On this episode: Leslie Graves attended her first village board meeting in Spring Green, Wisconsin — and came away surprised by what she found. Norman and Leslie talk through what local government actually looks like up close, from the AI note-taker logging minutes for the local weekly paper to the five residents watching on Zoom from home. They also get into voter turnout — using Virginia's redistricting special election and a surprising Democratic primary surge in San Antonio as touchstones — and close with a Mother's Day call for listeners to share stories about the women who first got them civically engaged.

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