Hi, as Max here, today we're bringing you something different. You're about to hear the very first episode of our brand new show out of the Guardian's New York office called State Side with Kai and Carter. They'll be releasing episodes on their feed every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, wherever you get this podcast and in video on YouTube and Apple Podcasts. I hope you enjoy it.

My nieces and nephews, they are the first generation to lose civil rights since Reconstruction.

This is evil.

But it's also so pedestrian.

They can't win on their ideas, and so their solution is to silence the other side.

But this time what they have done is misread the moment.

And that's the part that gives me, not optimism, but determination. Optimism says I'm sure

will win. Determination says I'm going to win.

I'm Kyright. I'm Carterairite.

I'm Carter Sherman.

And from The Guardian, this is Stateside.

Carter, here we are.

It is the first episode of Stateside.

I know.

I'm so excited.

I feel like over the last few years, I have just felt so overwhelmed by the news.

Something happens, and I have all these questions.

Why is this happening?

Who's responsible for it?

Generally, I want to know how we can make it stop.

And one of the things I've been doing to try to get those answers is I go to my colleagues at the Guardian and I ask them these questions.

And they've been able to tell me what they think.

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