Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Forty-five states have now said that they won't give sensitive voter data to Donald Trump's "Election Integrity Commission." Theoretically - at least - this is good news. The Election Integrity Commission is a sham. Led by the King of Crosscheck himself - former Secretary of State Kris Kobach - it's a blatant attempt at a national voter suppression campaign. But according to my next guest - the bipartisan "resistance" we're seeing in the states to the Commission's data request isn't what it seems.

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom talks with Alan Tonelson about the potential trade wars between the U.S. and Pacific nations. Then he talks with Julio Rivera and Travis Korson about Missouri Republican’s shameful vote to lower St. Louis’s minimum wage to $7.70 from $10, Stephen Hawking’s tough words on Trump, and U.S. senators slamming Trump’s administration for its lack of strategy in Afghanistan.

Alan Tonelson, RealityChek (blog)/The Race to the Bottom. Economists in the media are warning that Donald Trump's plan to slap big tariffs on aluminum and steel could spark a trade war. Is that actually a good thing?

Big Picture Interview - Robert Weissman, President-Public Citizen. On Wednesday night, while Republicans plotted how to more effectively take healthcare away from 22 million Americans - Donald Trump took a short ride to his gilded DC hotel for a fundraiser, open to ANYONE... who has $35,000 to donate to Republicans.The press, on the other hand, was banned from the event, continuing a longstanding tradition of shadowy Republican fundraisers being held behind closed doors and away from public scrutiny. Protestors chanting “shame” met Trump’s motorcade between the White House and the Trump Hotel - but what exactly was the most shameful aspect of Wednesday’s closed-door Republican fundraiser at the President’s hotel? Tune in...