I'm Audie Cornish, and this is the assignment.

At this point, it's clear Democrats are taking a different approach in the age of Trump 2.0.

I'm a lawyer. A part of my practice is criminal defense work.

There is no felony in the Texas Penal Code for what he says.

So respectfully, he's making up some shit.

This is Jolanda Jones. She's a Texas state rep and is among that group of Democrats who fled

their legislative session to shut down votes on new Republican redistricting maps.

And he has no legal mechanism. And if he did, subpoenas from Texas don't work in New York. So he's going to come

get us how. Subpoenas in Texas don't work in Chicago. He's going to come get us how.

Jones is also running for Congress. And with her blonde, short afro, hoop earrings and the mantra

authentic and unafraid, she's the opposite of, say, Akamala Harris.

Similarly, Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett got the National Magazine profile treatment.

You may already be familiar with her more viral work.

If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleached blind, bad built,

butch body that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?

A what now?

If you could tell Donald Trump anything tonight, what would you tell him?

I would tell him to grow a spine and stop being Putin's hoe.

The Atlantic called Crockett a Democrat for the Trump age,

embracing a coarser style of politics already all the rage in the GOP.

So how?

Why did the multicultural generation of politicians that followed Barack Obama, dump respectability

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