2017 has been a year.

Today we're reflecting on that year in the same way we've gotten through it with a little help from our friends.

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.

You're listening to Pantsy Politics.

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

Welcome to the show, everybody.

We are so excited.

We are going to use the art of simple Tish Oxenwriters, New Year's Eve Reflection questions

through the lens of politics to look back over 2017 with lots of special guests and thoughts from friends of the pod.

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We are going to go through all of these questions today.

So we'll abandon our usual format of a little bit of news, a main segment, and something outside of politics at the end,

because we really love the questions that Tish Oxenwriters has put together to reflect on the year.

And there is plenty to reflect on.

So the first question that Tish asks is, what was the single best thing that happened this past year?

In politics, it's like the fortune cookie game.

So we had one of our wonderful Patreon supporters and part of our community on Twitter, Jennifer,

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