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Torrey Snow and Yuripzy Morgan unpack Governor Wes Moore’s cease-and-desist letter and public “temper tantrum” over a Truth for Maryland PAC ad that uses his image and likeness to urge voters to support him—while opposing Question 3 (the constitutional amendment that would lock in gerrymandering). They highlight the hypocrisy (Moore’s campaign previously used Dan Cox’s image the same way in the primary), why the ad is effective trolling, how the lawsuit could backfire as voters dig into the unpopular measure, and the short-sighted “do it for me / fight Trump” pitch.
They then connect massive Paris student protests and union-backed riots (school conditions like overcrowding and infestations, plus pension freezes) to Maryland’s own expanding commitments—Kirwan class sizes, the tech tax shortfall, and demographic realities that make big social-safety-net promises unsustainable.
Andy Harris’s longtime “safe” Eastern Shore seat (MD-1) getting downgraded from safe to likely Republican by Sabato’s Crystal Ball, driven by Harris’s recent reporter clash plus broader Republican fatigue with Trump-era policies on Iran, the economy, and immigration.
Finally, Mayor Brandon Scott’s revival of the Baltimore Baby Bonus Fund via executive order (funding tied to assessed property value, vague one-time and potential ongoing/529 benefits, enrollment required), with questions about whether it’s a new tax, how it compares to Trump accounts, and Baltimore’s track record of fund mismanagement. Election Day is weeks away—Question 3, local races, and these dynamics are all in play.
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Torrey Snow and Yuripzy Morgan break down a rough week for Maryland’s Andy Harris after a Cambridge forum where he blamed Democrats for high diesel prices (amid the Iran war) and then threatened a student reporter over recording in a public press gaggle, misapplying the state’s two-party wiretap law. They cover Anne Arundel County’s ~350,000 sample ballots that omitted State Questions 2 and 3 (including the redistricting/gerrymandering amendment) plus local measures, the optics around election officials’ “legible, not overwhelming” explanation, and why Question 3 matters. Next is the Bend, Oregon, elementary school shooting where a father (Kaylub Giamanco) with a legal .40-caliber and a teacher’s intervention stopped a 16-year-old shooter in roughly three minutes after three children and a teacher were killed. Finally, they examine Wes Moore’s late executive directive for a Department of Juvenile Services pilot on youth car theft after recent deadly incidents, calling it reactive rather than anticipatory leadership.
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Torrey Snow and Yuripzy Morgan break down Maryland’s juvenile justice disaster: a 12-year-old driving a stolen car ran a red light and killed 69-year-old Barry White Sr. on a motorcycle, yet faces no real charges under the 2022 Juvenile Justice Reform Act (pushed by then-Sen. Jill Carter). Vehicular manslaughter isn’t treated as a “crime of violence,” so kids under 13 skate. They cover Ivan Bates’s frustration, other recent cases (stolen cars hitting an MTA bus, a 58-year-old, and a 3-year-old), and why “rehab over accountability” is failing.
They then dig into the MONSE (Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement) character letter that helped get a man—convicted of shooting someone in the face—released early. Eight days later he was involved in a shooting at a football game that killed an innocent 12-year-old with a short-barreled rifle. Calls for IG investigation and scrutiny of Brandon Scott’s office.
Also discussed: Pete Hegseth’s proposal for a public, live-streamed firing-squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan) at Fort Hood (around Dec. 3, 1 p.m.), optics vs. deterrence, and JD Vance’s reaction. Plus Wes Moore’s refusal in the debate with Dan Cox to commit to a full four-year term if reelected, what that means for Aruna Miller and the state, and a short Patreon exclusive clip with Green Party gubernatorial candidate Andy Ellis on the Key Bridge.

Torrey Snow and Yuripzy Morgan open on the FBI search of KEYS Empowers, the nonprofit run by Mujahid Muhammad, the school commissioner Mayor Brandon Scott appointed in 2023. He resigned the day agents hit the Liberty Road building. They walk through the $1 million American Rescue Plan “healing village” that still looks like a 2025 coming-soon sign, the state health inspector general already telling the group to give back a chunk of roughly $824,000 in grants spent on VR sets, furniture, and college tuition, and why 7,000-plus Baltimore nonprofits have not cleaned up the blocks.
Then Maryland taxpayers may be asked on October 7 for about $550,000 in outside counsel on top of the Attorney General’s defense, after Wes Moore went on MSNBC’s The Weeknight and tied Baltimore Sun co-owner David Smith to Jeffrey Epstein and falsely claimed Smith bought the paper to do Donald Trump’s work.
They pick up last week’s Deryl Bright Jr. case: seven months on an ankle monitor after a principal ID and a warrant that had him seven inches short, and why Ivan Bates is the only official who has owned the failure.
They close on Kelly Carnes, the new Baltimore Rock Opera Society director fired days after a Burning Man braid style was called cultural appropriation, and the CROWN Act irony.

Four juveniles in a stolen sedan fled police and slammed into an MTA bus at East Oliver and North Wolfe. Sixteen people went to the hospital. Baltimore’s homicide numbers are down. Juvenile joyriding is not. Torrey Snow and Yuripzy Morgan argue the juvenile system’s “kid gloves” approach — rehab over accountability — is producing the same wrecks, and they connect it to Mayor Scott’s youth diversion program and the Inspector General fight over those records.
Then they flip to the issue Republicans used to own. Gas is still over $4. Trump’s economic disapproval is brutal. CNN says the GOP midterm message is trans, immigration, and crime — anything but kitchen-table prices. Torrey and Yuripzy say that is a warning sign for November.
In Maryland, Governor Wes Moore’s redistricting ballot question is polling worse than the campaign sold it. A bipartisan Protect Maryland Votes survey puts support around 28%. Moore’s own poll only gets to 40%. They unpack Andy Beshear’s “we make a pretty good team” line, the Maryland flag blowback, and why a failed Question 3 would be an unforced error on a national résumé.
They also share excerpts from their interviews with Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox, who says he is done running a national race and is locked in on Maryland.
The last segment is the Baltimore Sun story of a student identified by his principal in a McDonald’s carjacking video, put on an ankle monitor, and later cleared. Torrey and Yuripzy ask whether that was racial profiling — or a principal who thought the face on the tape looked like a kid he already knew.
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Wes Moore just went on national TV and called the national debt America’s biggest security threat — then talked like a governor who balances budgets. Torrey Snow and Yuripzy Morgan, both Marylanders, walk through what that claim actually looks like from inside the state: a $5 billion surplus at the start of his term, Blueprint for Maryland’s Future costs shifted onto counties, higher fees and registrations, and a growing structural deficit.
Pete Buttigieg says America is ready for a gay president. Kamala Harris wrote in 107 Days that a Black woman / gay man ticket was too risky against Trump. Torrey and Yuripzy argue the real filter isn’t identity — it’s whether a candidate is tough, competent, and likable.
A CNN-circulated story that an AI chatbot misidentified cargo on a Chinese ship as nuclear material and the U.S. nearly launched an intercept. They say the real AI danger isn’t Skynet, but rather disinformation.
And for millennials, Toys R Us is planning about 120 new stores. Nostalgia, brick-and-mortar vs. Amazon, and whether this is inner-child Christmas or a culture shift back toward in-person shopping.
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Baltimore City housing help put a mother and six children — ages 1 to 9 — in a house with no power, no AC, and filth on the floor. Police found the kids wandering an alley in dirty diapers and broken glass. Inspector General Isabel Cumming has been blocked from the housing records. Councilman Mark Conway backed her, tried to put the fight on the ballot… and got stripped of the Public Safety chair.
Torrey Snow and Yuripzy Morgan walk through the money trail, the retaliation, and why they think this blows past Catherine Pugh’s Healthy Holly scandal. Then: President Trump’s $5,000 “dividend” if Republicans win the midterms — desperation, or a brand that doesn’t care about the GOP? And a Johns Hopkins report that treats busing city kids into the counties as the fix for Baltimore schools.
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Torrey Snow and Yuripzy Morgan break down Governor Moore’s redistricting push after Maryland’s Supreme Court put a constitutional amendment on the ballot—and why Trump’s unpopularity could drive it through. They recap the Lindsay Clancy mistrial and what a retrial, plea, or dropped case could mean. Then they ask whether the panic over data centers is overblown: energy, water, noise, tax revenue, and the AI arms race. They close on Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and the idea that taxpayers are “owed” cheap pro sports tickets.
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Torrey Snow and Yuripzy Morgan unpack Maryland’s paid family leave program — the one passed in 2022, delayed for years, and now set to take money from your paycheck starting January 2027. Employers and workers both pay in. Benefits cap at $1,000 a week. They argue Governor Wes Moore did not want this on the ballot while he was running.
Then they go after the economy Trump promised to fix: Maryland layoffs (including defense and tech), $4 gas, sticky inflation, and a Fed that is still talking rate hikes two months before the midterms.
Also in this episode:
• Trump’s fight with mail-in ballots, the new USPS rules, and what the Supreme Court actually did• Wes Moore’s late gerrymandering push, the special session, and why two Maryland judges blocked the ballot question• WBAL News Radio layoffs — the station where both hosts started
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Torrey Snow and Yuripzy Morgan open this episode of Free Range Politics with a raw, personal conversation about the Lindsay Clancy trial. Yuripzy shares her own postpartum struggles while the hosts dig into why so many women are publicly supporting Clancy, the role of postpartum psychosis, the intense online backlash against her husband Patrick Clancy, and what men actually need to hear when a partner asks for help.
They then turn to Maryland politics, calling out Governor Wes Moore’s frequent absences from the state (roughly 1 in 5 days) amid a budget crisis, missing bridge, and clear national ambitions. The episode closes with a sharp debate on Flock cameras—privacy, the Fourth Amendment, and whether mass license-plate surveillance is a necessary safety tool or a dangerous step toward a surveillance state.
Honest talk, no easy answers.