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Brandon Puttbrese: WTF Was So Special About TN’s Special Session (Part 1)
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…
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