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What it is like to live in and care about a state that MAGA lawmakers are doing their best to ruin? Holly McCall knows.
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What it is like to live in and care about a state that MAGA lawmakers are doing their best to ruin? Holly McCall knows.

Listen to my conversation with one of Tennessee's most thoughtful political observers.

Holly McCall, the Editor and Chief at the Tennessee Lookout is back with me to talk politics & much more. She is a real expert in Tennessee media and politics. She is exactly what a great journalist should be: unafraid, skeptical but not cynical, and, as I learned the last time we spoke, never unmindful that there are better angels out there, if only we would listen.

In this conversation, we talk about:

  • The overturning of the Tennessee drag show ban

  • Updates on the response to the horrendous school shooting in Nashville earlier this year.

  • The right-wing attack on higher ed

  • The so-called “constitutional republicans” who took over a Tennessee county

  • The indictment of the former TN House speaker and his chief of staff and how the current Speaker is fighting charges of residency fraud

  • Private prisons

  • The state of local journalism in Tennessee

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