Supermajority: The Covenant Moms

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

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In 2023, a mass shooter attacked The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, and three mothers were compelled to act. Their mission: help pass some kind of gun control in one of the reddest states in the country, a state where the Republican Party has a supermajority in the legislature. But these women aren't your typical gun control activists. They're lifelong conservatives, believers in the Second Amendment and – at first – sure that their own party will understand their concerns. In episode 1 of Supermajority from NPR's Embedded, host Meribah Knight follows the women as they enter the state capitol for the first time in their adult lives. Will these political newcomers get what they came for? And what happens if they challenge those in power to do it? 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	Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is embedded from NPR.
0:05.0	A lot of the news these days is about the election,
0:09.0	the big national election that, of course, will determine who will be our next president.
0:15.0	But a lot of really important stuff that affects our lives actually gets decided at the state
0:21.0	level, like laws about guns, abortion, what's taught in school, big
0:26.9	issues that can cause big fights. One state that was in the news a lot last year was Tennessee.
0:34.6	You might remember a big story about these state lawmakers who protested at the state house
0:39.4	and then faced expulsion.
0:42.3	That story kind of came and went from the national headlines, but it turns
0:46.6	out that was just the beginning. Things got way more interesting after that and
0:51.6	reporter Maribbon Knight with WPLN news in
0:55.8	Nashville followed it all. So we teamed up with Maribba to make the series you're
1:01.4	about to hear it's called Supermajority.
1:04.0	And it's all about what happens when one party, in this case the Republican Party,
1:10.0	has control of basically everything in a state.
1:14.0	But then, sometimes, its own constituents say,
1:18.0	hang on a second, we're not sure we want it that way.
1:22.2	And just a quick thing this episode contains coarse
1:24.4	language and discussions of gun violence. Okay here's Marova.
1:30.3	Sarah Schoop Newman had been avoiding, so she spent much of the week hunkered down at home, an
1:37.0	upscale red brick house, tucked away in a quiet cul-de-sac, right on the edge of Nashville. She'd been trying to comfort her two boys,
1:46.2	Noah five years old, and Judah who's two. But her mind was all over the place.
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