How do you know how much research is enough research?

Well, for starters, if you look at your own ballot, like I know my ballot, I already looked at, there's 10 things I need to worry about.

So first narrow it down to what's on your ballot.

After that, I mean, I think we do tend to have biases towards political parties.

I get that.

But at the local level, I think it's really important to like at least maybe have a conversation in addition with somebody that you know, that you trust, a friend or family member, He says, what do you think about this guy who's been in office for the last few years? Yeah.

I mean, it is, you know, and also it's okay to leave something blank.

And it takes a while to sort of wave, you know, navigate through that maze.

So from your perspective, uh, talk about it from your p- why did you wanna kick off your episode with the JGG case?

Well, props to, to you for keeping up with this case, but more props to my co-host, Shireen Marisol Meraji.

She's the one who, uh, led this episode and brought the case to my attention.

'Cause frankly, you know, I, I remember watching it on the news.

Oh, March 2025, uh, 200, um, men accused of being, uh, associated with this gang in Venezuela, deported without due process.

And, uh, it's just one of so many things.

It's hard to keep track of them all, and so I'm glad that the ACLU has been fighting all along, all this time.

How did you come a- like, how did you guys pick those cases, and why?

Todd Blanche, maybe Emil Bovee, who's on the Third Circuit, yes or no? So from your perspective, talk about it from your, why did you want to kick off your episode with the JGG case?

Well, props to you for keeping up with this case, but more props to my co-host, Shireen Marcel Maragi.

She's the one who led this episode and brought the case to my attention, because frankly, you know, I remember watching it on the news.

Oh, March 2025, 200 men accused of being associated with this gang in Venezuela.

deported without due process.

And it's just one of so many things, it's hard to keep track of them all.

And so I'm glad that the ACLU has been fighting all along, all this time.

absolutely so in in your podcast along with your co-host there's a series of cases that you're going to be covering um how did you pick the okay you got a case on the voting rights act on free speech prayer in schools uh birthright citizenship marbury versus madison the mothership of them all how did you come how did you guys pick those cases and why

B, if you want to go ahead and talk about Uncap the House, I'll chill out.

Hey, yeah, thanks for being here and helping out, raising money for the midterms.

My name is Mr.

Beat, and good to see you all.

I'm here to not only defeat authoritarianism in this country, but spread awareness about Uncap the House, which is an issue that I'm very passionate about.

Me and Jeff, my... who I consider not only a colleague and friend here with us, can probably speak more about this, but simply put, we want to expand the size of the U.S. House of Representatives.

It has not been expanded since... over 100 years ago, although the population of the country has tripled during that time.

I wonder if anyone else has anything there.

Hey, related to this,

During his second term, the Trump administration took down a bunch of web pages that told the history of the Navajo Code Talkers.

Again, due to the public backlash, most of these web pages eventually got put back up.

But let me educate you again, in case this crap accidentally happens again.

The Navajo Code Talkers provided a critical, decisive advantage to the United States military by creating the only spoken military code in modern history that was never broken by an enemy.

Serving in all six Marine divisions across the Pacific theater from 1942 to 1945, these hundreds of bilingual Navajo Marines transmitted top secret tactical information regarding troop movements, artillery coordination, and battlefield strategy via field telephones and radios.

Because the Navajo language is ridiculously complex, it was completely unintelligible to the Japanese military.

Do you think that's an accurate assessment?

Beat give his opening remarks first, if you're ready to go, sir.

Sure.

Yeah, like, uh, just want to preface this by saying I'm kind of acting here, because I'm not really a partisan guy.

I do lean to the left.

Um, but yeah, I'm gonna make the case tonight for the Democratic Party, why they should support uncapping the House.

So far, I've been having a lot of success with Democrats, uh, and the example of that I have is, for those who are not aware, I've endorsed, uh, approximately 35, uh, candidates running for Congress across our great nation.

The vast majority of them are Democrats, and most of them are running for the House of Representatives.

Mm-hmm.

How did this trail even begin?

It had origins in Native American footpaths.

And this was kind of by accident.

A lot of the old trails would follow rivers or follow passes between mountains, you know.

And...

Later, we have the fur trappers.

Most Americans today know them as the mountain men.

The stereotypical idea is that stagecoach notion that there were just dozens and dozens of these wagons going together.