Supermajority: The Could-Be Candidate

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

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The end of the 113th General Assembly of Tennessee is fast approaching. Melissa Alexander, Mary Joyce and Sarah Shoop Neumann have reached a new stage in their understanding of the statehouse. But they also face a new challenge: how to square their long-held conservative beliefs with the new politics they've picked up in the year since the shooting at their kids' school. When two of the women make a controversial decision, it threatens to upend everything they've worked for and splinter the bonds they've formed with one another. How will the women continue on? And what do the bills they've been tracking – ones that pass, and those that fail – mean for Tennessee's future? To listen to this series sponsor-free and support NPR, sign up for Embedded+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.

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0:00.0	Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.
0:07.0	If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.
0:12.0	I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely
0:15.0	American I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American
0:19.8	from Boise State Public Radio, part of the NPR Network.
0:24.0	Hey, it's Kelly McEvers, and this is the final episode of Supermajority.
0:31.0	I just want to say a couple quick things before we get started.
0:34.9	At the end of the episode, we're going to let you in on what's coming up next on the show,
0:40.1	so keep listening.
0:41.8	And also, I just want to say we do talk about gun violence
0:45.6	in this episode.
0:46.8	Just wanted to let you know.
0:48.6	Okay, here's Maribbon Knight.
0:52.0	In the spring of this year, Covenant Moms, Melissa Alexander, and Mary Joyce got an invitation.
0:58.0	A conservative commentator named Tommy Laren was asking if she could interview them.
1:04.0	She was doing a special for the one-year anniversary
1:06.9	of the Covenant shooting.
1:10.2	They'd met Tommy at the Reagan Day Gala back in January, the Western themed GOP fundraiser
1:16.7	that we told you about in episode two. And it occurs to Melissa that Tommy might be able to help them.
1:24.4	I saw how people approached her at the Reagan Day dinner.
1:27.2	I saw that they were somewhat star struck by her and I thought, okay, well, if someone
1:31.5	like this allows us to go on their show then maybe you know
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