The government shuts down, and Flake tries to get the senate to ignore what the White House wants. Unsuccessfully. Yet he presses on. (10 minutes)
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Act Three: That’s My Story and I’m Absolutely Not Sticking to It
Producer Zoe Chace with a political fable that she noticed playing out last week in North Carolina. (11 minutes)Zoe covered Mark Harris’ election fraud case in the podcast The Improvement Association by Serial Productions and The New York Times.
Act One: Haley Mary Pass
Two college friends try to stop Donald Trump’s primary season momentum by convincing New Hampshire voters to vote against everything they care about.
Act One: The Lonely Island
The Michigan GOP’s newly elected leader, Kristina Karamo, faces her first big test: Can she organize and pull off the state party’s fabled, expensive Mackinac Island conference as a political outsider – with no fundraising experience or establishment connections? (9 minutes)
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Act Two: Welcome to Illinois—Abortion Oasis
Our producer Zoe Chace goes to Fairview Heights, Illinois, where Planned Parenthood has opened a massive new abortion clinic just across the river from Missouri.
Act Three: The Abortion Desert Across the River
Zoe Chace spends time with a lawmaker in Missouri on the day Roe fell who’d worked her whole life for this moment and can’t believe it’s really here.
Act One: The Brothers Harangazo
Producer Zoe Chace spends time with two brothers in Hungary, trying to win an election that’s basically impossible for them to win.