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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress. I'm Miles Parks.

I cover voting and I'm Ron Elving Editor correspondent. Miles, you have recently been seeing other podcasts.

Occasionally, occasionally, it's not like it's not like that, Sue. I did a couple episodes. I'm back.

I'm here. So you've been working on a fellow podcast at NPR called LifeKit. And for the next

couple of days, we're going to bring you your reporting from that series. Tell us a little bit more

about it. Yeah, so LifeKit is basically this project that NPR has been doing to help people figure

stuff out. Like we have one on exercise, dieting, how to manage screen time with your kids. And I

was like, what do I know about? I know about voting. And there's a lot of people who don't vote in

this country. So I did one about voting. I did one about misinformation. And then I did one.

The one we're going to talk about today, which is about how to run for office at the very local

level. People who've never run a campaign before, never even really been involved in politics.

I wanted them to be able to come listen to this and at least have a starting point for if they

want to run for something as city council or school board or something like that. They have a

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