Grant is joined by the Bipartisan Policy Center's Michael Thorning. Thorning is the director of structural democracy at the nonpartisan think tank and the lead writer of a brand new series called Congress at a Crossroads.

He and Grant talk about why Congress is so broken, how it got here, and what can be done to fix it before it's too late.

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Grant is joined by Liz Dye from the Law and Chaos Podcast to talk about the shenanigans coming from the Attorney General's office. AG Pam Bondi is trying to meddle with state bar associations so DOJ attorneys can't face discipline for doing things they would normally face discipline for. Liz explains how it all traces back to a guy named Ed Martin, one of the DOJ's hottest dumpster fires.

PLUS, they talk about what doing this could mean for lawyers stuck trying to defend DHS, military lawyers thrown into civilian courts, and maybe follow through on Trump's election plans.

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Grant gives an update on the war in Iran after a new report shows the US did in fact bomb a girls' school, Iran chooses to start deploying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, new US intel finds Trump has been lying about the Iraninan regime being weakened and a Senate briefing on the outlook of the war looks bleak.

THEN, what does the FBI want with Arizona's election trash? The DOJ just took custody of records of a chaotically doomed audit from election deniers in 2020 that found not only was there no fraud and Joe Biden won, but he won by more than they thought, so what is the FBI doing?

Grant explains why it's tied to the president's plans to undermine the midterms and he has the latest on the SAVE America Act in the Senate.

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After struggling to explain the objectives for entering the war in Iran, the Trump administration is struggling to define whether the mission is close to completion. The president said it was "very complete," while Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said it was "just the beginning," only for Trump to say it was both.

Grant explains what's going on and how we're feeling the war where it's hurting the most Americans the most right now, our wallets.

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The 2026 midterm election is shaping up to be the most expensive in American history, with the combined races for Senate already reaching the $5 billion. Ad spending is expected to break $10 billion as billionaires, corporations, and dark money groups spend money to elect candidates to do their bidding, much of it without the public ever being able to know who is spending a single dime.

Grant is joined by Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United. She explains how we got to this moment, going back to the Supreme Court decision in 2008, how we've seen how money in politics has changed, and how our politics has changed because of the money. They also talk about the steps we can all take to make the system more open and fair, which is good for everyone.

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In a bombshell piece of news, Donald Trump announced that Kristi Noem would no longer be the Secretary of Homeland Security. After several big scandals, some really bad hearings on Capitol Hill and a major mistake of saying the president approved a $220 million ad campaign, Noem was fired.

In her place Trump named Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin who is best known for trying to start a fight with the head of the Teamsters during a Senate hearing.

Grant explains what went wrong for Noem, why Mullin was Trump's choice, and whether more firings are on their way.

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After three days of the Iran War, the reason the US struck first is still shifting target for the Trump administration as it tries to make its case to the American people about how and why the US is at war again in the Middle East.

Grant explains how peace talks ended and how the President and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu worked to make a plan to attack Iran amid the talks. He also goes through the long list of changing justifications for the war that, at the time of recording, is being waged without legal approval.

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Grant talks to the author, journalist, activist Cory Doctorow, about his recent article calling for Democrats to create a Nuremberg Caucus to hold federal agents, administration officials, and elected leaders accountable after the Trump era is over. But, instead of building those cases when Republicans are out of power, he wants them to start collecting evidence, out in the open, right away.

He explains his ideas about how it would work, about why Americans might go for it, and why it might change the way both parties AND corporations approach politics.

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