U.S. politics have gotten more polarized and more extreme.

Today, a new plan to do something that feels nearly impossible.

Elevate the voices in the middle, who no longer feel heard.

We're not using any other playbook to solve the pervasiveness of extremism and how damaging

that can be on the democratic process.

We are creating a playbook.

One attorney's new solution to an old problem.

I'm Naila Boodoo and from Axios,

this is one big thing.

Chloe Acres is not a politician. Raised in Tennessee, she spent some 15 years as a criminal defense attorney.

That changed last year, after the Supreme Court Dobbs v Jackson decision came down, reversing

Roe v. Wade. Chloe made a video on her personal Instagram account explaining Tennessee's new

resulting abortion law and what it would mean for doctors and patients. The

video went viral and organizations asked her to come speak to explain the law.

Many people would come up to me afterwards and say some variation of this law doesn't reflect

my views and many times they would start or preface that with or end it with and I'm a Republican.

And I was raised in a pretty conservative environment.

I'm from East Tennessee, I'm from Knoxville, and I started to see this as well in my community.

So many folks were coming up to me, men, women, and saying this is really going to have these

big impacts and it doesn't reflect my views on this subject. In December of 2022, Vanderbilt University

released polling that said an overwhelming majority

of Tennesseeans supported at least some access to abortion,

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