Interviewed Hendersonville Fire Chief Scotty Bush this week. Missed it? Visit our website or wherever you get your podcasts.

Thoughts?

After Trump administration officials baselessly claimed that liberal nonprofits fund and promote violence in the U.S., over 100 progressive organizations came together to push back. The groups asserted they will continue to carry out their missions.

Excellent episode this week highlighting the work of the Conversation Coalition Nashville, a group trying to bridge the divides that so often separate us. www.theloyalopposition.online/listen/episo...

New Episode Up! S3E28 looks at Civics Minute, a project to impriove civics education.

Do you know what The Constitution really means? What about the First Amendment? How does Congress create an amendment? This week we will have Grady Eades from CivisMinute talk to us about the importance of civics education and more. Got a civics question? YouTube.com/@CivicsMinute.

Want to find out more about who could represent you in Congress? Well, you’re in luck because this Wednesday 5:00-6:00pm on WQKR 101.7 we will be having 2 candidates for congress representing the Middle TN area. Have a question for these candidates that you want answered? Comment below.

On our next show.

On our next show: Singer, Songwriter and activist Mollie Lynne talks about the intersection of music and politics. Exclusively on @theloyaloppo.bsky.social and WQKR AM/FM/.Com. Live Wednesdays at 5, podcast up by Sunday.

Our latest episode is up! Special Guest Rev. Becky Yates. www.theloyalopposition.online/listen/episo...

Len & Michele modeling the new shirts were selling. If you are a member of the opposition, loyal or otherwise, you need one! Want? Let us know.

We’ve got a heck of a lineup for you this summer!

Pics from our first-ever TLO celebration!

Per WPLN — MNPD says they were not involved in the ICE/@TNHighwayPatrol raids, and Mayor O’Connell’s office said “this type of action does not make us safer” wpln.org/post/ice-arr...

“If there is one thing that is clear from Donald Trump’s first 100 days, it is that he is not a regular president. But the courts continue to treat him as one, which is what has us barreling towards a full-blown constitutional crisis,” Marc Elias writes. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

At Sumner County Democratic Party’s monthly potluck. We’re listening to TLO veteran Luis Mata from TIRRC discuss immigration issues. Heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking. Folks, we have to stop the emergence of totalitarianism right here and right now.

On the air live every Wednesday 5-6pm. WQKR AM/FM/.COM. #podcastcat

A party you say? To celebrate TLO you say? Big plans you say? Join us we say!

Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."

May and June are looking pretty good! Our party, Sumner Dems picnic and 2 months of great guests! Find us wherever you get your podcasts.

Podcast Cat checking out the new PA system. He knows the value of getting loud.

@theloyaloppo.bsky.social was present at today’s We Have Not Forgotten protest in Nashville. Here intern Carolina is fighting the good fight!

What’s Len looking at? We don’t know. We do know he was listening to Jolie Grace Wareham, CEO of Protasec talk cybersecurity in uncertain times on tonight’s show. Missed it? Podcast episode drops by Sunday. More info? Www.protasec.com

On our next show we talk with cybersecurity expert Jolie Grace Wareham, CEO of Protasec on data security in the age of DOGE. Don’t miss it! WQKR AM/FM/.COM, Wednesday, 5pm. Podcast by Sunday.

Join us live at 5pm with Chef Laura, a local chef and autoimmune warrior who also has a passion for local activism. Tune in on your dial to WQKR 101.7FM or via the TuneIn Radio App to listen live.

So weird how this keeps happening. www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...

Special show this week! Freda Player Peters, who directs Emerge Tennessee and Adam Altendorf who works for Organize Tennessee will join us for a rountable discussion on getting and staying organized. Questions will be coming from Middle TN Blue Dots League. Wed, 5pm on WQKR 101.7FM/1270AM/.Com

Announcement from Sumner Dems on party reorganization. Congrats 🎈🎉🎊!

Got Questions? NAACP has answers!

REUTERS: “The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent.” apple.news/AR5RhwDorQb2...

TN Republicans live in a world quite different than the rest of us, don’t they?

We had Sally Hendrick of @shoutyourcause.bsky.social on the show Wednesday. What an inspiration! Missed it? Podcast drops Sunday.

Wilson County listeners, your TN State Representative, Susan Lynn, will be at the Mount Juliet Chamber of Commerce from 8:30 am to 9:30 am on Friday, April 4th at the MJ Chamber office. We KNOW you have a thing or two to say to her! business.mjchamber.org/events/detai...

Heck yeah!

Join me for a chat with @shoutyourcause.bsky.social today on @theloyaloppo.bsky.social! Live on WQKR via the TuneIn radio app at 5pm cst or the replay on all your fave podcast streaming services.

Sally is a local activist, author, and social media influencer doing great advocacy work here in MidTN. Tune in!

DOGE IS A SCAM. It is not saving us money, it's WASTING TIME AND MONEY. We will be poorer, sicker, and worse off because of it.

The Social Security Administration is engulfed in crisis — further undermining its ability to provide reliable and quick service to vulnerable customers, according to internal documents and more than two dozen current and former agency employees and officials, customers and others.

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

We had Intutai The Artist on our show earlier this month. She is one fierce young woman making a positive impact in her community. Proud to share her latest video! youtu.be/r0XKZvHpu34?...

Those troublemaking senior citizen agitators at it again! 😉 Protesting to save social security at John Rose’s office in Gallatin. ❤️

We’ll be there!

Folks in Sumner County who are looking to get involved politically to fight fascism and don't know where to start, we invite you to join us at the Sumner County Democratic Party reorg this Sat.

On our next show meet Sally Hendrick, Editor of Shout Your Cause and author of “Know Me. Like Me. Trust Me. The Ultimate Guide to Building Influence on Social Media” and “Humble Pie”(currently in progress) Learn how to SHOUT YOUR CAUSE! www.shoutyourcause.com

It's Women History Month, so we'd like to share some of the amazing women of TLO! On March 5, we welcomed The FIND design to the studio where we amplified their mission of mentoring girls of color in Nashville. Check out our interview to learn more here: www.theloyalopposition.online

András Schiff, an eminent concert pianist who has boycotted strongman rule in Russia and his native Hungary, said on Wednesday that he would no longer perform in the U.S. because of concerns about President Trump’s “unbelievable bullying” on the world stage.

2.5 years of guests, fun, and getting our message out.

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A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to cease use of an obscure wartime law to deport Venezuelans without a hearing, saying that any planes that had departed the U.S. with immigrants under the law needed to return.