We've been working on this season for months and we knew right away there was no way to think about the current election without revisiting 1992.

Then, like now, a record number of women ran for office, and like now, it was being called the Year of the

woman. But this past weekend, we just felt like we had gotten into a time machine.

Ms. Katz, is your client willing to testify before the Judiciary Committee publicly and tell

this story?

She is.

She's willing to do whatever it takes to get her story forth, yes.

Does she think Judge Kavanaugh should withdraw his nomination?

Is that what she hopes comes out of this?

She's not taking a position on that

Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Brett Kavanaugh make the comparison to 1992 in

inescapable.

But what are we to take from that comparison?

What can we learn from the previous year of the woman?

In this episode, we look back at an election that is widely considered the beginning of the modern era for women in politics.

It was the year when Washington's old Boys Club finally began to cry open. I'm Kuyaright and this is the United States of the United States of anxiety, gender, power, and this is the United States of anxiety, gender, power, and the midterm elections.

We're going to look at the 92 elections from the vantage of two women who were already on the

inside who are already trying to make one of Washington's most doggedly male

institutions work for them too. One woman is a famously moderate Kansas Republican.

This is Nancy Landon Kasabam and I served in the Senate from 1979 to 1997.

Only 13 women had ever been there when she arrived.

Hundreds of male senators had come and gone, but just 13 women.

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