Voting rights expert Amir Badat joins Robert and Brandon in the studio this week to discuss growing up in Meridian, the SHIELD Act, Mississippi's Secretary of State using Experian credit data to check voter rolls, new laws that make it easier to purge voters, and how midterm turnout could affect Mississippi redistricting.

Plus: Rep. Bennie Thompson is pushing national Democratic groups to spend more money in Scott Colom’s Senate bid, Sen. John Kennedy’s Foghorn Leghorn impersonation, campaign finance laws, and a recap of the Ole Miss vs. LSU game. 

SHOW NOTES: 

• Election Protection Hotline: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683)
• Inside the secretary of state’s $50,000 deal to use Experian’s unverified information that he said would ‘strengthen’ election integrity
• Report: Rep. Bennie Thompson demands national Dems get more involved in Colom Senate race \

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Robert attended the joint committee’s fourth redistricting hearing in Natchez. He explains what’s actually happening at these hearings and why Mississippi already did its worst to the maps a long time ago.

Plus: the president bribes every American adult with $5,000 if Republicans keep Congress, Lonnie Bunch retires from the Smithsonian, shrimp boats on the coast stay docked because of fuel costs, and finally, Lane Kiffin's outsized personality takes over another week.

SHOW NOTES:

• Robert Johnson quoted in the Mississippi Independent's story Black lawmaker says redistricting will exacerbate already bad system
• Walter Brown, former legislator, speaking at the Natchez hearing
• Trump promises $5,000 dividend in convention speech, but only if Republicans win
• Kathryn Watson for CBS News: Why you shouldn't bank on Trump's $5,000 dividends happening
• Clint Smith for The Atlantic: What Lonnie Bunch Told Me
• Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for the NYT: Inside Trump’s Ideological Fight With the Smithsonian
• WLOX: Mississippi shrimp value above average for the year, MDMR says
• The Clarion-Ledger: What happened with LSU, Lane Kiffin at SEC meeting
• Nick Saban told coach to keep Lane Kiffin ‘away from the sorority girls,’ per book, as reported in AL.com

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Congressman Bennie Thompson spends his Labor Day with us in the studio to talk about his time as a student at Tougaloo, registering voters in Sunflower County with Fannie Lou Hamer, redistricting in Mississippi, the Donald Trump effect on members of Congress, data centers, Homeland Security, the January 6 Commission and more.

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Robert and Brandon discuss the president's executive order renaming Lake Ontario, Mississippi’s confounding anti-DEI law, and how relaxing the tariff on foreign beef is causing more problems for cattle farmers.

Plus the audit of the Hinds County DA’s office, special elections, Colom launches a “Where’s Cindy?” tour and more.

SHOW NOTES:

• Google Maps switches to "Lake America" as Canada compares change to "SNL" skit
• Mississippi Center for Justice heads to Federal Appeals Court to Defend Free Speech
• Mike McCormick's radio interview about how Mississippi cattle farmers angry with Trump over plan to import foreign beef
• Lax recordkeeping prompts state audit of Hinds District Attorney’s Office, the first on record since 2013
• Jonathan Martin for Politico: The Republican Party’s Midterm Nightmare Is Taking Shape
• Special elections set in two Mississippi state House districts to fill vacancies created by deaths
• Scott Colom calls on Cindy Hyde-Smith to participate in debate and town hall before election

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Robert and Brandon open by discussing big losses for Moms for Liberty in Florida school board races, then turn to Mississippi's first redistricting hearing in Tupelo and Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann's removal of Senate Democratic Leader Derrick Simmons from the joint redistricting committee. 

Also in this episode: the debate over whether the UK is poorer than Mississippi, new national reporting finally catching wind that Scott Colom is making the Mississippi Senate race competitive, and why the president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau is furious with President Trump over dropping tariffs on imported beef.

And finally, a rapid-fire sprint through the latest news: the field is set for the Hinds County DA special election, the end of a sixty-year desegregation order in Rankin County, two normie Republicans might be running for attorney general, and Hakeem Jeffries's meeting with nepo baby Jared Kushner.

SHOW NOTES:

• Joint Committee on Redistricting Live Stream — Hearing #1 at ICC, Tupelo on August 18th
• Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation and President Mike McCormick's statement in response to President Trump's Truth Social post Friday morning on foreign beef imports
• Moms for Liberty candidates falter in Florida school board elections
• Lt. Gov. Hosemann ousts top Senate Democrat from redistricting committee 
• Is Mississippi really wealthier than the UK? in the New Statesman
• Five candidates, not including appointee, running for Hinds County District Attorney

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Robert and Brandon discuss the appointment of attorney Assma Ali as municipal judge for the small town of Benoit, Mississippi, a story that should have been a non-event but instead led to a viral misinformation campaign and online harassment.

Plus, they play a funny ad out of Texas that shows Ken Paxton stealing a thousand dollar pen.

They wrap up by discussing redistricting, including a DeSoto County lawsuit, good reporting from the Mississippi Independent, and the legislature’s first redistricting hearing in Tupelo.  

SHOW NOTES:

A Muslim judge in the Delta and the long absence her appointment breaks: https://substack.com/home/post/p-210758213

Redistricting hearings across the state are open to the public: https://mississippitoday.org/2026/08/17/redistricting-hearings-mississippi-legislature/

Ken Paxton Steals Pens ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlHVxUMasu0

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Robert Johnson and Brandon Jones discuss Robert's trip to Tunica for the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, dig into new polling showing President Trump underwater in 11 states he carried by double digits in 2024, and discuss why inflation and rising costs are at the top of voters' minds.

Plus a new ad in the Mississippi Senate race from American Bridge PAC, Lynn Fitch's campaign announcement, a look at the 6 women who have won statewide office in Mississippi, and the full schedule for Mississippi's redistricting hearings set to start next week.  

SHOW NOTES: 

Trump's job approval falls to 33%: https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/55344-donald-trumps-job-approval-falls-to-33

New American Bridge PAC Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZq0DWrUxJY

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Robert and Brandon talk about what it means to hold political friends accountable as they discuss the guilty pleas of former Hinds County DA Jody Owens and Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, how Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson's request for additional disclosures from data center developers put him at odds with the governor and speaker, and why Kentucky's governor is asking whether Mitch McConnell can still do the job.

Plus, an update on Mississippi redistricting as hearings kick off across the state in the wake of the Supreme Court's Callais decision.

Scott Colom is closing the gap on Cindy Hyde-Smith heading into a Senate race that could be another Mississippi nail-biter, the Supreme Court's Callais decision just gutted the Voting Rights Act and cleared the way for a new round of redistricting, and the legislature racked up another multi-million dollar mistake, this time a typo that cost the state $15 million in hurricane-readiness funds.

House Minority Leader Robert Johnson and political analyst Brandon Jones break it all down and ask how many mulligans Mississippi's legislature gets before voters demand better.

Mississippi House Democratic Leader Robert Johnson and political analyst Brandon Jones discuss the top stories in Mississippi this week: a chaotic special session, tragedy on the Gulf Coast, why victory in Watson v. RNC might be short-lived, and the complicated legacy of Lindsey Graham.

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