On this vote, the yeas are 220.

The nays are 213.

The bill back better bill is passed. I'm Sarah Kanzir, the author of the bestsellers, the view from flyover country and hiding in plain sight, and the upcoming book, They New, out in 2022.

That sounds like a horror film.

They knew.

It does.

Nonfiction horror.

Nonfiction horror, your specialty.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker,

and the writer and producer of the nonfiction horror film, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's

genocide and famine, Ukraine. It's actually a journalistic thriller, and we did take poetic license,

FY, I have to say that. All right then. And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United

States and rising autocracy around the world. So, wait a minute. We've got the early show for

Gaslit Nation coming up or we'll be answering questions submitted by our listeners at the

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And our opening clip was the House Democrats celebrating the historic passage of the Build

Back Better Act. More on that later in the show. All right. So since we last left off,

the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was announced.

Writtenhouse, of course, is the teenager who killed two people at a civil rights protest in Kenosha,

Wisconsin in the summer of 2020 and has since become a favorite of right-wing elites who like to cloak their own lust for power

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