Pushkin.

An election is meant to produce a fact. Who do the citizens of this country want to lead them?

And the production of facts is sort of our meat and potatoes here at the last archive.

We made our second season in 2021.

We'd started working on it in late 2020.

I don't remember how Jill was planning on ending it back then,

but I do know that on January 6, 2021, whatever that plan was, went out the window.

On that day, Rioters stormed the United States Capitol Building in an attempt to stop the certification of the

2020 election.

They were denying a fact.

This was an insurrection.

The FBI saw it as an act of terrorism. Multiple deaths have been linked to that day,

some in the chaos of it, some by suicide after.

Since then, hundreds have been convicted of crimes,

including the crime of seditious conspiracy.

The aftermath of that day is still playing out, most recently in the Supreme Court.

It has a deep influence on the 2024 election, raising questions about whether Trump can even legally run for president.

But today, I want to revisit the inciting incident and play you the finale of our second season an episode called

epiphany which is all about January 6th 2021 in the moment that an election which

had produced a single fact the fact of Joe Biden's presidency,

instead split the country into two irreconcilable realities.

Here's the episode. There's a place in our world where the known things go.

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