Gloria sits down with longtime friend and colleague Brandon Puttbrese, press secretary for the Tennessee Senate Democratic Caucus, for a deep, wide-ranging breakdown of how Tennessee's Republican supermajority actually operates. They open with the story of Gloria's first major press moment as a legislator, blowing the whistle on a K12 online charter school illegally changing failing grades to passing ones, then dig into the "distraction and deflection" strategy Brandon says defines Republican governance in Tennessee: school vouchers, Christian nationalism in classrooms, a $80 billion infrastructure backlog, and Tennessee's fall to 51st in the nation in public school funding.

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