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In these final weeks before Election Day, the race to control Congress has shifted in Republicans' favor. We talk about the homestretch of the midterm election with political journalist Ken Rudin.

Published April 22, 2021 at 1:50 PM CDT Listen • 25:19 / Elijah Lovejoy is buried in Alton, Ill., the Mississippi River city where he was slain by a pro-slavery mob in 1837. In 1837, Elijah Lovejoy was killed by members of an angry, pro-slavery mob. They broke into the warehouse in Alton, Ill., where Lovejoy had hidden the printing press he used to publish his Abolitionist newspaper, the Alton Observer. Lovejoy, who was on site to defend his property, was shot five times. As his body lay on a cot, the mob breached the building and seized the press. It was droppe...