003 | 1 Billion West Virginians

Paige explores ruling class hostility to rural Americans and red states, and the importance of President Trump's 2016 campaign successfully reaching underserved parts of the nation and giving them a voice.

Special segments include:
-The Well-Oiled Regime: Failures to represent rural America can be traced to pernicious special interests ranging from corporations' reliance on cheap foreign labor to the DEA's suspicious failure to control the opioid epidemic while staffed by pharmaceutical lobbyists to DC's privileging of global causes over helping our own citizens.

-With Friends Like These: A case study of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and his unfortunate habit of selling out GOP voters

Show Notes:
Washington Post's Pain Pill Database: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/dea-pain-pill-database/

DEA Handling of Opioid Crisis Compromised by Revolving Door of Pharma Lobbyists:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/

WSJ Reveals Corporation's Cheap Foreign Labor Demands Overwhelm Small American Towns:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/places-most-unsettled-by-rapid-demographic-change-go-for-donald-trump-1478010940

Millions of Americans Lack Running Water:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/its-almost-2020-and-2-million-americans-still-dont-have-running-water-new-report-says/2019/12/10/a0720e8a-14b3-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html

Rural Americans Lack Healthcare Resources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-clinic-of-last-resort/2019/06/22/2833c8a0-92cc-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html

Lindsey Graham Pledging to Empower and Unleash Corrupt DOJ:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5003655/user-clip-lindsey-graham-simping-intelligence-community

Biden Settling Illegal Immigrants Across United States on Taxpayer Dime:
https://nypost.com/2021/10/18/biden-secretly-flying-underage-migrants-into-ny-in-dead-of-night/