Policy and Pound Cake
Policy and Pound Cake
TheBassSisters
Dee Dee Bass Wilbon and Deana Bass Williams (#TheBassSisters) share weekly insights on politics and culture. Each week, these born and bred Georgia Girls combine the wisdom they learned from their mama with two decades of working in national politics in Washington, DC. The result for listeners is a little humor and a lot of common-sense solutions to issues facing our great republic.
Is The Church An Irrelevant Social Club?
Dee Dee Bass Wilbon and Deana Bass Williams and BPALiveWire Contributor, Dorian Blaine Francis talk about the role of The Church in setting policy. Is the Body of Christ being divided on issues that we should be unified around. Abortion, Transgender Issues, Taxes, Care for the Poor - should there be a unified response to these things? Romans 10:9 - If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved Hebrews 10: 24-25 - ...
Dec 5, 2025
12 min
The Gettysburg Address - Four-Score and Seven Years Ago Plus 162 Years
Today we are celebrating the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s 272-word masterpiece, delivered November 19, 1863. Join hosts Dorian Francis and George Stephen as they dive into the short, upbeat, and surprisingly controversial story of the speech that redefined America. Highlights: Was the Gettysburg Address a flop in 1863? (Spoiler: the old “nobody liked it” story is mostly myth – newspapers and letters from the time went wild for it.)The guy who spoke before Lincoln droned on for almost two ...
Nov 19, 2025
14 min
2025 Off Year Election Recap
Dee Dee and Deana (The Bass Sisters) are joined by their newest contributor Dorian Blaine Francis, Communications Director of the Frederick Douglass Freedom Alliance. They have real candid talk about what Republicans should do to prepare for the midterms in 2026.
Nov 5, 2025
12 min
Building Men of Valor - Raul Lopez & Genevieve Turner
This week, #TheBassSisters highlight Men of Valor. A Tennessee-based Christian ministry that works with men in prison. Men of Valor is committed to winning men in prison to Jesus Christ and discipling them. Their purpose is to equip them to re-enter society as men of integrity – becoming givers to the community rather than takers. According to Men of Valor, nationally, 70% of men released from prison will return to prison. Raul and Genevieve share how through Bible-based progra...
Mar 30, 2023
17 min
Pastors, The Pulpit and Prophetic Zeal - Bishop Garland Hunt
Dr. Martin Luther King Junior once warned that the church was in danger of losing its prophetic zeal. It would become nothing more than an irrelevant social club. This week #TheBassSisters talk with Bishop Garland Hunt about why it is important for Christians to be bold and counter-cultural in the face of an aggressive “progressive” agenda that started with redefining marriage and has turned to redefine the definition of the word “woman.” Bishop Hunt issued a mighty challenge for pa...
Mar 24, 2023
39 min
Lies About Black People, Fighting Racist Stereotypes on Both Sides of the Aisle
The Bass Sisters enjoyed a lively discussion with Dr. Omékongo Dibinga. Dr. Dibinga talks about his soon-to-be-released book Lies About Black People; How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why it Matters. Questions they tackle during the conversation: 1. What are stereotypes? 2. What responsibility do black content creators have in producing positive images of black people? 3. What responsibility do black actors have to reject roles that perpetuate false black stereotypes? The con...
Mar 16, 2023
41 min
Corporate Bias Rating - Paul Fitzpatrick
This week #TheBassSisters talk with Paul Fitzpatrick, President of 1792 Exchange, about the impact and danger of corporate bias. 1792 Exchange's mission is to protect Americans in the marketplace from corporations that push "woke" agendas and silence the free expression of small businesses and employees who do not pass their ideological litmus test. We have seen the headlines of Americans losing their livelihoods and being stripped from marketplace platforms, from banking institutions to soci...
Mar 9, 2023
28 min
Side Hustles and Empowering Women with Patrice Onwuka
This week, #TheBassSisters talk with Patrice Onwuka, Director of the Center for Economic Opportunity, at the Independent Women's Forum (IWF). Patrice has written extensively on the impact that over-regulation has on the economic stability of America's middle and working-class families. American families are feeling the squeeze from out-of-control inflation. Patrice talks about how the Biden Administration may bring more grief to hardworking families by overtaxing low-income worker...
Feb 16, 2023
21 min
Dean Nelson - Making Abortion Unthinkable
#TheBassSisters are joined by longtime advocate for the unborn, Dean Nelson. Dean is co-founder of the Douglass Leadership Institute and Senior Executive at the Human Coalition. As the states begin to take up the abortion issue Dean offers great insight on how we can make abortion unthinkable. He also shares the three marks that he hits when talking about abortion with pro-abortion advocates. Also Dean highlights the danger of what happens when the media goes silent on covering the a...
Feb 9, 2023
20 min
ALEC Guardians at the Gates for Freedom with Lisa Nelson
Over the last several elections, we have seen the vital role state legislators play in protecting our fundamental freedoms. State legislators are guardians protecting parental rights, religious liberties, education and economic freedom. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been one of their most important resources for half a century. ALEC is both a networking and training resource for state legislators. ALEC is the nation’s largest nonpartisan voluntary membership organizatio...
Feb 2, 2023
31 min
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