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And Democrats have retained two seats in Virginia's General Assembly after winning a pair

of special elections,

by you'll be surprised to hear the significant margins.

We have such a great show for you today.

The Atlantic Zone and Applebound stops by to talk about the increasingly fascist actions

of the Trump administration.

Then we'll talk to the New York Times' Lulu Garcia-Nivaro

about all of the complexities in Venezuela

and how Donald Trump has no plan to deal with them.

But first, we have the news.

So, Molly, we now see that five blue states have had their child care frozen because a influencer did a bunch of propaganda on old reporting.

And now, as always, Republicans take this propaganda and run with it and make policy applications that are going to really, really, really destroy people's lives.

There's times we talk about things on this podcast that are going to hurt people.

This is going to stab people in the chest.

But they're threatening.

They haven't done it yet.

He told the states he's going to do it if he doesn't. Okay. So I just want to make that clear. They're threatening. They haven't done it yet. He told the states he's going to do it if he doesn't.

Okay.

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