This is the United States of Anxiety. I'm Kywright and in this season, gender, power, and the midterm elections.

This is the pattern obviously of the alleged

assaulters and abusers that the White House has

defended.

The idea that I could want anything different than the white

middle class life that I was aimed towards never even occurred to me.

This was what I wanted until I didn't.

We need more women not to question their abilities

and just jump in and do it, because they know they can and we know they can.

This is no regular election and not just because of Donald Trump.

I mean yes he is gasoline on a fire but this election has come to be about a lot more than his presidency

it's become a moment in which we are finally calling the question on who our democracy serves, on whether white men still have a singular

claim to real power in American politics.

For people who have jammed our lines, it made it difficult for us to meet our

constituent needs, it would be nice for you to back off.

Women of all races are defining this election, as candidates, as organizers, as voters.

But what's all that going to mean after the election?

What if Democrats ride this wave of activism

and take over Congress?

Will that change anything about the fact that power,

real political power, is so concentrated

in the hands of men? We're exploring that question as we march

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