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hosted by Jennifer Briney. It focuses on reporting about the

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from a

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perspective. A typical episode will focus on one bill or issue related to Congress. The show has no advertisements, instead using a ''value-for-value funding model'' that relies on listeners contributing voluntary donating the amount of value to the show that they received. The ''model'' comes from

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and

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who use the same ''model'' on the

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podcast. The ''model'' allows Briney to stay free of corporate influences and be accountable instead to the listeners. The topics of the podcast generally focus on what Briney finds interesting at the time that is not being covered by the mainstream media. She learns most of the material for her show from Congressional hearings. Briney also does not identify politically with any political party and tries to keep the show non-partisan. Despite this Briney identifies corporate influence in politics as the major issue today and tries to spotlight when she encounters cases of it.

History

Jennifer Briney had been interested in politics since 2003 when she saw the launch of the

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from

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where she was studying at the time. She noticed how people in Germany seemed much more knowledgeable of the war than those in the United States which led to her becoming involved more politically. Briney started the podcast in 2012 after she had was unsure of her career path and wanted a more fulfilling job. She had been watching

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and noticed that people were not aware of a large portion of congressional activity. She initially tried to read every bill passed by Congress under the impression that is what

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had to do, she no longer does this but instead reads all bills passed into law, she says that it helped her learn about how Congress works. In 2015 Briney did an AMA on

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that reached the front page of the site about her podcast. In 2018 Briney went on

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's The World According to

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and in 2019 went on

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to discuss the podcast. She has also been on

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and

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. Briney has had a number of guests on her podcast such as

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, a lawyer from

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, and a congressional staffer.

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Jenifer Briney's Twitter
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