associate under president obama, cofounder of protect democracy, dedicated to fighting efforts to undermine democracy, and board chair of color of change, largest only racial justice organization, and author of the sum of us, what racism costs everyone and how we prosper together. let me start with you, heather, how are you thinking about these next 10 months? towards these midterms which take on these kind of existenial weight that no midterm election i think i ever encountered before i felt took on. it does, because it feels like because of the baked-in counter majoritarian weight and structure of the u.s. senate combined with the rules that republicans a the the state level have put into gerrymandering the house and to suppress the vote, we have a situation where we are looking