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A quick note about our show.

We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your boring high school history class,

so some details and scenes are dramatized.

And our language may be saltier than spamming eggs, so please be advised.

It's spring 1891.

Queen Liliu Okalani is watching the government cabinet ministers file into the blue room at Iolani Palace for a special meeting.

They're normally a noisy bunch of blowhards. But today, the mood in the room is tense.

But Liliu doesn't mind. They can squirm. It's been a couple months since her brother, the king,

died, and she became queen of Hawaii. The official morning period ended yesterday, but Liliu is still dressed head to toe in black.

And not just because of her grief.

She's about to give the cabinet minister some hard news.

So she's got to give her best boss-ass bitch right now.

And the badass energy is especially in need today because Liliu is the only woman

and the only native Hawaiian in this room full of white mustachey faces. Oh, God. Your nightmare.

Truly my nightmare. She glares at the cabinet. I'm picturing full-on Olivia Pope energy right now.

You don't want to mess with that.

No, not if you have any sense in your body.

Four years ago, these guys forced her brother to sign the infamous bayonet constitution,

which stripped the monarch of important powers and took rights away from native Hawaiians.

And when Liliu became queen, they forced her to swear an oath to uphold it.

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