This episode of America Actually is a year-in-review conversation in which host Astead Herndon and producer Kasia Broussalian mine the show's 2026 midterm reporting — from a Pennsylvania gas station to a New Jersey data center town hall to Trump's UFC event — for signals about what 2027 a
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