Thursday, October 29, 2026 Today, FBI agents have expressed deep concern over being ordered to take legally dubious steps such as seizing voting machines on election day; a Brazilian judge has ordered an investigation in JD Vance’s donor network; ICE arrests have surged in California in the run up to election day; Republican influencer James O’Keefe has been charged with voter fraud in Minnesota; Flavio Bolsonaro landed in Miami with his family after Trump offered them asylum; Hasan Piker is suing Scott Jennings for $72M for defamation; Alaskan Republican Lisa Murkowski has endorsed the Democrat for governor; labor leader Delores Huerta has died at age 96; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Today, FBI agents have expressed deep concern over being ordered to take legally dubious steps such as seizing voting machines on election day; a Brazilian judge has ordered an investigation in JD Vance’s donor network; ICE arrests have surged in California in the run up to election day; Republican influencer James O’Keefe has been charged with voter fraud in Minnesota; Flavio Bolsonaro landed in Miami with his family after Trump offered them asylum; Hasan Piker is suing Scott Jennings for $72M for defamation; Alaskan Republican Lisa Murkowski has endorsed the Democrat for governor; labor leader Delores Huerta has died at age 96; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Msw media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Thursday, October 29, 2026. D Today, FBI agents have expressed deep concern over being ordered to take legally dubious steps, such as seizing voting machines on Election Day. A Brazilian judge has ordered an investigation into J.D. vance's donor network, ICE. Arrests have surged in California in the run up to Election Day. Republican influencer James o' Keefe has been charged with voter fraud in Minnesota, Flavio Bolsonaro landed in, you guessed it, Miami, Florida, with his family after Trump offered them asylum. Hasan Piker is suing Scott Jennings for $72 million for defamation. Alaskan Republican Lisa Murkowski has endorsed the Democrat for governor. And labor leader Dolores Huerta has died at age 96. I'm Alison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
Hey, my friend. Happy Thursday. Glad to have you back with us.
Thanks for covering me. The knives in my throat have taken home somewhere else, so I'm able to speak again for more than just five minutes without coughing and being in pain. But. But thanks for covering me. It just happens. It happens.
Always my pleasure. Thanks for covering me when I'm not feeling well.
Absolutely.
All right, we have a special guest today. She's been on the show before. She's the CEO of Vote.org, andrea Haley, and she's got some pretty incredible data about voter registration to share with us later in the show. I'm very excited for you to hear about what she's got to say about specifically what's going on in Texas and the South. And, Dana, I shared with you offline a couple days ago, there are now reports saying, based on early voting, saying we think that the redistricting is backfired, which you've been saying for months.
For months. I'm telling you. They watered down red areas thinking they were going to be safe. And there's enough Republicans and independents in those areas. They're like, fuck this shit. And they are voting Democrat.
Yeah. And this surge in registration we're going to talk about with Andrea, later in the show is also bearing that out, so. All right, everybody, we have a ton of news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up, from the Times. From Sacramento to San Diego, evidence of an increase in immigration enforcement is mounting across California this month. Unmarked vehicles idled outside an election office in Northern California. Arrests emptied fields of workers in the state's agricultural heartland. Reports of immigrants being stopped and pulled over from their car, like, pulled out of their cars by agents. Came in from all corners of the state. Several local groups that track enforcement in different parts of California reported an uptick in arrests along with the Central Coast. For instance, One organization tallied 200 arrests in Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo in those counties since Oct. 5, compared with fewer than 100 during the same period last year. It's doubled. Quote, this is just about the worst surge of ICE activity we've seen. That's Lucas Zucker, co executive director at Cause, which is a social justice organization in Ventura. The reports of increased enforcement coincide with efforts by the Trump administration to unearth voter fraud, which I put in heavy air quotes in California and other states with Homeland Security agents Dana going door to door in search of non citizens who, were registered to vote. A federal judge ordered the administration to halt those operations last week.
Just insane. This is also a little bit nutty. This is from the Post. A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Tuesday ordered a police investigation into alleged ties between a donor network co founded by Vice President J.D. vance and the presidential campaign of Flavio Bolsonaro. In the run up to Sunday's election, Supreme Court Justice Flavio Dino directed the Brazilian Federal Police to investigate the nature of the contacts between the Rockbridge Network, which was founded in 2019, and any Brazilian companies or political operatives to aid or finance Bolsonaro's run. Now, it's a crime in Brazil for a political candidate to accept funding or other campaign assistance from a foreign source. The investigation, Dino wrote, was necessary to verify if there was the effective furnishment of resources, including human resources services or other measurable economic advantages, identifying its origin, its destination, and its eventual use in the campaign. Rockbridge denied any such contact. Vance has spoken at Rockbridge donor gatherings as recently as a year ago. His office on Tuesday declined to comment.
Of course, his office declined to comment because he's now the Putin whoopsie of, election interference in the Americas. Right. Because, you know, Trump's like, we're going to take over all of the Americas, even though he can't find most of the Americas on a map. But, you know, just like it's illegal here in the United States for campaigns to accept foreign donations, it's the same in Brazil. And so they're investigating Vance. Good. And that investigation, by the way, makes this next story make a lot more sense. From Reuters. Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami on Wednesday. Remember when you and I were like, bet he went to Florida. He sure did. Where the United States government will grant them entry visas after he refused to comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court order to surrender his passports. Lula has accused Washington of colluding with the Bolsonaro family to help return them to power ahead of Sunday's election, Reuters reported on a U.S. state Department campaign to restore the Bolsonaros to office. Now. Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he would approve of Bolsonaro coming to the United States after his State Department said it would give them visas. Trump has previously alleged that Flavio's father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, was a, quote, victim of judicial persecution in Brazil.
Of course, of course. And a little bit of sad news from the Times. I feel like this is a lot of sad news, actually. Dolores Huerta, who with the now disgraced Cesar Chavez, founded what became the United Farm Workers and led strikes and Boycotts in the 1960s and 70s that unionized many California table grape growers, changed laws and the lives of thousands of migrant laborers, died on Wednesday at her home in Bakersfield, California. She was 96. Took a good run and did so much good in this world. The cause of death happened to be cancer, though. This is from Eric Olvera. He's a spokesman for the family. But there was a long hidden dark side to her years by Mr. Chavez's side. We learned about this, I think this year, actually, when he died. She was, by her own account, raped by him, an assault she never spoke about publicly until early 2026, when she was interviewed by the New York Times, as it was reported on the extensive evidence that Mr. Chavez had also groomed and molested underage girls. As you know, it's 12 on picket lines and in civil disobedience protests. Ms. Huerta and Mr. Chavez practiced the nonviolent civil rights strategies of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She was arrested 22 times, roughed up by strikebreakers and once severely beaten by a police officer, suffering broken ribs and a ruptured spleen that left her disabled for months. The mother of 14 children, Ms. Huerta sometimes changed diapers between organizing meetings and nursed her babies during breaks and negotiations. Her children often lived with friends and supporters, ate donated food and coped with frequent moves. Most grew up to become activists and professionals, including a lawyer, a physician, performing arts, a therapist, business administrator and a chef. Ms. Huerta also championed immigrants and women's rights and was an ally of progressive Democrats like Governor Jerry Brown of California, who signed legislation she sought Senator Robert F. Kennedy, whose murder she witnessed and President Barack Obama, who awarded her the Presidential medal of freedom, America's highest civil honor. In 2012, her survivors include 13 of her children, 24 grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren, and seven great, great grandchildren. That is a hell of a legacy. She will be missed. And what an indelible mark she has left on our society.
Yeah, and I'm working with local activists, by the way, and have been for a while to change everything that was named after Cesar Chavez to being named after Dolores Huerta.
Amazing. Amazing.
next up from Ms. Now, as election Day nears, recent events have prompted some FBI agents to express concern, according to seven people familiar with knowledge of internal discussions among the ranks, that they may be ordered to seize voting machines or take other actions that disrupt election results. Current and former FBI officials told Ms. Now that in the wake of recent Trump administration actions they believe were designed to sow doubt in the election process, that some agents have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally dubious steps. They're actually, I'm going to go ahead and say illegal steps to investigate claims of election fraud. The individuals requested anonymity. Of course, Ms. now also learned that advocates for free and fair elections are preparing ways to give FBI agents advice if they fear they've been assigned a task that is illegal or unethical. And that's according to two former law enforcement officials with knowledge of the plans. Quote, I'm worried about the situation for sure. That's a current FBI official who went on to say, we have all the evidence. We need to expect at least one U.S. attorney and one FBI agent to be willing to sign onto such actions, such as Georgia and Arizona. And we're going to cover this in more detail, obviously, over on Unjustified this weekend with Andy McCabe to talk about this. And, what to do if you're an FBI agent who's given an unlawful order because you're not allowed anywhere near polling places, let alone to seize voting equipment.
Yep. All right. This is from Bloomberg Live streamer. Hassan Piker filed a defamation lawsuit against commentator Scott Jennings in federal court Tuesday. And once more than $72 million in damages. Jennings played a doctored video of Piker and invented a quotation to falsely accuse him of calling for black Americans to be lynched. On the Scott Jennings show, that podcast in August, this is what the complaint alleges. Now, Jennings also sought to use the manipulated video to criticize Democrats. According to the complaint, Piker is suing claims for defamation per se, defamation by implication, and false light in U.S. district Court for the District of Columbia. And I quote, Mr. Jennings did not merely mischaracterize something Mr. Piker said. This is what the complaint said. He took a false, fabricated and manipulated video of Mr. Piker, added a made up quotation that Mr. Piker never uttered, and then made accusations that went beyond even what the manipulated footage purported to show. Jennings didn't immediately respond. Request for comment. Shocking the clip in question. Everyone is allegedly, and I quote, a heavily edited 42 second video from 2024 Twitch broadcast of, Pikers, where he and I quote, sarcastically mocked a commentator's criminal justice arguments and wasn't expressing his own views. According to Piker Now, Jennings allegedly ignored a formal retraction demand made in August and has left the content publicly available. Jennings knew the statements were false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth, the standard courts require for public figures in defamation cases. This is what the complaint says. Piker is seeking at least 27.5 million in compensatory damages and 45 million in punitive damages. Piker has hired the same attorneys that represented Dominion Voting Machines in their defamation case against Fox News, which resulted in a nearly $800 million settlement.
I love this for some time. Bankrupt him, I know. Next up from the Times, we found more voter fraud. Everyone. here's a story. The two men wearing mock Islamic attire and speaking with fake Arab accents at a Minneapolis polling place were part of a stunt and, prosecutors say violating state law. The masqueraders were conservative activist James o', Keefe, known for secretly filming interactions to embarrass and discredit people, and a fellow content creator, Cam Higbee. They were seeking to draw attention to a Minnesota law that lets a registered voter vouch for the identity of up to eight additional voters who have recently moved so they can cast ballots at precincts where they're not yet registered. That's a law that allows that to happen in Minnesota. But citing as evidence a video that Mr. M. O' Keefe posted showing his interactions with poll workers, state prosecutors in Minnesota charged the pair with unlawful voting, which can include an attempt to obtain a ballot by impersonating a registered voter, and identity theft, both felonies. Dana. The maximum penalty for each of these crimes is five years in prison. Quote, free and fair elections are the bedrock of democracy, and their protection is one of our highest priorities. That's Mary Moriarty. You'll recognize that name. She's the DA Of Hennepin County. She's also the one investigating Pretty and Good. And I think, Cesar Sosa Salis as well. She's the top prosecutor there. And that Hennepin county is where Minneapolis is. Prosecutors say James o' Keefe impersonated registered Minnesota voters during his conversations with poll workers, though no votes were cast fraudulently. During the prank, he and Mr. Higbee used false Arab accents and references to Muslim culture, which Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon condemned as offensive. Mr. Higbee wore black garments that covered his head and leading Mr. O' Keefe to joke that he resembled a, quote, transgender wearing a burqa in the video, quote, this misconduct by this group is outrageous and totally unacceptable. That's what Simon said in a statement in August. We have zero tolerance for lying, lawbreaking and disruptions in our polling places. Efforts to reach Mr. O' Keefe and his legal representatives were not immediately successful.
All right, thank you so much, ag. This one's from Ms. Now Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, as we know, has endorsed Democrat Jonathan Christ Tompkins for governor Tuesday, crossing party lines in the final week ahead of the election Day. The endorsement delivers the Christ Tompkins a high profile Republican endorsement in the race to succeed term limited. Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy. Murkowski announced her support in an interview with Alaska News Source, citing widespread dissatisfaction with the direction of the state and praising Christ Tompkins willingness to work across the aisle. And I quote, alaskans are seeking change. They don't like the status quo. That's what Murkowski said. I think it's been a hard eight years in many different areas and Alaskans are looking for something different.
You know what?
I got a lot of problems with Murkowski, but good for her, right?
I'm kind of hoping after the election she switches parties.
Yeah, me too.
So we can get that 52nd senator to null out Fetterman.
It'd be amazing.
All right, everybody, that's the news. We'll be right back with our guest, Andrea Haley. She's the CEO of Vote.org, she's doing incredible work right now and I know she's super busy, so I'm very glad she could join us today. But she's going to give us an update on some of the like data, like hard empirical data about voter registration, what's going on, especially in the South. Stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.
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Hi, I'm great. Thank you for having me.
Ah, it's good to see you again. I can't imagine how busy you must be right right now with these last minute voter registrations. But I remember the last time we spoke I wanted to check back in with you to see how the numbers were going and if it's, if early voting is any indication as compared to past elections, I'm assuming Vote.org is blowing up right now with registrations. Can you talk a little bit about it?
We are, we're really excited. I mean this year we saw momentum start really early, people start registering to vote and we're very excited and we've just seen it, the momentum continue all the way into the election cycle. So, one of the most exciting things though is that not just our registration numbers, but then once registration, stopped in several states, we saw people immediately shift to making their plan and looking at what's on their ballot. And that is one of the biggest things, this year we know these people are going to come out and actually vote because when you have 600,000 people checking what's on their ballot right after their registration closed, I mean, you know that their making their plan and they're going to get out there and that's, you know, that's what we're excited about right now.
Yeah. And speaking of that, being able to check what's on your ballot and being able to register to vote. Just talk for a brief minute about all the things that you can do@vote.org
yeah, vote.org you can find Your polling place, location, you can register to vote. And remember, in many states you have same day voter registration, which means right up to the election you can register, you can find out, since every state administers its own elections, you can find out on vote.org the rules in your, your particular state. You can pledge to register. So if you know somebody who is under 18, they can take a pledge to register and we'll text them on their 18th birthday and lead them through the process. really it's a one stop shop for almost anything you can need, including election alerts. So if anything changes in your state, we can send you a text and alert you if you sign up for those. And you'll have all the information that you need to make sure your voice is heard.
Incredible. One stop shop. I like those. So let's talk about maybe registration that you're seeing now as compared to our last midterm election, 2022. And you know, generally I just kind of want to remind everybody we, had just elected Biden and it was the first midterm in a new party in the white, with a new party in the White House. And usually it's a massive wave the other way. But we were able pretty well in 2022 to prevent that red wave from happening. If you'll recall, it was a lot less like we grew, had just narrow majorities that the Republicans had won. I think it's one of the worst opposite, party midterm results in recent memory. But talk about how registration is differing from the registration patterns you were seeing in 2022.
Yeah, I mean Texas is the biggest story this year. Texas is hitting near presidential level engagements and I've never seen that in a state before for a midterm election. So that's exciting. And we're seeing the story of Texas and what we saw with our registration bear out all the way across to this early vote. and the early vote in several counties is breaking records. and overall I think they're up 74% over 2022 in early voting. So I think what we're seeing is that with every headline and every, you know, potential overreach that is taken in the state, there's a backlash and voters are, we're calling it the year of the defensive voter because they're verifying their registrations and they're registering and they're showing up. So in Texas, I think what happened was that the suspense list announcements and different announcements like that showed up in the media and immediately people started, verifying their registration and then making sure that they were going to participate this year. The other big story is the South. So, and I think this directly correlates with things like the Supreme Court decision in Calais. Normally you wouldn't see, engagement around a Supreme Court case, but we have to remember that when that case came down, elections had started and primary elections had started in several states like Louisiana. And they actually suspended elections, which had never seen before. And so I think that voters were keenly aware that there were things happening to separate them from their voice this year. and when that happened again, we saw verifications of voter registration skyrocket. Mississippi has doubled the number of registrations that we normally see. And then that also you could see the direct correlation show up in voting, in the primaries. So we had counties in Alabama that increased over 50% where they normally were for registrations, and then everybody showed up to vote. So I think that we're about to see a huge wave of engagement this year. And I do think it correlates almost, almost directly with what people are seeing and feeling in the headlines.
Yeah, and something else I was wondering about too. You know, you just briefly mentioned that you can go to vote.org to check your registration status. Right. Folks may already be registered, but you can go there to check your registration status. And what we're seeing in these early voting numbers is a lot of low propensity voters, people who maybe failed to vote in one or more of the last three elections and that the numbers are anywhere plus 15 to plus 60 skewing to the Democratic side, just as an aside. And so I was wondering, with, this surge of low propensity voters, are you seeing massive surges? I think you mentioned that you are in people checking their voter registration, people who voted in the past but maybe haven't voted very often and feel compelled to check, not just because, you know, the Republicans in Calais kicked the hornet's nest and they want to make sure that, you know, they've inter, basically interfered in like, elections in like Louisiana by, you know, pushing back elections, interrupting election cycles, but maybe low propensity voters who haven't voted in a couple elections saying, you know, I'm gonna check my voter registration. What are you seeing?
We're absolutely seeing people verify their registrations at record rates, particularly in the south and particularly in Texas, but all across the nation. I think the only place where we haven't really seen that bear out this year for some reason that I don't know is Pennsylvania, but almost every other single state, verification Numbers are way off the charts. And again, I think that correlates to people understanding that, you know, when Texas announced that they had a suspense list, they people want to. And by the way, if you are on, the suspense list, all you have to do is update your address so you still have the right to vote. But when people saw things like that, they just started checking over and over again. And I think the message is out there, especially as everyone just worries and there's a lot of anxiety around this election and potential interference and all sorts of things that people want to verify and make sure they are on those voter rolls. And quite frankly, I'm one of those people myself. I just cast my ballot in Indiana and I was checking over and over again to make sure that, my registration was still there, that I wasn't purged in any way, shape or form, and wanted to make sure when I walked in the polling location that I wouldn't have any trouble. And so I think this is, I think voters have gotten that message this year. And verifications are way up over 2022. We're talking double the amount nationwide of people verifying. And it's good because it only takes two seconds to do.
Yeah, I've used vote.org many times to check my registration. Also. I was wondering, are you able to see like, if somebody registers to vote through vote.org are you able to know whether or not they actually voted?
Yes. So it takes a little bit of time because every state returns their voter files, you know, in different amounts of time. But we can directly follow, you know, if our conversion rates, which are Normally anywhere between 70 to 80% of the people using Vote.org make it all the way to the ballot box. I think it's literally just the election reminders and constantly telling people when early voting has started, when it has stopped, when you can mail in your ballot. That kind of communication, it isn't rocket science, but at the end of the day it really makes a big difference. And so, yes, we can check and make sure that people made it all the way out to vote. We can look back at, our past programs and test them and see, prepare for future ones so that the presidential will be even more prepared to make sure people get from registration to the ballot box. and then you can also look on the voter file, you can tell when people have, you know, come back, cast their ballot in early voting, which I encourage so many people to do because then campaigns on both sides of the aisle, no one has to spend resources once You've early voted contacting you over and over again. And those, any program that can access that information can, can tell when you've voted, when you have it, and they can then direct it towards people who need to be reminded to get out to vote.
Yeah, that's really, a very big point we always bring up over and over again. Like, hey, vote early. Even if it's just to stop the text messages and emails. Sadly you can't stop them from super PACs and all that other weird stuff, but from the campaigns for certain. They want to make sure that they're using their, that their dollars that they come in in donations are going as far as they can and they only want to focus on voters who haven't actually cast a ballot or haven't had their ballot counted. One last question for you. I know we compare a lot, to 2018 and 2022 because these are the last two midterm elections. But you briefly brought this up m a moment ago. We're seeing 2022, four levels. We're seeing presidential year levels in a midterm. Have you. I have never seen anything like that. It's usually like a third to a half in a midterm as what we would see in a presidential election. Can you talk a little bit more, drill down a little bit more about what you're seeing in comparison to 2024?
Yeah, in over 20 years in politics and campaigns, I've never seen anything like that. I mean, when I started off, we were door knocking with pen and paper, one door at a time, registering voters, getting people out there. Now we can do it thousands of people at a time. But one thing I have absolutely never seen is presidential level engagement in a midterm election. And that is what we have currently, especially in Texas. And so that's exciting to see the momentum on the ground. We also, this year, the other story is we're seeing a really young demographic show up. I think we have registered around 160,000 18 year olds this year. Oh my gosh, that is a very large numbers. So then the question really becomes, can we get all of these 18 year olds make sure that they, you know, get out to vote and, and participate this year? And I think the answer is going to be yes, but I think, I think this next generation is engaged and ready to go. And I've not, I've not seen this number of 18 year olds registering in either midterm or presidential.
Well, and that's why Vote.org is so valuable is because when you sign up, you register through vote.org, you can sign up to get all of that information you need about when your polls open, where your things are, how to do it, when you get those reminders, you know, which a lot of us need in our daily lives. I definitely do. I rely on reminders a lot. And it really helps, I think, tie up that knot. And I think it's why you have such a huge conversion rate between 70 and 80% of people who use Vote.org to end up making it all the way to the ballot box. So thank you again for the organization and all the work that you do and let everybody know, again, where they can go to find, follow, support, do anything they can to help this get out the vote effort and that it doesn't just matter in the months up to elections. It's a constant, ongoing effort. Right?
Yes. I mean, the biggest thing for us is, you know, go to vote.org, get the information you need, send it to three friends that they also have it. Our what's on My Ballot tool right now is, getting a ton of usage and you can make your plan and know all the way up and down the ballot how you can participate. And then the thing is that we offer all these tools and resources for free for voters because we want to always center the American voter. We see ourselves as an advocate for the American voter. And it costs money to run vote.org so once you've done all the things that you need to do, go to that donate button and help us so that we can provide these services for even more people and we can allocate dollars to our, get out the boat to make sure that everyone makes it from registration to get out the vote. I think a lot of people think that we're funded by the government or some companies doing it and that none of those things are true. It's really grassroots support that keeps us going because we will be here, in the off cycle to make sure that people get out to their mayor's races and their governor's races and things like that next year, as well as the presidential after that.
Yeah. And this is a 501C3, apolitical for tax deductible donations, Am I correct?
That is correct, yes.
Right. Everybody, it's the end of the year. It's the end of our fiscal year here as civilians coming up. So if you need to make a tax deductible donation, Vote.org is a fantastic place to do it before the end of the year. Thank you again. So much, my friend. It's always good to see you. I'm looking forward to talking to you after the election again. We have to keep the momentum up between election years. 2027 is going to be a massive year for registration, I believe. And congratulations on this huge influx of not just getting people to register and see what's on their ballot and find out about information, but by alerting people to how you know when and how to go actually vote and getting that massive conversion rate. Congrats.
Thank you. Thank you. I'm excited.
Yeah, me too.
I know.
I'm like.
It's starting to get to the point where I'm not getting as much sleep as I should because the midterms m are over in. Oh, my gosh. Two plus five days. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay, we'll get through it. We'll get through it, and we'll come out the other end and we'll see what happens. But thank you so much, Andrea Haley. Vote.org everybody. I appreciate you joining me today.
Thank you, everybody.
Stick around. We'll be right back with the good news. Hey, everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news, everyone? Then good news, everyone. Good news. All right, everybody. Just a few days left to the end of the midterm election, so flood the zone with sunshine. Please send us all your good news, your good trouble suggestions. you can just write in and say hi. You can send in and give a shout out to a loved one or a small business or nonprofit you want us to know about or yourself. We love a self shout out. You can shout out a government program that's helped you or a loved one. I think I said send in your good trouble suggestions, but just in case, I'll do it twice. Send in your good trouble suggestions. And all you got to do to get your stuff on the air is attach a photo. We call it paying your pod pet tax. We'd love to see a photo of your pet. And if you don't have a pet, you can attach a photo of literally anything else. It can be a random cute animal on the Internet, something you're making or creating photos of goats or chickens. We love those, otters. Dana loves otters and pandas, especially the black and white kind. But we also love red pandas. just whatever your garden, a nice sunset, a funny meme. Send it all to us dailybeanspod.com click on contact. First up is your Good trouble. All right, good trouble. Eight, six, six. Our vote that's a phone number and Indivisible 866-Our-vote and Indivisible are asking you to share and spread a message for election protection. 866 Rvote is the nationwide resource for getting help or reporting issues while voting. When in doubt, call the hotline. Help them reach as many people as possible. On Indivisible's election protection toolkit page, you can share 866-rvotes social media content to your social media with just a couple of clicks. Send it to your email list, your networking contacts. It's quick and easy and you'll be sharing the best election protection resource out there. Share the posts and spread the word. We're gonna have a link to the social media toolkit for 866-our-vote in the show notes and you know, please spread the word because there's gonna be a lot of shenanigans on election day.
Yes, there is. Yes, there is. All right. This is from Stephanie. No pronouns given. Hi Laguminati, longtime listener from Ohio and my newer voter, 21 year old daughter loves to listen when we are in the car on the ground in central Ohio, there was so much energy to vote blue, especially after that disgusting ad. We're all voting early on November 1st and we have a group of seven eligible voters and maybe some eligible friends that are going to make a day of it. Early voting and dinner. Pet Tax is a pic of my late sweetie Graves that left us in January and our new cuddly buddy boy that we adopted from some friends that had to move out of, state.
Oh Steffi, before I get to how adorable these dogs are, I love this idea. Make a day of it. Get a whole bunch of friends and fam together. Go early vote and then go have dinner. Go to happy hour. That sounds amazing. It's a great idea. Look at the puppy.
We do it for mammograms, we might as well do it for voting.
Totally. Exactly. Look at the babies. Okay, thank you so much. Next up, Margie pronouns she and her hi AG and DG and all the glorious Leguminati. I'm a longtime listener, grateful supporter, living near Woodstock, New York in the beautiful foothills of the Catskills. I have come to report that I'm an election worker and countywide, our voter turnout is phenomenal. I've never seen such across the board enthusiasm and passion to save democracy. It's exhausting work seeing so many people and that drains me. But it's fucking worth it. That's my good news. Thanks for shining a Bright light in these frightening times. Fuck the fascists and kleptocrats. Fuck the kakistocr. Go for my pod pet tariff. Please enjoy this picture of our boys, Pip and Ollie. Brothers adopted as we kittens. And here's a baby picture for you Dana, of my now. My now 31 year old son in a Halloween costume I made for him.
Oh my God, look at Robin Hood.
Oh, and Pip and Ollie are adorable babies.
Cutie pies.
Thanks Margie. And thanks for your service. Working at the polls.
Oh my goodness. My goodness. All right, from Dan. Pronounce he and him. Congratulations ag DG and the entire beans crew for the Signal Awards.
Woo hoo.
Mom and I early voted two weeks ago in Southern Indiana. My Georgia based daughter and son in law voted last week. The first photo shows mom and I after voting. The second photo shows my grandson after his parents voted. I voted. Stickers belong on mud boots after all. Been busy convincing folks to vote blue up and down the ballot. Thank you all again and these pictures are fantastic. Fantastic.
Dan, your I voted stickers are big. I love them. You know what they say about big. I voted stickers. Dana. Yeah, big Donald Trump will check out your ass from the past.
Yeah, basically.
I'm kidding. Oh my goodness, Dan, thank you for getting out there and trying to get out the vote and doing everything you can and early voting. Love it so much. Next up from Shannon. She and her hello Queenie beanies. I've been wanting to write in for quite some time. Glad you did. You are my companion on my way to work and you always say something that makes me think, oh, I've got to write in and tell them about this. Well, today I saw something on my way to work that kicked me in the ass to do just that. I was driving down the road listening to the beans and oh, I have to write in to share this with everyone. This digital billboard just happened to come up as I passed, so I stopped on my way home to get a pic. I knew that you and all the Leguminati would love it. For my random animal from the Internet, I present a cat that has what I believe looks like an actual man face. P.S. i dropped my mail in ballot at an early voting site and my Republican husband told me he's voting Dem all the way down the ballot. Shannon.
Wow.
High five. All right, so this digital billboard that that Shannon snapped says, why is Trump selling out America to Putin? Excellent. Oh, look at this kitty cat.
I know. Beautiful lighting.
That is an actual man face. That's really good. It's almost Phantom of the Opera, if you ask me.
That's very cool.
Oh, I see. It's sunshine. Yeah, it's not. I thought it was white. Like, cool white. All right, got it, got it. Still awesome cat.
Very cool. All right, next up from anonymous pronoun. She and her hello, Laguna ladies. Just a quick good news, since I feel like you have been calling on me specifically a few times already. My lovely husband built me a pottery studio last winter, and I just fired my first round of a set of china for my daughter. My lovely daughter is moving back back to the US From Germany, where she spent the last three years with my extended family. I'm excited to have her closer again, and she'll be here in time to vote. Attaches a pic of the mugs and bowls I threw and a pic of me and my old man waffles. He's become extremely cuddly in his old age of 14.
This is an incredible set that you've.
Yeah, that's a gorgeous.
That you've thrown.
Look at that. The little tool that you use to dig out that outside layer. Look at how beautiful.
That's just. And the layers of glaze like that. That.
Yes.
Give it that depth. These are really done. Beautiful. And yeah, I have specifically called a couple times for like, what are you making and creating? I'll put a. I'll be. I'll throw some pottery in there every once in a while.
Yeah.
Look at the kitty. Hi, Kitty. Kitty Waffles. It's a great name, Waffles. Next up, Diane. She and her Good morning, Ag and dg. I'm writing today to shout out my husband Bill. Hi, Bill, who's been volunteering with the Dem phone bank in Georgia, doing what he can to make a difference. Love you bunches, Bill. We listen every morning during our separate trips to work. Aha. You can text each other now. I heard it. It was me. It's Bill. Hey, it's Diane.
Hey.
They heard it. Also, I thought I'd share my small mischief yesterday. I've been trying out MapQuest to support them and rage against Google Maps and their subservience to Trump. So yesterday I rolled down the window and flipped the bird to a camera, assuming, like a flock camera as I passed. I'm attending an Ossoff Bottoms rally with Obama. Ooh, I will hopefully send pics. Yes, you will. we're doing big and small things to resist the regime. Attached photos. River before he rolled over and then halfway off the ottoman. And Athena giving the stare of look into my eye. You want to pet me? Oh, my God. I instead of eyes. Because this cat only has one eye.
Oh, my God.
I love it so much.
This is so cute.
Thank you so much, Bill and Diane. Hello.
Hello. Absolutely. I love our listeners.
Oh, they're the best. Absolutely the best. Thank you all so much for sending in your good news. Please continue to flood the zone. Send it to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. We'll see you over on Beans Talk in a minute. Do you have any final thoughts, my friend?
I do. If you happen to be in the Seattle area November 7th and you want to go have some fun after the midterms, it is gay bingo I'm hosting. We've got Drag Queen. We've got an ABBA cover band. We've got Studio 54 theme for the night. And you can get tickets@lifelong.org it's going to be a great night. We'd love to have you. So if you're into any and all of those things and you just want to go have a great fucking time on November 7, come party with me because we're going to have a really good time.
That's going to be amazing. Thank you so much, my friend. Everybody else, we'll see you here tomorrow over on Beans Talk or both. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Until then, please take care of your yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health, take care of your framily. don't vote red.
Oh, you know what? We'll all be dead.
Yeah. And vote down ballot blue all the way. I've been ag. I've been dg and them's the Beans. The Daily Beans is written and executive produced by Allison Gill with additional research and reporting by Dana Goldberg. Sound design and editing is by Desiree McFarlane with art and web design by Joel Reeder with Moxie Design Studios. Music for the Daily Beans is written and performed by they Might Be Giants and the show is a proud member of the MSW Media Media Network, a collection of creator owned podcasts dedicated to news, politics and justice. For more information, please visit mswmedia. Com. MSW Media Media.