Home for joining us for our live coverage as results roll in from primary elections around the country.

Six states are holding primaries today.

Iowa, Montana, New Mexico, New Jersey, South Dakota, and of course, California.

Here at the MSNell Mothership, it is me minus my voice. Sorry. Oh, it's there. It's there. It's just a little scratchy. My friend Chris Hayes, Simone Sanders-Tounson, Alicia Menendez, and Michael Steele. Great to have you all here. Lawrence O'Donnell took one for the team. He is beaming his coverage to us tonight from the great city of Los Angeles, which is no hardship at all. Our friend Jen Saki will be back with us later on this evening along with Stephanie Ruhl. And of course, we've got Ali Valshi at the big board to talk us through the results as they come in all through the night. We're going to be talking about those results themselves

and what they will mean for the country

when it comes to control in Washington after November,

when it comes to the balance of power across the country.

I think it's worth keeping in mind

that in times as radical as these,

yes, Congress matters, yes, the Senate matters, but yes, control of the

states matters too. It matters as a check and a counterbalance and occasionally an opponent

to what we have coming out of Washington and the Trump administration. Tonight, we are following a number

of developing stories very much about how radical this moment is in our country right now.

Just in the last hour, we, for example, have had important breaking news out of the United States Supreme Court.

The court's conservative majority has granted an

emergency request from the state of Alabama to discriminate against black voters, to allow the state of

Alabama to use a Republican-backed map that deliberately eliminates one of the state's two majority black districts.

This will, in terms of electoral politics, this will almost certainly gain Republicans,

another House seat. It will further reduce black representation in Congress.

This, of course, comes in the wake of the high court gutting the Voting Rights Act.

Sonia Sotomayor penned a... comes in the wake of the high court gutting the Voting Rights Act.

Sonia Sotomayor penned a pretty intense dissent to this decision tonight.

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