so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip out on. this election will be very tight and very, very interesting. and very consequential. again, if the polling bears out. and election day looks anything like the polls say it will lookh today. we ll be talking with the man in charge of the democratic party s efforts in the senate in just a moment. obviously, a super high stakes job. a super difficult job. still though, who would you rather be? would you rather be the senate guy for the democrats right now? or would you r
but this is not the first time we ve been through something of these lines. and i can tell you, spending all these months working on this project.n on the this story. i don t think it is a spoiler th tell you that one of the main takeaways for us. at least for me. looking at what happened last aw time that we were up against something like this, is that the criminal law can t do everything. i mean, we can t ever count on it all being against it in the courtroom. when it is extremist ultra right groups willing to use violence against everyone else to get their way, those are crimes and there is a role for the courts and the prison system, right? but there is also a really important role for everything else. for a whole of society response. i mean, the criminal justice an system isn t bullet proof but it also doesn t address the nature of those crimes in their totality. so in order to effectively combat fascism, in order to effectively combat rising authoritarianism. particularly when it