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On today's show:\xa0 a quick update on the still-ongoing disaster of Hurricane Florence.\xa0 Republicans are in a panic to minimize the allegations of attempted rape against their nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court before the November 6th midterm elections. That minimization includes avoiding both time and an FBI investigation at any cost, which the White House could have already requested, and which Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) insisted was "the very right thing to do" -- at least during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings in the 1991 Anita Hill case, when the accused Republican sexual assaulter in question was then-nominee, now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.\xa0 Alabama Sec. of State John Merrill is still blocking his constituents on Twitter, even after a federal court found Donald Trump was violating the first amendment by doing so. Now, the ACLU of Alabama is suing Merrill for violating AL voters' First Amendment rights, meaning taxpayers will be forced to pay the legal fees for the so-called "conservative" Merrill's knowingly unconstitutional behavior. Speaking of transparency and the rule of law:\xa0 the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to stay a lower court ruling on "dark money," meaning that some political groups will be forced to disclose the names of secretive wealthy donors seeking to buy US elections. Good news for voters:\xa0 in California, a new law requires election officials to notify voters when their Vote-by-Mail ballots are about to be tossed out, giving them a chance to fix problems.\xa0 Good news for Democrats in Wisconsin, where new polls show divisive, two-term Republican Gov. Scott Walker now trailing Democrat Tony Evers in this year's Gubernatorial race. In Kansas, top Republicans are endorsing\xa0 Laura Kelly, the Democratic candidate for Governor over controversial GOP nominee Sec. of State Kris Kobach...