If you’re a good person wishing you knew how to run for office, to make a difference during these troubled times, listen to this episode. Repping the famous #Ferguson area of St. Louis during the birth of the movement for Black Lives, Maria Chappelle-Nadal was no stranger to controversy or adversity over her 2 terms in the Missouri senate and 4 terms in the house of representatives. Now she’s an NAACP Image Award nominee for her very first outing as a media personality, having joined the team of iHeartPodcasts’ After the Uprising as co-host, investigator, writer and producer for Season 2 – and helping solve the murder of activist Darren Seals. She also ran in the ‘24 threeway race between Cori Bush and Wesley Bell and has much more to reveal about new U.S. Congressman Bell. An inspirational and very interesting episode!

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00:01:00 Ruth+Ray Is our recurring opening annoying?

00:03:40 R+R Ray’s going to the NAACP Image Awards in L.A. Are we moving to L.A.?

00:08:15 R+R Maria Chappelle-Nadal’s backstory, the dirt on new U.S. Congressman Wesley Bell, will there be a Season 3 of After the Uprising?

00:13:30 R+R Ruth’s Jimmy John’s foodie hack and unsolicited advice to Jimmy John’s

00:23:30 R+R Ray’s long-time Valentine’s Day curse

00:32:15 Maria Chappelle-Nadal - How Ray & Maria celebrated Image Award news!

00:34:30 MCN How Ray nagged Maria into joining After the Uprising

00:38:00 MCN How 29 year old Maria first won elected office

00:43:15 MCN Ups and downs of Maria’s time in office, scariest moments

00:48:15 MCN What led Maria to her (now Image Award nom’d) turn in the media

00:51:30 MCN Learning to investigate murder and corruption in a podcast, “counting bodies,” getting in touch with alleged killers to accuse them

00:57:30 MCN The problem with Wesley Bell the former prosecutor of St Louis County, now U.S. Congressman, why the St. Louis press is IGNORING it

01:04:45 MCN Why Maria ran in ‘24 against Cori Bush & Wesley Bell

01:09:45 MCN Maria’s current endeavors, Hounding Clayton, hope in the time of Trump

Listen to Everybody Has a Podcast ON YOUTUBE

https://youtu.be/zQ30H8WM47I

Follow Maria Chappelle-Nadal’s on-going work holding feet to the fire in St. Louis by searching the handle “Hounding Clayton” on:

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@HoundingClayton

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IG - https://www.instagram.com/houndingclayton/

Listen to Maria’s Image Award-nominated turn as host, investigator, writer & producer of Season 2 of iHeartPodcasts’ AFTER THE UPRISING wherever you get your podcasts, including:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/after-the-uprising/id1568344817

Read the latest article quoting Maria Chappelle-Nadal, about Wesley Bell, as mentioned in this episode: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/column/joe-holleman/settlement-pending-in-discrimination-lawsuit-involving-wesley-bell/article_d34a27b8-d374-11ef-a99a-e756e8941927.html

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