Introducing “Stress Test”: The Midterms Will Test Democracy. We’ll Help You Through It.
David Corn and Garrison Hayes kick off “Stress Test,” our new twice-weekly video podcast on the midterms and the state of American democracy. The midterm elections have officially entered their looming phase. Worriers of all stripes (doomscrollers, political junkies, fuel tank fillers), we get it.
- ▪David Corn and Garrison Hayes kick off “Stress Test,” our new twice-weekly video podcast on the midterms and the state of American democracy.
- ▪The midterm elections have officially entered their looming phase.
- ▪Worriers of all stripes (doomscrollers, political junkies, fuel tank fillers), we get it.
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David Corn and Garrison Hayes kick off “Stress Test,” our new twice-weekly video podcast on the midterms and the state of American democracy. It’s only a few weeks away. It feels like an eternity. The midterm elections have officially entered their looming phase. Worriers of all stripes (doomscrollers, political junkies, fuel tank fillers), we get it. There’s a war, an unpopular president, a MAGA capture of Congress, and a bunch of multibillionaires blithely slop-ifying our jobs. It’s a lot. That’s where we come in. We know how to tease out what to pay attention to and what to tune out, and we were early to identify the big issues shaping this election. We were on the ground as local groups banded together across party lines to oppose data centers.
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