Tuesday could change America and, in the worst case scenario, even end our Democracy if votes go the wrong way. Yet, most Americans have never even heard of these elections.

Donald Trump’s guilt appears to be proven in court. Now prosecutors want to know just how much fraud the former president committed. Mother Jones Reporter’ Russ Choma joins us from just outside Trump’s courtroom.

Frank Schaeffer survived Christian Nationalism, sends a warning to America with an inside look at the Christian Nationalist movement that is threatening Democracy itself.

Wallbuilders is the name of the pseudohistory-promoting company founded by Texas right-winger David Barton. But, it seems, one wall he doesn’t believe in is the one that is supposed to exist between Church and State in America. As disturbing as this might be, Barton now has the ear of the new minted House Speaker, MAGA Mike Johnson, and THAT is truly worrisome.

The UN called out Wal-Mart and Amazon for paying their employees so poorly that they’re forced to go on food stamps and other government programs. More likely, the availability of such programs aren’t lost on those companies, and they bake that into the business plan. Sounds like yet another subsidy for billionaires.

Hateful incidents targeting both Muslims and Jews have been on the rise over the past month. It’s vile racism backed up by people in powerful positions, from Trump to Marjorie Taylor-Greene to Brian Mast. Mast was on the House floor yesterday when he compared Palestinian civilians to Nazis. Where does it end? As Dean Obiedallah writes, “It’s essential that we don’t lose our humanity.”

If Medicare Advantage, the profit-driven entity that is decidedly NOT part of REAL Medicare, could be summed up in three words, they might be: deny, deny, deny. That’s no real surprise given that the one thing Medicare Advantage companies care about most isn’t your health (hint: it’s your money).

Republicans have a long and sordid history of not paying their fair tax share, but it didn’t start out that way. The tax rate on the morbidly rich was a robust 92% when Eisenhower took office. It wasn’t until Lewis Powell’s SCOTUS goons opened the floodgates in the late ‘70s, legalizing political bribery, and laying the foundation for the sorry state in which we find ourselves today. In 2023, the average billionaire pays a tax rate of just 3.2%. MAGA Mike Johnson is just fine with that.

There are skeletons in the closet but are they the only things in there? Commentator and SXM host Michelangelo Signorile talks with Thom about Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson whose backwards views on homosexuality will likely shape his legislative ‘choices.’ But, is there something else going on?

Religious charlatans like Speaker Mike Johnson, exploiting a basic human urge to know the unknowable, to touch the mystery of life, are the most despicable of all the various types of con men on Earth. And the most dangerous. WWJD? Well, He might say: “Mike, get to the back of the line with the rest of the goats!”

Subject to intimidation & threats, election workers are increasingly opting to drop out of the profession. Hostility driven by conspiracy theories (largely rising in the age of Trump) have made it extremely difficult to retain experienced election workers and training new ones has become a challenge in itself. This is a VERY serious problem that threatens the integrity of future elections.

Let the Medicaid Hunger Games Begin! So say Red States to people they’ve just kicked off Medicaid: ”Don’t come crying to us when it’s time for the burial.” It’s a truly dystopian reality for millions of poor Americans who find themselves without health coverage. Why? Simply because they have the misfortune to be born in the wrong place and income bracket.

Trump family members will take to the stand over the next few days, as the family’s fraud trial in New York state continues. Bank fraud, tax fraud, and insurance fraud are crimes regular people go to jail for every day. Will guilty verdicts find Eric, Don Jr., Ivanka, and (finally!) Don Sr. meeting the same fate?

Soaring interest rates resulting in falling home sales have at least one major financial institution warning that we may be in for a housing recession of the kind not seen since the Reagan Years. Break out the parachute pants?!

Pharmacy workers, largely from CVS and Walgreens, are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore…they’ve had enough. Pharma protests, non-union but organized, have been happening across the country, seeking relief from under-staffing and asking for paychecks they can actually LIVE on. Will these giant corporations meet demands before employees go nuclear?