Thursday, October 8, 2026
Today, Democratic candidate for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District Bernadette Greene-Placentia was sexually assaulted by two men while repairing campaign signs, soldiers seriously wounded in an Iranian drone strike say the military’s medical system failed them, a Massachusetts man has pled guilty to selling plutonium from Russia, ICE secretly investigated hundreds of voter registration non-profits, the Trump administration is blocking international election monitors for the first time in two decades, and a federal judge has ordered the Kennedy Center board to unseal a renovation report the Trump administration has been trying to keep secret.
GUEST: Flip it Blue: Democratic candidate for Arkansas’ second Congressional district Chris Jones.
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Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/massachusetts-man-guilty-plutonium-russia.html
Congressional candidate is raped repairing her campaign signs
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-midterms-osce-election-observers
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/05/us/cornell-alleged-rape-investigation-hnk
That's awful for the candidate. They caught them I hope. I can't imagine that happening. Thanks for the breakdown.
Have a nice day.
Thank you. That candidate must be so traumatized. Such sad news.