Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert. Today, a judge ordering the release and more information about that Trump search.

We have that story coming up. And later, we're going to do something we've never done before, sharing some of my childhood stories from this discussion with Canadian icon, Nardwar, who you see there.

I'm going to do that by the end of the hour. I'll try to make sense of why I'm bringing this up with you.

But right now, we begin with this resurgent liberal energy. Republicans rattled. It is a pretty big political shift from when D.C. pundits were recently saying things like this.

This red wave that we're going to see in 2022. President Biden's agenda and Democratic control of Congress in jeopardy.

I think we'll pick up between 25 and 70 seats in the House.

We'll probably pick up about four seats at least in the Senate.

It looks like it'll be pretty bad for Democrats.

That was the talk.

That had become something of a D.C. conventional wisdom.

The summer beginning with Democrats almost fatalistic about losing the House.

Here are today's headlines.

A shift in trends showing Democrats daring to dream, the Times reported on the rebound.

The post-reporting Democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data.

The D.C. website Axios reports on the Democrats now stunning turnaround.

Now, first, this is classic Washington. The narrative zigs and sags. Everything gets exaggerated,

and there's a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make everything so histrionic.

Okay.

But I can also tell you tonight the reason this is the top story here where we try not to be histrionic,

is that there is hard data showing Democrats improving.

And at this point, they might start even asking themselves, well, how did we get here?

They may even ask themselves, where does that

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