Hello everyone and welcome back to election week here at the damage report. We're in day

three and things are really heating up, cooling down. I don't know, we're still in the election,

things are looking pretty good. But we're expecting breaking news at any moment. So today might

be chaotic. It might be an end to a little bit of the chaos. We're going to have to hang in there

and see. But one thing we do have going for us is that you're not just going to have to suffer

through this hour with me. We've got a special guest for you joining us for the first time ever

on the damage report. My luggage of Ali, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me.

I'm very glad to have you here. So you've written for everyone basically for people who might not

be familiar with our work. Can you tell our audience a little bit about who you've reported for

and written for? Yeah, primarily I'm a guardian columnist so you can find me there twice a month or

so. I've been doing election coverage for them for a little bit over a year, about a year and a half

now. Prior to that, I wrote this piece called the Color of Economic Anxiety that was actually an

award-winning piece from the New York Association of Black Journalists. And it was kind of re-framing

the narrative about what we think about people with economic anxiety in the Midwest. And it was

focusing on Black voters, which is actually very timely right now considering that Wisconsin and

Michigan flip to Joe Biden, given a lot of those people coming back out in urban districts.

Exactly. And so we're going to be talking about your reporting there. We're also going to be talking

a little bit later on in the show if we can get to it about the Lincoln project. And I think that's

going to be an interesting dichotomy there about who theoretically the Democrats could be focusing

their attention and time and fundraising dollars on. But anyway, definitely looking forward to that.

Notice to the audience, we've got a full hour of news that we're going to be talking about.

But there is also the possibility that at any time some big breaking election news can happen.

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