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This is CounterPoint.

My name is Scott Harris, here on listener-sponsored WPKN in Bridgeport, and we're speaking this evening with Jim Hightower, long-time progressive political activist, radio commentator and author, and Norman Solomon, director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.

Trump's attacks on democratic institutions, civil liberties, immigrants, the independent press, and political opponents have raised serious questions about the survival of constitutional democracy.

Now, with Democrats preparing to control the House and Senate, What should their strategy be for confronting these abuses? Should they prioritize investigations, subpoenas, impeachment proceedings, restricting executive power or some combination of these approaches? And there's lots of conventional wisdom we read in the corporate media that tells us that voters want to focus on policy changes and maybe not on these investigations, but It seems to me corruption and the tyrannical abuse of power is connected to both corruption and affordability.

This is CounterPoint.

My name is Scott Harris.

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Hola, familia.

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My name is Lou and this is La Esquina Latina.

So let's start off the show right.

Y no falla una nota.

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My name is Lu and this is La Esquina Latina.

I'm your rockin' hostess, Christine Ohlman, the Beehive Queen.

And you're listening to WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport and streaming at WPKN.org. Today, let's get way, way down in it, low down, to pay tribute to soul music's kings of the four fat strings in an episode I call...

Give the bass player some, part one.

We'll hear curated sets of performances from the icons and how in some cases their bass lines made all the difference in a track's becoming a huge hit or being cast aside in the studio for lack of a good groove.

Thereafter, to finish the LP, truly history in the making.

Well, cats and kittens, that's just about all the time we have to spend together today.

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