Every time I read something about the Ukrainian people putting up this fight, I feel like the next sentence is and Russia still has this capacity.

So it's a fragile situation.

That's how I check the news all weekend. I literally would like open my phone, read the headline very quickly,

to make sure it was still mostly positive and shut my phone down. I'd be like, that's it. I just, I was like, that's all I want to know.

I just want to know that things are still going mostly well. And I would just shut my phone down and walk away.

That was literally my energy all weekend.

This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pant suit Politics.

Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us for another episode of Pant suit Politics.

As we are recording here on Monday, we are five days into the invasion of Ukraine and it feels like the only thing the entire world is thinking and talking about.

So we're going to process all of that in the main segment of the show. However, other things are in fact happening like, I don't know, Beth, did you hear we have a new Supreme Court justice nomination?

I did hear.

So we're going to do a lightning round of several recent news stories at the start of the show then because there's too much happening.

We're going to skip outside politics this week and share the latest installment of our midterm series.

You know, we're working our way around the country through Colin Woodward's book, American Nations.

So we'll end our episode today by sharing something hopeful. Our conversation with Melanie Bray, who is running for states in in Georgia and part of the deep South region of the country.

We also have some good news as we get started.

You probably remember back in the fall, we had to postpone the only live event we scheduled for the whole year in wake of Texas because of the Delta surge.

And it was the biggest bummer so sad. However, sometimes life takes your lemons and turns them into lemonade.

And that is what is happening with our wake of event because now it has become a whole big party coinciding with our book launch.

So we're going to be there in wake o partnering with Clint Harp and Kelly Harp. You probably know Clinton Kelly from their home improvement television fame.

They also are extremely thoughtful active citizens and we're so excited to get together with them and bring you a very fun night in wake o on Saturday, April 30th.

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