WPLN News & NPR's Embedded present: "Supermajority"

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Supermajority is a new podcast from NPR’s Embedded, in partnership with WPLN News, exploring what happens when one political party has near-complete control. In this four-episode series, hosted by Meribah Knight, we follow the story of three conservative women challenging their own party.

As Americans focus on national politics this election year, NPR's Embedded takes an up-close look at one state – Tennessee – where Republicans hold a powerful majority. We ask: What does that power mean to lawmakers, who are the constituents pushing back, and what might it all reveal about the fragility of our democracy?

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0:00.0	Is it hard to have your views challenged and to bend?
0:05.0	It's really hard.
0:07.0	Sarah Shoup Newman lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:13.0	She's a nurse, a mom.
0:15.0	Can mommy make some coffee?
0:17.0	Okay, let's make some coffee.
0:19.0	A supporter of the Second Amendment, a lifelong conservative.
0:22.6	I look out for my neighbor.
0:23.6	I welcome everybody.
0:25.6	To me, those are conservative Christian values.
0:28.6	And her whole world changed on March 27,
0:31.6	2023.
0:32.6	Police say a 28-year-old opened fire at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:38.4	It was the school her son went to.
0:40.5	Children are being taken to the reunification center to meet up.
0:43.4	He was okay, but Sarah was reeling.
0:47.9	I have a hard time even describing what it was like to live that week.
0:57.0	Sarah looked toward her lawmakers for answers.
1:00.0	But what she saw?
1:02.0	House Republicans and Senate Republicans disagreed on how to move forward.
1:07.0	Pushing and shoving between lawmakers.
1:09.0	Voting to expel three Democrats from the state
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