This is why I would focus on the infrastructure group, because you'd get people working together on something they can work together on multiple some things.

You'd get people working together around electoral count act reform, then maybe you have less of a bruising supreme court fight.

Maybe you get some momentum around a scaled back version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. There are so many things that could happen here.

This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce. Thank you for joining us for Pantsu Politics.

Thanks for joining us for another episode of Pantsu Politics. As most of you know, we have a new book coming down in May. Now what? How to move forward when we're divided about basically everything.

In anticipation of our book, we're going to start asking that question here on Pantsu Politics. In today's episode, we're talking about our elections. The aftershock of January 6th is still reverberating, but voting rights legislation is dead in the water. Now what?

Whole regions of our country can feel like enemy territory and the midterms are rapidly approaching. Now what?

We're going to start talking about the state of election reform in Congress and then we're going to share a conversation with Kelly Crout, a mom of seven who is running for Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and see what we can learn about Arkansas and greater Appalachia and try to answer that question. Now what?

At the end of the show, I'm going to share about my mother's son book club. Someone of y'all have asked me about that and I'm excited to talk about it.

Before we get started, I'm just here again to ask you to leave a review for our first book on Amazon because it confusingly helps our second book to have lots of reviews on our first book.

So if you have done that, we really, really appreciate it. If you haven't and you've read the first book and can honestly leave a one sentence review for us on Amazon, we would greatly, greatly appreciate it.

We're only about 200 away from our goal of a thousand. So anything you can do there means the world to us. We don't know exactly why, but we appreciate it so much.

Hello, it's Jamie and Sophia Booth.

Christmas is next week and as per Jamie is fairly unprepared. However, Amazon have come to the rescue and we now have all of our presents all in one go and at great prices and there at our doorstep.

And even though I really, really want to tell them what it is, I'm trying really, really hard to wait until Christmas day.

Just come up and this is honestly becoming a joke now. Just please, what is it?

Okay, are you ready?

Yes.

Okay, I'm going to do it.

Yes.

What is it? Are you joking? You've got a coffee machine for you. So I don't even drink coffee. This is just a present for yourself.

But honestly, right now guys, there is so much to pick from on Amazon. So go get some incredible deals as Christmas.

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