It's Wednesday, November 26th, I'm Jane Coast, and this is Water Day. The show that's here to remind you that you can make delicious cranberry sauce by adding sugar to orange juice and then adding fresh cranberries. Cook them until the cranberries pop, which takes about 10 minutes. You can make that today and put it in the fridge for tomorrow.

On today's show, CrookedCon! You might be knee-deep in groceries and wondering if this is the year to deep-fry a turkey. Answer, no. But we wanted to go back to our time in Washington, D.C. at

CricketCon earlier this month.

If you were there, once again, thank you.

If you couldn't make it, here's something special just for you, a bonus episode of our panel on

how to protect our elections. We recorded this on November 7th, just after Democrats won big

in elections across the country. During protecting the franchise, I got to sit down with

Democracy Docket founder Mark Elias, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs,

and Nevada Secretary of State, Cisco Aguilar, to talk about the biggest challenges facing

our elections next year and beyond. Enjoy. Hello, everyone.

See, I like the call and response.

Try that again.

Hello, everyone.

Oh, God, that's satisfying.

I should have been a pastor.

Anyway, I'm Jane Koston, and we are live from CrookedCon.

2025, it's coming to a close, which means two things.

If you're a normal person, it's a start of everyone's favorite winter holidays,

the college football playoff season.

See? You get it, you get it.

And, you know, also the holidays, like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. But also,

if you're a political sicko, like me and you guys, let's be real here, it means midterms! Which I feel like we're all feeling like way better about

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