Ari Berman on Trump’s Plans to Steal the Midterms

We’re joined by our friend and National Voting Rights Correspondent for Mother Jones, Ari Berman! Ari is here to break down the alarming ways the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to cheat and interfere in the 2026 midterms and what is standing in their way. The seizure of ballots from Fulton County, GA is a remarkable escalation of Trump’s war against democracy. What could he, Tulsi Gabbard, and the rest of his goons be up to? We also do a deep dive on the SAVE America Act and all the ways it would disenfranchise voters. But Ari suggests that it … Read More…

The Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School Library

Al Franken at Bug School

It’s been almost six months since so many of you donated more than 5,000 books and over $83,000 to stock the library at the new Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. I recently paid a visit to the school, and what I saw was thrilling. The library is stuffed with thousands of books. The kids are reading. In class. In study hall, And at home! Their parents are reading for fun and erudition.  And they’re reading kids’ books to their little kids. This is now a different world for these kids. The physical plant of the … Read More…