1) Trump, GOP Plan to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They Lose

Justin Glawe, an independent journalist, frequent contributor to Rolling Stone magazine, writes the newsletter American Doom. Glawe, whose forthcoming book is tilted, “If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened,” discusses the important issues examined in his recent articles re: GOP threats to undermine the 2024 election, with a focus on the conduct of Georgia's election board and the mass purging of eligible voters in that state.

2) Project 2025's Sabotage of Federal Disaster Response

Andra Watkins, a New York Times best-selling author, who’s devoted many months researching and dissecting Project 2025 on her Substack online newsletter, “How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life,” talks about her recent article, "What Nobody is Reporting About Project 2025 Disaster Response" and the deadly disinformation that's being spread by Donald Trump and his supporters that has undermined hurricane Helene and Milton disaster response.

3) Senator Bernie Sanders Pushes Legislation to Block Offensive U.S. Weapons Sales to Israel

Miranda Rector, a member of the leadership team of Jewish Voice for Peace in New Haven, CT talks about VT U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' advocacy for Senate adoption of the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval that would block the sale of offensive U.S. weaponry to Israel. The JRD is the only mechanism available to Congress to prevent arms sales from advancing. Each resolution applies to specific weaponry, and documents cases in which Israel has used this weaponry in violation of international laws, and in which the US providing this weaponry has violated U.S. federal laws.

4) New Book Provides a Guide to the Nuts & Bolts of Progressive Electoral Success

Robert Creamer, a veteran political organizer and strategist for five decades, talks about his new book, "Nuts and Bolts: The Formula for Progressive Electoral Success," a step-by-step field manual for how progressives can win electoral campaigns, and a textbook for anyone who wants to know how electoral politics really works.

1) US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel's Brutal Gaza War

Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, talks about his latest book, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine," with a just published revised edition that includes a new afterword on the Gaza War. On the one year anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, he'll examine the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israel in the conflict, and corporate media's bias reporting on Israel's now expanding regional war that has resulted in the slaughter of more than 42,000 Palestinians and thousands more now being killed in Lebanon.

2) Corporate Media 'Sanewashing' Trump's Obvious Cognitive Decline

Parker Malloy, publisher of the Present Age newsletter, media critic and former editor-at-large at Media Matters for America, discusses her critique of corporate media for "sanewashing" Trump's often unhinged and incoherent speeches and interviews -- as well as soft-pedaling or sanitizing Trump and Vance's advocacy of disturbing policies such as Trump's 'violent day' of policing that will end crime, the lie that Democrats advocate the killing of babies after they're born, and Trump and Project 2025's plan for the US military to round up millions of immigrants (both legal and illegal) for mass deportation.

3) Hurricane Helene's Destruction Fueled by Climate Change, Provokes Renewed Calls to Hold Big Oil Accountable

Aaron Regunberg, Senior Policy Advisor with Public Citizen’s Climate Program, discusses the focus on "Make Polluters Pay" legislation after the enormous destruction wrought by hurricane Helene in the southeast U.S. -- with a focus on legislation passed in Vermont, and similar bills proposed in California and New York.

4) The Challenges Mexico's First Female President Faces as she Takes Office

Javier Porras Madero, an organizer and a historian of Mexico and Guatemala currently based in Mexico City, discusses the inauguration of Mexico's new president Claudia Sheinbaum, the issues she'll face as her nation's first woman president, touching on some of the issues covered in his article, "What’s Left of Morena?" re: the challenges ahead for Sheinbaum's Morena Party and Mexico's progressive left.

1) Israel's Attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon Threatens to Ignite Long Feared Wider War

John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus and Global Just Transition at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses his recent article, "A Ceasefire Is Not Enough in Gaza," focusing on Netanyahu's successive actions that appear designed to provoke a wider Middle East war, and the Biden administration's failure to use its powerful leverage to pressure Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza. With Israel's war now expanding into Lebanon, and the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Feffer believes it's critical that Biden use his remaining months in the White House to initiate serious regional negotiations to address the Palestinian people's right to self determination, and deescalate tensions with both Iran and Hezbollah.

2) Georgia GOP Election Deniers Working to Sabotage 2024 Election

Julie Houk, managing counsel for Election Protection at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law talks about her group's work in Georgia, including the filing of a lawsuit "to bar enforcement of provisions in a new Georgia law that would permit baseless mass challenges to large swaths of eligible voters," and concern about new rules issued by Georgia's election board requiring a hand-count of election day ballots that could cause a consequential delay in certifying the state's presidential election winner, endangering the democratic process.

3) Trump Has Made Immigration a Toxic Issue in Election 2024

Dulce Guzmán, executive director of Alianza Americas, discusses how the issue of immigration is being debated by the candidates and covered by the news media in the 2024 presidential election, with a focus on Donald Trump's demonization of immigrants stoking hate and fear, and an assessment of Vice President Kamala Harris' stated policies on immigration, with a review of her recent trip to the U.S. Mexico border on September 27th.

4) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's Reckless Action in Ukraine

Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News talks about his recent article, "The Madness of Antony Blinken," focusing on Sec. of State Blinken's advocacy for allowing Ukraine to launch conventional British long-range missiles against Russia, and western news reports that the Kremlin responded by saying it would consider any assault on its territory supported by a nuclear power to be a joint NATO attack, and threatened the use of nuclear weapons.