Texas Democrats Try to Stop the Trump/Abbott Power Grab to Win the House in the Midterms Before a Vote Has Been Cast
We begin with The Democrats in the Texas State Legislature fleeing the state to deny a quorum to try to stop Governor Abbott’s brazen move, at Trump’s urging, to gerrymander the state so that Texas Republicans will have 80% of the power but only 55% of the vote. Joining us is to discuss Trump’s midterm election plan win a Republican majority in the House before a vote is cast is David Daley, the author of Antidemocratic: Inside the right’s 50-year plot to control American elections, as well as the national best-seller Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count, which has been credited for kickstarting the national movement to reform redistricting. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Salon, a senior fellow at FairVote, and has taught political science and journalism as a fellow at Wesleyan University, Boston College, Smith College and the University of Georgia. We discuss his article at The Nation, “How the GOP Hopes to Gerrymander Its Way to a Midterms Victory.”
With Signs of Stagflation and Recession Emerging, It’s Time For the Democrats to Hammer Trump on the Economy
Then, as the economy shows signs of emerging stagflation and recession, we will examine how the Democrats can make the economy the issues in the midterms as they failed to do it the last election when they took credit for an economy that the public wasn’t thrilled with. Joining us is Lloyd Green, an attorney based in New York who was opposition research counsel to George HW Bush’s 1988 campaign and served in the Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992. He is a contributing writer at The Guardian where his latest article we discuss is, “Now is the time for Democrats to hammer Trump on the economy.”
How Will Trump Respond to the Letter From 600 Top Israeli Officials Asking Him to Get Netanyahu to Stop the Killing in Gaza?
Then finally we assess how Trump will respond to the letter from 600 top Israeli intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials asking him to get Netanyahu to stop the killing in Gaza. Joining us is Paul Pillar, who served for 30 years as an analyst at the CIA, in which his last position was National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia. Previously, he served as chief of analytic units at the CIA covering portions of the Near East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. He has also headed the Assessments and Information Group of the DCI Counterterrorist Center and is currently a nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University and an Associate Fellow at the GenevaCenter for Security Policy and a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His latest book is Beyond the Water’s Edge How Partisanship Corrupts U.S. Foreign Policy and he has an article at Responsible Statecraft we discuss, “This isn’t a ‘war’ — Israel is destroying a population.”