After nearly a week of not being on video, rumors swirled over Labor Day weekend that Donald Trump might have had some kind of emergency. On Tuesday, the president held an Oval Office press conference about moving Space Command, but really, the world was watching for his health. 

Grant breaks down what we learned in the press conference, why you should care about Space Command and that Trump said he's going to send in National Guard troops to Chicago. 

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After another deadly mass shooting in a school in the US, Americans are looking for answers among the horror. 

The White House and Conservatives are using the shooter's gender identity as a trans person to further try and criminalize being transgender, are offering "thoughts and prayers" to the victims while working to expand access to guns, and RFK Jr is using it to go after life-saving medicine. 

Grant breaks down the White House response, the myth of widespread trans shooters, how we know that mass shooters are evil, but aren't necessarily mentally ill, and what it means for Trump's legacy as president. 

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Donald Trump floats the idea of being a dictator as he threatens to send National Guard troops into Chicago and other cities. He also uses the DOJ to go after a high-level former advisor while giving himself a title he doesn't have under the Constitution. 

Grant breaks down what that all means, how Trump could dispatch troops to American cities, and what it would cost in dollars... and our freedoms.

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Extreme gerrymandering is ruining American democracy and right now, the country is in the middle of a redistricting arms race. Essentially, it's politicians choosing voters instead of voters choosing politicians. 

Grant talks to author and redistricting expert David Daley about just how extreme things are about to get after Texas and California vowed to change their maps, how and why Republicans have drawn more extreme district maps over the past 20 years, and what can be done to walk us back from the brink of our gerrymandering armageddon.  

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Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections

Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind The Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy

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The DOJ sent out dozens of subpoenas to hospitals and doctors demanding private information about their patients. social security numbers. Diagnoses. Prescriptions. Addresses. Even info about their parents and when treatment started. 

All of these kids are trans. 

Grant talks about what's in the subpoenas, how it's part of a bigger goal from the Trump Admin to go after people who need more protection, not less and how it actually affects all Americans, trans or not. 

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Grant breaks down what happened at the Alaska Summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, how it looks like Trump got bowled over by the Russian president, and didn't stand his ground on a ceasefire. 

Then, Grant talks about hosting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the White House and whether or not Trump has the ability to bring together a peace summit before it's too late. 

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As the second Trump administration has been firing ethics officials and accountability officers, the whistleblower has become more important than ever. 

But who protects the people who take the risk to tell the truth?

Grant talks to David Kligerman, Senior VP at Whistlebloweraid.org. The non-profit organization helps whistleblowers come forward to sound the alarm about unethical and illegal things happening in our government. 

They talk about how dangerous it is to be a whistleblower right now, how busy they've been with so many people coming forward, and why whistleblowers are as important now as they have ever been to protect the present and the future of the United States. 

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Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday to start another round of peace talks to end the war in Ukraine. It's the first time Putin will meet with a US president on US soil in a decade. 

But why is it in Alaska? Sure, it's technically the closest state to Russia, but there's more to it. 

Grant breaks down why meeting in Alaska is actually a win for Putin, what Trump has been saying about the meeting, and why the dance of diplomacy is about the small things. 

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Donald Trump has federalized the DC Metro police and called in hundreds of DC National Guard troops to fight crime and homelessness in the nation's capital. 

The problem? There isn't a crime wave in DC, and arresting homeless people isn't going to make them not homeless. 

Grant explains Trump's unprecedented decision, what is actually happening on DC streets and why, more than any other point so far, it's important to pay attention to what's coming out of the White House. 

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As the Trump administration continues to more aggressively target immigrants to boost arrests and deportations, there has been a growing fear among a group of Americans that they could be targeted or used as a test group for attacks on citizenship.

Adoptees. 

In this episode, Grant talks to Greg Luce. Luce is the founder of the Adoptee Rights Law Center, the Executive Director of Adoptees United, Inc., an attorney for adoptees, and an adoptee himself. They talk about the fear in the adopted community right now, how he's handled Trump's new immigration enforcement and whether adoptees are just the beginning of new attacks on citizenship for the rest of us. 

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