The Great America Show - August 10, 2026


Monday Headlines： August 10, 2026


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Length

5 minutes

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172.55

Word count

960

Sentence count

33

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3

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2

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, August 10th.
00:00:05.360 Happy Monday, folks. I hope you all had a great weekend and your weeks are off to a terrific, terrific start.
00:00:11.800 We got some good news to start the week.
00:00:14.000 Elon Musk is putting up some big money to try to end Alaska's ranked choice voting system.
00:00:19.920 He's trying to help on that ranked choice scam, and he's putting his money where his mouth is.
00:00:24.320 Ranked choice voting, as I said, it's a scam, and it's used in Alaska and many other places.
00:00:27.880 that always seems to favor the candidate that the left wants.
00:00:32.080 A similar type system was used in the Los Angeles mayoral race
00:00:34.800 that pushed Spencer Pratt out of the election.
00:00:38.060 Taking this up and head-on is Elon Musk.
00:00:42.300 He's given $1.5 million to a group supporting the repeal of Alaska's voting system,
00:00:47.140 according to the latest FEC filings.
00:00:49.320 Ballot Measure 2, which will appear in November's ballot,
00:00:52.680 seeks to repeal Alaska's ranked-choice voting method,
00:00:55.280 along with open primaries and campaign finance laws,
00:00:57.880 that themselves were adopted by the ballot measure in 2020.
00:01:01.460 Musk gave that $1.5 million last month to Aurora Action Network,
00:01:04.900 which is a Wisconsin-based political action committee
00:01:07.220 that has already collected contributions from numerous billionaire megadonors,
00:01:11.960 including Jeff Yass, Timothy Mellon, Hillcorp owner Jeffrey Hillebrand,
00:01:16.600 Aurora Action Network, and gave the repeal campaign $1 million in late July.
00:01:21.840 Musk's contribution, which makes a sizable share of the repeal campaign's fundraising,
00:01:26.120 could prove pivotal for the future of Alaska's election.
00:01:29.780 A ballot measure would revert Alaska to closed primary partisan elections
00:01:33.760 and pick one general elections.
00:01:36.060 It would also eliminate campaign finance laws that enable Alaska voters
00:01:39.640 to know when big spenders like Musk give money to Alaska campaigns.
00:01:44.200 Now, you all know what's happening up in Alaska with Lisa Murkowski 1.00
00:01:47.840 and her rhino ways, most recently, going after our new attorney general.
00:01:54.280 So things need to be fixed over there.
00:01:56.860 America First legal action has taken landmark challenge against a deeply flawed 2020 census straight to the Supreme Court,
00:02:03.440 demanding that the justices reverse the lower court's dismissal and force accountability for a count that systematically undercounted red states while padding the blue ones.
00:02:13.020 Earlier this week, AFL co-founder, Trump senior advisor Stephen Miller, filed jurisdiction statement with the Supreme Court.
00:02:19.920 The group asked the high court to hear its case and overturn the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida's ruling that dismissed the lawsuit.
00:02:28.740 The divided three-judge panel had thrown out the case in July, claiming the plaintiffs lacked standing.
00:02:33.480 You folks remember that saying, right, back in the 2020 election?
00:02:37.320 Could have been fraud, might not have been fraud.
00:02:39.080 There was definitely fraud, except there was no standing, said these judges.
00:02:43.020 That challenge came too late, said the judge.
00:02:44.860 the judge Stephen Meridae issued a blistering dissent warning that if the census and voting
00:02:50.820 rights are not right nothing that follows them is right it's not some technical accounting dispute
00:02:56.040 the 2020 census conducted under of course the Biden-Harris regime had early influence after
00:03:02.760 Trump left office abandoned the constitution's clear command of actual members of the society
00:03:10.520 who are to be counted not the illegals folks the WNBA is having a little bit of a tough time 1.00
00:03:18.340 they don't know what a woman is believe it or not the Women's National Basketball Association
00:03:22.640 doesn't know what a woman is so there's some men former NBA players who've had enough one of those
00:03:29.960 folks being the new Minnesota Senate candidate Royce White he's taking his mockery of the WNBA's
00:03:36.060 incoherent gender policies to the next level the six foot eight 35 year old is now testing out a
00:03:42.060 blonde wig and declaring he's entered his feminine era as he prepares for the 2027 wmba draft now
00:03:50.280 white said in a statement sometimes he identifies as a transgender woman sometimes he doesn't
00:03:56.120 royce white said he will pursue legal action if the wmba denies his bid i mean i think that's only
00:04:02.320 right folks can't say you believe in
00:04:06.140 transgenders and then tell someone 1.00
00:04:07.680 they're not transgender and they'll 1.00
00:04:09.620 never learn folks and they'll never 1.00
00:04:10.980 stop hating you in a move that proves
00:04:12.860 once again the DC establishment is
00:04:15.140 completely terrified of the America
00:04:16.500 First agenda right now Senator John
00:04:18.400 Thune Mitch McConnell's of course
00:04:19.680 hand-picked swamp successor has just
00:04:22.500 pulled one of the most underhanded 0.95
00:04:24.240 backstabbing maneuvers in Senate
00:04:25.720 history instead of doing the work of
00:04:27.900 the American people useless John Thune
00:04:30.060 sending the United States Senate home
00:04:31.940 for a massive unearned 37 day vacation but it gets much worse dude isn't just going on vacation
00:04:39.000 he's purposely scheduling 11 fake pro forma sessions during the break the senate will
00:04:45.740 gavel in its first pro forma session monday august 10th at 10 a.m under the scheduled
00:04:51.980 approve before the senators fled washington a lone senator will periodically open and close
00:04:56.560 the chamber while no legislative business is expected for those of you don't know what a
00:05:01.020 pro forma session is it's a sham it's a fake session where one single-handed swamp creature
00:05:05.680 walks into the chamber gavels in for 30 seconds and gavels out no votes no debate no work now
00:05:12.660 what does it do stops president trump from doing any recess appointments so thun did this by design
00:05:19.720 folks and president trump continues to put up with him imagine that please be sure to join us
00:05:24.480 folks tonight and each and every night for the great america show rumble youtube twitter wherever
00:05:27.700 you guys join us we'll see you there tonight 6 p.m eastern time i'm john fosso with this
00:05:31.100 great america show midday update happy monday once again folks