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🗓️ 17 June 2024

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Supermajority is a new 4-part series from NPR's Embedded, in partnership with Nashville Public Radio. As Americans focus on national politics this election year, we zoom in on one state and its political majority. Host Meribah Knight has been following three conservative moms in Tennessee over the course of a year as they learn to navigate their Republican-controlled state legislature. These political newcomers will confront powerful lawmakers, a dizzying legislative process and most importantly – their own long-held beliefs. What can these women accomplish? How will the work change them? And what might it all reveal about democracy? Launching Thursday, June 20. Embedded+ supporters enjoy early and ad-free access.

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0:00.0	Is it hard to have your views challenged and to bend?
0:06.6	It's really hard.
0:09.9	Sarah Schup Newman lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:13.2	She's a nurse, a mom.
0:15.4	Can mommy make some coffee?
0:17.5	OK, let's make some coffee.
0:18.9	A supporter of the Second Amendment, a lifelong conservative.
0:22.9	I look out for my neighbor.
0:24.4	I welcome everybody.
0:25.7	To me, those are conservative Christian values.
0:28.7	And her whole world changed on March 27th, 2023.
0:33.3	Police say a 28-year-old opened fire
0:35.9	at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:38.5	It was a school her son went to.
0:40.6	Children are being taken to the reunification center to meet up.
0:44.0	He was okay, but Sarah was reeling.
0:47.0	I have a hard time even describing what it was like to live that week.
0:55.0	Sarah looked toward her lawmakers for answers.
1:00.0	But what she saw?
1:02.0	House Republicans and Senate Republicans
1:05.0	disagreed on how to move forward.
1:07.0	Pushing and shoving between lawmakers.
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