The midterms are over. And what just happened hasn't happened in this country in more than 50 years. Democrats took the House with 247 seats — and counting. They flipped 7 Senate seats to take control at 54. There was not a single Democrat who lost a contested race. Every statewide race — every Senate seat, every governor's office up for grabs — shifted blue compared to 2024. Every single one. Except one rural county in Illinois that I genuinely need someone to explain to me. We break down ...
Nov 6
27 min
It's Election Day. We finally made it. Today's episode is different. Instead of a news breakdown, because the news is moving too fast for that right now, Grant welcomed back Virginia Solomon, President and CEO of Common Cause, to walk us through every major legal fight over this election and what happens next. Here's what you need to know going in: the administration has been filing lawsuits against our elections since the summer. And they have been losing. In California. In Alaska. In cour...
Nov 3
31 min
Four days out from the midterms and everything is on fire at once. So today we're doing a political potluck because there is too much happening to cover just two stories, and you deserve to see what's going on in its totality. A federal judge issued a scorching ruling blocking the DOJ from forcing California to separate 20,000 ballots, calling it something that has never happened in American history. Washington State's Secretary of State told the DOJ to put up or shut up after they handed ov...
Oct 30
22 min
Five days to November 3rd. Mark Blumberg spent 30 years in the criminal section of the civil rights division at the Department of Justice. He wrote the FBI's guidebook on voter suppression enforcement. He investigated and prosecuted constitutional violations, hate crimes, human trafficking, and public corruption in red states and blue states, rural areas and cities, for six different administrations. He left in February of this year. He is now the executive director of the Rule of Law Projec...
Oct 30
52 min
Seven days to November 3rd. 32 million people have already voted. Democrats have an 80% chance of winning the House and a 57% chance of winning the Senate. Only 53% of people who voted for Trump in 2024 say they're enthusiastic to vote this time, essentially a coin flip. The "give them more Trump" strategy has failed. So the administration is trying something else: pulling votes from the count before the count is done. In California, the DOJ is still fighting to force LA County to ide...
Oct 28
24 min
11 days to November 3rd. Cisco Aguilar is the Secretary of State of Nevada and the Chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State. He is one of the people most directly in the crosshairs of everything this administration has thrown at state elections this cycle. This is his first extended public conversation about all of it. The short of it: there's frustration. "We're actually running a fucking election," he says. This summer the president went on TV and said there were 1...
Oct 24
43 min
Over the course of the last week, Trump has had a remarkable number of incidents that raise serious questions about his mental state and physical health. He walked past his open limousine door and was turned around by a Secret Service agent while waving at no one. He tapped his right leg repeatedly in a pattern documented as a technique used by stroke recovery patients. Something visible below his right knee is affecting the shape of his pants, the way he walks, and the way he stands. In the ...
Oct 22
45 min
14 days to November 3rd. Today is a deep dive into the most important Senate race in the country: Michigan. JD Vance spent the weekend in Michigan campaigning for Republican candidate Mike Rogers. While he was there he sat for a CBS town hall that was, by every political measure, his first real audition for a presidential run. He got questions about gas prices, corruption, and the Iran war. Grant plays the key moments and walks through what Vance said, what he didn't say, and what it means t...
Oct 21
25 min
17 days to the midterms. Eric Zuleger is reporting live from Tirana, Albania, where violent protests have been building for 139 days and escalated this week into what he calls the most violence he has ever seen in five years of living there. The backstory: Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama made backdoor deals with Jared Kushner's private equity firm Affinity Partners and Saudi royal money to secretly sell off protected wetlands on Sazana Island and the Zvernets Peninsula, some of the last wil...
Oct 16
1 hr
18 days to November 3rd. Two stories today, both of which tell you exactly where we are. The DOJ sent letters to California's Secretary of State and the head of elections in Los Angeles County demanding they purge more than 190,000 alleged noncitizens from the voter rolls in 48 hours, with 18 days to the election and millions of ballots already sent. The list was on a flash drive. The password was handwritten on a Post-It note stuck to the letter. LA County has 5.8 million registered voters...
Oct 16
20 min
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