In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote Idaho mountaintop where they lived.

Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been hold up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.

The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.

Randy and his wife Vicky thought the government

was an agent of Satan on earth. When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government

had spent millions of dollars to catch one man. We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge

unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.

What should we do about white supremacists? Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring

myth for the far right? And whose fault was it anyway?

Subscribe to Standoff, what happened at Ruby Ridge, in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

Like a lot of millennials who came of age during the George W. Bush presidency, there's one thing

I just know to be true about the lone star state.

Don't mess with Texas.

Just for the record, I am not messing with Texas, but I'm starting to feel like maybe this is a one-sided

relationship, because I'm getting the sense that Texas has no problems

messing with everyone else.

Yeah, I feel like I kind of have PTSD from that phrase as well, because I've covered a lot of messes

in Texas over the years, and what's happening now is the latest iteration of that.

That's Ari Berman from Mother Jones.

If you ask me, Ari is the voting rights expert.

If there's anything happening that impacts our relationship to our elected representatives,

Ari's reporting is the easiest way to figure out what's going on.

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