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Podcast: Bill Shireman believes we're all 'In This Together'

Podcast: Bill Shireman believes we're all 'In This Together'

Bill Shireman, founder of In This Together, joins host T.J. O’Hara on Deconstructed to discuss the divisive political environment within which we find ourselves - and what can be done about it.

Mr. Shireman is an author, social entrepreneur, environmental policy innovator, and serial political activist. He is the President and Founder of Future 500, a non-profit that strives to build trust between companies, advocates, investors, and philanthropists to advance business for the common good, as well as the surrogate founder of BridgeUSA, a youth-led nonprofit organization that creates spaces on high school and college campuses for students to have an open discussion about political issues.


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The $5,000 Question — Campaign Promise or Something Congress Should Worry About?

President Trump's newest promise to the American electorate carries a familiar shape and an unfamiliar price tag. At the Republican Party's midterm convention in Dallas on September 9, he pledged that if Republicans hold the House and Senate in November, "I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000." He compared it to a company distributing cash to shareholders. Vice President JD Vance followed up on Fox News, describing it as "fundamentally a dividend for American workers" funded by tariff revenue.

The pledge is explicit, the timing is deliberate, and the arithmetic does not hold up.

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Keep Politicians, Not Politics Out Of Sports: Let Athletes Speak

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on September 29, 2026 in Washington, DC.

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Keep Politicians, Not Politics Out Of Sports: Let Athletes Speak

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who built his political brand in part by arguing that politics had no place in sports during the Black Lives Matter protests, recently went on ESPN College GameDay to promote his bipartisan Protect College Sports Act, a bill that eventually cleared the Senate by a 77-22 vote and is headed to the House come November.

Cruz’ appearance didn’t go as planned, with the crowd greeting him with a chorus of boos and dealing him a devastating blow in his own home state. Beneath the surface, Cruz’s sting at College GameDay reflects a new trend in MAGA’s political playbook: using sport to advance legislation that hurts the constituents it claims to protect.

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