Hey everybody, welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I'm Jared Yates-Saxon. Tricy-Nickey

Houselman is on vacation. So I am flying solo. I appreciate you hanging out with me. I just got

off the road after a very long and tiring

road trip. I'm recording this late. I was in my thoughts a lot as I was driving today and

making my way through America having a lot of interesting experiences along the way.

Let's go ahead and get comfortable.

That's pretty nice.

I watched some interesting altercations between people when it came to masks and the accompanying

controversies around it, a lot of moments of heatedness between people wearing masks or not wearing masks. And it's sort of becoming an

issue between them. I think pressure right now in this country is, it's running pretty high.

And especially as this new Delta variant threat sort of comes together.

This is something that Nick and I have talked about quite a bit,

watching this come to pass and understanding what it represents and as well,

what is happening with our political environment all the way around.

And that's one of the things I wanted to talk about today.

One of the things that I was thinking about a lot.

There was an article that dropped while I was traveling that got a lot of attention.

And this was a New York Times piece by Katie Rogers and Nick Corrassanity.

This came out on the 22nd, but it made a lot of waves.

And I wanted to discuss it.

The name of the article is Democrats divide on voting rights,

widens as Biden faces pressure.

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