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I'm Nick Kepidiche.

I'm Hannah McCarthy.

And just as a quick aside, we had a team meeting this week at Civics 101, and we asked,

what do we do?

You know?

I do know.

I was there.

Our listeners were not, so you might want to elaborate.

So our show explains the basics of how our democracy works. That's our tagline. But sometimes things don't work the way they have before.

That executive order he signed that ended the practice purported to end the practice enshrined in the Constitution of birthright citizenship.

The president's proposal to halt all federal grant and loan disbursement,

a move federal judges are blocking, was illegal and an assault on the Constitution.

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