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• GOP redistricting gamble, 2026-10-29
  Adds a Klamath rancher who plans to skip the race
  Adds a second rural voice from the new California district, this time on the Klamath: a registered independent rancher calls the map gerrymandering aimed at him, doubts a Cedarville-to-Sausalito town hall, and says he will skip the congressional race. He does name two consequences of the redraw.
• GOP redistricting gamble, 2026-10-29
  Follows the trip to a Siskiyou logger's new district
  Follows the same reporting trip into Siskiyou County timber country, where a fifth-generation logger says the new line put him, a Republican, with Bay Area Democrats. It is the same on-the-ground color as the Modoc County segment, with no new development in the redistricting fight.
• GOP redistricting gamble, 2026-10-29
  Reports from Modoc on trading a farmer for Huffman
  Reports from Modoc County on the ground-level effect of Proposition 50: ranchers there, solidly Trump, expect to trade a Republican farmer for Bay Area Democrat Jared Huffman in a district where Marin is 30 percent of the vote and Modoc 1 percent.
• GOP redistricting gamble, 2026-10-29
  Recaps the map fight from Texas to Prop 50
  Opens the episode with the map fight: Trump's quote on Texas picking up five seats, the five states that redrew for Republicans, and Newsom celebrating Prop 50. A setup recap that stays inside the week's coverage before turning to California voters.
• Dolores Huerta dies at 96, 2026-10-28
  Plays the guest DJ set she recorded in 2017
  Brings on the Alt Latino host who had Huerta as a guest DJ in September 2017. Her playlist and commentary - Charlie Parker, Lena Horne, Dizzy Gillespie with Chano Pozo - put on the record a side of her the obituaries left out.
• Dolores Huerta dies at 96, 2026-10-28
  Recounts her organizing life and the rape allegation
  A full remembrance of Huerta's organizing life: the onion and cherry fields, the union with Chavez, the 1965 grape boycott, the contract wins, the union's mid-1970s decline, the Medal of Freedom. It also puts on the record her 2025 New York Times allegation that Chavez raped her in the 1960s.
• Dolores Huerta dies at 96, 2026-10-28
  Recaps her death using a 2007 interview
  Opens the episode with Huerta's death at 96 and her UFW co-founding, then reaches back to a 2007 NPR interview where she credits her mother and calls for collective action. A brief obituary segment built on archival tape.
• Israeli election, final week, 2026-10-27
  Lays out the regional stakes on election night
  Lays out the regional stakes on election night: Netanyahu's pledge to finish the job in Iran, no leading party backing a two-state solution, and Eisenkot promising a settler-violence clampdown while keeping troops in Gaza and Lebanon. Framing and recap, no new development.
• Israeli election, final week, 2026-10-27
  Reports exit polls putting Eisenkot slightly ahead
  Election-night reporting from both campaign headquarters: the first exit polls put Eisenkot's center-right bloc slightly ahead of Netanyahu's far-right and ultra-religious bloc, with soldiers' votes and two small right-wing parties still able to shift the map. Eisenkot's statement and the Arab-led parties' strong finish are on the record.
• Israeli election expat vote, 2026-10-27
  Reports expats flying in to vote at Ben Gurion
  Opens election day at Ben Gurion airport, where expats arriving to vote describe the cost and urgency of the trip. A survey puts the number flying in at nearly 70,000, and Netanyahu supporters and opponents clash in the arrivals hall.
• Trump weighs pre-midterm Iran strikes, 2026-10-26
  Restates how elections shape Iran policy
  Sullivan's closing answer on how the Israeli and U.S. elections shape Iran policy: he says Netanyahu has been accused of pressing the IDF to act before the vote, that Israeli consensus on Iran would survive a change of government, and that Trump's mix of threats and deal talk makes U.S. policy unpredictable. Restates ground the episode already covered.
• Trump weighs pre-midterm Iran strikes, 2026-10-26
  Reads Trump's deal talk as coercion
  Sullivan reads Trump's Fox News line about making a deal or finishing Iran off as coercive diplomacy, and notes a flurry of diplomatic activity: multiple Arab countries have engaged Iran over the last 48 hours.
• Trump weighs pre-midterm Iran strikes, 2026-10-26
  Sizes up Iran's remaining capabilities
  Sullivan, asked to size up Iran's capabilities, says Tehran has not reached senior U.S. officials but can still hold Hormuz shipping, Gulf infrastructure and U.S. bases at risk, and has killed American service members. Assessment and context, not a new development.
• Trump weighs pre-midterm Iran strikes, 2026-10-26
  Reads the declassified ODNI memo
  Brings on the former Biden national security adviser to read the declassified ODNI memo. Sullivan calls an unclassified DNI-to-secretary-of-state memo very unusual, notes the Biden administration declassified similar Iran threat intelligence after the Soleimani strike, and argues the release is meant to warn Tehran publicly and build a rationale for continuing the war.
• Trump weighs pre-midterm Iran strikes, 2026-10-26
  Opens on the no-strikes pledge and memo
  Opens the episode on Trump's no-strikes-before-the-midterms pledge and his campaign-trail musing about another 'Epic Fury,' then adds a declassified ODNI memo to Rubio warning of Iranian plots against U.S. officials and Netanyahu's pledge of new attacks if re-elected.
• White House counsel threatens Politico, 2026-10-22
  Reacts to the White House retraction demand
  Ruth Marcus reacts to the White House counsel's retraction demand over Politico's corrected staff-gossip story, calling it astonishing and without basis, and frames it as the administration ratcheting up normal press tensions.
• Trump's briefing room plan, 2026-10-22
  Interviews Marcus on scrapping the briefing room
  Interviews Ruth Marcus about the Times report that Trump wants to scrap the briefing room and restore the Roosevelt-era pool. She calls it petty and vindictive but not helpful, and points to the Pentagon as proof that ousting reporters does not stop reporting.
• Trump bans outlets from White House, 2026-10-22
  Adds the DOJ antitrust probe of networks
  Opens the episode by framing the press fight as policy, recapping the White House ban and the court loss, then adds two developments not yet on the record: a DOJ antitrust probe of the networks' coordinated response and a Times report that Trump wants the briefing room turned back into a pool.
• Ukraine war stalemate, 2026-10-20
  Argues Trump's tilt cannot end the war
  Taylor, a former ambassador, argues Trump's pro-Russian tilt cannot end the war because Ukrainians will keep resisting. It is opinion on the war's trajectory, staying inside the Snyder-era framing of U.S. policy toward Kyiv rather than adding a development.
• Ukraine war stalemate, 2026-10-20
  Restates the collapse in support with Taylor
  Former ambassador William Taylor walks through the shift from the unified Biden-era response to the current collapse in support, putting a 95 percent figure on the drop and saying no weapons, ammunition or money now flow. It restates the zero-direct-support claim already on the record and adds only his doubt about a total hard stop.