The day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade I immediately called up a Jane, someone who helped women secure illegal abortions in Chicago in the late 60s. She said, call me back later. Then I biked over to the Supreme Court and did a stand-up with Noel where I got her some audio of what it looked like there outside the court today. What do you think today explains this? I don't know. It's extremely exciting. Texts to politics is definitely always a series of fireworks like the 4th of July every other week.
Republicans have firmly held the Texas governorship since 1995. Beto O’Rourke’s campaign is both a long shot and Democrats’ best challenge in decades.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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