good evening, everyone. welcome to a very, very special edition of the reidout, live from the flying saucer draft imporium in ft. worth, texas. we re now just two weeks away from the midterm elections and the stakes could not be higher for the lone star state where everything from school board elections to the race for governor is dominated by the struggle to define what america is and who america stands for. texas is arguably the center of the u.s. culture wars. the red state that might be getting a little less red here and there where the consequences for this year s election are at a fever pitch. this is where the high-stakes abortion conversation we re all having right now began. when texas passed its bounty hunter abortion ban before the supreme court reversed roe v. wade. voting in texas is so restricted and anti-voter laws so effective, folks have dubbed it jim crow 2.0. more books have been banned from school libraries in this state than any other state, and this