind America's “cost of life” crisis is real — but we're giving it the wrong name.Housing, healthcare, insurance, prescriptions and utilities consume enormous portions of American household budgets, yet many of these markets fail a basic test of c

Make America Gay Again: Grindr Goes Down at the RNC | Satire Saturday Sep 12, 2026 372 Text the show! Grindr goes down. The Republican convention comes to town. Coincidence?Dallas is hosting the Republican convention, and reports of problems with Grindr put the city at the top of Downdetector’s map.But Dallas isn’t the first convention city to generate headlines about Grindr activity.Cleveland. Milwaukee. Now Dallas.Ten years. Three cities. One very awkward pattern.Chad has spent ye

What the Hell Happened to Jelly Roll? | Satire Saturday Sep 12, 2026 521 Text the show! Country star Jelly Roll lost nearly 300 pounds. Then came the divorce, the Jimmy Kimmel guest-hosting gig, the Trump jokes, the fan backlash—and now the skin-removal surgery.So Chad has a theory: somewhere along the way, somebody accidentally removed part of his soul.The lawsuit isn't real. Everything else in this episode is—and that's the problem.On this Satire Saturday e

Conservatives Are Wrong About Marijuana | Freedom Friday Sep 11, 2026 2400 Text the show! Should conservatives support banning marijuana — or regulate it the same way we regulate alcohol?In this Freedom Friday episode of Common Sense, Chad takes the strongest arguments against marijuana seriously: today's dramatically higher THC potency, addiction and daily use, risks to young people, and the consequences of legalization.Then he asks the question the prohibition arg

FENTANYL IS DOWN. SO WHY DOES THE DRUG CRISIS FEEL WORSE? | Thursday Special Sep 10, 2026 2443 Text the show! 📉 Fentanyl deaths are falling.That's not spin. That's good news.But if America is finally "winning" the fight against fentanyl, why does the drug crisis Americans experience in their neighborhoods still look so familiar?Tonight, Chad introduces THE MONDAY MORNING TEST.Imagine every gram of fentanyl in America disappears at midnight. Nobody ever dies from it again

THIS WEEK IN ATTENTION-SEEKING: Politics, Protests & the WNBA | Wacky Wednesday Sep 9, 2026 2922 Text the show! 🎙️ Somewhere along the way, America started rewarding people for CAUSING THE BIGGEST SCENE instead of accomplishing the mission.This week’s pile of Wacky Wednesday stories proves it.Chad runs eight stories through one simple test:🎯 DID IT WORK?A 13-year-old inventor turns discarded orange peels into biodegradable seed pods.Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed spoofs Love Island

The Lindsay Clancy Trial Exposed a Mental Health Problem Nobody Is Talking About | Monologue Monday Sep 7, 2026 2872 Text the show! The Lindsay Clancy trial reignited America's argument over postpartum mental health and access to psychiatric care.Chad thinks we're arguing about the wrong thing.During cross-examination, Clancy's psychiatrist was questioned about testing she did not use—including pharmacogenomic, or PGx, testing. That testimony raises a much larger question: What happens after a pat

The Polls Aren’t Wrong. The People Reading Them Are. | Freedom Friday Sep 4, 2026 2835 Text the show! 📊 There’s no such thing as a wrong poll.Yeah, I know. Stay with me.A poll is a measurement. It records what a group of people said at a particular moment.A prediction is something else entirely.So when an election doesn't turn out the way television forecasters expected, why do we blame the measuring instrument instead of the people who turned that measurement into a prediction

Tech Companies Skipped One Step. It Cost Them $130 Billion. | Thursday Special Sep 3, 2026 3528 Text the show! America is supposedly turning against artificial intelligence.But the numbers tell a stranger story.Americans are adopting AI while simultaneously fighting the data centers being built to power it. Meanwhile, cities are removing Flock license-plate cameras even though evidence suggests the technology can actually help solve vehicle theft.So Chad asks a different question:What if the

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