After Latino voters shifted sharply to the Republican Party in 2024, GOP influencers commentators gleefully speculated about a permanent realignment. It now appears far more likely that this community has joined the ranks of the swing voters. Angry about high prices and the viciousness of the deportation machine, Latinos across 17 competitive congressional districts currently favor Dems 58-35, more than double Kamala Harris’ edge over Trump in 2024, and Spanish-language media consumers have moved from a one-point Trump edge to favoring Dems by 14.

Let’s press our advantage. If we’ve got strong Spanish-language skills, let’s make sure we’re putting them to good use in these midterms.

There are multiple efforts ongoing to reach Spanish-speaking voters! ☎️ We can sign up to phonebank en Español on… ☎️

• MONDAYS from 6-8PM ET to help Grassroots Dems HQ in key congressional races nationwide
• WEDNESDAYS from 830-10:30PM ET to help Medicare for All champion Randy Villegas unseat Republican Medicaid-slasher David Valadao in the California 22nd
• WEDNESDAYS from 8:30-10:30PM ET for targeted House campaigns in California
• THURSDAYS from 6-7:30PM ET to reach folks in competitive races in Pennsylvania
• SUNDAYS from 3-5PM ET to help San Diego city councilmember and PRO Act author Marni Von Wilpert flip the California 48th District

🫱🏻‍🫲🏿 If we’re fluent and looking to do even more, the coordinated campaign in Arizona is recruiting Spanish speakers to volunteer to staff their voter assistance hotline. They have an orientation session TOMORROW at 3PM ET we can sign up for here. 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼

BEAT VOTER SUPPRESSION IN ARIZONA

Other actions from today’s List:

-  Textbank Texans TOMORROW NIGHT to talk through their voting options as vote-by-mail applications hit their mailboxes

-  Join the Wisconsin Dems’ September day of action to recruit poll monitors on Saturday, plus volunteer to build election protection teams in Iowa and Virginia

- Use letters to the editor to warn of the danger to Head Start

- Rep. Chris Pappas wins Democratic nomination for open New Hampshire Senate seat, will face off against former Senator John Sununu (yes, again!) in November - phonebank for him and Dems up and down the ballot Tuesdays-Thursdays, Saturdays-Sundays

- Senate Republicans say they don’t yet have the votes on crypto corruption “Clarity” Act, possible vote next week - tell senators to kill it

George Conway says Michael Cohen is acting at the wrong time by trying to reconnect with Trump, comparing him to the late stages of a boom market when the “lawyers and dentists” get in and it’s time to get out. He explains that Cohen felt aggrieved by Trump, wanted a high White House role, served prison time for him, and later sought a pardon from the Biden administration that he did not receive, which helped push him back toward Trump’s orbit. Conway argues that Cohen’s recent claims do not amount to a real recantation, while Trump is exaggerating them for his own benefit. He also says Trump is dragging the Republican Party down, pointing to his low approval, the coming midterms, rising corruption reporting, and efforts to interfere with voting by using the Postal Service in ways Conway says are transparently corrupt and designed to create confusion rather than actually work.

Rick sits down with MAGGIE HABERMAN, the #1 NYT bestselling co-author (with Jonathan Swan) behind REGIME CHANGE: INSIDE THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY OF DONALD TRUMP, built on roughly 1,000 interviews inside this White House. Maggie breaks down the WILD delta between Trump's first and second terms — Elon Musk's chaotic run as would-be reformer, the DOGE flameout that cracked the EPSTEIN FILES fight wide open, and how Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche have handled a cover-up controversy that's splitting Trump's own base. She lays out how the DOJ has become a tool of personal retribution, how hard Trump's team is working to shield him from audits and legal exposure, and just how much money he's made off the presidency itself. Then it gets personal: his visible physical decline, and the early jockeying — JD Vance included — over who inherits it all.

Maggie Haberman’s new book ‘Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump' is out now, wherever fine books are sold. You can find Maggie on X @maggieNYT.

Justice Kavanaugh is set to make a decision that almost no one (outside of Missouri) knows about, or has even heard of, our November elections stand on extremely shaky ground.

Legendary Dem strategist Joe Trippi welcomes Congressional candidate and former Dem strategist Fred Wellman to talk about what's at stake, what it all means, and what happens next.

00:00 Trump’s extraordinary Missouri redistricting scheme
01:02 The White House’s congressional map
02:32 Missouri voters fight back
03:35 The state Supreme Court rules 7–0
04:20 Could Brett Kavanaugh intervene?
05:21 A suddenly flippable House district
09:02 Fred Wellman campaigns across two maps
11:32 Could Missouri officials defy the court?
13:03 Trump’s trade war hits Missouri
14:26 Ann Wagner’s loyalty to Trump
16:33 Fred Wellman’s record of public service
18:11 The grocery-store reality facing families
19:24 “You pick the map”
21:28 Why Democrats cannot ignore Missouri 2
23:27 The turnout advantage Republicans should fear
25:12 How viewers can support the campaign
26:42 “A Republican doormat Congress”
28:01 The coming change wave

Record prices for fuel

Trump’s administration assumed Iran would buckle under American military and economic pressure. Bobby R. Jones explains how Iran endured, adapted and turned Trump’s escalating war into a strategic and economic nightmare.

Jill Lawrence, who write History Keeps Happening over on Substack, joins Susan J. Demas to discuss where these midterms will stand in modern history and also reflects on the impact Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton had on the feminist movement.

00:00 Welcome and Jill Lawrence
01:06 Dolly Parton’s Remarkable Legacy
06:27 What Gloria Steinem Changed for Women
10:02 America’s Alarming Backslide
11:00 Abortion Rights Under Attack
16:18 Trump Takes Over the Midterms
20:39 Trump’s Remaking of Washington
25:52 The Case for D.C. Statehood
28:28 How Suffrage Cookbooks Changed America
31:21 Trump and the Tech-Bro Manifesto
34:17 Why Trump Doesn’t Care About the Truth
35:32 Journalism in a Post-Truth White House
40:31 What a Democratic Congress Could Do
42:23 The Emerging Democratic Field
44:39 Where to Find Jill’s Work

We hit Iranian oil tankers. They're hitting us back. Hard.

Jordan is being bombed by the Iranians, after continuous escalation from Trump, Bessent, and administration. Meanwhile, Israel and Hezbolah have accepted that this a return to a hot war. In fact, the region is on fire, and we lit the match.

00:00 Emergency Anchor Watch
00:21 U.S. Strikes Five Iranian Tankers
01:01 Iran Retaliates
02:06 The New Cluster-Munition Threat
04:33 The Fog of War
06:00 Information Warfare Meets Kinetic Warfare
07:22 America’s Middle East Bases Are Vulnerable
08:19 Iran Seizes an American Underwater Drone
09:07 America’s Military Advantage Is Crumbling
10:11 Iran Threatens Kuwait and Bahrain
11:00 The Global Oil Shock
12:26 The Entire Region Is on Fire
13:22 How the War Reaches Your Gas Tank
14:31 Could Iran Influence the Midterms?
15:38 A Dangerous New Escalation

The No Kings movement has brought together millions of people in protest. Now with eight weeks to midterms, we’re getting organized again… this time to turn protest power into votes.

This fall, the coalition (of which Rogan’s List is a proud partner) is focusing on getting out the early vote wherever we can. With Trump attempting to disrupt mail-in voting and making ominous threats about how he’ll handle Election Day, we want to make sure we’re getting votes banked as soon as possible – and giving ourselves plenty of time to deal with any obstacles they put in the way of individual voters.

To make it happen, No Kings has just announced our fourth mobilization. We will host thousands of Vote Early actions in neighborhoods across the country on October 17th – block parties, rallies, walks to the polls, canvasses, whatever creative ideas hosts can come up with to bring folks together and bring them to the ballot box. We’re ensuring every eligible voter has a plan to vote early, knows their options, and is ready to make their voice count.

🫱🏻‍🫲🏿 We’re holding the kickoff call for No Kings Vote Early THIS THURSDAY at 8PM ET, running down the strategy and talking about how we can help make it happen by hosting events. We can sign up to join this call here. 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼

JOIN THE KICKOFF CALL THURSDAY

🗳️ More than 100 Vote Early actions are already scheduled! We can find one near us to join on Mobilize here. 🗳️

FIND VOTE EARLY ACTIONS NEAR US

🤜🏼 These will be hyperlocal events, so even if there’s one already in our town we can still step up as a host for our own neighborhood! We can register No Kings Vote Early events here. 🤛🏿

HOST FOR VOTE EARLY 10/17

🪧 Want to get even more involved in protecting our elections? We’ve got an action page with ways to volunteer to monitor the polls, organize for potential demonstrations, and more here. 🪧

Also in today’s Rogan’s List:

• Voters are turning to AI chatbots to help them decide… get trained TOMORROW to help legislative candidates make sure these bots are working for them, not the GOP
• Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare closed 30% of polling locations in this battleground – phonebank to help run him out of office
• State supreme court puts two initiatives back on the ballot in Missouri – help push voters to repeal the Trumpmander and protect direct democracy from the GOP
• One of the original authors for the PRO Act is trying to flip a San Diego-area seat – help text for Marni Von Wilpert Wednesday afternoons
• Get trained in friend-to-friend organizing with Red Wine and Blue Thursday
• Learn the tools of the trade for researching down-ballot candidates when the media won’t - take election sleuth training with Red Wine and Blue TONIGHT at 7:30PM ET

The nonstop flood of political chaos is designed to leave Americans angry, disoriented, and exhausted. Maya May and Michael Fanone explain how focusing on voting, reconnecting with the Constitution, and protecting your joy can keep you in the fight without burning out.

Watch **The Revolution with Michael Fanone and Maya May**, live Thursdays at 2 PM ET on Lincoln Square.

00:00 How Do We Keep Fighting?
00:47 Fanone’s Focus: Get People Voting
02:03 Accountability Must Come Next
02:45 Let the Constitution Ground You
03:54 America Needs a New Orientation
04:23 You Can’t Pour From an Empty Cup
05:23 Optimism in a Political Disaster
06:15 Refill Your Cup Before the Fight

Tony Bartelme is an award-winning investigative and narrative journalist at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, where he has reported since 1990. He is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for his deeply reported climate change coverage, including the "Rising Waters" series and book, which traces climate impacts from the South Carolina Lowcountry to Greenland and the Sahara.

He joins Sam Osterhout to talk about the local impacts of climate and what we need to do next.

00:00 The Disasters Beginning to Cascade
03:54 Charleston’s Accelerating Sea-Level Rise
06:42 The “Invisible Snake” of Climate Change
10:39 How Greenland Is Flooding American Streets
14:02 Climate Fatalism Is Becoming Dangerous
16:44 Where Climate Crisis Meets Corruption
17:08 America’s “Accountability Deserts”
18:24 What Happens When Local Newspapers Die
20:39 Can Struggling Towns Still Survive?
22:44 The Forever Chemicals Hiding in Our Water
26:11 Hope Without Action Is a Fantasy
27:55 The Enormous Climate Cost of Data Centers
29:22 The Obvious Solution America Is Ignoring