A gun delivered to your doorstep. A package stolen from your porch. Frank Figliuzzi explains why that combination alarms him.
The former FBI assistant director discusses reported plans for remote firearms background checks and home delivery, alongside changes he describes involving suppressors and short-barreled firearms.
“People are going to get hurt.”
Frank also examines Donald Trump Jr.’s investment in GrabAGun and questions who stands to benefit from the policy changes.

Jon Ossoff unloads on Donald Trump’s broken promises, the Iran war and alleged self-dealing by the president’s inner circle—then delivers a warning about congressional accountability: “Next year you’ll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth.”
Speaking in Cobb County, Georgia, on October 17, 2026, Ossoff builds a blistering argument that ends with this accusation: “He’s not unrigging it. He’s rerigging it for himself.”

Republicans say they don’t trust the polls—but their campaign behavior suggests they’re taking the numbers seriously. Evan Roth Smith points to Ken Paxton saying a Trump event hurt him, Greg Abbott skipping a rally, and Trump rushing to help candidates in Ohio and Alaska. Is Trump a campaign asset—or an anchor?

Chapters:

• 0:00 Republicans Say They Don’t Trust the Polls
• 0:26 Ken Paxton Says Trump Hurt Him
• 1:20 “Trump Is the Anchor” on Republicans
• 2:35 Minnesota’s Close Senate Race

More than 9.5 million Americans have already cast their ballots in these midterms, and we're just 15 days away from the end. We are running out of chances to make our case for Democratic and independent candidates, convince potential non-voters to show up, help those at risk of being suppressed make their ballots count and lay the groundwork for stopping any attempts at election theft by MAGA.

Each of our individual parts in this work can feel very, very small. It’s also typically unglamorous (read: boring) and not all that pleasant. (I too don’t really love bothering people just trying to live their lives to talk about the absolute mess that our politics is!) But each of us doing our part can add up to a meaningful difference. One person throwing a stick in a river won’t stop a drop of water from flowing, but hundreds of thousands of people doing so adds up to a dam.

If we or anyone in our lives worried about the outcome of the midterms is still looking for ways to get involved with whatever time they have available, here’s some options:

☎️ MAKE CALLS TO PERSUADE AND TURN OUT VOTERS. For folks who don’t pay much attention to politics, it takes multiple contacts from a campaign to prompt them to identify their polling location, show up and put their support behind an individual candidate. Right now you can make take a shift making these calls from 9 in the morning to 11 at night, or take 15 minutes to do so at any moment it works with your schedule. We can find phonebanks to sign up for organized by specific races here or by time and day here.

PHONEBANKS BY RACE

PHONEBANKS BY DAY

☎️ HAZ LLAMADAS EN ESPAÑOL. If we’re conversational in Spanish, we’re especially needed on the phones to reach out to the Latino community as they swing hard against Donald Trump. We can find a full schedule of Spanish-language phonebanks here.

SPANISH-LANGUAGE CALLERS

💬 TEXT TO PERSUADE AND TURN OUT VOTERS. Textbanking is a fast and effective way to ID who our supporters are and get them valuable information on where to go and what to do to make their ballots count. It’s also frequently conducted by organizations that will continue to need our help regularly after Election Day is over, like the Working Families Party, Field Team 6, We The Fighters and Black Voters Matter. We can find shifts and running opportunities to text here.

JOIN TEXTBANKS

🗣️ REACH OUT TO AT RISK VOTERS TO HELP THEM CAST THEIR BALLOTS. If we’re looking to help by reaching people who are likely to be glad, rather than annoyed, to hear from us, there’s a lot of work being done right now to help beat voter suppression one ballot at a time – helping folks get the photo IDs they need, fix any potential issues with their registration, address problems on absentee ballots they could prevent them from being counted, and more. We can join various state Democratic parties, VoteRiders, VoPro Pros and more in making these calls here.

BEAT VOTER SUPPRESSION

☎️ MAKE CALLS TO RECRUIT VOTER PROTECTION VOLUNTEERS. We need folks in place to prepare for whatever Trump throws at us on Election Day, whether it’s just their standard barriers to the ballot box or ICE at the polls. Right now, we’re recruiting that team – poll workers, poll monitors, staff for voter assistance hotlines, and more. We can find opportunities to bring more volunteers on board here.

BUILD THE ELECTION DEFENSE TEAM

🗳️ SIGN UP TO HELP WORK ELECTION DAY AND AFTER. Of course, we can also step up to do this work ourselves. It’s a much better way to spend Election Day than frantically refreshing for news updates and results! We can sign up as poll workers (checking in voters, answering their questions, issuing ballots, setting up machines, etc) here, monitor polling places with partisan or non-partisan teams here, get trained to staff voter assistance hotlines here, monitor the count here, and help “cure” ballots that might otherwise be thrown out here.

WORK ELECTION DAY

💵 DONATE WHERE IT WILL MAKE THE MOST DIFFERENCE. We’re all being inundated with requests for money right now, a lot of it from campaigns where our extra $10 really won’t make much of a difference. The team at Oath helps us identify which races will give us the most bang for our buck and where we can have the most impact on the issues we care about. Let’s check out their recommendations here.

SPEND WISELY

What happens if Trump tries to interfere with the midterms—or subvert the results?

Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin tells Steven Beschloss he is “appropriately worried.” He explains why preparation matters, how fear and confusion can discourage participation, and what a peaceful response to overt election interference could involve.

Levin discusses early voting, the responsibilities of political leaders, and preparations for sustained, nonviolent organizing if interference occurs.

Stuart Stevens says the contrast between struggling Americans and the fortunes being made by people around Donald Trump raises a basic question: How is this fair?
In this MS NOW interview, Stevens also argues that Americans are exhausted by what they see coming from the White House—and that voters are channeling that exhaustion into action.

The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson tells Molly Jong Fast Donald Trump had a very bad week, with Kimberly Guilfoyle asking to resign, a live execution being canceled, a press secretary being fired, and new controversy swirling around Rick Grinnell and possible money from the Democratic Republic of Congo for the Kennedy Center. The discussion also focused on Trump’s apparent decline, his disinhibited and increasingly unfiltered comments, the backlash over switching off Starlink to Ukraine, and concerns that he is putting the United States on the side of Vladimir Putin. The transcript also highlighted anger among voters, heroic efforts by students marching miles to vote, criticism of social media platforms like Meta and TikTok for cracking down on certain accounts, and worries that tech oligarchs and donors like Elon Musk are trying to shape politics behind the scenes.

Trump suddenly plays down his connection to Kimberly Guilfoyle. Frank Figliuzzi has questions—and they extend to Kristi Noem.
The former FBI assistant director examines reporting that Guilfoyle sought $100,000 from a Republican donor to cover personal debt, then breaks down allegations involving Noem’s donor-linked, no-bid aircraft purchases.
“Overpaying for aircraft you can’t fly?”
Frank explains why he believes the conduct described warrants full criminal investigations into both women—and why Guilfoyle’s troubles belong in a much bigger conversation about accountability.

A Texas pastor called for Mike Huckabee to face a public execution. Sam Osterhout and Andra Watkins trace the threat to a wider fight inside white Christian nationalism—over who belongs, who holds power, and whose beliefs will shape America.
“Whose version is going to rule us all?” Andra asks.
They unpack the divide between rival end-times beliefs, the meaning of “heretic” and “infidel,” and why calls for public executions can normalize political violence. They also discuss questions journalists and voters can put to candidates about the beliefs behind their politics.

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Chapters

• 0:00 — The public execution proposal
• 2:21 — The pastor who targeted Huckabee
• 4:09 — Why this isn’t just fringe rhetoric
• 8:20 — The split over the end times
• 12:09 — “Running for president on Lord of the Rings”
• 13:21 — Why Joel Webbon matters
• 16:50 — Whose version will rule?
• 22:47 — What “heretic” and “infidel” mean
• 26:32 — Hegseth’s tattoo and crusader language
• 28:30 — The danger of making executions feel normal
• 33:00 — How to expose the divisions
• 37:44 — Questions candidates should have to answer
• 41:48 — Subscribe to Unholy Ground

Gary Segura explains what the polling says about the Latino vote after 2024—and why turnout could matter in Texas and beyond.

Andra Watkins recounts Joel Webbon’s record, including his suggestion that publicly executing a few women who lied would end #MeToo. She explains why his audience and influence make him more than a local pastor.