Hey, it's Jimmy Licking, with another installment of our Summer Investigation Series.

She's unavoidable.

Every time you listen to or read the news lately, there she is, Kristin Sinema.

Everywhere in conversations about bipartisanship, the infrastructure deal, the filibuster,

the fate of Joe Biden's whole presidency.

With outside influence on the passage of basically any democratic party priority that tries to

make its way through the Senate, but who is Kristin Sinema?

What does she stand for?

With the big infrastructure deal on the line, and with it, Biden's big promise to make

law-making work for regular people, our senior reporter Tim Murphy takes a look at Kristin

Sinema's past to try to give us a sense of what she's doing now, how it fits into the

American story.

This episode is produced by Autumn.

From radical activists to Senate obstructionist, the metamorphosis of Kristin Sinema, written by Tim Murphy.

Kristin Sinema wasn't the only Democrat to vote against including a $15 federal minimum

wage and the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill in early March.

But she was the only one whose vote became a meme.

The clip itself is short in sparse.

Sinema, the 44-year-old first-term democratic senator from Arizona, walks briskly around

the well of the chamber, gives Mitch McConnell a friendly pat on the back and pauses in front

of the clerk.

Then she thrusts her right thumb dramatically down, dipping her body for emphasis.

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