This week, we follow the money from the Trump family’s crypto ventures all the way to a proposed North Slope LNG plant featuring Russian technology. Then, we look at Trump's demand that Alaska votes be transferred to his preferred Sullivan, and whether the Constitution’s Ninth Amendment protects the secrecy of ballots. In today's Alaska, it's a battle between secret billions and secret ballots.

This week on Home to Roost: DOJ reaches into Alaska’s Senate race. Apparently, states’ rights end where Washington's preferred ballot begins. Trump finds more occasions to discuss men’s bodies than to mention high oil prices. It's a different kind of crude analysis. And we trace voting from shouting your choice aloud to party-printed tickets to the secret ballot—because Americans eventually decided elections needed fewer public declarations and more curtains.

This week, we review the rising cost of paperwork for SNAP recipients and the rising cost of aviation fuel. We then see what America's own Brutus predicted about the Supreme Court, and Rachel introduces a new quiz game: More or Less. In short, more paperwork, more expensive fuel, more judicial power, but less money for Alaskans.

This week on Home to Roost: Trump announced in Wasilla that Taiwan is ready to buy Alaska LNG, but Taiwan still remains only gas curious. A Republican accused his opponent of witchcraft. Does MAGA want to make Salem great again? And we discover how John Locke's Christian understanding of natural rights contradicts Christian nationalism—apparently, the troublesome part of “all men are created equal” is all. Tune in for gas, witches, and an Enlightenment badly in need of a revival.

This week on Home to Roost, South Korea insists Alaska’s LNG pipeline must make financial sense before investing, while the Trump administration apparently believes federal money can be handed out in $500 and $90 installments without Congress’s permission. A GOP senator warns that your airline pilot might secretly be a furry. Does he secretly desire Rocky and Bullwinkle to fly his plane? And we ask whether Thomas Paine would recognize a democracy in which the people are supposed to be sovereign, but where five Supreme Court justices get to define the Constitution.

South Korea is investing $54 billion in the Alaska gas line! Except, apparently, it isn’t. We follow the money—or, more accurately, look around for it. Meanwhile, bipartisan support for green energy shows signs of photosynthesis, we play another round of Public Policy Pursuit, and Thomas Paine declares, “In America, the law is king.” But did the Supreme Court in Trump v. United States dethrone the king?

This week we do something a bit different. We present interviews with four Alaskans who describe how changes in federal policies have affected them or their organizations, whether for better or for worse. Specifically, we interviewed Alaskans involved with libraries, social work, foster care, and fish processing. We hope you find their stories insightful.

This week on Home to Roost: the Fed raises rates, Sutton’s Evan Jones Mine supplies fossils for a conversation about Alaska’s warmer future, and Trump’s remarks about blood and genetics put purported pedigrees on the agenda. Then we open some very old mail: Kendall v. United States (1838), a reminder that presidential supervision doesn’t erase duties Congress assigned the postmaster. Interest, ancient leaves, and legal briefs: considerably more variety than your usual mailbox.